BOARD, BOURD, "I will _board_ her" (R195,_b_)--"to _bourd_ Respublica" (R200,_b_). Mr. Magnus says "to engage in tilting," but is not the sense that of Fr. _aborder_ = to accost, address, woo. The spelling in the present text should, of course, have been uniform. "I am sure he is in the fleet; I would he had _boarded_ me."--Shakespeare, _Much Ado_, ii. I. "... for, sure, unless he knew some strain in me, that I know not myself, he would never have _boarded_ me in this fury."--Shakespeare, _Merry Wives of_ _Windsor_, ii. I. BOAT, "an oar in everybody's _boat_" (R235,_c_): see Heywood, _Works_ (E.E.D.S.), II., 24,_b_; 207,_a_; 417,_c_. BOLT, "my _bolt_ is shot" (M34,_d_), an arrow: for examples of the proverb, see Heywood, _Works_ (E.E.D.S.), II. 58,_d_; 91,_a_; 205,_d_; 332,_d_; 370,_c_. BOLT, "sift and _bolt_" (R207,_d_), the legal sense is probably intended rather than redundancy for the rhyming's sake. Oppression means that matters must be gifted and discussed privately in order to improve their opportunities for rascality. "And having performed the exercises of their own houses called _boltes_, _mootes_, and putting of cases, they proceed to be admitted and become students, in some of these four houses or innes of court, where continuing by the space of seven yeares (or there-aboutes) they frequent readings, meetings, _boltinges_, and other learned exercises."--Stowe, _Survey of_ _London_, p. 59. "The judge, or jury, or parties, or the counsel, or attornies, propounding questions, beats and _bolts_ out the truth much better than when the witness delivers only a formal series."--Sir M. Hale (_d._ 1676). BONES, see Belly. BOOT, "he will be my _boot_" (M11,_a_), help, remedy, cure. "Ich haue _bote_ of mi-bale."--_William of_ _Palerne_ (_c._ 1300), 627. "God send every trewe man _boote_ of his bale."--Chaucer, _Cant. Tales_ (1383), 13,409. BORD, "we did but _bord_" (WH298,_a_), jest: see other volumes of this series. BORROW, (_a_) "I shall be your _borrow_" (M ), security, pledge, surety, protector. "Their _borrow_ is God Almighty."--Piers Plowman (1363), 37,_b_. (_b_) see St. George. BOURD, see Board. BOY, see Ball. BOYS, "shall _boys_ ... of such high matters play" (R180,_d_). Mr. Magnus asks whether this reference to "boy-chorister-actors" may not "have some special reference to Edward VI.'S theological precocity." BRAST, "the halter _brast_ asunder" (M27,_c_; also 28,_d_), burst. "But with that percing noise flew open quite, or _brast_."--Spenser, _Fairy Queen_ (1590), I. viii. 4. BRAT, "a whole _brat_ to his back" (JP338,_d_), cloak, mantle. "Ne had they but a shete Which that they might wrappen hem in a-night, And a _bratt_ to walken in by day-light."--Chaucer, _Cant. Tales_ (1383), 16,347.