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Spyre, it doth spire forth, or grow
up to the fairest flower
Stadle, staff

Stales, incitements, devices, tricks
Stank, weary or faint
Starke, stiff with cold
Star-read, doctrine of the stars
astronomy
Steane, for stone

Sted, place, seat, station, situa

tion

Steeme, smoke. Steemed, had exhaled.

Steemed, esteemed
Stent, stint, stay, stop
Stept, steeped, soaked, wetted
Sterne, tail

Sterve, to perish, to die
Steven, sound, noise
Stire, stir or move

Stole, a garment, a matron's robe
Stond, stand, station

Stonied, astonished, or stunned
Stoond. Vide Stonied

Stound, Stownd, space, moment,
season, hour, time
Stoup, in falconry, when the hawk
on wing strikes at the fowl
Stour, Stowre, fight, stir, trouble,
misfortune, fit

Straine, Strene, race, descent, fa-
mily, origin
Strayt, B. ii. C. 7. St. 40
Stresse, distress.

Stye, to ascend, to mount up
Subverst, subverted, overthrown
Successe, succession
Suffused eyes, bedewed, suffused
with tears
Suppressing, keeping under
Supprest, ravished
Surbet, wearied

Surcease, stop
Surquedry, pride, presumption
Sute, suit, petition, request
Swart, swarthy, black
Swarring, swerving, giving way,
going from

Sway, management, direction, rule,

motion

Sweath-bands, swathe or swaddlingbands

Swelt, burnt, suffocated with heat, fainted

Swerved, moved, wandered out of his place Swinck, labour

Swound, a swoon or fainting fit

T.

Targe, a buckler or shield Tassel, Tossel, a twisted or bushy ornament of silk, gold, or silver. Tassel gent, a gentle, tame male hawk.

Teade, a torch

Teene, Tine, Tyne, trouble, mischief, injury

Tener, the middle part next the base

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Venger, revenger

Ventayle, the fore part of the helmet, to give vent or air to the face by lifting up

Venteth into the wind, snuffs the wind

Vere the maine shete, turn, shift
Vetchy bed, (shep. Cal.) bed of
pease straw
Vilde, vile

Virelays, a kind of songs
Visnomie, physiognomy, visage,
aspect

Umbriere, the visor of the helmet Uncouth, unusual, strange, harsh; odd, deformed Underfong, attempt by unfair and indirect means

Undertime, the afternoon, towards
the evening, B. iii. C. 7. St. 13.
Undight, not dight, disordered;
loosened, untied
Unneath, difficult, scarcely, with
difficulty. Sometimes it sig-
nifies almost
Unhele, to discover, to bewray
Unherst, took them from the hearse
or temporary monument where
they were usually hanged, B. v.
C. 3. St. 37.

Unkempt, unadorned, or void of
grace or elegance
Unkend, not known
Unlich, unlike

Unpervaide, unprovided, not furnished

Unrest, disquiet, uneasiness
Unsoot, unsweet

Unwares, unexpectedly, incau.
tiously, unwarily
Unweeting, unknowing, unawares,
ignorant

Unwist, not thought of, unknown. Upbrast, burst open

Upbrayes, upbraidings, reproaches Upwreaked, unrevenged.

W.

Wage, a pledge; likewise reward,
wages
Waift, a stray
War, worse

War-hable, able or powerful in war
Ware, wary, cautious. Ware, did

wear

Wareless, stupified

War-old, old in war or strife Warray, to make war upon, to harrass with war Warriouresse, a woman-warrior, an Amazon

Watchet, pale blue

Wawes, waves, Upton. Wawes,

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Weened, imagine
Went, way, journey, Upton.
ing, course, Hughes
West, to, to set in the west
Wex, to increase, to grow
Whally, full of whales
Whatso, whatsoever
Whenso, whensoever

Go

Whilome, Whylome, formerly, some
while ago.
Whist, hushed, silenced
Whit, a little part
Whot, hot

Whyleare, erewhile, sometime before

Wicked herbes, noxious, poisonous
Wield, Weld, manage, handle, go-
vern, direct, turn, sway, &c.
Wight, creature, person
Wightly, quickly
Wimble, shifting to and fro
Wimpled, folded over like a veil
Wise, guise, appearance

To Wis, to know. Wist, thought, knew

Wite, blame, reproach
Withhault, withholden, withdrew
Woe begonne, far gone in woe,
overwhelmed

Wonne, is used in two senses; in the first, for to overcome, gain the victory, from to win. In the second place, for to dwell, to inhabit, from the German

women.

Won, to use, to be wont
Wont, custom, manner
Woo, to court, or win by courting
Wood, mad. Woodness, madness
Wot, to know. Wotest, knowest
Wowed, wooed, for the rhyme

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