Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I

GLOSSARY

[The numbers refer to cantos and stanzas.]

Abide, v, 17, to attend on.
About, i, 11, out of.

Acquite, viii, 1, release, set free.
Addrest, ii, 11, armed, equipped;
X, 11, directed.
Advise, i, 33, consider.

Advizement, iv, 12, counsel, advice.

Afflicted, Int. 4, humble.
Affray, iii, 12, terror, alarm; v,
30, to startle.

Affronted, viii, 13, opposed.
Afore, x, 49, ahead, in front of.
Agraste, x, 18, favor, show grace.
Albe, v, 45, although.

All, x, 47; xii, 23, although. Almner, x, 38, almoner, distributer of alms.

Als, ix, 18, also, quite so.
Amate, ix, 45, dismay, dishearten.
Amis, iv, 18, linen head-dress.
Amoves, iv, 45, viii, 21; ix, 18,

moves.

Andvile, xi, 42, anvil.

Apply, x, 46, attend to, add.

Aread, viii, 31, 33; ix, 6, 23; x 51, 64, tell, explain; xii, 28, advise; ared, x, 17; explained; areeds, Int. 1, urges.

Arise, vi, 32, depart, rise out of. Armorie, i, 27, armor.

Arras, iv, 6; viii, 35, tapestry. Aslake, iii, 36, appease, abate the fury of.

Assay, ii, 13, approved quality,
value; vii, 27, trial; viii, 8,
assault; ii, 24; iv, 8; viii, 2;
xi, 32, try, assail, attempt.
Assoiled, x, 52, absolved.
Astond, ii, 31; vi, 9; ix, 35, as-
tounded, amazed.

Attach, xii, 35, seize, arrest.
Attaine, ii, 8, reach, fall in with.
Attaint, vii, 34, obscure, discolor.
Avale, i, 21, fall, sink.
Avise, v, 40; viii, 15, perceive.

Baite, i, 32, feed, refresh. Bale, i, 16; viii, 4, disaster, destruction; ix, 16, 29, trouble, grief.

Banes, xii, 36, banns of marriage. | Bever, vii, 31, the lower and

Battailous, v, 2, warlike, ready

for battle.
Battrie, ix, 11, assault.
Bauldrick, vii, 29, a leather gir-
dle for the sword or bugle,
worn pendant across the
shoulder and breast.
Bayes, vii, 3, bathes.
Beades, i, 30, prayers.
Beadmen, x, 36, men devoted to
prayer for the soul of the
founder of the charitable in-
stitution in which they lived.
Become, x, 16, gone to; became,
x, 66, suited.
Bed, ix, 41, bid.

Bedight, xii, 21, adorned.
Beguyld, xi, 25, foiled.
Beheast, iv, 18, command.
Behight, x, 64, name, declare;
x, 50, intrusted, delivered; xi,
38, behot, promised.

movable part of the helmet. Bewaile, vi, 1, cause, bring about.

Use either forced, or an error
(Nares).

Bidding, i, 30, praying.
Bilive, or blive, v, 32, quickly.
Blame, ii, 18, hurt, injury, or
blameworthiness.

Blaze, xi, 7, proclaim.
Blent, vi, 42, stained.
Blesse, v, 6; viii, 22, brandish ;

vii, 12; ix, 28, protect, deliver;
pp. blest.
Blubbred, vi, 9, disfigured or swol-
len with weeping.
Blunt, x, 47, dim (of eyesight).
Bond, i, 3, bound.

Booteth, iii, 20, 40, profits, avails.
Bootlesse, v, 33, without avail.
Bost, iii, 24, vain glory.
Boughtes, i, 15; xi, 11, folds, coils.
Bound, x, 67, lead.

Beseemed, viii, 32, suited, was Bouzingcan, iv, 22, drinking ves

sel.

becoming. Beseene, xii, 5, (good) looking, Bowrs, viii, 41, muscles. or (well) dressed. Bestedd, i, 24, situated, badly off. Bet, iii, 19, beat; bett, vi, 5. Betake, xii, 25, intrust to, hand

over to.

Bras, x, 40, money, cf. Lat. des.
Brast, v, 31; viii, 4 ; ix. 21, burst.
Brave, x, 42, fair, beautiful.
Brawned, viii, 41; brawny, mus
cular.

Bethrall, viii, 28, imprison, take Breares, x, 35, briars.

captive.

Brent, ix, 10; xi, 28, burnt.

Brode, iv, 16, abroad.

Cleene, ix, 4, clear, pure, bright.

Brond, iv, 33; viii, 21, fire- Compare, iv, 28, collect.

brand.

Buffe, ii, 17; xi, 24, blow.

Bugle, viii, 3, wild ox.

Buxome, xi, 37, pliant, yielding.

Bylive, ix, 4, quickly.

Call, viii, 46, cap, headdress. Can, iv, 46, an auxiliary verb with preterite meaning; ix, 5, can=gan, began (Halliwell). Canon, vii, 37, a smooth, round bit (for horses).

Compel, i, 5, call to aid.

Conceit, conception or design.
Constraint, ii, 8, anguish; vii,
34, binding charms.
Corage, ii, 35, heart.

Corse, iii, 42; iv, 22, etc., body.
Couch, ii, 15, lay (a lance in
rest), level, adjust; couched,
xi, 9, laid in place (of armor
plates).
Couched, vii, 31, lying down
with head up, ready to spring.
Counterfesaunce, viii, 49, fraud,
imposture.

Carefull, v, 52, etc., full of care, Court, vii, 38, courteous atten

Careless, i, 41; ii, 45, free from Crime, x, 28, sin; xi, 46, cause. Cruddy, v, 29, clotted.

care.

Carke, i, 44, care, sorrow, anxi- Crudled, vii, 6; ix, 52, curdled,

ety.

Carle, ix, 54, churl.

Cast, x, 2; xi, 28, resolve, plan. Caytive, v, 45, captive; v, ii; viii, 32; ix, 11, base, mean. Chaufe, vii, 21, chafe, warm by rubbing; iii, 33, 43, vex, heat. Chaw, iv, 30, jaw. Chear, ii, 27, 42, face. Chearen, x, 2, regain cheerfulness, refresh (himself). Cleare, x, 28, clean.

congealed (with cold). Cure, v, 44, charge.

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Daint, x, 2, dainty, delicate. Dalliaunce, ii, 14, trifling, light talk.

Dame, xii, 20, wife.
Damnify, xi, 52, injure.
Darrayne, iv, 40; vii, 11, pre-
pare (for battle).

Deare, vii, 48, hurt, injury.

Deaw-burning, xi, 35, bright | Distayned, xi, 23, defiled.

with dew.

Dites, viii, 18, raises (a club).

Debonaire, ii, 23, gracious, cour- Diverse, i, 44, distracting.

teous.

Defeasaunce, xii, 12, defeat.
Defray, v, 42, appease.
Deitye, iii, 21, immortality.

Derth, ii, 27, dearness, high

value.

Divide, v, 17, play (variations).
Documents, x, 19, doctrines.
Donne, x, 33, to do.

Doom, ix, 38, judgment,
Doted, viii, 34, foolish.
Doubt, vi, 1, fear.

Deryn'd, iii, 2, diverted, drawn Doughty, xi, 52; xii, 6, strong,

away.

Despight, ii, 6, resentment; iv, 35, 41, etc., malice, spite, contempt; vii, 49; xi, 17, injury. Despoile, x, 17, strip. Devise, xii, 17, plan. Diamond, ix, 19, adamant, steel. Dight,. vii, 8; iv, 14, etc., arrange, dress, adorn.

brave.

Dragonets, xii, 10, little dragons. Dreed, or dred, Int. 4, vi, 2; ob

ject of reverence. Drere, viii, 40, sorrow. Drery, v, 30, gloomy; vi, 45, dripping with blood. Dreriment, ii, 44; xi, 32, sorrow, gloom.

Disaventrous, vii, 48, ix, 11, Drest, ix, 54, prepared, ar

unfortunate.

Discipline, vi, 31, teaching. Discolourd, vii, 32, variegated. Discourse, xii, 14, description;

xii, 15, to narrate. Disease, xi, 38, render uneasy. Dishonesty, ii, 23, unchastity. Dispence, iii, 30, pay for. · Dispiteous, ii, 15, cruel. Disple, x, 27, discipline. Disseized, xi, 20, dispossessed. Dissolute, vii, 51, weak, unstrung.

ranged.

Drift, vili, 22, impetus. Droome, ix, 41, drum. Drousy-hed, ii, 7, drowsiness. Dry-dropsie, iv, 23 (meaning doubtful). (1) Dropsy causing thirst (Warton). (2) A misprint for dire dropsie (Upton). (3) A misprint for hydropsie (Collier).

Dye, ii, 36, chance, fortune (lit a small cube used for gam

ing).

Enlargen, viii, 37, deliver.

Ensample, ix, 12, witness.

Earne, i, 3; vi, 25; ix, 18, yearn, Ensue, iv, 34, pursue; ix, 44,

long for.

Edifyde, i, 34, built.

Eeke, v, 42, increase.

Eft, ix, 25, again.

persecute.

Entirely, xi, 32, with all the

heart.

Entraile, i, 16, fold, twist.

Eftsoones, x, 24, etc., forthwith. Envie, ill will, hatred.

Eke, iii, 21, also.

Eld, x, 8, old age.

Embalme, v, 17, anoint, pour balm into.

Embaye, ix, 13; x, 27, bathe. Embost, iii, 24, encased; ix, 29, fatigued.

Embosse, xi, 20, plunge. Embowed, ix, 19, rounded. Emboyled, xi, 28, agitated, troubled.

Embrew, xi, 36, imbrue, drench. Empassioned, iii, 2, moved to pity.

Empeach, viii, 34, hinder.
Emperse, xi, 53, pierce.

Emprize, ix, 1, undertaking, adventure.

Equall, vi, 26, side by side.

Errant, iv, 38; x, 10, wandering (in quest of adventure). Esloyne, iv, 20, retire. Essoyne, iv, 20, excuse, exemption:

Eugh, i, 9, yew.

Ewghen, xi, 19, made of yew. Excheat, v, 25, gain; lit. property forfeited to the lord of a fief.

Extirpe, x, 25, uproot.
Eyas, xi, 34, young untrained
hawk, unfledged falcon.
Eyne, eien, eyen, ii, 27, etc., eyes.

Fact, iv, 34; ix, 37, feat, evil deed.

Enchace, xii, 23, set off in fitting Fall, ix, 2, befall.

terms.

Endew, iv, 51, endow.

Fare, i, 11, etc., go, travel.

Fatal, ix, 7, ordained by fate.

Enfouldred, xi, 40, shot forth Fattie, i, 21, fertilizing.

(like a thunderbolt).

Engrave, x, 42, bury, entomb. Enhaunst, i, 17; v, 47, raised.

Fayne, iv, 10, gladly; vi, 12, glad. Faytor, iv, 47; xii, 35, deceiver, villain, sham.

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