bush, a snare to bring them into Busk and boun, p. 102, i, e. make 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. Confetered, confederated, entered into Cordiwin, p. 263, cordwayne: pro- Couth, could. Coyntrie, p. 263, Coventry. Crancky, merry, sprightly, exulting. Crevis, crevice, chink. Cristes corse, p. 7, Christ's curse. Cryance, belief, f. créance, [whence D. Dampned, p. 137, condemned. Deid, s. dede, deed. Item, dead. Deir, s. deere, dere, dear. Dell, deal, part; p. 89, every dell, Denay, deny (rhythmi gratia), - Dill, p. 36, dole, grief, pain.- Dill I Dint, stroke, blow. 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, unlimited. Everych-one, every-one. interminable, Drye, p. 26, suffer. Dryghnes, dryness. Duble dyse, double (false) dice. Dughtie, doughty. Dule, s. dole, grief. Dyd, dyde, did. on, put. Fa, s. fall. Fach, feche, fetch. F. Dyght, p. 10, dight, p. 46, dressed, put Fain, fayne, glad, fond. Dynte, dint, blow, stroke. Dysgysynge, disguising, masking. Faine of fighte, fond of fighting. Fals, false. Item, falleth. Farden, p. 45, fared, flashed. Farley, wonder. Faulcone, falcon. Faye, faith. 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, 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. Faytors, deceivers, dissemblers, cheats. Fe, fee, reward: also, bribe. But properly, Fee is applied to lands and tenements, which are held by perpetual right, and by acknowledgment of superiority to a higher Lord. Thus, p. 85, in fee, i. e. in feudal service. 1. feudum, &c. (Blount.) Feat, nice, neat. Featously, neatly, dexterously. Feere, fere, mate, companion. Feir, s. fere, fear. 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. Fesante, pheasant. 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 præcep- Forefend, prevent, defend. 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. Fre-bore, p. 69, free-born. Freits, 8. ill omens, ill luck; any old superstitious saw, or impression 3, p. 102. 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, s. geer, goods. Getinge, what he had got, his plunder, booty. Geve, gevend, give, given. Give owre, s. surrender. Glose, p. 81, set a false gloss or colour. Goggling eyen, goggle eyes. Gramercye, i. e. I thank you, f. Grandmercie. 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. 3 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-bow, 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). Á. S. Hæl, salus. He, p. 5, hee, p. 20, hye, high. He, p. 146, hye, to hye, or hasten. 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. Hie, hye, he, hee, high. Hight, p. 41, p. 9, engage, engaged, promised (page 131, named, called). Hillys, hills. Hinde, hend, gentle. Hode, hood, cap. Hole, whole; holl, idem. Holtes, woods, groves, p. 20. In Norfolk a plantation of cherry-trees is called a cherry-holt. Also sometimes 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 (Gl. 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 30 hoar." Kan, p. 83, can. Lay-land, p. 39, land that is not ploughed: green sward. Lay-lands, p. 46, lands in generai. 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 5. Kems, s. combs. 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, 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, pugi, 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." |