Pyan, 22, “Pyony herbe, pionia,” Prompt. Parv. “Pionia, pentorobinam, pioyné,” MS. Sloan. 2478, fol. 210. Pychyn, 179, pick. Pygth, _vide_ Pyth. Pylle, 297, rob. “Pyll, or make bare,” Palsgrave. Pillid, 384, bald. So Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, v. 3933, says “As pilled as an ape was his skull.” Pyne, 151, pain. Pynne, 28, pine. Pyth, 2, 6, pight, arrayed, fixed. Pleand, 70, playing. Pleyn, 14, playing. Pleyn place, 14, playing place, theatre. “Pleyyng place, diludium,” Prompt. Parv. Pleyn, plain. Plesawns, pleasing. Plesynge, 73, pleasure. Plete, 185, plead. Plyth, 2, plight, pledge. Popetys, 179, puppets. Portature, 34, likeness. Possede, 56, possess. Pousté, power. Prate, talk. Pray, 216, prey. Prendyd, 185, pricked. Prent, 18, 60, imprint. Prese, 1, crowd, throng. Presonde, 312, confined. Prest, 13, ready. Pretende, 82, put forward. Preyn, 320, pray. Prevyn, 179, prove. Pryk, sting. Prynspal, 377, principal. Prise, 41, price, value. Promyssyon, promise. Prophete, 261, profit. Prow, 119, 333, profit. Prune, 164, cut. Punchyth, 75, punish. Purpure, purple. Purveyd, 123, provided. Qwalle, 67, whale. Qwarte, qwerte, 202, 225, 372, good spirits, joy. Sometimes, as at p. 372, used as an adjective. Qwed, 15, wicked. Qwedyr, 122, shiver. Qweke, quake. Qwelle, 13, destroy. Qwelp, 51, whelp. Qwen, 80, queen. Qweme, 109, please. Qwerte, _vide_ Qwarte. Qwethe, bequeath. Qwyght, 44, reward, pay off. Qwyl, while. Qwypps, 315, whips. Qwyte, 22, white. Qwyte, 18, requite. Race, 136, break. Raftys, 180, rafts. Rake, 183, rack (?) This word is here dragged in to preserve the alliteration, a practice very common with the writer of these mysteries. Rakyl, 24, rash. Rakynge, 180, violent. “Rasco, rakny,” Ortus Vocabulorum. Rape, 179, 231, haste. Reast, 124, rest. Rebate, 76, abate. Rebawdys, 183, ribalds. Recke, 182, care. I ne recke, _i. e._, I don’t care. Reclyne, 141, return. Recorde, witness. Recure, 93, recover, obtain. Rede, counsel. Redrure, 254. Regne, 161, kingdom. Reynenge, reigning. Reynes, 241, 273. Releves, 89, remnants. Rem, 156, realm. Rennyn, 16, ran. Renogat, 384, renegade. Repreff, reproof. Resche, 170, rush. Restyth, remaineth. Reve, 175, bereave. Revyfe, revive. Rewe, 11, row. Rewly, 8, rueful. Rewlyd, ruled. Ryal, 161, royal. Ryalté, 161, royalty. Ryff, 4, 6, 7, 13, speedily. _Vide_ Ihre, and Sir F. Madden’s gloss. to William and the Werwolf, in voc. Rynggyng, 308, noisy. Rys, 22, twig, bough. See Lydgate’s Minor Poems, pp. 105, 269. Ryte, right. Ryth, right. Rythful, 13, righteous. Roberych, 277, rubric. This of course refers to the directions given immediately previously. Rochand, 308, ruler. Rosche, 32, rush. Rote, root. Rought, 183, rout. Rowel, 179, point of a spur. “Rowel of a spere, stimulus,” Prompt. Parv. Rowncys, 180, steeds. Rowte, 40, assembly. Rowth, 177, suffer. Ruly, 14, 67, _vide_ Rewly. Rustynes, 47, long continuance.