8. =reedes.= Considers. From A.-S. _ræd_, counsel, advice; O. E. _rede_. 9. =salvage.= Savage, wild. Fr. _sauvage_. From Lat. _silva_, forest. See "Faerie Queene," IV, v, 19: "For all his armour was like salvage weed With woody mosse bedight, and all his steed With oaken leaves attrapt, that seemed fit For salvage wight, and thereto well agreed His word, which on his ragged shield was writ, _Salvagesse sans finesse_,[233:1] shewing secret wit." =wight.= Person. From A.-S. _wiht_. "For every wight that loved chevalrie." --_Chaucer_, _Canterbury Tales_, 2105. =griesly.= Dreadful. From A.-S. _grislic_; _agrisan_, to dread. Grisly. 10. =bedight.= Covered. From _dight_, to dress, to deck. A.-S. _dihtan_. 11. =fire-spitting.= "_Spett_ seems anciently to have more simply signified _disperse_, without the low idea which we at present affix to it."--_Warton._ 12. =entayle.= Sculpture, carving. Compare _intaglio_. 13. =antickes.= Odd, or fantastic, forms. From Lat, _antiquus_, ancient. 14. =of Mulcibers devouring element.= By fire. Mulciber is a surname of Vulcan, "which seems to have been given him as an euphemism, that he might not consume the habitations and property of men, but kindly aid them in their pursuits." 15. =withouten moniment.= Without superscription. 16. =swinck.= Labor, drudge. A.-S. _swincan_, to toil. 17. =sew.= Follow. From Fr. _suivre_. =deigne.= From Fr. _daigner_, to consider worthy. Opposed to _disdain_. 18. =Me ill besits.= It ill becomes me. =derdoing.= Dare-doing; doing daring deeds. 19. =worldly mucke.= "Filthy lucre." 20. =spright.= Spirit. 21. =weet.= Understand. From A.-S. _witan_, to know. 22. =fond.= Foolish. 23. =empeach.= Hinder. Fr. _empêcher_. 24. =accloyes.= Chokes or clogs up. Observe how the poet carries out his metaphor of the "well-head," "the purest streames," "his braunching armes," and "the gentle wave." 25. =unreproved truth.= Sincerity. 26. =great Grandmother.= Mother Earth. 27. =lett be.= Leave off; make an end of. 28. =wage.= Pledge. Observe the relationship between this word and both _wager_ and _wages_. 29. =Me list.= I wish. Compare _methinks_, _meseems_. From A.-S. _lystan_, to choose. "The wind bloweth where it listeth."--_John_ iii. 8. =wote.= Understood. See note 21 above. 30. =Perdy.= An old oath used to give emphasis to an assertion. From Fr. _par dieu_. 31. =wonne.= Habitation. From A.-S. _wunian_, to dwell. 32. =rayne.= Reign. The word is frequently used in the older poets for _realm_, or _region_. 33. =next to Death is Sleepe.= "How wonderful is Death! Death and his brother Sleep!" --_Shelley_, _Queen Mab_, I. 34. =whilome.= At some time. FOOTNOTES: [233:1] Wildness without art. PROTHALAMION; OR, A SPOUSALL VERSE.