"Houten are wordes for to telle his doe," _i.e._, Hollow are words to tell his doings. Still again, in a passage already quoted,[17] it is told how the "Wynde hurled the Battayle"--Rowleian for a small boat--"agaynste an Heck." _Heck_ in this and other passages was a puzzle. From the context it obviously meant "rock," but where did Chatterton get it? Mr. Skeat explains this. _Heck_ is a provincial word signifying "rack," i.e., "hay-rack"; but Kersey misprinted it "rock," and Chatterton followed him. A typical instance of the kind of error that Chatterton was perpetually committing was his understanding the "Listed, bounded," _i.e., edged_ (as in the "list" or selvage of cloth) for "bounded" in the sense of _jumped,_ and so coining from it the verb "to liss"=to jump: "The headed javelin lisseth here and there." Every page in the Rowley poems abounds in forms which would have been as strange to an Englishman of the fifteenth as they are to one of the nineteenth century. Adjectives are used for nouns, nouns for verbs, past participles for present infinitives; and derivatives and variants are employed which never had any existence, such as _hopelen_=hopelessness, and _anere_=another. Skeat says, that "an analysis of the glossary in Milles's edition shows that the genuine old English words correctly used, occurring in the Rowleian dialect, amount to only about _seven_ per cent, of all the old words employed." It is probable that, by constant use of his manuscript glossary, the words became fixed in Chatterton's memory and he acquired some facility in composing at first hand in this odd jargon. Thus he uses the archaic words quite freely as rhyme words, which he would not have been likely to do unless he had formed the habit of thinking to some degree, in Rowleian.