Lettest, hinderest, detainest. Leyre, lere, p. 261, learning, lore. Lightsome, cheerful, sprightly. Lingell, a thread of hemp rubbed with rosin, &c., used by rustics for mending their shoes. Lith, lithe, lythe, p. 131, attend, hearken, listen. Lither, p.59, idle, worthless, naughty, froward. Liver, deliver. Liverance, p. 244, deliverance (money, or a pledge for delivering you up). Loke, p. 263, lock of wool. Longes, belongs. Looset, losed, loosed. Lope, leaped. Loveth, love, plur. number. Loun, s. p. 274, lowne, p. 170, loon, rascal, from the Irish liun, slothful, sluggish, Louted, lowtede, bowed, did obeisance. Lowe, p. 76, a little hill. Lurden, p. 139, lurdeyne, sluggard, drone. Lynde, p. 143, 144, the lime tree, or collectively, lime trees; or trees in general. Lyne, p. 74. Lyth, p. 262, lythe, lithsome, pliant, flexible, easy, gentle. M. Mahound, Mahowne, Mahomet. Makys, maks, mates 6. Male, p. 8, coat of mail. Mane, p. 6, man. Item, moan. March perti, p. 13, in the parts lying upon the Marches. March-pine, p. 261, march-pane, a kind of biscuit. Masterye, p. 74, maystery, p. 151, a Mayd, mayde, maid. Maye, p. 24, maid (rhythmi gratia). Mayne, p. 47, force, strength, p. 72, horse's mane. Meany, retinue, train, company. Men of armes, p. 25, gens d' armes. Met, meit, s. mete, meet, fit, proper. Mighttè, mighty. Minged, p. 39, mentioned. Miscreants, unbelievers. Misdoubt, p. 257, suspect, doubt. Misken, mistake; also in the Scottish idiom, let a thing alone. (Mr.Lambe.) Mode, p. 143, mood. Monnyn day, Monday. Mores, p. 37, hills, wild downs. Mought, mot, mote, might. Mure, mures, s. wild downs, heaths, &c. Myllan, Milan steel. Myne-ye-ple, page 8, perhaps many plies, or folds. Monyple is still used in this sense in the north. (Mr. Lambe.) Myrry, merry. Mysuryd, p. 83, misused, applied to a bad purpose. 6 As the words MAKE and MATE were, in some cases, used promiscuously by ancient writers; so the words CAKE and CATE seem to have been applied with the same indifferency: this will illustrate that common English proverb, "To turn Cat (i. e. ČATE) in pan." A PAN-CAKE is in Northamptonshire still called a PAN-CATE. Neigh him neare, approach him near. Neir, s. nere, ne'er, never. Neir, s. nere, near. Penon, a banner, or streamer borne at the top of a lance. Perelous, parlous, perilous; dangerous. Nicked him of naye, p. 54, nicked him Perfight, perfect. with a refusal. Nipt, pinched. Nobles, p. 80, nobless, nobleness. None, noon. Nourice, 8. nurse. Nye, ny, nigh. 0. O gin, 8. O if! a phrase. On, one; on man, p. 7, one man. One, p. 25, on. Onfowghten, unfoughten, unfought. Out ower, s. quite over: over. Outrake, p. 247, an out ride, or expedition. To raik, s. is to go fast. Outrake is a common term among shepherds. When their sheep have a free passage from inclosed pastures into open and airy grounds, they call it a good outrake. (Mr. Lambe.) Oware off none, p. 5, hour of noon. Perlese, p. 86, peerless. Pertyd, parted. Pious chanson, p. 157, a godly song or ballad7. Pitte, Pittye, Petye, pyte, pity. Portres, p. 88, porteress. Pow, pou: pow'd, s. pull, pulled. Pownes, p. 255, pounds (rhythmi gratia). Prece, prese, press. Preced, p. 146, presed, pressed. Prestly, p. 146, prestlye, p. 44, readily, quickly. Pricked, spurred on, hasted. Prowès, p. 83, prowess. Prycke, p. 150, the mark: commonly a hazel wand. 7 Mr. Rowe's edit. has, "The first Row of the Rubrick;" which has been supposed by Dr. Warburton to refer to the red-lettered titles of old ballads. In the large collection made by Mr. Pepys, I do not remember to have seen one single ballad with its title printed in red letters. Soth, sothe, south, southe, sooth, truth. Soth-Ynglonde, Sould, s. should. South England. Sowdan, soldain, sultan. Spak, spaik, s. spake. Spendyd, p. 10, probably the same as Spill, p. 168, spille, p. 48, spoil, come to harm. Sprente, 9, spurted, sprung out. Spurn, spurne, a kick, p. 14. See Tear. Spylt, spoiled, destroyed. Stabille, p. 85, perhaps, stablish. Steid, s. stede, steed. Stele, steel. Sterne, stern: or, perhaps, stars. Stert, start, p. 269, started. room. Streight, straight. Suar, sure. Sum, s. some. Sumpters, p. 258, horses that carry clothes, furniture, &c. Swapte, p. 9, swapped, p. 26, swopede, struck violently. Scot. sweap, to scourge (vide Gloss. Gaw. Douglas). Or perhaps exchanged, sc. blows: 80 swap or swopp signifies. Swat, swatte, swotte, did sweat. Sweaven, a dream. Syde shear, p. 5, sydis shear, p. 5, on all sides. Syne, then, afterwards. 8 The old French Romancers, who had corrupted TERMAGANT into TERVAGANT, Couple it with the name of MAHOMET as constantly as ours; thus in the old Roman de Blanchardin, Theyther-ward, thither-ward, towards Thie, thy. Thowe, thou. Thrall, p. 251, captive, p. 96, thraldom, Thrang, s. throng. Threape, to argue, to assert in a posi tive overbearing manner. Thrittè, thirty. Thronge, p. 138, hastened. Ton, p. 6, tone, the one. Tow, s. p. 101, to let down with a rope, &c. Tow, towe, two. Twa, s. two. Towyn, p. 19, town. Treytory, traitory, treachery. Trim, exact. Trow, think, conceive, know. Trowthe, troth. Tru, true. Tuik, s. took. Tul, s. till, to. Twin'd, s. p. 33, parted, separated, Hence Fontaine, with great humour, Roy de Garbe, says. "Et reniant Mahom, Jupin, et TERVAGANT, Mém. de l'Acad. des Inscript. tom. xx. 4to p. 352. As TERMAGANT is evidently of Anglo-Saxon derivation, and can only be explained from the elements of that language, its being corrupted by the old French Romancers proves that they borrowed some things from ours. 9 In fol. 355 of Bannatyne's MS. is a short fragment, in which 'wane' is used for 'ane' or 'one,' viz. "Amongst the Monsters that we find, From Adame drivs his pedigree. |