The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 2Langland, William
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The Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, Volume 2
Langland, William
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Poetry
gowe (A.S.) 14, _a phrase of invitation, i. e. go we, let us go_
graffen (A.N.) 85, _to graft_
+graith (A.S.) 453, 464, _the truth_ (?)
graithe (A.S.) 27, _ready, prepared_
graithen (A.S.) _to prepare, make ready_. +_part. pas._ y-greithed, 462,
487. graythed, 494
graithly (A.S.) 386. graythliche, 482, _readily, speedily_
graunt (A.N.) 353, _great_
graven (A.N.) _to engrave_. _part. pas._ grave, 73, _engraved_
gravynge (A.N.) _engraving, sculpturing_
graven (A.N.) 206, _to put in grave_
greden (A.S.) 32, 47, _to cry out, shout, make a noise_. _pret. s._ thow
graddest, 421, he gradde, 335, 448
gree (A.N.) 375, _pleasure, will_
greete (A.S.) 100, _to lament_
greyne (A.N.) 412, 415, _a grain, seed_
greten (A.S.) 97, 379, _to greet_. _pret. s._ grette, 186, 344, 446
gretter (A.S.) _greater_
greven (A.N.) 354, _to grieve_
grys (A.S.) 14, 68, 134, _pigs_. See the story of Will _Gris_ in the
Lanercost Chronicle
grys (A.N.) 308, _a kind of fur_
+grysliche (A.S.) 485, _fearfully_
grom (A.S.) 99, _a man_: hence the modern groom
grote (A.N.) 51, _a groat, a coin of the value of four pennies_
grucchen, grucche (A.S.) _to grudge_
H.
hailsen (A.S.) _to salute_. _pres. s._ hailse, 83. _pret._ hailsed, 148,
151
hayward (A.N.) 415, _a man employed to watch and guard the inclosed fields,
or hays_. An illustration of this word will be found in the passage from
Whitaker's text given in the note on l. 2473
hakke (A.S.) 420, _to follow, run after, cut along after_
half (A.S.) _half, side_
halie (A.S.) 156, _to hawl_
hals (A.S.) _the neck_
halwe (A.S.) 327, _to hallow, consecrate, make holy_
hamlen (A.S.) +_part. pas._ y-hamled, 468, _to tie or attach_ (?)
handy dandy (A.S.) 69, the expression still used in Shropshire and
Herefordshire
hange, honge (A.S.) 348, 384, _to hang_ (intransitive). _pret. s._ hanged,
19
hange, hangen (A.S.) 39, 392, _to hang_ (transitive). _pret. pl._ hengen,
25
hanylons (A.N.) 181, _the wiles of a fox_. See Sir Frederick Madden's
Glossary to Gawawyn (v. _hamlounez_), who quotes the following lines from
the Boke of St. Albans:--
And yf your houndes at a chace renne there ye hunte,
And the beest begyn to renne, as hartes ben wonte,
Or for to _hanylon_, as dooth the foxe wyth his gyle,
Or for to crosse, as the roo doth otherwhyle.
hanselle (A.S.) 96, _gift, reward, bribe_. It is used in the alliterative
poem on the Deposition of Richard II, p. 30:--
Some parled as perte
As provyd well after,
And clappid more for the coyne
That the kyng owed hem,
Thanne ffor comfforte of the comyne
That her cost paied,
And were behote _hansell_,
If they helpe wolde.
hardy (A.N.) 413, _bold, hardy, courageous_. hardier, 354, _more bold_
hardie (A.N.) 321, _to encourage, embolden_
harewe (A.S.) 412, _a harrow_
harewen, harewe (A.S.) 412, 414, _to harrow_. _pret._ harewede, _ib._
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