Paid, pleased; ill paid, displeased, 908.
Low Lat. _pagare_, to pay, satisfy.
Palȝonis, pavilions, tents, 734;
_plural of_
Palȝoune, a pavilion, a tent, 1305.
R. gives _pavillon_, a tent; cf. Low Lat. _papilio_, a tent.
Pan, pain, 1273.
Pas hyme, to pace, go, 362.
Paß, to go, 1213.
Pasing, pacing, departing, 371;
surpassing, 303, 346, 689, etc.
Pens, to think of, 1431.
Fr. _penser_.
Planly, at once, 3319.
J. gives “Playn, out of hand, like Fr. _de plain_.” In the same
line “of” = off.
Plant, plaint, complaint, 137.
Fr. _plainte_.
Plesance, Plesans, pleasure, 941, 1939.
Plessith, pleases, 68.
Possede, to possess, 578.
Fr. _posseder_.
Poware, a power, a strong band of men, 2647. We now say _force_.
Powert, poverty, 1330, 1744.
Pref, to prove, 2229, 3476.
Prekand, pricking, spurring, 3089.
See the very first l. of Spenser’s _Faerie Queene_.
Prekyne, 2890, showy(?), gaudy(?).
J. gives “Preek, to be spruce; to crest; as ‘A bit _preekin_
bodie,’ one attached to dress; _to prick_, to dress oneself.”
Compare D. _prijcken_.
Pretend, to attempt, aspire to, 3282, 3465.
Fr. _prétendre_. So, too, in lines 559, 583.
Pretendit, endeavour, attempt, 3442.
Process, narration, 316.
Wright gives “Proces, a story or relation, a process.” The writer
is referring to his prologue or introduction.
Promyt, to promise, 965.
Proponit, proposed, 361, 445.
Pupil, people, 285.
Puple, people, 1367, 1498, 1520.
{ Pur, 1648, Pure, 1697, Pwre, 1655, } poor.
Quh-. Words beginning thus begin in modern English with Wh. Thus,
Quhen = when, etc.
Quhilk (whilk), which, 184.
A.S. _hwylc_ = Lat. _qualis_ rather than _qui_.
Quhill, while, _used as a noun_, 1229, 1293.
A.S. _hwíl_, a period of time.
Quhill, until, 24, 198.
See _Whill_.
Quhy; the quhy = the why, the reason, 123, 1497.
Qwhelis, wheels, 736.
A.S. _hweol_.
Qwheyar, whether, 1187.
{ Quhois, Qwhois, } whose, 171, 1297.
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