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Ha, bave; ha, s. ball. Habbe, afe he brew, p. 4, have as be breaus.

Haggis, s. a feep's ftomach, fluffed with a pudding made of mincemeat, &c.

Hail, hale, s. hole, altogether. Halt, boldetb.

Hame, hamward, home, homeward

Han, bave, 3 perf. plur.
Hare.. fwerdes, p. 4, their
fwords.

Harnitine, harness, armour.
Harrowed, baraffed, difturbed.
Harwos, barrows.
Hav, bave.

Haves (of), effects, fubftance, riches.

Hawkin, fynonymous to Halkin, dimin. of Harry. He, p. 21, bie, haften. Hech, p. 23, batch, fmall door. Hede, p. 17, bied; p. 8, he'd, he would; p. 36, beed.

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Hent, hente, held, laid bold of; alfo, received.

Her, pp. 17, 22, 29, their. Here, p. 5, their; p. 65, bear'; p. 38, bair.

Herkneth, bearken ye.
Hert, hertis, heart, hearts.
Hes, s. bas.
Het, bot.

Hether, s. heath, a low fhrub,
that grows upon the moors, &'c.
fo luxuriantly, as to choak the
grafs; to prevent which the in-
habitants fet whole acres of it
on fire; the rapidity of which
gave the
poet that apt and noble
fimile in p. 107. (Mr. Hut-
chinfon )

Heuch, s. a rock or fleep bill. Hevede, hevedest, had, badft. Heveriche, hevenriche, beaven ly, p. 8.

Heynd, hend, gentle, obliging. Heyze, high; Heyd, s. bied. Hicht; a-hicht, s. on. height. Hie dames to wail, s. p. 105, bigh [or, great] ladies to rail; or, baften ladies to wail, &c.

* GROWTE is a kind of fare much used by Danish sailors, being boiled groats (i. e. hulled oats) or else fhelled barley, ferved up very thick, and butter added to it. (Mr. LAMBE)

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Hight,

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Hit, it; hit be write, p. 8, it be Jupe, s. p. 106, an upper garment ;

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fr. a petticoat.

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Janglers,` talkative perfons, tell- Kye, kine, vows.

tales. Alfa, wranglers.

I-fere, together.

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Kirtel, kirtle, petticoat.

Kythe, appear; also, make appear, fhew, declare.

Kythed, s. appeared.

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Layne, lien: alfo, laid.
Leek, p. 70, phrafe of contempt.
Leal, leil, s. loyal, boneft, true;
f. loyal.

Leiman, leman, lover, miftrefs.
Leir, s. lere, learn.
Lenger, longer.

Lengeth in, p. 276, refideth in.
Lett, latte, binder, p. 21, flacken,
leave off; late, let.
Lever, rather.

Leves and bowes, leaves and boughs.

Leuch, leugh, s. laughed.
Leyke, like, play, pp. 125, 278.
Lie, s. lee, p. 109, field, plain.
Liege-men, vaffals, fubjects.
Lightly, eafily.
Lire, flesh, complexion.
Lodlye, p. 52, loathfome. Vid.
Glofs. vol. III. lothly.
Lo'e, s. love.

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Loht, (Ballad I. v. 45.)
Loo, balo!

Lore, leffon, doctrine, learning.
Lore, loft.

Lorrel, a jorry, worthless perfon.
Lofel, dittu.

Loud and fill, phr. at all times. Lought, lowe, lugh p.23, laughed. Lowns, s. p. 102, blazes.

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ther opped to windy, boifferous. Lowte, lout, bow, fleop Lude, luid, luivt, s. loved. Luef, love.

Luiks, s. looks.

Lyard, p. 1, Grey: a name given to a horfe from its grey colour, as Bayard from bay.

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Making, p. 46, fc. verses : verfifying. Marrow, s. equal.

Mart, s. marred, burt, damaged. Mane, maining, s. moan, moaning. Mangonel, an engine used for difcharging great fiones, arrows, &c. before the invention of gun powder.

Margarite, a pearl, lat. Maugre, p. 4, fpite of, p. 75, illwill (I'incur.)

Maze, a labyrinth*, any thing intangled or intricate.

Me, p. 9, men. Me con, men'gan.
Me-thuncketh, methinks.
Mean, moderate, middle-fized.
Meit, s. meet, fit, proper.
Meid, s. p. 105, mood.

Meife, s. foften, reduce, mitigate,
P. 108.

Mell, boney: alfo, meddle, mingle. Menfe the faught, s. p. 105, measure the battle. To give to the menfe, is, to give above the measure. Twelve and one to the menfe, is common with children in their play.

*On the top of Catharine-hill, Winchester (the ufual play-place of the school), was a very perplexed and winding path, running in a very small space over a great deal of ground, called a Miz-MAZE. The fenior boys obliged the juniors to tread it, to prevent the figure from being loft, as I am informed by an ingenious correfpondent,

Menzie,

Menzie, s. meaney, retinue, com

pany.
Meffiger, f. messenger.
Minny, s. mother.
Mirke, s. dark, black.
Mirry, s. meri, merry.
Mifkaryed, mifcarried.
Mifter, s. to need.

Mo, moe, more.

Moiening, by means of, fr.
Mome, a dull, ftupid perfon.
Mone, moon.

More, mure, S. moor, heath, marby ground; alfo wild bill, p. 4, mores ant the fenne, q. d. bill and dale.

Morne, p. 75, to morn, to mor-
ror: in the morning.
Mornyng, p. 45, mourning.
Mote I thee, might I thrive.
Mowe, may; mou, s. mouth.
Muchele boft, mickle boast, great
boaft.
Mude, s. mood.
Mulne, mill.

Murne, murnt, murning, S.
mourn, mourned, mourning.
Myzt, myzty, might, mighty.

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Natheless, nevertheless.

Near, s. ner, nere, ne'er, never.
Neat, oxen, corus, large cattle.
Neatherd, a keeper of cattle.
Neatreffe, a female ditto.
Nere, p. 276, ne were; were it
not for.

Neft, nyeft, next, nearest.
Noble, a gold coin in value 20
groats, or 6s. 8d.
Nollys, p. 17, noddles, beads.
Nom, p. 8, took. Nome, name.
Non, none. None, noon.

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Petye, pity. Peyn. pain.

Pibrocis, s. Highland war-tunes.
Playand, s playing.
Plett, s. platted.
Plyz', plight.

Plou mell, p. 21, a small wooden
bammer occafional y fixed to the
plow, fill used in the North: in
the midland counties in its ficad is
ufel a plow-Lateket.
Poll cat, a cant word for a Whore.
Follys, powlls, polk, bead.
Foudered, p. 19, a term in He-
raldry, for Sprinkled over.
Powlis, polls, Leads.
Prayfe-folk, p

Preft, f. really.

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Ranted, s. p. 61, were merry. Vid.

Gl. to Gent. Shepherd
Raught, reached, gained, obtained.
Razt, raught, or p. 22, reft, be-
reft.

Rea'me, reaume, realm.
Rede, redde, p. 9, read.
Rede, read, p. 31, advise, advice.
Redrefle, p. 71, care, labour.
Refe, reve, reeve, bailiff.
Refe, bereave, or perhaps, rive,
Split, p.
Reid, s. advife.
Remeid, s remedy.
Refcous, refcues.

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Reve, p. 19, bereave, deprive. Revers, s. robbers, pirates, rovers. Rew, s. take pity.

Reweth, regrets, has reafon to repent.

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Raik, s. to go apace. Raik on raw, go faft in a row.

Safer, p. 18, note, Saphyre.

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