_Begeck_, _Give them a begeck_, play them a trick, make fools of them. _Behote_, promised. _Benbow_, [a bent bow?]. _Bent_, ii. 84. _Bescro_, beshrew. _Bestad_, _Ferre and friend bestad_, far from home and without a friend. The passage, however, seems corrupt. Perhaps, indeed, it should be _fren_ (_frend_ or _fremd_) _bestad_, _i.e._ beset or surrounded by strangers. (Fremd, Saxon.) Thus, in Spenser’s 4th eclogue: “So now his friend is changed for a _fren_.” Again, in Florio’s _Worlde of Wordes_, 1598: “_Alieno_, an alien, a stranger, a forraine, a _freme_.” _Bestead_, beset, put to it. _Beth_, are, be. _Blate_, sheepish or foolish, as we should now say. _Blive_, belive, immediately. _Bloschems_, blossoms. _Bluter_, p. 105. _Blyve_, fast, quickly, briskly. _Bocking_, pouring, flowing. _Bode_, bidden, invited. _Bolt_, _Bolte_, _Boltes_, _Boltys_. A bolt was an arrow of a particular kind, used chiefly for shooting at birds; having a round or blunt head. Much’s object, it has been observed, was not to wound, but stun, the monk, and the bolt from its shape was peculiarly adapted to this purpose. In other passages, however, it seems to mean either an arrow in general, or one used for shooting at a mark. “I’ll make a shaft or a bolt on’t,” which Shakespeare has put into the mouth of M. Slender, appears, from Ray’s _Collection_, to have been a common proverb. _Boote_, help. _Booting_, p. 98. _Borde_, table. _Borowe_, _Borrow_, pledge, surety, bail. _Borowehode_, suretyship. _Boskyd_, busked, prepared, got ready. _Bottle_, a small vessel, of wood or leather, in the shape of a cask, in which shepherds and others employed abroad in the fields carry or keep their drink. _Bottys_, buts. _Bou_, bow. _Bound_, betook, went. _Boldly bound away_, briskly scampered off. _Bowe_, bough. {389} _Bown_, ready. _Bowne ye_, prepare ye, get ready. _Boyt_, both. _Breche_, breeches. _Breyde_, started, stepped hastily. _Breyde_, start, quick or hasty step. _Broke_, brook, enjoy, use, keep. _Bronde_, brand, sword. _Bushement_, ambush. _Buske_, _I wyll me buske_, _i.e._ go, betake myself. _Buske you_, address or prepare yourselves, make ready. _Bydene_, one after another. _Can_, did. _Carpe_, [to speak]. _Cankardly_, peevishly, with ill-temper. _Capull hyde_, horse hide. _Capal_ or _Capul_ in Irish or Erse is a horse or mare, as _Kephyl_ is in Welsh. _Carel_, _Carril_, carle, old fellow. _Caward_, awkward or backward. See _Awkwarde_. _Cerstyn_, Christian. _Chaffar_, chaffer, merchandise, commodity. _Chepe_, _better chepe_, cheaper; _à meilleur marché_, F. _Gret chepe_, very cheap; _à très bon marché_. _Chepe_, cheapen, buy. _Chepyd_, cheapened, bought. _Cheys_, choose. _Chiven_, p. 219. _Chorle_, churl, peasant, clown. _Cla’d_, scratched. _Clock_, cloak. _Clouted_, patched. _Cole_, p. 66. _Come_, (pronounced com) came. _Command_, warrant, authority. _Commytted_, accounted. _Coresed_, p. 20.