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Eubracement, B. i. C. 2. St. 5. fpelt fo in the 1ft quarto, à femibarb. Inbrachiare. In other editions fpelt embracement. The more correct criticks write, inmitis, inpofitus &c. And fo Spenser here, I think, enbracement: not Embracement. Enchafed, Gall. enchasse, inchased, engraven, enchafe, Gall. enchafer, to inchafe, engrave. To enchafe her lineaments, i. e. to engrave: à metaphor from inchafing in gold, B. i. C. 12. St. 23. enchafed, fet in, or engraven, B. ii. C. 9. St. 24. to enchafe to engrave. exhibit as enchased work, metaphorically, B. iv. C. 5. St. 12, enchafed, engraven B. 4. C. 10 St. 8. to enchafe, to adorn as inchased work, B. v. C. 1. St. 11. enchafe their Spears, mark him with their fpears, engrave his armour with their fpears, B. v. C. 10. St. 34. enchace, engrave, metaphorically: B. vi. C. 4. St. 35. Fairfax xii, 57.

They took their Swords againe, and each enchaßte Deepe wounds in the foft flesh of his firong foe. i. e. engraved, cut.

Encheafon, occafion, accident, B. ii. C. 1. St. 30. Gower Fol. xxi.2. If that I had encheafon. and by Ch. Ende-w for endow; fo the rhyme requires, B. i. C. 4. St. 51. or perhaps indue, fupply, furnish, from en and douer. B. 3. C. 8. St. 40. on himself he could endow, put on. So in the common prayer, Indue thy minifters with righteouf nefs, i. e. clothe thy minifters, invest. Endoffe Gall. endoffer, to write on the back, to engrave, B. v. C. 11. St. 53.

Endlong, B. iii. C. 9. St. 51, B. 3. C. 10. St. 19. Chaucer in the Knightes tale. He prikyth endelong in the large space. Dryden ufes it in his tranflation, Then fpurring, at full speed ran endlong on. Anglo-S. andlong, per longum. G. Douglas endlang, endlangis, along.

Endur'd, hardened, indurare, B. iv. C. 8. St. 27. fee the note.

Enduren, indure, continue, B. v. C. 12. St. I. Enfeloned, hurried on by wicked and felonious intent, B. v. C. 8. St. 48.

Enforft, enforced. Gall. enforcer, B. v. C. 9. St. 30.

Chaucer.

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Enfouldred Smoke, B. i. C..11. St 40. fmoke mixt with flame. See the note.

Engine, is used for contrivance in Chaucer, and fo in Spenfer, B. ii. C. 1. St. 23. B. ii. C. 4. St. 27. B. 3. C. 10. St. 7. and in other places; from Ingenium, wit, contrivance, Ital. ingegno. Englut, fatiate, glut: B. ii. C. 2. St. 23. Eugore, from en and gore, to pierce, to prick, to make bloody or gory, B. ii. C. 8. St. 42. B. iii. C. 8. St. 48. B. iii. C. 10. St. 45. Engorged yre, anger arifing to the very gorge or throat; or anger which he could not swallow. B. i. C. 11. St. 40.

Engrofte, made thick: en and groffier, à craffus groffus, gros, B. ii. C. 7. St. 46. Ital. aer groffo, a thick air, B. iii. C. 4. St. 13.

Enhaunft, raised, lifted up, B. i. C. 1. St. 17.

B. ii. C. 6. St.. 31. B. i. C. 5. St. 47. Enquere, inquire, B. v. C. 11. St. 48. Enrace, enroot, implant, Gall. enraciner, enracer, enrace. Or from the fubftantive, Race, a stock, a root: to enrace, B. iii. C. 5. St. 52. B. vi. C. 10. St. 25.

Enriven, from en and riven, torn afunder, B. v. C. 8. St. 34.

Enfeams, i. e. fattens, from en an intentive particle, and feam, fat: as hogs feam : Anglo-S. reim pinguedo, arvina, B. 4. C. 11. St. 40. en is here ufed intentively; but used negatively in the Hawking language, viz. to enfeam a hawk, i. e. to take away his fatnefs by purging.

Enfew, follow, B. 1. C. 5. St. 25. B. 3. C. 1. St. 45. B. iv. C. 2. St. 46. Enfude, followed, B. ii. C. 12. St. 59.

Enfnarle, infnare, intangle as a skain of filk, B. v.
C. 9..
St. 9. fee fnarled.
Entayled with anticks, engraved or carved with
images, Ital. Intagliato, ingraved, or carved,
B. ii. C. 3. St. 27. The feele entayl'd, ingraved
or cut B. ii. C. 6. St. 29. of rich entayle, ingra-
ving, carving, Ital. intaglio, Berni L. 1. C. 29-
St. 50.

Tutto intagliato di Sottil lavoro.
Quivi d' intaglio con lavor divino
Havea Merlino imagini ritratte.

Orl. Fur. xxvi, 30.

Enterdeale, mediation, B. v. C. 8. St. 21. the dealing or tranfaction between two parties. Enterprize, Him at the threshold met and well did enterprize: and well did take him in hand, managed him well. Gall. Enterprendre, B. 2. C. 2. St. 14. Entertain, entertainment, treatment, B. 5. C. 9. St. 37. To entertaine terme, to make terms, or conditions, B. v. C. 11. St. 56. which any were beft to entertaine, to undertake, B. 6. C. 4. St. 24. Entertake, entertain, B. v. C. 9. St. 35. Entraile, without entrail, B. i. C. 1. St. 16. fee the

note.

Entrailed intermingled, interlaced, interwoven, Entrailed the ends of the knots, the ends of the knots were therein interlaced, or twisted one within another, B. 2. C. 3. St. 27. entrayld with rofes, intermingled, B. 2. C. 5. St. 29. entrayld athwart, twisted together, B. iii. C. 6. S. 44. a border was entrayld, wrought as in knot-work, B. iii. C. 11. St. 46, entrayld in lovely lore, intermingled together with lovely inftruction, B. iv. C. 3. St. 42. Ital. Intralciare, Intralciato, Gall. entrelaffer, entrelaffe.

Entreat, pleasures to entreat, to entertain, or use, en and traiter, B. ii. C. 7. St. 53.

Enure, accustom to, make ufe of, practife, put in ure or practife, practifed by her, B. 5. C. 9. St. 39.

Ermilin, dimin. of Ermine. Ermine in heraldry is when the field is argent, and the powdering fable,

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or white intersperfed with black spots, B. iii. Faine, doeft faine, art defirous. B. 2 C. 12. St. 74.

C. 2. St. 25.

Erne, fee Earne.

Errant Knights, who travel about the world feeking adventures. Errant fprights, wandering. B. iii. C. 8. St. 6. Cavallieri erranti, Orl. Fur. xviii. St. 99. un Cavelliero errante, Orl. Inn L. ii. C. 2. St. 42.

Erft, fee Earft.

Efchewd, avoided, B. ii. C. 1o. St. 13. eschew, avoid, B. iii. C. 1. St. 66.

Efloyne, withdraw, feperate himself, B. 1. C. 4. St. 20. from longus, longinare, exlonginare, efloigner efloyne, Ital. elongazione, a removal. Hence in Chaucer, Elenge, ftrange, Elengeness strangeness. Elpial, Sight, fpying; fo ufed By Chaucer. B. 4. C. 10. St. 17. Effoyne, excufe for not appearing: Lat. Barb. Effonium: Gall. exoine. B. i. C. 4. St. 20. Evangely, Gofpel, evangelium: B. 2. C. 10. St. 53. Ewfies, B. 5. C. 10. St. 23. efts, newts or evets. Ewgben bow, a bow of yew, B. 1. C. 11. St. 19. Exanimate, liveless, dead, B. 2. C. 12. St. 7. Excheat, is bad excheat is a bad kind of accident, forfeit &c. accidere, excidere; efchoir. efcheata, an escheat, an estate &c. which falleth cafually to a perfon as Lord of the manor: B. i. C. 5. St. 25. to leave that lady for excheat, as an efcheat as a forfeit; what belonged to him as lord of the manor: ludicrously expreffed: B. iii. C. 8. St. 16. fee Spelm. in Efchaeta.

Expreff, preffed out, fqueefed out, expreffus: B. 2.
C. 11. St. 42.

Expyred, B. iv. C. 1. St. 54. fee the note.
Extent, extended, B. 2. C. 7. St. 61.
Extirpe, to extirpate, Gall extirper, extirpare.
fpells it near the French idiom. B. i. C. 10.

St. 25.

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Extort, extorted, wrefted, B. v. C. 10. St. 25. Extorted power, power unjustly wrefted, and forced from the civil power, fuch as the papal tyranny: B. i. C. 7. St. 18.

Extreat, extraction, a drawing out, B. v. C. 10 St. 1. Eyas bawke, B. i. C. 11. St. 34. an hawk juft taken full fledged and fumm'd from the nest. Eyne, Introd. B. I. St. 4. So Chaucer. and G. Douglas, page 122. vers. 45. ere, eyes.

F.

FACE, fo fet a bold face on a bad matter, to face down, B. v. C. 9. St. 5

Fade, vanish, B. 1. C. 5. St. 15. to bring it nearer to its original vadere, he fpells it with V.their vapour vaded, B. iii. C. 9. St. 20. B. v. C. 1.St. 40. Shakespeare of the ghoft in Hamlet, A&. i. It faded on the crowing of the cock; i. e. it vanished.Spenfer of a fountain,ne ever would through fervent fummer fade, i. e. disappear, B. i. C. 7. St. 4. before that fhield did fade, vanished, B. i. C. 7. St. 35. flour of beautie fades away, goes off, perishes, B. iii. C. 6. St. 38.

faining, defiring, B. iii. C. 11. St. 28. faine willingly, B. i. C. 7. St. 38. fierce and faine, glad, joyous, B. 4. C. 6. St. 33. fpelt fayne, gladly, B. 1. C 4. St. 10. B. iv. C. 8. St. 27. fayne, glad, B. I. C. 6. St. 12. they faynd, they defired, B. iii. C. 9. St. 24. faind ber, defired her, B. vi. C. 3. St. 9. refled faine, i. e. gladly: B. vi. C. 5. St. 38. Anglo-S. fægen, glad, fain. If fo thou faine, if fo thou defireft, B. vii. C. 6. St. 34. Pfalm lxxi. My tips will be fain, i. e. glad,

Falled fancy, falfified, deceived, B. i. C. z. St. 30. B. iii. C. 1. St. 47. Falfed thy faith, broke, made falfe, B. i. C. 9. St. 46. Chaucer ufes Falfid, deceived, Troil. and Creff. V. 1053. Falfed his blocs, made feints; falfified his thrust in fencing i. e. by making a feigned pafs; B. ii C. 5. St. 9. Ital. falfare.

To fare, to go, B. i. C. 1. St. 11. B. i. C. 3. St. 16. and in many other places. Faring, going on, B. 5. C. 8. St. 15. Anglo S. faɲan, ire, Spenfer of Archimago, And forth be fares, B. ii. C. 1. St. 2. Milton, of the original Archimago, IV. 131. So on he fares.

Fare, going, expedition, B. v. C. 10. St. 16. Fatal read, prophetical advice, B. iv. C. 12. St. 27. Fatal errour, B. iii. C. 9. St. 41. a wandring voyage order'd by the fates. fee note in page 354, C. 2.

Favours likelynefs, the likeness of his countenance, face or favour: B. v. C. 7. St. 39.

Fay, I, a fairy, B. ii. C. 2 St. 43. B. iii. C. 3. St. 26. B. iv. C. 2, St. 44. B. 4. C. 2. St. 49 La fata Morgana, the Fay Morgana, Orl. Fur. vi. 38. La fata Alcina, the Fay Alcina, St. 41. La fata Manto, the Fay Manto, xliii. 127. II. faith, truth: and fo Chaucer ufes fay, and Spenfer, B. 5. C. 8. St. 19. religion nor fay, Gall. foy, fay. Span. fe.

Fayld, falfified, deceived, B. ii. C. 5. St. 11. B. iii.
C. 11. St. 46.
Fayne, fee Faine.

Faytor, B. i. C. 4. St. 47. B. i. C. 12. St. 35. B. ii. C. 1. St. 30. B. ii. C. 4. St. 30. B. iii. C. 2. St. 13. B. iv. C. 1. St. 44. B. v. C. 8. St. 8. fome epithet is generally added, as falfe faytor, infamous faytor-but in B. v. C. 8. St. 8. the other faytor without any epithet: Chaucer ufes faytors, for deceivers, cheats &c. and P. P. Fol. xxxii. 2. Tho were faytors aferd. And Fol. 1xxx. 2. Fye on faytors and in fautores fuos, Historie of Prince Arthur, B. i. Č. xxxv. this fayter with his prophecie bath mocked me. It fignifies fimply, a doer; but ufed as an ill-doer. Fealty, B. i. C. 3. St. 1. fidelity or homage. He feems to use it, as we fay, to hold by fealty; per fidelitatem tenere. So he fays, to bold in Fee, B. ii. C. 3. St. 8. i. e. by perpetual right fo again B. vi. C. 4. St. 30. Fee, he ufes for reward, or wages, B. vi. C. 3. St. 19. B. vi. C. 10. St. 21.

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Feare, fpelt fo for the letters to answer in the rime

B. iv. C. 10. St. 27. B. vi. C. 8. St. 25. see Fere. Feare, frighten, terrify. B. vii. C. 7. St. 3. Feats of Arms, Gall. Faits d'armes, Ital. fatto d' armi, B. i. C. 3. St. 42, Milton hence feems to have wrote as Dr. Bentley faw, Feats of Arms, not Fact of arms, B. ii. 124.

Feculeut, Lat. fæculentus, B. ii. C. 7. St. 61.

To feed his Eye, B. i. C. 6. St. 4. Pafcit amore
oculos. Lucret.

Fell, Anglo-S. felle, fierce, cruell. Felly, cruelly,
Felineje, cruelty,

Fell, gaul, B. iii. C. 11. St. 2. 'tis the Anglo-S.
word: which vindicates him from taking unlicensed
words from the Latin.

Felloneft, moft fierce, B. 4. C. 2. St. 32. So G.
Douglas, ufes Felloun.

Feminitee, B. iii. C. 6. St. 51. womanhood, ftate
and dignity of woman. fo Chaucer uses it, and,
fo his follower, Lydgate of the Troj. warres,
B. 2. C. 16. fo trewe example of femynyte.
Feood, B. 4. C. 1. St. 26. feud. fo fpelt in
the old quarto editions, and folio of 1609,
1611. to answer to the letters in the rhime,
in B. i. C. 8. St. 2. Food, in which place I
believe Spenfer fpelt it feood, but the Printer
miftakingly food. fee Spelm. in Faida,
Fere, companion, Feres companions. ufed frequently
as, B. i. C. 10. St. 4. B. iv. C. 3. St. 52. B. iv.
C. 10. St. 27. B. v. C. 3. St. 22. B. v. C. 3.
St. 23. B. vi. C. 1. St. 43. B. vi. C. 7. St. 29.
B. vi. C. 12. st. 4. G. Douglas in fere, yfere,
together. Feres companions, Junius, Fere. vet.
Angl. focius. D. s. foena.

C. 3.

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Ferme, B. 3. C. 5. St. 23. fee the note. Fett, fet, fetch, B. iii. C. 1. St. 8. B. 5. St. 11. ufed fo very often in the Bible, as in II Sam. 9. 5. I Kings, 9. 28. Feutred his fpeare, B. iv. C. 4. St. 45. Speare gan fewter, B. iv. C. 6. St. 10. to fet his ipear in his reft: fet his fpeare easily and order y G. Douglas, tranflates Virg. Hæret pede pes, they fewter fute to fute: See the glofs, and Menage, and likewife Richelet in Feutrer. Fosɲe fignifies, theca a fheath or fcabbard. fee Somner. Feft, feaft, for the rhime, B. ii. C. 2, St. 16. Field is often used for fight, combat, battle: as F. i. . 1. St 1. B. i. C. 4. St. 41. B. i. C. 6. St. 41. B. ii. C. 6. St. B. 29. 5. C. B. v. C. St. 32. 5. St. 6. B. 6. C. 12. St. 11. Feld, bellum. vide Wacht. in V. Milton thus ufes it, tho' the field be loft.

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File his tongue, B. i. C. 1. St. 35, fee the note. fo again, B. iii. C. 2.St. 12 Anglo-S. feolan lima polire. Fine, end, B. iv. C. 3. St. 37.

Firmes his eye, keeps his eye fteady and firm; not in

the French idiom, fermer les yeux, to shut the eyes: B. ii. C. 7. St. 1.

Flaw of wind, B. v. C. 5. St. 6. Acts xxvii, 14, in the old tranflation. ufed by Milton, X. 698. Flight therewith, B. 6. C. 8. St. 8. Sydney's Arcad

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page 368, fo flesh'd in malice. And in the 2d part of
K. Henry VI.A&t. I. fleshed with conqueft. K. Henry
V. A&t. 3. the fleshed foldier. A foldier is faid to
flesh his word, when he firft wounds an enemy,
to which Shakespeare alludes, Henry IV. Full
bravely haft thou fleft thy maiden fword.

Flit, fleet, fwift, B. ii. C. 4. St. 38. B. iii. C. 10.
St. 57. did fit, did remove, flit away: B. iv.
C. 9. St. 29. fitted, flown away, flitting flowing,
yielding.

Flush of Ducks, B. v. C. 2. St. 54. q. d. fluxus

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Foile, B. i. C. 4. St. 4. B. iv. C. 2. St. 29. golden foile, leaf gold. Anglo-S. gold-fel, goldFolke-mote, a meeting or affembly of folk or people, foile. Gall. feuille d'or. B. iv. C. 4. St. 6. These round hills and fquare bawns, which you fee fo ftrongly trenched and thrown up; were called Folk-motes, that is a place of people to meet or talk of any thing that concerned any difference between parties and Foltring tongue, B. i. C. 9. St. 24. B. 3. C. 11. town-fhips.' Spenfer's view of Ireland. Fond, did find for the rhime; B. ii. C. 9. St. 60. St. 12. faultering, falling or tripping. B. iv. C. 4. St. 45. Anglo-S. findan to find: fand, did find,

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Fond, foolish, B. i. C. 9. St. 39. B. 3. C. 8. St. 25.
Fone, foes, B. ii. C. 16. St. 10. B. iv. C. 2. St. 28.
Food, B. i. C. 8. St. 9. fpelt fo for the rhime: fee
B. v. C. 3. St. 12.

Feood.

For, on account of, because, for in court &c. because in court, B. ii. C. 3. St. 5. and in other places. FOR in compofition fometimes encreases the fignification and fometimes gives the word an ill fenfe or denies and deprives. Ift, as increasing the force of the fimple word; as lorn loft: Forlorn, thoroughly loft, B. i. C. 1. St. 9. and in other places. wearied, Forwearied: forwandring, for-worne, forwafied. These words are often printed wrong: fometimes as two words: fometimes again, fore. wearied, forewafted, &c. II, as giving the word an ill fenfe, or depriving quality. ex. gr. to fwear, to forfwear: with the fame power as the Gothic particle fra and far: and the Anglo-S. fon, as rædan, confulere, forrædan, male confu

lere, done, fordone, i. e. undone, printed fordone in other editions, B. i. C. v. St. 41. B. i. C. 10. St. 60. Fortaught mifinterpreted, B. i. C. 7. St. 18, which is wrongly printed foretaught, forthinke, grieve in thought, B. vi. C. 4. St. 22. fo I read Forffent, and not forefpent, B. i. C. 9. S. 43. fo forbeare, B. ii, C. 1. St. 53. i. e, ill fupport. Forgone, loft, B. ii. C 3. St. 12 Forwent, forfook, B. 5. C. 8. St. 40. fee Somner in forfwærian. and Hicks Gram. Anglo-S. page 85. For Sæpe dat compofito fignificationem, quæ fimplici fignificationem peffundat & in malum Senfum vertit: ut doen

facere

facere: fondoen, interficere &c. Thus in the Greek

aga in many compound words gives a vicious conftruction, as diartpicài, philosophorum difputationes: wagad.aτgical, faljae et inanes difputationes. CάDE, παραβάινειν, ἀκέειν, παρακύειν, &c. Fordos, to destroy, ruin, B. v. C. 12. St. 3. Fordone, undone, B. i. C. 5. St. 41. and in other places, Spelt fometimes Foredone. So Fordonne, undone, ruined, B. v. C. 10. St. 33. See Somner, Fondone, perdere. Fondonne, perditus.

Chaucero Fordo. Foreby, near to.

Forebent, feized, B. iii. C. 4. St. 49. See the note. Forelent, B. iv. C. 3. St. 6. lent before hand. Forgone, loft, B. ii. C. 3. St. 12. all forgon, all other things neglected, B. v. C. 7. St. 9. bus forgon, has left, forfaken, B. v. C. 8. St. 9. Forlore, Forlorn, loft, forfaken, wretched, Anglo-S. forloren, perditus, forleoran, perdere. Forpined, much pined, confumed, B. iii. C. 10. St. 57. in the Folios Forepined, which is wrong. P.P. Fol. xxxiii. forpyned forewe. Chaucer, pag. 3. a forpinid ghoft. printed wrong, pag. 12. forepinid. Virgil calls the ghofts, vi. 401. exfangues

umbras.

Ferray, B. vi. C. 11. St. 40. Forrayed, ravaged, fpoiled, B. i. C. 12. S. 3. ufed as a fubftantive, Forraging, pillaging, B. iii. C. 3. St. 58. Forfall, read Foreftall, B. v. C. 5. St. 47. would before any other take from him, would intercept him of. Anglo-S. Fope-rtellan, to inter

cept.

Forflackt, delayed, B. v. C. 12. St. 3.
Forflow, delay, B. iv. C. 10. St. 15.
Fortaught, B. i. C. 7. St. 17. wrongly printed
in the copies Foretaught, mifinterpreted. See For.
Forthinke, badly, grievously think of, B. vi. C. 4.
St. 22. See For.

Fortby, therefore, Anglo-S. Foɲdi, quamobrem, wherefore, why. Chaucer forthy. Somner. Forthinke, B. iv. C. 12. St. 14. B. vi. C. 4. St. 32. think ill of, repine at. See For.

Fortilage, fort.

fencing. Foin, a thruft, Gall. poindre ferire. Ufed by Chaucer.

Foyle, B. iv. C. 5. St. 15. See Foile. Foyle, to file, defile, B. 5. C. 11. St. 33. from fylan, or fulan, to make foul.

Frankelin, in Chaucer, a country gentleman and freeholder. by Spenfer, for a gentleman, B. i. C. 10. St. 6.

Franchife, Gall. franchife, Ital. franchezza, B. iv. C. 9. St. 37. Franchifement, freedom, fetting at liberty, B. v. C. 11. St. 36.

Franion, B. ii. C. 2. St. 37. B. v. C. 3. St. 22. one of too frank behaviour. 'Tis forined from Frank with the Italian termination. I don't find it ufed by any but Spenser.

Freakes. whimfeys, mad actions, B. i. C. 3. St. 1. Frett, to eat, confume, Anglo-Sax. Frctan, B. ii. C. 2. St. 34. as a moth doth frett the garment, Pf. xxxix. 2. Thou makeft his beauty to confume away, like as it were a moth fretting a garment. heart-fretting, knawing the heart, B. iv. C. 5. St. 45. θυμοβόρος. 'Tis ufed in another fenfe, to frett, to adorn fretted, adorned: Anglo-S. Fræтpan, to adorn, Ital. freggiato, adorned; freggio, ornament, embroidery. as with a golden fret, i. e. ornament, B. iv. C. 11. St. 27. So fretted with gold, a phrafe he often ufes, from the Ital. freggiato d'oro, B. ii. C. 9. St. 37. B. iii. C. 2. St. 25. B. iii. C. 2. St. 25. B. iii. C. 3. St. 58. 'Tis ufed by Chaucer and Milton. by Ariofto frequently.

C'havea d'oro fregiata l'armatura.

Orl. Fur. xxv. 97.

Ricche di gioie, e ben fregiate d'oro.
Orl. Fur. xxxviii. 78.

Frize, freeze, B. vi. C. 10. St, 33.
Frize, a coarfe and warm kind of cloathing, made
originally in Friefland, B. 7. C. 7. St. 31.
Frory, frore, frozen, B. iii. C. 8. St. 35.
Frounce, curl, crifp, Gall. froncer, B. i. C. 4:
St. 14.

Frowy, frowzy, moffy, mufty, B. iii. C. 8. St. 30.
Fry of children, B. i. C. 12. St. 7. Gall. fray, fpawn.

Forwent, forfook, went out of their way, B. v. C. 8. Furniment, Ital. fornimento, furnishing, furniture,

St. 40. See FOR.

For-worn, much worn.

Fofter, B. iii. C. i. St. 18. B. iii. C.
4. St. 50. for-
refter. So Chaucer, Pr. 117. A fofter was he.
Fouldring heat, B. ii. C. 2. St. 20. with flames of
lightning, Gall. foudre, lightning, foudroyant,
thundering: Foudroying, Foudring, FOULDRING:
inferted ivorías gratiâ.

Foundrelle, fundatrix, B. i. C. ro. St. 44.
Foundering, B. iv. C. 4. St. 30. See the note.
Foy, B. ii. C. 10. St. 41. Hom. Od. 6 505. ödormógiov,
Angl. a voy Barnes. See Foy in Skinner. ufed
by Spenfer for fubfidies.

Foynd, B. ii. C. 5. St. 9. B. ii. C. 8. St. 47. B. iv.
C. 3. St. 25. B. v. C. 5. St. 6, pufh'd as in

B. iv. C. 3. St. 38.

Furf, first, that the letters might anfwer in the rhyme, Introd. B. v. St. 3.

Fylde. feeled. fpelt in the Folio 1609. filed. For the rhyme, B. vi. C. 12. St. 21.

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Geft, Gefts, action, actions, feats of arms, res gefta, Ital. gefta, exploits, atchievements.

Gheft, B. i. C. 8. St. 34. So fpelt in the old quartos and Folios. in Hughes, gueft. Spenfer follows the Belgick, Ghiffen. See Skinner. Giambeaux, B. ii. C, 6. St. 29. armour for the legs, boots, greaves, Gall. jambiere, Ital. gambiera. In Chaucer jambeux. See Menage in Jambe, Gibe and geare, joke and jeer, B. ii. C. 6. St. 21. jeft and gibe, B. v. C. 3. St. 39. Gin, begin. Gan, began.

Gin, engin, contrivance, B. 2. C. 3. St. 13. B. iii. C. 7. St. 7.

Giufts, Jufts, or tournaments, B. i. C. i. 'St. 1. to giuft, to run in tilt or tournament, B. iii. C. 10. St. 35. B. iv. C. 1. St. 11. B. v. C. 3. St. 6. fpelt from the Ital. gioftra, gioftrare. See Menage in Joufle.

Glade, a paffage: ufed generally for a paffage cut through a wood, B. iii. C. 4. St. 21. from the Anglo-S. glidan.

Glave, B. iv. C. 7. St. 28. B. iv. C. 10. St. 19.
Gall. glaive, corrupted from the Lat. gladius, a
fword, fpelt Glayves, B. v. C. 11. St. 58.
Glee, mirth.

Glen, (Anglo-S.) a valley, B. iii. C. 7. St. 6.
Glib, B. iv. C. 8. St. 12. They [the Irish] have an
other cuftom from the Scythians, that in wearing of
mantles and long Glibbs, which is a thick curled
bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and
monftrously difguifing them. Vox Hibern.
Glitterand light, B. i. C. 4. St. 16. Glitterand ar-
mour, B. i. C. 7. St. 29. Glitter and armes, B. ii.
C. 11. St. 17. Chaucer in Pl. Tale. 2102. Glit-
terand gold. G. Douglas. p. 130, 20. Skalis
glitterand bright.

Glod, did glide, glance, or fwiftly pafs. ufed by Ch. fo G Douglas ufes glade. The Anglo-S. præterit, from glidan, B. iv. C. 4. St. 23.

Glooming light. See the note on B. i. C. 1. St. 14.
glooming caft, B. i. C, 12. St. 2.
Glozing Speeches, flattering, deceitful, B. iii. C. 8.
St. 14. Milt. glozing lies. So gloz'd the tempter.
See Junius in Glofe.

Gnarre, B. i. C. 5. St. 33. gnarle or fnarle, vex per onomat. à litt. canina r.

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Goodly head, goodlinefs, B. ii. C. 3 St. 37. B. iii. C. 2. St. 38.

Gore, pierce, B. ii. C. 12. St. 52.

Gorge, throat, B. i. C. 1. St, 19. B. i. C. 11. St. 13. what was gorged, or swallowed down the throat, B. i. C. 4. St. 21.

Gorget, B. iv. C. 3. St. 12. armour defending the throat, Gall. gorgette,

Goffibs, fpelt in the 2d quarto Goffips: but he follows the Anglo-Sax. godribbe, B. i. C. 12.

St. 11.

Grange, B. vii. C. 7. St. 21. a granary, barn, farm, &c. Granges were fo named à grana gerendo: being farms belonging to religious houses; the overfeer of the grange was commonly called the Prior of the Grange.

Grayle [Grele, from gracilis. See Menage.] Some particles, or gravel, B. i. C. 7. St. 6. B. v. C. 9. St. 19. But used for the facred dish in the last fupper of our Saviour: in B. ii. C. 10. St. 53.

See the note.

Greave, B. iii. C. 10. St. 42. See the note: Perhaps the fame as Grove; as in B. vi. C. 2. St. 43. Chaucer in the Knight's Tale. 14. 97. In the greves. Somner, gnæfe, a grove: Lancaftren

fibus, a GREAVE.

Gree, in greatest gree, B. ii. C. 3. St. 5. well in gree, B. v. C. 6. St. 21. liking, pleasure, &c. Gall. Gree. Fairf. x. 10. accept in gree, Tasso, Prendi in grado.

Gride, gryde, B. ii. C. 8. St. 36. B. iii. C. 1. St. 62. B. iii. C. 2. St. 37. B. iii. C. 9. St. 20. B. iv. C. 6. St. 1. to pierce, or cut through. Lydgate of the warres of T. B. ii. C. 14. To fee her husband with large woundes depe gryde through the body. Milt. VI. 329. the griding word. Ch. Knightes T. 1012. Through grit, i. e. grided, pierced through. I take gride to be per metathefin for Gird: Anglo-S. gend, virga, and ufed by Chaucer for to ftrike, wound or pierce, See G. Douglas. in Gird. P. P. Fol. xi. has girde of; for to fmite off.

Griple, fee note on B. i. C. 4. St. 31. B. 6. C. 4. St. 6.

Groynd, B. vi C. 12. St. 27. grunted. nennian. Guarish, to garish, to drefs out gorgeoufly, B. iii. C. 5. St. 6. B. iv. C. 3. St. 29. Mirr. for Magiftrates, part IId. Fol. 34. with garish grace they fmile. Shakespear, Rom. and Jul. Act. 3. The garish Sun,

Gueld. a guildhald, B. ii. C. 7. St. 43. Anglo-Sax. gild, Germ. Gilde.

Guerdon, (Gall.) reward, recompence.
Guilers, cheats, B. iii. C. 10. St. 37.
Guife, Guize, way, fafhon, manner. Gall. guise,

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