Paves, p. 102, a pavice, a large Prycke, p. 186, the mark : com

shield that covered the whole monly a hazel wand.
body, f. pavois.

Pryme, day-break.
Pavilliane, pavilion, tent. Pulde, pulled.
Pay, liking, sutisfaction: hence,
well apaid, i, e. pleased, highly

Q.
satisfied.
Peakish, p. 312.

Quail, shrink. Peere, pere, peer, equal.

Quadrant, p. 110, four-square. Penon, a banner, or streamer

Quarry, p. 272, in hunting or borne at the top of a lance.

hawking, is the slaughtered Perelous, parlous, perilous; dan

game, &c. See page 6. gerous.

Quere, quire, choir. Perfight, perfect.

Quest, p. 172, inquest. Perlese, p. 107, peerless.

Quba, s. who. Perte, part.

Quhan, s, when. Pertyd, parted.

Qubar. s. where. Play-feres, play-fellows.

Quhat, s, what. Plaining, complaining.

Qubatten, s. what. Pleasance, pleasure.

Quhen, s, when. Pight, Pyght, pitched.

Quhy, s. why. Piľd, p. 307, peeled, bald.

Quyrry, p. 6. See Quarry above. Pine, famish, starve.

Quyte, p. 16, requited. Pious chanson, p. 194, a godly

R. song or ballad. * Pitte, Pittye, Petye, pyte, pity. Raine, reign. Pompal, p. 249, pompous. Rashing, seems to be the old Portres, p. 111, porteress.

hunting term for the stroke Popingay, a parrot.

made by a wild boar with his Pow, pou: pow'd, s. pull, pulled. fangs. See p. 221. Pownes, p. 313, pounds, (rhyth- Rayne, reane, rain. mi gratia.)

Raysse, race. Préce, prese, press.

Reachles, careless. Preced, p. 180, presed, pressed. Reas, p. 5, raise. Prest, ready.

Reave, bereave. Prestly, p. 180, prestlye, p. 55, Reckt, regarded. readily, quickly.

Soth, sothe, south, southe, sooth, Streight, straight.
Sould, s, should. (truth. Strekene, stricken, struck.
Sowden, sowdain, sultan. Stret, street.
Sowdan, soldain, sultan.

Strick, strict.
Sowre, soare, sour, sore.

Stroke, p. 10, struck.
Sowter, p. 79, a shoemaker. Stude, s. stood.
Soy, f, silk.

Styntyde,stinted, stayed, stopped. Spak, spaik, s. spake.

Suar, sure. Sped, speeded.

Sum, s. some. Speik, s. speak.

Sumpters, p. 317, horses that Spendyd, p. 12, probably the carry clothes, furniture, &c.

same as Spanned, grasped. Swapte, p. 10, swapped, p. 32, Spere, speere, spear.

swopede, struck violently. Spill, p. 207, spille, p. 59, spoil, Scot. sweap, to scourge, (vide come to harm.

gloss. Gaw. Douglas.) Or Sprente, 10, spurted, sprung out. perhaps exchanged, sc. blows : Spurn, spurne, a kick, p. 17. so swap or swopp signifies. See Tear.

Swat, swatte, swotte, did sweut. Spyde, spied.

Swear, p. 6, sware. Spylt, spoiled, destroyed.

Sweard, sword. Spyt, p.7, spyte, spite.

Sweaven, a dream. Stabille, p.107, perhaps,stablish. Sweit, s. swete, sweet. Stalwurthlye, stoutly.

Swith, quickly, instantly. Stane, s. stean, p. 85, stone,

Syd, side. Starke, p. 55, stiff, 103, entirely. Syde shear, p. 5, sydis shear, Steedye, steady.

p. 6, on all sides. Steid, s. stede, steed.

Syne, then, afterwards.
Stele, steel.

Syth, since.
Sterne, stern : or, perhaps, stars.
Sterris, stars.

T.
Sterte, sterted, start, started.
Stert, start, p. 332, started. Take, taken.
Steven, p. 91, time, p. 96, voice. Talents, p. 68, perhaps golden
Still, quiet, silent.

ornaments hung from her Stint, stop, stopped.

head, to the value of talents Stirande stage, p. 23. A friend

of gold. interpreted this, many a stir- Taine, s. tane, taken.

ring, travelling journey. Tear, p. 17, seems to be a proStonderes, standers-by.

verb,“That tearing or pulling Stound, stownde, time, while. occasioned his spurn or kick.' Stour, p. 13, 77, stower, p. 48, Teenefu', s. full of indignation,

stowre, p. 33, 57, fight, dis- wrathful, furious. turbance, 8c. This word is Teir, s. tere, tear. applied in the north to signify Teene, tene, sorrow, indignation, dust agitated and put into wrath; properly, injury, afmotion : as by the sweeping front. of a room.

Termagaunte, the god of the Sarazens. See a memoir on this Towyn, p. 23, town. subject in page 78.*

Treytory, traitory, treachery. Thair, their. "Thair, thare, there. Tride, tryed. Thame, s. them. Than, then. Trim, exact. Tbe, thee.

Trow, think, conceive, know. Thend, the end.

Trowthe, troth. The, they. The wear, p. 5, they Tru, true. Thear, p. 5, there. [were. Tuik, s. took. Tul. s. till, to. Thee, thrive ; mote he thee, may Turn, p. 317, an occasion. he thrive.

Twin'd, s. p. 40, parted, sepaTher, p. 5, their.

rated, vide G. Douglas. Ther-for, p.7, therefore, Therto, thereto. Thes, these.

U. V. Theyther-ward, thither-ward, to- Ugsome, s. shocking, horrible. wards that place.

Vices, (probably contracted for Thie, thy. Thowe, thou.

devices), p. 110, screws; or Thouse, s. thou art.

perhaps turning pins, swivels. Thorowe, throw, s. through. An ingenious friend thinks a Thrall, p. 309, captive, p. 118,

vice is rather “a spindle of a thraldom, captivity.

press” that goeth by a vice, Thrang, s. throng.

that seemeth to move of itself. Thre, thrie, s. three.

Vilane, p. 100, rascally. Threape, to argue, to assert in a Undight, undecked, undressed.

positive overbearing manner. Unmacklye, misshapen. Thritte, thirty.

Unsett steven, p. 91, unappointThrong, p. 169, hastened.

ed time, unexpectedly. Till, p. 16, unto, p. 75, entice. Untyll, unto, p. 169, against. Tine, p. 45, lose ; tint, lost, Voyded, p. 174, quitted, left. To, too. Item, two. Ton, p. 7, tone, the one. Tow, s. p. 127, to let down with Wad, s. wold, wolde, would. a rope, &c.

W.

Wane, p. 11, the same as ane, Won'd, p. 321, wonn'd, dwelt.

one : so'wone, p. 13, is one.* Wone, p. 13, one. War, p. 6, aware.

Wondersly, wonderly, p. 112, Warldis, p. 62, s. worlds.

wonderously. Waryson, p. 30, reward.

Wode, wood, mad, wild. Wat, p. 9, wot, know, am aware. Wonne, dwell. Wat, s. wet. Wayde, waved. Woodweele, p. 87, or wodewale, Wayward, froward, peevish. the golden ouzle, a bird of the Weale, p. 115, happiness, pros- thrush-kind, Gloss. Chauc. Weal, p. 16, wail. [perity. The orig. MS, has woodweete. Wedous, p. 15, widows.

Worthè, worthy. Weedes, clothes.

Wot, know, wotes, knows. Weel, we'll, we will.

Wouche, p. 9, mischief, evil, A.S. Weene, ween'd, think, thought. rolig e. Wohg. malum. Weet, s. wet.

Wright, p. 106, write. Weil, s. wepe, weep.

Wrang, s. wrung. Wel-away, an interjection of grief. Wreke, wreak, revenge. Wel of pitè, source of pity. Wringe, p. 103, contended with Weme, womb, belly, hollow.

violence. Wende, p. 178, weened, thought. Writhe, p. 304, writhed, twisted. Wend, wends, go, goes.

Wroken, revenged. Werke, work.

Wronge, wrong. Wull, s. will. Westlings, western, or whistling. Wyght, p. 320, strong, lusty. While, p. 306, until.

Wyghtye, p. 185, the same. Whoard, hoard.

Wyld, p. 5, wild deer. Whos, p. 102, whoso.

Wynde, wende, go. Whyllys, whilst.

Wynne, joy. Wyste, knew. Wight, p. 202, person, p. 306, strong, lusty.

Y. Wighty, p. 87, strong, lusty, ac- Y-cleped, named, called. tive, nimble.

Y-con'd, taught, instructed.
Wightlye, p. 45, vigorously. Y-fere, together.
Will, s. p. 81, shall.

Y-founde, found.
Wilfulle, 91, wandering, erring. Y-picking, picking, culling.
Windling, s. winding.

Y-slaw, slain. Y-were, were. Winnae, p. 40), will not.

Y-wis, p. 113, (I wis,) verily. Winsome, p. 338, s. agreeable, Y-wrought, wrought. engaging.

Yate, gate.
Wiss, p. 294, know, wist, knew. Yave, p. 293, gave.
Withouten, withoughten, with- Ych, yche, each.
Wo, woo, woe.

[out. Ychyseled, cut with the chisel. Woe-begone, p. 55, lost in woe, Ychone, p. 33, euch one. overwhelmed with grief.

Ydle, idle. In fol. 355 of Bannatyne's MS. is a short fragment, in which wane' is used for 'ane' or 'one,' viz.

“ Amongst the Monsters that we find,
There's WANE belovved of woman-keind

Renowned for antiquity,
From Adame drivs his pedigree.”