"this lesson shall we lere;" Lere: face. First English - hleor. See Robin Hood - "fell down by his lere." Let: hinder. Letting: hindrance. Lewte: loyalty. Lift: sky. Linde: lime-tree. Linn: torrent; also the pool under a torrent of water. Lithe: listen. Icelandic - alyoa, to listen. Liveray: what is 'livre,' or delivered, as a 'livree' of clothes, food, etc. Lodge: dwelling in a forest, as originally made of boughs and leaves. Lough: laughed. Lourdain: blockhead. Lown: loon, dull, base fellow. Makis: husbands. Male: bag. Manople: a large gauntlet protecting hand and fore-arm. March parti: border side. Masars: bowls or goblets. May: maid. Meany: meynie: body of retainers, or domestic following. Meet: narrow. First English - maete, little. Met: mete: measured. Mister: need. Mo: more. Mort: the note sounded at death of the deer. Mote I thee: May I thrive. First English - theon, to thrive. Mote: meeting for decision of cases in ecclesiastical or civil law, or for other public purposes, as ward-mote, etc. Strong men were said to oppress the weak by being "mighty to mote." Nicher: neigh. Numbles: liver, kidneys, etc. French - nombles. The word was often written in English umbles and humbles. The umbles, with skin, head, chine, and shoulders of the deer, were the keepers' share in the brittling. There was a receipt for "umble pie" in the old cookery. To "eat humble pie" was to dine with the servants instead of from the haunch at the high table. Okerer: usurer. Pace: pass. Pay: satisfaction. The old sense of the word in the phrase "it does not pay"--does not give satisfaction. A man could be served "to his pay," meaning in a way that satisfied or pleased him. Pieces: drinking-cups. Pluck-buffet: whichever made a bad shot drew on himself a buffet from his competitor. Prest: ready. Prestly: readily. French - pret. Prief: proof. Proseyla: Venus' shells, porcelain. Pye: coat a py: a rough coarse cloth. Dutch - py, or a coat made from it. The word remains in our "pea-coat." Quarry: the skin of the deer on which entrails, etc. were piled as the dogs' share of the spoil. French - cuiree, from cuir, hide. To be distinguished from the quarry, a square bolt for the crossbow, or the quarry or squared stones, both from Latin - quadratus. Quh: = Wh. Quite: requite. Ray: striped cloth. Raikand: ranging. Rawe: row. Rede: counsel. Reve: plunder. Room: space or spacious. "The warldis room," the space of the world; or "The warld is room," the world is wide. Salved: saluted.