bush, Busk and boun, p. 102, i, e. make Buske ye, dress ye. Buskt them, p. 82, prepared them- But if, unless, Buttes, buts to shoot at. By thre, p. 131, of three. Bydys, bides, abides. Clough, a north-country word for a Clowch, clutch, grasp. Cockers, p. 263, a sort of buskins or Cold bee, p. 247, was. Cowde dye, Bye, p. 137, buy, pay for; also, abye, Collayne, p. 25, Cologne steel. suffer for. Byears, beeres, biers. Byll, bill, an ancient kind of halbert Byn, bine, bin, been, be, are. Commen, commyn, come. Cordiwin, p. 263, cordwayne: pro- Coyntrie, p. 263, Coventry. Crancky, merry, sprightly, exulting. Crevis, crevice, chink. Cristes corse, p. 7, Christ's curse. Cryance, belief, f. créance, [whence Dyd, dyde, did. on, put. Dynte, dint, blow, stroke. Ech, eche, eiche, elke, each. Eir, evir, s. e'er, ever. Ellumynynge, p. 84, embellishing. To Enharpid, &c. p. 84, hooked, or edged Enkankered, cankered. Envye, pp. 20, 22, malice, ill-will, injury. Erst, s. heretofore. Etermynable, p. 86, interminable, unlimited. Everych-one, every-one. Fa, s. fall. Fach, feche, fetch. F. Dyght, p. 10, dight, p. 46, dressed, put Fain, fayne, glad, fond. Faine of fighte, fond of fighting. Fals, false. Item, falleth. Farden, p. 45, fared, flashed. Farley, wonder. Faulcone, falcon. Fayre, p. 22, fair. 2 In the ballad of SIR CAULINE, we have "Eldridge Hill." p. 37; "Eldridge Knight," p. 38, 45. "Eldridge Sworde," p. 40, 46.- So Gawin Douglas calls the Cyclops, the "ELRICHE BRETHIR," i. e. brethren (b. ii. p. 91, 1. 16); and in his Prologue to b. vii. (p. 202, 1. 3), he thus describes the night-owl: "Laithely of forme, with crukit camscho beik, Ugsome to here was his wyld ELRISCHE shriek." In Bannatyne's MS. Poems, (fol. 135, in the Advocates' library at Edinburgh,) is a whimsical rhapsody of a deceased old woman travelling in the other world; in which "Scho wanderit, and zeid by, to an ELRICH well." In the Glossary to G. Douglas, ELRICHE, &c. is explained by "wild, hideous: Lat. trux, immanis;" but it seems to imply somewhat more, as in Allan Ramsay's Glossaries. Feir, s. fere, fear. &c. Frie, s. fre, free. G. Gair, s. geer, dress. Gane, gan, began. Ganyde, p. 8, gained. Fendys pray, &c. p. 86, from being Garde, garred, made. the prey of the fiends. Fersly, fiercely. Fetteled, prepared, addressed, made ready. Filde, field. Finaunce, p. 86, fine, forfeiture. Flyte, to contend with words, scold. For, on account of. Forbode, commandment, p. 153. Over God's forbode. [Præter Dei præceptum sit,] q. d. God forbid. Forefend, prevent, defend. Formare, former. Forsede, p. 82, regarded, heeded. Forthynketh, p. 149, repenteth, vexeth, troubleth. Fosters of the fe, p. 150, foresters of the king's demesnes. Fou, fow, s. full; also, fuddled. Fowarde, vawarde, the van. Freake, freke, freyke, man, person, human creature. Also, a whim or maggot. Fre-bore, p. 69, free-born. Freckys, p. 9, persons. Freits, 8. ill omens, ill luck; any old superstitious saw, or impression 3, p. 102. sub Gare, gar, s. make, cause; force, compel. Gargeyld, p. 88, from Gargouille, f. the spout of a gutter. The tower was adorned with spouts cut in the figures of greyhounds, lions &c. Garlande, p. 74, the ring within which the prick or mark was set to be shot at. Gear, 8. geer, goods. Getinge, what he had got, his plunder, booty. Geve, gevend, give, given. Give owre, s. surrender. Glent, p. 5, glanced. Glose, p. 81, set a false gloss or colour. Goddes, p. 83, goddess. Gode, good. Goggling eyen, goggle eyes. Gramercye, i. e. I thank you, f. Grand mercie. Graunge, p. 254, granary; also, a lone country-house. Grea-hondes, grey-hounds. Grece, a step, p. 88, a flight of steps, grees. Greece, p. 145, fat, (a fat hart,) from f. graisse. Gret, grat, great. Greves, groves, bushes. Groundwa, groundwall. 8 An ingenious correspondent in the north thinks FREIT is not 'an unlucky omen,' but, 'that thing which terrifies: viz. Terrors will pursue them that look after frightful things. FRIGHT is pronounced by the common people in the north, FREET, p. 102. Ha, hae, s. have. Item, hall. Halched, halsed, saluted, embraced, fell on his neck; from Halse, the neck, throat. Halesome, wholesome, healthy. Hand-bowe, p. 154, the long-bow, or common-boro, as distinguished from the cross-bow. Haried, harried, haryed, harowed, p. 19, 139, robbed, pillaged, plundered. He harried a bird's nest. Scot. Harlocke, p. 262, perhaps charlocke, or wild rape, which bears a yellow flower, and grows among corn, &c. Hartly lust, p. 84, hearty desire. Hastarddis, p. 80, perhaps hasty rash fellows, or upstarts, qu. Haviour, behaviour. Hauld, s. to hold. Item, hold, strong, bold. Hawberk, a coat of mail, consisting of iron rings, &c. Haylle, advantage, profit (p. 22, for the profit of all England). A. S. Hæl, salus. He, p. 5, hee, p. 20, hye, high. Hear, p. 9, here. Heare, heares, hair, hairs. Hed, hede, head. Heere, p. 77, hear. Heir, s. here, p. 8, hear. Hend, kind, gentle. Hest, hast. Hests, p. 40, commands, injunctions. Hether, hither. Hewyne in to, hewn in two. Hie, hye, he, hee, high. Hight, p. 41, p. 9, engage, engaged, promised (page 131, named, called). Hillys, hills. Hinde, hend, gentle. Hirsel, s. herself. Hit, p. 9, it. Hole, whole; holl, idem. Holtes, woods, groves, p. 20. In Norfolk a plantation of cherry-trees is called a cherry-holt. Also some. times hills 4. Holy, wholly. Or perhaps hole p. 85, whole. Hom, hem, them. Hondrith, hondred, hundred. Hoo, ho, p. 17, an interjection of stopping or desisting: hence stoppage. Hoved, p. 88, heaved; hung moving (G1. Chauc.). Hoved or hoven means in the north, swelled: but Mr. Lambe thinks it is the same as houd, still used in the north, and applied to any light substance heaving to and fro on an undulating surface. The vowel u is often used there for the conson. v. Hount, hunt. Hyght, p. 25, on high, aloud. 4 HOLTES Seems evidently to signify HILLS in the following passage from Tuberville's Songs and Sonnets, 12mo, 1567, fol. 56: "Yee that frequent the hilles, And highest HOLTES of all; Assist me with your skilfull quilles, As also in this other verse of an ancient poet: "Underneath the HOLTES so hoar." Kan, p. 83, can. Lay-land, p. 39, land that is not ploughed: green sward. Lay-lands, p. 46, lands in generai. Layne, lain; vid. Leane. Karls, carls, churls, karlis of kynde, Leane, conceal, hide; Item, lye (query). p. 81, churls by nature. Kauld, p. 68, called. Keepe, p. 263, care, heed. So in the old play of Hick Scorner (in the last leaf but one): "I keepe not to clymbe so hye." i. e. I study not; care not, &c. Kempe, a soldier. Leanyde, leaned. Learnd, learned, taught. Lease, p. 145, lying, falsehood. Wyth Leechinge, doctoring, medicinal care. Kemperye man, p. 60, soldier, warrior, Leer, p. 277, look. fighting-man Kems, s. combs. 5. Ken, kenst, know, knowest. Kepers, &c. p. 156, Sc. those that watch by the corpse, shall tye up my winding sheet. Kind, nature. Kit, p. 84, cut. Kithe or kin, acquaintance nor kindred. Knightes fee, p. 77, such a portion of Leeve London, p. 240, dear London, an old phrase. Leeveth, believeth. Lefe, p. 148; leeve, dear. Leman, leaman, leiman, tress, A. S. leifman. Lenger, longer. lover, mis Lere, p. 44, face, complexion, A. S. Lesynge, leasing, lying, falsehood. 5 "Germanis Camp Exercitum, aut Locum ubi Exercitus castrametatur, significat: inde ipsis Vir Castrensis et Militaris kemffer, et kempher, et kemper, et kimber, et kamper, pro varietate dialectorum, vocatur; Vocabulum hoc nostro sermone nondum penitus exolevit; Norfolcienses enim plebeio et proletario sermone dicuntHe is a kemper old man, i. e. Senex vegetus est.' Hinc Cimbris suum nomen; 'kimber enim homo bellicosus, pugil, robustus miles, &c. significat.' Sheringham de Anglor. gentis orig. pag. 57. Rectius autem Lazius (apud eundem, p. 49). Cimbros a bello quod kamff, et Saxonice kamp nuncupatos crediderim; unde bellatores viri Die Kempffer, Die Kemper." |