D.

Dale. s. deal. p. 68. but gif I dale. unless I deal. Dampned, damned.

Darh. p. 10. perhaps for Thar, there,

Darr'd. s. hit.

Dart the trie. s. hit the tree. Daukin. diminutive of Daniel: or perhaps the same as Dobkin. Daunger halt. coyness holdeth. Deare day. charming, pleasant day.

Dede is do. p. 30. deed is done. Deerlye dight. richly fitted out. Deimt. s. deem'd, esteem'd.

Deir. s. dear. Item: hurt, trouble, disturb. Dele. deal.

Deme, deemed, judge, doomed.
Dent. p. 17. a dint, blow.
Deol. dole, grief.

Dere, deere. dear: also, hurt.
Derked. darkened.

Dern. s. secret. p. 68. I' dern. in secret.

Devyz. devise, the act of be-
queathing by will.
Deze, deye. die.

Dight: dicht. s. decked, dressed,
prepared, fitted out, done, made.
Dyht. p. 10. to dispose, order.
Dill. still, calm, mitigate.
Dol. See Deol, Dule.
Doughtinesse of dent. sturdiness
of blows.
Drake. p. 19.
Drie. s. suffer.
Drowe. drew.
Dryng. drink.
Dude. did.

Dule. s. duel, dol. dole, grief.
Dyce. s. dice, chequer work.
Dyne. s. p. 90. dinner.

Fader: Fatheris. s.father; father's. Fadge. s. a thick loaf of bread: figuratively, any coarse heap of stuff.

Fair of feir. s. of a fair and healthful look. Ramsey. Rather, far off (free from) fear. Falsing. dealing in falshood. Fannes. p. 21. instruments for winnowing corn.

Fare. go, pass, travel. [Fare. 375]

Fare. the price of a passage: p.78. abusively, shot, reckoning. Fauzt; faucht. s. fought. Item fight.

Feil. s. p. 71. have failed.
Fell. p. 15. furious. p. 21. skin.
Fend. defend.

Fere. fear. Item companion, wife.
Ferliet. s. wondered.

Ferly. wonder; also, wonderful. Fey. s. predestinated to death, or some misfortune: under a fatality.

Fie. s. beasts, cattle.
Firth, Firth (Z. Frith). s. a wood.
Fitt. division, part. See the end
of this Glossary.

Fleyke, p. 129. a large kind of hurdle.

Flowan. s. flowing.

Fond. contrive: also, endeavour, try.

Force. p. 154. no force. no matter. Forced. regarded, heeded. Forefend. avert, hinder. For fought. p. 21. through fighting: or perhaps for-fought, over-fought.

Forwatcht. over-watched, kept awake.

Fors. p. 12. I do no fors. I don't care.

Forst. p. 62. heeded, regarded. Fowkin. a cant word for a fart. Fox't. drunk.

Frae thay begin. p. 68. from their beginning: from the time they begin.

Freers, fryars. friars, monks. Freake, freeke, freyke. man, human creature. Freyke. p. 130. humour, indulge freakishly, capriciously. Freyned. asked.

Frie. s. fre. free.

Glie. s. glee. merriment, joy.
Glist. s. glistered.
Gode, godness. good, goodness.
God before. p. 75. a form of
blessing.

Good. p. 75. sc. a good deal.
Gorget. the dress of the neck.
Gowan. s. the common yellow
crowfoot, or goldcup.
Graithed (gowden). s. was ca-
parisoned with gold.
Gree. f. prize, victory.
Greened. grew green.
Gret. p. 9. great. p. 8. grieved,

sorry.

[Grippel. 376]

Grippel. griping, tenacious, miserly.

Grownes. grounds. p. 237 (rhyth
mi gratiâ. (Vid. Sowne.)
Growte. In Northamptonshire, is
a kind of small-beer, extracted
from the malt, after the strength
has been drawn off. In Devon,
it is a kind of sweet ale
medicated with eggs, said to
be a Danish liquor.
Grype. a griffin.

Gurd. p. 18. girded, lashed, &c.
Gybe. jest, joke.
Gyles. s. guiles.

Gyn. engine, contrivance.
Gyse, s. guise, form, fashion.

Hent, hente. held, laid hold of: also, received.

Her. p. 17. 23. 28. their.
Here. p. 5. their. p. 58. hear.
p. 37. hair.
Herkneth. hearken ye.
Herte, hart; hertis. heart, hearts.
Hes. s. has.
Het. hot.

Hether. s. heath, a low shrub, that grows upon the moors, &c. so luxuriantly, as to choak the grass; to prevent which the inhabitants set whole acres of it on fire, the rapidity of which gave the poet that apt and noble simile in p. 99. Heuch. s. a rock or steep hill. Hevede, hevedest. had, hadest. Heveriche, hevenriche. heavenly.

Heyze. high. Heyd. s. hied. Hicht, a-hicht. s. on height. Hie dames to wail. s. p. 97. high [or, great] ladies too (l. to) wail; Or, hasten ladies to wail, &c. [Hight. 377]

Hight. promised, engaged: also, named.

Hilt. taken off, flead. Sax. hyldan. Hinch-boys. pages of honour, men that went on foot attending on persons in office. Hinny. s. honey.

Hit. it. hit be write. p. 8. it be written.

Holden. hold.

Holtis hair. s. hoar hills.
Holy-roode, holy cross.
Honden wrynge. hands wring.
Hop-halt. limping; hopping, and
halting.

Houzle. give the sacrament.

Howeres, howers. hours.
Huerte. heart.

Hye, hyest. high, highest.
Hynd attowre. s. behind, over,
or about.

Hys. his; also, is.
Hyt, hytt. it.
Hyznes. highness.

I.

Ise. s. I shall.

Its neir. s. p. 91. It shall neʼer.
Jupe. s. p. 97. an upper garment.
fr. a petticoat.

K.

Keipand. s. keeping.

Kempes. soldiers, warriors.
Kend. s. knew.

Kene. keen.

Keynd. s. p. 67. If this is "kind:"
then in the next ver. we should
probably read bauld and free.
Or perhaps keynd is corrupt
for kem'd, combed, dressed
out; or ken'd, known, proved.
Kid, kithed. made known, shown.
Kind, kinde. nature. p. 15. To
carpe is our kind. it is natural
for us to talk of.

Kith and kin. acquaintance and
kindred.

Kye. kine, cows.

Kyrtel, kirtle. petticoat.

Kythe. appear; also, make ap-
pear, shew, declare.
Kythed. p. 308. appeared.

L.

Layd unto her. p. 248. imputed
to her.
Lasse. less.

Layne. lien: also, laid.
Leek. p. 63. phrase of contempt.
Leil. s. loyal, honest, true.
Leiman, leman. lover, mistress.
Leir. s. lere. learn.

4 [Lenger. 378]
Lenger. longer.

Lengeth in. p. 264. resideth in.
Lett, latte. hinder. p. 21. slaken,
leave off.
Lever. rather.

Leves and bowes. p. 36. leaves
and boughs.
Leuch, leugh. s. laughed.

Making. p. 45. sc. verses; ver-
sifying.

Marrow. s. equal.

Mart. s. marred, hurt, damaged.
Mane, maining. s. moan,moaning.
Mangonel. an engine used for

discharging great stones before
the invention of gunpowder.
Margarite. a pearl. lat.
Maugre. p. 4. spite of. p. 68.
ill-will (I incur).

Me. p. 9. men. Me con. men 'gan.
Me-thuncheth. methinks.
Meane. moderate, middle-sized.
Meid. s. p. 97. mood.

Meise. s. soften, reduce, mitigate,
p. 100.

Meit. s. meet. fit, proper.
Mell. honey. Lat. Mel.

Mense the faucht. s. measure
the battle. To give to mense
(7. to the mense corr.), is,
to give above the measure.
Twelve and one to the mense,
is common with children in
their play. p. 96.

Menzie. s. meaney. retinue, com-
pany.
Messager. f. messenger.
Mirke. s. dark, black.
Mirry. s. meri. merry.
Miskaryed. miscarried.
Mister. s. to need.
Mo, moe. more.

Moiening. by means of. fr.
Mome. a dull, stupid person.
Mone. moon.

More, mure.
ground;
Mores. hills. p. 4. mores ant
the fenne. q. d. hill and dale.
Morne. p. 68. the morn. on the
morrow: in the morning.
Mornyng, p. 44. mourning.
Mote I thee. might I thrive.
[Mowe. 379]

s. moor, marshy

Mowe. may.

Muchele bost. mickle boast, great
boast.