_Knave_, servant, man. _Kod_, quod, quoth, said. _Kyrtell_, waistcoat. _Kythe nor kin_, acquaintance nor kindred. _Lappe_, wrap. _Late_, lake, play, game. _Launsgay_, a sort of lance. _Leasynge_, lying, falsehood. _Lede_, train, suite. _Ledesman_, guide. _Lee_, plain. _Lefe_, willing. _Whether he were loth or lefe_, whether he would or not. _Leffe_, leave, left. _Leffes_, leaves. _Lende_, meet, encounter. _Lene_, lend. _Lere_, learn. _Lere_, cheek. _Lese_, lose. _Let_, omit, hinder, hindered. _Leugh_, laughed. _Lever_, rather. _Lewtè_, loyalty, faith, truth; _leauté_, F. _Leythe_, light. _Ligge_, lay. _Lin_, stop, stay. _Lithe_, attend, hear, hearken. {394} _Loffe_, love. _Lore_, lost. _Lough_, _Loughe_, _Low_, laughed. _Lowe_, “a little hill.”—_P._ _Lown_, villain, knave, base fellow. _Lust_, desire, inclination. _Lyght_, light; or, perhaps, for _lyte_, little. _Lynde_, _Lyne_, the lime or linden tree; or collectively lime trees, or trees in general. _Lyth_, see _Lithe_. _Lyveray_, livery, habit, delivery: the mess, portion, or quantity of provisions delivered out at a time by the butler was called _a livery_. _Masars_, cups, vessels. _Masterye_, “a trial of skill, high proof of skill.”—_P._ _Mair_, more. _Maney_, see _Meyne_. _May_, maid. _Me_, _That ever yet sawe I me_, a gallicism; _que jamais j’ai vu moi_. _Meal_, oat-meal. _Meal-poke_, meal-bag, bag in which oatmeal is put. _Meat-rife._ _Mede_, _To quyte hym well his mede_, to reward him to some purpose. _Medys_, midst, middle. _Meede_, reward. _Mesh_, _All to mesh_, to a mash or jelly. _Met_, _Mete_, measured. _Methe_, meat. _Meyne_, attendants, retinue; _mesnie_, F. _Meythe_, might. _Mickle_, much, great, very. _Mister_, need. It is _misters_ in the original. _Mo_, more. _Molde_, earth. _Mot_, _Mote_, might, may. _Mote_, meeting, assembly, court, audit. _Mountenaunce_, amount, duration, space. _Mow_, mouth. _Mowe_, may. _Muckle_, see _Mickle_. _Myrthes_, mirth, merriment. _A man that myrthes can_, a minstrel, fiddler, juggler, or the like. _Myster_, need. _Nane_, none. _Nar_, nor, than. _Ner_, ear. So in “_The Romaunt of the Rose_:” “He streight up to his _ere_ ydrough The stronge bowe.” {395} _Ner_, (_ne wer it_), were it not. _Nip_, p. 100. _Nips_, p. 101. _Nobellys_, nobles. The _noble_ was a gold coin, value 6s. 8d. _Nombles_, _Numbles_, entrails; those parts which are usually baked in a pie: now, corruptly, called _humbles_ or _umbles_: _nombles_, F. Thus we say, _an Adder_, _an Apron_, _an Ouche_, instead of _a Nadder_, (Naddre), _a Napron_, _a Nouche_: the _n_ being, through ignorance, transferred to the article. The reverse has happened in the words _A newt_, which should be written _An ewt_: a mistake the more remarkable as we say and write _An eft_; both from the same root: Efet, Saxon. _Obeyedores_, [_obediener_]. _Okerer_, usurer. _Or_, [en]. _Os_, us. _Outdone_, undone. _Owthe_, out.