Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer

Name: Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer
Author: Baldwin, James

Baldwin, James

English poetry

=ageyn=, against.
     =arive=, disembarkment.
     =aventure=, chance.
     =ay=, always.
     =bar=, bore.
     =bawdrick=, baldric.
     =ben=, to be.
     =bit=, biddeth.
     =byfel=, it happened.
     =bysmotered=, smutted.
     =carf=, carved.
     =cheere=, manner.
     =chevysaunce=, loans, bargains.
     =chivachye=, military expedition.
     =clapsed=, clasped.
     =cleped=, called.
     =clerk=, a scholar.
     =corage=, heart.
     =courtepy=, cloak.
     =cowde=, knew.
     =crulle=, curled.
     =cure=, care.
     =delyver=, active.
     =devyse=, speak of.
     =digne=, worthy.
     =don=, do.
     =eek=, also.
     =embrowded=, embroidered.
     =encres=, increase.
     =everychon=, every one, all.
     =farsed=, stuffed.
     =ferne=, distant, foreign.
     =ferre=, farther.
     =ferthing=, small portion.
     =fetysly=, neatly, well.
     =fithel=, fiddle.
     =Flaundrische=, Flemish.
     =flotynge=, fluting, playing.
     =flour-de-lys=, fleur-de-lis.
     =for-pyned=, much wasted.
     =forster=, forester.
     =frere=, friar.
     =gawded=, having gawds.
     =gepoun=, short cassock.
     =goost=, ghost.
     =grys=, fur.
     =gynglen=, jingling.
     =habergeoun=, hawberk.
     =halwes=, shrines (holies).
     =heethe=, heath, meadow.
     =hem=, them.
     =here=, their.
     =heute=, borrow.
     =holpen=, helped.
     =holte=, wood.
     =i-falle=, fallen.
     =ilke=, same.
     =i-ronne=, ran.
     =juste=, joust.
     =kouthe=, known.
     =leede=, cauldron.
     =leste=, pleasure.
     =levere=, rather.
     =lipsede=, lisped.
     =luste=, pleased.
     =maistrye=, mastery.
     =maner=, kind.
     =mede=, meadow.
     =mete=, meals, eating.
     =motteleye=, mixed colors.
     =nightertale=, night-time.
     =noon=, not one, not at all.
     =not-heed=, shorn-head.
     =pace=, pass.
     =peyned=, took pains.
     =pitous=, full of pity.
     =pocok=, peacock.
     =poraille=, poor folks.
     =pricasour=, hard rider.
     =priketh=, incites, spurs.
     =prys=, reputation, worth.
     =purfiled=, embroidered.
     =purtreye=, paint.
     =raughte=, reached.
     =reccheles=, reckless.
     =reysed=, ridden.
     =rote=, a musical instrument.
     =sawtreye=, psaltery.
     =schene=, bright.
     =scoleye=, attend school.
     =seeke=, sick.
     =semely=, becomingly.
     =sikerly=, surely.
     =somdel=, somewhat.
     =sondry=, different kinds.
     =sothly=, truly.
     =souple=, pliant.
     =sovereyn=, excellent.
     =sowning=, boasting.
     =steepe=, bright.
     =streit=, strict.
     =swich=, such.
     =swynke=, toil.
     =thilke=, this.
     =tretys=, slender.
     =venerye=, hunting.
     =viage=, journey.
     =wastel breed=, cake bread.
     =wenden=, go.
     =werre=, war.
     =wight=, person.
     =wiste=, knew.
     =wood=, mad, foolish.
     =wympel=, wimple.
     =yaf=, gave.
     =yeddynges=, gleemen's songs.
     =yemanly=, yeoman-like.
     =yerde=, stick.


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Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer

Baldwin, James

English poetry

=ageyn=, against.
     =arive=, disembarkment.
     =aventure=, chance.
     =ay=, always.
     =bar=, bore.
     =bawdrick=, baldric.
     =ben=, to be.
     =bit=, biddeth.
     =byfel=, it happened.
     =bysmotered=, smutted.
     =carf=, carved.
     =cheere=, manner.
     =chevysaunce=, loans, bargains.
     =chivachye=, military expedition.
     =clapsed=, clasped.
     =cleped=, called.
     =clerk=, a scholar.
     =corage=, heart.
     =courtepy=, cloak.
     =cowde=, knew.
     =crulle=, curled.
     =cure=, care.
     =delyver=, active.
     =devyse=, speak of.
     =digne=, worthy.
     =don=, do.
     =eek=, also.
     =embrowded=, embroidered.
     =encres=, increase.
     =everychon=, every one, all.
     =farsed=, stuffed.
     =ferne=, distant, foreign.
     =ferre=, farther.
     =ferthing=, small portion.
     =fetysly=, neatly, well.
     =fithel=, fiddle.
     =Flaundrische=, Flemish.
     =flotynge=, fluting, playing.
     =flour-de-lys=, fleur-de-lis.
     =for-pyned=, much wasted.
     =forster=, forester.
     =frere=, friar.
     =gawded=, having gawds.
     =gepoun=, short cassock.
     =goost=, ghost.
     =grys=, fur.
     =gynglen=, jingling.
     =habergeoun=, hawberk.
     =halwes=, shrines (holies).
     =heethe=, heath, meadow.
     =hem=, them.
     =here=, their.
     =heute=, borrow.
     =holpen=, helped.
     =holte=, wood.
     =i-falle=, fallen.
     =ilke=, same.
     =i-ronne=, ran.
     =juste=, joust.
     =kouthe=, known.
     =leede=, cauldron.
     =leste=, pleasure.
     =levere=, rather.
     =lipsede=, lisped.
     =luste=, pleased.
     =maistrye=, mastery.
     =maner=, kind.
     =mede=, meadow.
     =mete=, meals, eating.
     =motteleye=, mixed colors.
     =nightertale=, night-time.
     =noon=, not one, not at all.
     =not-heed=, shorn-head.
     =pace=, pass.
     =peyned=, took pains.
     =pitous=, full of pity.
     =pocok=, peacock.
     =poraille=, poor folks.
     =pricasour=, hard rider.
     =priketh=, incites, spurs.
     =prys=, reputation, worth.
     =purfiled=, embroidered.
     =purtreye=, paint.
     =raughte=, reached.
     =reccheles=, reckless.
     =reysed=, ridden.
     =rote=, a musical instrument.
     =sawtreye=, psaltery.
     =schene=, bright.
     =scoleye=, attend school.
     =seeke=, sick.
     =semely=, becomingly.
     =sikerly=, surely.
     =somdel=, somewhat.
     =sondry=, different kinds.
     =sothly=, truly.
     =souple=, pliant.
     =sovereyn=, excellent.
     =sowning=, boasting.
     =steepe=, bright.
     =streit=, strict.
     =swich=, such.
     =swynke=, toil.
     =thilke=, this.
     =tretys=, slender.
     =venerye=, hunting.
     =viage=, journey.
     =wastel breed=, cake bread.
     =wenden=, go.
     =werre=, war.
     =wight=, person.
     =wiste=, knew.
     =wood=, mad, foolish.
     =wympel=, wimple.
     =yaf=, gave.
     =yeddynges=, gleemen's songs.
     =yemanly=, yeoman-like.
     =yerde=, stick.


NOTES.

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Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer

Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer

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