FRAY, "how I _fray_" (R202,_c_), fear. "The troubled ghost of my father Anchises So oft in sleepe doth _fray_ me, and aduise."--Surrey, _Virgil_, _Æneis_, iv. FRAYRY, "the demonical _frayry_" (M8,_d_), friary, conventicle. FUSION, "God send it His _fusion_" (M15,_d_),? _foison_, _fusoan_, _fusin_ = plenty, abundance: in original, _fusyon_. GAN, "how God ... _gan_ devise" (N46,_a_), began: auxiliary with force of _did_. "Not with less dread the loud Ethereal trumpet from on high _gan_ blow."--Milton, _Paradise Lost_ (1667), vi. 60. GARD, "freshly _gard_" (N77,_c_), trimmed, edged. "Those of the forewarde vnder the Duke of Norffolke, were apparelled in blue coats _garded_ with redde."--Stow, _Henry VIII._ (1544). GAUDIES, "no more _gaudies_ or japes" (R264,_b_), trick, jest. "Thynke wel that it is no _gaude_."--Chaucer, _Troilus_ (1369), ii. 351. GEAR (_passim_), formerly a word-of-all-work = outfit, ornament, dress, accoutrements, arms, harness, tackle, goods, property, tools, implements, material, stuff, matter, business, affair, manners, habits, customs, rubbish, trash--and what not? See other volumes of this series. GENERALIS, see Curia. GENTLE-MEAT, "_Gentle meat_ for a hawk" (J.E. 363,_c_), the pun is double-barrelled: _gentle_ also = a trained hawk. GENTMAN (R231,_b_), gentleman: cf. jentman. GEOFFREY, "farewell, gentle _Geoffrey_" (M9,_a_), apparently a common tag or catch-phrase, or from some song of the period. Heywood (_Works_, E.E.D.S., II. 36_b_) quotes almost the identical words of _Mankind_: "Now, here is the door, and there is the way; And so, (quoth he), farewell, gentle _Geoffrey_!" GERE, read Gear. GESUMME, "a good horse should be _gesumme_" (M12,_d_). Dr. Bradley (quoted by E.E.T.S. editors) suggests _geason_ (A.S. _goesne_ = empty, scarce). The whole passage from the beginning of the speech is obscure and apparently corrupt: at all events, it hardly "reads" as it is. The following suggestion is made with a view to eliciting a re-examination. The original is (E.E.T.S.)-- "Ande my wyf wer_e_ yow_u_r hors, sche wolde yow att to-sa_m_ne [Gh]e fede yow_u_r hors in mesur_e_; ze ar_e_ a wyse man. I trow, & [Gh]e wer_e_ þe kyng_is_ palfrey-ma_n_, A goode horse xulde be gesum_m_e."