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Gracious, acceptable to others, deserving their thanks, 212; graceful, 184, 228.

Graze, to, to be grown with grass (i.e. the four quarters of the court, divided by paths running across at right angles, are to be laid with turf), 191.

Great with, so, on such intimate terms with, 210.

Great Year, Plato's, a great cycle of years, at the end of which the celestial bodies would be found to have returned to the positions they were in at the beginning of the cycle (244).

Grotta, grotto, 192.

Ground, underlying rule or principle, 187.

Grounds of several natures, different kinds of soil, 188.
Growing silk, vegetable silk, grass silk,' 146.
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Haberdashers of small wares, retail dealers or vendors, 93.
Habilitation, qualification, a making apt or able, 130.

Half piece, as an, imperfect, wanting the other half, 113.
Hand, at a dear, at a dear rate, 105. Of even hand, at an even
balance (of accounts, i.e. not having a balance on the wrong
side'), 120. To come at even hand, to come to an equality, to
be even (with another), 31.

Hap, happen, chance, 243.

Healths, the drinking of healths or toasts (which, in Bacon's time, meant deep drinking), 75. (Cf. 166.)

Hearken how they waste, ascertain how their numbers dwindle, 147. Hearse-like, funereal, 18.

Heath, part of a garden left in a wild state, a 'wilderness,' 198,

200, 201.

Herba muscaria, grape-hyacinth, 196.

Hierusalem, Jerusalem, 145.

Hold out, keep up, continue on (that scale), 209.

Hollyokes, hollyhocks, 197.

Holpen, helped, 87, 103, 122.

Hooded, having the head covered up so that they cannot see (a term

of falconry), 73.

Hortatives, exhortations, 28.

Humorous, guided by one's own 'humour,' full of odd humours'

or fancies, 28.

Hyacinthus orientalis, the ordinary cultivated hyacinth, 196.

Impertinency, irrelevance, 234. Impertinent, irrelevant, 108.
Importeth, is of importance, 10, 124, 130.

Importune, importunate, 36, 166, 208.
Impostumations, impostumes, abscesses, 63.

Impression, of the last, under the influence of what they have been

last impressed by, 210.

Imprinting, impressive, 221.

Impropriate, appropriate, 134.

Inbowed windows, bow-windows, 192.

Incensed, burnt (as incense), 18.

Incommodities, disadvantages, drawbacks, 176.

Inconformity, incongruity, 102.

Incurreth.. into the note, comes under the observation (of others), 32.

Indifferent, impartial, 21, 53, 89, 217.

Industriously, purposely, 20.

Infamed, made infamous, 80.

Information, make an, make something known, bring something to

the notice of others, 211.

Infortunate, unfortunate, 16, 174.

Inordinate, ungoverned (in one's passions), 38.

Intend, to be bent on, to devote oneself to, 95, 130 (so intention, same passage); to mean, signify, 85.

Interessed, interested, 14.

Interest: to have interest in (a person), to have influence with him, to be able to influence him, 207, 227.

Interest, at, i.e. on terms for which they would have to pay heavily later on, 80.

Interlocution, speaking turn and turn about with others, 143.

Intervenient, intervening, 237.

Inure, to train, habituate, 161.

Inward, intimate, confidential, 44, 87. Inward beggar, i.e. a secret bankrupt, concealing his poverty, 108.

Jade, to over-drive, 141.

Just (cure), proper, exact, 60.

Justs, jousts, tilting with the lance, 165.

Kind, in that, in that way, 21, 179. Cf. in some other kind, 117. Knap, hillock, knoll, 188.

Knee-timber, timber that is bent or grown crooked, 51.
Knots, garden beds, plots, 199.

Laudatives, eulogies, 134.

Lay (buried), lie, 167.

Leads, a goodly, a handsome leaded roof, 190. (Cf. leaded aloft, 194.)

Leese, lose, 83, 123, 139, 144.

Legend, the Golden Legend (Legenda aurea), or collection of Lives of the Saints, compiled in the thirteenth century by Jacobus de Voragine (66).

Letter, letter of recommendation, 213.

Letting, for, for fear of hindering or obstructing, 200.

Life, the, the reality, the persons as they actually live, 75. To life,

to the life, vividly, 118.

Light well, fall to a worthy possessor, 185.

Lightly, usually, 218.

Like, likely, 95 (and elsewhere).

Lilium convallium, lily of the valley, 196, 202.

Limited, determined, measured, 120.

Lively, livelily, vividly, 17.

Loading part, on the, on the side which adds to the load or weight (and so aggravating the misfortune), 51.

Look used to call attention or give emphasis to the statement that follows, 224, 247:

Looses (in the conclusion), ways out of difficult or tight' places, 98. Lot, the spell cast by witchcraft or sorcery, 35.

Lurcheth, swallows up, absorbs, 189.

Main, the body of a thing, the chief or principal part (? stream), 98.

Mainly, strongly, greatly, 58, 151.

Maintain, support, back, 113; so maintained, 69.

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Make for, to be conducive to, 2, 132; for whom it maketh, for whose advantage it is, 67. Make forth to, advance towards, 176. Make good, justify, 29.

Manage, management, 182.

Managed, well, properly broken and trained (in the manège), well

in hand, 20.

Manure, to till or cultivate, 146.

Many times, often, in many cases, 21, 24, 25, 28, 57, 62, 91, 101, 185, 218.

Marish, marshy, 147.

Masteries, superiority (over disease), superior strength, 138; to try masteries with, to contend with for victory, to measure one's strength against, 79.

Mate, to overpower, 6, 60.

Material, dealing nakedly and abruptly with the real matter in hand (without preface or circumlocution), 105.

Matted pink, a small creeping pink, used for borders, 198.
Matter, the: (we now omit the definite article), 3, 242.
Matter, upon the, all things considered, on the whole, 187.
May, the Isle of May in the Firth of Forth, 156.

Mean, means (to an end), instrument, agency, 79, 211-13. In a mean, in moderate terms or language, 18.

Meere stone, a boundary stone, 232.

Meeteth with it, answers it, hits the point, 109.
Melocotones, a large kind of peach, 196.

Mercury rod, the caduceus, borne by Mercury when he conducts the shades of the dead to Hades, 14.

Merely, absolutely, entirely, 10, 133, 242.

Mew, to moult, 125.

Militar, military, 227.

Militia, an army, soldiery, 125, 129.

Mintmen, men versed in coinage, 90.

Model, the plan of a work, the scale on which it is made or done, 11, 189, 204; little model, a frame or plan in little, 135; after the model of, proportionate to, on the scale of, 100.

Moderator, a chairman or president (at a debate or other proceedings), 105. Moderate, act as moderator, control the talk, 141. Moil, labour, 146.

Momus, in the fable, found fault with a house for not being built on wheels, so that its occupant might get away from bad neighbours (188).

Morris dance, a dance of mummers on May-day, 9.

Mought, might, 63, 94, 113, 150, 158.

Muniting, fortifying, 12.

Mystery, secret or hidden meaning, 17. Mysteries are due to

secrecy: i.e. the man who can keep silence is the right person to impart mysteries to (21).

Naught, bad, evil, worthless, 151, 223.

Nephews, grandsons, 113.

Newel, the central column of a winding staircase; where the steps are pinned into the wall and there is no central pillar, the staircase is said to have an open newel (191).

Nice, scrupulous particular,' 128; nice or dainty, over-delicate or 'pretty,' 163.

Niceness, fastidiousness, 6.

Note, notice, 32; are in note, are noticed or observed, 220; something notified, information, 212.

Nourish little, receive little nourishment, 83.

Obnoxious, exposed, liable, or subject (to), 88, 161; submissive, 187.

Obtain, attain (to), 20; obtaineth, prevails, wins its cause, 235.
Odds, eminent, marked advantage or superiority, 209.

Oes, small round discs or spangles' (like the letter O), 164.
Of long, for long, 234.

Officious, forward to do offices, ready to serve, 187, 209.
Opinion, reputation, credit, 108, 226-7, 229; to have openness in
fame and opinion, i.e. to have a reputation for frankness, 23;
opinion of the touch of a man's reputation, i.e. the belief that
one's reputation is touched or attacked, 240.

Orbs, spheres, 58, 219; orbits, 71.

Ought, aught, anything, 247.

Overcome, become master of, make one's own, 151.

Over-speaking, addicted to over-much speaking, 234.

Owing a man, etc. : = which he will have to pay for in old age, 136.

Pack the cards, arrange or shuffle the cards fraudulently to the advantage of one's own hand, 93.

Pairs, impairs, 103.

Palm, a hand's-breadth, 80.

Pardon, by, by making allowances, 185.

Particular, partial, 242-3. (In his own) particular = particular case

or affairs, 64.

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