Lettest, hinderest, detainest.
Lettyng, hindrance, i. e. without delay.
Lever, rather.

Leyre, lere, p. 261, learning, lore.
Lig, s. lie.

Lightsome, cheerful, sprightly.
Linde, see Lynde.

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.
Lough, p. 143, laugh.
Louked, looked.

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.
Majeste, maist, mayeste, may'st.
Mair, s. mare, more.

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
trial of skill, high proof of skill.
Mauger, maugre, spite of.
Maun, s. mun, must.

Mayd, mayde, maid.

Maye, p. 24, maid (rhythmi gratia). Mayne, p. 47, force, strength, p. 72, horse's mane.

Meany, retinue, train, company.
Meed, meede, reward.

Men of armes, p. 25, gens d' armes.
Meniveere, a species of fur.
Merches, marches.

Met, meit, s. mete, meet, fit, proper.
Meynè, see Meany.
Mickle, much.

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.
Morne, s. p. 66, on the morrow.
Mort, death of the deer.
Most, must.

Mought, mot, mote, might.
Mun, maun, s. must.

Mure, mures, s. wild downs, heaths, &c.
Musis, muses.

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.

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.

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.
Or, ere, p. 17, 20, before.
Or, eir, before ever.
Orisons, prayers.
Ost, oste, oost, host.

Out ower, s. quite over: over.
Out-horn, the summoning to arms by
the sound of a horn.

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.
Owre, owr, 8. o'er.
Owt, owte, out.

Perlese, p. 86, peerless.
Perte, part.

Pertyd, parted.
Plaining, complaining.
Play-feres, play-fellows.
Pleasance, pleasure.
Pight, Pyght, pitched.
Pil'd, p. 250, peeled, bald.
Pine, famish, starve.

Pious chanson, p. 157, a godly song or ballad7.

Pitte, Pittye, Petye, pyte, pity.
Pompal, p. 202, pompous.
Popingay, a parrot.

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.
Prest, ready.

Prestly, p. 146, prestlye, p. 44, readily, quickly.

Pricked, spurred on, hasted.
Prickes, p. 74, the mark to shoot at.
Pricke-wande, p. 74, a wand set up
for a mark.

Prowès, p. 83, prowess.

Prycke, p. 150, the mark: commonly a hazel wand.

Soth, sothe, south, southe, sooth, truth.

Soth-Ynglonde,

Sould, s. should.

South England.

Sowdan, soldain, sultan.
Sowden, sowdain, sultan.
Sowre, soare, sour, sore.
Sowter, p. 64, a shoemaker.
Soy, f. silk.

Spak, spaik, s. spake.
Sped, speeded.
Speik, 8. speak.

Spendyd, p. 10, probably the same as
Spanned, grasped.
Spere, speere, spear.

Spill, p. 168, spille, p. 48, spoil, come to harm.

Sprente, 9, spurted, sprung out.

Spurn, spurne, a kick, p. 14. See Tear.
Spyde, spied.

Spylt, spoiled, destroyed.
Spyt, p. 6, spyte, spite.

Stabille, p. 85, perhaps, stablish.
Stalwurthlye, stoutly.
Stane, s. stean, p. 68, stone.
Starke, p. 44, stiff, 83, entirely.
Steedye, steady.

Steid, s. stede, steed.

Stele, steel.

Sterne, stern: or, perhaps, stars.
Sterris, stars.

Stert, start, p. 269, started.
Sterte, sterted, start, started.
Steven, p. 74, time, p. 77, voice.
Still, quiet, silent.
Stint, stop, stopped.
Stonderes, standers-by.
Stound, stownde, time, while.
Stour, p. 11, 62, stower, p. 39, stowre,
p. 26, 46, fight, disturbance, &c. This
word is applied in the north to
signify dust agitated and put into
motion: as by the sweeping of a

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.
Swear, p. 5, sware.
Sweard, sword.

Sweaven, a dream.
Sweit, s. swete, sweet.
Swith, quickly, instantly.
Syd, side.

Syde shear, p. 5, sydis shear, p. 5, on all sides.

Syne, then, afterwards.
Syth, since.