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My father was an old knight & yett it chanced foe

that he marryed a younge lady

yt brought me to this woe

Shee witched me being a faire young Lady

to the greene forreft to dwell

& there I muft walke in womans likneffe moft like a feeind of hell

She witched my brother to a Carlist B.... [About Nine Stanzas wanting.]

that looked foe foule & that was wont

on the wild more to goe

Come kiffe her Brother Kay then faid Sr Gaw ain

& amend the of thy life

I fware this is the fame lady

yt I marryed to my wiffe

Sr Kay kiffed that lady bright standing vpon his ffeete

he fwore as he was trew knight the fpice was neuer foe fweete

Well Coz. Gawaine faies Sr Kay

thy chance is fallen arright

for thou haft gotten one of the fairest maids

I euer faw wth my fight

It is my fortune faid S Gawaine

for my Vnckle Arthurs fake

I am glad as graffe wold be of raine

great Joy that I may take

St Ga.

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S' Gawaine tooke the lady by the one arme

Sr Kay tooke her by the tother they led her straight to k. Arthur” as they were brother & brother

K. Arthur welcomed them there all & foe did lady Geneuer his queene wth all the knights of the round table moft feemly to be feene

K. Arthur beheld that lady faire

that was foe faire & bright

he thanked christ in trinity

for Sr Gawaine that gentle knight

Soe did the knights both more and leffe

reioyced all that day

for the good chance y2 hapened was

to S Gawaine & his lady gay. Ffinis.

THE END OF THE THIRD BOOK

A GLOS

A GLOSSARY

OF THE OBSOLETE AND SCOTTISH WORDS IN:

VOLUME THE THIRD.

Such words, as the reader cannot find here, he is defired to look for in the Glossaries to the other volumes.

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Ban, curfe.

B.

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Blinkan, blinkand, s. twinkling;

Blinking, p. 329, Squinting.
Blinks, s. twinkles, Sparkles.
Blinne, ceafe, give over.
Blyth, blithe, sprightly, joyous.
Blyth, p. 70, joy, Sprightlines.
Bookefman, clerk, fecretary.
Boon, favour, request, petition.

Banderolles, freamers, little flags, Bore, born.

Bedeene, immediately.

Baud, s. bold.

Bedone, wrought, made up.

Bower, bowre, any bowed or arched room; a parlour, chamber; alfe a dwelling in general.

Bowre

**Of the Scottish words Ben, and But; Ben is from the Dutch Binnen, Lat. intra, intus, which is compounded of the prepofition By, or Be, the fame as By in English, and of in.

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But,

Bowre woman, s. chamber-maid. Brae, s. the brow, or fide of a bill, a declivity.

Brakes, tufts of fern.
Brand, fword.

Braft, burst.

Braw, s. brave.

Brayde, drew out, unsheathed.
Brenn, s. burn.

Bridal, (properly bride-ale) the nuptial feaft.

Brigue, brigg, bridge. Britled, carved, Vid. Byrttlynge. Gloff. Vol. I, Brooche, brouche, f, a fpit; 2dly, a bodkin; 3dly, any ornamental trinket. Stone-buckles of filver or gold, with which gentlemen and ladies clafp their fbirt-bofems, and handkerchiefs, are called in the North Brooches, from the f. broche, a spit. Brocht, s. brought. Bugle, bugle-horn, a bunting born: being the born of a Bugle,

or Wild Bull.

Burn, bourne, brook.

Bufk, drefs, deck.

But if, unless.

*Butt, s. without, out of doors.

Byre, s. cow-boufe.

Chevaliers, f. knights.
Child, p. 54, a knight. See Vol. I.
Gloff. &c.

Chield, s. is a flight or familiar
way of Speaking of a perfon,
like our English word fellow.
The chield, i. e. the fellow.
Christentie, Chriftendome.
Churl, clown; a perfon of low
birth; a villain.

Church-ale, a wake, a feaft in
commemoration of the dedication
of a Church.
Claiths, s. cloaths.
Clead, s cloathed.
Cleading, s. cloathing.
Cled, s. clad, cloathed.
Clerks, clergymen; literati, scholars.
Cliding, s. cloathing.
Cold, could, p. 3, knew.
Coleyne, Cologn fteel.
Con thanks, give thanks.
Courtnals, p. 183.
Cramafie, s. crimson.
Cranion, Skull.

Crinkle, run in and out, run into flexures, wrinkle.

Crook, twist, wrinkle, diflort.

Crowt, to pucker up.

Cum, s. come.

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*But, or Butt, is from the Dutch Buyten, Lat. extra, præter, præter. quam, which is compounded of the fame prepofition By or Be, and of yt, the fame as out in English.

Deerly,

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Eather, s. either.

Eee; een, eyne. s. eye; eyes.
Een, even, evening.
Effund, pour forth.
Eftfoon, in a short time.
Eir, s. e'er, ever.
Enouch, s. enough.
Eke, allo.

Evanished, s. vanished.
Everiche, every, each.
Everychone, every one.
Ew-bughts, p. 70, or Ewe-
boughts, s. are fmall inclofures,
or pens, into which the farmers
drive (Scotice weir) their milch
erves, morning and evening, in
order to milk them. They are

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commonly made with fale-dykes, i.e. earthen dykes. Ezar, p. 94, azure.

F.

Fadge, s. a thick loaf of bread: figuratively, any coarfe heap of Stuff.

Fain, glad, fond, well-pleafed.
Falds, s. thou foldeft.
Fallan', falland, s. falling.
Faller, a deceiver, hypocrite.
Fa's, s. thou falleft.
Faw'n, s. fallen.
Faye, faith.

Feare, fere, feire, mate.
Fee, reward, recompence; it alfo
fignifies land, when it is con-
nected with the tenure by which
it is beld; as knight's fee, &c.
Fet, fetched.

Fillan,' filland, s. filling.
Find froft, find mifchance, or dif-
after. Aphrafe fill in ufe.
Fit, s. feet.

Five teen, fifteen.

Flayne, flayed.

Flindars, s. pieces, Splinters.

Fonde, found.

Foregoe, quit, give up, refign.
Forewearied, much wearied.
Forthy, therefore.

Fou', Fow, s. full: Item, drunk,
Frae, s. fro: from.

Furth, forth.

Fyers, (Introd.) fierce.
Fyled, fyling, defiled, defiling.

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