Paine, xii, 34, labor, treacherous skill; ii, 39, effort; iv, 15, take pains. Paire, vii, 41, impair, injure. Paled, v, 5, fenced off, inclosed with a _pale_. Palfrey, i, 4; iii, 40, a lady's saddle horse, here Una's ass. Paramour, i, 9, lover (not in a bad sense). Parbreake, i, 20, vomit. Pardale, vi, 26, leopard. Parted, iii, 22, departed. Pas, iv, 11, surpass; xi, 15, step, pace. Passing, x, 24, surpassing. Passion, ii, 26, 32, deep feeling, lit. suffering. Passionate, xii, 16, express feelingly. Payne, vi, 21, pains, labor. Paynim, iv, 41; vi, 38; xi, 7, pagan, heathen. Peece, x, 59, something constructed (Cleopolis). Penne, xi, 10, feather, quill. Perceable, i, 7, that can be pierced. Perdie, perdy, vi, 42, French par Dieu, a common oath. Pere, viii, 7; xii, 17, noble, prince. Persaunt, x, 47, piercing. Pight, ii, 42, etc., pitched, fixed, placed. Pine, ix, 35, wasting away; viii, 40, pined, wasted away through torment. Plate, vi, 43; vii, 2, solid armor, as distinguished from the coat of mail, or light chain armor. Pleasaunce, ii, 30, courtesies; iv, 38; vii, 4, delight, conversational pleasure. Point, (1) ix, 41, appoint; (2) ii, 12, not a whit; (3) i, 16; ii, 12, (armed) at all points. Pollicie, iv, 12, statecraft, cunning. Portesse, iv, 19, breviary, small prayer-book. Posterne, v, 52, small private gate behind. Pouldred, vii, 12, powdered. Pounces, xi, 19, a hawk's claws. Poynant, vii, 19, sharp, piercing. Poyse, xi, 54, weight, force. Practicke, xii, 34, deceitful. Prancke, iv, 14, display gaudily. Praunce, vii, 11, strut proudly. Pray, ix, 30, ravage. Preace, iii, 3, crowd, throng. Presently, immediately. Price, ix, 37, pay the price of, atone for. Pricking, i, 1; iii, 33, riding, usually rapidly, _i.e._ spurring. Priefe, viii, 43, trial; ix, 17, proof; x, 24, proved excellence. Prime, ii, 40; etc., springtime. Privity, ix, 5, privacy. Prowesse, vii, 42, bravery. Prowest, iv, 41; v, 14, bravest. Puissance, i, 3, etc., power. Purchas, iii, 16, lit. acquisition, cant term for theft, or robbery (Nares). Purfled, ii, 13, embroidered on the edge. Purposes, ii, 30, conversation. Purveyance, xii, 13, provision. Q Quaile, ix, 49, subdue, overpower. Quayd, viii, 14, subdued. Quell, xi, 24, disconcert, daunt. Quight, viii, 10, repay. Quit, quitt, vi, 6, 10, to free. Quite, viii, 26, 27; x, 37, repay, return. Quited, i, 30, return a salute. Quoth, i, 12, etc., said. R
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