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Auditor (203), hearer.
Augment, to make greater.
Awkward winds (42), blowing

the wrong way for you.

Ay, for, for ever.
Aye, yes.

Bagpudding (184), a pudding boiled in a bag.

Bait, to torment for sport (as in bear-baiting, bull-baiting).

Balm (57, 76), the oil with which a king is anointed at his coronation.

(226),

Baned (167), destroyed. Barbary - sugar sugar brought from Barbary; so, very sweet and rare.

Barnacle (225), goose. (Really a wild goose which breeds in the arctic seas.)

Basis (128), the lower part of a
column or statue, the base.
Bated, lowered, made less.
Battalia (92), battalion.
Battle (72), army.
Bauble, cheap plaything.

Bay (140), to bark at; (130) to bring to bay, when the stag turns and faces the hounds.

Beadle, an officer who kept order in church and also punished small offences in the parish.

Bear me hard (129), suspect me, think me dangerous. (Literally, to keep a tight rein on a horse.) Beaver, the faceguard of the helmet; so, the helmet itself. Beguile (the time), to while away. Beholding, obliged to anybody, beholden.

Benighted, overtaken by the night. Bergomask dance (212), a clownish dance, originally that of the peasants of Bergamo.

Beshrew me. A playful cry, meaning 'Mischief to me'. Besmirch, to soil, stain. Best-conditioned, having the best temper.

Bestow yourself (80), place your

self.

Bethink me (153), consider with

myself, think over

Betoken, to mean.
Biggin, night-cap.

Bills, brown (187). See note, p. 191.

*Blunt (194). D. means 'sharp'. Boding (19), giving a warning of evil. The cry of the owl was a sign of bad luck. Boisterous, rough.

Bolted (68), sifted like fine meal. Bondman, slave.

Book (82), to register, make a

list of.

Bootless, useless.

Botch, to patch clumsily.
Bots (214), worms in the stomach
of a horse.

Bottom, a ship carrying cargo.
Braggart, one who brags.
Brake, a thicket.
Brand, a firebrand.
Brassy, made of brass, hard-
hearted.

Brave (70, IOI), bravely (80),
making a fine show.
Braved, dared, defied.
Bravery (35), state of defiance.
Brawling, keep a (216), to make
a noise.

Breathing courtesy (180), politeness expressed only in words. Breech, to flog. Breeks, breeches. Brief (205), a short programme. Brisky (203), brisk, smart. Broach, to tap liquor. Brood (26), to protect like a hen covering her chickens. Buckler, a shield. Buckram, coarse linen or cloth stiffened with gum. Buffet, to cuff, hit out at. Bulk (89), body. Bully (201), a jolly fellow. Burn their mention (20), destroy their honourable mention of us, just as if you were burning books or papers which contained it. Buzzard, an inferior hawk, useless for sport; it could fly, not strike.

By and by, at once. By'r lakin (201), by our ladykin, or little lady (an old oath).

Calendar of Virtue (105), a list in which good deeds appear like the Saints' names in an almanac. Canker, a caterpillar which destroys the buds and leaves of plants.

Capacity, to my (206), to my understanding, as far as I am able to take things in. Capital, punished with death. Carat, the proportion of pure metal in anything made of gold. Carriage (97), the way a man carries himself or behaves. Carrion, dead and rotting. Case ye (217), put on your disguises.

Casement, the frame of a window. Casket, a small ornamental box. Casque, helmet.

Caterpillar (218), one who preys on society, an extortioner. Celerity, speed. Celestial, heavenly. Censure (132), to judge. Ceremony (76), grandeur, royal state; (131), an act of honour. Certain, certainly. Cess (213), reckoning, measure. Chamberlain (215), the upper servant of an inn.

Chantry (77), a chapel or altar endowed for a priest to sing mass daily for the souls of the dead. Charging-staff, a long weapon like the quarter-staff, used for attack and defence.

Chattels, property. Cheerly, cheerfully. Chide him hither hither (56). A short way of saying 'Talk to him severely and send him here'. Choice-drawn (70), carefully

picked.

Choler, anger.
Choleric, angry.

Christen (214), christened.

Christendom (37), baptism, or the faith of a Christian.

Chuff (218), a churl or miser. Church-bench (193), the bench in the church-porch. Churlish (73), stiff, hard. Circumstance (151), a roundabout story.

Civil doctor (182), one who has taken at a university the degree of Doctor of Civil

Law

Clay-brained, thick-headed.
Clemency, mercy, kindness.
Closely, secretly.
Clouts, rags.

Cloy, to fill with too much of a thing.

Cockpit (63), a pit in which cockfighting took place; here used for the theatre. As if Shakespeare's Agincourt, compared with the real battle, was no better than a cock-fight. Cockshut time (93), when it grows dark. 'Cockshoots' were glades in which nets were stretched after dark to catch the birds that shot into them when they were driven by beaters.

(Also re

Coffer, a money-chest.
Cogitation, thought.
Coil, a noise, bustle.
Colours (85), excuses.
ferring to the red rose.)
Colt (217), to make a fool of.
Combustion, violent disorder.
Comeliness, beauty.
Commandement (178). We pro-
nounce 'commandment' now.
Comment, bear a (140), to be
criticized.

Commiseration, pity.
Commission, a warrant allowing
people certain rights or ordering
them to carry out certain duties.
Commissioner, one who has a com-
mission.

Commodity (151), goods on which
money could be raised.
*Commodity (189). Н. means
'comedy'.

Compact, agreement.
Compass (114), reach.

Compound (57), to mix.

Compound (80), to come to an agreement.

D.

*Comprehend (192, 195). means 'apprehend', take to jail. Con by rote, learn by heart. Conceit (130), to judge of.

Conception, an idea.

Concord, agreement.

Condition (186), on condition that.
*Condole (199). B. seems to mean
'feel with, sympathize'.
*Confidence (194). D. means 'con-
ference'.

Confines (57), the nearest countries.
Confound, to destroy.
Conjecture (72), a notion.
Conjoin, to join with.

Conjure (121), to call up a devil by magic, using some sacred name to do it.

Conscience,

thought.

my (74), my real

Considerance, consideration.
Consign (63), to agree.

Constancy, firmness, unshaken truth.

Constitution, state.

Construe, to explain to one's self.
Contain (181), to keep.
Contaminate, to stain, disgrace.
Contemplative, given up to quiet
study.

Controversy, dispute.
Controversy, hearts of (120), hearts

eager for a struggle. Convenien Conveniency, promptness. Convert, to change. Convoy, conveyance, travelling. Cope (177), to match, give as a fair return.

Cormorant, sea-raven, noted for the quantity of fish which it eats. Corrupted (87). When a man was condemned by a bill of attainder, his family lost their rank and their estate: this was called 'corruption of blood'.

Couching, lying on the ground, grovelling.

Counterfeit, to make a false copy

of.

Counterfeit, a sham.

metal used in reckoning; used scornfully of real money.

Courtnol, courtier.

Coward (67), to make a coward of.

Coxcomb, fool (because the jester's

cap had a cock's crest).

Coz, cousin.

Crave, to ask.

Craven, coward.

Crestless, not having the 'crest' which in heraldry makes a gentle

man.

Crown him?-that; - (122), if we crown him;-yes, if we only do that.

Crowns (64), crown-pieces.
Cry (27), hounds giving tongue.
Cue, the last words of an actor's
speech, written out in another
actor's copy to let him know
when his turn comes to speak.
Cuirass, breastplate.

Culled, picked.
Cumber, to be a burden to.
Current, it holds (215), it holds
good, is true.

Dalliance (64), trifling, light playfulness (here used of the gay dresses and behaviour of the courtiers who had passed their time in mere amusement). Danger, within his (170), in his power (A lawyer's phrase: compare 'out of debt, out of danger').

Dare us with his cap like larks (113). Larks were caught with the help of a hawk called the 'hobby' which flew over them and 'dared' them or frightened them from rising; then the net was drawn over them by the fowler. Sometimes a piece of scarlet cloth was used for the ' daring'. Daw, jackdaw.

*Decerns (194). D. means 'concerns'.

Dedicate (72), to yield up.
Deface, to destroy.

Counters (142), round pieces of Defend (196), to forbid.

*Defend (190). H. means 'offend'.

Defray, to pay the cost of.

Degrees, base (123), lower steps.
Demean, to behave.
Demeanour, behaviour.

Demi-paradise, half paradise, a
heaven upon earth.
*Demurrer (226), objection.
(Really a law word for trying to
stop an action.)

Deputy, one who acts for another; (112) the king's representative. *Desartless (191), without desert. D. means 'deserving'.

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Do withal, I could not (164), I could not help it.

Dogged, cruel, like a savage dog. Dogs of war (132). Compare 63, Chorus, 1. 7.

Doit (155), a Dutch coin worth half a farthing. Dole (211), sorrow.

Dole, happy man be his (218), may happiness be his lot, good luck to him.

Domestic fury (131), the madness of civil war.

Doublet, a man's dress before coats and waistcoats were invented; a close-fitting jacket with short skirts.

Drachma, an old Greek silver coin, worth about 9d. Dub, to make a knight. Ducat, a gold coin of Venice worth about 9s.

Dukeling (101), poor duke (a sneer).

Dull (54), making dull, quieting.

Earn (43), to grieve. Earnest (69), money paid in advance as a pledge of more to be paid when the work is done.

*Eftest (196). D. means 'deftest', or 'readiest'.

Eight and six (202), the ballad

metre, alternate lines of eight and

piece out, fill up.

six syllables each, Eke out, to pie Elaborate, worked out carefully,

perfect.

Elegance, neatness and grace. Element (45), the sky. Elements so mixed in him (145). Man's body in old days was thought to be made up of the four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, showing themselves in the four humours, blood, phlegm, choler, and melancholy. Melancholy came from earth, blood from air, phlegm from water, choler from fire. If they were all mixed evenly in a man, he was perfect; if not, he showed what humour he had most. Too *Exclamation on (194), crying out against. But D. means 'talk about'.

much fire made him a choleric or angry man.

Elf-skin (222), a shrunk and shrivelled creature.

Eloquence, the gift of speaking well.

Embracement, an embrace.
Empery, empire.
Enamoured on, in love with.
Encompass, to surround, close in.
Enforce (49), to compel.
Enforced (82), thrown with great
force; (142), struck strongly,
greatly provoked.

Enfranchisement (126), giving public rights to a man who has lost them, (127) equal rights to all citizens.

Engage, to pledge, bind over.
Engirt, to surround.

Englut, to swallow up.
Enow, enough.

Enround, to surround.

,

*Enterlout (189). He means 'interlude, but he thinks the word means Enter Lout', or 'The

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Exchequer, the court which collected the king's money.

*Excommunication (195). D. means 'examination'.

Exempt (87), cut off from.
Exhalation, meteor.

*Exhibition (196). D. means 'commission'.

Expedience, speed.
Exposition, an explanation.
Extant, existing.

Extempore, without preparation,
on the spur of the moment.
*Extruction (185). H. means 'de-
struction'.

Extortion, wringing money out of people in the name of the law. Eyne, eyes.

Faction, party, side. Facundious (226), having a flow of words, eloquent. Fair, speak me (173), speak kindly of me.

Falconer, a keeper or trainer of hawks for sport.

Fall (93), to let fall.
Farced (76), stuffed, full.
Favour, appearance, face.
Favourable

(54), kindly.

Feign, to pretend.
Fell, cruel.

Fern-seed (215). Ferns seed themselves from the tiny, dust-like spores on the back of the fronds. Before people knew this, they thought the plant grew from invisible seed; if you had any, you would be invisible too.

Fet, fetched, derived. Fetlock, the tuft of hair on a horse's leg behind the pastern-joint.

File (20), to place among public records.

File (110), to march in line, keep pace with.

Fine (82), to stake, agree to pay as a fine.

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