bust in profile, crowned; _reverse_--arms upon an oval shield. CROWNS--_Obverse_--the king mounted on a horse; _reverse_--arms, and cross fleuree. HALF-CROWNS. Same as crowns. SHILLINGS--_Obverse_--the king on horsebark, galloping; _reverse_--a square-topped shield, crowned. SIXPENCE. Exactly the same as the shilling. THREEPENCE. Same as shilling. PENCE of this coinage (1552) occur both of fine and base metal. The _fine_ penny has (on the _obverse_) the king seated, with arms and cross on the _reverse_. The _base_ penny has a full-blown rose, instead of the enthroned king. HALF-PENCE are nearly the same as pence. EMPERY, "in this _empery_" (N56,_d_), empire, dominion; also more loosely, region. "Ruling in large and ample _empery_ o'er France."--Shakespeare, _Henry V._ (1599), i. 2. "A lady So fair, and fastened to an _empery_, Would make the great'st king double."--Shakespeare, _Cymbeline_ (1605), i. 7. EMPRISE, "th' _emprise_ of all this world" (N46,_a_), generally an undertaking more or less onerous or risky. Here--the responsibility of subduing and righteously governing the material creation. "Then shal rejoysen of a grete _empryse_ Acheved wel."--Chaucer, _Troilus and Cressida_ (1369), ii. 1391. EMPROWED, "bought ... and _emprowed_" (R219,_a_), improved: with an eye to a higher rent. ENCHESON, "for th' _encheson_" (N43,_c_), reason, cause, occasion. "Certes, said he, well mote I shame to tell The fond _encheason_ that me hither led."--Spenser, _Fairy Queen_ (1590), II. i. 30. ENCROACHING OF LANDS, see Respublica. ENDRAIT, "live after that _endrait_" (N59,_d_), quality. ENFORMED, see Respublica. ENGLAND, see Courtesy. ENQUEST, see Inquest. ENTRIKED, "I am wondrously _entriked_" (N55,_c_; 59_c_), deceived, entangled, tricked, hindered. "That mirrour hath me now _entriked_."--_Romaunt of the Rose_, 1642. ENTUNES, "_entunes_ in silence of the night" (N45,_a_), songs, tunes, chants, melodies. "So mery a soune, so swete _entewnes_."--Chaucer, _Boke of the Duchesse_ (1371), 307. ENURE, "myself to _enure_" (N48,_b_), use, make a habit of, accustom. "He gan that Ladie strongly to appele Of many haynous crymes by her _enured_."--Spenser, _Fairy Queen_ (1596), v. ix. 39. ENVIES, "to see ... _envies_ take in a trap" (R257,_b_), enemies. EQUITY, see Mankind, _Amended Readings_. ERCH (_passim_), ere I--er' 'ch--ere ich.