_Cortessey_, courteous. Q. _Corteysse_. _Cote a pye_, upper garment, short cloke; _courtepy_, Chaucer. See Tyrwhitt’s note, iv. 201. _Coud_, knew, understood. _Counsell_, “_And counsell shall it be_,” and it shall be kept secret; in allusion, perhaps, to the oath of a grand juror:—“the king’s _counsel_, your fellows, and your own you shall keep secret.” The phrase is, however, used by Chaucer: “Shall it be _conseil_? sayed the firste shrewe; And I shall tellen thee in wordes fewe What we shall don, and bring it wel aboute.” —_Pardoneres Tale._ _Covent_, convent; whence our Covent Garden. _Cowed_, could, knew. _Cowed of curteysey_, understood good manners. {390} _Crack_, boast. _Craftely_, skilfully, _secundum artem_. _Crouse_, brisk. _Cun_, con, owe, give. _Curn_, p. 101. _Curtall_, p. 210, 211. _Curteyse_, courteous. _Cutters_, sharking fellows; such as live by robbery or violence; bravos. So in the old play of _Arden of Feversham_, h. d. b. l.: “And they are cutters, and may cut your throat.” _Dame_, mother. _Dead_, certain; so in the common saying, “As dead as Chelsea;” _i.e._ as certain as a situation in that hospital. _Demed_, judged. _Depart_, part, separate. _Derne_, privy, secret. _Deyell_, devil. _Deythe_, dight, dressed. _Donne_, dun. _Doyt_, doth, do. _Dree_, hye. _Dreyffe_, drive. _Dub_, shallow miry pool. _Dung_, beaten, overcome. _Durk_, dagger. _Dyght_, dressed, done. _Dyghtande_, p. 69. _Dysgrate_, disgraced, degraded. _Hath be dysgrate_, hath fallen into poverty. _Een_, eyes. _Eftsones_, hereafter, afterward. _Eild_, age. _Elephant_, p. 263. _Ender_, under. _English wood._ If _Inglewood Forest_ be here intended, the Queen is a little out in her geography: she probably means _Sherwood_, but neither was that in the page’s way to Nottingham, and _Barnsdale_ was still farther north. See _Ancient Popular Poetry_, 1791, p. 3. _Ere_, before. _Eylde_, yield. _Eyr_, year. _Eyre_, heir. _Fail_, _But fail_, without fail, without doubt. _Failyd_, wanted, missed. _Fair_, fare, ado. _Fare_, live. _Farley_, fairly, plainly. _Fay_, faith. {391} _Fayne_, glad. _Fe_, fee, wages. _Feardest_, fearfulest, most frightened or afraid. _Feders_, feathers. _Fend_, _Fend I godys forbode_. _Fende_, defend. _Fered_, feared, lived. _Ferre_, far. _Ferre dayes_, far in the day; _grand jour_, F. _Ferre gone_, long since. _Fette_, fetched. _Fetteled him_, made him ready, prepared himself, set about. _Fettled_, _Them fettled_, attempted, set about. _Feyffe_, five. _Finikin_, finical, fine, spruce. _Flee_, fly. _Flinders_, splinters. _Fone_, foes, enemies. _Forbode_, _Godys forbode_, ‘prohibition or curse.’ Florio, in his Italian dictionary, 1598, renders the phrase, _Adio non piaceia_. God forbid, _Godes forbode_. In _A Briefe Conceipte of English Policy_, 1581, it is corrupted to “_God swarbote_.” _Force_, care. _Forgone_, forego, lose.