12. ALYSE. Le. 29.--G. 180. Somme dryblette share you shoulde to that _alyse_. Fulle twentie mancas I wylle thee _alise_. 13. ANERE. Æ 15.--Ep. 48. And cann I lyve to see herr wythe _anere_? ----Adieu untylle _anere_. 14. ANETE. p. 281. 64. Whych yn the blosom woulde such sins _anete_. 15. APPLINGS. E. I. 33. Mie tendre _applynges_ and embodyde trees. 16. ARROW-LEDE. H. 1. 74. Han by his soundynge _arrowe-lede_ bene sleyne. 17. ASENGLAVE. H. 1. 117. But Harold's _asenglave_ stopp'd it as it flewe. 18. ASLEE. Æ 504. That doest _aslee_ alonge ynn doled dystresse. 19. ASSWAIE. Æ 352. Botte thos to leave thee, Birtha, dothe _asswaie_ Moe torturynge peynes, &c. 20. ASTENDE. G. 47. Acheke the mokie aire and heaven _astende_. I stop here, not because the other Letters of the alphabet would not afford a proportionable number of words which might be referred to this head, but because I think these sufficient for my purpose. I proceed therefore to set down an equal number of words under the _second_ general head. 1. ABOUNDE. H. 1. 55. His cristede beaver dyd him smalle _abounde_. The common sense of _Abound_, a verb, is well known; but what can be the meaning of it here? 2. ALEDGE. G. 5. Lette notte thie agreme blyn ne _aledge_ stonde. _Aledge_, or _Alege_, v. Fr. in Chaucer signifies _to alleviate_. It is here used either as an adjective or as an adverb. Chatterton interprets it to mean _idly_; upon what ground I cannot guess. 3. ALL A BOON. E. III. 41.--p. 23. l. 4. _All-a-boon_, fyr Priest, _all-a-boon_. Thys ys the onelie _all-a-boone_ I crave. Here are three English words, the sense of which, taken separately, is clear. As joined together in this passage they are quite unintelligible. 4. ALLEYN. E. I. 52. Mie sonne, mie sonne _alleyn_ ystorven ys. Granting _alleyn_ to be rightly put for alone, no ancient writer, I apprehend, ever used such a phrase as this; any more than we should now say--_my son alone_ for _my only son_. 5. ASCAUNCE. E. III. 52. Lokeynge _ascaunce_ upon the naighboure greene. The usual sense of _ascaunce_ in Chaucer, and other old writers, has been explained in a note on ver. 7327. of the Canterbury Tales. It is used in the same sense by Gascoigne. The more modern adverb _ascaunce_, signifying _sideways, obliquely_, is derived from the Italian _a schiancio_, and I doubt very much whether it had been introduced into the English language in the time of the supposed Rowley. 6. ASTERTE. G. 137. ----You have theyr worthe _asterte_. I despair of finding any authorized sense of the word _asterte_, that will suit this passage. It cannot, I think, signifie _neglected or passed by_, as Chatterton has rendered it. 7. AUMERE. Æ. 398.--Ch. 7. AUMERES. E. III. 25.