_Fors_, see _Force_. _Forsoyt_, forsooth, truly. _Foryete_, forgotten. _Fostere_, forester. _Fothe_, foot. _Frae_, from. _Frebore_, free-born, gentle. _Frese_, p. 39. _Furmety_, [_fumenty_]. _Frere_, [friar]. _Fynly_, goodly. _Gae_, go. _Gan_, _Gan they gone_, are they gone, did they go. _Gang_, _Gange_, go. _Gate_, _Gates_, ways, passes, paths, ridings. _Gate_ is a common word in the North for way.—_P._ _Geffe_, given. _General_, perhaps the governor, Nottingham still being a garrison town. _Ger_, gear, stuff, goods, property, effects. _Gereamarsey_, see _Gramercy_. _Gillore_, plenty. _Glen_, valley. _God_, good, goods, property. _God-a-marsey_, God-a-mercy! See _Gramercy_. _Godde_, see _God_. {392} _Godys forbode._ See _Forbode_. _Gorney_, journey. _Goy_, joy. _Graff_, _Oke graff_, oak branch or sapling. _Gramercy_, thanks, or many thanks; _grand mercie_, F. _Gree_, satisfaction. _Gret_, greeted, saluted. _Gripped_, grasped, laid hold of. _Grome_, a common man. _Hail_, _All hail_, wholely, entirely. _Halds_, holds, holding-places, supports. _Halke_, perhaps haugh, low ground by the side of a river. See the glossary to Bishop Douglas’s _Virgil_, _v._ _Hawchis_. _Halke_ with Chaucer signifies a corner; but seems here used in opposition to _hill_. _Halfendell_, half. _Hals_, neck. _Hambellet_, ambleth. _Hansell._ The vendor of any wares is said to receive _hansel_ of his first customer; but the meaning of the text, _Haffe hansell for the mar_, is not understood, unless it can be thought to imply, _Give me hansel_, _i.e._ buy of my pots. _Hart of Greece_ means perhaps no more than a fat hart, for the sake of a quibble between Greece and grease. _Hawt_, aught, anything, something. _Hayt_, hath. _Held_, kept preserved. _Hende_, gentle, courteous. _Hent_, took, caught. _Hepe_, hip, haw, the fruit of the white thorn. So in _Gil Morice_, a Scotish ballad:— “I was once AS FOW of Gill Morrice AS THE HIP IS O’ THE STEAN.” _Her_, their. _Het_, it. _Het_, eat. _Heynd_, gentle, courteous. _Heyt war howte_, p. 86. _Highed_, hyed, hastened. _Hight_, _What they hight_, what they are called. _Holde_, keep, held, retained of council. _Holy_, wholely. _Holy dame_, _Our holy dame_, p. 250, the Virgin Mary (so called); unless, for our “holy dame” we should read our halidome, which may mean our holiness, honesty, chastity; haligoome, sanctimonia. _Hos_, _Hus_, us. _Hotys_, oats. _Housband_, _Housbonde_, manager, husbandman, peasant. {393} _How_, hill. _Howt_, out. _Hyght_, vowed, promised. _Hynde_, knave. _I_, ay. _Ibent_, bent. _Ibonde_, bound. _Ichaunged_, changed. _Idyght_, dight, dressed, prepared, made ready. _Ifedered_, feathered. _Ilke_, each. _In-fere_, together. _Inocked_, nocked, notched. _Ipyght_, _Up ipyght_, p. 26. _Iquyt_, acquitted, set at liberty. _Iswore_, sworn. _Itake_, taken. _Japes_, tricks. _Ken_, know. _Kest_, cast. _Kirtle_, upper petticoat.