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Thus merely with the garment of a Grace
The naked and concealed fiend he cover'd,
That the unexperienc'd gave the tempter place,
Which, like a cherubim, above them hover'd.
Who, yonng and simple, would not be so lover'd?
Ah me! I fell; and yet do question make
What I should do again for such a sake.

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O, that infected moisture of his eye, O, that forc'd thunder from his heart did fly, O, that false fire which in his cheek so glow'd, O, all that borrow'd motion, seeming ow'd, O, that sad breath his spongy lungs bestow'd, Would yet again betray the fore-betray'd, And new pervert a reconciled maid!

GLOSSARY

OF OBSOLETE WORDS, AND OF WORDS VARYING FROM THEIR ORDINARY SIGNIFICATION.

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Bearing-cloth, a mantle used at chris-Bow, yoke.

tenings.

Beat, (in falconry) to flutter.
Beating, hammering, dwelling upon.
Beaver, helmet in general.

Beck, a salutation made with the head.
Becomed, becoming.

Beetle, to hang over the base.
Behave, to manage.
Behests, commands.

Beholding, viewing with regard.

Behowl, to howl at.

Being, abode.

Beldame, ancient mother.

Be lee'd, becalmed,

Belongings, endowments.
Be-mete, be-measure.

Be-moiled, bedraggled, bemired.
Bending, unequal to the weight.
Benefit, beneficiary.

Bent, utmost degree of any passion.
Benumbed, inflexible.
Beshrew, may ill befall.
Besmirch, to foul or dirty.
Best, bravest.

Bestowed, stowed away, lodged.
Bestraught, distracted.

Beteem,to give, pour out, permit,suffer.
Bewray, betray.

Bezonian, a mean fellow.

Bolds, emboldens.
Boltered, bedaubed.
Borne in hand, deceived.
Bottled-spider, a large bloated spider.
Boulted, sifted.

Bowlins or bowlines, tackle of a ship.
Bollen, swollen.
Bordered, restrained.
Bower, a chamber.

Brace, armour for the arm.
Brach, a hound.

Brack, to salt.

Braid, crafty, deceitful.
Brain's-flow, tears.

Brake, an instrument of torture; also a thicket.

Brands, a part of the andirons on which the wood for the fire was supported.

Brasier, a manufacturer of brass; also,
a vessel in which charcoal is burnt.
Brave, to defy, also to make fine.
Bravely, splendidly, gallantly.
Bravery, finery.
Brawl, a kind of dance.
Braying, harsh, grating.
Break, to begin.
Break up, to carve.

Break with, to break the matter to.

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Canary, a dance.

Candle-wasters, those who sit up a
night to drink.
Canker, the dog-rose
Canstick, candlestick.
Cantons, cantos.
Canvas, to sift.

Canvas-climber, a sailor.
Cap, the top, the chief.

Cap, to salute by taking off the cap
Capable impressure, hollow mark.
Capitulate, to make head against
Capocchia, a sot,

Capon, metaphor for a letter.
Capricious, lascivious.
Captious, capacious.
Carack, a ship of great bulk
Caracts, characters.

Carbonado, a piece of meat cut cross
ways for the gridiron.
Card, a sea-chart, perhaps also the

compass.

Carded, mixed. Care, inclination.

Careires, the motion of a horse; ↳ pass the careires, means to over step the bounds of decorum.

Carkanet, a necklace.

Carl, clown, boor.
Carlot, peasant.
Carnal, sanguinary.
Carowses, drinks.
com-Carriage, import.

Breeched, foully sheathed, mired. Breeching, liable to be flogged. Breathed, inured by constant practice.

Bilbo, a Spanish blade, made at Bilboa Breathe, to utter.
Bilboes, fetters.

Bill, articles of accusation.

Breed bate, an exciter of quarrels.
Bribe-buck, a buck sent as a bribe.

Bill, a weapon, formerly carried by Bridal, the nuptial feast.

watchmen.

Bin, is.

Bring, to attend or accompany. Brize, the gad, or horse-fly.

Bird-bolt, an arrow shot at birds from Broach, to put on the spit, to transfix. a cross-bow.

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Brock, the badger.
Brogues, a kind of shoes.
Broken, communicated.
Broker, a match-maker, a procuress.
Brooched, adorned.
Brought, attended.

Brow of youth, the height of youth.
Brown-bill, a battle-axe.

Brown'st, a follower of Brown, a sec. tarian.

Bruising-irons, an allusion to the an

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Blurt, blurted, an expression of con- Bunting, a bird.

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Carried, conducted.
Carry, to prevail over.
Cart, a chariot.
Case, skin, outward garb.
Case of lives, a set of lives.
Casques, belmets.

Cassock, a horseman's loose coat.
Cast, to empty; also to dismiss, reject.
Cast, reckoned.

Castilian, an opprobrious term.
Castiliano vulgo, a cant term of con-

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Butt-shaft, an arrow to shoot at shafts Censure, to give an opinion.

Burgonet, a helmet.

Busky, woody.

with.

Buxom, obedient.

By'rlaken, by our lady.

C.

Caddis, worsted lace.

Cade, a barrel.

Cadent, falling.
Cage, a prison.

Cain-coloured, yellow
Caitiff, a scoundrel.

Boot, profit, something over and above. Calculate, to foretell.

Bosom wish, heart's desire.

Bots, w、rms in a horse's stomach

Bourn, undary, rivulet.

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Caliver, a musket.

Call, to visit.

Callet, a woman, a witch.

Calling, appellation.

Calm, qualm.

Camelot, a place where King Arthur

is supposed to have kept his court.

Centuries, companies of an hundred

men each.

Ceremonious, superstitious,

Certes, certainly.

Cess, measure, tax or subsidy
Chair, throne.

Chaliced, i. e. flowers, with cups, from

calix.

Challenge, the right of refusing a jury.

man.

Chamber, ancient name for Londca

also, a piece of ordnance.

Chamberers, intriguers.
Champian, an open country.
Chantry, a small chapel in a cathedr
Character, hand-writing.

Charactery, the matter with whiɑmm
ters are made.
Chares, task-work.

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confederate.

Coasting, conciliatory.

Codling, an unripe apple.

Cob-loaf, a crusty, uneven loaf.

Cock, cock-boat.

Cock-and-pye, a vulgar oath.

Cockshut-time, twilight.

Cockle, a corn-weed.

Cockle-hat, a pilgrim's hat.

Codding, amorous.

Codpiece, a part of the dress.

Coffin, the cavity of a raised ple.
Cog, to cheat with dice, to lie.
Cognizance, badge or token.
Cogging, lying.

Conversion, change of condition.
Converse, associate, interchange.
Convertite, a convert.
Convey, to steal.

Conveyance, slight of hand, theft.
Conveyers, thieves.

Conveyed himself, derived his title.
Convicted, overpowered, baffled
Convince, to convict, to subdue.
Convive, to feast.

Copatain hat, a hat with a conical crown
Cope, encounter, covering.
Copped, rising to a top or head.
Copy, theme.

Coragio, courage, be of good cheer.

Coigne of vantage, convenient corner. Corinth, a brothel.

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Cote, to overtake.

Coted, quoted, regarded.

Cotsale, Cotswood in Gloucester.

Couch, to lie with.

Count, to reckon upon.

Countenance, favour; also, false ap

pearance, hypocrisy.

Counter, a hunting term.

Counter-caster, one who reckons with

counters.

Counter-check, a term in chess.
Counterfeit, a portrait.
Counterpoints, counterpanes.
County, count, earl.
Couplement, a couple.

Courses, the mainsail and foresail.
Court-cupboard, sideboard.
Court confect, a spurious nobleman
Court holy-water, flattery.
Covered, hollow.
Cowed, awed.

Cower, to sink down.

Cowlstaff, a staff used in carrying a basket.

Coy, to soothe.

Coyed, yielded reluctantly.

Coystril, a coward cock, a poltroon.

Cozier, a tailor, a botcher.

Crack, dissolution; also, a boy-child.

Cranks, windings.

Cranking or crankling, the rush of s

river.

Crants, garlands.

Crare, a small trading vessel.

Crash, to be merry over.

Craven, a cowardly cock, mean, cow.
ardly.

Create, compounded, made up of.
Credent, credible.

Credit, account, information, credulity
Cress ts, lights set upon a beacon.
Cressive, increasing.

Crest, the summit.

Crestless, those who have no right to armorial bearings.

Crewel, worsted.

Crisp, curled, winding.

Critic, cvnic.

Critical, censorious.

Crone, a very old woman.

Crosses, money stamped with a cross.

Crow-keeper, a scarecrow.

Crownet, last purpose.

Crulentious, cruel.

Crusado, a Portuguese coin.

Crush, to drink.

Crush a cup, to crack a bottle.

Cry, a pack of hounds,

Cry aim, to encourage.
Crystals, the eyes.

Cub-drawn, alluding to a bear whose

dugs are dry.

Cue, a theatrical term, the last word
of the preceding speech.

Cuisses, arinour for the thighs.
Cull on, a paltry follow.
Cunning, knowledge.
Curb, to bend or truckle.

Curiosity, curiousness, finical delicacy
Curious, scrupшious.

Curled, ostentationsly drezsed.
Currents, occurrences.

Cursed, under the influence of a male
diction.

Curst, petulant, ill tempered, crabbed

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