English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 1066-1485 -- Sources
_Lancegay_, lance.
_Lang_, long.
_Leasing_, lying.
_Leer_, cheek.
_Lede_, following.
_Leme_, shine.
_Lend_, stay.
_Lere_, learn.
_Let_, (1) hinder; (2) cause.
_Letting_, hindrance.
_Lewte_, loyalty.
_Lithe_, listen.
_Lo_, meadow.
_Lore_, lost.
_Losenger_, rascal.
_Low_, blaze.
_Lyre_, a kind of stuff.
_Mansuete_, gentle.
_Maugre_, despite.
_May_, maiden.
_Meddled_, mingled.
_Mees_, houses.
_Mo_, more.
_Myster_, need.
_Namely_, specially.
_Nar_, nearer.
_Nice_, foolish.
_No force_, no matter.
_Nombles_, loins of a deer.
_Notoyrly_, notoriously.
_Novels_, news.
_Okerer_, usurer.
_Other_, or.
_Paned_, slashed.
_Percase_, perchance.
_Pirie_, gust.
_Pludde_, some kind of kettle.
_Postillators_, preachers.
_Praised_, appraised.
_Prime_, six to nine A.M.
_Quarrels_, small squares.
_Queme_, please.
_Quere_, choir.
_Quit_, requited.
_Race_, scratch.
_Ray_, kind of cloth.
_Recheless_, careless.
_Reprefe_, reprief, reproof.
_Rown_, whisper.
_Royaumes_, realms.
_Salued_, saluted.
_Saws_, sayings.
_Say_, silk.
_Semblable_, like.
_Shende_, harm, spoil.
_Sicker_, sure; _sikerly_, surely.
_Silly_, innocent.
_Slee_, slay.
_Slo_, _slone_, slain.
_Somedeal_, somewhat.
_Somers_, baggage mules.
_Sond_, messenger.
_Sowning into_, tending to.
_Spill_, destroy.
_Starven_, die.
_Styed_, mounted.
_Sue_, pursue, follow.
_Supplye_, supplicate.
_Stound_, space of time.
_Sy_, saw.
_Tayd_, tied.
_Teen_, sorrow.
_Thee_, thrive.
_Tho_, then.
_Throw_, space of time.
_Till_, to.
_Tine_, lose.
_To-coming_, future.
_Train_, treachery.
_Truage_, tribute.
_Tuke_, a dress material.
_Tynde_, antlers.
_Unketh_, unknown, strange.
_Unneath_, _unnethis_, hardly.
_Unwieldy_, impotent.
_Wed_, pledge.
_Welt_, wielded, disposed of.
_Werrey_, make war on.
_Wight_, man.
_Wight_, strong.
_Witen_, know.
_Wonder_, wondrous.
_Wone_, dwell.
_Woning wane_, dwelling place.
_Wood_, mad.
_Wyte_, blame.
_Y-_, participial prefix.
_Yede_, _yode_, went.
_Y-nocked_, notched.
_Y-wis_, certainly.
Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A. CONSTABLE
Transcriber's Notes:
Passages in italics are indicated by _underscore_.
Passages in bold and gothic font are indicated by +bold+.
Sidenotes and top of the page notes are indicated by =note=.
Additional spacing after some of the quotes is intentional to indicate
both the end of a quotation and the beginning of a new paragraph as
presented in the original text.
The following misprints have been corrected:
"yoeman" corrected to "yeoman" (twice on page 48)
"now" corrected to "nor" (page 120)
"and and" corrected to "and" (page 126)
"replicacion" corrected to "replication" (page 196)
"Atthur" corrected to "Arthur" (page 237)
"Thesefore" corrected to "Therefore" (page 268)
"the" corrected to "thee" (page 302) img. 336
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