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Downae, s. p. 41, am not able;
properly, cannot take the
trouble.

Doute, doubt. Item, fear.
Doutted, doubted, feared.
Dois, s. doys, does.
Drap, s. drop.

Dre, p. 13, drie, p. 125, suffer.
Dreid, s. dreede, drede, dread.
Dreips, s. drips, drops.
Drovyers, drovers, p. 275,
such as drive herds of cattle,
deer, &c.
Dryvars, p. 5, idem.
Drye, p. 32, suffer
Dryghnes, dryness.
Duble Dyse, double (false)

d ce.

Dughtie, doughty.
Dule, s. dole, grief.
Dyd, dyde, d d.

Dyght, p. 12, dight, p. 57.
dressed, put on, put.
Dynte, dint, blow, stroke.
Dysgysynge, disguis.ng, mask-
ing.

E.

Eame, eme, p. 26, uncle.
Eathe, easy.

Ee, s, eie, eye. Een, eyne,
eyes.

Ech, eche, eiche, elke, each.
Ein, s. even.

Eir, evir, s. e'er, ever.
Eke, also. Eike, each.
Eldern, s. elder.
Eldridge, Scot ce Elriche,
Elritch, Elrische; wild, hid-
ous, ghostly. Item, lone-
some, uninhabited, except by
spectres, &c. Gloss. to A.
Ramsey. Elritchtlaugh,
Gen. Shep. a. 5.
Elke, p. 29, each.
Ellumynynge, p. 104, em-
bell shing. To illumine a

book was to ornament at with
paintings in miniature.
Ellyconys, Helicon's.
Endyed. dyed.

Enharpid, &c. p. 104, hooked,
or edged with mortal dread.
Encankered, cankered.
Envie, p. 24, envye, p. 27,
malice, ill-will, injury.
Erst, s. heretofore.

Etermynable, p. 106, intermi-
nable, unl m.ted.

Everych-one, every one.

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In the ballad of SIR CAWLINE, we have Eldridge Hill,' p. 45. Eldridge, Knight,' p. 46, 55. Eldridge Sword,' p. 49, 57.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.

66 'Laithely of forme, with cruckit camscho beik, Ugsome to here was his wyld ELRISCHE Skriek." 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. Tux, mmanis;" but it seems to imply somewhat more, as in Allan Ramsey's Glossaries.

F.

Fa, s. fall.
Fach, feche fetch.
Fain, fayne, glad, fond.
Faine of fighte, fond of fight-
ing.

Faine, fayne, feign.
Fals, false. Item, falleth.
Fare, pass.

Farden, p. 55, fared, flashed.
Farley, wonder.
Faulcone, faulcon.
Fay, Faith.
Fayere, p. 26, fair.
Faytors, deceivers, dissemblers,
cheats.

Fe, fee, reward: also, bribe,
But properly Fee is applied

a strain of music. See vol. ii. p. 190, and Glossary. Flyte, to contend with words, scold.

Foo, p. 34, foes.
For, on account of.
Forbode, commandment, p.
188, Over God's forbode
[Præter De præceptum sit.]
q. d. God forbid.
Forefend, prevent, defend.
Formare, former.

Forsede, p. 102, regarded,
heeded.

Forst, forced, compelled. Forthynketh, p. 184, repenteth, vexeth, troubleth. Fosters of the fe, p. 184, foresters of the king's demes

nes.

dled,

to Lands and Tenements, Fou, fow, s. full, also, fudwhich are held by perpetual right, and by acknowledg- Fowarde, vawarde, the van. ment of superiority to a high- Fre-bore, p. 85, free-born. er Lord; Thus, p. 106, in Freake, freke, freyke, man, fee, i. e. in feudal service. person, human creature. Al1. Feudum, &c. (Blount.) so a whim or maggot. Feat, nice, neat. Freckys, p. 10, persons. Featously, neatly, dextrously. Frie, s. fre, free. Feere, fere, mate, companion. Freits, s. ill omens, ill luck; Feir, s. fere, fear. any old superstitious saw, or impression,* p. 127. Fruward, forward.

Fendys pray, &c. p. 106, from be

ng the prey of the fiends,

Fersly, fiercely.

Fesante, pheasant.

Fette, fetched.

ed, made ready.

Fuyson, foyson, plenty; also, substance.

Fetteled, prepared, address- Fyll, p. 101, fell.

Filde, field.

Finaunce, p. 106, fine, forfeiture.

Fit, p. 9, fyt. p. 169, fytte, p. 85, Part or division of a song. Hence in p. 76, fitt is

Fykkill, fickle.

Fyr, fire.

G.

Gair, s. geer, dress,

Gamon, p. 48. To make game, to sport. A. S. Lam

* 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. 127.

enian, jocari. Hence Back- Growende, growynd, ground. Gude, guid, geud, s. good.

gamon.

Gane, gan, began.

Garde, garred, made.

Ganyde, p. 10, gained.

Gare, gar, s. make, cause; force, compel. Gargeyld, p. 109, from Gargoudle, f. the spout of a gutter. The tower was adorned with spouts cut in the figures of grey-hounds, lions, &c.

Garland, p. 91, the ring, with-
in 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.
Gi, gie, s. give..
Gife, giff, if

Gin, s. an, if.

Give owre, s. surrender.
Glede, p. 7, a red hot coal.
Glent, p. 5, glanced.

Glose, p. 100, set a false gloss,
or colour.
Gode, good,

Goddes, p. 103, goddess.
Goggling eyen, goggle eyes.
Gone, p. 54, go.
Gowd, s. gould, gold.
Graine, scarlet.
Gramercye, i. e. I thank you.
f Grand-mercie.
Graunge, p. 317, granary;

also, a lone country-house. Grea-hondes, grey hounds. Grece, a step, p. 110, a flight of steps, grees.

Greece, p. 178, fat, (a fat
hart) from f. graisse.
Grennyng, p. 78, grinning.
Gret, grat, great.
Greves, groves, bushes.
Grysely groned, p. 32, dread-
fully groaned.
Groundwa, groundwall.

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Hable, p. 101, able.
Halched, halsed, saluted, em-

braced, fell on his neck; from Halse, the neck; throat. Halesome, wholsome, healthy. Handbow, p. 189, the long bow, or common bow, as distinguished from the cross

bow. Haried, harried, haryed, harowed, p. 22, 171, robbed, pillaged, plundered. "He

harried a bird's nest." Scot. Harlocke, p. 328, perhaps. Charlocke, or Wild Rape, which bears a yellow flower, and grows among corn, &c. Hartly lust, p. 104, hearty de

sire. Hastarddis, p. 99, 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. Hayll, advantage, profit, (p. 26, for the profit of all England.) A. S. Hæl, salus. He, p. 5, hee, p. 24, hye, high.

He, p. 179, hye, to hye, or hasten.

Heal, p. 10, hail.
Hear, p. 11, here.

Heare, heares, hair, hairs.
Hed, hede, head.
Heere, p. 96, hear.
Hend, kind, gentle.
Heir, s. here, p. 9, hear.

Hest, hast.

Hest, p. 48, command, injunc

tion.

Hether, hither.

Hewyng, hewinge, hewing, hacking.

Hewyne in to, hewn in two. Hi, hie, p. 84, he.

Hie, hye, he, hee, high.
Hight, p. 50, p. 11, engage,
engaged, promised, (p. 160,
named, called.)
Hillys, hills.

Hinde, hend, gentle.
Hir, s. her.
Hirsel, s. herself.
Hit, p. 11, it.

Hoo, ho, p. 20, an interjection
of stopping or desisting;
hence stoppage.
Hode, hood, cap.
Hole, whole, holl, Idem.
Holtes, woods, groves, p. 24.
In Norfolk a plantation of
Cherry-tree is called
"Cherry-holt." Also,
sometimes "hills.*"'
Holy, p. 105, wholly.
perhaps hole, whole.
Hom, hem, them.

a

Or

Hondrith, hondred, hundred. Honge, hang, hung. Hontyng, hunting. Hoved, p. 109, heaved; or perhaps, hovered, (p. 25,) hung moving. (Gl. Chauc.) Hoved or hoven, means in the North, swelled.' But Mr.

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* HOLTES seems evidently to signify HILLS in the follow. ing passage from Tuberville's "Songs and Sonnets," 12mo. 1567, fol. 56.

"Ye that frequent the hilles,

"And highest HOLTES of all;
"Assist me with your skilfull quilles,
"And listen when I call."

As also in this other verse of an ancient poet.
"Underneath the HOLTES SO hoar."

Karls, carls, churls, karlis of Kyrtill, kirtle, petticoat, gown. kynd, p. 100, churls by na

ture.

Kauld, p. 84, called.

Kawte and keene, p. 26, cau-
tious and act ve, 1. cautus.
Keepe, p. 330, care heed. So
in the old play of Hick Scor-
ner, (in the last leaf but one)
"I keepe not to clymbe so
hye." i. e. I study not; care
not, &c.
Kempe, a soldier.
Kemperye man p. 74, soldier,
warr or, fighting-man.*
Kems, s. combs.
Ken, kenst, know, knowest.
Kepers, &c. p. 192, Sc. those
that watch by the corpse,
shall tye up my winding
sheet.

Kind, nature.
Kit,. 104, cut.

Kithe or kin, acquaintance nor
kindred.

Knave, p. 95, servant.
Knicht, s. knight.
Knights fee, p. 95, such a por-
tion of land as required the
possesso to serve with man
and horse.
Knowles, knolls, little hills.
Knyled, knelt.
Kowarde, coward.

Kuntrey, p. 105, country.
Kurteis, p. 105, courteous.

Laith, s. loth.

L.

Laithly, s. loathsome, hideous.
Langsome, s. p. 343, long,
tedious. Lang, s. long.
Lauch, lauched, s. laugh,

laughed.

Launde, p. 178, lawn.
Lay-land, p. 48, land that is
not plowed: green-sward.
Lay-lands, p. 56, lands in ge-
neral.
Layden, laid.

Layne, lain, v d. Leane.
Laye, p. 48, law.
Leane, p. 29, conceal, hide;
Item, lye, (query.)
Leanyde, leaned.

Learnd, ea ne, taught.
Lease, p. 179, lying, false-
hood. Withouten lease, ve-
rily
Leasynge, lying, falsehood.
Lee, p. 128, Lea, the field.
Leeche, physician.
Leechinge, doctoring, medici-

nal care.
Leer, p. 349, look.
Leeve, London, p. 299, dear
London, an old phrase.
Leeveth, believeth.
Lefe, p. 182; leeve, dear.
Lefe, leave; leves, leaves.

* "Germanis Camp, Exercitum, aut Locum ubi Exercitus "castrametatur, significat: inde ipsis Vir Castrensis et Milita"ris kemffer,et kempher, et kemper,et kimber, et kampe,pro va"rietate dialectorum, vocatur; Vocabulum hoc nostro sermone "nondum penitus exolevit; Norfolcienses enim plebeio et pro"letario sermone dicunt "He's a kempe old man, i. e. Senex "Vegetus est:" Hinc C.mb 18 suum nomen; "kimber enim "Homo bellicosus, pugil, robustus miles, &c. significat."— Sheringham de Anglor. gentis orig. pag. 57. Rectius au"tem Lazius [apud eundem, p. 49.]Cmbros a bello quod "kamff, et Saxonice kamp nuncupatos crediderim: unde bel"latores viri Die Kempffer, Die Kemper."

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