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p. 18, 1. 562.

blow."-W. W. S.

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For leue read lene, and cp. the phrase "to lend a

p. 21, 1. 640. Dele note marked W. W. S. and substitute: warrok warlock, i. e. ill-tempered; see warlo in Jamieson.-W. W. S. p. 21, 1. 651. growning growling. See Stratmann, s. v. groinen.

grunnire.

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Fr. grogner, Lat. p. 22, 1. 674. vpward gan she pike. Here pike = peep; see Skeat's Dict., s. v. peep: where a line from Troylus and Cryseide, iii. 60, is cited "gan in at the curtein pike." I may remark that the sun is here she, in Chaucer always he.

p. 22, 1. 764. p. 23, 1. 687. cry-Yorksh."

p. 23, 1. 690.

p. 27, 1. 824.

held hym to = put up with.-W. W. S.

d;

twynyth. Halliwell, s. v. twine, says: "to whine or

Dele note on he (Glossary, p. 213).—S.

fences, safeguards; see Defence in Cotgrave, alluding to the protection of men's fortunes by the planets.-W. W. S. p. 28, 1. 855. delices is found frequently in Chaucer, especially in the Persones Tale; in verse however it is elsewhere a trisyllable; but in the passage before us we must pronounce it as a disyllable for the sake of the rime.

p. 31, 1. 967. elyng. See Murray's Dict., s. v. alange. He cites Wif of Bathes Tale, 1. 433, where one MS. gives elenge, another alenge. The meaning is "protracted, tedious, wearisome." Cp. also Schipman's Tale, 1. 222, and The Cuckow and the Nightingale, iv. 340, st. 2 (ed. Bell). p. 35, 1. 1084. halffyndele, half-part. A.S. weak acc. healfan & dæl.-W. W. S. In Troylus and Cryseide, p. 140 (ed. Bell), we have halvyn-dele.

p. 37, 1. 1167.

p. 38, 1. 1196.

p. 39, 1. 1217.

W. W. S.

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p. 40, 1. 1268. heritagis. Perhaps we may retain the reading of the MS. hostagis.

Cp.

"To my hostage ye go by nyght."

Ipomydon (Weber's Romance), 1. 773.

"She said he was welcome to that ostage."-Generydes, 1. 64

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If therefore Faunus's property consisted of houses, hostagis might stand, but on the whole it must be admitted that heritagis is more suitable.

p. 41, 1. 1288. as who seyd cut.
"The Romeyns stode still, as who had shor hir hed."

Here as who = as if one. Cf. 1.

3407

p. 46, 1. 1478.

p. 48, l. 1536.

Add: kyte; in Northern English the form is kite. my hertis swete. Perhaps hertis may be retained : sweet one of my heart.-Sir Lambwell (Percy The usual form is "Myn herte swete."

cp. "My harts swete"

Folio MS.), vol. i. 149/139.
BERYN, II.

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p. 52, 1. 1682.

Dele words after lak, fault in the note on p. 191. for lack," for lack of matter," as Shakspere

Prof. Skeat says: of lakk says.

p. 52, 1. 1692.

so again at 1. 2477.

p. 62, 1. 2010.

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For nethirless read "nerthiless " or

"nertheless":

For oute & harowe read "oute and "harowe," i. e. out and harowe are separate exclamations.-W. W. S. p. 63, 1. 2039. We have a very modern instance of place used in this sense: "my Lady Dedlock has been down at what she calls her place in Lincolnshire."-Bleak House, chap. ii. ad init. Place in M.E. also means = "lists": see Knightes Tale, 1. 1541, "winne her in the place," and again 1. 1836.

p. 65, 1. 2110. of fyne force. We have the same expression in Troylus and Cryseide (ed. Bell), p. 251, st. 2. Littré says fin sometimes merely gives force to the word to which it is attached; see also Genin's note to Pierre Patelin, v. 29, and cp. the modern expressions "fine fun and " a fine frolic." p. 67, 1. 2196.

both places.

amvre; also amyre, 1. 2806, possibly "ripen" in Cotgrave.-W. W. S.

Fr. ameurir.

p. 74, 1. 2241. Dele words after jolif in Glossarial Index, s. v. iuly.—S. p. 77, 1. 2515. clyzte. In note, dele words after lines cited from Cursor Mundi, and substitute: from clechen, clutch: which word see in Gl. to Mätzner's Sprachproben.

p. 80, 1. 2626. ymmemorat of lyes. These words are very perplexing; perhaps ymmemorat agrees with Beryn, and the words will mean : Beryn, unmindful of the deceptions previously practised on him, and now inclined to trust another stranger. See Forcellinus, s. v. memoror,

memorsum.

p. 81, 1. 2661.

Grew. In note dele words that follow the line cited

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p. 103, 1. 3434.

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be spokesman, the regular phrase; see Tyrwhitt's Note to Canterbury Tales, 1. 17378.—W. W. S. p. 106, 1. 3529. ynmagytyff? suspicious. Prof. Earle in his Philology, p. 56, laments the disparagement of many respectable words in the 12th and 13th centuries: among others, he says, that imaginatif acquired the meaning of "suspicious." Cp. also Frankeleynes Tale, p. 500, 1. 2 (ed. Bell).

"Nothing list him to be imaginatif,

If any wight had spoke, while he was oute,

To hire of love."

I give some other errors of the scribe which are of no great importance: p. 16, 1. 486, read hym for hem. p. 33, 1. 1015, for outz read nouzt. p. 37, 1. 1170, dele it. p. 65, 1. 2098, for zit read it. p. 75, 1. 2466, dele the former as. p. 79, 1. 2603, dele gyve. p. 96, 1. 3182, dele as.

GLOSSARY AND INDEX.

BY W. G. STONE.

a, adv. all, 46/1460.
a, pron. he, 113/3771.
abigg, vb. pay for, 20/593. A.S.
abycgan.

abill, adj. apt, fit, 9/245, 97/3237.
‘Able, or abulle, or abylle. Ha-
bilis, idoneous.'-Prompt. Parv.
accordit, pret. pl. agreed, 50/1615;
pp. 8/212, 86/2834, 95/3148, 107/
3578, 116/3871.

a-combrit, pp. hampered, overcome,
85/2800; accombrit, 109/3644 ;
comberid, 73/2386.

acordement, sb. agreement, 48/1521,
78/2571.

a-dred, pp. afraid, 62/2006; a-drad,
68/2231, 86/2839. See drede.
a feir, adv. on fire, 71/2310.
Affirmative, an, in Civil Law, rule
relating to, 64/2070.
affray, sb. terror, 102/3384.
affre. L.Lat.
Roquefort, s. v. affre.

O.F.
affraiamentum.

a force, adv. perforce, 65/2118.
a-foundit, pp. foundered, 21/631.
See note in Prompt. Parv. s. v.
'Fownderyn.'

aftir-mete, sb. afternoon, 8/227, 13/
391. Noon was the dinner-hour
in the middle ages. See The
Babees Book, E. E. T. S., 5/128.
a fyne, or & fyne. See wel.
AGEA, first wife of Faunus, bears
him a son, Beryn, p. 29; her dy-
ing injunctions to Faunus, p. 32;
her funeral rites described, p. 34.
a-geynes, adv. again, 76/2511.
ageynward, adv. again, in return,
100/3314

ago, pp. gone. See goon.

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al=
all that, 33/1025.
al & som, altogether, 5/115.
al at, ? all that, 119/3984.
al bothe, adj. both, 98/3252.
a-leyid, pp. laid, 118/3936.
Alisaundir, Alexandria, 49/1556.
a londe, adv. ashore, 73/2405.
alowe, vb. praise, 4/94; lowe, allow,
51/1653. O.F. aloér.

al so, adv. even as, also, 6/152, 17/
504; also, 29/874, 72/2370, 76/
2483, 97/3220. A.S. eal-swá.
altercation, sb. 76/2500.
al, ?= albe, although, 69/2261.
amayid, pp. dismayed, 56/1807; a-
Inayide, 102/3379.

a-mend, vb. correct, 81/2658; men-
dit, pp. amended, 34/1045.
a-mongis, adv. at intervals, from
time to time: evir more a-mong,
110/3686; othir whils amongis,
30/933; opir while a-mong, 38/
1197; ther a-mong, 105/3485.
a morow, next morning, in the
morning, 22/656, 62/1998;
morowe, 22/667, 117/3909.
a-mvre, vb.? amure, wall up, bury,
67/2196; pp. a-myrid amurid,
defended as by a wall, 85/2806.
Halliwell has 'mure', vb. to wall.
See note, p. 193.

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a-myrid. See a-mvre.

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a

amys ase, sb. double aces, 89/
2955.

anbiguite, sb. ambiguity, 78/2577.
and, conj. if, 18/546, et passim. Often
written thus: &.

anenst, prep. concerning, 15/442;
a-nenst, 113/3764.
angir, sb. sorrow, 27/817.

angir, vb. be angry, 116/3883.
an hond, adv. nearly, 95/3173.
anothir, adv. otherwise, 106/3538.
a nowe, adv. now, 77/2526.
ANTONYUS JUDEUS, one of the Seven
Sages, 27/809.

a nye,? vb. annoy, harm, 78/2583.
Anoier, anueir, anuer, anuier:
Ennuyer, nuire, &c.'-Roquefort.
apassid, pp. past, 85/2827.
apayde, pp. satisfied, pleased, 39/
1238; a-payde, 46/1467; payde,
13/399.

a-pele, sb. appeal, 107/3562.
a-pele, vb. accuse, charge, 96/3206;
pres. 1 s. a-pele, 99/3294.
a-poyntid, pret. s. pointed out, 9/

240.

apparene, sb. appearance, delusion,
84/2774. See note, p. 196.
appeir, vb. harm, 68/2227.
appid oppon, pret. s. hapt on, lighted
on, 21/632.

aquyt, pret. s. repayed, 5/125.
aray, sb. company, assemblage, 9/
233, 90/2978; conduct, 40/1255;
clothing, equipment, 41/1300, 44/
1391, 51/1655, 65/2119, 92/3045,
3064.

aray, vb. afflict, 20/603; pp. arayed,
72/2375.

aray, vb. dress, 116/3882.
arblast, sb. cross-bow, 9/241.
areche, vb. utter, 112/3734.

areccan.

A.S.

a-rede, vb. conjecture, guess, 17/
527. See Stratmann, s. v. aræden.
arere, adv. in the rear, backward,
61/1972. Cf. Sometime aside,
and sometyme arrere.'· Piers
Plowman, Text B. (E. E. T. S.),
v. 354.

arerid, pp. raised, set up, 113/3764.
A.S. araran.

armys, sb. pl. harms, injuries, 96/
3208.

Armys, lawe of, Heraldry, 81/2667.
a-ryn, adv. ?in a course, in order,
18/550, 19/569. A.S. ryne, a
course. ? Cp. Yankee, 'around.'—
F. J. F. See footnote, p. 18, and
n te, p. 183.

as

as far as, 103/3414.
as, 75/2466; that.

a-say, vb. essay, try, 18/532; asay,
44/1396; assay, 54/1740, 67/2187;
imp. s. asaye, 42/1318.
ascapen, vb. escape, 67/2188; pp.
a-scapid, 118/3953-

a-scaunce, conj. as if, pretending
that, 12/361; ascaunce, 51/1627,
59/1918; as skaunce, 55/1797.
a-sclakid, pp. abated, 39/1226.
a-servid, pret. s. ? deserved, 72/
2371; pp. 73/2377, 95/3163.
a seyd, 113/3771, he saw? See

seen.

a square, adv. on the square, aloof,
20/596, 21/643. See a-sware.
assoyll, imp. s. absolve, 53/1716.
assurid, pp. answered, satisfied,
113/3763.

a-stert, vb. escape, 20/611, 63/2058.
a-stonyd, pp. astonished, bewildered,

77/2544; a-stonyed, 104/3455 ;
stonyd, 64/2088.

Astrolages, sb. astrologers, 27/822.
a-stryvid, pp. divided, perplexed,
95/3164.

a-sware, adv. on one side, 19/586.
at, prep. to, 77/2536, 117/3913.
at,? that, 119/3984.

a-tast, vb. taste, 15/458; a-tast,
prove, test, 54/1745. O.F. taster.
a-tend, vb. set fire to, 83/2728. A.S.
atendan.

ateyn, vb. reach, 103/3414; ateynt,
pp. attainted, 102/3406; atteynt,
107/3586, 112/3752.

a-toon, be, vb. be at one, in accord,
71/2338.

atta, at a, 89/2945.

atte, at the, 1/14, et passim.
attonys, adv. at once, 79/2614, 74/
3125.
a-vaile, vb. avail, help, 66/2151;

pres. s. vaillith, 65/2098; vaylith,
116/3883, 118/3958.

auaunte, adv. forward, 61/1972.
aueret, April, 23/691. F. Avril.
auntir, auntris. See aventure.
aventure, sb. fortune, chance, 38/
1185, 67/2195; aventur, 46/1470,
88/2913, 105/3517; auntir, 109/
3639; pl. auntris, 103/3436.
Awntyr or happe (aunter, P.).
Fortuna, fortuitus. Prompt.
Parv.

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a-vise, sb. counsel, 80/2640.
avisely, adv. advisedly, 118/3946.
avowe, sb. vow, oath, 105/3506, 3514,
106/3543; a-vowe, 92/3049, 101/
3353, 108/3599; pl. a-vowis, 105/
3488, 3509.

aweynyd, pp. weaned, 39/1244.
a-weyward, adv. away, on one side,
77/2516.

axe, vb. require, exact, 8/219; pres.
s. axith, 7/196, 14/403, 81/2654;
pres. 1 s. axe, ask, 92/3071, 93/
3090; 2 s. axist, 107/3580; pret.
s. axid, 12/346, et passim.
axing, sb. request, 94/3126. A.S.

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badder, adj. worse, 96/3187.
bafft, adv. abaft, 49/1576.
bale, sb. woe, sorrow, 58/1862, 118/
3956. A.S. bealu.
ball, sb. head, 115/3860.
ballid, pret. s. smote, 33/1026. 'bol-
len, O. Dutch bollen?'-Strat-
mann. 'palle' beat occurs in
Piers Plowman, Text B. (E. E.
T. S.), xvi. 30.
balstaff, sb. balk-staff, quarter-staff,
6/153. Mr. Vipan thinks that 'bal'
may be a corruption of pale or
pail. Cf. Cotgrave: Courge:...
a Stang, Pale-staffe, or Colestaffe,
carried on the shoulder, and
notched (for the hanging of a
Pale, &c.) at both ends.'

barme, sb. bosom, 75/2457. A.S.
bearm.

barr, 93/3087, bar of a Court of
Justice.

bate down, vb. beat down, 76/2482.
'baw bawe!' a dog's bark, 98/
3243.

be, vb. be, 102/3389; pres. 2 pl.
been, are, 53/1722; beth, 53/1719,
115/3839; 3 pl. beth, 19/569, et
passim; bethe, 100/3313; imp.
pl. beth, be, 32/976, 50/1593, 87/
2891, 88/2915; beith, 4/77; subj.
pres. s. by, 108/3595; 2 pl. be,
4/96; pp. i-been, 35/1087; i-be,
43/1357; be, 4/81, 113/3902.

be, prep. by, 3/50, et passim. See
by.

bede, imp. pl. offer, 69/2258. A.S.
beodan.

be-dotid, pp. infatuated, 36/1137.
be-fele, vb. ? feel about, 18/536.
See note, p. 183.

be-hest, sb. promise, 101/3353; be-
hest, 76/2488, 91/3029; beheest,
condition, 47/1510.

be-hongit, pp. hung round, 27/832;
hongit a-bout, hung about, 21/
636; hongit, adorned with trap-
pings, 51/1632.

behote, vb. promise, 69/2252; by-
hete, 75/2472; pres. 1 s. be-hote,
11/332; pret. s. be-hizte, 36/1126;
pret. 2 pl. be-hete, 63/2059, 78/
2562; behete, 117/3912; pp. be-
hote, 77/2529. See hizte.
bekk, sb. obeisance, 46/1478.
be-menyd, pret. s. bemoaned, 33/
1033.

be-nym, vb. take away, 64/2073;

79/2588; by-nym, 61/1981; pp.
be-nome, 40/1279.

benyng, adj. benign, 120/40II.
bere, in, on the bier, dead, 85/2826.
bergeyne, vb. 105/3507; deal in,
sell.

BERYN, or BERINUS, son of Faunus
and Agea, his birth and bad up-
bringing, pp. 29-30; disreputable
life, pp. 30, 34; unconcern at his
mother's death, pp. 33-4; quarrels
with his father, pp. 40-1; repents
of his misdeeds, pp. 41-3; recon-
ciled to his father, p. 45; releases
his heirship for five ships-ful of
merchandise, pp. 46-8; sails and
meets with a storm, p. 49; lands
at Falsetown, and is betrayed by
Syrophane, a burgess, pp. 51-7;
cheated by Hanybald, Provost of
Falsetown, pp. 58-61; wrongfully
accused by a blind man, pp. 62-
4; and by a woman, pp. 65-6;
duped by Macaign, a catchpoll,
pp. 68-70; bewails his past life,
pp. 71-2; meets Geffrey, a cripple,
who offers to help him, pp. 73-8;
he and his men distrust Geffrey,
and prepare to sail, pp. 85-6; is
angry with Geffrey, p. 91; ap-

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