{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_30282/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_30282","id":"gutenberg_30282","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30282","summary":null,"tags":["Category: British Literature","Category: Classics of Literature","Category: Poetry","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Early English Text Society","English poetry -- Middle English, 1100-1500"],"text":"Produced by Louise Hope, David Starner and the Online\nDistributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net\n\n\n\n\n\n[Transcriber\u2019s Note:\n\nThis e-text is based on the 1869 (second) edition of the _Poems_. A few\napparent misprints were checked against the 1864 edition, but the texts\nas a whole were not closely compared.\n\nThe text includes characters that will only display in UTF-8 (Unicode)\ntext readers, primarily \u021c \u021d (yogh). There are also a few Greek words in\nthe Index, and a handful of letters with overline or macron, such as \u012b.\nIf these characters do not display properly, or if the quotation marks\nin this paragraph appear as garbage, make sure your text reader\u2019s\n\u201ccharacter set\u201d or \u201cfile encoding\u201d is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may\nalso need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the Latin-1\nversion of the file instead.\n\nThe book has been separated into six independent units, set off by\ntriple rows of asterisks:\n\n  [1] Introductory Material\n  [2] The Pearl\n  [3] Cleanness\n  [4] Patience\n  [5] Glossarial Index (excluding Postscript)\n  [6] Collected Sidenotes (section added by transcriber: editor\u2019s\n    sidenotes can be read as a condensed version of full text)\n\nEach segment has its own footnotes and errata lists. Readers may choose\nto divide them into separate files. The Notes were originally printed as\na short (12 pages) section before the Index. For this e-text they have\nbeen distributed among their respective texts.\n\n_Italics and other Text Markings:_\n\nBracketed letters are in the original.\n\nItalicized letters within words, representing expanded abbreviations,\nare shown in the e-text with braces (\u201ccurly brackets\u201d): co{n}nyng{e}.\nReaders who find this added information distracting may globally delete\nall braces _in the body text_; they are not used for any other purpose.\nItalic markings were omitted from forms such as \u201cFol. 51a.\u201d where\nthe a or b was consistently italicized. Whole-word italics (in modern\neditorial material only) are shown with _lines_.\n\nIn the Glossarial Index, groups of words in {braces} were printed on\nconsecutive lines, bracketed together. Text printed in small capitals\nis shown in +marks+.\n\n_Page Layout:_\n\nThe HTML version of this e-text offers a closer approximation of the\noriginal page layout.\n\n_Footnotes_ were numbered separately for each page. In this e-text,\nfootnotes are numbered sequentially within each text and grouped at\nthe end of each stanza (_The Pearl_) or section (_Cleanness_ and\n_Patience_), or each subsection of the Preface. Numbered notes printed\nin the side margin were treated as footnotes.\n\n_Headnotes_ from the top of each page have been moved to the most\nappropriate sentence break. They are also grouped at the beginning of\neach selection to act as a detailed table of contents.\n\n_Sidenotes_ were added by the editor to give translations or summaries.\nIn this e-text, they are collected into full sentences, and generally\nappear immediately _before_ their original location. In _The Pearl_,\nsidenotes are grouped at the beginning of each twelve-line stanza.\nSidenotes in the form [Fol. 10b] are shown in the same way as general\nsidenotes. They always come directly above the relevant line or its\nsidenotes, if any.\n\n_Orphaned Quotation Marks_ are listed separately in each Errata section.\nIn some cases it may be possible to guess where the missing quotation\nmark belongs, but it seemed safer to leave the text as printed. No\nquotation marks disappeared between the 1864 and 1869 editions.]\n\n\n\n\n  Early English\n\n  Alliterative Poems\n\n  in the\n\n  West-Midland Dialect\n\n  of the\n\n  Fourteenth Century\n\n\n  Edited From\n  The Unique Manuscript\n  British Museum MS. Cotton\n  Nero A. x\n\n  by\n\n  Richard Morris\n\n\n  _Published for_\n  THE EARLY ENGLISH TEXT SOCIETY\n  _by the_\n  OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS\n  London  New York  Toronto\n\n\n\n\n  First Published 1864\n  Second Edition 1869\n  Reprinted (1869 Version) 1965\n\n\n  Original Series, No. 1\n\n  Originally Printed by Stephen Austin, Hertford\n  and now Reprinted Lithographically in Great Britain\n  at the University Press, Oxford\n  by Vivian Ridler, Printer to the University\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n[List added by transcriber. Items in brackets do not have headers in the\nbody text, but were treated as subsections for grouping footnotes.]\n\n  Preface\n    [Introduction to _The Pearl_]\n    [Introduction to _Cleanness_]\n    [Introduction to _Patience_]\n    [General Introduction]\n    Remarks Upon the Dialect and Grammar\n    Grammatical Details\n      I. Nouns\n      II. Adjectives\n      III. Pronouns\n      IV. Verbs\n      V. Adverbs\n      VI. Prepositions\n      VII. Conjunctions\n  Description of the Manuscript\n  Contractions Used in the Glossary\n\n  The Pearl\n  Cleanness\n  Patience\n\n  Notes [distributed among the three poems]\n  Glossarial Index\n\n\n\n\nPREFACE.\n\n\nThe following poems are taken from a well known manuscript in the\nCottonian collection, marked Nero A. x, which also contains, in the same\nhandwriting and dialect, a metrical romance,[1] wherein the adventures\nof Sir Gawayne with the \u201cKnight in Green,\u201d are most ably and\ninterestingly described.\n\nUnfortunately nothing can be affirmed with any certainty concerning the\nauthorship of these most valuable and interesting compositions. The\neditor of \u201cSyr Gawayn and the Green Knight\u201d considers that Huchowne, a\nsupposed[2] Scotch _maker_ of the fourteenth century, has the best\nclaims to be recognised as the author, inasmuch as he is specially\nreferred to by Wyntown as the writer of the _Gret gest of Arthure_ and\nthe _Awntyre of Gawayne_.\n\nI do not think that any certain conclusions are to be drawn from the\nScotch historian\u2019s assertion. It is well known that more versifiers than\none during the fourteenth century attempted romance composition in the\nEnglish language, having for their theme the knightly deeds of Arthur or\nSir Gawayne. These they compiled from French originals, from which they\nselected the most striking incidents and those best suited to an\nEnglishman\u2019s taste for the marvellous. We are not surprised, then, at\nfinding so many romance poems treating of the exploits of the same hero,\nand laying claim to be considered as original productions. In Scotland,\nHuchowne\u2019s works might no doubt have been regarded as the standard\nromances of the period, but that they were the only English _gests_ is\nindeed very doubtful.\n\nThe Early English alliterative romance, entitled the _Morte Arthure_,\npublished from a manuscript in Lincoln Cathedral by Mr. Halliwell,[3] is\nconsidered by Sir F. Madden to be the veritable _gest of Arthure_\ncomposed by Huchowne. An examination of this romance does not lead me to\nthe same conclusion, unless Huchowne was a Midland man, for the poem is\nnot written in the old Scotch dialect,[4] but seems to have been\noriginally composed in one of the Northumbrian dialects spoken _South_\nof the Tweed.[5]\n\nThe manuscript from which Mr. Halliwell has taken his text is not the\noriginal copy, nor even a literal transcript of it. It exhibits certain\northographical and grammatical peculiarities unknown to the Northumbrian\ndialect which have been introduced by a Midland transcriber, who has\nhere and there taken the liberty to adapt the original text to the\ndialect of his own locality, probably that one of the North Midland\ncounties, where many of the Northumbrian forms of speech would be\nintelligible.[6]\n\nA comparison of the Arthurian romance with the following poems throws no\nlight whatever upon the authorship of the poems. The dialect of the two\nworks is altogether different, although many of the terms employed are\ncommon to both, being well known over the whole of the North of England.\nThe grammatical forms (the best test we can have) in the poems are quite\ndistinct from those in the _Morte Arthure_, and of course go far to\nprove that they do not proceed from the pen of the same writer.\n\nThe Editor of \u201cSyr Gawayn and the Green Knight\u201d acknowledges that the\npoems in the present volume, as now preserved to us in the manuscript,\nare not in the Scottish dialect, but he says \u201cthere is sufficient\ninternal evidence of their being _Northern_,[7] although the manuscript\ncontaining them appears to have been written by a scribe of the Midland\ncounties, which will account for the introduction of forms differing\nfrom those used by writers beyond the Tweed.\u201d\n\nNow, with regard to this subsequent transcription of the poems from the\nScotch into a Midland dialect,--it cannot be said to be improbable, for\nwe have abundant instances of the multiplication of copies by scribes of\ndifferent localities, so that we are not surprised at finding the works\nof some of our popular Early English writers appearing in two or three\nforms; but, on the other hand, a comparison of the original copy with\nthe _adapted transcriptions_, or even the reading of a transcribed copy,\nalways shows how the author\u2019s productions have suffered by the change.\nPoetical works, especially those with final rhymes, of course undergo\nthe greatest amount of transformation and depreciation. The changes\nincident upon the kind of transcription referred to are truly\nsurprising, and most perplexing to those who make the subject of Early\nEnglish _dialects_ a matter of investigation.\n\nBut, in the present poems, the uniformity and consistency of the\ngrammatical forms is so entire, that there is indeed no internal\nevidence of subsequent transcription into any other dialect than that in\nwhich they were originally written. However, the dialect and grammatical\npeculiarities will be considered hereafter.\n\nAgain, in the course of transcription into another dialect, any literary\nmerit that the author\u2019s copy may have originally possessed would\ncertainly be destroyed. But the poems before us are evidently the work\nof a man of birth and education; the productions of a true poet, and of\none who had acquired a perfect mastery over that form of the English\ntongue spoken in his own immediate locality during the earlier part of\nthe fourteenth century. Leaving out of consideration their great\nphilological worth, they possess an intrinsic value of their own as\nliterary compositions, very different from anything to be found in the\nworks of Robert of Gloucester, Manning, and many other Early English\nauthors, which are very important as philological records, but in the\nlight of poetical productions, cannot be said to hold a very\ndistinguished place in English literature. The poems in the present\nvolume contain many passages which, as Sir F. Madden truly remarks, will\nbear comparison with any similar ones in the works of Douglas or\nSpenser.\n\nI conclude, therefore, that these poems were not transcribed from the\nScotch dialect into any other, but were written in their own\nWest-Midland speech in which we now have them.\n\nMr. Donaldson, who is now editing for the Early English Text Society the\nTroy Book, translated from Guido di Colonna, puts forward a plea for\nHuchowne as its author, to whom he would also assign the _Morte Arthure_\n(ed. Perry) and the Pistel of Sweet Susan.[8] But Mr. Donaldson seems to\nhave been misled by the similarity of vocabulary, which is not at all a\nsafe criterion in judging of works written in a Northumbrian, West or\nEast Midland speech. The dialect, I venture to think, is a far safer\ntest. A careful examination of the Troy Book compels me to differ in\ntoto from Mr. Donaldson, and, instead of assigning the Troy Book to a\nScotchman, say that it cannot even be claimed, in its present form, by\nany Northumbrian south of the Tweed; moreover, it presents no appearance\nof having been tampered with by one unacquainted with the dialect,\nthough it has perhaps been slightly modernised in the course of\ntranscription.\n\nThe work is evidently a genuine West-Midland production,[9] having most\nof the peculiarities of vocabulary and inflexions that are found in\nthese _Alliterative Poems_.[10] I feel greatly inclined to claim this\nEnglish Troy Book as the production of the author of the _Alliterative\nPoems_; for, leaving out identical and by no means common expressions,\nwe find the same power of description,[11] and the same tendency to\ninculcate moral and religious truths on all occasions where an\nopportunity presents itself.[12] Without dwelling upon this topic, which\nproperly falls to the Editor of the Troy Book, it may not be out of\nplace to ask the reader to compare the following description of a storm\nfrom the Troy Book, with that selected from the present volume on pp. 14\nand 18.\n\n\nA TEMPEST ON \u00deE SEE.\n\n    There a tempest _hom_ toke on \u00fee torres hegh:--\n    A _rak_ and a royde wynde rose in _hor_ saile,\n    A myst & a _merkenes_ was mervell to se;\n    With a _routond_ rayn ruthe to be-holde,\n    Thonr{et}[13] full _throly_ with a thicke haile;\n    With a leuenyng light as a _low_ fyre,\n    Blas{et} all the brode see as it bren wold.\n    The flode with a felle cours flow{et} on hepis,\n    Rose uppon rockes as any _ranke_ hylles.\n    So wode were the waghes & \u00fee wilde _ythes_,\n    All was like to be lost \u00feat no lond hade\n    The ship ay shot furth o \u00fee _shire waghes_,\n    As qwo clymbe at a clyffe, or a clent[14] hille.\n    Eft _dump_ in the depe as all drowne wolde.\n    Was no _stightlyng_ with stere ne no stithe ropes,\n    Ne no sayle, \u00feat might serue for _unsound_ wedur.\n  But all the buernes in the bote, as _hom_ best liked,\n  Besoght unto sainttes & to sere goddes; (p.\u00a065)\n\n\nA STORME ON THE SE.\n\n  All the company enclin{et} cair{yn} to ship;\n  Cach{yn} in cables, knyt up _hor_ ancres,\n  Sesit vp _hor_ sailes in a sad hast;\n  _Richet_ \u00feere rapes, rapit unto see.\n  Hokit out of hauyn, all the hepe somyn,\n  _Hade bir at hor bake_, blawen to \u00fee depe;\n  Sail{yn} forthe _soberly_, somyn but a while,\n  Noght fyftene forlong fairly to the end.\n    .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .\n  When sodenly the softe aire _unsoberly_ rose;\n  The cloudis overcast, _claterrit_ aboute;\n  Wyndes full wodely _walt_ up the ythes;\n  Wex _merke_ as the mydnighte mystes full thicke:\n  Thunret in the _thestur throly_ with all;\n  With a _launchant laite_ lightonyd the water;\n  And a _ropand_ rayne _raiked_ fro the heuyn.\n  The storme was full stithe with mony stout windes,\n  Hit _walt_ up the wilde se vppon wan hilles.\n  The ffolke was so ferd, that _on flete_ were,\n  All drede for to drowne with dryft of the se;\n  And in perell were put all the proude kynges. --(p.\u00a0150.)\n\n    [Footnote 1: Edited by Sir Frederic Madden for the Bannatyne Club,\n    under the title of \u201cSyr Gawayn and the Grene Kny\u021dt,\u201d and by me for\n    the Early English Text Soc., 1865.]\n\n    [Footnote 2: Wyntown nowhere asserts that Huchowne is a\n    Scotchman.]\n\n    [Footnote 3: Edited for E. E. T. Soc. by Rev. G. G. Perry, M.A.]\n\n    [Footnote 4: This is evident from the following particulars:--\n\n    I. In old Scotch manuscripts we find the guttural _gh_ (or \u021d)\n    represented by _ch_; thus, _aght_, _laght_, _saght_, _wight_, are\n    the English forms which, in the Scotch orthography, become _aucht_\n    (owed), _laucht_ (seized), _saucht_ (peace), _wicht_ (active). It\n    is the former orthography, however, that prevails in the Morte\n    Arthure.\n\n    II. We miss the Scotch use of (1) _-is_ or _-ys_, for _-es_ or\n    _-s_, in the plural number, and of possessive cases of nouns, and\n    in the person endings of the present tense indicative mood of\n    verbs; (2) _-it_ or _-yt_, for _-ed_ or _-d_, in the preterites or\n    passive participles of regular verbs.\n\n    III. There is a total absence of the well-known Scotch forms\n    _begouth_ (began), _sa_ (so), _sic_ (such), _throuch_, _thorow_\n    (through). Instead of these _bigan_, _so_, _syche_, _thrughe_\n    (_thurgh_) are employed. See Preface to Hampole\u2019s Pricke of\n    Conscience, pp. vii, viii.]\n\n    [Footnote 5: This is shown by the frequent employment of _-es_ as\n    the person ending of the verb in the present tense, plural number.\n    The corresponding Southern verbal inflexion _-eth_ _never_ occurs;\n    while the Midland _-en_ is only occasionally met with in the third\n    person plural present, and has been introduced by a later copyist.\n    There are other characteristics, such as the predominance of words\n    containing the A.S. long _a_; as _hame_ (home), _stane_ (stone),\n    _thra_ (bold), _walde_ (would), etc.; the frequent use of _thir_\n    (these), _tha_ (the, those), etc.]\n\n    [Footnote 6: The peculiarities referred to do not appear to be\n    owing to the copyist of the Lincoln manuscript (Robert de\n    Thornton, a native of Oswaldkirk in Yorkshire), who, being a\n    Northumbrian, would probably have restored the original readings.\n    The non-Northumbrian forms in the Morte Arthure are-- 1.\u00a0The\n    change of _a_ into _o_, as _bolde_ for _balde_, _bote_ for _bate_,\n    _one_ for _ane_, _honde_ for _hande_, _londe_ for _lande_;\n    2.\u00a0_they_, _theyre_, _them_, _theym_, for _thay_, _thaire_,\n    _tham_; 3.\u00a0_gayliche_, _kindliche_, _semlyche_, etc., for _gayly_,\n    _kindly_, _seemly_, etc. (the termination _lich_, _liche_, was\n    wholly unknown to the Northumbrian dialect, being represented by\n    _ly_ or _like_); 4.\u00a0_churle_, _churche_, _iche_, _mache_, _myche_,\n    _syche_, _wyrche_, etc., for _carle_, _kirke_, _ilk_, _make_,\n    _mykelle_, _swilk_, _wyrk_, etc.; 5.\u00a0infinitives in _-en_, as\n    _drenschen_, _schewenne_, _wacchenne_, etc.; 6.\u00a0the use of _eke_,\n    _thos_, for _als_ (_alswa_), _thas_; 7.\u00a0the employment of _aye_\n    for _egg_. The former word _never_ occurs in any pure Northumbrian\n    work, while the latter is seldom met with in any Southern\n    production.]\n\n    [Footnote 7: The poems are _Northern_ in contradistinction to\n    _Southern_, but they are not Northern or Northumbrian in\n    contradistinction to _Midland_.]\n\n    [Footnote 8: Printed by Mr. D. Laing in his \u201cInedited Pieces,\u201d\n    from a MS. of Mr. Heber\u2019s. Other copies are in the Vernon MS., and\n    Cotton Calig. A. ii.; the latter imperfect.]\n\n    [Footnote 9: Other specimens of this dialect will doubtless turn\n    up. Mr. Brock has found a MS. in British Museum (Harl. 3909) with\n    most of the peculiarities pointed out by me in the preface to the\n    present work, and I believe that this dialect was probably a\n    flourishing one in the 13th century. See O.E. Homilies, p.\u00a0li.]\n\n    [Footnote 10: (1) _en_ as the inflexion of the pres. tense pl.,\n    indic. mood of verbs; (2) _s_ in the second and third pers. sing.\n    of verbs; (3)\u00a0_ho_ = she; (4)\u00a0_hit_ = its; (5)\u00a0_tow_ = two;\n    (6)\u00a0_de\u021dter_ = daughters, etc.]\n\n    [Footnote 11: See p. 36, ll. 1052-1066; p.\u00a037, ll. 1074-1089; pp.\n    161-162, ll. 4956-4975.]\n\n    [Footnote 12: See pp. 25, 26 (Jason\u2019s unfaithfulness); pp. 74, 75,\n    ll. 2241-2255; p.\u00a075, ll. 2256-2263; p.\u00a069, ll. 2267-2081; p.\u00a0158,\n    ll. 4839-4850; p.\u00a0189, ll. 4881-4885; p.\u00a0165, ll. 5078-5086, etc.]\n\n    [Footnote 13: In the Harl. MS. 3909, nearly all the p.\u00a0part. and\n    preterites end in _-et_ (_-ut_ and _-et_ occur in Romances ed. by\n    Robson).]\n\n    [Footnote 14: This seems to furnish an etymology for _Clent_\n    Hills, Worcestershire--_brent_ is the term employed in\n    Alliterative.]\n\n\nThe poems in the present volume, three in number, seem to have been\nwritten for the purpose of enforcing, by line upon line and precept upon\nprecept, Resignation to the will of God; Purity of life as manifested in\nthought, word, and deed; Obedience to the Divine command; and Patience\nunder affliction.\n\nIn the first poem, entitled by me \u201c_The Pearl_\u201d, the author evidently\ngives expression to his own sorrow for the loss of his infant child, a\ngirl of two years old, whom he describes as a\n\n  Perle plesaunte to prynces paye\n  _Pearl pleasant to princes\u2019 pleasure,_\n  To clanly clos in golde so clere\n  _Most neatly set in gold so clear._\n\nOf her death he says:\n\n  Allas! I leste hyr in on erbere\n  _Alas! I lost her in an arbour,_\n  \u00deur\u021d gresse to grounde hit fro me yot\n  _Through grass to ground it from me got._ --(p.\u00a01.)\n\nThe writer then represents himself as visiting his child\u2019s grave (or\narbour) in the \u201chigh season of August,\u201d and giving way to his grief\n(p.\u00a02). He falls asleep, and in a dream is carried toward a forest,\nwhere he saw rich rocks gleaming gloriously, hill sides decked with\ncrystal cliffs, and trees the leaves of which were as burnished silver.\nThe gravel under his feet was \u201cprecious pearls of orient,\u201d and birds \u201cof\nflaming hues\u201d flew about in company, whose notes were far sweeter than\nthose of the cytole or gittern (guitar) (p.\u00a03). The dreamer arrives at\nthe bank of a stream, which flows over stones (shining like stars in the\nwelkin on a winter\u2019s night) and pebbles of emeralds, sapphires, or other\nprecious gems, so\n\n  \u00deat all the lo\u021de lemed of ly\u021dt\n  _That all the deep gleamed of light,_\n  So dere wat\u021d hit adubbement\n  _So dear was its adornment._ --(p.\u00a04.)\n\nFollowing the course of the stream, he perceives on the opposite side a\ncrystal cliff, from which was reflected many a \u201croyal ray\u201d (p.\u00a05).\n\n  At \u00fee fote \u00feer-of \u00feer sete a faunt\n  _At the foot thereof there sat a child,_\n  A mayden of menske, ful debonere\n  _A maiden of honour, full debonnair;_\n  Blysnande whyt wat\u021d hyr bleaunt\n  _Glistening white was her robe,_\n  (I knew hyr wel, I hade sen hyr ere)\n  _(I knew her well, I had seen her before)_\n  At glysnande golde \u00feat man con schore\n  _As shining gold that man did purify,_\n  So schon \u00feat schene an-vnder schore\n  _So shone that sheen (bright one) on the opposite shore;_\n  On lenghe I loked to hyr \u00feere\n  _Long I looked to her there,_\n  \u00dee lenger I knew hyr more & more\n  _The longer I knew her, more and more._ --(pp. 6, 7.)\n\nThe maiden rises, and, proceeding along the bank of the stream,\napproaches him. He tells her that he has done nothing but mourn for the\nloss of his Pearl, and has been indeed a \u201cjoyless jeweller\u201d (p.\u00a08).\nHowever, now that he has found his Pearl, he declares that he is no\nlonger sorrowful, but would be a \u201cjoyful jeweller\u201d were he allowed to\ncross the stream (p.\u00a08). The maiden blames her father for his rash\nspeech, tells him that his Pearl is not lost, and that he cannot pass\nthe stream till after death (p.\u00a010). The dreamer is in great grief; he\ndoes not, he says, care what may happen if he is again to lose his\nPearl. The maiden advises him to bear his loss patiently, and to abide\nGod\u2019s doom (p.\u00a011). She describes to him her blissful state in heaven,\nwhere she reigns as a queen (p.\u00a012). She explains to him that Mary is\nthe Empress of Heaven, and all others kings and queens (p.\u00a013). The\nparable of the labourers in the vineyard[15] (pp. 15-18) is then\nrehearsed at length, to prove that \u201cinnocents\u201d are admitted to the same\nprivileges as are enjoyed by those who have lived longer upon the earth\n(p.\u00a018). The maiden then speaks to her father of Christ and his one\nhundred and forty thousand brides (p.\u00a024), and describes their blissful\nstate (p.\u00a026). She points out to him the heavenly Jerusalem, which was\n\u201call of bright burnished gold, gleaming like glass\u201d (p.\u00a029). Then the\ndreamer beholds a procession of virgins going to salute the Lamb, among\nwhom he perceives his \u201clittle queen\u201d (p.\u00a033). On attempting to cross the\nstream to follow her, he is aroused from his dream (p.\u00a035), laments his\nrash curiosity in seeking to know so much of God\u2019s mysteries, and\ndeclares that man ever desires more happiness than he has any right to\nexpect (p.\u00a035).\n\n    [Footnote 15: Matthew, chapter xx.]\n\n\nThe second poem, entitled \u201c_Cleanness_,\u201d is a collection of Biblical\nstories, in which the writer endeavours to enforce Purity of Life, by\nshowing how greatly God is displeased at every kind of impurity, and how\nsudden and severe is the punishment which falls upon the sinner for\nevery violation of the Divine law.\n\nAfter commending cleanness and its \u201cfair forms,\u201d the author relates (I.)\nThe Parable of the Marriage Feast (p.\u00a039); (II.) the Fall of the Angels\n(p. 43); (III.) The wickedness of the antediluvian world (p.\u00a044),\n\n  He wat\u021d famed for fre \u00feat fe\u021dt loued best\n  _He was famous as free that fight loved best,_\n  & ay \u00fee bigest in bale \u00fee best wat\u021d halden\n  _And ever the biggest in sin the best was held;_ (p.\u00a045.)\n\n(IV.) The destruction of mankind by the Flood. When all were safely\nstowed in the ark,\n\n  Thenne sone com \u00fee seuen\u00fee day, when samned wern alle\n  _Then soon came the seventh day when assembled were all,_\n  & alle woned in \u00fee whichche \u00fee wylde & \u00fee tame.\n  _And all abode in the ark (hutch), the wild and the tame._\n  \u00deen bolned \u00fee abyme & bonke\u021d con ryse\n  _Then swelled the abyss and banks did rise,_\n  Waltes out vch walle-heued, in ful wode streme\u021d\n  _Bursts out each well-head in full wild streams,_\n  Wat\u021d no brymme \u00feat abod vnbrosten bylyue\n  _There was no brim (stream) that abode unburst by then,_\n  \u00dee mukel lauande loghe to \u00fee lyfte rered\n  _The much (great) flowing deep (loch) to the loft (sky) reared._\n  Mony clustered clowde clef alle in clowte\u021d\n  _Many a clustering cloud cleft all in clouts (pieces),_\n  To-rent vch a rayn-ryfte & rusched to \u00fee vr\u00fee\n  _Rent was each a rain-rift and rushed to the earth;_\n  Fon neuer in forty daye\u021d, & \u00feen \u00fee flod ryses\n  _Failed never in forty days, and then the flood rises,_\n  Ouer-walte\u021d vche a wod and \u00fee wyde felde\u021d\n  _Over-flows each wood and the wide fields;_\n  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .\n  Water wylger ay wax, wone\u021d \u00feat stryede\n  _Water wildly ever waxed, abodes that destroyed,_\n  Hurled in-to vch hous, hent \u00feat \u00feer dowelled\n  _Hurled into each house, seized those that there dwelt._\n  Fyrst feng to \u00fee fly\u021dt alle \u00feat fle my\u021dt\n  _First took to flight all that flee might,_\n  Vuche burde with her barne \u00fee byggyng \u00feay leue\u021d\n  _Each bride (woman) with her bairn their abode they leave,_\n  & bowed to \u00fee hy\u021d bonk \u00feer brentest hit wern\n  _And hied to the high bank where highest it were,_\n  & heterly to \u00fee hy\u021de hille\u021d \u00feay [h]aled on faste\n  _And hastily to the high hills they rushed on fast;_\n  Bot al wat\u021d nedle\u021d her note, for neuer cow\u00fee stynt\n  _But all was needless their device, for never could stop_\n  \u00dee ro\u021de raynande ryg [&] \u00fee raykande wawe\u021d\n  _The rough raining shower and the rushing waves,_\n  Er vch bo\u00feom wat\u021d brurd-ful to \u00fee bonke\u021d egge\u021d\n  _Ere each bottom (valley) was brim-ful to the banks\u2019 edges,_\n  & vche a dale so depe \u00feat demmed at \u00fee brynke\u021d\n  _And each dale so deep that dammed at the brinks._ --(pp. 47, 48).\n\nThe ark is described as \u201cheaved on high with hurling streams.\u201d\n\n  Kest to ky\u00fee\u021d vncou\u00fee \u00fee clowde\u021d ful nere\n  _Cast to kingdoms uncouth the clouds ful near,_\n  Hit waltered on the wylde flod, went as hit lyste\n  _It tossed on the wild flood, went as it list,_\n  Drof vpon \u00fee depe dam, in daunger hit semed\n  _It drove upon the deep dam, in danger it seemed,_\n  With-outen mast, o\u00feer myke, o\u00feer myry bawe-lyne\n  _Without mast, or mike,[16] or merry bow-line,_\n  Kable, o\u00feer capstan to clyppe to her ankre\u021d\n  _Cable or capstan to clip to their anchors,_\n  Hurrok, o\u00feer hande-helme hasped on ro\u00feer\n  _Oar or hand-helm hooked on rudder,_\n  O\u00feer any sweande sayl to seche after hauen\n  _Or any swinging sail to seek after haven,_\n  Bot flote forthe with \u00fee flyt of \u00fee felle wynde\u021d\n  _But floated forth with the force of the fell winds._\n  Wheder-warde so \u00fee water wafte, hit rebounde\n  _Whither-ward so (as) the water waft, it rebounded,_\n  Ofte hit roled on-rounde & rered on ende\n  _Oft it rolled around and reared on end,_\n  Nyf our lorde hade ben her lode\u021d-mon hem had lumpen harde\n  _Had our Lord not been their (pilot) leader hardship had befallen\nthem._ --(p.\u00a049.)\n\n(V.) The Visit of Three Angels to Abraham (p.\u00a054).\n\n(VI.) The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (pp. 64, 65), including a\ndescription of the Dead Sea, the tarn (lake) of traitors (p.\u00a066).\n\n(VII.) The invasion of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar (p.\u00a071), and the\ncaptivity of Judah (p.\u00a074).\n\nThe following is a paraphrase of the fourth and fifth verses in the\ntwenty-fifth chapter of the second book of Kings.[17]\n\n  \u00deenne \u00fee kyng of \u00fee kyth a counsayl hym takes\n  _Then the king of the kingdom a counsel him takes,_\n  Wyth \u00fee best of his burnes, a blench for to make\n  _With the best of his men a device for to make;_\n  \u00deay stel out on a stylle ny\u021dt er any steuen rysed\n  _They stole out on a still night ere any sound arose,_\n  & harde hurles \u00feur\u021d \u00fee oste, er enmies hit wyste\n  _And hard hurled through the host, ere enemies it wist,_\n  Bot er \u00feay at-wappe ne mo\u021dt \u00fee wach wyth oute\n  _But ere they could escape the watch without,_\n  Hi\u021de skelt wat\u021d \u00fee askry \u00fee skewes an-vnder\n  _High scattered was the cry, the skies there under,_\n  Loude alarom vpon launde lulted was \u00feenne\n  _Loud alarm upon land sounded was then;_\n  Ryche, ru\u00feed of her rest, ran to here wedes,\n  _Rich (men) roused from their rest, ran to their weeds,_\n  Hard hattes \u00feay hent & on hors lepes\n  _Kettle hats they seized, and on horse leap;_\n  Cler claryoun crak cryed on-lofte\n  _Clear clarion\u2019s crack cried aloft._\n  By \u00feat wat\u021d alle on a hepe hurlande swy\u00feee\n  _By that (time) was all on a heap, hurling fast,_\n  Fol\u021dande \u00feat o\u00feer flote, & fonde hem bilyue\n  _Following that other fleet (host), and found them soon,_\n  Ouer-tok hem, as tyd,[18] tult hem of sadeles\n  _Over-took them in a trice, tilted them off saddles,_\n  Tyl vche prynce hade his per put to \u00fee grounde\n  _Till each prince had his peer put to the ground;_\n  & \u00feer wat\u021d \u00fee kyng ka\u021dt wyth calde prynces\n  _And there was the king caught with crafty princes,_\n  & alle hise gentyle for-iusted on Ierico playnes\n  _And all his nobles vanquished on Jericho\u2019s plains._ --(pp. 71, 72.)\n\n(VIII.) Belshazzar\u2019s impious feast (pp. 76-80), and the handwriting upon\nthe wall (pp. 80, 81).\n\n  In \u00fee palays pryncipale vpon \u00fee playn wowe\n  _In the palace principal upon the plain wall,_\n  In contrary of \u00fee candelstik \u00feat clerest hit schyned\n  _Opposite to the candlestick that clearest there shone._\n  \u00deer apered a paume, with poyntel in fyngres\n  _There appeared a palm with a pointel in its fingers,_\n  \u00deat wat\u021d grysly & gret, & grymly he wrytes\n  _That was grisly and great, and grimly it writes,_\n  None o\u00feer forme bot a fust faylaynde \u00fee wryst\n  _None other form but a fist failing the wrist_\n  Pared on \u00fee parget, purtrayed lettres\n  _Pared on the plaister, pourtrayed letters._\n  When \u00feat bolde Balta\u021dar blusched to \u00feat neue\n  _When that bold Belshazzar looked to that fist,_\n  Such a dasande drede dusched to his hert\n  _Such a dazzling dread dashed to his heart._\n  \u00deat al falewed his face & fayled \u00fee chere\n  _That all paled his face and failed the cheer;_\n  \u00dee stronge strok of \u00fee stonde strayned his ioyntes\n  _The strong stroke of the blow strained his joints,_\n  His cnes cachche\u021d to close & cluchches his hommes\n  _His knees catch to close, and he clutches his hams,_\n  & he with plat-tyng his paumes displayes his lers[19]\n  _And he with striking his palms displays his fears,_\n  & romyes as a rad ryth \u00feat rore\u021d for drede\n  _And howls as a frightened hound that roars for dread,_\n  Ay biholdand \u00fee honde til hit hade al grauen,\n  _Ever beholding the hand till it had all graven,_\n  & rasped on \u00fee ro\u021d wo\u021de runisch saue\u021d\n  _And rasped on the rough wall uncouth saws (words)._\n\n(IX.) The story of Nebuchadnezzar\u2019s pride and its punishment (pp. 84,\n85), and the interpretation of the handwriting by Daniel (p.\u00a086).\n\n(X.) The invasion of Babylon by the Medes (pp. 87, 88).\n\n  Balta\u021dar in his bed wat\u021d beten to de\u00fee\n  _Belshazzar in his bed was beaten to death,_\n  \u00deat bo\u00fee his blood & his brayn blende on \u00fee clo\u00fees\n  _That both his blood and his brains blended on the clothes;_\n  \u00dee kyng in his cortyn wat\u021d ka\u021dt by \u00fee heles\n  _The king in his curtain was caught by the heels,_\n  Feryed out bi \u00fee fete & fowle dispysed\n  _Ferried out by the feet and foully despised;_\n  \u00deat wat\u021d so do\u021dty \u00feat day & drank of \u00fee vessayl\n  _He that was so doughty that day and drank of the vessels,_\n  Now is a dogge also dere \u00feat in a dych lygges\n  _Now is as dear (valuable) as a dog that in a ditch lies._ --(p.\u00a088.)\n\n    [Footnote 16: See Glossary.]\n\n    [Footnote 17: \u201c4. And the city was broken up, and all the men of\n    war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which\n    is by the king\u2019s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city\n    round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.\n\n    \u201c5. And the army of the Chaldees pursued after the king, and\n    overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army were\n    scattered from him.\u201d]\n\n    [Footnote 18: Immediately.]\n\n    [Footnote 19: ? feres.]\n\n\nThe third poem, entitled \u201c_Patience_,\u201d is a paraphrase of the book of\nJonah. The writer prefaces it with a few remarks of his own in order to\nshow that \u201cpatience is a noble point though it displease oft.\u201d\n\nThe following extract contains a description of the sea-storm which\novertook Jonah:--\n\n  Anon out of \u00fee nor\u00fe est \u00fee noys bigynes\n  _Anon out of the north east the noise begins,_\n  When bo\u00fee bre\u00fees[20] con blowe vpon blo watteres\n  _When both breezes did blow upon blue waters:_\n  Ro\u021d rakkes \u00feer ros with rudnyng an-vnder\n  _Rough clouds there arose with lightning there under,_\n  \u00dee see sou\u021ded ful sore, gret selly to here\n  _The sea sobbed full sore, great marvel to hear;_\n  \u00dee wyndes on \u00fee wonne water so wrastel togeder,\n  _The winds on the wan water so wrestle together,_\n  \u00deat \u00fee wawes ful wode waltered so hi\u021de\n  _That the waves full wild rolled so high,_\n  & efte busched to \u00fee abyme \u00feat breed fyssches\n  _And again bent to the abyss that bred fishes;_\n  Durst nowhere for ro\u021d arest at \u00fee bothem.\n  _Durst it nowhere for roughness rest at the bottom._\n  When \u00fee breth & \u00fee brok & \u00fee bote metten\n  _When the breeze and the brook and the boat met,_\n  Hit wat\u021d a ioyles gyn \u00feat Ionas wat\u021d inne\n  _It was a joyless engine that Jonah was in,_\n  For hit reled on round vpon \u00fee ro\u021de y\u00fees\n  _For it reeled around upon the rough waves._\n  \u00dee bur ber to hit baft \u00feat braste alle her gere\n  _The bore (wave) bear to it abaft that burst all her gear,_\n  \u00deen hurled on a hepe \u00fee helme & \u00fee sterne\n  _Then hurled on a heap the helm and the stern,_\n  Furste to murte[21] mony rop & \u00fee mast after\n  _First marred[21] many a rope and the mast after._\n  \u00dee sayl sweyed on \u00fee see, \u00feenne suppe bihoued\n  _The sail swung on the sea, then sup behoved_\n  \u00dee coge of \u00fee colde water, & \u00feenne \u00fee cry ryses\n  _The boat of the cold water, and then the cry rises;_\n  \u021cet coruen \u00feay \u00fee cordes & kest al \u00feer-oute\n  _Yet cut they the cords and cast all there-out._\n  Mony ladde \u00feer forth-lep to laue & to kest\n  _Many a lad there forth leapt to lave and to cast,_\n  Scopen out \u00fee sca\u00feel water, \u00feat fayn scape wolde\n  _To scoop out the scathful water that fain escape would;_\n  For be monnes lode neuer so lu\u00feer, \u00fee lyf is ay swete\n  _For be man\u2019s lot never so bad, the life is aye sweet._ --(p.\u00a093.)\n\nThe writer, in concluding the story of Jonah, exhorts his readers to be\n\u201cpatient in pain and in joy.\u201d\n\n  For he \u00feat is to rakel to renden his clo\u00fee\u021d,\n  Mot efte sitte with more vn-sounde to sewe hem togeder.\n  _For he that is too rash to rend his clothes,\n  Must afterwards sit with more unsound (worse ones)\n      to sew them together._ (p.\u00a0104.)\n\n    [Footnote 20: Eurus and Aquilo.]\n\n    [Footnote 21: ? = to-marte.]\n\n\nThis brief outline of the poems, together with the short extracts from\nthem, will, it is hoped, give the reader stomach to digest the whole. It\nis true that they contain many \u201cuncouth\u201d terms; but this will be their\nhighest merit with the student of language, as is shown, by Dr. Guest\u2019s\ntestimony, that they are \u201cfor several reasons curious, and especially so\nto the philologist.\u201d[22] To those readers who do not appreciate the\nimportance of such a very large addition to the vocabulary of our Early\nLanguage as is made by these treatises, let Sir Frederic Madden\u2019s\nopinion of their literary merit suffice. That distinguished editor says,\nof the author\u2019s \u201cpoetical talent, the pieces contained in the MS. afford\nunquestionable proofs; and the description of the change of the seasons,\nthe bitter aspect of winter, the tempest which preceded the destruction\nof Sodom and Gomorrah, and the sea storm occasioned by the wickedness of\nJonas, _are equal to any similar passages_ in Douglas or Spenser.\u201d[23]\nMoreover, as to the hardness of the language--inasmuch as the subject\nmatter of the poem will be familiar to all who may take up the present\nvolume, the difficulty on the word-point will not be such as to deter\nthe reader from understanding and appreciating the production of an old\nEnglish poet, who--though his very name, unfortunately, has yet to be\ndiscovered--may claim to stand in the foremost rank of England\u2019s early\nbards.\n\nThe Editor of the present volume has endeavoured to do justice to his\nauthor by giving the text, with some few exceptions, as it stands in the\nmanuscript.[24] The contractions of the scribe have been expanded and\nprinted in italics, a plan which he hopes to see adopted in every future\nedition of an early English author.\n\nThe Glossary has been compiled not only for the benefit of the reader,\nbut for the convenience of those who are studying the older forms of our\nlanguage, and who know how valuable a mere index of words and references\nsometimes proves.\n\nIn conclusion, I take the present opportunity of acknowledging the kind\nassistance of Sir Frederic Madden and E.\u00a0A. Bond, Esq., of the British\nMuseum, who, on every occasion, were most ready to render me any help in\ndeciphering the manuscript, in parts almost illegible, from which the\npoems in the present volume are printed.\n\n    [Footnote 22: History of English Rhythms, vol. i. p.\u00a0159.]\n\n    [Footnote 23: Syr Gawayn, ed. Madden, p. 302.]\n\n    [Footnote 24: Wherever the Text has been altered, the reading of\n    the MS. will be found in a foot-note.]\n\n\nREMARKS UPON THE DIALECT AND GRAMMAR.\n\nHigden, writing about the year A.D. 1350, affirms, distinctly, the\nexistence of three different forms of speech or dialects, namely,\nSouthern, Midland, and Northern;[25] or, as they are sometimes\ndesignated, West-Saxon, Mercian, and Northumbrian. Garnett objects to\nHigden\u2019s classification, and considers it certain \u201cthat there were in\nhis (Higden\u2019s) time, and probably long before, five distinctly marked\nforms, which may be classed as follows:-- 1.\u00a0Southern or standard\nEnglish, which in the fourteenth century was perhaps best spoken in Kent\nand Surrey by the body of the inhabitants. 2.\u00a0Western English, of which\ntraces may be found from Hampshire to Devonshire, and northward as far\nas the Avon. 3.\u00a0Mercian, vestiges of which appear in Shropshire,\nStaffordshire, and South and West Derbyshire, becoming distinctly marked\nin Cheshire, and still more so in South Lancashire. 4.\u00a0Anglian, of which\nthere are three sub-divisions--the East Anglian of Norfolk and Suffolk;\nthe Middle Anglian of Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and East Derbyshire;\nand the North Anglian of the West Riding of Yorkshire--spoken most\npurely in the central part of the mountainous district of Craven.\n5.\u00a0Northumbrian,\u201d spoken throughout the Lowlands of Scotland,\nNorthumberland, Durham, and nearly the whole of Yorkshire.\n\nGarnett\u2019s division is based upon peculiarities of pronunciation, which\nwill be found well marked in the _modern_ provincial dialects, and not\nupon any essential differences of inflexion that are to be found in our\nEarly English manuscripts.[26]\n\nThe distinction between Southern and Western English was not at all\nrequired, as the Kentish Ayenbite of Inwyt (A.D. 1340) exhibits most of\nthe peculiarities that mark the Chronicles of Robert of Gloucester\n(Cottonian MS. Calig. A. xi.) as a Southern (or West-Saxon) production.\nThe Anglian of Norfolk, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire may be\nreferred to one group with the Mercian of Lancashire, as varieties of\nthe Midland dialect.\n\nA careful examination of our early literature leads us to adopt Higden\u2019s\nclassification as not only a convenient but a correct one.\n\nThere is, perhaps, no better test for distinguishing these dialects from\none another than the verbal inflexions of the plural number in the\npresent tense, indicative mood.\n\nTo state this test in the briefest manner, we may say that the Southern\ndialect employs _-eth_, the Midland _-en_, and the Northumbrian _-es_ as\nthe inflexion for all persons of the plural present indicative:[27]--\n\n              Southern.   Midland.   Northern.\n\n  1st pers.   Hop-_eth_.  Hop-_en_.  Hop-_es_.  (we) hope.\n  2nd  \u201e      Hop-_eth_.  Hop-_en_.  Hop-_es_.  (ye) hope.\n  3rd  \u201e      Hop-_eth_.  Hop-_en_.  Hop-_es_.  (they) hope.\n\nIt is the constant and systematic employment of these inflexions, and\nnot their occasional use that must be taken as the criterion of\ndialectical varieties.\n\nIn a pure specimen of the Southern dialect, we never find the\nNorthumbrian _-es_. We do occasionally meet with the Midland _-en_, but\nonly in those works written in localities where, from their geographical\nposition, Southern and Midland forms would be intelligible.[28] We might\nlook in vain for the Southern plural _-eth_ in a pure Northumbrian\nproduction, but might be more successful in finding the Midland _-en_ in\nthe third person plural; as, \u201cthay _arn_\u201d for \u201cthey _ar_\u201d, or \u201cthay\n_er_.\u201d\n\nIn a work composed in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, or Lancashire, we\nshould be sure to find the occasional use of the Northumbrian plural\n_-es_.[29]\n\nThe inflexions of the verb in the singular are of value in enabling us\nto discriminate between the several varieties of the Midland\ndialect.[30] The Southern and Midland idioms (with the exception of the\nWest-Midland of Lancashire, Cheshire, etc.) conjugated the verb in the\nsingular present indicative, as follows:--\n\n  1st pers.  hope            (I) hope.\n  2nd  \u201e     hop-_est_  (thou) hopest.\n  3rd  \u201e     hop-_eth_  (he) hopes.\n\nThe West-Midland, corresponding to Garnett\u2019s Mercian, instead of _-est_\nand _-eth_ employs the inflexions that are so common in the so-called\nNorthumbrian documents of the ninth and tenth centuries:--\n\n  1st pers.  hope      (I) hope.\n  2nd  \u201e     hop-_es_  (thou) hopest.\n  3rd  \u201e     hop-_es_  (he) hopes.\n\nThe Northumbrian dialect takes _-es_ in all three persons; but mostly\ndrops it in the first person.\n\nThe peasantry of Cheshire and Lancashire still preserve the verbal\ninflexions which prevailed in the fourteenth century, and conjugate\ntheir verbs in the present indicative according to the following\nmodel:--\n\n             Singular.  Plural.\n  1st pers.  hope       hopen.\n  2nd  \u201e     hopes      hopen.\n  3rd  \u201e     hopes      hopen.\n\nInasmuch as the poems in the present volume exhibit the systematic use\nof these forms, we cannot but believe that they were originally composed\nin one of those counties where these verbal inflexions were well known\nand extensively used. We have to choose between several localities, but\nif we assign the poems to Lancashire we are enabled to account for the\nlarge number of Norse terms employed. It is true that the ancient\nexamples of the Lancashire dialect contained in Mr. Robson\u2019s Metrical\nRomances,[31] the Boke of Curtasye,[32] and Liber Cure Cocorum,[33]\npresent us with much broader forms, as _-us_ for _-es_ in the plural\nnumber and possessive case of nouns, _-un_ for _-en_ in the plural\npresent indicative mood, in passive participles of irregular (or strong)\nverbs, _-ud_ (_-ut_) for _-ed_ in the past tense and passive participle\nof regular (or weak) verbs, and the pronominal forms _hor_ (their),\n_hom_ (them), for _her_ and _hem_.[34]\n\nThese forms are evidence of a broad pronunciation which, at the present\ntime, is said to be a characteristic of the northwestern division of\nLancashire, but I think that there is good evidence for asserting that\nthis strong provincialism was not confined, formerly, to the\nWest-Midland dialect, much less to a division of any particular county.\nWe find traces of it in Audelay\u2019s Poems (Shropshire), the Romance of\nWilliam and the Werwolf,[35] and even in the Wickliffite version of the\nScriptures.\n\nFormerly, being influenced by these broad forms, I was led to select\nCheshire or Staffordshire as the probable locality where the poems were\nwritten; but I do not, now, think that either of these counties ever\nemployed a vocabulary containing so many Norse terms as are to be found\nin the Lancashire dialect. But although we may not be able to fix, with\ncertainty, upon any one county in particular, the fact of the present\npoems being composed in the West-Midland dialect cannot be denied. Much\nmay be said in favour of their Lancashire origin, and there are one or\ntwo points of resemblance between our poems, the Lancashire Romances,\nand Liber Cure Cocorum, that deserve especial notice.\n\nI. In Sir Amadace,[36] lxviii. 9, there occurs the curious form _mi\u021dtus_\n= _mi\u021dtes_ = _mightst_.[37] As it appears only once throughout the\nRomances we might conclude that it is an error of the scribe for\n_mi\u021dtest_, but when we find in the poems before us not only _my\u021dte\u021d_ =\n_my\u021dtes_ (mightst), but _wolde\u021d_ = _woldes_ (wouldst), _couthe\u021d_ =\n_couthes_ (couldst), _dippte\u021d_ (dippedest), _travaylede\u021d_ (travelledst),\netc., we are bound to consider _mi\u021dtus_ as a genuine form.[38] In no\nother Early English works of the fourteenth century have I been able to\nfind this peculiarity. It is very common in _the Wohunge of Ure Lauerd_\n(xiiith cent.). See O.E. Homilies, p.\u00a051. The Northumbrian dialect at\nthis period rejected the inflexion in the second person preterite\nsingular, of regular verbs,[39] and in our poems we find the _-es_ often\ndropped, so that we get two conjugations, which may be called the\ninflected and the uninflected form.\n\n             Inflected.  Uninflected.\n  1st pers.  hopede      hoped         (I) hoped.\n  2nd  \u201e     hoped_es_   hoped         (thou) hopedest.\n  3rd  \u201e     hopede      hoped         (he) hoped.\n\nOriginally the inflected form may have prevailed over the whole of the\nNorth of England, but have gradually become confined to the West-Midland\ndialect.\n\nII. The next point of resemblance is the use of the verb SCHIN or SCHUN\n= schal = shall. It is still preserved in the modern dialect of\nLancashire in combination with the adverb _not_, as schunnot[40] = shall\nnot. The following examples will serve to illustrate the use of this\ncurious form:--\n\n  \u201c---- \u00feay _schin_ knawe sone,\n  \u00deere is no bount\u00e9 in burne lyk Balta\u021dar \u00feewes.\u201d[41] --(B. l.\u00a01435.)\n\n  \u201c& \u00feose \u00feat seme arn & swete _schyn_ se his face.\u201d[42]\n      --(_Ibid._ l.\u00a01810.)\n\n  \u201cPekokys and pertrikys perboylyd _schyn_ be.\u201d[43]\n      --(Liber Cure Cocorum, p.\u00a029.)\n\n  \u201cFor \u00feer bene bestes \u00feat _schyn_ be rost.\u201d[44] --(_Ibid._ p.\u00a034.)\n\n  \u201cAlle _schun_ be dra\u021dun, Syr, at \u00feo syde.\u201d[45] --(_Ibid._ p.\u00a035.)\n\n  \u201cSeche ferlies _schyn_ falle.\u201d[46]\n      --(Robson\u2019s Met. Rom. p.\u00a012, l.\u00a04.)\n\nIII. Nothing is more common in the present poems than the use of _hit_\nas a genitive = its, which is also found in the Lancashire romances.\n\n  \u201cFor\u00fey \u00fee derk dede see hit is demed ever more,\n  For _hit_ dede\u021d of de\u00fee duren \u00feere \u021det.\u201d[47] --(Patience, l.\u00a01021.)\n\n  \u201cAnd, as hit is corsed of kynde & _hit_ cooste\u021d als,\n  \u00dee clay \u00feat clenges \u00feer-by arn corsyes strong.\u201d[48]\n      --(_Ibid._ l.\u00a01033.)\n\n  \u201cFor I wille speke with the sprete,\n  And of _hit_ woe wille I wete,\n  Gif that I may _hit_ bales bete.\u201d[49]\n      --(Robson\u2019s Met. Romances, p.\u00a05, ll. 3, 4.)\n\nThe present dialect of Lancashire still retains the uninflected\ngenitive:--\n\n  \u201cSo I geet up be strike o\u2019 dey, on seet eawt; on went ogreath tilly\n  welly coom within two mile oth\u2019 teawn; when, os tha dule woud\n  height, o tit wur stonning ot an ale heawse dur; on me kawve (the\n  dule bore eawt _it_ een for me) took th\u2019 tit for _it_ mother, on\n  woud seawk her.\u201d[50] (Tummus and Meary).\n\nThus much for the dialectical peculiarities of our author. The scanty\nmaterial at our disposal must be a sufficient excuse for the very meagre\noutline which is here presented to the reader. As our materials\nincrease, the whole question of Early English dialects will no doubt\nreceive that attention from English philologists which the subject\nreally demands, and editors of old English works will then be enabled to\nspeak with greater confidence as to the language and peculiarities of\ntheir authors. Something might surely be done to help the student by a\nproper classification of our manuscripts both as to date and place of\ncomposition. We are sadly in want of unadulterated specimens of the\nNorthumbrian and East-Midland idioms during the twelfth and thirteenth\ncenturies. There must surely be some records of these dialects in our\nuniversity libraries which would well repay editing.[51]\n\n    [Footnote 25: Polychronicon R. Higdeni, ap. Gale, p.\u00a0210, 211. See\n    Garnett\u2019s Philological Essays, p.\u00a043, and Specimens of Early\n    English, p.\u00a0338.]\n\n    [Footnote 26: It is to be regretted that Garnett did not enter\n    upon details, and give his readers some tests by which to\n    distinguish the \u201cfive distinctly marked forms.\u201d]\n\n    [Footnote 27: In English works of the fourteenth century the _-en_\n    of the Midland, and the _-es_ of the Northumbrian is frequently\n    dropped, thus gradually approximating to our modern conjugation.]\n\n    [Footnote 28: We are here speaking of works written in the\n    thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.]\n\n    [Footnote 29: Robert of Brunne, in his \u201cHandlyng Synne,\u201d often\n    employs it instead of _-en_, but only for the sake of the rhyme.]\n\n    [Footnote 30: The Midland dialect is a very difficult one to deal\n    with, as it presents us with no uniform type; and, moreover, works\n    written in this idiom are marked by Northern or Southern\n    peculiarities, which have led many of our editors altogether\n    astray in determining the locality of their composition.]\n\n    [Footnote 31: Published by the Camden Society, 1842.]\n\n    [Footnote 32: Edited by Mr. Halliwell for the Percy Society.]\n\n    [Footnote 33: Edited by me for the Philological Society, 1862.]\n\n    [Footnote 34: _-us_ and _-ud_ for _-es_ and _-ed_, as well as\n    _hom_, _hor_, do occasionally occur in the MS. containing our\n    poems.]\n\n    [Footnote 35: The Romance of William and the Werwolf is written in\n    the West-Midland dialect as spoken probably in Shropshire.]\n\n    [Footnote 36: Robson\u2019s Metrical Romances, p.\u00a054, l.\u00a09.]\n\n    [Footnote 37: _Woldus_ = _woldes_ = _wouldst_, appears in\n    Audelay\u2019s poems (in the Shropshire dialect of the fifteenth\n    century), p.\u00a032, l.\u00a06.]\n\n    [Footnote 38: The so-called Northumbrian records of the ninth and\n    tenth centuries frequently use _-es_ instead of _-est_, in the 2nd\n    pers. preterite of regular verbs, _e.g._,\n\n    _\u00f0u forcerdes usic on-bec_ = Thou turnedst us hindward.\n        --(Ps.\u00a0xliii. 11.)\n    _\u00f0u saldes usic_ = Thou gavest us. --(Ps. xliii. 12.)\n    _\u00f0u bi-bohtes folc \u00f0in butan weor\u00f0e_ = Thou soldest thy folk\n        without price. --(Ps.\u00a0xliii. 12.)\n    \u00f0u _ge-hiowades_ me & _settes_ ofer me hond \u00f0ine = Thou madest me\n        and settest over me thy hand. --(Ps.\u00a0cxxxviii. 5.)\n    \u00f0u _\u00f0reades \u00f0a_ ofer-hygdan = Thou hast rebuked the proud.\n        --(Ps.\u00a0cxviii. 21.)\n\n    Ic ondeto \u00f0e fader drihten heofnes for\u00f0on \u00f0u _gedeigeldes_ \u00f0as\n    ilco from snotrum & hogum & _\u00e6deaudes_ \u00f0a \u00f0\u00e6m lytlum = I thank\n    thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid\n    these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them\n    unto babes. --(Matt. xi. 25).]\n\n    [Footnote 39: \u00deou _torned_ us hindward. --(Early English Nn.\n    Psalter, xliii. 11.)\n\n    \u00deou _salde_ \u00fei folk. --(_Ibid._ xliii. 12.)\n    \u00deou _meked_ us. --(_Ibid._ xliii. 20.)\n    \u00deou _made_ me and set \u00fei hand over me. --(_Ibid._ cxxxviii. 5.)\n    \u00deou _snibbed_ proude. --(_Ibid._ cxviii. 21.)]\n\n    [Footnote 40: I am informed by a Shropshire friend that it\n    prevails in his county under the form _shinneh_.\n\n    _Win_ = will, in _winnot_, _wunnot_ = will not, is still heard in\n    the West-Midland districts. It is found in Robson\u2019s Romances and\n    in Liber Cure Cocorum.]\n\n    [Footnote 41: They _shall_ know soon there is no goodness in man\n    like Belshazzar\u2019s virtues.]\n\n    [Footnote 42: And those that seemly are and sweet _shall_ see His\n    (God\u2019s) face.]\n\n    [Footnote 43: Peacocks and partriches parboiled _shall_ be.]\n\n    [Footnote 44: For \u00feer are beasts \u00feat _shall_ be roasted.]\n\n    [Footnote 45: All _shall_ be drawn (have the entrails removed),\n    Sir, at the side.]\n\n    [Footnote 46: Such marvels _shall_ happen.]\n\n    [Footnote 47:\n      Wherefore the dark dead sea it is called ever more.\n      For _its_ deeds of death endure there yet.]\n\n    [Footnote 48:\n      And as it is cursed of kind and _its_ properties also,\n      The clay that clings thereby are corrosives strong.]\n\n    [Footnote 49:\n      I will speak with the spirit,\n      And of _its_ woe will I wit (know),\n      If that I may _its_ bales (grief) abate.]\n\n    [Footnote 50: So I got up by break of day and set out; and went\n    straight till I well nigh came within two miles of the town, when,\n    as the devil would have it, a horse was standing at an ale-house\n    door; and my calf (the devil bore out _its_ eyes for me) took the\n    horse for _its_ mother, and would suck her.]\n\n    [Footnote 51: Three specimens of the East-Midland dialect have\n    come to light since writing the above. Harl. MS. 3909; Troy Book,\n    ed. Donaldson, E.\u00a0E.\u00a0T.\u00a0Soc.; The Lay-folks Mass-Book, ed.\n    Simpson, E.\u00a0E.\u00a0T.\u00a0Soc.]\n\n\nGRAMMATICAL DETAILS.\n\nI. +Nouns.+\n\n(1) _Number._--The plurals generally end in _-es_ (_e\u021d_), _-s_. _Y\u021den_\n(eyes), _trumpen_ (trumpets), are the only plurals in _-en_ that occur\nin the poems. In Robson\u2019s Metrical Romances we find _fellun_ (fells,\nhills,), _dellun_ (dells), and _eyren_ (eggs), in Liber Cure Cocorum.\nThe plurals of _brother_, _child_, _cow_, _do\u021dter_ (daughter), are\n_brether_, _childer_, _kuy_, and _de\u021dter_.\n\n(2) _Gender._--The names of inanimate things are in the neuter gender,\nas in modern English. The exceptions are _deep_ (fem.), _gladnes_\n(fem.), and _wind_ (masc.).\n\n(3) _Case._--The genitive singular (masc. and fem.) ends in _-es_\n(_-e\u021d_), _-s_, but occasionally the inflexion is dropped; as, \u201cBalta\u021dar\nthewes,\u201d the virtues of Balshazzar.[52] If \u201c_honde_ my\u021dt,\u201d \u201c_honde_\nwerk,\u201d \u201c_hellen_ wombe,\u201d are not compounds, we have instances of the\nfinal _-e_ (_en_) which formed the genitive case of _feminine_ nouns in\nthe Southern English of the fourteenth century.\n\nIn the phrases \u201c_besten_ blod\u201d (blood of beasts), \u201c_blonkken_ bak\u201d (back\nof horses), \u201c_chyldryn_ fader\u201d (father of children), \u201c_nakeryn_ noyse\u201d\n(noise of nakers), we have a trace of the genitive plural _-ene_ (A.S.\n_-ena_).\n\n    [Footnote 52: In the romance of \u201cSyr Gawayn and the Grene Kny\u021dt\u201d\n    we find \u201c_blonk_ (horse) sadele,\u201d \u201c_fox_ felle\u201d (skin). In _blonk_\n    an _e_ has probably been dropped.]\n\n\nII. +Adjectives.+\n\n(1) _Number._--The final _e_, as a sign of the plural, is very\nfrequently dropped. _Pover_ (poor), _sturn_ (strong), make the plurals\n_poveren_ and _sturnen_. In the phrase, \u201c\u00feo sy\u021dte\u021d so _quyke\u021d_\u201d[53]\n(those sights so living), the _-e\u021d_ (= _-es_) is a mark of the plural,\nvery common in Southern writers of the fourteenth century, and employed\nas a plural inflexion of the adjective until a very late period in our\nliterature.\n\nThe Article exhibits the following forms:\n\n  SINGULAR.        PLURAL.\n  Masc.  Fem.\n  The.   tho.[54]  tho.\n\n_This_ forms the plural _thise_ and _thes_ (_these_). _That_ is always\nused as a demonstrative, and never as the neuter of the article; its\nplural is _thos_ (those).[55] The older form, _theos_ = _these_, shows\nthat the _e_ is not a sign of the plural, as many English grammarians\nhave asserted.\n\n(2) _Degrees of Comparison._--The comparative degree ends in _-er_, and\nthe superlative in _-est_.\n\nAdjectives and adverbs terminating in the syllable _-lyche_ form the\ncomparative in _-loker_ and the superlative in _-lokest_; as, positive\n_uglyche_ (= ugly), comp. _ugloker_, superl. _uglokest_. The long vowel\nof the positive is often shortened in the comp. and superl., as in the\nmodern English _late_, _latter_, _last_.\n\n  Positive.          Comparative.    Superlative.\n  Brade (broad),     bradder,        braddest.\n  Dere (dear),       derrer,         derrest.\n  Lyke (like),       lykker,         lykkest.\n  Swete (sweet),     swetter,        swettest.\n  Wayke (weak),      wakker,         wakkest.\n  Wode (mad),        wodder,         woddest.\n\nThe following irregular forms are occasionally met with:\n\n  Positive.          Comparative.    Superlative.\n  Fer (far),         ferre (fyrre),  ferrest.\n  He\u021de (high),       herre,          he\u021dest (hest).\n  Ne\u021de (nigh, near)  nerre,          nerrest (nest).\n  Sare (sore),       sarre,          sarrest.\n  Forme (first),                     formast.\n  Mikelle (great),   mo              most.\n  Yvel, ill (bad),   wers (worre),   werst.\n\n_Numerals._--_Twinne_ and _thrinne_ occur for two and three. The ordinal\nnumbers are--\n\n  first (fyrste), the forme,\n  secunde, that other, tother,\n  thryd,   }\n  thrydde, }\n  fur\u00fee,\n  fyf\u00fee,\n  sexte,\n  seven\u00fee,\n  a\u021dt\u00fee,\n  nente,\n  ten\u00fee, }\n  ty\u00fee.  }\n\nThe Northumbrian numerals corresponding to _seven\u00fee_, _a\u021dt\u00fee_, _nente_,\n_ten\u00fee_, are _sevend_, _aghtend_, _neghend_, _tend_. The Southern forms\nend in _-the_, as _seven\u00fee_, _ei\u021dteo\u00fee_, _ny\u00fee_, _teo\u00fee_ (_ty\u00fee_).\n\n    [Footnote 53: The feminine form is seldom employed.]\n\n    [Footnote 54: The Northumbrian plural article is _tha_.]\n\n    [Footnote 55: The Northumbrian corresponding form is _thas_.]\n\n\nIII. +Pronouns.+\n\nIn the following poems we find the pronoun _ho_, she, still keeping its\nground against the Northumbrian _scho_.[56] _Ho_ is identical with the\nmodern Lancashire _hoo_ (or _huh_ as it is sometimes written), which in\nsome parts of England has nearly the same pronunciation as the\naccusative _her_.\n\nThe Northumbrian _thay_ (they) has displaced the older Midland _he_,\ncorresponding to the Southern pronoun _hii_, _hi_ (A.S. _h\u00ed_). _Hores_\nand _thayre\u021d_ (theirs) occasionally occur for _here_.[57] The genitives\nin _-es_, due no doubt to Scandinavian influence, are very common in\nNorthumbrian writers of the fourteenth century, but are never found in\nany Southern work of the same period.\n\n_Hit_ is frequently employed as an indefinite pronoun of all genders,\nand is plural as well as singular. It is, as has been previously shown,\nuninflected in the genitive or possessive case.\n\n_Me_ in Southern writers is used as an indefinite pronoun of the _third_\nperson, and represents our _one_, but in the present poems it is of all\npersons, and seems to be placed in apposition with the subject of the\nsentence corresponding to our use of myself, thyself, himself, etc.; as,\n\n  \u201c_He_ swenges _me_ \u00feys,\u201d etc. = He himself sends this, etc.[58]\n  \u201cNow swe\u021de _me_ \u00feider swyftly\u201d = Now go (thou) thyself thither\n      swiftly.[59]\n  \u201c_He_ mete\u021d _me_ \u00feis good man\u201d = He himself meets this good man.[60]\n\nSturzen-Becker (\u201cSome Notes on the leading Grammatical Characteristics\nof the Principal Early English Dialects, Copenhagen, 1868\u201d) thinks that\nI have been led astray with regard to this use of _me_, which he says is\nnothing more than the _dativus ethicus_.\n\nThe _me_ in these examples may be merely an expletive, having arisen out\nof the general use of the dative ethicus, but the context does not\nsatisfy me that it has the force of a dative. Dr. Guest (Proceedings of\nPhilolog. Soc., vol. i. p.\u00a0151-153, 1842-1844) has discussed this\nconstruction at some length, and he carefully distinguishes the dative\nof the 1st person from the indeterminate (or indefinite) pronoun _me_ =\nFr. one. He says that in Old Frisian the indefinite pronoun has two\nforms, _min_ and _me_, \u201cthe latter of which seems to be always used as a\nsuffix to the verb, as _momme_, one may; _somme_, one should,\u201d etc. The\nsame construction was occasionally used in our own language, and it no\ndoubt gave rise to those curious idioms which are noticed by Pegge in\nhis \u201cAnecdotes of the Eng. Lang.,\u201d p.\u00a0217. This writer, whose evidence\nto a _fact_ we may avail ourselves of, whatever we think of his\ncriticism or his scholarship, quotes the following as forms of speech\nthen prevalent among the Londoners: \u201cand so says _me_ I;\u201d \u201cwell what\ndoes _me_ I;\u201d \u201cso says _me_ she;\u201d \u201cthen away goes _me_ he;\u201d \u201cwhat does\n_me_ they?\u201d Here it is obvious that _me_ is the indeterminate pronoun,\nand represents the _subject_, while the personal pronoun is put in\napposition to it, so that \u201csays _me_ I\u201d is equivalent to \u201c_one says,\nthat is I_,\u201d[61]. These idioms are not unknown to our literature.\n\n  (1) \u2018But as he was by diverse principall young gentlemen, to his no\n  small glorie, lifted up on horseback, _comes me a page_ of\n  Amphialus, etc.\u2019 Pembr. Arcad. B. iii.\n\nOther idioms, which have generally been confounded with those last\nmentioned, have the indeterminate pronoun preceded by a nominative\nabsolute.\n\n  (2) \u2018_I_, having been acquainted with the smell before, knew it was\n  Crab, and--_goes me_ to the fellow, who whips the dogs,\u2019 etc. Two\n  Gent. of Verona, 4. 4.\n\n  (3) \u2018_He thrusts me_ himself into the company of three or four\n  gentlemanlike dogs under the Duke\u2019s Table.\u2019 _Ib._ See B.\u00a0Jons. Ev.\n  Man in his Humour, 3, 1.\n\nJohnson considers the _me_ in examples 2 and 3 to be the oblique case of\nthe first pers. pron., and treats it as \u201ca ludicrous expletive.\u201d It is\ndifficult to say how he would have parsed example 2 on such a\nhypothesis.\n\nWith these instances of the use of _me_ (indef. or reflexive), the\nreader may compare the following:\n\n  (1) \u201cSuche a touche in that tyde, _he_ ta\u021dte (Gauan) hym in tene\n      And _gurdes me_, Sir Gallerun, evyn grovelonges on grounde.\u201d\n        (The Anturs of Arther at the Tarnewathelan, p.\u00a022.)\n\n  (2) There at the dore he (the Fox) cast _me_ downe hys pack.\n        Spenser\u2019s Shep. Cal. ed. Morris, p. 460, l.\u00a0243.\n\nCp. _Cut me_, i. Hen. IV. Act 4. Sc. 4; _steps me_, Ib. Act 4, Sc. 3;\n_comes me, runs me_, Ib. Act 3, Sc. 1.\n\n  (3) \u201cJuno enraged, and fretting thus,\n      _Runs me_ unto one \u00c6olus.\u201d --(Virgile Travestie, 1664.)\n\nThe indefinite _me_ = one is not uncommon in Elizabethan writers. Cf.\n\u201c_touch me_ his hat;\u201d \u201c_touch me_ hir with a pint of sack,\u201d etc.; \u201cand\n_stop me_ his dice you are a villaine\u201d (Lodge\u2019s Wit\u2019s Miserie).\n\nThe following table exhibits the declension of the personal and relative\npronouns:--\n\n  SINGULAR.\n  Nom. I,            thou,        he,   ho,         hit.\n  Gen. My, myn,      thy, thyn,   his,  hir, her,   hit.\n  Dat. Me,           the,         him,  hir, her,   hit.\n  Acc. Me,           the,         him,  hir, her,   hit.\n\n  PLURAL.\n  Nom. We,           \u021de,          thay,             hit.\n  Gen. Oure,         yor, youre,  her (here), hor,  hit.\n  Dat. Vus (= uus),  yow, you,    hem, hom,         hit.\n  Acc. Vus (= uus),  yow, you,    hem, hom,         hit.\n\n  Nom. Who (quo).\n  Gen. Whose (quos).\n  Dat. { Whom, Wham } (quom).\n  Acc. { Whom, Wham } (quom).\n\n    [Footnote 56: _Scho_ occurs _once_ in the present poems.]\n\n    [Footnote 57: _Yowre\u021d_ (yours) sometimes takes the place of\n    _youre_ in the romance of \u201cSir Gawayne and the Grene Kny\u021dt.\u201d]\n\n    [Footnote 58: Page 92, l. 108.]\n\n    [Footnote 59: Page 91, l. 72.]\n\n    [Footnote 60: Syr Gawayn, l. 1932.]\n\n    [Footnote 61: I would say that _says me I_ = I myself say. --R.\u00a0M.]\n\n\nIV. +Verbs.+\n\n_Infinitive Mood._--The _-en_ of the infinitive is frequently dropped,\nwithout even a final _-e_ to mark its omission. Infinitives in _-y_, as\n_louy_ (love), _schony_ (shun), _spotty_ (spot, defile), _styry_ (stir),\n_wony_ (dwell), occasionally occur, and probably owe their appearance to\nthe author\u2019s acquaintance with Southern literature.[62]\n\n_Indicative Mood._--The final _e_ often disappears in the first and\nthird persons of the preterite tense, as I _loved_, he _loved_, instead\nof I _lovede_, he _lovede_.\n\nThe _-en_ in the plural of the present and preterite tenses is\nfrequently dropped. The pl. present in _-e\u021d_ occasionally occurs.\n\n_Imperative Mood._--The imperative plural ends in _-es_ (_e\u021d_), and not\nin _-eth_ as in the Southern and ordinary Midland dialects.\n\n_Participles._--The active or imperfect participle ends in _-ande_[63]\nand never in _-ing_.\n\nThe participle passive or perfect of regular verbs terminates in _-ed_;\nof irregular verbs in _-en_. Occasionally we find the _n_ disappearing,\nas _bigonn-e_, _fund-e_, _runn-e_, _wonn-e_, where perhaps it is\nrepresented by the final _-e_.\n\nThe prefix _-i_ or _-y_ (A.S. _-ge_) occurs twice only in the poems, in\n_i-chose_ (chosen), and _i-brad_ (extended); but, while common enough in\nthe Southern and Midland dialects, it seems to be wholly unknown to the\nNorthumbrian speech.\n\nThe verb in the West-Midland dialect is conjugated according to the\nfollowing model:--\n\n  I.--+Conjugation of Regular Verbs.+\n\n  INDICATIVE MOOD.\n\n    PRESENT TENSE.\n  Singular.                 Plural.\n  (I) hope,                 (We) hopen.\n  (Thou) hopes,             (\u021ce) hopen.\n  (He) hopes,               (Thay) hopen.\n\n    PRETERITE TENSE.\n  (I) hopede[64] (hoped),   (We) hopeden.\n  (Thou) hopedes (hoped),   (\u021ce) hopeden.\n  (He) hopede[64] (hoped),  (Thay) hopeden.\n\n  IMPERATIVE MOOD.\n\n  Hope (thou).              Hopes (\u021de).\n\n  PARTICIPLES.\n\n  Imperfect or Active.      Perfect or Passive.\n  Hopande.                  Hoped.\n\n  II.--+Conjugation of Irregular Verbs.+\n\n  INDICATIVE MOOD.\n\n    PRESENT TENSE.\n\n  Singular.\n  (I) kerve,      renne,   smite,   stonde.\n  (Thou) kerves,  rennes,  smites,  stondes.\n  (He) kerves,    rennes,  smites,  stondes.\n\n  Plural.\n  (We) kerven,    rennen,  smiten,  stonden.\n  (\u021ce)    \u201e         \u201e         \u201e        \u201e\n  (Thay)  \u201e         \u201e         \u201e        \u201e\n\n    PRETERITE TENSE.\n\n  Singular.\n  (I) carf,       ran,     smot,    stod.\n  (Thou) carve,   ranne,   smote,   stode.\n  (He) carf,      ran,     smot,    stod.\n\nVery frequently the _e_ in the second person is dropped,[65] as in the\nNorthumbrian dialect, but we never meet with such forms as carves\n(=\u00a0carvedest), rannes (=\u00a0ranst), smotes (=\u00a0smotest), etc.\n\n  Plural.\n  (We) corven,    runnen,  smiten,  stonden.\n  (\u021ce)    \u201e          \u201e       \u201e         \u201e\n  (Thay)  \u201e          \u201e       \u201e         \u201e\n\n  PASSIVE PARTICIPLES.\n\n  Corven,         runnen,  smiten,  stonden.\n\nThe Northumbrian dialect does not preserve any separate form for the\npreterite plural, and this distinction is not always observed in the\npresent poems.\n\n+Table of Verbs.+\n\n  A.--SIMPLE ORDER.\n\n    Present.            Preterite.  Passive Participle.\n\n  Class I.\n    Hate,               hatede,     hated.\n\n  Class II. (_a_)\n    Bede (offer),       bedde,      bed.\n    Dype (dip),         dypte,      dypt.\n    Kythe (show),       kydde,      kyd.\n    Lende,              lende,      lent.\n    Rende,              rende,      rent.\n    Sende,              sende,      sent.\n  (_b_)\n    Clothe,             cladde,     clad.\n    Dele (deal),        dalte,      dalt.\n    Lede,               ladde,      lad.\n    Leve,               lafte,      laft.\n    Rede (advise),      radde,      rad.\n    Sprede (spread),    spradde,    sprad.\n    Swelt (die),        swalte,     ----\n    Swette (sweat),     swatte,     ----\n    Threte (threaten),  thratte,    thrat.\n\n  Class III.\n    Byye (buy),         bo\u021dte,      bo\u021dt\n    Bringe,             bro\u021dte,     bro\u021dt.\n    Cache (catch),      ca\u021dte,      ca\u021dt.\n    Lache (seize),      la\u021dte,      la\u021dt.\n    Reche (reck),       ro\u021dte,      ----\n    Reche (reach),      ra\u021dte,      ----\n    Selle,              solde,      sold.\n    Worche (work),      wro\u021dte,     wro\u021dt.\n\n  B.--COMPLEX ORDER.\n\n    Present.           Preterite.        Passive Participle.\n\n  +Division I.+\n  Class I.\n    Bere (bear),       ber,              born.\n    Bete (beat),       bet,              beten.\n    Breke (break),     brek,             broken.\n    Chese (choose),    ches (chos),      chosen.\n    Cleve (cleave),    clef,             cloven.\n    Ete (eat),         ette (_for_ et),  eten.\n    For\u021dete (forget),  for\u021det,           for\u021deten.\n    Frese (freeze),    fres,             frosen.\n    Gife (give),       gef,              given, geven.\n    Heve (heave),      hef,              hoven.\n    Ligge (lie),       le\u021d,              leyen, le\u021den.\n    Lepe (leap),       lep,              lopen.\n    Nemme } (take),    nem (nam),        nomen.\n    Nimme }\n    Schere (shear),    scher,            schorn.\n    Slepe (sleep),     slep,             slepen.\n    Speke (speak),     spek,             spoken.\n    Stele (steal),     stel,             stolen.\n    Swere (swear),     swer,             sworen.\n    Wepe (weep),       wep,              wopen.\n    Wreke (avenge),    wrek,             wroken.\n\n  Class II.\n    Falle,             fell,             fallen.\n    Fonge (take),      feng,             fongen.\n    Growe,             grew,             growen.\n    Hange, honge,      heng,             hangen, hongen.\n    Knowe, knawe,      knew,             knawen, knowen.\n    Schape (make),     schep,            schapen.\n    Walke,             welk,             walken.\n    Wasche,            wesch,            waschen.\n\n  Class III.\n    Drawe, dra\u021de,      dro\u021d,             drawen.\n    Fare (go),         for,              faren.\n    La\u021de (laugh),      lo\u021d,              la\u021den.\n    Stande, stonde,    stod,             standen.\n    Slaye,             slow, slew,       slayn.\n    Take,              tok,              tane, tone.\n    Wake,              wok,              waken.\n\n  +Division II.+\n\n    Present.        Preterite.          Passive Participle.\n\n  Class I.\n    Biginne,        bigon,              bigonnen, bigunnen.\n    Breste,         brast, borst,       brusten, bursten.\n    Climbe,         clamb, clomb,       clumben.\n    Drinke,         dronk, drank,       drunken, dronken.\n    Finde,          fand, fond,         funden.\n    Fi\u021dte,          fa\u021dt, fe\u021dt,         fo\u021dten.\n    Helpe,          halp,               holpen.\n    Kerve (cut),    carf,               corven.\n    Melte,          malt,               molten.\n    Renne (run),    ran,                runnen.\n    Ringe,          rong,               rungen, rongen.\n    Singe,          song, sang,         sungen.\n    Steke,          stac,               stoken.\n    Sterve (die),   starf,              storven.\n    Werpe (throw),  warp,               worpen.\n    Win,            wan, won,           wonnen, wunnen.\n    \u021celde (yield),  \u021dald,               \u021dolden.\n\n  Class II.\n    Bide (abide),   bod,                biden.\n    Bite,           bot,                biten.\n    Drive,          drof,               driven.\n    Fine (cease),   fon,                ----\n    Glide,          glod,               gliden.\n    Ride,           rod,                riden.\n    Rise,           ros,                risen.\n    Schine,         schon,              ----\n    Slide,          slod,               sliden.\n    Smite,          smot,               smiten.\n    Trine (go),     tron,               ----\n\n  Class III.\n    Fly,            fle\u021d, flegh, fla\u021d,  flowen.\n    See,            se\u021d, segh, sy\u021d,     seen.\n    Sti\u021de, ste\u021de,   ste\u021d                ----\n\n  +Anomalous Verbs.+\n\n    Can,       pret. couthe.\n    Dare,       \u201e    dorste.\n    May,        \u201e    mi\u021dte.\n    Mot,        \u201e    moste.\n    O\u021de (owe),  \u201e    o\u021dte.\n    Schal,      \u201e    scholde, schulde.\n    Thar,       \u201e    thurte.\n    Wote,       \u201e    wiste.\n    Wille,      \u201e    wolde.\n\n_Schal_ (shall) in the second person singular is _schal_ or _schalt_;\nso, too, we occasionally find _wyl_ for _wylt_.\n\nThe present plural of _schal_ is _schul_, _schulen_, or _schyn_.\n\nThe verb _to be_ is thus conjugated:--\n\n  INDICATIVE MOOD.\n\n  PRESENT TENSE.        PAST TENSE.\n\n  Singular.\n  (I) am.               (I) was, wat\u021d.\n  (Thou) art.           (Thou) was, wat\u021d.\n  (He) is, bes, bet\u021d.   (He) was, wat\u021d.\n\n  Plural.\n  (We) arn, are, ar.    (We) wern, were.\n  (\u021ce) arn, are, ar.    (\u021ce) wern, were.\n  (Thay) arn, are, ar.  (Thay) wern, were.\n\nThe verbs _be_, _have_, _wille_, have negative forms; as, _nam_ = am\nnot; _nar_ = are not; _nas_ = was not; _naf_ = have not; _nade_ = had\nnot; _nyl_ = will not.\n\nThe following contractions are occasionally met with: _bos_ = behoves;\n_byhod_ = behoved; _ha_ = have; _ma_ = make; _man_ = make (pl.) _mat\u021d_\n(_mas_) = makes; _ta_ = take; _tat\u021d_ (= _tas_) = takes; _tane_, _tone_ =\ntaken.\n\n    [Footnote 62: _Schonied_ occurs for _schoned_. No Southern writer\n    would retain, I think, the _i_ in the preterite.]\n\n    [Footnote 63: Garnett asserts that the present participle in\n    _-ande_ is \u201ca _certain criterion_ of a Northern dialect subsequent\n    to the thirteenth century.\u201d It is never found in any Southern\n    writer, but is common to many Midland dialects. Capgrave employs\n    it frequently in his Chronicles. It is, however, no safe criterion\n    by itself.]\n\n    [Footnote 64: The final _e_ is often dropped.]\n\n    [Footnote 65: In _The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd_ the _e_ is constantly\n    omitted.]\n\n\nV. +Adverbs.+\n\nThe Norse forms _hethen_, _quethen_ (_whethen_),[66] and _thethen_, seem\nto have been known to the West-Midland dialect as well as the Saxon\nforms _hence_ (_hennes_, _henne_), _whence_ (_whennes_), _thence_\n(_thennes_), etc. The adverbs _in-blande_ (together), _in-lyche_\n(alike), _in-mydde_ (amidst), _in-monge_ (amongst), are due, perhaps, to\nScandinavian influence.\n\n    [Footnote 66: \u201cSyr Gawayn and the Grene Kny\u021dt.\u201d]\n\n\nVI. +Prepositions.+\n\nThe preposition _from_ never occurs in the following poems; it is\nreplaced by _fro_, _fra_ (Northumbrian), O.N. _fr\u00e1_.\n\n\nVII. +Conjunctions.+\n\nThe conjunction _if_ takes a negative form; as, _nif_ = if not, unless.\n\n\n\n\nDESCRIPTION OF THE MANUSCRIPT USED IN THE PRESENT VOLUME.[67]\n\n\n+Cotton MS. Nero A. x.+ A small quarto volume, consisting of three\ndifferent MSS. bound together, which originally had no connection with\neach other. Prefixed is an imperfect list of contents in the\nhand-writing of James, the Bodley Librarian.\n\nThe first portion consists of a panegyrical oration in Latin by Justus\nde Justis, on John Chedworth, archdeacon of Lincoln, dated at Verona\n16th July, 1468. It occupies thirty-six folios, written on vellum, and\nis the original copy presented by the author.\n\nThe second portion is that we are more immediately concerned with. It is\ndescribed by James as \u201c_Vetus poema Anglicanum, in quo sub insomnii\nfigmento multa ad religionem et mores spectantia explicantur_,\u201d and this\naccount, with some slight changes, is adopted by Smith and Planta, in\ntheir catalogues; both of whom assign it to the fifteenth century. It\nwill appear, by what follows, that no less than four distinct poems have\nbeen confounded together by these writers.\n\nThis portion of the volume extends from fol. 37 to fol. 126, inclusive,\nand is written by one and the same hand, in a small, sharp, irregular\ncharacter, which is often, from the paleness of the ink, and the\ncontractions used, difficult to read. There are no titles or rubrics,\nbut the divisions are marked by large initial letters of blue,\nflourished with red, and several illuminations, coarsely executed, serve\nby way of illustration, each of which occupies a page.\n\n  1. Four of these are prefixed to the first poem. In the first the\n  Author is represented slumbering in a meadow, by the side of a\n  streamlet, clad in a long red gown, having falling sleeves, turned\n  up with white, and a blue hood attached round the neck.\n\n  In the second the same person appears, drawn on a larger scale, and\n  standing by the stream. In the third he occurs nearly in the same\n  position, with his hands raised, and on the opposite side a lady\n  dressed in white, in the costume of Richard the Second\u2019s and Henry\n  the Fourth\u2019s time, buttoned tight up to the neck, with long hanging\n  sleeves. Her hair is plaited on each side, and on her head is a\n  crown. In the fourth we see the author kneeling by the water, and\n  beyond the stream is depicted a castle or palace, on the embattled\n  wall of which appears the same lady, with her arm extended towards\n  him.\n\nThe poem commences on fol. 39, and consists of one hundred and one\ntwelve-line stanzas,[68] every five of which conclude with the same\nline, and are connected by the iteration of a leading expression. It\nconcludes on fol. 55b.\n\n  2. Then follow two more illuminations; in the first of which Noah\n  and his family are represented in the ark; in the second the prophet\n  Daniel expounding the writing on the wall to the affrighted\n  Belshazzar and his queen. These serve as illustrations to the second\n  poem, which begins at fol. 57, and is written in long alliterative\n  lines. It concludes on fol. 82.\n\n  3. Two illuminations precede, as before; one of which represents the\n  sailors throwing the prophet Jonas into the sea, the other depicts\n  the prophet in the attitude of preaching to the people of Nineveh.\n  The poem is in the same metre as the last, and commences at fol. 83.\n\nIt is occupied wholly with the story of Jonas, as applicable to the\npraise of meekness and patience; and ends on fol. 90.\n\n  4. The Romance intitled _Sir Gawayne and the Grene Kny\u021dt_ follows,\n  fol. 91. Prefixed is an illumination of a headless knight on\n  horseback, carrying his head by its hair in his right hand, and\n  looking benignly at an odd-eyed bill-man before him; while from a\n  raised structure above, a king armed with a knife, his queen, an\n  attendant with a sabre, and another bill-man scowling looks on. Here\n  and elsewhere the only colours used are green, red, blue, and\n  yellow. It ends on fol. 124b., and at the conclusion, in a later\n  hand, is written \u201cHony soit q\u0303 mal penc,\u201d which may, perhaps, allude\n  to the illumination on the opposite page, fol. 125, representing the\n  stolen interview between the wife of the Grene Kny\u021dt and Sir\n  Gawayne. Above the lady\u2019s head is written:\n\n    Mi mind is mukel on on, \u00fe{a}t wil me no\u021dt amende,\n    Sum time was trewe as ston, & fro schame cou\u00fe{e} hir defende.\n\nIt does not appear very clearly how these lines apply to the painting.\nTwo additional illuminations follow; in the first of which Gawayne is\nseen approaching the _Grene Chapel_, whilst his enemy appears above,\nwielding his huge axe; and in the second Sir Gawayne, fully equipped in\narmour, is represented in the presence of king Arthur and queen\nGuenever, after his return to the court.\n\nThe third and concluding portion of the Cotton volume extends from fol.\n127 to fol. 140b, inclusive, and consists of theological excerpts, in\nLatin, written in a hand of the end of the thirteenth century. At the\nconclusion is added _Epitaphium de Ranulfo, abbate Ramesiensi_, who was\nabbot from the year 1231 to 1253, and who is erroneously called _Ralph_\nin the _Monasticon_, vol. ii. p. 548, new ed.\n\n    [Footnote 67: Taken with some few alterations from Sir F. Madden\u2019s\n    \u201cSyr Gawayn.\u201d]\n\n    [Footnote 68: A line, however, is missing from the MS. on fol.\n    55b. See page 15.]\n\n\n\n\nCONTRACTIONS USED IN THE GLOSSARY.\n\n\nThe letters A. B. C. refer severally to the poems, entitled by me, \u201cThe\nPearl,\u201d \u201cCleanness,\u201d and \u201cPatience.\u201d\n\n  A.S.          Anglo-Saxon.\n  Dan.          Danish.\n  Du.           Dutch.\n  E.            English.\n  O.E.          Old English.\n  Prov.E.       Provincial English.\n  N.Prov.E. }   North Provincial English.\n  N.P.E.    }\n  Fr.           French.\n  O.Fr.         Old French.\n  Prov.         Fr. Provincial French.\n  Fris.         Frisian.\n  G. Doug.      Gawin Douglas\u2019s \u00c6neid, published by the\n                    Bannatyne Club, 2 vols.\n  Ger.          German.\n  Goth.         Gothic.\n  Icel.         Icelandic.\n  Jam.          Jamieson\u2019s Scottish Dictionary.\n  K. Alex.      King Alexander, Romance of (Ed. Stevenson).\n  Met. Hom.     Metrical Homilies (Ed. Small).\n  O.N.          Old Norse.\n  O.S.          Old Saxon.\n  Prompt. Parv. Promptorium Parvulorum (Ed. Way).\n  Sc.           Scotch.\n  O.Sc.         Old Scotch.\n  S.Sax.        Semi-Saxon.\n  Sw.           Swedish.\n  O.Sw.         Old Swedish.\n  Town. Myst.   Townley Mysteries.\n  T. B.         Troy Book (Ed. Donaldson).\n\n\n\n\n  Errata (noted by transcriber)\n\n  PREFACE:\n  [Footnote 4.III]\n  ... for _-ed_ or _-d_  [or _d_]\n  ... pp. vii, viii.  [vii. viii.]\n  [Footnote 5]\n  ... verbal inflexion _-eth_ _never_ occurs  [_-eth_. _never_]\n  [Footnote 9]\n  ... See O.E. Homilies, p.\u00a0li.  [O.E]\n  [Footnote 10]\n  ... (5) _tow_ = two;  [two:]\n  their blissful state (p.\u00a026).  [(p.\u00a026),]\n  (IX.) ... by Daniel (p. 86).  [p, 86]\n  _First marred[21] many a rope and the mast after._\n    [_footnote number misprinted \u201c2\u201d; shared note is 1_]\n\n  DIALECT AND GRAMMAR:\n  \u201cFor \u00feer bene bestes \u00feat _schyn_ be rost.\u201d[44]  [\u201c\u201cFor \u00feer bene]\n\n  GRAMMATICAL DETAILS: Pronouns\n  [Footnote 59]\n  ... Page 91, l. 72.  [l, 72.]\n  _hi_ (A.S. _h\u00ed_)  [_closing ) missing_]\n  The same construction  [\u201cThe same]\n  ----: Verbs\n  _comes me, runs me_, Ib. Act 3, Sc. 1.  [me_. Ib.]\n  Nom. I, thou, he, ho, hit.  [he ho]\n  PRETERITE TENSE.  [_. missing_]\n  (I) hopede[64] (hoped), (We) hopeden.  [hopeden,]\n  Wreke (avenge), wrek, wroken.  [(avenge) wrek,]\n  Class III. Drawe, dra\u021de, dro\u021d, drawen.  [drawen,]\n  Helpe, halp, holpen.  [holpen,]\n  Sterve (die), starf, storven. [storveu]\n  Schal, \u201e scholde, schulde.  [_. missing_]\n  ----: Adverbs\n  The Norse forms _hethen_, _quethen_  [Ths Norse]\n  _thence_, (_thennes_), etc.\n    [_opening ( missing; \u201cetc{t}\u201d with italic {t} for ._]\n\n  CONTRACTIONS:\n  Ger.  [_the abbreviations O.H.G. and M.H.G. are not listed_]\n  N.P.E.  [_note that this abbreviation is never used_]\n  Prompt. Parv.  Promptorium Parvulorum  [Prampt.]\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n           *       *       *       *\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE PEARL.\n\n\n  [Headnotes:\n  A FATHER VISITS HIS CHILD\u2019S GRAVE, AND THERE FALLING ASLEEP,\n    HE DREAMS.\n  HE SEES A BEAUTIFUL FOREST, WHICH CAUSES HIS GRIEF TO ABATE.\n  THE FATHER SEES HIS LOST CHILD DRESSED IN WHITE ROBES.\n  THE MAIDEN ADDRESSES HER FATHER.\n  SHE TELLS HIM OF HER BLISS.\n  DEATH IS THE ROAD TO PARADISE.\n  ALL MUST ABIDE GOD\u2019S DOOM.\n  THE BEREAVED PARENT ASKS HIS CHILD\u2019S PITY.\n  SHE DESCRIBES HER MODE OF LIFE.\n  MARY IS THE EMPRESS OF HEAVEN.\n  THE PARABLE OF THE LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD.\n  THE PAYMENT OF THE LABOURERS.\n  THE APPLICATION OF THE PARABLE.\n  GOD IS NO NIGGARD.\n  PARADISE WAS LOST THROUGH AN APPLE.\n  INNOCENTS ARE SAVED BY RIGHT.\n  CHRIST BLESSED LITTLE CHILDREN.\n  FORSAKE THE MAD WORLD.\n  THE LAMB AND HIS BRIDES.\n  THE LAMB WAS SLAIN IN JERUSALEM.\n  THE VISION OF SAINT JOHN.\n  THE ABODE OF CHRIST\u2019S BRIDES.\n  THE OLD AND NEW JERUSALEM.\n  A DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM.\n  NO SUN NOR MOON IN HEAVEN.\n  NO CHURCH IN HEAVEN.\n  A PROCESSION OF VIRGINS.\n  HE WISHES TO CROSS THE STREAM.\n  THE FATHER OF THE MAIDEN AWAKES.\n  GOD GIVE US GRACE TO SERVE HIM.]\n\n\n[Headnote: A FATHER VISITS HIS CHILD\u2019S GRAVE, AND THERE FALLING\nASLEEP, HE DREAMS.]\n\nI.\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 39a.]]\n    [Sidenote: Description of a lost pearl (_i.e._ a beloved child).\n    The father laments the loss of his pearl.]\n    Perle plesau{n}te to prynces paye,\n  To clanly clos in golde so clere,\n  Oute of oryent I hardyly saye,\n  Ne proued I neu{er} her precios pere,                                4\n  So rou{n}de, so reken in vche araye,\n  So smal, so smo\u00fee her syde\u021d were.\n  Quere-so-eu{er} I Iugged ge{m}me\u021d gaye,\n  I sette hyr sengeley i{n} synglure;                                  8\n  Allas! I leste hyr i{n} on erbere,\n  \u00deur\u021d gresse to grou{n}de hit fro me yot;[1]\n  I dewyne for-dolked of luf daungere,\n  Of \u00feat pryuy perle w{i}t{h}-outen spot.                             12\n\n    [Sidenote 1: ? _got._]\n\n    [Sidenote: He often visits the spot where his pearl disappeared,\n    and hears a sweet song.]\n    Sy\u00feen i{n} \u00feat spote hit fro me sprange,\n  Ofte haf I wayted wyschande \u00feat wele,\n  \u00deat wont wat\u021d whyle deuoyde my wrange,\n  & heuen my happe & al my hele,                                      16\n  \u00de{a}t dot\u021d bot \u00ferych my hert \u00ferange,\n  My breste in bale bot bolne & bele.\n  \u021cet \u00feo\u021dt me neu{er} so swete a sange,\n  As stylle stou{n}de let to me stele,                                20\n  For-so\u00fee \u00fe{er} fleten to me fele,\n  To \u00feenke hir color so clad i{n} clot;\n  O moul[2] \u00fe{o}u marre\u021d a myry mele.\n  My p{r}iuy perle w{i}t{h}-outen spotte,                             24\n\n    [Sidenote 2: ? _mould._]\n\n    [Sidenote: Where the pearl was buried there he found lovely\n    flowers. Each blade of grass springs from a dead grain.]\n    \u00deat spot of spyse\u021d my\u021dt nede\u021d sprede,\n  \u00deer such ryche\u021d to rot[3] is ru{n}nen;\n  Blome\u021d blayke & blwe & rede,\n  \u00deer schyne\u021d ful schyr agayn \u00fee su{n}ne.                             28\n  Flor & fryte may not be fede,\n  \u00deer hit dou{n} drof i{n} molde\u021d du{n}ne,\n  For vch gresse mot grow of grayne\u021d dede,\n  No whete were elle\u021d to wone\u021d wo{n}ne;                               32\n  Of goud vche goude is ay by-go{n}ne.\n  So semly a sede mo\u021dt fayly not,\n  \u00de{a}t spry{n}gande[4] spyce\u021d vp ne spo{n}ne,\n  Of \u00feat p{re}cios perle wyth-outen spotte.                           36\n\n    [Sidenote 3: ? _rote._]\n    [Sidenote 4: The MS. reads _sprygande_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 39b.]]\n    [Sidenote: In the high season of August the parent visits the\n    grave of his lost child. Beautiful flowers covered the grave.\n    From them came a delicious odour.]\n    To \u00feat spot \u00feat I in speche expou{n}\n  I entred in \u00feat erber grene,\n  In augoste in a hy\u021d seysou{n},\n  Quen corne is coruen wyth croke\u021d kene.                              40\n  On huyle \u00feer perle hit trendeled dou{n},\n  Schadowed \u00feis worte\u021d ful schyre & schene\n  Gilofre, gyngure & gromylyou{n},\n  & pyonys powdered ay by-twene.                                      44\n  \u021cif hit wat\u021d semly on to sene,\n  A fayr reflayr \u021det fro hit flot,\n  \u00deer wonys \u00feat wor\u00feyly I wot & wene,\n  My p{re}cio{us} perle, wyth-outen spot.                             48\n\n    [Sidenote: The bereaved father wrings his hands for sorrow,\n    falls asleep upon the flowery plot, and dreams.]\n    Bifore \u00feat spot my honde I spe{n}n[e]d,\n  For care ful colde \u00feat to me ca\u021dt[e];\n  A denely dele in my hert de{n}ned,\n  \u00dea\u021d resou{n} sette my seluen sa\u021dt[e].                               52\n  I playned my perle \u00fe{a}t \u00fe{er} wat\u021d spe{n}ned\n  Wyth fyrte skylle\u021d \u00feat faste fa\u021dt[e],\n  \u00dea\u021d kynde of kryst me comfort ke{n}ned,\n  My wreched wylle i{n} wo ay wra\u021dte.                                 56\n  I felle vpon \u00feat flo{ur}y fla\u021dt[e],\n  Suche odo{ur} to my herne\u021d schot;\n  I slode vpon a slepy{n}g sla\u021dte,\n  On \u00feat p{re}c[i]os perle w{i}t{h}-outen spot.                       60\n\n\n[Headnote: HE SEES A BEAUTIFUL FOREST, WHICH CAUSES HIS GRIEF\nTO ABATE.]\n\nII.\n\n    [Sidenote: In spirit he is carried to an unknown region,\n    where the rocks and cliffs gleamed gloriously.]\n    Fro spot my spyryt \u00feer sprang i{n} space,\n  My body on balke \u00feer bod i{n} sweuen,\n  My goste is gon in gode\u021d grace,\n  In auenture \u00fe{er} meruayle\u021d meuen;                                  64\n  I ne wyste in \u00feis worlde quere \u00fe{a}t hit wace,\n  Bot I knew me keste \u00fe{er} klyfe\u021d cleuen;\n  Towarde a foreste I bere \u00fee face,\n  Where rych rokke\u021d wer to dyscreuen;                                 68\n  \u00dee ly\u021dt of hem my\u021dt no mon leuen,\n  \u00dee glemande glory \u00feat of hem gle{n}t;\n  For wern neu{er} webbe\u021d \u00feat wy\u021de\u021d weuen,\n  Of half so dere adubmente.                                          72\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 40a.]]\n    [Sidenote: The hill sides were decked with crystal cliffs.\n    The leaves of the trees were like burnished silver. The gravel\n    consisted of precious pearls.]\n    Dubbed wern alle \u00feo downe\u021d syde\u021d\n  W{i}t{h} crystal klyffe\u021d so cler of kynde,\n  Holte-wode\u021d bry\u021dt aboute hem byde\u021d;\n  Of bolle\u021d as blwe as ble of ynde,                                   76\n  As bornyst syluer \u00fee lef onslyde\u021d,\n  \u00deat \u00feike con trylle on vch a tynde,\n  Quen glem of glode\u021d agayn\u021d hem glyde\u021d,\n  Wyth schym{er}y{n}g schene ful schrylle \u00feay schynde.                80\n  \u00dee grauayl \u00feat on grou{n}de con grynde\n  Wern p{re}cio{us} perle\u021d of oryente;\n  \u00dee su{n}ne beme\u021d bot blo & blynde,\n  In respecte of \u00feat adubbement.                                      84\n\n    [Sidenote: The father forgets his sorrow. He sees birds of the\n    most beautiful hues, and hears their sweet melody.]\n    The adubbemente of \u00feo downe\u021d dere\n  Garten my goste al greffe for-\u021dete\n  So frech flauore\u021d of fryte\u021d were,\n  As fode hit con me fayre refete.                                    88\n  Fowle\u021d \u00fe{er} flowen i{n} fryth i{n} fere,\n  Of flau{m}bande hwe\u021d,[5] bo\u00fee smale & grete,\n  Bot sytole stry{n}g & gyt{er}nere,\n  Her reken myr\u00fee mo\u021dt not retrete,                                   92\n  For quen \u00feose brydde\u021d her wynge\u021d bete\n  \u00deay songen wyth a swete asent;\n  So grac[i]os gle cou\u00fee no mon gete\n  As here & se her adubbement.                                        96\n\n    [Sidenote 5: Or _hiwe\u021d_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: No tongue could describe the beauty of the forest.\n    All shone like gold. The dreamer arrives at the bank of a river,\n    which gave forth sweet sounds.]\n    So al wat\u021d dubbet on dere asyse;\n  \u00deat fryth \u00feer fortwne forth me fere\u021d,\n  \u00dee der\u00fee \u00feer-of for to deuyse\n  Nis no wy\u021d wor\u00fee \u00feat tonge bere\u021d.                                  100\n  I welke ay forth i{n} wely wyse,\n  No bonk so byg \u00fe{a}t did me dere\u021d,\n  \u00dee fyrre i{n} \u00fee fryth \u00fee feier con ryse,\n  \u00dee playn, \u00fee plontte\u021d, \u00fee spyse, \u00fee pere\u021d,                         104\n  & rawe\u021d & rande\u021d & rych reuere\u021d,\n  As fyldor fyn her b[o]nkes brent.\n  I wan to a water by schore \u00feat schere\u021d,\n  Lorde! dere wat\u021d hit adubbement!                                   108\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 40b.]]\n    [Sidenote: In it, stones glittered like stars in the welkin on a\n    winter night.]\n    The dubbemente of \u00feo derworth depe\n  Wern bonke\u021d bene of beryl bry\u021dt;\n  Swangeande swete \u00fee water con swepe\n  Wyth a rownande rourde raykande ary\u021dt;                             112\n  I{n} \u00fee fou{n}ce \u00fe{er} stonden stone\u021d stepe,\n  As glente \u00feur\u021d glas \u00feat glowed & gly\u021dt,\n  A[6] stremande sterne\u021d quen stro\u00fee me{n} slepe,\n  Staren i{n} welkyn i{n} wynt{er} ny\u021dt;                             116\n  For vche a pobbel i{n} pole \u00feer py\u021dt\n  Wat\u021d Emerad, saffer, o\u00fe{er} ge{m}me gente,\n  \u00deat alle \u00fee lo\u021de lemed of ly\u021dt,\n  So dere wat\u021d hit adubbeme{n}t.                                     120\n\n    [Sidenote 6: ? _As._]\n\n\nIII.\n\n    [Sidenote: His grief abates, and he follows the course of the\n    stream.]\n    The dubbeme{n}t dere of dou{n} & dale\u021d,\n  Of wod & wat{er} & wlonk playne\u021d,\n  Bylde in me blys, abated my bale\u021d,\n  For-didden my [dis]tresse, dystryed my payne\u021d.                     124\n  Dou{n} after a strem \u00feat dry\u021dly hale\u021d,\n  I bowed in blys, bred ful my brayne\u021d;\n  \u00dee fyrre I fol\u021ded \u00feose floty vale\u021d,\n  \u00dee more strengh\u00fee of ioye myn herte strayne\u021d,                      128\n  As fortune fares \u00fe{er} as ho frayne\u021d,\n  Whe\u00fe{er} solace ho sende o\u00fe{er} elle\u021d sore,\n  \u00dee wy\u021d, to wham her wylle ho wayne\u021d,\n  Hytte\u021d to haue ay more & more.                                     132\n\n    [Sidenote: No one could describe his great joy. He thought that\n    Paradise was on the opposite bank. The stream was not fordable.]\n    More of wele wat\u021d i{n} \u00feat wyse\n  \u00dee{n} I cow\u00fee telle \u00fea\u021d I tom hade,\n  For vr\u00feely herte my\u021dt not suffyse\n  To \u00fee ten\u00fee dole of \u00feo gladne\u021d glade;                              136\n  For-\u00fey I \u00feo\u021dt \u00fe{a}t paradyse\n  Wat\u021d \u00feer o\u00fe{er} gayn \u00feo bonke\u021d brade;\n  I hoped \u00fee water were a deuyse\n  By-twene myr\u00fee\u021d by mere\u021d made,                                     140\n  By-\u021donde \u00fee broke by slente o\u00fe{er} slade,\n  I hope[de] \u00fe{a}t mote merked wore.\n  Bot \u00fee water wat\u021d depe I dorst not wade\n  & eu{er} me longed a more & more.                                  144\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 41a.]]\n    [Sidenote: More and more he desires to see what is beyond the\n    brook. But the way seemed difficult. The dreamer finds new\n    marvels.]\n    More & more, & \u021det wel mare,\n  Me lyste to se \u00fee broke by-\u021donde,\n  For if hit wat\u021d fayr \u00fe{er} I con fare,\n  Wel loueloker wat\u021d \u00fee fyrre londe.                                 148\n  Abowte me con I stote & stare\n  To fynde a for\u00fee, faste con I fonde,\n  Bot wo\u00fee\u021d mo i-wysse \u00fe{er} ware,\n  \u00dee fyrre I stalked by \u00fee stronde,                                  152\n  & euer me \u00feo\u021dt I schulde not wonde\n  For wo, \u00feer wele\u021d so wy{n}ne wore.\n  \u00dee{n}ne nwe note me com on honde\n  \u00deat meued my mynde ay more & more,                                 156\n\n[Headnote: THE FATHER SEES HIS LOST CHILD DRESSED IN WHITE ROBES.]\n\n    [Sidenote: He sees a crystal cliff, at the foot of which, sits\n    a maiden clothed in glistening white. He knows that he has seen\n    her before.]\n    More meruayle con my dom adau{n}t;\n  I se\u021d by-\u021donde \u00feat myry mere,\n  A crystal clyffe ful relusau{n}t,\n  Mony ryal ray con fro hit rere;                                    160\n  At \u00fee fote \u00fe{er}-of \u00fe{er} sete a fau{n}t,\n  A mayden of menske, ful debonere;\n  Blysnande whyt wat\u021d hyr bleau{n}t,\n  (I knew hyr wel, I hade sen hyr ere)                               164\n  As glysnande golde \u00feat man con schere,\n  So schon \u00feat schene an vnder schore;\n  On lengh{e} I loked to hyr \u00feere,\n  \u00dee lenger I knew hyr more & more                                   168\n\n    [Sidenote: He desires to call her but is afraid, at finding her\n    in such a strange place.]\n    The more I frayste hyr fayre face.\n  Her fygure fyn, quen I had fonte,\n  Suche gladande glory con to me glace,\n  As lyttel byfore \u00feerto wat\u021d wonte;                                 172\n  To calle hyr lyste con me enchace,\n  Bot baysme{n}t gef myn hert a bru{n}t,\n  I se\u021d hyr in so strange a place,\n  Such a burre my\u021dt make my{n} herte blu{n}t                         176\n  \u00dee{n}ne vere\u021d ho vp her fayre frou{n}t,\n  Hyr vysayge whyt as playn yuore,\n  \u00deat stonge my{n} hert ful stray atou{n}t,\n  & eu{er} \u00fee lenger, \u00fee more & more.                                180\n\n\nIV.\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 41b.]]\n    [Sidenote: So he stands still, like a well trained hawk.\n    He fears lest she should escape before he could speak to her.\n    His long lost one is dressed in royal array--decked with\n    precious pearls.]\n    More \u00feen me lyste my drede aros,\n  I stod ful stylle & dorste not calle,\n  Wyth y\u021den open & mouth ful clos,\n  I stod as hende as hawk i{n} halle;                                184\n  I hope \u00fe{a}t gostly wat\u021d \u00fe{a}t porpose,\n  I dred on ende quat schulde byfalle,\n  Lest ho me eschaped \u00feat I \u00fe{er} chos,\n  Er I at steuen hir mo\u021dt stalle.                                    188\n  \u00deat gracios gay w{i}t{h}-outen galle,\n  So smo\u00fee, so smal, so seme sly\u021dt,\n  Ryse\u021d vp i{n} hir araye ryalle,\n  A p{re}c[i]os pyece[7] i{n} perle\u021d py\u021dt.                           192\n\n    [Sidenote 7: MS. looks like _pyete_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: She comes along the stream towards him.\n    Her kirtle is composed of \u2018sute,\u2019 ornamented with pearls.]\n    Perle\u021d py\u021dte of ryal prys,\n  \u00deere mo\u021dt mon by grace haf sene,\n  Quen \u00feat frech as flor-de-lys,\n  Dou{n} \u00fee bonke con bo\u021de by-dene.                                  196\n  Al blysnande whyt wat\u021d hir beau uiys,\n  Vpon at syde\u021d & bou{n}den bene\n  Wyth \u00fee myryeste margarys at my deuyse,\n  \u00deat eu{er} I se\u021d \u021det with myn y\u021den;                                200\n  Wyth lappe\u021d large I wot & I wene,\n  Dubbed with double perle & dy\u021dte,\n  Her cortel of self sute schene,\n  W{i}t{h} p{re}cios perle\u021d al vmbe-py\u021dte.                           204\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 42a.]]\n    [Sidenote: She wore a crown of pearls. Her hair hung down\n    about her. Her colour was whiter than whalebone. Her hair\n    shone as gold.]\n    A py\u021dt coroune \u021det wer \u00feat gyrle,\n  Of mariorys & non o\u00fe{er} ston,\n  Hi\u021de pynakled of cler quyt perle,\n  Wyth flurted flowre\u021d perfet vpon;                                  208\n  To hed hade ho non o\u00fe{er} werle,\n  Her here heke[8] al hyr vmbe-gon;\n  Her semblau{n}t sade, for doc o\u00fe{er} erle,\n  Her ble more bla\u021dt \u00feen whalle\u021d bon;                                212\n  As schorne golde schyr her fax \u00fee{n}ne schon,\n  On schyldere\u021d \u00feat legh{e} vnlapped ly\u021dte;\n  Her depe colo{ur} \u021det wonted non,\n  Of p{re}cios perle i{n} porfyl py\u021dte,                              216\n\n    [Sidenote 8: In the MS. it is _lere leke_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The trimming of her robe consisted of precious\n    pearls. A wonderful pearl was set in her breast.]\n    Py\u021dt wat\u021d poyned & vche a he{m}me,\n  At honde, at syde\u021d, at ouerture,\n  Wyth whyte perle & non o\u00fe{er} ge{m}me,\n  & bornyste quyte wat\u021d hyr uesture.                                 220\n  Bot a wonder perle w{i}t{h}-outen we{m}me,\n  In mydde\u021d hyr breste wat\u021d sette so sure;\n  A ma{n}ne\u021d dom mo\u021dt dry\u021dly de{m}me,\n  Er mynde mo\u021dt malte i{n} hit mesure;                               224\n  I hope no tong mo\u021dt endure\n  No sau{er}ly saghe say of \u00fe{a}t sy\u021dt,\n  So wat\u021d hit clene & cler & pure,\n  \u00deat p{re}cios perle \u00fe{er} hit wat\u021d py\u021dt,                           228\n\n    [Sidenote: No man from here to Greece, was so glad as the father,\n    when he saw his pearl on the bank of the stream. The maiden\n    salutes him.]\n    Py\u021dt in perle \u00feat p{re}cios p[r]yse.\n  On wy\u00fe{er} half wat{er} com dou{n} \u00fee schore,\n  No gladder gome he\u00feen i{n} to grece,\n  \u00dee{n} I, quen ho on bry{m}me wore;                                 232\n  Ho wat\u021d me nerre \u00feen au{n}te or nece,\n  My Ioy for-\u00fey wat\u021d much \u00fee more.\n  Ho p{ro}fered me speche \u00fe{a}t special spyce,\n  Enclynande lowe i{n} wo{m}mon lore,                                236\n  Ca\u021dte of her corou{n} of grete tresore,\n  & haylsed me wyth a lote ly\u021dte.\n  Wel wat\u021d me \u00fe{a}t eu{er} I wat\u021d bore,\n  To sware \u00feat swete i{n} perle\u021d py\u021dte!                              240\n\n\n[Headnote: THE MAIDEN ADDRESSES HER FATHER.]\n\nV.\n\n    [Sidenote: The father enquires of the maiden whether she is his\n    long-lost pearl, and longs to know who has deprived him of his\n    treasure.]\n    \u201cO perle,\u201d q{uod} I, \u201cin perle\u021d py\u021dt,\n  Art \u00fe{o}u my perle \u00feat I haf playned,\n  Regretted by my{n} one, on ny\u021dte?\n  Much longey{n}g haf I for \u00fee layned,                               244\n  Sy\u00feen into gresse \u00fe{o}u me agly\u021dte;\n  Pensyf, payred, I am for-payned,\n  & \u00fe{o}u i{n} a lyf of lyky{n}g ly\u021dte\n  In paradys erde, of stryf vnstrayned.                              248\n  What wyrde hat\u021d hyder my iuel vayned,\n  & don me in \u00feys del & gret dau{n}ger?\n  Fro we i{n} twy{n}ne wern towen & twayned,\n  I haf ben a Ioyle\u021d Iuelere.\u201d                                       252\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 42b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The maiden tells him that his pearl is not really\n    lost. She is in a garden of delight, where sin and mourning\n    are unknown.]\n    That Iuel \u00fee{n}ne in ge{m}my\u021d gente,\n  Vered vp her vyse w{i}t{h} y\u021den graye,\n  Set on hyr corou{n} of perle orie{n}t,\n  & soberly after \u00fee{n}ne con ho say:                                256\n  \u201cSi{r} \u021de haf yo{ur} tale myse-tente,\n  To say yo{ur} perle is al awaye,\n  \u00deat is i{n} cofer, so comly clente,\n  As i{n} \u00feis gardyn gracios gaye,                                   260\n  Here-i{n}ne to lenge for eu{er} & play.\n  \u00deer mys nee morny{n}g com neu{er} here,\n  Her were a forser for \u00fee i{n} faye,\n  If \u00fe{o}u were a gentyl Iueler.                                     264\n\n[Headnote: SHE TELLS HIM OF HER BLISS.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The rose that he had lost is become a pearl of price.\n    The pearl blames his rash speech.]\n    Bot Iueler gente if \u00fe{o}u schal lose\n  \u00dey ioy for a ge{m}me \u00feat \u00fee wat\u021d lef,\n  Me \u00feynk \u00fee put i{n} a mad porpose,\n  & busye\u021d[9] \u00fee aboute a raysou{n} bref,                            268\n  For \u00feat \u00fe{o}u leste\u021d wat\u021d bot a rose,\n  \u00deat flowred & fayled as kynde hyt gef;\n  Now \u00feur\u021d kynde of \u00fee kyste \u00fe{a}t hyt con close,\n  To a perle of prys hit is put i{n} pref;                           272\n  & \u00fe{o}u hat\u021d called \u00fey wyrde a \u00feef,\n  \u00deat o\u021dt of no\u021dt hat\u021d mad \u00fee cler;\n  \u00de{o}u blame\u021d \u00fee bote of \u00fey meschef,\n  \u00de{o}u art no kynde Iueler.\u201d                                        276\n\n    [Sidenote 9: Looks like _husye\u021d_ in MS.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The father begs the maiden to excuse his speech, for\n    he really thought his pearl was wholly lost to him.]\n    A Iuel to me \u00feen wat\u021d \u00feys geste,\n  & iuele\u021d wern hyr ge{n}tyl sawe\u021d,\n  \u201cI-wyse,\u201d q{uod} I, \u201cmy blysfol beste,\n  My grete dystresse \u00fe{o}u al to-drawe\u021d,                             280\n  To be excused I make requeste;\n  I trawed my perle don out of dawe\u021d,\n  Now haf I fonde hyt I schal ma feste,\n  & wony w{i}t{h} hyt i{n} schyr wod schawe\u021d,                        284\n  & loue my lorde & al his lawe\u021d,\n  \u00deat hat\u021d me bro\u021d[t] \u00feys blys ner;\n  Now were I at yow by-\u021donde \u00feise wawe\u021d,\n  I were a ioyfol Iueler.\u201d                                           288\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 43a.]]\n    [Sidenote: The maiden tells her father that he has spoken\n    three words without knowing the meaning of one. The first word.\n    The second. The third.]\n    \u201cIueler,\u201d sayde \u00feat ge{m}me clene,\n  \u201cWy borde \u021de men, so madde \u021de be?\n  \u00dere worde\u021d hat\u021d \u00fe{o}u spoken at ene,\n  Vn-avysed, for so\u00fee, wern alle \u00fere,                                292\n  \u00deou ne woste in worlde quat on dot\u021d mene,\n  \u00dey worde byfore \u00fey wytte con fle.\n  \u00deou says \u00fe{o}u trawe\u021d me i{n} \u00feis dene,\n  By cawse \u00fe{o}u may w{i}t{h} y\u021den me se;                            296\n  Ano\u00fe{er} \u00fe{o}u says, i{n} \u00feys cou{n}tre\n  \u00dey self schal won w{i}t{h} me ry\u021dt here;\n  \u00dee \u00ferydde, to passe \u00feys wat{er} fre,\n  \u00deat may no ioyfol Iueler.                                          300\n\n\n[Headnote: DEATH IS THE ROAD TO PARADISE.]\n\nVI.\n\n    [Sidenote: He is little to be praised who loves what he sees.\n    To love nothing but what one sees is great presumption.]\n    I halde \u00feat iueler lyttel to prayse.\n  \u00deat loue\u021d wel \u00fe{a}t he se\u021d wyth y\u021de,\n  & much to blame & vn-cortoyse,\n  \u00deat loue\u021d[10] oure lorde wolde make a ly\u021de,                        304\n  \u00deat lelly hy\u021dte yo{ur} lyf to rayse,\n  \u00dea\u021d fortune dyd yo{ur} flesch to dy\u021de;\n  \u021ce setten hys worde\u021d ful westernays\n  \u00deat loue\u021d[11] no \u00fey{n}k bot \u021de hit sy\u021de,                           308\n  & \u00feat is[12] a poy{n}t o sorquydry\u021de,\n  \u00deat vche god mon may euel byseme\n  To leue no tale be t{ru}e to try\u021de,\n  Bot \u00feat hys one skyl may dem[e].                                   312\n\n    [Sidenote 10: Looks at first sight like _lyue\u021d_--MS. rubbed, but\n    read _leue\u021d_.]\n    [Sidenote 11: Read _leue\u021d_.]\n    [Sidenote 12: The MS. reads _\u012bs_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: To live in this kingdom (_i.e._ heaven) leave must be\n    asked. This stream must be passed over by death.]\n    Deme now \u00fey-self, if \u00fe{o}u con, dayly\n  As man to god worde\u021d schulde heue.\n  \u00de{o}u sayt\u021d \u00fe{o}u schal won i{n} \u00feis bayly;\n  Me \u00feynk \u00fee burde fyrst aske leue,                                  316\n  & \u021det of grau{n}t \u00fe{o}u my\u021dte\u021d fayle;\n  \u00de{o}u wylne\u021d ou{er} \u00feys water to weue,\n  Er moste \u00fe{o}u ceuer to o\u00fe{er} cou{n}sayl,\n  \u00dey corse i{n} clot mot calder keue,                                320\n  For hit wat\u021d for-garte, at paradys greue\n  Oure \u021dore fader hit con mysse\u021deme;\n  \u00deur\u021d drwry deth bo\u021d vch ma dreue,\n  Er ou{er} \u00feys dam hy{m} dry\u021dty{n} deme.\u201d                           324\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 43b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The father asks his pearl whether she is about to\n    doom him to sorrow again. If he loses his pearl he does not care\n    what happens to him.]\n    \u201cDeme\u021d \u00fe{o}u me,\u201d q{uod} I, \u201cmy swete\n  To dol agayn, \u00fee{n}ne I dowyne;\n  Now haf I fonte \u00feat I for-lete\n  Schal I efte for-go hit er eu{er} I fyne?                          328\n  Why schal I hit bo\u00fee mysse & mete?\n  My p{re}cios perle dot\u021d me gret pyne,\n  What serue\u021d tresor, bot gare\u021d men grete\n  When he hit schal efte w{i}t{h} tene\u021d tyne?                        332\n  Now rech I neu{er} forto declyne,\n  Ne how fer of folde \u00feat man me fleme,\n  When I am partle\u021d of perle\u021d myne.\n  Bot durande doel what may men deme?\u201d                               336\n\n[Headnote: ALL MUST ABIDE GOD\u2019S DOOM.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The maiden tells her father to suffer patiently.\n    Though he may dance as any doe, yet he must abide God\u2019s doom.]\n    \u201cThow deme\u021d no\u021dt bot doel dystresse,\u201d\n  \u00deenne sayde \u00feat wy\u021dt \u201cwhy dot\u021d \u00fe{o}u so?\n  For dyne of doel, of lure\u021d lesse,\n  Ofte mony mon for-gos \u00fee mo;                                       340\n  \u00dee o\u021dte better \u00fey seluen blesse,\n  & loue ay god &[13] wele & wo,\n  For anger gayne\u021d \u00fee not a cresse.\n  Who nede\u021d schal \u00feole be not so \u00fero;                                344\n  For \u00feo\u021d \u00fe{o}u dau{n}ce as any do\n  Brau{n}dysch & bray \u00fey bra\u00fee\u021d breme,\n  When \u00fe{o}u no fyrre may, to ne fro,\n  \u00de{o}u moste abyde \u00feat he schal deme.                               348\n\n    [Sidenote 13: _in_ or _an_ (?).]\n\n    [Sidenote: He must cease to strive. All lies in God\u2019s power\n    to make men joyful or sad.]\n    Deme dry\u021dtyn, euer hy{m} adyte,\n  Of \u00fee way a fote ne wyl he wry\u00fee,\n  \u00dey mende\u021d mou{n}te\u021d not a myte,\n  \u00dea\u021d \u00fe{o}u for sor\u021de be neu{er} bly\u00fee;                              352\n  Sty{n}st of \u00fey strot & fyne to flyte,\n  & sech hys bly\u00fee ful swefte[14] & swy\u00fee,\n  \u00dey prayer may hys pyte byte,\n  \u00deat mercy schal hyr crafte\u021d ky\u00fee;                                  356\n  Hys comforte may \u00fey lango{ur} ly\u00fee,\n  & \u00fey lure\u021d of ly\u021dtly leme,\n  For marre o\u00fe{er} madde, morne & my\u00fee,\n  Al lys i{n} hym to dy\u021dt & deme.\u201d                                   360\n\n    [Sidenote 14: MS. _sweste_.]\n\n\n[Headnote: THE BEREAVED PARENT ASKS HIS CHILD\u2019S PITY.]\n\nVII.\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 44a.]]\n    [Sidenote: The father beseeches the pearl to have pity upon him.]\n    Thenne demed I to \u00feat damyselle,\n  Ne wor\u00fee no wrath \u00fee vnto my lorde,\n  If rapely raue[15] spornande i{n} spelle.\n  My herte wat\u021d al w{i}t{h} mysse remorde,                           364\n  As wallande water got\u021d out of welle;\n  I do me ay i{n} hys myserecorde.\n  Rebuke me neu{er} w{i}t{h} worde\u021d felle,\n  \u00dea\u021d I forloyne my dere endorde,                                    368\n  Bot ly\u00fee\u021d me kyndely yo{ur} cou{m}forde,\n  Pytosly \u00feenkande vpon \u00feysse;\n  Of care & me \u021de made acorde,\n  \u00deat er wat\u021d grou{n}de of alle my blysse;                           372\n\n    [Sidenote 15: _rane_ (?).]\n\n    [Sidenote: He says that she has been both his bale and bliss.\n    And when he lost her, he knew not what had become of her.]\n    My blysse, my bale \u021de han ben bo\u00fee,\n  Bot much \u00fee bygger \u021det wat\u021d my mon,\n  Fro \u00fe{o}u wat\u021d wroken fro vch a wo\u00fee.\n  I wyste neu{er} quere my perle wat\u021d gon;                           376\n  Now I hit se, now le\u00fee\u021d my lo\u00fee,\n  & quen we departed we wern at on,\n  God forbede we be now wro\u00fee,\n  We meten so selden by stok o\u00fe{er} ston;                            380\n  \u00dea\u021d cortaysly \u021de carp con,\n  I am bot mol & marere\u021d mysse,\n  Bot crystes mersy & mary & Ion,\n  \u00deise arn \u00fee grou{n}de of alle my blysse.                           384\n\n    [Sidenote: And now that he sees her in bliss, she takes little\n    heed of his sorrow. He desires to know what life she leads.]\n    In blysse I se \u00fee bly\u00feely blent\n  & I a man al mornyf mate,\n  \u021ce take \u00fe{er}-on ful lyttel tente,\n  \u00dea\u021d I hente ofte harme\u021d hate.                                      388\n  Bot now I am here i{n} yo{ur} p{re}sente,\n  I wolde bysech wythouten debate,\n  \u021ce wolde me say i{n} sobre asente,\n  What lyf \u021de lede, erly & late,                                     392\n  For I am ful fayn \u00feat yo{ur} astate\n  Is wor\u00feen to worschyp & wele I wysse,\n  Of alle my Ioy \u00fee hy\u021de gate\n  Hit is i{n} grou{n}de of alle\u00a0my\u00a0blysse.\u201d                          396\n\n[Headnote: SHE DESCRIBES HER MODE OF LIFE.]\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 44b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The maiden tells him that he may walk and abide\n    with her, now that he is humble. All are meek that dwell\n    in the abode of bliss.]\n    \u201cNow blysse burne mot \u00fee bytyde;\u201d\n  \u00deen sayde \u00feat lufsou{m} of lyth & lere,\n  \u201c& welcu{m} here to walk & byde,\n  For now \u00fey speche is to me dere;                                   400\n  Maysterful mod & hy\u021de pryde\n  I hete \u00fee arn heterly hated here;\n  My lorde ne loue\u021d not forto chyde,\n  For meke arn alle \u00fe{a}t wone\u021d hy{m} nere,                          404\n  & when i{n} hys place \u00fe{o}u schal apere,\n  Be dep deuote i{n} hol mekenesse;\n  My lorde \u00fee lamb, loue\u021d ay such chere,\n  \u00deat is \u00fee grou{n}de of alle my blysse.                             408\n\n    [Sidenote: All lead a blissful life. She reminds her father\n    that she was very young when she died. Now she is crowned\n    a queen in heaven.]\n    A blysful lyf \u00fe{o}u says I lede,\n  \u00deou wolde\u021d knaw \u00fe{er}-of \u00fee stage;\n  \u00deow wost wel when \u00fey perle con schede,\n  I wat\u021d ful \u021dong & tender of age,                                   412\n  Bot my lorde \u00fee lombe, \u00feur\u021d hys god-hede,\n  He toke my self to hys maryage,\n  Corou{n}de me quene i{n} blysse to brede,\n  I{n} lengh{e} of daye\u021d \u00feat eu{er} schal wage,                      416\n  & sesed i{n} alle hys herytage\n  Hys lef is, I am holy hysse;\n  Hys prese, hys prys & hys parage,\n  Is rote & grou{n}de of alle my blysse.\u201d                            420\n\n\n[Headnote: MARY IS THE EMPRESS OF HEAVEN.]\n\nVIII.\n\n    [Sidenote: The father of the maiden does not fully understand\n    her. Mary, he says, is the queen of heaven. No one is able\n    to remove the crown from her.]\n    \u201cBlysful,\u201d q{uod} I, \u201cmay \u00feys be trwe,\n  Dysplese\u021d not if I speke erro{ur};\n  Art \u00feou \u00fee quene of heuene\u021d blwe,\n  \u00de{a}t al \u00feys worlde schal do hono{ur}?                             424\n  We leuen on marye \u00feat grace of grewe,\n  \u00deat ber a barne of vyrgyn flo{ur},\n  \u00dee croune fro hyr quo mo\u021dt remwe,\n  Bot ho hir passed i{n} su{m} fauo{ur}?                             428\n  Now for synglerty o hyr douso{ur},\n  We calle hyr fenyx of arraby,\n  \u00deat freles fle\u021de of hyr fasor,\n  Lyk to \u00fee quen of cortaysye.\u201d                                      432\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 45a.]]\n    [Sidenote: The maiden addresses the Virgin. She then explains\n    to her father that each has his place in heaven.]\n    \u201cCortayse quen\u201d \u00fee{n}ne s[a]yde \u00feat gaye,\n  Knelande to grou{n}de, folde vp hyr face,\n  \u201cMakele\u021d moder & myryest may,\n  Blessed bygy{n}ner[16] of vch a grace!\u201d                            436\n  \u00dee{n}ne ros ho vp & con restay,\n  & speke me towarde i{n} \u00feat space:\n  \u201cS{ir} fele here porchase\u021d & fonge\u021d pray\n  Bot supplantore\u021d none w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne \u00feys place;                   440\n  \u00deat emp{er}ise al heue{n}\u021d hat\u021d,\n  & vr\u00fee & helle i{n} her bayly;\n  Of erytage \u021det non wyl ho chace,\n  For ho is quen of cortaysye.                                       444\n\n    [Sidenote 16: MS. reads _b\u0233gyner_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The court of God has a property in its own being.\n    Each one in it is a king or queen. The mother of Christ holds\n    the chief place.]\n    The co{ur}t of \u00fee kyndom of god alyue,\n  Hat\u021d a p{ro}perty i{n} hyt self bey{n}g;\n  Alle \u00feat may \u00feer-i{n}ne aryue\n  Of alle \u00fee reme is quen o\u00fe{er} ky{n}g,                             448\n  & neu{er} o\u00fe{er} \u021det schal depryue,\n  Bot vchon fayn of o\u00fe{er}e\u021d hafy{n}g,\n  & wolde her corou{n}e\u021d wern wor\u00fee \u00feo fyue,\n  If possyble were her mendy{n}g.                                    452\n  Bot my lady of quom Iesu con spry{n}g,\n  Ho halde\u021d \u00fee empyre ou{er} v{us} ful hy\u021de,\n  & \u00feat dysplese\u021d non of oure gy{n}g,\n  For ho is quene of cortaysye.                                      456\n\n    [Sidenote: We are all members of Christ\u2019s body. Look that\n    each limb be perfect.]\n    Of co{ur}taysye, as sayt\u021d say{n}t poule,\n  Al arn we me{m}bre\u021d of ih{es}u kryst,\n  As heued & arme & legg & naule,\n  Temen to hys body ful trwe & t[r]yste;                             460\n  Ry\u021dt so is vch a krysten sawle,\n  A longande lym to \u00fee mayster of myste;\n  \u00dee{n}ne loke what hate o\u00fe{er} any gawle,\n  Is tached o\u00fe{er} ty\u021ded \u00fey ly{m}me\u021d by-twyste,                      464\n  \u00dey heued hat\u021d nau\u00feer greme ne gryste,\n  On arme o\u00fe{er} fynger, \u00fea\u021d \u00fe{o}u ber by\u021de;\n  So fare we alle wyth luf & lyste,\n  To ky{n}g & quene by cortaysye.\u201d                                   468\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 45b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The father replies that he cannot understand how\n    his pearl can be a queen. He desires to know what greater\n    honour she can have.]\n    \u201cCortayse,\u201d q{uod} I, \u201cI leue\n  & charyte grete be yow amo{n}g,\n  Bot my speche \u00feat yow ne greue,\n      .    .    .    .    .                                          472\n  \u00dey self in heuen ou{er} hy\u021d \u00fe{o}u heue,\n  To make \u00fee quen \u00feat wat\u021d so \u021donge,\n  What more-hond mo\u021dte he acheue\n  \u00deat hade endured i{n} worlde stronge,                              476\n  & lyued i{n} penau{n}ce hys lyue\u021d longe,\n  W{i}t{h} bodyly bale hy{m} blysse to byye?\n  What more worschyp mo\u021dt ho fonge,\n  \u00deen corou{n}de be ky{n}g by cortayse?                              480\n\n\n[Headnote: THE PARABLE OF THE LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD.]\n\nIX.\n\n    [Sidenote: She was only two years old when she died,\n    and could do nothing to please God. She might be a countess\n    or some great lady but not a queen.]\n    That cortayse is to fre of dede,\n  \u021cyf hyt be soth \u00feat \u00fe{o}u cone\u021d saye,\n  \u00de{o}u lyfed not two \u021der i{n} oure \u00feede,\n  \u00de{o}u cow\u00fee\u021d neu{er} god nau\u00fe{er} plese ne pray,                   484\n  Ne neu{er} naw\u00feer pater ne crede,\n  & quen mad on \u00fee fyrst day!\n  I may not traw, so god me spede,\n  \u00deat god wolde wry\u00fee so wrange away;                                488\n  Of cou{n}tes damysel, par ma fay,\n  Wer fayr i{n} heuen to halde asstate\n  A\u00fe{er} elle\u021d a lady of lasse aray,\n  Bot a quene, hit is to dere a date.\u201d                               492\n\n    [Sidenote: The maiden informs her father that there is no limit\n    to God\u2019s power. The parable of the labourers in the vineyard.]\n    \u201c\u00deer is no date of hys god-nesse,\u201d\n  \u00deen sayde to me \u00feat wor\u00fey wy\u021dte,\n  \u201cFor al is traw\u00fee \u00feat he con dresse,\n  & he may do no \u00feynk bot ry\u021dt,                                      496\n  As mathew mele\u021d i{n} yo{ur} messe,\n  I{n} sothfol gospel of god al-my\u021dt\n  I{n} sample he can ful gray\u00feely gesse,\n  & lykne\u021d hit to heuen ly\u021dte.\u201d                                      500\n  \u201cMy regne, he sayt\u021d, is lyk on hy\u021dt,\n  To a lorde \u00feat hade a uyne I wate,\n  Of tyme of \u021dere \u00fee terme wat\u021d ty\u021dt,\n  To labor vyne wat\u021d dere \u00fee date,                                   504\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 46a.]]\n    [Sidenote: The lord of the vineyard hires workmen for a penny a\n    day. At noon the lord hires other men standing idle in the\n    market place.]\n    \u00deat date of \u021dere wel knawe \u00feys hyne;\n  \u00dee lorde ful erly vp he ros,\n  To hyre werkmen to hys vyne,\n  & fynde\u021d \u00fe{er} su{m}me to hys porpos,                              508\n  Into acorde \u00feay con de-clyne,\n  For a pen\u00e9 on a day & forth \u00feay got\u021d,\n  Wry\u00feen & worchen & don gret pyne,\n  Keruen & caggen & man hit clos;                                    512\n  Aboute vnder, \u00fee lorde to marked tot\u021d\n  & ydel men stande he fynde\u021d \u00feer-ate,\n  \u201cWhy stande \u021de ydel\u201d he sayde to \u00feos,\n  Ne knawe \u021de of \u00feis day no date?                                    516\n\n    [Sidenote: He commands them to go into his vineyard, and he will\n    give them what is right.]\n    \u201cEr date of daye hider arn we won{n}e,\u201d\n  So wat\u021d al samen her answar so\u021dt;\n  \u201cWe haf standen her syn ros \u00fee su{n}ne,\n  & no mo{n} bydde\u021d v{us} do, ry\u021dt no\u021dt.\u201d                            520\n  \u201cGos i{n}-to my vyne, dot\u021d \u00feat \u021de co{n}ne.\u201d\n  So sayde \u00fee lorde & made hit to\u021dt.\n  \u201cWhat resonabele hyre be na\u021dt be ru{n}ne,\n  I yow pray i{n} dede & \u00feo\u021dte.\u201d                                     524\n  \u00deay wente i{n} to \u00fee vyne & wro\u021dte,\n  & al day \u00fee lorde \u00fe{us} \u021dede his gate,\n  & nw men to hys vyne he bro\u021dte;\n  Wel ne\u021d wyl day wat\u021d passed date,                                  528\n\n    [Sidenote: At an hour before the sun went down the lord sees\n    other men standing idle. Tells them to go into the vineyard.]\n    At \u00fee day of date of euen-songe,\n  On oure byfore \u00fee so{n}ne go dou{n}\n  He se\u021d \u00feer ydel men ful stronge\n  & sa[y]de to hem[17] w{i}t{h} sobre sou{n};                        532\n  \u201cWy stonde \u021de ydel \u00feise daye\u021d longe.\u201d\n  \u00deay sayden her hyre wat\u021d nawhere bou{n}.\n  \u201cGot\u021d to my vyne \u021demen \u021donge\n  & wyrke\u021d & dot\u021d \u00fe{a}t at \u021de mou{n}.\u201d                               536\n  Sone \u00fee worlde by-com wel brou{n},\n  \u00dee su{n}ne wat\u021d doun &[18] hit wex late;\n  To take her hyre he mad su{m}ou{n};\n  \u00dee day wat\u021d al apassed date.                                       540\n\n    [Sidenote 17: MS. _hen_.]\n    [Sidenote 18: MS. & &.]\n\n\n[Headnote: THE PAYMENT OF THE LABOURERS.]\n\nX.\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 46b.]]\n    [Sidenote: As soon as the sun was gone down the \u201creeve\u201d was told\n    to pay the workmen. To give each a penny. The first began to\n    complain.]\n    The date of \u00fee daye \u00fee lorde con knaw,\n  Called to \u00fee reue \u201clede pay \u00fee meyny,\n  Gyf hem \u00fee hyre \u00feat I hem owe,\n  & fyrre, \u00feat non me may repreue,                                   544\n  Set hem alle vpon a rawe,\n  & gyf vchon i{n}-lyche a peny.\n  Bygyn at \u00fee laste \u00feat sta{n}de\u021d lowe,\n  Tyl to \u00fee fyrste \u00feat \u00fe{o}u atteny;\u201d                                548\n  & \u00fee{n}ne \u00fee fyrst by-go{n}ne\u00a0to\u00a0pleny\n  & sayden \u00feat \u00feay hade trauayled sore,\n  \u00deese bot an [h]oure hem con streny,\n  V{us} \u00fey{n}k v{us} o\u021de to\u00a0take more.                               552\n\n    [Sidenote: Having borne the heat of the day he thinks that he\n    deserves more. The lord tells him that he agreed only to give\n    him a penny.]\n    More haf we serued v{us} \u00fey{n}k so,\n  \u00deat suffred han \u00fee daye\u021d hete,\n  \u00dee{n}n \u00feyse \u00feat wro\u021dt[e] not houre\u021d two,\n  & \u00fe{o}u dot\u021d hem v{us} to cou{n}terfete.                           556\n  \u00dee{n}ne sayde \u00fee lorde to on of \u00feo,\n  \u201cFrende no wrang[19] I wyl \u00fee \u021dete,\n  Take \u00feat is \u00feyn owne & go;\n  & I hyred \u00fee for a peny a grete,                                   560\n  Quy bygy{n}ne\u021d \u00fe{o}u now to \u00ferete;\n  Wat\u021d not a pen\u00e9 \u00fey couenau{n}t \u00feore?\n  Fyrre \u00fee{n} couenau{n}de is no\u021dt\u00a0to\u00a0plete,\n  Wy schalte \u00feou \u00fee{n}ne ask more?                                   564\n\n    [Sidenote 19: MS. _wanig_.]\n\n[Headnote: THE APPLICATION OF THE PARABLE.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The last shall be first, and the first last.\n    The maiden applies the parable to herself.]\n    More we\u00fe{er} louyly is me my gyfte\n  To do wyth myn quat so me lyke\u021d?\n  O\u00fe{er} elle\u021d \u00feyn y\u021de to ly\u00fe{er} is\u00a0lyfte,\n  For I am goude & no{n} by-swyke\u021d.\u201d                                 568\n  \u201c\u00de{us} schal I,\u201d q{uod} kryste, \u201chit skyfte,\n  \u00dee laste schal be \u00fee fyrst \u00feat stryke\u021d,\n  & \u00fee fyrst \u00fee laste, be he neu{er}\u00a0so\u00a0swyft,\n  For mony ben calle[d] \u00fea\u021d fewe be myke\u021d.\u201d                          572\n  \u00de{us} pore men her part ay pyke\u021d,\n  \u00dea\u021d \u00feay com late & lyttel wore,\n  & \u00fea\u021d her sweng wyth lyttel at-slyke\u021d,\n  \u00dee merci of god is much \u00fee more.                                   576\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 47a.]]\n    [Sidenote: She came to the vine in eventide, and yet received\n    more than others who had lived longer.]\n    \u201cMore haf I of ioye & blysse here-i{n}ne,\n  Of ladyschyp gret & lyue\u021d blom,\n  \u00deen alle \u00fee wy\u021de\u021d i{n} \u00fee worlde my\u021dt wy{n}ne\n  By \u00fee way of ry\u021dt to aske dome.                                    580\n  Whe\u00feer wel nygh[t] now I con bygy{n}ne,\n  In euentyde in-to \u00fee vyne I come,\n  Fyrst of my hyre my lorde con my{n}ne,\n  I wat\u021d payed anon of al & sum;                                     584\n  \u021cet o\u00fe{er} \u00feer werne \u00fe{a}t toke more tom,\n  \u00deat swange & swat for long \u021dore,\n  \u00deat \u021det of hyre no \u00feynk \u00feay nom,\n  Parau{n}t{er} no\u021dt schal to \u021dere more.\u201d                            588\n\n    [Sidenote: The father says that his daughter\u2019s tale is\n    unreasonable.]\n    Then more I meled & sayde apert,\n  \u201cMe \u00feynk \u00fey tale vnresou{n}able,\n  Godde\u021d ry\u021dt is redy & eu{er} more rert,[20]\n  O\u00fe{er} holy wryt is bot a fable;                                   592\n  I{n} sauter is sayd a verce ouerte\n  \u00deat speke\u021d a poy{n}t determynable,\n  \u2018\u00de{o}u quyte\u021d vchon as hys desserte,\n  \u00de{o}u hy\u021de ky{n}g ay p{re}termynable,\u2019[21]                         596\n  Now he \u00feat stod \u00fee long day stable,\n  & \u00fe{o}u to payment com hym byfore,\n  \u00dee{n}ne \u00fee lasse i{n} werke to take more able,\n  & eu{er} \u00fee lenger \u00fee lasse \u00fee more.\u201d                              600\n\n    [Sidenote 20: _ert_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 21: MS. p{er}termynable.]\n\n\n[Headnote: GOD IS NO NIGGARD.]\n\nXI.\n\n    [Sidenote: In heaven, the maiden says, each man is paid alike.\n    God is no niggard. The grace of God is sufficient for all.]\n    \u201cOf more & lasse in gode\u021d ryche,\u201d\n  \u00deat gentyl sayde \u201clys no Ioparde,\n  For \u00feer is vch mon payed inliche,\n  Whe\u00feer lyttel o\u00fe{er} much be hys rewarde,                          604\n  For \u00fee gentyl cheuentayn is no chyche,\n  Que\u00fe{er}-so-eu{er} he dele nesch o\u00fe{er} harde,\n  He laue\u021d hys gyfte\u021d[22] as wat{er} of dyche,\n  O\u00fe{er} gote\u021d of golf \u00feat neu{er} charde;                           608\n  Hys frau{n}chyse is large \u00fe{a}t eu{er} dard,\n  To hy{m} \u00feat mat\u021d i{n} sy{n}ne no scogh{e}[23]\n  No blysse bet\u021d fro hem reparde,\n  For \u00fee grace of god is gret I-nogh{e}.                             612\n\n    [Sidenote 22: MS. _gyste\u021d_.]\n    [Sidenote 23: In the MS. it looks like _rescoghe_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 47b.]]\n    [Sidenote: Those who live long on the earth often forfeit heaven\n    by sinning.]\n    Bot now \u00fe{o}u mote\u021d me for to mate\n  \u00deat I my peny haf wrang tan here,\n  \u00de{o}u say\u021d \u00feat I \u00feat com to late,\n  Am not wor\u00fey so gret lere.                                         616\n  Where wyste\u021d \u00fe{o}u eu{er} any bourne abate\n  Euer so holy i{n} hys prayere,\n  \u00deat he ne forfeted by su{m}kyn gate,\n  \u00dee mede su{m}-tyme of heuene\u021d clere;                               620\n  & ay \u00fee ofter, \u00fee alder \u00feay were,\n  \u00deay laften ry\u021dt & wro\u021dten wogh{e}\n  Mercy & g{ra}ce moste hem \u00fee{n} stere,\n  For \u00fee g{ra}ce of god is gret i{n}-no\u021de.                           624\n\n    [Sidenote: Innocents are saved by baptism. Why should not\n    God allow their labour.]\n    Bot i{n}-nogh{e} of grace hat\u021d i{n}nocent,\n  As sone as \u00feay arn borne by lyne\n  I{n} \u00fee water of babtem \u00feay dyssente,\n  \u00de{en} arne \u00feay boro\u021dt i{n}-to \u00fee vyne,                             628\n  Anon \u00fee day w{i}t{h} derk endente,\n  \u00dee my\u021dt of deth dot\u021d to en-clyne\n  \u00deat wro\u021dt neuer wrang er \u00fee{n}ne \u00feay wente;\n  \u00dee gentyle lorde \u00fee{n}ne paye\u021d hys hyne,                           632\n  \u00deay dyden hys heste, \u00feay wern \u00feere-ine,\n  Why schulde he not her labo{ur} alow,\n  \u021cy[rd] & pay hem[24] at \u00fee fyrst fyne\n  For \u00fee grace of god is gret i{n}-nogh{e}?                          636\n\n    [Sidenote 24: MS. _hym_.]\n\n[Headnote: PARADISE WAS LOST THROUGH AN APPLE.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Our first father lost heaven by eating an apple.\n    And all are damned for the sin of Adam. But there came one\n    who paid the penalty of our sins.]\n    Ino\u021de is knawen \u00fe{a}t man-kyn grete,\n  Fyrste wat\u021d wro\u021dt to blysse parfyt;\n  Oure forme-fader hit con forfete,\n  \u00deur\u021d an apple \u00feat he vpon con byte;                                640\n  Al wer we dampned for \u00feat mete,\n  To dy\u021de i{n} doel out of delyt,\n  & sy\u00feen wende to helle hete,\n  \u00de{er}-i{n}ne to won w{i}t{h}-oute respyt;                          644\n  Bot \u00feer on com a bote as-tyt.\n  Ryche blod ran on rode so rogh{e},\n  & wy{n}ne [&] wat{er}, \u00fee{n} at \u00feat plyt\n  \u00dee g{ra}ce of god wex gret i{n}-nogh{e}.                           648\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 48a.]]\n    [Sidenote: The water that came from the pierced side of Christ\n    was baptism.]\n    Innogh{e} \u00feer wax out[25] of \u00feat welle,\n  Blod & wat{er} of brode wou{n}de;\n  \u00dee blod v{us} bo\u021dt fro bale of helle,\n  & delyu{er}ed v{us} of \u00fee deth secou{n}de;                         652\n  \u00dee water is baptem \u00fee so\u00fee to telle;\n  \u00deat fol\u021ded \u00fee glayue so gry{m}ly grou{n}de,\n  \u00deat wasche\u021d away \u00fee gylte\u021d felle,\n  \u00deat adam wyth i{n}ne deth v{us} drou{n}de.                         656\n  Now is \u00fe{er} no\u021dt i{n} \u00fee worlde rou{n}de\n  Bytwene v{us} & blysse bot \u00feat he w{i}t{h}-dro\u021d\n  & \u00feat is restored i{n} sely stou{n}de,\n  & \u00fee grace of god is gret i{n}-nogh.                               660\n\n    [Sidenote 25: MS. _out out_.]\n\n\nXII.\n\n    [Sidenote: Repentance must be sought by prayer with sorrow and\n    affliction. The guilty may be saved by contrition.]\n    Grace i{n}-nogh \u00fee mon may haue,\n  \u00deat sy{n}ne\u021d \u00fee{n}ne new, \u021dif hy{m} repente,\n  Bot w{i}t{h} sor\u021d & syt he mot hit craue,\n  & byde \u00fee payne \u00feer-to is bent,                                    664\n  Bot resou{n} of ry\u021dt \u00feat con not raue,\n  Saue\u021d eu{er} more \u00fee i{n}nosse{n}t;\n  Hit is a dom \u00fe{a}t neu{er} god gaue,\n  \u00deat eu{er} \u00fee gyltle\u021d schulde be schente.                          668\n  \u00dee gyltyf may contryssyou{n} hente\n  & be \u00feur\u021d mercy to grace \u00fery\u021dt;\n  Bot he to gyle \u00feat neu{er} glente,\n  At i{n}-oscente is saf & ry\u021dte.                                    672\n\n[Headnote: INNOCENTS ARE SAVED BY RIGHT.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Two sorts of people are saved, the _righteous_ and\n    the _innocent_. The words of David. The innocent is saved by\n    right.]\n    Ry\u021dt \u00fe{us}[26] I knaw wel i{n} \u00feis cas,\n  Two men to saue is god by skylle;\n  \u00dee ry\u021dt-wys man schal se hys face,[27]\n  \u00dee harmle\u021d ha\u00feel schal com hym tylle,                              676\n  \u00dee saut{er} hyt sat\u021d \u00fe{us} i{n} a pace:\n  \u201cLorde quo schal klymbe \u00fey hy\u021d hylle\u021d\n  O\u00fe{er} rest w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne \u00fey holy place?\u201d\n  Hymself to on-sware he is not dylle;                               680\n  \u201cHondely{n}ge\u021d harme \u00feat dyt not ille,\n  \u00deat is of hert bo\u00fee clene & ly\u021dt,\n  \u00deer schal hys step stable stylle,\u201d\n  \u00dee i{n}nosent is ay saf by ry\u021dt.                                   684\n\n    [Sidenote 26: MS. \u00fe{us} \u00fe{us}.]\n    [Sidenote 27: MS. _fate_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 48b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The words of Solomon.]\n    The ry\u021dtwys man also sertayn\n  Aproche he schal \u00fe{a}t proper pyle,\n  \u00deat take\u021d not her lyf in vayne\n  Ne glauere\u021d her nie\u021dbor wyth no gyle;                              688\n  Of \u00feys ry\u021dt-wys sa\u021d[28] salamon playn,\n  How kyntly oure con aquyle\n  By waye\u021d ful stre\u021dt he con hym strayn,\n  & scheued hy{m} \u00fee rengne of god a whyle,                          692\n  As quo says \u201clo \u021don louely yle,\n  \u00de{o}u may hit wy{n}ne if \u00fe{o}u be wy\u021dte,\u201d\n  Bot hardyly w{i}t{h}-oute peryle,\n  \u00dee i{n}nosent is ay saue by ry\u021dte!                                 696\n\n    [Sidenote 28: _sat\u021d_ (?).]\n\n    [Sidenote: David says no man living is justified.\n    Pray to be saved by innocence and not by right.]\n    An-ende ry\u021dtwys men, \u021det sayt\u021d a gome\n  Dauid in sauter, if eu{er} \u021de se\u021d hit,\n  \u201cLorde \u00fey seruau{n}t dra\u021d neuer to dome,\n  For[29] non lyuyunde to \u00fee is Iustyfyet.\u201d                          700\n  For-\u00fey to corte quen \u00fe{o}u schal com,\n  \u00deer alle oure cause\u021d schal be tryed,\n  Alegge \u00fee ry\u021dt \u00fe{o}u may be i{n}-nome,\n  By \u00feys ilke spech I haue asspyed;                                  704\n  Bot he on rode \u00feat blody dyed,\n  Delfully \u00feur\u021d honde\u021d \u00fery\u021dt\n  Gyue \u00fee to passe when \u00fe{o}u arte tryed\n  By in{n}ocens & not by ry\u021dte.                                      708\n\n    [Sidenote 29: MS. _sor._]\n\n[Headnote: CHRIST BLESSED LITTLE CHILDREN.]\n\n    [Sidenote: When Jesus was on earth, little children were brought\n    unto him. The disciples rebuked the parents. Christ said,\n    \u201cSuffer little children to come unto me,\u201d etc.]\n    Ry\u021dt-wysly quo con rede,\n  He loke on bok & be awayed\n  How Ih{esu}c hy{m} welke in are \u00feede,\n  & burne\u021d her barne\u021d vnto hy{m} brayde,                             712\n  For happe & hele \u00feat fro hy{m} \u021dede,\n  To touch[30] her chylder \u00feay fayr hym prayed.\n  His dessypele\u021d w{i}t{h} blame let be hy{m} bede,\n  & wyth her resou{n}e\u021d ful fele restayed;                           716\n  Ih{esu}c \u00fee{n}ne hem swetely sayde,\n  \u201cDo way, let chylder vnto me ty\u021dt.\n  To suche is heuen-ryche arayed,\u201d\n  \u00dee i{n}nocent is ay saf by ry\u021dt.                                   720\n\n    [Sidenote 30: MS. _touth_.]\n\n\nXIII.\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 49a.]]\n    [Sidenote: No one can win heaven except he be meek as a child.]\n    Ih{esu}c con calle to hy{m} hys mylde\n  & sayde hys ryche no wy\u021d my\u021dt wy{n}ne.\n  Bot he com \u00feyder ry\u021dt as a chylde,\n  O\u00fe{er} elle\u021d neu{er} more com \u00feer-i{n}ne,                          724\n  Harmle\u021d, trwe & vnde-fylde,\n  W{i}t{h}-outen mote o\u00fe{er} mascle of sulpande sy{n}ne;\n  Quen such \u00feer cnoken on \u00fee bylde,\n  Tyt schal hem men \u00fee \u021date vnpy{n}ne,                               728\n  \u00deer is \u00fee blys \u00feat con not bly{n}ne,\n  \u00deat \u00fee Iueler so\u021dte \u00feur\u021d perre pres\n  & solde alle hys goud bo\u00fee wolen & ly{n}ne,\n  To bye hy{m} a perle [\u00feat] wat\u021d mascelle\u021d.                         732\n\n[Headnote: FORSAKE THE MAD WORLD.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The pearl of price is like the kingdom of heaven,\n    pure and clean. Forsake the mad world and purchase the spotless\n    pearl.]\n    This makelle\u021d perle \u00feat bo\u021dt is dere,\n  \u00dee Ioueler gef fore alle hys god,\n  Is lyke \u00fee reme of heuenesse clere\n  So sayde \u00fee fader of folde & flode,                                736\n  For hit is we{m}le\u021d, clene & clere,\n  & endele\u021d rou{n}de & bly\u00fee of mode,\n  & co{m}mune to alle \u00feat ry\u021dtwys[31] were,\n  Lo! euen i{n} mydde\u021d my breste hit stode;                          740\n  My lorde \u00fee lombe \u00feat schede hys blode,\n  He py\u021dt hit \u00feere i{n} token of pes;\n  I rede \u00fee forsake \u00fee worlde wode,\n  & porchace \u00fey perle maskelles.\u201d                                    744\n\n    [Sidenote 31: MS. _ry\u021dtywys_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The father of the maiden desires to know who formed\n    her figure and wrought her garments. Her beauty, he says,\n    is not natural. Her colour passes the fleur-de-lis.]\n    \u201cO maskele\u021d perle i{n} perle\u021d pure\n  \u00deat bere\u021d,\u201d q{uod} I, \u201c\u00fee perle of prys,\n  Quo formed \u00fee \u00fey fayre fygure?\n  \u00deat wro\u021dt \u00fey wede, he wat\u021d ful wys;                                748\n  \u00dey beaute com neu{er} of nature,\n  Pymalyon paynted neu{er} \u00fey vys,\n  Ne arystotel naw\u00fe{er} by hys lettrure\n  Of carpe \u00fee kynde \u00feese p{ro}perte\u021d.                                752\n  \u00dey colo{ur} passe\u021d \u00fee flo{ur}-de-lys,\n  \u00deyn angel hauy{n}g so clene corte\u021d\n  Breue me bry\u021dt, quat-kyn of p{r}iys[32]\n  Bere\u021d \u00fee perle so maskelle\u021d.\u201d                                      756\n\n    [Sidenote 32: The MS. has _triys_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 49b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The maiden explains to her father that she is a bride\n    of Christ. She is without spot or blemish. Her weeds are washed\n    in the blood of Christ.]\n    \u201cMy makele\u021d lambe \u00feat al may bete,\u201d\n  Q{uod} scho, \u201cmy dere destyn\u00e9\n  Me ches to hys make al-\u00fea\u021d vnmete,\n  Su{m} tyme semed \u00fe{a}t assembl\u00e9                                    760\n  When I wente fro yor worlde wete.\n  He calde me to hys bon{er}t\u00e9,\n  \u2018Cu{m} hyder to me my le{m}man swete,\n  For mote ne spot is non i{n} \u00fee:\u2019                                  764\n  He gef me my\u021dt & als bewt\u00e9.\n  I{n} hys blod he wesch my wede on dese,\n  & coronde clene i{n} v{er}gynt\u00e9,\n  & py\u021dt me i{n} perle\u021d maskelle\u021d.\u201d                                  768\n\n    [Sidenote: The father asks the nature of the Lamb that has\n    chosen his daughter, and why she is selected as a bride.]\n    \u201cWhy maskelle\u021d bryd \u00feat bry\u021dt con flambe\n  \u00deat reiate\u021d hat\u021d so ryche & ryf,\n  Quat-kyn \u00fey{n}g may be \u00feat lambe,\n  \u00deat \u00fee wolde wedde vnto hys vyf?                                   772\n  Ou{er} alle o\u00fe{er} so hy\u021d \u00fe{o}u clambe,\n  To lede w{i}t{h} hy{m} so ladyly lyf\n  So mony a cumly on v{n}der cambe,\n  For kryst han lyued i{n} much stryf,                               776\n  & \u00fe{o}u con alle \u00feo dere out-dryf,\n  & fro \u00feat maryag al o\u00fe{er} depres,\n  Al only \u00feyself so stout & styf,\n  A makele\u021d may & maskelle\u021d.\u201d                                        780\n\n\n[Headnote: THE LAMB AND HIS BRIDES.]\n\nXIV.\n\n    [Sidenote: The Lamb has one hundred and forty thousand brides.\n    St. John saw them on the hill of Sion in a dream, in the new\n    city of Jerusalem.]\n    \u201cMaskelles,\u201d q{uod} \u00feat myry quene,\n  \u201cVnblemyst I am wyth-outen blot,\n  & \u00feat may I w{i}t{h} mensk me{n}teene;\n  Bot makele\u021d quene \u00fee{n}ne sade I not,                              784\n  \u00dee lambes vyue\u021d i{n} blysse we bene,\n  A hondred & forty \u00feowsande flot\n  As i{n} \u00fee apocalyppe\u021d hit is sene;\n  Sant Ioh{a}n hem sy\u021d al i{n} a knot,                               788\n  On \u00fee hyl of syon \u00feat semly clot.\n  \u00dee apostel hem segh i{n} gostly drem\n  Arayed to \u00fee weddy{n}g i{n} \u00fe{a}t hyl coppe,\n  \u00dee nwe cyte u I{e}r{usa}l{e}m.                                     792\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 50a.]]\n    [Sidenote: Isaiah speaks of Christ or the Lamb. He says that\n    He was led as a lamb to the slaughter.]\n    Of I{e}r{usa}l{e}m I in speche spelle.\n  If \u00fe{o}u wyl knaw what-kyn he be,\n  My lombe, my lorde, my dere Iuelle,\n  My ioy, my blys, my le{m}man fre,                                  796\n  \u00dee p{ro}fete ysaye of hy{m} con melle,\n  Pitously of hys debonert\u00e9\n  \u00deat gloryo{us} gyltle\u021d[33] \u00fe{a}t mon con quelle,\n  W{i}t{h}-outen any sake of felonye,                                800\n  As a schep to \u00fee sla\u021dt \u00fe{er} lad wat\u021d he\n  & as lombe \u00feat clypper i{n} lande nem,[34]\n  So closed he hys mouth fro vch query,\n  Quen Iue\u021d hy{m} iugged i{n} Ih{erusal}em.                          804\n\n    [Sidenote 33: MS. reads _gystle\u021d_.]\n    [Sidenote 34: MS. _men_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: In Jerusalem was Christ slain. With buffets\n    was His face flayed. He endured all patiently as a lamb.\n    For us He died in Jerusalem.]\n    In I{e}r{usa}l{e}m wat\u021d my le{m}man slayn\n  & rent on rode w{i}t{h} boye\u021d bolde;\n  Al oure bale\u021d to bere ful bayn,\n  He toke on hy{m} self oure care\u021d colde,                            808\n  W{i}t{h} boffete\u021d wat\u021d hys face flayn,\n  \u00deat wat\u021d so fayr on to byholde;\n  For sy{n}ne he set hy{m} self i{n} vayn,\n  \u00deat neu{er} hade non hym self to wolde,                            812\n  For v{us} he lette hy{m} fly\u021de & folde\n  & brede vpon a bostwys bem,\n  As meke as lomb[35] \u00feat no playnt tolde.\n  For v{us} he swalt i{n} I{e}r{usa}l{e}m:                           816\n\n    [Sidenote 35: The MS. reads _lomp_.]\n\n[Headnote: THE LAMB WAS SLAIN IN JERUSALEM.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The declaration of St. John, \u201cBehold the Lamb\n    of God,\u201d etc. Who can reckon His generation, that died\n    in Jerusalem?]\n    I{e}r{usa}l{e}m, Iordan & galalye,\n  \u00deer as baptysed \u00fee goude say{n}t Ion,\n  His worde\u021d acorded to ysaye;\n  When Ih{esu}c con to hy{m} warde gon                               820\n  He sayde of hy{m} \u00feys p{ro}fessye,\n  \u201cLo gode\u021d lombe as trwe as ston,\n  \u00deat dot\u021d away \u00fee sy{n}ne\u021d dry\u021de!\u201d\n  \u00deat alle \u00feys worlde hat\u021d wro\u021dt vpon,                               824\n  Hy{m} self ne wro\u021dt neu{er} \u021det non,\n  Whe\u00fe{er} on hym self he con al clem,\n  Hys generacyou{n} quo recen con,\n  \u00deat dy\u021ded for v{us} i{n} I{e}r{usa}l{e}m?                          828\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 50b.]]\n    [Sidenote: In the New Jerusalem St. John saw the Lamb sitting\n    upon the throne.]\n    In I{e}r{usa}l{e}m \u00fe{us} my le{m}man swatte,\n  Twye\u021d, for lombe wat\u021d taken \u00feere,\n  By trw recorde of ay\u00fe{er} p{ro}phete,\n  For mode so meke & al hys fare,                                    832\n  \u00dee \u00feryde tyme is \u00fe{er}-to ful mete\n  In apokalype\u021d wryten ful \u021dare.\n  In myde\u021d \u00fee trone \u00feere saynte\u021d sete,\n  \u00dee apostel ioh{a}n hy{m} sayt\u021d as bare,                            836\n  Lesande \u00fee boke with leue\u021d sware,\n  \u00deere seuen sy{n}gnette\u021d wern sette i{n}-seme\n  & at \u00fe{a}t sy\u021dt vche douth con dare,\n  In helle, i{n} er\u00fee & I{e}r{usa}l{e}m.                             840\n\n\nXV.\n\n    [Sidenote: The Lamb is without blemish. Every spotless soul\n    is a worthy bride for the Lamb. No strife or envy among\n    the brides.]\n    Thys I{e}r{usa}l{e}m lombe hade neu{er} pechche\n  Of o\u00fe{er} huee bot quyt Iolyf\n  \u00deat mot ne masklle mo\u021dt on streche\n  For wolle quyte so ronk & ryf,                                     844\n  For-\u00fey vche saule \u00feat hade neu{er} teche,[36]\n  Is to \u00feat lombe a worthyly wyf;\n  And \u00fea\u021d vch day a store he feche,\n  Among v{us} co{m}me\u021d non o\u00fe{er} strot ne stryf,                    848\n  Bot vchon enle[37] we wolde were fyf,\n  \u00dee mo \u00fee myryer so god me blesse.\n  I{n} compayny gret our luf con \u00feryf\n  In hono{ur} more & neu{er} \u00fee lesse.                               852\n\n    [Sidenote 36: MS. _tethe_.]\n    [Sidenote 37: _vch onlepi_ (?).]\n\n    [Sidenote: None can have less bliss than another.\n    Our death leads us to bliss.]\n    Lasse of blysse may non v{us} bry{n}g\n  \u00deat beren \u00feys perle vpon oure bereste,\n  For \u00feay of mote cou\u00fee neu{er} my{n}ge,\n  Of spotle\u021d perle\u021d \u00fea[y] beren \u00fee creste,                           856\n  Al-\u00fea\u021d oure corses i{n} clotte\u021d cly{n}ge,\n  & \u021de remen for rau\u00fee wyth-outen reste,\n  We \u00feur\u021d-outly hauen cnawy{n}g;\n  Of [o]n dethe ful oure hope is drest,                              860\n  \u00dee lonbe v{us} glade\u021d, oure care is kest;\n  He myr\u00fee\u021d v{us} alle at vch a mes,\n  Vchone\u021d blysse is breme & beste,\n  & neu{er} one\u021d hono{ur} \u021det neu{er} \u00fee les.                        864\n\n[Headnote: THE VISION OF SAINT JOHN.]\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 51a.]]\n    [Sidenote: What St. John saw upon the Mount of Sion.\n    About the Lamb he saw one hundred and forty thousand maidens.\n    He heard a voice from heaven, like many floods.]\n    Lest les \u00fe{o}u leue my tale[38] farande,\n  I{n} appocalyppece is wryten i{n} wro\n  I segh{e}, says Ioh{a}n, \u00fee lou{m}be hy{m} stande,\n  On \u00fee mou{n}t of syon ful \u00feryuen & \u00fero,                            868\n  & wyth hym mayde{n}ne\u021d an hu{n}dre\u00fee \u00feowsande\n  & fowre & forty \u00feowsande mo\n  On alle her forhede\u021d wryten I fande,\n  \u00dee lombe\u021d nome, hys fadere\u021d also.                                  872\n  A hue fro heuen I herde \u00feoo,\n  Lyk flode\u021d fele laden, ru{n}ne{n} on resse,\n  & as \u00feu{n}der \u00ferowe\u021d i{n} torre\u021d blo,\n  \u00deat lote I leue wat\u021d neu{er} \u00fee les.                               876\n\n    [Sidenote 38: MS. _talle_, but _tale_ in the catchwords.]\n\n    [Sidenote: He heard the maiden sing a new song. So did\n    the four beasts and the elders \u201cso sad of cheer.\u201d]\n    Nau\u00feeles \u00fea\u021d hit schowted scharpe,\n  & ledden loude al-\u00fea\u021d hit were.\n  A note ful nwe I herde hem warpe,\n  To lysten \u00feat wat\u021d ful lufly dere,                                 880\n  As harpore\u021d harpen in her harpe,\n  \u00deat nwe songe \u00feay so{n}gen ful cler.\n  In sou{n}ande note\u021d a gentyl carpe,\n  Ful fayre \u00fee mode\u021d \u00feay fonge i{n} fere                             884\n  Ry\u021dt byfore gode\u021d chayere,\n  & \u00fee fowre beste\u021d \u00feat hy{m} obes,\n  & \u00fee alder-men so sadde of chere,\n  Her songe \u00feay songen neu{er} \u00fee les;                               888\n\n    [Sidenote: This assembly was like the Lamb, spotless and pure.]\n    Now\u00fee-lese non wat\u021d neu{er} so quoy{n}t,\n  For alle \u00fee crafte\u021d \u00feat eu{er} \u00feay knewe.\n  \u00deat of \u00feat songe my\u021dt sy{n}ge a poy{n}t,\n  Bot \u00feat meyny \u00fee lombe \u00feay swe,                                    892\n  For \u00feay arn bo\u021dt fro \u00fee vr\u00fee aloynte.\n  As newe fryt to god ful due\n  & to \u00fee gentyl lombe hit arn amoy{n}t,\n  As lyk to hym self of lote & hwe,                                  896\n  For neu{er} lesy{n}g ne tale vn-trwe,\n  Ne towched her tonge for no dysstresse.\n  \u00deat moteles meyny may neu{er} remwe,\n  Fro \u00feat maskele\u021d mayster neu{er} \u00fee les.\u201d                          900\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 51b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The father replies to the maiden. He says he is\n    but dust and ashes. He wishes to ask one question,]\n    \u201cNeuer \u00fee les let be my \u00feonc,\u201d\n  Q{uod} I, \u201cmy perle \u00fea\u021d I appose,\n  I schulde not tempte \u00fey wyt so wlonc,\n  To kryste\u021d chambre \u00feat art Ichose,                                 904\n  I am bot mokke & mul amo{n}g,\n  & \u00fe{o}u so ryche a reken rose,\n  & byde\u021d here by \u00feys blysful bonc\n  \u00deer lyue\u021d lyste may neu{er} lose,                                  908\n  Now hynde \u00feat sympelnesse co{n}e\u021d enclose,\n  I wolde \u00fee aske a \u00fey{n}ge expresse,\n  & \u00fea\u021d I be bustwys as a blose\n  Let my bone vayl neu{er} \u00fee lese.                                  912\n\n\n[Headnote: THE ABODE OF CHRIST\u2019S BRIDES.]\n\nXVI.\n\n    [Sidenote: whether the brides have their abode in castle-walls\n    or in manor. Jerusalem, he says, in Judea. But the dwelling\n    of the brides should be perfect.]\n    Neuer \u00fee lese cler I yow by-calle\n  If \u021de con se hyt be to done,\n  As \u00fe{o}u art gloryo{u}s w{i}t{h}-outen galle,\n  W{i}t{h}-nay \u00fe{o}u neu{er} my ruful bone.                          916\n  Haf \u021de no wone\u021d i{n} castel walle,\n  Ne man{er} \u00feer \u021de may mete & won?\n  \u00de{o}u telle\u021d me of I{e}r{usa}l{e}m \u00fee ryche ryalle,\n  \u00deer dauid dere wat\u021d dy\u021dt on trone,                                 920\n  Bot by \u00feyse holte\u021d hit con not hone\n  Bot in Iudee hit is \u00fe{a}t noble note;\n  As \u021de ar maskele\u021d vnder mone,\n  Yo{ur} wone\u021d schulde by wyth-outen mote.                           924\n\n    [Sidenote: For such \u201ca comely pack\u201d a great castle would be\n    required.]\n    \u00deys motele\u021d meyny \u00fe{o}u cone\u021d of\u00a0mele,\n  Of \u00feousande\u021d \u00fery\u021dt so gret a route,\n  A gret cete, for \u021de arn fele,\n  Yow by-hod haue w{i}t{h}-outen doute;                              928\n  So cu{m}ly a pakke of Ioly Iuele,\n  Wer euel don schulde ly\u021d \u00fe{er}-oute;\n  & by \u00feyse bonke\u021d \u00feer I con gele\n  & I se no bygy{n}g nawhere aboute,                                 932\n  I trowe al-one \u021de lenge & loute,\n  To loke on \u00fee glory of \u00feys g{ra}c[i]o{us} gote;\n  If \u00fe{o}u hat\u021d o\u00feer lygy{n}ge\u021d stoute,\n  Now tech me to \u00feat myry mote.                                      936\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 52a.]]\n    [Sidenote: The city in Jud\u00e6a, answers the maiden, is where\n    Christ suffered, and is the Old Jerusalem. The New Jerusalem is\n    where the Lamb has assembled his brides.]\n    \u201cThat mote \u00fe{o}u mene\u021d in Iudy londe,\u201d\n  \u00deat specyal spyce \u00feen to me spakk,\n  \u201c\u00deat is \u00fee cyte \u00feat \u00fee lombe con fonde\n  To soffer i{n}ne sor for mane\u021d sake,                               940\n  \u00dee olde I{e}r{usa}l{e}m to\u00a0vnder-stonde,\n  For \u00feere \u00fee olde gulte wat\u021d don to slake,\n  Bot \u00fee nwe \u00feat ly\u021dt of gode\u021d sonde,\n  \u00dee apostel in apocalyppce i{n} theme con take.                     944\n  \u00dee lombe[39] \u00fe{er}, w{i}t{h}-outen spotte\u021d blake,\n  Hat\u021d feryed \u00feyder hys fayre flote,\n  & as hys flok is w{i}t{h}-outen flake,\n  So is hys mote w{i}t{h}-outen moote.                               948\n\n    [Sidenote 39: The MS. reads _lompe_.]\n\n[Headnote: THE OLD AND NEW JERUSALEM.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Jerusalem means the city of God. In the Old city\n    our peace was made at one. In the New city is eternal peace.]\n    Of motes two to carpe clene\n  & I{e}r{usa}l{e}m hy\u021dt bo\u00fee naw\u00feeles,\n  \u00deat nys to yow no more to mene,\n  Bot cete of god o\u00fe{er} sy\u021dt of pes.                                952\n  I{n} \u00feat on oure pes wat\u021d mad at ene,\n  W{i}t{h} payne to suffer \u00fee lombe hit chese,\n  In \u00feat o\u00fe{er} is no\u021dt bot pes to glene,\n  \u00deat ay schal laste w{i}t{h}-outen reles,                           956\n  \u00deat is \u00fee bor\u021d \u00feat we to pres,\n  Fro \u00fe{a}t oure flesch[40] be layd to\u00a0rote;\n  \u00deer glory & blysse schal eu{er} encres,\n  To \u00fee meyny \u00fe{a}t is w{i}t{h}-outen mote.                          960\n\n    [Sidenote 40: MS. _fresth_.]\n\n\nXVII.\n\n    [Sidenote: The father prays his daughter to bring him to the\n    blissful bower. His daughter tells him that he shall see\n    the outside, but not a foot may he put in the city.]\n    \u201cMotele\u021d may so meke & mylde,\u201d\n  \u00deen sayde I to \u00feat lufly flor,\n  \u201cBry{n}g me to \u00feat bygly bylde,\n  & let me se \u00fey blysful bor.\u201d                                       964\n  \u00deat schene sayde, \u00feat god wyl schylde,\n  \u201c\u00de{o}u may not enter w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne hys tor,\n  Bot of \u00fee lombe I haue \u00fee aquylde\n  For a sy\u021dt \u00feer-of \u00feur\u021d gret fauor.                                 968\n  Vt-wyth to se \u00feat clene cloystor,\n  \u00de{o}u may, bot i{n}wyth not a\u00a0fote,\n  To strech in \u00fee strete \u00fe{o}u hat\u021d no\u00a0vygo{ur},\n  Bot \u00fe{o}u wer clene w{i}t{h}-outen mote.                           972\n\n\n[Headnote: A DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW JERUSALEM.]\n\nXVIII.\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 52b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The maiden then tells her father to go along the bank\n    till he comes to a hill. He reaches the hill, and beholds the\n    heavenly city.]\n    If I \u00feis mote \u00fee schal vn-hyde,\n  Bow vp to-warde \u00feys borne\u021d heued,\n  & I an-ende\u021d \u00fee on \u00feis syde\n  Schal sve, tyl \u00fe{o}u to a hil be veued,                            976\n  \u00dee{n} wolde [I] no lenger byde,\n  Bot lurked by lau{n}ce\u021d so lufly leued,\n  Tyl on a hyl \u00feat I asspyed\n  & blusched on \u00fee burgh{e}, as I forth dreued,                      980\n  By-\u021donde \u00fee brok fro me warde keued,\n  \u00deat schyrrer \u00feen su{n}ne w{i}t{h} schafte\u021d schon;\n  I{n} \u00fee apokalypce is \u00fee fasou{n} preued,\n  As deuyse\u021d hit \u00fee apostel Iho\u00f1.                                    984\n\n    [Sidenote: As St. John saw it, so he beheld it. The city was\n    of burnished gold. Pitched upon gems, the foundation composed\n    of twelve stones.]\n    As Ioh{a}n \u00fee apostel hit sy\u021d w{i}t{h} sy\u021dt\n  I sy\u021de \u00feat cyty of gret renou{n},\n  I{e}r{usa}l{e}m so nwe &\u00a0ryally dy\u021dt,\n  As hit wat\u021d ly\u021dt fro \u00fee heuen adou{n}.                             988\n  \u00dee bor\u021d wat\u021d al of brende golde bry\u021dt,\n  As glemande glas burnist brou{n},\n  W{i}t{h} gentyl ge{m}me\u021d an-vnder py\u021dt;\n  W{i}t{h} bantele\u021d twelue on basy{n}g boun,                         992\n  \u00dee fou{n}demente\u021d twelue of riche tenou{n};\n  Vch tabelment wat\u021d a serlype\u021d ston,\n  As derely deuyse\u021d \u00feis ilk tou{n},\n  I{n} apocalyppe\u021d \u00fee apostel Ioh{a}n.                               996\n\n    [Sidenote: The names of the precious stones.]\n    [Sidenote: i. Jasper. ii. Sapphire. iii. Chalcedony.\n    iv. Emerald. v. Sardonyx. vi. Ruby.]\n    As \u00feise stone\u021d i{n} writ con ne{m}me\n  I knew \u00fee name aft{er} his tale;\n  Iasper hy\u021dt \u00fee fyrst ge{m}me,\n  \u00deat I on \u00fee fyrst basse con wale,                                 1000\n  He glente grene i{n} \u00fee lowest he{m}me.\n  Saffer helde \u00fee secou{n}de stale,\n  \u00dee calsydoyne \u00fee{n}ne w{i}t{h}-outen we{m}me,\n  I{n} \u00fee \u00feryd table con purly pale;                                1004\n  \u00dee emerade \u00fee fur\u00fee so grene of scale;\n  \u00dee sardonyse \u00fee fyf\u00fee ston;\n  \u00dee sexte \u00fee rybe he con hit wale,\n  I{n} \u00fee apocalyppce \u00fee apostel Ioh{a}n.                           1008\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 53a.]]\n    [Sidenote: vii. Chrysolite. viii. Beryl. ix. Topaz.\n    x. Chrysoprasus. xi. Jacinth. xii. Amethyst.]\n    \u021cet Ioyned Ioh{a}n \u00fee crysolyt,\n  \u00dee seuen\u00fee ge{m}me i{n} fundament;\n  \u00dee a\u021dt\u00fee \u00fee beryl cler & quyt\n  \u00dee topasye twy{n}ne how \u00fee ne{n}te endent;                        1012\n  \u00dee crysopase \u00fee ten\u00fee is ty\u021dt;\n  \u00dee Iacy{n}gh[41] \u00fee enleuen\u00fee gent;\n  \u00dee twelf\u00fee \u00fee gentyleste i{n} veh a plyt,\n  \u00dee amatyst purpre w{i}t{h} ynde blente;                           1016\n  \u00dee wal abof \u00fee bantels bent,\n  Masporye as glas \u00feat glysnande schon,\n  I knew hit by his deuysement,\n  I{n} \u00fee apocalyppe\u021d \u00fee apostel I{o}h{a}n.                         1020\n\n    [Sidenote 41: _Iacynth_ (?).]\n\n    [Sidenote: The city was square. The wall was of jasper.\n    Twelve thousand furlongs in length and breadth.]\n    As Ioh{a}n deuysed \u021det sa\u021d I \u00feare.\n  \u00deise twelue de-gres wern brode & stayre,\n  \u00dee cyte stod abof ful sware,\n  As longe as brode as hy\u021de ful fayre;                              1024\n  \u00dee strete\u021d of golde as glasse al bare,\n  \u00dee wal of Iasper \u00feat glent as glayre;\n  \u00dee wone\u021d w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne enurned ware\n  Wyth alle ky{n}ne\u021d perre \u00feat mo\u021dt repayre,                        1028\n  \u00dee{n}ne helde vch sware of \u00feis manayre,\n  Twelue forlonge space er eu{er} hit fon,\n  Of he\u021dt, of brede, of len\u00fee to cayre,\n  For meten hit sy\u021d \u00fee apostel Ioh{a}n.                             1032\n\n\n[Headnote: NO SUN NOR MOON IN HEAVEN.]\n\nXIX.\n\n    [Sidenote: Each \u201cpane\u201d had three gates. Each gate adorned with\n    a pearl. Such light gleamed in all the streets, that there\n    was no need of the sun or moon.]\n    As Ioh{a}n hy{m} wryte\u021d \u021det more I sy\u021de\n  Vch pane of \u00feat place had \u00fere \u021date\u021d,\n  So twelue i{n} po{ur}sent I con asspye\n  \u00dee portale\u021d pyked of rych plate\u021d                                  1036\n  & vch \u021date of a margyrye,\n  A parfyt perle \u00feat neu{er} fate\u021d;\n  Vchon i{n} scrypture a name con plye,\n  Of isr{ae}l barne\u021d folewande her date\u021d,                           1040\n  \u00deat is to say as her byr\u00fe whate\u021d;\n  \u00dee aldest ay fyrst \u00fe{er}-on wat\u021d done.\n  Such ly\u021dt \u00feer lemed i{n} alle \u00fee strate\u021d\n  Hem nedde naw\u00fe{er} su{n}ne ne mone.                               1044\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 53b.]]\n    [Sidenote: God was the light of those in the city.\n    The high throne might be seen, upon which the \u201chigh God\u201d sat.\n    A river ran out of the throne;]\n    Of su{n}ne ne mone had \u00feay no nede\n  \u00dee self god wat\u021d her lompe[42] ly\u021dt,\n  \u00dee lombe her lantyrne w{i}t{h}-outen drede,\n  \u00deur\u021d hy{m} blysned \u00fee bor\u021d al bry\u021dt.                              1048\n  \u00deur\u021d wo\u021de & won my loky{n}g \u021dede,\n  For sotyle cler mo\u021dt[43] lette no ly\u021dt;\n  \u00dee hy\u021de trone \u00feer mo\u021dt \u021de hede\n  W{i}t{h} alle \u00fee apparaylmente vmbe-py\u021dte,                        1052\n  As Ioh{a}n \u00fee appostel in terme\u021d ty\u021dte;\n  \u00dee hy\u021de gode\u021d self hit set vpone.\n  A reu{er} of \u00fee trone \u00feer ran out-ry\u021dte\n  Wat\u021d bry\u021dter \u00feen bo\u00fee \u00fee su{n}ne & mone.                          1056\n\n    [Sidenote 42: MS. _lombe_.]\n    [Sidenote 43: MS. _no\u021dt_.]\n\n[Headnote: NO CHURCH IN HEAVEN.]\n\n    [Sidenote: it flowed through each street. No church was seen.\n    God was the church; Christ the sacrifice. The gates were\n    ever open.]\n    Su{n}ne ne mone schon neu{er} so swete;\n  A! \u00feat foysou{n} flode out of \u00feat flet,\n  Swy\u00fee hit swange \u00feur\u021d vch a strete,\n  W{i}t{h}-outen fyl\u00fee o\u00fe{er} galle o\u00fe{er} glet.                    1060\n  Kyrk \u00feer-i{n}ne wat\u021d non \u021dete,\n  Chapel ne temple \u00feat eu{er} wat\u021d set,\n  \u00dee al-my\u021dty wat\u021d her mynyster mete,\n  \u00dee lombe \u00fee saker-fyse \u00feer to reget;                              1064\n  \u00dee \u021dates stoken wat\u021d neu{er} \u021det,\n  Bot eu{er} more vpen at vche a lone;\n  \u00deer entre\u021d non to take reset,\n  \u00deat bere\u021d any spot an-vnder[44] mone.                             1068\n\n    [Sidenote: There is no night in the city. The planets,\n    and the sun itself, are dim compared to the divine light.\n    Trees there renew their fruit every month.]\n    The mone may \u00feer-of acroche no my\u021dte\n  To spotty, ho is of body to grym,\n  & al-so \u00fe{er} ne is neu{er} ny\u021dt.\n  What schulde \u00fee mone \u00feer compas clym                              1072\n  & to euen wyth \u00feat wor\u00fely ly\u021dt[45],\n  \u00deat schyne\u021d vpon \u00fee broke\u021d brym?\n  \u00dee planete\u021d arn i{n} to pou{er} a ply\u021dt,\n  & \u00fee self su{n}ne ful fer to dym.                                 1076\n  Aboute \u00feat wat{er} arn tres ful schym,\n  \u00deat twelue fryte\u021d of lyf con bere ful sone;\n  Twelue sy\u00fee\u021d on \u021der \u00feay beren ful frym\n  & re-nowle\u021d nwe i{n} vche a mone.                                 1080\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 54a.]]\n    [Sidenote: The beholder of this fair city stood still as a\n    \u201cdased quail.\u201d]\n    An-vnder mone so gret m{er}wayle\n  No fleschly hert ne my\u021dt endeure,\n  As quen I blusched vpon \u00feat baly,\n  So ferly \u00fe{er}-of wat\u021d \u00fee falure.                                 1084\n  I stod as stylle as dased quayle,\n  For ferly of \u00feat french[46] fygure,\n  \u00deat felde I naw\u00fe{er} reste ne t{ra}uayle,\n  So wat\u021d I rauyste wyth gly{m}me pure;                             1088\n  For I dar say, w{i}t{h} conciens sure,\n  Hade bodyly burne abiden \u00feat bone,\n  \u00dea\u021d alle clerke\u021d hy{m} hade i{n} cure,\n  His lyf wer loste an-vnder mone.                                  1092\n\n    [Sidenote 44: MS. _an-vnde\u021d_.]\n    [Sidenote 45: Or _sy\u021dt_.]\n    [Sidenote 46: _fresch_ (?).]\n\n\n[Headnote: A PROCESSION OF VIRGINS.]\n\nXX.\n\n    [Sidenote: As the moon began to rise he was aware of a\n    procession of virgins crowned with pearls, in white robes,\n    with a pearl in their breast.]\n    Ry\u021dt as \u00fee maynful mone con rys,\n  Er \u00fee{n}ne \u00fee day-glem dryue al dou{n},\n  So sodanly on a wonder wyse,\n  I wat\u021d war of a prosessyou{n},                                    1096\n  \u00deis noble cite of ryche enpresse\n  Wat\u021d sodanly ful w{i}t{h}-outen so{m}mou{n}\n  Of such v{er}gyne\u021d i{n} \u00fee same gyse\n  \u00deat wat\u021d my blysful an-vnder crou{n},                             1100\n  & coronde wern alle of \u00fee same fasou{n}\n  Depaynt i{n} perle\u021d & wede\u021d qwyte,\n  I{n} vchone\u021d breste wat\u021d bou{n}den bou{n},\n  \u00dee blysful perle w{i}t{h} gret[47] delyt.                         1104\n\n    [Sidenote 47: MS. _with outen_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: As they went along they shone as glass.\n    The Lamb went before them. There was no pressing.]\n    W{i}t{h} gret delyt \u00feay glod i{n} fere,\n  On golden gate\u021d \u00feat glent as glasse;\n  Hu{n}dreth \u00feowsande\u021d I wot \u00feer were,\n  & alle in sute her liure\u021d wasse,                                  1108\n  Tor to knaw \u00fee gladdest chere.\n  \u00dee lombe byfore con proudly passe,\n  Wyth horne\u021d seuen of red golde[48] cler,\n  As praysed perle\u021d his wede\u021d wasse;                                1112\n  Towarde \u00fee throne \u00feay trone a tras.\n  \u00dea\u021d \u00feay wern fele no pres i{n} plyt,\n  Bot mylde as maydene\u021d seme at mas,\n  So dro\u021d \u00feay forth w{i}t{h} gret delyt.                            1116\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 54b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The \u201calder men\u201d fell groveling at the feet of the\n    Lamb. All sang in praise of the Lamb.]\n    Delyt \u00fe{a}t hys come encroched,\n  To much hit were of for to melle;\n  \u00deise alder men quen he aproched,\n  Grouely{n}g to his fete \u00feay felle;                                1120\n  Legyou{n}es of au{n}gele\u021d togeder uoched,\n  \u00deer kesten ensens of swete smelle,\n  \u00deen glory & gle wat\u021d nwe abroched.\n  Al songe to loue \u00feat gay Iuelle,                                  1124\n  \u00dee steuen mo\u021dt stryke \u00feur\u021d \u00fee vr\u00fee to helle,\n  \u00deat \u00fee v{er}tues of heuen of Ioye endyte,\n  To loue \u00fee lombe his meyny in melle,\n  I-wysse I la\u021dt a gret delyt;                                      1128\n\n    [Sidenote 48: MS. _glode_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The Lamb wore white weeds. A wide wound was seen\n    near his breast.]\n    Delit \u00fee lo{m}be forto deuise,\n  W{i}t{h} much meruayle in mynde went.\n  Best wat\u021d he, bly\u00feest & moste to pryse,\n  \u00deat eu{er} I herde of speche spent,                               1132\n  So wor\u00fely whyt wern wede\u021d hys;\n  His loke\u021d symple, hy{m} self so gent,\n  Bot a wou{n}de ful wyde & weete con wyse\n  An-ende hys hert \u00feur\u021d hyde to-rente;                              1136\n  Of his quyte syde his blod out-sprent,\n  A-las! \u00feo\u021dt I, who did \u00feat spyt?\n  Ani breste for bale a\u021dt haf for-brent,\n  Er he \u00feer-to hade had delyt,                                      1140\n\n    [Sidenote: Joy was in his looks. The father perceives\n    his little queen.]\n    The lombe delyt non lyste to wene,\n  \u00dea\u021d he were hurt & wou{n}de hade,\n  I{n} his sembelau{n}t wat\u021d neu{er} sene,\n  So wern his glente\u021d gloryo{us} glade.                             1144\n  I loked amo{n}g his meyny schene,\n  How \u00feay wyth lyf wern laste & lade,\n  \u00dee{n} sa\u021d I \u00feer my lyttel quene,\n  \u00deat I wende had standen by me i{n} sclade;                        1148\n  Lorde! much of mir\u00fee wat\u021d \u00feat ho made,\n  Amo{n}g her fere\u021d \u00feat wat\u021d so quyt!\n  \u00deat sy\u021dt me gart to \u00feenk to wade,\n  For luf longy{n}g i{n} gret delyt.                                1152\n\n\n[Headnote: HE WISHES TO CROSS THE STREAM.]\n\nXXI.\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 55a.]]\n    [Sidenote: Great delight takes possession of his mind.\n    He attempts to cross the stream. It was not pleasing to the Lord.]\n    Delyt me drof i{n} y\u021de & ere,\n  My mane\u021d mynde to maddy{n}g malte;\n  Quen I se\u021d my frely I wolde be \u00feere,\n  By\u021donde \u00fee water, \u00fea\u021d ho were walte,                              1156\n  I \u00feo\u021dt \u00feat no \u00fey{n}g my\u021dt me dere\n  To fech me bur & take me halte;\n  & to start in \u00fee strem schulde non me stere,\n  To swy{m}me \u00fee remnau{n}t, \u00fea\u021d I \u00feer swalte,                      1160\n  Bot of \u00feat mu{n}t I wat\u021d bi-talt;\n  When I schulde start i{n} \u00fee strem astraye,\n  Out of \u00feat caste I wat\u021d by-calt;\n  Hit wat\u021d not at my prynce\u021d paye,                                  1164\n\n[Headnote: THE FATHER OF THE MAIDEN AWAKES.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The dreamer awakes, and is in great sorrow.]\n    Hit payed hym not \u00feat I so flonc,\n  Ou{er} meruelo{us} mere\u021d so mad arayde,\n  Of raas \u00fea\u021d I were rasch & ronk,\n  \u021cet rapely \u00feer-i{n}ne I wat\u021d restayed;                            1168\n  For ry\u021dt as I sparred vn-to \u00fee bonc,\n  \u00deat brathe out of my drem me brayde;\n  \u00deen wakned I i{n} \u00feat erber wlonk,\n  My hede vpon \u00feat hylle wat\u021d layde,                                1172\n  \u00deer as my perle to grou{n}de strayd;\n  I raxled & fel i{n} gret affray,\n  & syky{n}g to my self I sayd:\n  \u201cNow al be to \u00feat prynce\u021d paye.\u201d                                  1176\n\n    [Sidenote: He addresses his pearl; laments his rash curiosity.]\n    Me payed ful ille to be out-fleme,\n  So sodenly of \u00feat fayre regiou{n},\n  Fro alle \u00feo sy\u021dte\u021d so quyke\u021d & queme.\n  A longey{n}g heuy me strok i{n} swone,                            1180\n  & rewfully \u00fee{n}ne I con to reme;\n  \u201cO perle,\u201d q{uod} I, \u201cof rych renou{n},\n  So wat\u021d hit me dere \u00fe{a}t \u00fe{o}u con deme,\n  I{n} \u00feys v{er}ay avysyou{n};                                      1184\n  If[49] hit be ueray & soth sermou{n},\n  \u00deat \u00fe{o}u so styke\u021d i{n} garlande gay,\n  So wel is me i{n} \u00feys doel dou{n}gou{n},\n  \u00deat \u00fe{o}u art to \u00feat prynse\u021d paye.\u201d                               1188\n\n    [Sidenote 49: MS. _inf_.]\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 55b.]]\n    [Sidenote: Men desire more than they have any right to expect.]\n    To \u00feat prynce\u021d paye hade I ay bente,\n  & \u021derned no more \u00feen wat\u021d me geuen,\n  & halden me \u00feer in trwe entent,\n  As \u00fee perle me prayed \u00feat wat\u021d so \u00feryuen,                         1192\n  As helde drawen to godde\u021d p{re}sent,\n  To mo of his mysterys I hade ben dryuen.\n  Bot ay wolde man of happe more hente\n  \u00deen mo\u021dten by ry\u021dt vpon hem clyuen;                               1196\n  \u00deer-fore my ioye wat\u021d sone to-riuen,\n  & I kaste of kythe\u021d \u00feat laste\u021d aye.\n  Lorde! mad hit arn \u00feat agayn \u00fee stryuen,\n  O\u00fe{er} proferen \u00fee o\u021dt agayn \u00fey paye;                             1200\n\n[Headnote: GOD GIVE US GRACE TO SERVE HIM.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The good Christian knows how to make peace\n    with God. God give us grace to be his servants!]\n    To pay \u00fee p{r}ince o\u00fe{er} sete sa\u021dte,\n  Hit is ful e\u00fee to \u00fee god krystyin;\n  For I haf fou{n}den hym bo\u00fee day & na\u021dte,\n  A god, a lorde, a frende ful fyin.                                1204\n  Ou{er} \u00feis hyl[50] \u00feis lote I la\u021dte,\n  For pyty of my perle enclyin,\n  & sy\u00feen to god I hit by-ta\u021dte,\n  In kryste\u021d dere blessy{n}g & myn,                                 1208\n  \u00deat in \u00fee forme of bred & wyn,\n  \u00dee preste v{us} schewe\u021d vch a daye;\n  He gef v{us} to be his homly hyne,\n  Ande precio{us} perle\u021d vnto his pay. Amen. Amen.                  1212\n\n    [Sidenote 50: MS. _hyi\u0131l_.]\n\n\n\n\nNOTES: _The Pearl_.\n\n\nPage 1.\n\n  l. 2, _to_, very.\n  8 _sengeley in synglure_, ever in singleness (uniqueness).\n    Now is Susan in sale _sengeliche_ arayed.\n      Pistel of Susan, Vernon MS., fol. 317.\n  11 _dewyne_, pine; _for-dolked_, for-wounded (severely hurt).\n  16 _heuen my happe_, increase my happiness.\n  17 _\u00ferych my hert \u00ferange_, through my heart pierce.\n  20 _stylle stounde_, a secret sorrow.\n  23\n    _O moul \u00feou marre\u021d a myry mele_,\n    O mould (earth) thou spoilest a merry discourse.\n\nP. 2.\n\n  l. 27\n    _Blome\u021d blayke & blwe & rede_,\n    Flowers yellow, blue, and red.\n  49 _spenned_, wrung.\n  51, 52\n    A secret grief in my heart dinned (resounded),\n    Though reason set myself at peace.\n  53 _spenned_, allured, enticed away.\n  54\n    _Wyth fyrte skylle\u021d \u00feat faste fa\u021dt_,\n    With trembling doubts that fast fought (struggled).\n\nP. 3.\n\n  l. 76 bolle\u021d = _bole\u021d_, trunks of trees.\n  78 _on vch a tynde_, on each branch.\n  92 _reken myr\u00fee_, pleasant, joyous mirth.\n\nP. 4.\n\n  l. 99 _\u00dee der\u00fee \u00feer-of_, the value (preciousness) thereof.\n  101 _in wely wyse_, in joyful mood.\n  102 _dere\u021d_, injuries, harms.\n  103 _fyrre_, farther.\n  105 _rawe\u021d & rande\u021d_, borders and paths.\n  107 _I wan to_, I reached. _Winne_ in O.E. was used much in the same\n      way as we now employ the word _get_.\n  112\n    _Wyth a rownande rourde raykande ary\u021dt_,\n    With a murmuring (whispering) sound flowing aright.\n  113 _founce_, bottom; _stepe_, bright.\n  114 _glente_, shone; _gly\u021dt_, glistened.\n  115 _A[s] stremande sterne\u021d_, as glittering stars; _stro\u00fee_, stout,\n      brave.\n  119 _lo\u021de_, deep.\n  125 _dry\u021dly hale\u021d_, strongly (_or_ deeply) flows.\n  126 _bred ful_ = _bred-ful_ = _bretful_ (?), full to the brim.\n\nP. 5.\n\n  l. 131 _wayne\u021d_, grants.\n  132 _hitte\u021d_, seeks.\n  138 _gayn_, opposite.\n  142\n    _I hopede \u00feat mote merked wore_,\n    I supposed that building was devised.\n  149 _stote & stare_, stand (loiter) and gape.\n  150-1\n    _To fynde a for\u00fee, faste con I fonde,\n    Bot wo\u00fee\u021d mo I-wysse \u00feer ware,_\n    To find a way fast did I go,\n    But paths more indeed there were.\n  153 _wonde_, cease, abstain (from fear).\n  155 _nwe note_, a new matter.\n  163 _blysnande whyt_, glistening white. See 197.\n\nP. 6.\n\n  l. 165 _schere_, purify, refine.\n  169\n    _\u00dee more I frayste hyr fayre face._\n    The more I examined her fair face.\n  _frayst_ (_fraist_) usually signifies to try, tempt.\n  170 _fonte_, tried, examined, _found_.\n  176\n    _Such a burre my\u021dt make myn herte blunt_,\n    Such a blow might make mine heart faint.\n  179\n    _\u00deat stonge myn hert ful stray atount_,\n  Should we not read--\u00deat stonge myn hert ful stray a stount (?),\n      \u201cfull stray a stount\u201d = a blow full stray.\n  187 _chos_, was following, was seeking.\n  188\n    _Er I at steuen hir mo\u021dt stalle_,\n    Before I could place her within reach of discourse.\n  190 _seme_ = _semely_, seemly.\n\nP. 7.\n\n  l. 208 _flurted_, figured. Cf. _flurt_-silk, figured-silk.\n  210\n    _Her here heke al hyr vmbe-gon_,\n    Her hair eke (also) all her about gone.\n  212 _Her ble more bla\u021dt_, her complexion whiter.\n  213 _schorne golde schyr_, refined gold pure.\n  216 _porfyl_, hem of a dress, or rather an embroidered hem.\n  217 _poyned_, ornamented, trimmed.\n  223-4 _A manne\u021d dom my\u021dt dry\u021dly demme,_\n    _Er mynde mo\u021dt malte in hit mesure,_\n    A man\u2019s judgment might greatly dim,\n    Before (his) mind could discourse of it in sufficient terms\n      of praise.\n  226 _No_ = _ne_ (nor) would be a better reading.\n  230 _wy\u00feer half_, opposite side.\n\nP. 8.\n\n  l. 243 _myn one_, myself.\n  244 _layned_, kept secret, hidden.\n  251 _Fro_, from the time that.\n  _towen & twayned_, made two and separated.\n\nP. 9.\n\n  l. 272 _is put in pref_, has been proved.\n  275 _bote of \u00fey meschef_, the remedy of thy misfortune (misery).\n  290 _Wy borde \u021de men so madde \u021de be?_\n    Why should you talk, so foolish you are?\n\nP. 10.\n\n  l. 307 _westernays_, wrongly, in vain? It may be another form of\n      westernways, from the A.Sax. _w\u00e9ste_, barren, empty; _w\u00e9stern_,\n      a desert place. Or is it connected with A.Sax. _winstre_, the\n      left hand?\n  320\n    _\u00dey corse in clot mot colder keue_,\n    Thy body in earth (clods) must colder plunge.\n  321 _for-garte_ forfeited.\n  322 _\u021dore fader_ for _form-fader_, first-father.\n  323 _drwry_ = _drery_, dreary (?). _bo\u021d_ (= _bos_ = _bus_ ?) _vch ma_\n      (_man_ ?) _dreue_, behoves each man to drive (go). See B. l.\u00a0687.\n  327-8\n    _Now haf I fonte \u00feat I for-lete\n    Schal I efte forgo hit er euer I fyne?_\n    Now I have found what I have lost.\n    Shall I again forego it ere ever I die?\n\nP. 11.\n\n  l. 336 _durande doel_, lasting grief.\n  343\n    _For anger gayne\u021d \u00fee not a cresse_,\n    For anger avails the not a cress, (_i.e._ not a mite).\n  Cf. the following passage from \u201cPiers Ploughman,\u201d p.\u00a0174, l.\u00a05629:\n    \u201cWisdom and wit now\n    Is noght worth a _kerse_.\u201d\n  353\n    _Stynst (stynt?) of \u00fey strot & fyne to flyte_,\n    Leave off thy complaining and cease to chide.\n  354 _bly\u00fee_ is here used as a substantive in the sense of bliss, joy.\n  _swefte_ = swift.\n  356 _hyr crafte\u021d ky\u00fee_, manifest her powers.\n  359-60\n    _For marre o\u00feer madde, morne & my\u00fee,\n    Al lys in him to dy\u021dt & deme._\n    For to ruin, or make foolish, grieve or to soothe,\n    All lies in him to order and doom.\n  363 _If rapely raue_, etc. = _If rapely I raue_, etc. (?)\n  368 Though I go astray, my dear, adored one.\n\nP. 12.\n\n  l. 369 _ly\u00fee\u021d_, grant.\n  374\n    _Bot much \u00fee bygger \u021det wat\u021d my mon,\n    Fro \u00feou wat\u021d wroken fro vch a wo\u00fee._\n    But much the greater yet was my moan (sorrow),\n    From (the time) thou wast banished from every path.\n  377 _now le\u00fee\u021d my lo\u00fee_, now my sorrow ceases (is softened).\n  382 _marere\u021d_ = _mare\u021d_ (?).\n  386 _mate_, dejected.\n  402 _I hete \u00fee_, I promise the.\n\nP. 14.\n\n  l. 446 _in hyt self beyng_, in its very being.\n  455 _gyng_, company.\n  460 _Temen_, are united, joined.\n  _tryste_, trusty, faithful, firm.\n\nP. 16.\n\n  l. 511 _wry\u00feen_, toil, literally to turn, twist.\n  512 _keruen_, dig.\n  _caggen_, draw.\n  _man_ = _maken_, make. Cf. _ma_ = make, _ta_ = take, _tan_ = taken.\n  522 _to\u021dt_, binding, firm.\n  524 _pray_ (so in MS.), read _pay_.\n  536 _at \u021de moun_, that ye are able.\n\nP. 17.\n\n  l. 560 _a grete_, in the gross, a head.\n  563 _plete_, plead, ask for.\n  572 _be_ = _he_ (?).\n\nP. 18.\n\n  l. 575\n    _\u00dea\u021d her sweng wyth lyttel at-slyke\u021d_,\n    Though their labour (blow) with little falls off (fails to\n      accomplish much).\n  605 _chyche_, niggard.\n  608 _gote\u021d_, streams; _charde_, past tense of _charre_, to turn,\n      deviate.\n\nP. 19.\n\n  l. 617 _bourne abate_ = _burne abade_, man continued.\n  626 _by lyne_, by lineage descent.\n\nP. 20.\n\n  l. 645\n    _Bot \u00feer on com a bote as-tyt_,\n    But there came one as a remedy at once.\n  659 _in sely stounde_, in a happy moment.\n  671 _glente_, fell, slided.\n\nP. 21.\n\n  l. 680 _dylle_, slow, sluggish.\n  681 _dyt_ = _dyde_, did (?), or _dot\u021d_, does (?).\n  690 _oure_, prayer.\n\nP. 22.\n\n  l. 726 _sulpande synne_, defiling, polluting, sin.\n  727 _bylde_, building.\n  735 _reme_, realm.\n\nP. 23.\n\n  l. 752 _Of carpe_, discourse of.\n  754 _hauyng_, condition, behaviour.\n  757 _bete_, save, ransom.\n  759 _make_, wife.\n  775 _vnder cambe_ = _under-cam_, came under, took an inferior\n      position (?).\n\nP. 24.\n\n  l. 802\n    _& as a lombe \u00feat clypper in lande nem_,\n    And as a lamb that a _shearer_ has taken, etc.\n  813-4 For us he let himself be scourged and buffetted, and stretched\n      upon a rough tree (_i.e._ nailed to the cross).\n\nP. 25.\n\n  l. 836 _as bare_, (?) _al bare_, openly. See 1025.\n  837\n    _Lesande \u00fee boke with leue\u021d sware_,\n    Opening the book with leaves square.\n  839\n    _& at \u00feat sy\u021dt vche douth con dare_,\n    And at that sight each doughty (one) did tremble (with fear).\n  849 enle = _eneli_ = onely or _onlepi_ (?) = singly, alone.\n\nP. 26.\n\n  l. 865 _talle farande_ = _tale farande_, pleasing story.\n  873 _hue_, cry, voice.\n  876 _lote_, sound.\n\nP. 27.\n\n  l. 896 _lote_, features.\n  909 _hynde_ = _hende_, gentle, courteous (one).\n  911 _bustwys as a blose_, boisterous (wild) as a blaze (flame).\n  916\n    _With nay \u00feou neuer my ruful bone_,\n    Do thou never refuse my mournful request.\n\nP. 28.\n\n  l. 948\n    _So is hys mote with-outen moote_,\n    So is his building without mote (blemish).\n\nP. 29.\n\n  ll. 975-6 _& I an-ende\u021d \u00fee on his syde\n    Schal sve, tyl \u00feou to a hil be veued,_\n    And I opposite thee on this side\n    Shall go, till thou to a hill be passed.\n  980-81\n    _& blusched on \u00fee burghe, as I forth dreued,\n    By\u021donde \u00fee brok fro me warde keued,_\n    And looked on the city, as I forth drove (urged),\n    Beyond the brook that cut me off from (the object of my desire).\n\nP. 30.\n\n  l. 1018 _Masporye_ = _was pure_ (?).\n  1022 _brode & stayre_, broad and steep (high).\n  1026 _\u00feat glent as glayre_, that shone as amber.\n\nP. 31.\n\n  l. 1030 _fon_, ceased, the preterite of _fine_.\n  1038 _fate\u021d_ = _fade\u021d_, fades.\n  1041 _whate\u021d_ = _wat\u021d_, was.\n\nP. 32.\n\n  ll. 1065-66 _\u00dee \u021dates stoken wat\u021d neuer \u021det,\n    Bot euer more vpen at vche a lone._\n    The gates shut were never yet,\n    But ever more open at every lane.\n  1073 _to euen with_, to equal with, to match with.\n  1084 _falure_ = _fasure_, form (?).\n\nP. 33.\n\n  l. 1124 _to loue_, to praise.\n  1127 _in melle_ = _in-melle_ = _i-melle_, among. Cf. _in-lyche_ and\n      _i-lyche_, etc.\n\nP. 34.\n\n  l. 1141\n    _\u00dee lombe delyt non lyste to wene_,\n    The lamb\u2019s delight none desired to doubt.\n  1146 _laste and lade_, followed and preceded (?).\n  1161\n    _Bot of \u00feat munt I wat\u021d bi-talt_,\n    But from that purpose I was aroused (shaken).\n  1163 _bi-calt_ = _bi-called_ (?), called away.\n\nP. 35.\n\n  l. 1165 _flonc_ = _flong_ (?), flung.\n  1193 _helde_, willingly (inclined).\n\n\n\n\n  Errata (noted by transcriber)\n\nMinor spelling variations-- such as added or missing final \u201ce\u201d-- between\nthe main text and endnotes were left as printed.\n\n  [61 Sidenote] ... where the rocks and cliffs ...  [Where]\n  [278] & iuele\u021d wern hyr ge{n}tyl sawe\u021d,  [sawe\u021d\u201d]\n  [373 Sidenote] ... his bale and bliss.  [bliss,]\n  [775] So mony a cumly on v{n}der cambe,  [vu{n}der]\n    [_spelling changed to agree with Note_]\n  [993 Sidenote] the foundation composed of twelve stones.  [The]\n  [1059 Sidenote] it flowed through each street.  [It]\n  [1205] Ou{er} \u00feis hyl[50] \u00feis lote I la\u021dte,\n  [Sidenote 50] MS. _hyiil_.\n    [_1864 edition had \u201chyiil\u201d in the body text,\n    with note \u201c_hye-hil_ or _hyul_?\u201d]\n\n  ORPHANED QUOTATION MARKS\n  [396] Hit is i{n} grou{n}de of alle\u00a0my\u00a0blysse.\u201d\n  [501] \u201cMy regne, he sayt\u021d, is lyk on hy\u021dt,\n  [602] \u00deat gentyl sayde \u201clys no Ioparde,\n  [744] & porchace \u00fey perle maskelles.\u201d\n  [902] Q{uod} I, \u201cmy perle \u00fea\u021d I appose,\n  [939] \u201c\u00deat is \u00fee cyte \u00feat \u00fee lombe con fonde\n  [966] \u201c\u00de{o}u may not enter w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne hys tor,\n\n  NOTES\n  78 _on vch a tynde_, on each branch.  [vcha]\n  213 _schorne golde schyr_, refined gold pure.  [_, missing_]\n  223-4 _A manne\u021d dom my\u021dt dry\u021dly demme,  [_. for ,_]\n  343 For anger avails the not a cress\n      [_modern text unchanged: error for \u201cthee\u201d?_]\n    Cf. the following passage from \u201cPiers Ploughman,\u201d  [Piers\u2019]\n  536  [535]\n  865  [864]\n  1026  [1025]\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n           *       *       *       *\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCLEANNESS.\n\n\n  [Headnotes:\n  THE PARABLE OF THE MARRIAGE FEAST.\n  THOSE INVITED TO THE FEAST REFUSE TO COME.\n  THE HALT AND THE BLIND ARE INVITED.\n  THE MAN WITHOUT A WEDDING GARMENT.\n  GOD IS DISPLEASED WITH THE WICKED.\n  THE FALL OF THE ANGELS.\n  THE WICKEDNESS OF THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD.\n  GOD DETERMINES TO DESTROY ALL FLESH.\n  NOAH IS COMMANDED TO BUILD AN ARK.\n  THE RAIN DESCENDS.\n  ALL ROT IN THE MUD.\n  THE ARK RESTS ON MOUNT ARARAT.\n  NOAH SENDS FORTH A DOVE.\n  NOAH LEAVES THE ARK.\n  THE BEASTS ARE DISPERSED.\n  GOD\u2019S HATRED OF WICKEDNESS.\n  ABRAHAM RECEIVES THREE GUESTS, AND ENTERTAINS THEM.\n  GOD DISCLOSES HIS PURPOSE TO ABRAHAM.\n  THE FILTHINESS OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH.\n  ABRAHAM PLEADS FOR THE CITIES.\n  MESSENGERS ARE SENT TO LOT.\n  LOT ENTERTAINS THE MESSENGERS.\n  LOT\u2019S HOUSE IS BESET.\n  THE MEN OF SODOM SMITTEN WITH BLINDNESS.\n  LOT IS SENT OUT OF THE CITY.\n  THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITIES.\n  LOT\u2019S WIFE BECOMES A STIFF STONE.\n  THE DEAD SEA COVERS THE FIVE CITIES.\n  IT IS A TOKEN OF WICKEDNESS AND VENGEANCE.\n  CHRIST WAS EVER PURE.\n  PENANCE MAKES MAN PURE AS A PEARL.\n  GOD PUNISHES IMPURITY.\n  NEBUCHADNEZZAR BESIEGES JERUSALEM.\n  THE KING OF JUDAH IS MADE PRISONER.\n  NEBUZARDAN PILLAGES THE TEMPLE.\n  NEBUCHADNEZZAR IS PLEASED WITH THE SPOIL.\n  HE PRIZES GREATLY THE SACRED JEWELRY.\n  BELSHAZZAR PROCLAIMS A FEAST, TO WHICH KINGS AND EMPERORS\n    ARE INVITED.\n  BELSHAZZAR BRINGS OUT THE SACRED VESSELS TO DECK THE FESTIVE HALL.\n  THE SACRED VESSELS ARE DEFILED.\n  THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL.\n  THE KING CONSULTS HIS DIVINERS.\n  DANIEL IS SENT FOR.\n  DANIEL DESCRIBES HOW NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS PUNISHED FOR HIS PRIDE.\n  THE INTERPRETATION OF THE HANDWRITING.\n  DARIUS LAYS SIEGE TO BABYLON.\n  BELSHAZZAR IS BEATEN TO DEATH.]\n\n\nI.\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 57a.]]\n    [Sidenote: Cleanness discloses fair forms.]\n  Cla{n}nesse who-so kyndly cow\u00fee co{m}ende,\n  & rekken vp alle \u00fee resou{n}\u021d \u00fe{a}t ho by ri\u021dt aske\u021d,\n  Fayre forme\u021d my\u021dt he fy{n}de i{n} foreri{n}g his speche,\n  & in \u00fee co{n}trar\u00e9, kark & co{m}brau{n}ce huge;                      4\n    [Sidenote: God is angry with the unclean worshipper, and with\n    false priests.]\n  For wonder wroth is \u00fee wy\u021d \u00fe{a}t wro\u021dt alle \u00fei{n}g{es},\n  Wyth \u00fee freke \u00feat i{n} fyl\u00fee fol\u021des hy{m} aft{er},\n  As renke\u021d of relygiou{n} \u00feat reden & sy{n}gen,\n  & aprochen to hys presens, & preste\u021d arn called;                     8\n  Thay teen vnto his te{m}mple & teme{n} to hy{m} seluen,\n  Reken w{i}t{h} reu{er}ence \u00feay r[ec]hen his auter,\n  \u00deay hondel \u00feer his aune body & vsen hit bo\u00fee.\n    [Sidenote: The pure worshipper receives great reward.]\n  If \u00feay in cla{n}nes be clos \u00feay cleche gret mede,                   12\n  Bot if \u00feay conterfete crafte, & cortaysye wont,\n    [Sidenote: The impure will bring upon them the anger of God, Who\n    is pure and holy.]\n  As be honest vtwyth, & i{n}-with alle fyl\u00fee\u021d,\n  \u00deen ar \u00feay synful hemself & sulped altogeder,\n  Bo\u00fee god & his gere, & hy{m} to greme cachen.                       16\n  He is so clene in his co{ur}te, \u00fee ky{n}g \u00fe{a}t al welde\u021d,\n  & honeste in his ho{us}-holde & hagherlych serued,\n  With angele\u021d eno{ur}led in alle \u00feat is clene,\n    [Sidenote: It would be a marvel if God did not hate evil.]\n  Bo\u00fee w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne & w{i}t{h}-outen, i{n} wede\u021d ful bry\u021dt.        20\n  Nif he nere scoym{us} & skyg & non sca\u00fee louied,\n  Hit were a meruayl to much, hit mo\u021dt not falle;\n    [Sidenote: Christ showed us that himself.]\n  Kryst kydde hit hym self i{n} a carp one\u021d,\n  \u00deer as he heuened a\u021dt happe\u021d & hy\u021dt hem her mede\u021d;                  24\n    [Sidenote: St. Matthew records the discourse.]\n  Me myne\u021d on one amo{n}ge o\u00fe{er}, as ma\u00feew recorde\u021d,\n  \u00deat \u00fe{us} of clannesse vn-close\u021d a ful cler speche.\n    [Sidenote: The clean of heart shall look on our Lord.]\n  \u00dee ha\u00feel clene of his hert hapene\u021d ful fayre,\n  For he schal loke on oure lorde w{i}t{h} a bone chere,              28\n  As so sayt\u021d, to \u00feat sy\u021dt seche schal he neu{er},\n  \u00deat any vncla{n}nesse hat\u021d on, anwhere[1] abowte:\n  For he \u00fe{a}t flem{us} vch fyl\u00fee fer fro his hert,\n  May not byde \u00feat burne[2] \u00feat hit his body ne\u021den;                   32\n  For-\u00fey hy\u021d not to heuen i{n} hatere\u021d to-torne,\n  Ne i{n} \u00fee harlote\u021d hod & hande\u021d vnwaschen;\n    [Sidenote: What earthly noble, when seated at table above dukes,\n    would like to see a lad badly attired approach the table with\n    \u201crent cockers,\u201d his coat torn and his toes out?]\n  For what vr\u00fely ha\u00feel \u00feat hy\u021d hono{ur} halde\u021d\n  Wolde lyke, if a ladde com ly\u00fe{er}ly attyred,                       36\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 57b.]]\n  When he were sette solempnely i{n} a sete ryche,\n  Abof dukes on dece, w{i}t{h} dayntys serued,\n  \u00deen \u00fee harlot w{i}t{h} haste helded to \u00fee table\n  W{i}t{h} rent cokre\u021d at \u00fee kne & his clutte trasches,               40\n  & his tabarde to-torne & his tote\u021d oute;\n    [Sidenote: For any one of these he would be turned out with a\n    \u201cbig buffet,\u201d and be forbidden to re-enter, and thus be ruined\n    through his vile clothes.]\n  O\u00fe{er} ani on of alle \u00feyse he schulde be halden vtt{er},\n  With mony blame ful bygge, a boffet, p{er}au{n}t{er},\n  Hurled to \u00fee halle dore & harde \u00fe{er}-oute schowued,                44\n  & be forboden \u00feat bor\u021de to bowe \u00feider neu{er},\n  On payne of enprysonment & putty{n}g i{n} stokke\u021d;\n  & \u00fe{us} schal he be schent for his schrowde feble,\n  \u00dea\u021d neu{er} i{n} talle ne in tuch he trespas more.                  48\n\n[Headnote: THE PARABLE OF THE MARRIAGE FEAST.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The parable of the \u201cMarriage of the King\u2019s Son.\u201d]\n  & if vnwelcu{m} he were to a wor\u00felych prynce\n  \u021cet hy{m} is \u00fee hy\u021de ky{n}g harder i{n} her euen,\n  As ma\u00feew mele\u021d in his masse of \u00feat man ryche,\n  \u00deat made \u00fee mukel mangerye to marie his here dere,                  52\n  & sende his sonde \u00feen to say \u00feat \u00feay samne schulde,\n  & in comly quoyntis to com to his feste;\n    [Sidenote: The king\u2019s invitation.]\n  \u201cFor my boles & my bore\u021d arn bayted & slayne,\n  & my fedde foule\u021d fatted w{i}t{h} scla\u021dt,                           56\n  My polyle \u00feat is pe{n}ne-fed & partrykes bo\u00fee,\n  Wyth schelde\u021d of wylde swyn, swane\u021d & crone\u021d;\n  Al is ro\u00feeled & rosted ry\u021dt to \u00fee sete,\n  Come\u021d cof to my corte, er hit colde wor\u00fee.\u201d                         60\n\n[Headnote: THOSE INVITED TO THE FEAST REFUSE TO COME.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Those invited begin to make excuses.]\n  When \u00feay knewen his cal \u00fe{a}t \u00feider com schulde,\n  Alle ex-cused hem by \u00fee skyly he scape by mo\u021dt:\n    [Sidenote: One had bought an estate and must go to see it.]\n  On hade bo\u021dt hym a bor\u021d he sayde by hys t{ra}w\u00fee,\n  Now t[ur]ne I \u00feeder als tyd, \u00fee tou{n} to by-holde;                 64\n    [Sidenote: Another had purchased some oxen and wished to see\n    them \u201cpull in the plough.\u201d]\n  An o\u00fe{er} nayed also & nurned \u00feis cawse:\n  I haf \u021derned & \u021dat \u021dokke\u021d of oxen,\n  & for my hy\u021de\u021d hem bo\u021dt, to bowe haf I mest{er},\n  To see hem pulle in \u00fee plow aproche me byhoue\u021d;                     68\n    [A third had married a wife and could not come.]\n  & I haf wedded a wyf, sower[3] hy{m} \u00fee \u00feryd,\n  Excuse me at \u00fee co{ur}t, I may not com \u00feere;\n  \u00de{us} \u00feay dro\u021d hem adre\u021d w{i}t{h} dau{n}g{er} vchone,\n  \u00deat non passed to \u00fee place[4] \u00fea\u021d he prayed were.                   72\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 58a.]]\n    [Sidenote: The Lord was greatly displeased, and commanded his\n    servants to invite the wayfaring, both men and women, the better\n    and the worse, that his palace might be full.]\n  The{n}ne \u00fee ludych lorde lyked ful ille\n  & hade dedayn of \u00feat dede, ful dry\u021dly he carpe\u021d:\n  He sayt\u021d \u201cnow for her owne sor\u021de \u00feay for-saken habbe\u021d,\n  More to wyte is her wrange, \u00feen any wylle gentyl;                   76\n  \u00dee{n}ne got\u021d forth my gome\u021d to \u00fee grete streete\u021d,\n  & forsette\u021d on vche a syde \u00fee cete aboute;\n  \u00dee wayferande freke\u021d, on fote & on hors,\n  Bo\u00fee burne\u021d & burde\u021d, \u00fee bett{er} & \u00fee wers,                        80\n  La\u00fee\u021d hem alle luflyly to lenge at my fest,\n  & bry{n}ge\u021d hem bly\u00fely to bor\u021de as barou{n}e\u021d \u00feay were,\n  So \u00feat my palays plat-ful be py\u021dt al aboute,\n  \u00deise o\u00fe{er} wreche\u021d I-wysse wor\u00fey no\u021dt wern.\u201d                       84\n    [Sidenote: The servants brought in bachelors and squires.]\n  \u00dee{n} \u00feay cayred & com \u00feat \u00fee cost waked,\n  Bro\u021dten bachlere\u021d hem wyth \u00feat \u00feay by bonke\u021d metten,\n  Swyere\u021d \u00feat swyftly swyed on blonke\u021d,\n  & also fele vpon fote, of fre & of bonde.                           88\n    [Sidenote: When they came to the court they were well\n    entertained.]\n  When \u00feay com to \u00fee co{ur}te keppte wern \u00feay fayre,\n  Sty\u021dtled w{i}t{h} \u00fee stewarde, stad i{n} \u00fee halle,\n  Ful man{er}ly w{i}t{h} marchal mad forto sitte,\n  As he wat\u021d dere of de-gre dressed his seete.                        92\n    [Sidenote: The servants tell their lord that they have done his\n    behest, and there is still room for more guests.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne segge\u021d to \u00fee souerayn sayden \u00feer-aft{er},\n  \u201cLo! lorde w{i}t{h} yo{ur} leue at yo{ur} lege heste,\n  & at \u00fei ba{n}ne we haf bro\u021dt, as \u00fe{o}u beden habbe\u021d,\n  Mony renischche renke\u021d & \u021det is rou{m} more.\u201d                       96\n\n[Headnote: THE HALT AND THE BLIND ARE INVITED.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The Lord commands them to go out into the fields, and\n    bring in the halt, blind, and \u201cone-eyed.\u201d]\n  Sayde \u00fee lorde to \u00feo lede\u021d, \u201clayte\u021d \u021det ferre,\n  Ferre out i{n} \u00fee felde, & feche\u021d mo geste\u021d,\n  Wayte\u021d gorste\u021d & greue\u021d, if ani gome\u021d lygge\u021d,\n  What-kyn folk so \u00feer fare, feche\u021d hem hider,                       100\n  Be \u00feay fers, be \u00feay feble for-lote\u021d[5] none,\n  Be \u00feay hol, be \u00feay halt, be \u00feay ony\u021ded,\n  & \u00fea\u021d \u00feay ben bo\u00fee blynde & balt{er}ande cruppele\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: For those who denied shall not taste \u201cone sup\u201d to\n    save them from death.]\n  \u00deat my ho{us} may holly by halkes by fylled;                       104\n  For certe\u021d \u00feyse ilk renke\u021d \u00feat me renayed habbe\n  & de-nou{n}ced me, no\u021dt now at \u00feis tyme,\n  Schul neu{er} sitte in my sale my sop{er} to fele,\n  Ne suppe on sope of my seve, \u00fea\u021d[6] \u00feay swelt schulde.\u201d            108\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 58b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The palace soon became full of \u201cpeople of all\n    plights.\u201d]\n  The{n}ne \u00fee sergau{n}te\u021d, at \u00feat sawe, swengen \u00fe{er}-oute,\n  & diden \u00fee dede \u00feat [is] demed, as he deuised hade,\n  & w{i}t{h} peple of alle plyte\u021d \u00fee palays \u00feay fyllen;\n    [Sidenote: They were not all one wife\u2019s sons, nor had they all\n    one father.]\n  Hit weren not alle on wyue\u021d su{n}e\u021d, wonen w{i}t{h} on fader;      112\n  Whe\u00fe{er} \u00feay wern wor\u00fey, o\u00fe{er} wers, wel wern \u00feay stowed,\n    [Sidenote: The \u201cbrightest attired\u201d had the best place.]\n  Ay \u00fee best byfore & bry\u021dtest atyred,\n  \u00dee derrest at \u00fee hy\u021de dese \u00feat dubbed wer fayrest;\n    [Sidenote: Below sat those with \u201cpoor weeds.\u201d]\n  & sy\u00feen on len\u00fee biloogh{e} lede\u021d inogh,                           116\n  & ay a segge soerly[7] semed by her wede\u021d;\n  So with marschal at her mete mensked \u00feay were,\n  Clene men i{n} compaynye for-knowen wern lyte,\n    [Sidenote: All are well entertained \u201cwith meat and minstrelsy.\u201d]\n  & \u021det \u00fee symplest in \u00fe{a}t sale wat\u021d serued to \u00fee fulle,           120\n  Bo\u00fee with menske, & w{i}t{h} mete & mynstrasy noble,\n  & alle \u00fee layke\u021d \u00feat a lorde a\u021dt i{n} londe schewe.\n    [Sidenote: Each with his \u201cmate\u201d made him at ease.]\n  & \u00feay bigo{n}ne to be glad \u00feat god dri{n}k haden,\n  & vch mon w{i}t{h} his mach made hy{m} at ese.                     124\n\n    [Sidenote 1: _aywhere_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 2: Looks like _burre_ in MS.]\n    [Sidenote 3: _swer_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 4: MS. _plate_.]\n    [Sidenote 5: _forlete\u021d_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 6: MS. \u00fea\u021d \u00fea\u021d.]\n    [Sidenote 7: _soberly_ (?).]\n\n\n[Headnote: THE MAN WITHOUT A WEDDING GARMENT.]\n\nII.\n\n    [Sidenote: The lord of the feast goes among his guests.]\n  Now i{n}-mydde\u021d \u00fee mete \u00fee mayst{er} hym bi\u00feo\u021dt,\n  \u00deat he wolde se \u00fee sembl\u00e9 \u00fe{a}t samned was \u00fe{er}e,\n  & re-hayte rekenly \u00fee riche & \u00fee pou{er}en,[8]\n  & cherisch hem alle w{i}t{h} his cher, & chaufen her Ioye,         128\n  \u00deen he bowe\u021d fro his bour i{n} to \u00fee brode halle,\n    [Sidenote: Bids them be merry.]\n  & to \u00fee best on \u00fee bench, & bede hy{m} be myry,\n  Solased hem w{i}t{h} semblau{n}t & syled fyrre;\n  Tron fro table to table & talkede ay myr\u00fee,                        132\n    [Sidenote: On the floor he finds one not arrayed for a holyday.]\n  Bot as he ferked ou{er} \u00fee flor he fande w{i}t{h} his y\u021de,\n  Hit wat\u021d not for a haly day honestly arayed,\n  A \u00feral \u00fery\u021dt i{n} \u00fee \u00ferong vn\u00feryuandely clo\u00feed,\n  Ne no festiual frok, bot fyled with werkke\u021d.                       136\n  \u00dee gome wat\u021d vn-garnyst w{i}t{h} god me{n} to dele,\n  & gremed \u00fe{er}-w{i}t{h} \u00fee grete lord & greue hy{m} he \u00feo\u021dt;\n    [Sidenote: Asks him how he obtained entrance, and how he was so\n    bold as to appear in such rags.]\n  \u201cSay me, frende,\u201d q{uod} \u00fee freke w{i}t{h} a felle chere,\n  \u201cHov wan \u00fe{o}u into \u00feis won i{n} wede\u021d so fowle?                   140\n  \u00dee abyt \u00feat \u00fe{o}u hat\u021d vpon, no haly day hit menske\u021d;\n  \u00de{o}u burne for no brydale art busked i{n} wede\u021d!\n  How wat\u021d \u00fe{o}u hardy \u00feis ho{us} for \u00feyn vnhap [to] ne\u021de,\n  I{n} on so ratted a robe & rent at \u00fee syde\u021d?                       144\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 59a.]]\n  \u00deow art a gome vn-goderly i{n} \u00feat gou{n} febele;\n  \u00de{o}u praysed me & my place ful pou{er} & ful [g]nede,\n    [Sidenote: Does he take him to be a harlot?]\n  \u00deat wat\u021d so prest to aproche my p{re}sens here-i{n}ne;\n  Hope\u021d \u00fe{o}u I be a harlot \u00fei erigant to prayse?\u201d                   148\n  \u00deat o\u00fe{er} burne wat\u021d abayst of his bro\u00fee worde\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: The man becomes discomfited.]\n  & hurkele\u021d dou{n} with his hede, \u00fee vr\u00fee he bi-holde\u021d;\n  He wat\u021d so scou{m}fit of his scylle, lest he ska\u00fee hent,\n    [Sidenote: He is unable to reply.]\n  \u00deat he ne wyst on worde what he warp schulde.                      152\n    [Sidenote: The lord commands him to be bound, and cast into a\n    deep dungeon.]\n  \u00dee{n} \u00fee lorde wonder loude laled & cryed,\n  & talke\u021d to his tormentto{ur}e\u021d: \u201ctake\u021d hym,\u201d he bidde\u021d,\n  \u201cBynde\u021d byhynde, at his bak, bo\u00fee two his hande\u021d,\n  & felle fett{er}e\u021d to his fete festene\u021d bylyue;                    156\n  Stik hym stifly i{n} stoke\u021d, & steke\u021d hy{m} \u00fe{er}-aft{er}\n  Depe i{n} my dou{n}gou{n} \u00fe{er} doel eu{er} dwelle\u021d,\n  Greui{n}g, & grety{n}g, & gryspy{n}g harde\n  Of te\u00fee tenfully to-geder, to teche hy{m} be quoy{n}t.\u201d            160\n    [Sidenote: This feast is likened to the kingdom of heaven, to\n    which all are invited.]\n  Thus comparisu{n}e\u021d kryst \u00fee kyndom of heue\u00f1,\n  To \u00feis frelych feste \u00feat fele arn to called,\n  For alle arn la\u00feed luflyly, \u00fee lu\u00fe{er} & \u00fee bett{er},\n  \u00deat eu{er} wern ful\u021ded i{n} font \u00feat fest to haue.                 164\n    [Sidenote: See that thy weeds are clean.]\n  Bot war \u00fee wel, if \u00fe{o}u wylt, \u00fey wede\u021d ben clene,\n  & honest for \u00fee haly day, lest \u00fe{o}u harme lache,\n  For aproch \u00fe{o}u to \u00feat prynce of parage noble.\n  He hat{es} helle no more \u00fee{n} hem \u00feat ar sowle.[9]                168\n\n[Headnote: GOD IS DISPLEASED WITH THE WICKED.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Thy weeds are thy works that thou hast wrought.]\n  Wich arn \u00fee{n}ne \u00fey wede\u021d \u00fe{o}u wrappe\u021d \u00fee i{n}ne,\n  \u00deat schal schewe he{m} so schene schrowde of \u00fee best?\n  Hit arn \u00fey werke\u021d wyt{er}ly, \u00fe{a}t \u00fe{o}u wro\u021dt haue\u021d,\n  & lyued w{i}t{h} \u00fee lyky{n}g \u00fe{a}t ly\u021de in \u00fey{n} hert,             172\n  \u00deat \u00feo be frely & fresch fonde i{n} \u00fey lyue,\n  & fetyse of a fayr forme, to fote & to honde,\n  & sy\u00fee{n} alle \u00fey{n} o\u00fe{er} lyme\u021d lapped ful clene,\n    [Sidenote: For many faults may a man forfeit bliss.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne may \u00fe{o}u se \u00fey sauior & his sete ryche.                   176\n  For fele faute\u021d may a freke forfete his blysse,\n    [Sidenote: For sloth and pride he is thrust into the devil\u2019s\n    throat.]\n  \u00deat he \u00fee sou{er}ayn ne se \u00feen, for slau\u00fee one,\n  As for bobau{n}ce & bost & bolnande p{r}iyde,\n  \u00deroly i{n}-to \u00fee deuele\u021d \u00ferote man \u00fery{n}ge\u021d bylyue,               180\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 59b.]]\n    [Sidenote: He is ruined by covetousness, perjury, murder, theft,\n    and strife.]\n  For couetyse, & colwarde & croked dede\u021d,\n  For mon-sworne, & men-scla\u021dt, & to much drynk,\n  For \u00feefte, & for \u00ferepy{n}g, vn-\u00feonk may mon haue;\n    [Sidenote: For robbery and ribaldry, for preventing marriages,\n    and supporting the wicked, for treason, treachery, and tyranny,\n    man may lose eternal bliss.]\n  For roborrye, & riboudrye & resou{n}e\u021d vntrwe,                     184\n  & dysheriete & depryue dowrie of wydoe\u021d,\n  For marry{n}g of maryage\u021d & may{n}tnau{n}ce of schrewe\u021d,\n  For traysou{n}, & trichcherye, & tyrau{n}tyr\u00e9 bo\u00fee,[10]\n  & for fals famacions & fayned lawe\u021d;                               188\n  Man may mysse \u00fee myr\u00fee, \u00feat much is to prayse,\n  For such vn\u00feewe\u021d as \u00feise & \u00feole much payne,\n  & i{n} \u00fee creatores cort com neu{er} more,\n  Ne neu{er} see hym with sy\u021dt for such sour to{ur}ne\u021d.              192\n\n    [Sidenote 8: MS. poueu{er}.]\n    [Sidenote 9: _fowle_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 10: lo\u00fee (?).]\n\n\n[Headnote: THE FALL OF THE ANGELS.]\n\nIII.\n\n  Bot I haue herkned & herde of mony hy\u021de clerke\u021d,\n  & als i{n} resou{n}e\u021d of ry\u021dt red hit my seluen,\n    [Sidenote: The high Prince of all is displeased with those who\n    work wickedly.]\n  \u00de{a}t \u00feat ilk prop{er} prynce \u00feat paradys welde\u021d\n  Is displesed at vch a poy{n}t \u00feat plyes to sca\u00fee.                  196\n  Bot neu{er} \u021det i{n} no boke breued I herde\n  \u00deat eu{er} he wrek so wy\u00fe{er}ly on werk \u00feat he made,\n  Ne venged for no vilt\u00e9 of vice ne sy{n}ne,\n  Ne so hastyfly wat\u021d hot for hatel of his wylle,                    200\n  Ne neu{er} so sodenly so\u021dt vn-sou{n}dely to weng,\n  As for fyl\u00fee of \u00fee flesch \u00feat foles han vsed;\n  For as I fynde \u00fe{er} he for\u021det alle his fre \u00feewes,\n    [Sidenote: For the first fault the devil committed, he felt\n    God\u2019s vengeance.]\n  & wex wod to \u00fee wrache, for wrath at his hert,                     204\n  For \u00fee fyrste felonye \u00fee falce fende wro\u021dt.\n  Whyl he wat\u021d hy\u021de i{n} \u00fee heuen houen vpon lofte,\n  Of alle \u00feyse a\u00feel au{n}gele\u021d attled \u00fee fayrest,\n    [Sidenote: He, the fairest of all angels, forsook his sovereign,\n    and boasted that his throne should be as high as God\u2019s.]\n  & he vnkyndely as a karle kydde areward,                           208\n  He se\u021d no\u021dt bot hym self how semly he were,\n  Bot his sou{er}ayn he forsoke & sade \u00feyse worde\u021d:\n  \u201cI schal telde vp my trone i{n} \u00fee tra mou{n}tayne\n  & by lyke to \u00feat lorde \u00feat \u00fee lyft made.                           212\n  With \u00feis worde \u00feat he warp, \u00fee wrake on hy{m} ly\u021dt,\n    [Sidenote: For these words he was cast down to hell.]\n      Dry\u021dtyn w{i}t{h} his dere dom hym drof to \u00fee abyme,\n  I{n} \u00fee mesure of his mode, his met\u021d neu{er} \u00fee lasse,\n  Bot \u00feer he tynt \u00fee ty\u00fee dool of his to{ur} ryche,                  216\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 60a.]]\n  \u00dea\u021d \u00fee felou{n} were so fers for his fayre wede\u021d\n  & his glorio{us} glem \u00feat glent so bry\u021dt;\n  As sone as dry\u021dtyne\u021d dome drof to hy{m} seluen,\n  [\u00dei]kke \u00feowsande\u021d \u00fero \u00ferwen \u00feer-oute                               220\n    [Sidenote: The fiends fell from heaven, like the thick snow, for\n    forty days.]\n  Fellen fro \u00fee fyrmame{n}t, fende\u021d ful blake\n  Weued[11] at \u00fee fyrst swap as \u00fee snaw \u00feikke,\n  Hurled i{n}-to helle-hole as \u00fee hyue swarme\u021d;\n  Fyltyr fenden folk forty daye\u021d lenc\u00fee,                             224\n  Er \u00feat styngande storme stynt ne my\u021dt;\n  Bot as smylt mele vnder smal siue smokes for-\u00feikke,\n    [Sidenote: From heaven to hell the shower lasted.]\n  So fro heuen to helle \u00feat hatel schor laste,\n  On vche syde of \u00fee worlde aywhere ilyche.                          228\n  \u00deis[12] hit wat\u021d a brem brest & a byge wrache,\n    [Sidenote: The devil would not make peace with God.]\n  & \u021det wrathed not \u00fee wy\u021d, ne \u00fee wrech sa\u021dtled,\n  Ne neu{er} wolde, for wylnesful, his wor\u00fey god knawe,\n  Ne pray hym for no pit\u00e9, so proud wat\u021d his wylle,                  232\n    [Sidenote: Affliction makes him none the better.]\n  For-\u00fey \u00fea\u021d \u00fee rape were rank, \u00fee raw\u00fee wat\u021d lyttel;[13]\n  \u00dea\u021d he be kest into kare he kepes no bett{er}.\n    [Sidenote: For the fault of one, vengeance alighted upon all men.]\n  Bot \u00feat o\u00fe{er} wrake \u00feat wex on wy\u021de\u021d, hit ly\u021dt\n  \u00deur\u021d \u00fee faut of a freke \u00feat fayled i{n} traw\u00fee.                    236\n    [Sidenote: Adam was ordained to live in bliss.]\n  A{da}m i{n} obedyent[14] ordaynt to blysse,\n  \u00deer pryuely i{n} paradys his place wat\u021d de-vised,\n  To lyue \u00feer i{n} lyky{n}g \u00fee len\u00fee of a terme,\n  & \u00fee{n}ne en-herite \u00feat home \u00feat au{n}gele\u021d for-gart,              240\n    [Sidenote: Through Eve he ate an apple.]\n  Bot \u00feur\u021d \u00fee eggy{n}g of eue he ete of an apple\n  \u00deat en-poysened alle peple\u021d \u00feat parted fro hem bo\u00fee,\n    [Sidenote: Thus all his descendants became poisoned.]\n  For a defence \u00feat wat\u021d dy\u021dt of dry\u021dtyn seluen,\n  & a payne \u00feer-on put & pertly halden;                              244\n  \u00dee defence wat\u021d \u00fee fryt \u00feat \u00fee freke towched,\n  & \u00fee dom is \u00fee de\u00fee \u00feat drepe\u021d v{us} alle.\n    [Sidenote: A maiden brought a remedy for mankind.]\n  Al i{n} mesure & me\u00fee wat\u021d mad \u00fee vengiau{n}ce,\n  & efte amended w{i}t{h} a mayden \u00feat make hade neu{er}.            248\n\n    [Sidenote 11: _wened_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 12: _\u021dis_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 13: MS. _lyttlel_.]\n    [Sidenote 14: _obedience_ (?).]\n\n\n[Headnote: THE WICKEDNESS OF THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD.]\n\nIV.\n\n  Bot in \u00fee \u00feryd wat\u021d for\u00ferast al \u00feat \u00feryue schuld,\n    [Sidenote: Malice was merciless.]\n  \u00deer wat\u021d malys mercyles & mawgre much scheued,\n  \u00deat wat\u021d for fyl\u00fee vpon folde \u00fe{a}t \u00fee folk vsed,\n    [Sidenote: A race of men came into the world, the fairest, the\n    merriest, and the strongest that ever were created.]\n  [\u00de]at \u00feen wonyed i{n} \u00fee worlde w{i}t{h}-outen any mayst{er}\u021d;     252\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 60b.]]\n  Hit wern \u00fee fayrest of forme & of face als,\n  \u00dee most & \u00fee myriest \u00feat maked wern euer,\n  \u00dee styfest, \u00fee stalwor\u00feest \u00feat stod eu{er} on fete;\n  & lengest lyf i{n} hem lent of lede\u021d alle o\u00fe{er},                  256\n  For hit was \u00fee forme-foster \u00feat \u00fee folde bred,\n    [Sidenote: They were sons of Adam.]\n  \u00dee a\u00feel au{n}cetere\u021d su{n}e\u021d \u00feat ad{a}m wat\u021d called,\n  To wham god hade geuen alle \u00feat gayn were,\n  Alle \u00fee blysse boute blame \u00feat bodi my\u021dt haue,                     260\n  & \u00feose lykkest to \u00fee lede \u00feat lyued next aft{er},\n  For-\u00fey so semly to see sy\u00fee{n} wern none.\n    [Sidenote: No law was laid upon them.]\n  \u00deer wat\u021d no law to hem layd bot loke to kynde,\n  & kepe to hit, & alle hit cors clanly ful-fylle;                   264\n    [Sidenote: Nevertheless they acted unnaturally.]\n  & \u00fee{n}ne fou{n}den \u00feay fyl\u00fee i{n} fleschlych dede\u021d\n  & controeued agayn kynde contrar\u00e9 werke\u021d,\n  & vsed hem vn-\u00feryftyly vchon on o\u00fe{er},\n  & als with o\u00fe{er}, wylsfully, vpon a wrange wyse.                  268\n    [Sidenote: The \u201c_fiends_\u201d beheld how fair were the daughters of\n    these mighty men, and made fellowship with them and begat a race\n    of giants.]\n  So ferly fowled her flesch \u00feat \u00fee fende loked,\n  How \u00fee de\u021dt{er} of \u00fee dou\u00fee wern dere-lych fayre,\n  & fallen i{n} fela\u021dschyp w{i}t{h} hem on folken wyse\n  & en-gendered on hem ieau{n}te\u021d w{i}t{h} her Iape\u021d ille.           272\n  \u00deose wern men me\u00feele\u021d & ma\u021dty on vr\u00fee,\n  \u00deat for her lodlych layke\u021d alosed \u00feay were.\n  He wat\u021d famed[15] for fre \u00feat fe\u021dt loued best,\n    [Sidenote: The greatest fighter was reckoned the most famous.]\n  & ay \u00fee bigest i{n} bale \u00fee best wat\u021d halden;                      276\n  & \u00fee{n}ne euele\u021d on er\u00fee ernestly grewen\n  & multyplyed mony-folde i{n}-monge\u021d mankynde,\n    [Sidenote: The Creater of all becomes exceedingly wroth.]\n  For \u00feat \u00fee ma\u021dty on molde so marre \u00feise o\u00fe{er}.\n  \u00deat \u00fee wy\u021de \u00feat al wro\u021dt ful wro\u00fely bygy{n}ne\u021d.                    280\n\n[Headnote: GOD DETERMINES TO DESTROY ALL FLESH.]\n\n  When he knew vche contre corupte i{n} hit seluen,\n  & vch freke forloyned fro \u00fee ry\u021dt waye\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: Fell anger touches His heart.]\n  Felle temptande tene towched his hert;\n  As wy\u021de, wo hy{m} with-i{n}ne werp to hy{m} seluen:                284\n    [Sidenote: It repents Him that He has made man.]\n  \u201cMe for-\u00fey{n}ke\u021d ful much \u00feat eu{er} I mon made,\n  Bot I schal delyu{er} & do away \u00feat doten on \u00feis molde,\n    [Sidenote: He declares that all flesh shall be destroyed, both\n    man and beast.]\n  & fleme out of \u00fee folde al \u00feat flesch were\u021d,\n  Fro \u00fee burne to \u00fee best, fro brydde\u021d to fysche\u021d;                   288\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 61a.]]\n  Al schal dou{n} & be ded & dryuen out of er\u00fee,\n  \u00deat eu{er} I sette saule i{n}ne; & sore hit me rwe\u021d\n  \u00deat eu{er} I made hem my self; bot if I may her-aft{er},\n  I schal wayte to be war her wrenche\u021d to kepe.\u201d                     292\n    [Sidenote: There was at this time living on the earth a very\n    righteous man: Noah was his name.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne i{n} worlde wat\u021d a wy\u021de wonyande on lyue,\n  Ful redy & ful ry\u021dtwys, & rewled hy{m} fayre;\n  In \u00fee drede of dry\u021dtyn his daye\u021d he vse\u021d,\n  & ay glydande wyth his god his g{ra}ce wat\u021d \u00fee more.               296\n  Hy{m} wat\u021d \u00fee nome Noe, as is i{n}noghe knawen,\n    [Sidenote: Three bold sons he had.]\n  He had \u00fere \u00feryuen su{n}e\u021d & \u00feay \u00fere wyue\u021d;\n  Sem so\u00fely \u00feat on, \u00feat o\u00fe{er} hy\u021dt cam\n  & \u00fee Iolef Iapheth wat\u021d gendered \u00fee \u00feryd.                          300\n    [Sidenote: God in great anger speaks to Noah.]\n  Now god i{n} nwy to Noe co{n} speke,\n  Wylde wrakful worde\u021d i{n} his wylle greued:\n  \u201c\u00dee ende of alle-kyne\u021d flesch \u00feat on vr\u00fee meue\u021d,\n  Is fallen for\u00fe wyth my face & for\u00fe{er} hit I \u00feenk,                 304\n  W{i}t{h} her vn-wor\u00feelych werk me wlate\u021d w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne,\n  \u00dee gore \u00fe{er}-of me hat\u021d greued & \u00fee glette nwyed;\n    [Sidenote: Declares that He will destroy all \u201cthat life has.\u201d]\n  I schal strenkle my distresse & strye al to-geder,\n  Bo\u00fee lede\u021d & londe & alle \u00feat lyf habbe\u021d.                          308\n\n[Headnote: NOAH IS COMMANDED TO BUILD AN ARK.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Commands him to make \u201ca mansion\u201d with dwellings for\n    wild and tame.]\n  Bot make to \u00fee a manciou{n} & \u00feat is my wylle,\n  A cofer closed of tres, clanlych planed;\n  Wyrk wone\u021d \u00fe{er}i{n}ne for wylde & for tame,\n  & \u00fee{n}ne cleme hit w{i}t{h} clay comly w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne[16]        312\n  & alle \u00fee endentur dryuen daube w{i}t{h}-outen.\n    [Sidenote: To let the ark be three hundred cubits in length,\n    and fifty in breadth, and thirty in height, and a window in it a\n    cubit square.]\n  & \u00fe{us} of len\u00fee & of large \u00feat lome \u00fe{o}u make,\n  \u00dere hundred of cupyde\u021d \u00fe{o}u holde to \u00fee len\u00fee,\n  Of fyfty fayre ou{er}-\u00fewert forme \u00fee brede;                        316\n  & loke euen \u00feat \u00feyn ark haue of he\u021d\u00fee \u00ferett\u00e9,\n  & a wyndow wyd vpon, wro\u021dt vpon lofte,\n  In \u00fee compas of a cubit kyndely sware,\n    [Sidenote: Also a good shutting door in the side, together with\n    halls, recesses, bushes, and bowers, and well-formed pens.]\n  A wel dutande dor, don on \u00fee syde;                                 320\n  Haf halle\u021d \u00feer-i{n}ne & halke\u021d ful mony,\n  Bo\u00fee boske\u021d & bo{ur}e\u021d & wel bou{n}den pene\u021d;\n  For I schal waken vp a wat{er} to wasch alle \u00fee worlde,\n  & quelle alle \u00feat is quik w{i}t{h} quauende flode\u021d.                324\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 61b.]]\n    [Sidenote: For all flesh shall be destroyed, except Noah and his\n    family.]\n  Alle \u00feat glyde\u021d & got\u021d, & gost of lyf habbe\u021d,\n  I schal wast with my wrath \u00feat wons vpon vr\u00fee;\n  Bot my forwarde w{i}t{h} \u00fee I festen on \u00feis wyse,\n  For \u00fe{o}u in reysou{n} hat\u021d rengned & ry\u021dtwys ben eu{er};          328\n  \u00de{o}u schal ent{er} \u00feis ark w{i}t{h} \u00feyn a\u00feel barne\u021d\n  & \u00fey wedded wyf; with \u00fee \u00fe{o}u take\n  \u00dee make\u021d of \u00fey myry su{n}e\u021d; \u00feis meyny of a\u021dte\n    [Sidenote: Noah is told to take into the ark seven pairs of\n    every clean beast, and one of unclean kind, and to furnish the\n    ark with proper food.]\n  I schal saue of mo{n}ne\u021d saule\u021d, & swelt \u00feose o\u00fe{er}.              332\n  Of vche best \u00feat bere\u021d lyf busk \u00fee a cupple,\n  Of vche clene comly kynde enclose seuen make\u021d,\n  Of vche horwed, i{n} ark halde bot a payre,\n  For to saue me \u00fee sede of alle ser kynde\u021d;                         336\n  & ay \u00fe{o}u meng w{i}t{h} \u00fee male\u021d \u00fee mete ho-beste\u021d,\n  Vche payre by payre to plese ay\u00fe{er} o\u00fe{er};\n  W{i}t{h} alle \u00fee fode \u00feat may be fou{n}de frette \u00fey cofer,\n  For sustnau{n}ce to yow self & also \u00feose o\u00fe{er}.\u201d                  340\n    [Sidenote: Noah fills the ark.]\n  Ful gray\u00feely got\u021d \u00feis god ma{n} & dos gode\u021d hestes,\n  In dry\u021d dred & dau{n}ger, \u00feat durst do non o\u00feer.\n  Wen hit wat\u021d fettled & forged & to \u00fee fulle gray\u00feed,\n  \u00dee{n}n con dry\u021dttyn hym dele dry\u021dly \u00feyse worde\u021d:                   344\n\n    [Sidenote 15: _fained_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 16: MS. w{i}t{h}i{n}me]\n\n\n[Headnote: THE RAIN DESCENDS.]\n\nV.\n\n    [Sidenote: God asks Noah whether all is ready.]\n  \u201cNow Noe,\u201d q{uod} oure lorde, \u201cart \u00fe{o}u al redy?\n  Hat\u021d \u00fe{o}u closed \u00fey kyst w{i}t{h} clay alle aboute?\u201d\n    [Sidenote: Noah replies that all is fully prepared.]\n  \u201c\u021ce lorde w{i}t{h} \u00fey leue,\u201d sayde \u00fee lede \u00fee{n}ne,\n  \u201cAl is wro\u021dt at \u00fei worde, as \u00fe{o}u me wyt lante\u021d.\u201d                 348\n    [Sidenote: He is commanded to enter the ark, for God tells him\n    that he will send a rain to destroy all flesh.]\n  \u201cEnter in \u00fee{n}n,\u201d q{uod} he, \u201c& haf \u00fei wyf w{i}t{h} \u00fee,\n  \u00dey \u00fere su{n}e\u021d w{i}t{h}-outen \u00ferep & her \u00fere wyue\u021d;\n  Beste\u021d, as I bedene haue, bosk \u00fe{er}-i{n}ne als,\n  & when \u021de arn staued, styfly steke\u021d yow \u00fe{er}i{n}ne;               352\n  Fro seuen daye\u021d ben seyed I sende out by-lyue,\n  Such a rowtande ryge \u00feat rayne schal swy\u00fee,\n  \u00deat schal wasch alle \u00fee worlde of werke\u021d of fyl\u00fee;\n  Schal no flesch vpon folde by fonden onlyue;                       356\n    [Sidenote: Noah stows all safely in the ark.]\n  Out-taken yow a\u021dt i{n} \u00feis ark staued,\n  & sed \u00feat I wyl saue of \u00feyse ser beste\u021d.\u201d\n  Now Noe neu{er} styste\u021d[17] (\u00feat niy\u021d[t] he bygy{n}ne\u021d),\n  Er al wer stawed & stoken, as \u00fee steuen wolde.                     360\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 62a.]]\n    [Sidenote: Seven days are passed.]\n  The{n}ne sone com \u00fee seuen\u00fee day, when samned wern alle,\n  & alle woned i{n} \u00fee whichche \u00fee wylde & \u00fee tame.\n    [Sidenote: The deep begins to swell, banks are broken down, and\n    the clouds burst.]\n  \u00dee{n} bolned \u00fee abyme & bonke\u021d con ryse,\n  Walt{es} out vch walle-heued, i{n} ful wode streme\u021d,               364\n  Wat\u021d no bry{m}me \u00feat abod vnbrosten bylyue,\n  \u00dee mukel lauande logh{e} to \u00fee lyfte rered.\n  Mony clust{er}ed clowde clef alle i{n} clowte\u021d,\n  To-rent vch a rayn-ryfte & rusched to \u00fee vr\u00fee;                     368\n    [Sidenote: It rains for forty days, and the flood rises, and\n    flows over the woods and fields.]\n  Fon neu{er} i{n} forty daye\u021d, & \u00fee{n} \u00fee flod ryses,\n  Ou{er}-walte\u021d vche a wod & \u00fee wyde felde\u021d;\n  For when \u00fee wat{er} of \u00fee welkyn w{i}t{h} \u00fee worlde mette,\n  Alle \u00feat deth mo\u021dt dry\u021de drowned \u00feer-i{n}ne;                       372\n  \u00deer wat\u021d moon forto make when meschef was cnowen,\n    [Sidenote: All must drown.]\n  \u00deat no\u021dt dowed bot \u00fee deth in \u00fee depe streme\u021d.\n  Wat{er} wylger ay wax, wone\u021d \u00feat stryede,\n  Hurled i{n}-to vch ho{us}, hent \u00feat \u00feer dowelled.                  376\n    [Sidenote: The water enters the houses.]\n  Fyrst feng to \u00fee fly\u021dt alle \u00feat fle my\u021dt,\n  Vuche burde w{i}t{h} her barne \u00fee byggy{n}g \u00feay leue\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: Each woman with her bairns flees to the hills.]\n  & bowed to \u00fee hy\u021d bonk \u00feer brentest hit wern,\n  & het{er}ly to \u00fee hy\u021de hylle\u021d \u00feay [h]aled on faste;                380\n    [Sidenote: The rain never ceases.]\n  Bot al wat\u021d nedle\u021d her note, for neu{er} cow\u00fee stynt\n  \u00dee ro\u021de raynande ryg [&] \u00fee raykande wawe\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: The valleys are filled.]\n  Er vch bo\u00feom wat\u021d brurd-ful to \u00fee bonke\u021d egge\u021d,\n  & vche a dale so depe \u00feat de{m}med at \u00fee brynke\u021d.                  384\n  \u00dee moste mou{n}tay{n}e\u021d on mor \u00fee{n}ne wat\u021d no more dry\u021de,\n    [Sidenote: People flock to the mountains.]\n  & \u00fe{er}-on flokked \u00fee folke, for ferde of \u00fee wrake,\n  Sy\u00feen \u00fee wylde of \u00fee wode on \u00fee wat{er} flette;\n    [Sidenote: Some swim for their lives.]\n  Su{m}me swy{m}med \u00fe{er}-on \u00feat saue hemself trawed,                388\n  Su{m}me sty\u021de to a stud & stared to \u00fee heuen,\n    [Sidenote: Others roar for fear.]\n  Rwly wyth a loud rurd rored for drede.\n    [Sidenote: Animals of all kinds run to the hills.]\n  Hare\u021d, hertte\u021d also, to \u00fee hy\u021de ru{n}nen,\n  Bukke\u021d, bausene\u021d & bule\u021d to \u00fee bonkke\u021d hy\u021ded,                      392\n    [Sidenote: All pray for mercy.]\n  & alle cryed for care to \u00fee ky{n}g of heuen,\n  Re-cou{er}er of \u00fee creator, \u00feay cryed vchone,\n    [Sidenote: God\u2019s mercy is passed from them.]\n  \u00deat amou{n}ted \u00fee masse, \u00fee mase his mercy wat\u021d passed,\n  & alle his pyte departed fro peple \u00feat he hated.                   396\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 62b.]]\n  Bi \u00feat \u00fee flod to her fete flo\u021ded & waxed,\n    [Sidenote: Each sees that he must sink.]\n  \u00deen vche a segge se\u021d wel \u00feat synk hy{m} byhoued;\n  Frende\u021d fellen i{n} fere & fa\u00femed togeder\n  To dry\u021d her delful deystyn\u00e9 & dy\u021den alle samen;                    400\n    [Sidenote: Friends take leave of one another.]\n  Luf loke\u021d to luf & his leue take\u021d,\n  For to ende alle at one\u021d & for eu{er} twy{n}ne.\n    [Sidenote: Forty days have gone by, and all are destroyed.]\n  By forty daye\u021d wern faren, on folde no flesch styryed,\n  \u00deat \u00fee flod nade al freten w{i}t{h} fe\u021dtande wa\u021de\u021d[18],            404\n  For hit clam vche a clyffe cubit{es} fyftene,\n  Ou{er} \u00fee hy\u021dest hylle \u00feat hurkled on er\u00fee.\n\n[Headnote: ALL ROT IN THE MUD.]\n\n    [Sidenote: All rot in the mud, except Noah and his family, who\n    are safe in the ark.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne mo{ur}kne i{n} \u00fee mudde most ful nede\n  Alle \u00feat spyrakle i{n}-spranc,[19] no sprawly{n}g awayled,         408\n  Saue \u00fee ha\u00feel vnder hach & his here strau{n}ge,\n  Noe \u00feat ofte neuened \u00fee name of oure lorde,\n  Hy{m} a\u021dt-su{m} i{n} \u00feat ark as a\u00feel god lyked,\n  \u00deer alle lede\u021d i{n} lome lenged druye,                             412\n    [Sidenote: The ark is lifted as high as the clouds, and is\n    driven about, without mast, bowline, cables, anchors, or sail to\n    guide its course.]\n  \u00dee arc houen wat\u021d on hy\u021de w{i}t{h} hurlande gote\u021d,\n  Kest to kythe\u021d vncou\u00fee \u00fee clowde\u021d ful nere.\n  Hit walt{er}ed on \u00fee wylde flod, went as hit lyste,\n  Drof vpon \u00fee depe dam, i{n} dau{n}g{er} hit semed,                 416\n  With-oute{n} mast, o\u00fe{er} myke, o\u00fe{er} myry bawelyne,\n  Kable, o\u00fe{er} capstan to clyppe to he{r} ankre\u021d,\n  Hurrok, o\u00fe{er} hande-helme hasped on ro\u00fe{er},\n  O\u00fe{er} any sweande sayl to seche aft{er} hauen,                    420\n    [Sidenote: At the mercy of the winds.]\n  Bot flote forthe w{i}t{h} \u00fee flyt of \u00fee felle wynde\u021d;\n  Wheder-warde so \u00fee wat{er} wafte, hit rebou{n}de.\n    [Sidenote: Oft it rolled around and reared on end.]\n  Ofte hit roled on-rou{n}de & rered on ende,\n  Nyf oure lorde hade ben her lode\u021d-mon he{m} had lu{m}pen harde.    424\n    [Sidenote: The age of the patriarch Noah.]\n  Of \u00fee len\u00fee of noe lyf to lay a lel date,\n  \u00dee sex hundreth of his age & none odde \u021dere\u021d,\n  Of seco{n}de monyth, \u00fee seue{n}\u00fee day ry\u021dte\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: Duration of the flood.]\n  To-walten alle \u00feyse welle-hede\u021d & \u00fee wat{er} flowed,               428\n  & \u00ferye\u021d fyfty \u00fee flod of folwande daye\u021d,\n  Vche hille wat\u021d \u00feer hidde w{i}t{h} yre\u021d[20] ful graye;\n    [Sidenote: The completeness of the destruction.]\n  Al wat\u021d wasted \u00feat \u00feer wonyed \u00fee worlde w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne,\n  \u00deer eu{er} flote, o\u00fe{er} flwe, o\u00fe{er} on fote \u021dede,                432\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 63a.]]\n  That ro\u021dly wat\u021d \u00fee remnau{n}t \u00feat \u00fee rac dryue\u021d,\n  \u00deat alle gendre\u021d so ioyst wern ioyned wyth-i{n}ne.\n    [Sidenote: God remembers those in the ark.]\n  Bot quen \u00fee lorde of \u00fee lyfte lyked hymseluen\n  For to my{n}ne on his mon his meth \u00feat abyde\u021d,                     436\n    [Sidenote: He causes a wind to blow, and closes the lakes and\n    wells, and the great deep.]\n  \u00dee{n} he wakened a wynde on watt{er}e\u021d to blowe;\n  \u00dee{n}ne lasned \u00fee llak[21] \u00feat large wat\u021d are,\n  \u00deen he stac vp \u00fee stange\u021d, stoped \u00feo welle\u021d,\n  Bed bly{n}ne of \u00fee rayn, hit batede as fast,                       440\n  \u00dee{n}ne lasned \u00fee lo\u021d lowkande to-geder.\n  Aft{er} harde daye\u021d wern out an hundreth & fyft\u00e9,\n  As \u00feat lyftande lome luged aboute,\n  Where \u00fee wynde & \u00fee weder warpen hit wolde,                        444\n  Hit sa\u021dtled on a softe day synkande to grou{n}de.\n\n[Headnote: THE ARK RESTS ON MOUNT ARARAT.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The ark settles on Mount Ararat.]\n  On a rasse of a rok, hit rest at \u00fee laste,\n  On \u00fee mou{n}te of mararach of armene hilles,\n  \u00deat o\u00fe{er}-waye\u021d on ebrv hit hat \u00fee thanes.                        448\n  Bot \u00fea\u021d \u00fee kyste in \u00fee crage\u021d wern closed to byde,\n  \u021cet fyned not \u00fee flod ne fel to \u00fee bo\u00feeme\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: Noah beholds the bare earth.]\n  Bot \u00fee hy\u021dest of \u00fee egge\u021d vnhuled wern a lyttel,\n  \u00deat \u00fee burne by{n}ne borde byhelde \u00fee bare er\u00fee;                   452\n    [Sidenote: He opens his window and sends out the raven to seek\n    dry land.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne wafte he vpon his wyndowe, & wysed \u00fe{er}-oute\n  A message fro \u00feat meyny hem molde\u021d to seche,\n  \u00deat wat\u021d \u00fee rauen so ronk \u00feat rebel wat\u021d eu{er};\n  He wat\u021d colored as \u00fee cole, corbyal vn-trwe.                       456\n  & he fonge\u021d to \u00fee fly\u021dt, & fa{n}ne\u021d on \u00fee wynde\u021d,\n  Houe\u021d hy\u021de upon hy\u021dt to herken ty\u00fey{n}ges.\n    [Sidenote: The raven \u201ccroaks for comfort\u201d on finding carrion.]\n  He crouke\u021d for comfort when carayne he fynde\u021d;\n  Kast vp on a clyffe \u00feer costese lay drye,                          460\n  He hade \u00fee smelle of \u00fee smach & smolt{es} \u00feeder sone,\n    [Sidenote: He fills his belly with the foul flesh.]\n  Falle\u021d on \u00fee foule flesch & fylle\u021d his wombe,\n  & sone \u021dederly for-\u021dete \u021dister-day steuen,\n  How \u00fee cheuetayn hy{m} charged \u00fe{a}t \u00fee kyst \u021demed.                464\n  \u00dee rauen rayke\u021d hy{m} forth \u00feat reches ful lyttel\n  How alle fode\u021d \u00feer fare, elle\u021d he fynde mete;\n\n[Headnote: NOAH SENDS FORTH A DOVE.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The lord of the ark curses the raven, and sends out\n    the dove.]\n  Bot \u00fee burne by{n}ne borde[22] \u00feat bod to hys come,\n  Ba{n}ned hy{m} ful bytt{er}ly w{i}t{h} best{es} alle samen,        468\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 63b.]]\n  He seche\u021d an o\u00fe{er} sonde\u021dmon & sette\u021d on \u00fee dou{n}e;[23]\n  Bry{n}ge\u021d \u00feat bry\u021dt vpon borde blessed & sayde,\n  \u201cWende wor\u00feelych wy\u021dt v{us} wone\u021d to seche,\n  Dryf ou{er} \u00feis dy{m}me wat{er}; if \u00fe{o}u druye fynde\u021d             472\n  Bry{n}g bodworde to bot blysse to v{us} alle;\n  \u00dea\u021d \u00feat fowle be false, fre be \u00fe{o}u euer.\u201d\n    [Sidenote: The bird wanders about the whole day.]\n  Ho wyrl{e} out on \u00fee weder o{n} wy{n}ge\u021d ful scharpe,\n  Dre\u021dly alle a longe day \u00fe{a}t dorst neu{er} ly\u021dt;                  476\n    [Sidenote: Finding no rest, she returns about eventide to Noah.]\n  & when ho fynde\u021d no folde her fote on to pyche,\n  Ho vmbe-keste\u021d \u00fee coste & \u00fee kyst seche\u021d,\n  Ho hitte\u021d on \u00fee euentyde & on \u00fee ark sitte\u021d;\n  Noe ny{m}mes hir anon & naytly hir staue\u021d.                         480\n    [Sidenote: Noah again sends out the dove.]\n  Noe on ano\u00fe{er} day ny{m}me\u021d efte \u00fee dovene,\n  & bydde\u021d hir bowe ou{er} \u00fee borne efte bonke\u021d to seche;\n  & ho skyrme\u021d vnder skwe & skowte\u021d aboute,\n  Tyl hit wat\u021d ny\u021de at \u00fee na\u021dt & noe \u00fee{n} seche\u021d.                   484\n\n    [Sidenote 17: _stynte\u021d_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 18: _wawe\u021d_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 19: _in-sprang_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 20: _y\u00fee\u021d_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 21: So in MS.]\n    [Sidenote 22: MS. _lorde_.]\n    [Sidenote 23: _douue_ or _douene_ (?).]\n\n\n[Headnote: NOAH LEAVES THE ARK.]\n\nVI.\n\n    [Sidenote: The dove returns with an olive branch in her beak.]\n  On ark on an euentyde houe\u021d \u00fee downe,\n  On stamyn ho stod & stylle hy{m} abyde\u021d;\n  What! ho bro\u021dt i{n} hir beke a bronch of olyue,\n  G{ra}cyo{us}ly vmbe-grouen al w{i}t{h} grene leue\u021d;                488\n    [Sidenote: This was a token of peace and reconciliation.]\n  \u00deat wat\u021d \u00fee sy{n}gne of sauyt\u00e9 \u00fe{a}t sende he{m} oure lorde,\n  & \u00fee sa\u021dtly{n}g of hy{m}-self w{i}t{h} \u00feo sely beste\u021d.\n    [Sidenote: Joy reigns in the ark.]\n  \u00dee{n} wat\u021d \u00feer ioy i{n} pat gyn where Iu{m}pred er dry\u021ded,\n  & much comfort i{n} \u00feat cofer \u00feat wat\u021d clay-daubed.                492\n    [Sidenote: The people therein laugh and look thereout.]\n  Myryly on a fayr morn, monyth \u00fee fyrst,\n  \u00deat falle\u021d formast i{n} \u00fee \u021der, & \u00fee fyrst day,\n  Lede\u021d lo\u021den i{n} \u00feat lome & loked \u00fe{er}-oute,\n  How \u00feat watt{er}e\u021d wern woned & \u00fee worlde dryed.                   496\n  Vchon loued oure lorde, bot lenged ay stylle,\n  Tyl \u00feay had ty\u00fey{n}g fro \u00fee tolke \u00feat tyned he{m} \u00fe{er}-i{n}ne;\n    [Sidenote: God permits Noah and his sons to leave the ark.]\n  \u00dee{n} gode\u021d glam to hem glod \u00feat gladed hem alle,\n  Bede hem drawe to \u00fee dor, delyu{er} hem he wolde;                  500\n  \u00dee{n} went \u00feay to \u00fee wykket, hit walt vpon sone,\n  Bo\u00fee \u00fee burne & his barne\u021d bowed \u00fe{er}-oute;\n  Her wyue\u021d walke\u021d hem wyth & \u00fee wylde aft{er},\n  \u00deroly \u00ferublande i{n} \u00feronge, \u00ferowen ful \u00feykke;                     504\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 64a.]]\n    [Sidenote: Noah offers sacrifice to God.]\n  Bot Noe of vche honest kynde nem out an odde\n  & heuened vp an auter & hal\u021ded hit fayre,\n  & sette a sakerfyse \u00fe{er}-on of vch a ser kynde,\n  \u00deat wat\u021d comly & clene, god kepe\u021d non o\u00fe{er}.                      508\n  When bremly brened \u00feose beste\u021d, & \u00fee bre\u00fee rysed,\n    [Sidenote: It is pleasing to Him that \u201call speeds or spoils.\u201d]\n  \u00dee sauo{ur} of his sacrafyse so\u021dt to hym euen\n  \u00deat al spede\u021d & spylle\u021d; he spek{es} w{i}t{h} \u00feat ilke\n  I{n} comly comfort ful clos & cortays worde\u021d:                      512\n    [Sidenote: God declares that He will never destroy the world for\n    the sin of man.]\n  \u201cNow noe no more nel I neu{er} wary,\n  Alle \u00fee mukel mayny [on] molde for no ma{n}ne\u021d sy{n}ne\u021d,\n  For I se wel \u00feat hit is sothe, \u00feat alle ma{n}ne\u021d wytte\u021d\n  To vn-\u00feryfte arn alle \u00ferawen w{i}t{h} \u00feo\u021dt of her hertte\u021d,         516\n  & ay hat\u021d ben & wyl be \u021det fro her barnage;\n  Al is \u00fee mynde of \u00fee man to malyce enclyned,\n  For-\u00fey schal I neu{er} schende so schortly at ones,\n  As dysstrye al for mane\u021d sy{n}ne [in] daye\u021d of \u00feis er\u00fee.           520\n  Bot waxe\u021d now & wende\u021d forth & wor\u00fee\u021d to monye,\n  Multyplye\u021d on \u00feis molde & menske yow by-tyde.\n    [Sidenote: That summer and winter shall never cease.]\n  Sesou{n}e\u021d schal yow neu{er} sese of sede ne of heruest,\n  Ne hete, ne no harde forst, vmbre ne dro\u021d\u00fee,                       524\n  Ne \u00fee swetnesse of somer, ne \u00fee sadde wynt{er},\n    [Sidenote: Nor night nor day, nor the new years.]\n  Ne \u00fee ny\u021dt, ne \u00fee day, ne \u00fee newe \u021dere\u021d,\n  Bot eu{er} re{n}ne restle\u021d rengne\u021d \u021de \u00fe{er}-i{n}ne.\u201d\n    [Sidenote: God blesses every beast.]\n  \u00de{er}wyth he blesse\u021d vch a best, & byta\u021dt hem \u00feis er\u00fee.            528\n\n[Headnote: THE BEASTS ARE DISPERSED.]\n\n  \u00dee{n} wat\u021d a skylly skyualde, quen scaped alle \u00fee wylde;\n    [Sidenote: Each fowl takes its flight.]\n  Vche fowle to \u00fee fly\u021dt \u00feat fy\u00feere\u021d my\u021dt serue,\n    [Sidenote: Each fish goes to the flood.]\n  Vche fysch to \u00fee flod \u00feat fy{n}ne cou\u00fee nayte,\n    [Sidenote: Each beast makes for the plain.]\n  Vche beste to \u00fee bent \u00feat[24] byt{es} on erbe\u021d;                    532\n    [Sidenote: Wild worms wriggle to their abodes in the earth.]\n  Wylde worme\u021d to her won wry\u00fee\u021d i{n} \u00fee er\u00fee,\n    [Sidenote: The fox goes to the woods.]\n  \u00dee fox & \u00fee folmarde to \u00fee fryth wynde\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: Harts to the heath, and hares to the gorse.]\n  Hertt{es} to hy\u021de he\u00fee, hare\u021d to gorste\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: Lions and leopards go to the lakes.]\n  & lyou{n}e\u021d & lebarde\u021d to \u00fee lake ryft{es},                        536\n    [Sidenote: Eagles and hawks to the high rocks.]\n  Herne\u021d & haueke\u021d to \u00fee hy\u021de roche\u021d;\n  \u00dee hole-foted fowle to \u00fee flod hy\u021de\u021d,\n  & vche best at a brayde \u00feer hy{m} best lyke\u021d;\n    [Sidenote: The four \u2018frekes\u2019 take the empire.]\n  \u00dee fowre freke\u021d of \u00fee folde fonge\u021d \u00fee empyre.                      540\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 64b.]]\n    [Sidenote: Behold what woe God brought on mankind for their\n    hateful deeds!]\n  Lo! suche a wrakful wo for wlatsu{m} dede\u021d\n  Parformed \u00fee hy\u021de fader on folke \u00feat he made;\n  \u00deat he chysly hade cherisched he chastysed ful hardee,\n  I{n} de-voydy{n}ge \u00fee vylanye \u00fe{a}t venkquyst his \u00feewe\u021d.           544\n  For-\u00fey war \u00fee now, wy\u021de, \u00feat worschyp desyres,\n  I{n} his comlych co{ur}te \u00feat ky{n}g is of blysse,\n    [Sidenote: Beware of the filth of the flesh.]\n  I{n} \u00fee fyl\u00fee of \u00fee flesch \u00feat \u00fe{o}u be fou{n}den neu{er},\n  Tyl any wat{er} i{n} \u00fee worlde to wasche \u00fee fayly,                 548\n  For is no segge vnder su{n}ne so seme of his crafte\u021d,\n  If he be sulped i{n} sy{n}ne, \u00feat [ne] sytte\u021d vnclene.\n    [Sidenote: \u201cOne speck of a spot\u201d will ruin us in the sight of\n    God.]\n  On spec of a spote may spede to mysse\n  Of \u00fee sy\u021dte of \u00fee sou{er}ayn \u00feat sytte\u021d so hy\u021de,                   552\n  For \u00feat schewe me schale i{n} \u00feo schyre howse\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: The beryl is clean and sound,--it has no seam.]\n  As \u00fee beryl bornyst byhoue\u021d be clene,\n  \u00deat is sou{n}de on vche a syde & no sem habes,\n  W{i}t{h}-outen maskle o\u00fe{er} mote as margerye p{er}le.             556\n\n    [Sidenote 24: MS. _\u00feat \u00feat_.]\n\n\n[Headnote: GOD\u2019S HATRED OF WICKEDNESS.]\n\nVII.\n\n    [Sidenote: When God repented that he had made man, he destroyed\n    all flesh.]\n  Sy\u00fee{n} \u00fee sou{er}ayn i{n} sete so sore for-\u00feo\u021dt\n  \u00deat eu{er} he man vpon molde merked to lyuy,\n  For he i{n} fyl\u00fee wat\u021d fallen, felly he uenged,\n  Quen fo{ur}ferde[25] alle \u00fee flesch \u00feat he formed hade,            560\n    [Sidenote: But afterwards He was sorry, and made a covenant with\n    mankind that He would not again destroy all the living.]\n  Hy{m} rwed \u00feat he hem vp-rerde & ra\u021dt hem lyflode,\n  & efte \u00feat he he{m} vndyd, hard hit hym \u00feo\u021dt;\n  For quen \u00fee swemande sor\u021de so\u021dt to his hert,\n  He knyt a couenau{n}de cortaysly w{i}t{h} monkynde \u00fe{er}e,         564\n  In \u00fee mesure of his mode & me\u00fee of his wylle,\n  \u00deat he schulde neu{er} for no syt smyte al at one\u021d,\n  As to quelle alle quyke\u021d for qued \u00feat my\u021dt falle,\n  Whyl of \u00fee len\u00fee of \u00fee londe laste\u021d \u00fee t{er}me.                    568\n  \u00deat ilke skyl for no sca\u00fee ascaped hy{m} neu{er},\n  Wheder wonderly he wrak on wykked men aft{er};\n    [Sidenote: For the filth of the flesh God destroyed a rich city.]\n  Ful felly for \u00feat ilk faute forferde a kyth ryche,\n  I{n} \u00fee anger of his ire \u00feat ar\u021ded mony;                           572\n  & al wat\u021d for \u00feis ilk euel, \u00feat vn-happen glette,\n  \u00dee venym & \u00fee vylanye & \u00fee vycios fyl\u00fee,\n  \u00deat by-sulpe\u021d ma{n}ne\u021d saule i{n} vnsou{n}de hert,\n  \u00deat he his saueour ne see w{i}t{h} sy\u021dt of his y\u021den,               576\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 65a.]]\n    [Sidenote: God hates the wicked as \u201chell that stinks.\u201d]\n  \u00deat alle ille\u021d he hates as helle \u00feat stynkke\u021d;\n  Bot non nuye\u021d hy{m}, on na\u021dt ne neu{er} vpon daye\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: Especially harlotry and blasphemy.]\n  As harlottrye vn-honest, he\u00fey{n}g of seluen;\n  \u00deat schame\u021d for no schrewedschyp schent mot he wor\u00fee!              580\n  Bot sauyo{ur} mon i{n} \u00fey self, \u00fea\u021d \u00fe{o}u a sotte lyuie,\n  \u00dea\u021d \u00fe{o}u bere \u00fey self babel, by-\u00feenk \u00fee su{m}-tyme,\n  Whe\u00feer he \u00feat stykked vche a stare i{n} vche steppe y\u021de,\n  \u021cif hy{m} self[26] be bore blynd{e} hit is a brod wonder;          584\n  & he \u00feat fetly i{n} face fettled alle eres\n  If he[27] hat\u021d losed \u00fee lysten hit lyfte\u021d meruayle;\n    [Sidenote: Nothing is hidden from God.]\n  Trave \u00fe{o}u neu{er} \u00feat tale, vn-trwe \u00fe{o}u hit fynde\u021d,\n  \u00deer is no dede so derne \u00feat ditte\u021d his y\u021den;                       588\n  \u00deer is no wy\u021de i{n} his werk so war ne so stylle\n  \u00deat hit ne \u00ferawe\u021d to hym \u00fere[28] er he hit \u00feo\u021dt haue;\n    [Sidenote: God is the ground of all deeds.]\n  For he is \u00fee gropande god, \u00fee grou{n}de of alle dede\u021d,\n  Rypande of vche a ri{n}g[29] \u00fee reynye\u021d & hert;                    592\n    [Sidenote: He honours the man that is honest and whole.]\n  & \u00feere he fynde\u021d al fayre a freke wyth-i{n}ne\n  \u00deat hert honest & hol, \u00feat ha\u00feel he hono{ur}e\u021d,\n  Sende\u021d hy{m} a sad sy\u021dt to se his auen face,\n  & harde honyse\u021d \u00feise o\u00fe{er} & of his erde fleme\u021d.                  596\n    [Sidenote: But for deeds of shame He destroys the mighty ones.]\n  Bot of \u00fee dome of \u00fee dou\u00fee for dede\u021d of schame\n  He is so skoymos of \u00feat ska\u00fee, he scarre\u021d bylyue,\n  He may not dry\u021de to draw allyt, bot drepe\u021d i{n} hast\n  & \u00feat wat\u021d schewed schortly by a sca\u00fee one\u021d.                       600\n\n    [Sidenote 25: _for-ferde_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 26: MS. _sele._]\n    [Sidenote 27: MS. _he he._]\n    [Sidenote 28: _\u00feer_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 29: _rink_ or _renk_ (?).]\n\n\n[Headnote: ABRAHAM RECEIVES THREE GUESTS, AND ENTERTAINS THEM.]\n\nVIII.\n\n    [Sidenote: Abraham is sitting before his house-door under a\n    green oak.]\n  Olde Abraham i{n} erde one\u021d he sytte\u021d\n  Euen byfore his ho{us}-dore vnder an oke grene;\n  Bry\u021dt blykked \u00fee bem of \u00fee brode heuen,\n  I{n} \u00fee hy\u021de hete \u00fe{er}-of Abraham bide\u021d,                          604\n  He wat\u021d schu{n}t to \u00fee schadow vnder schyre leue\u021d;\n    [Sidenote: He sees three men coming along, and goes toward them.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne wat\u021d he war on \u00fee waye of wlonk wy\u021de\u021d \u00fery{n}ne.\n  If \u00feay wer farande & fre & fayre to beholde,\n  Hit is e\u00fee to leue by \u00fee last ende;                                608\n  For \u00fee lede \u00feat \u00feer laye \u00fee leue\u021d an-vnder,\n  When he hade of hem sy\u021dt he hy\u021de\u021d bylyue,\n  & as to god \u00fee good mon gos hem agayne\u021d\n  & haylsed hem i{n} onhede & sayde, \u201chende lorde                    612\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 65b.]]\n  \u021cif eu{er} \u00fey mon vpon molde merit disserued,\n    [Sidenote: He entreats them to rest awhile, that he may wash\n    their feet, and bring them a morsel of bread.]\n  Lenge a lyttel with \u00fey lede I lo\u021dly bi-seche;\n  Passe neu{er} fro \u00fei pou{er}e, \u021dif I hit pray durst,\n  Er \u00fe{o}u haf biden with \u00fei burne & vnder bo\u021de restted;             616\n  & I schal wy{n}ne yow wy\u021dt of wat{er} a lyttel,\n  & fast aboute schal I fare yo{ur} fette wer waschene;\n  Restte\u021d here on \u00feis rote & I schal rachche aft{er}\n  & bry{n}ge a morsel of bred to banne yo{ur} hertte.\u201d               620\n  \u201cFare forthe,\u201d q{uod} \u00fee freke\u021d, \u201c& fech as \u00fe{o}u segge\u021d;\n  By bole of \u00feis brode tre we byde \u00fee here.\u201d\n    [Sidenote: Abraham commands Sarah to make some cakes quickly,\n    and tells his servant to seethe a tender kid.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne orppedly i{n}-to his ho{us} he hy\u021ded to Sar\u00e9\n  Comau{n}ded hir to be cof & quyk at \u00feis one\u021d;                      624\n  \u201c\u00dere mette\u021d of mele menge & ma kake\u021d,\n  Vnder aske\u021d ful hote happe hem byliue;\n  Quyl I fete su{m}quat fat \u00fe{o}u \u00fee fyr bete,\n  Prestly at \u00feis ilke poynte su{m} polment to make.\u201d                 628\n  He cached to his cobho{us}[30] & a calf bry{n}ge\u021d\n  \u00deat wat\u021d tender & not to\u021de; bed tyrne of \u00fee hyde,\n  & sayde to his seruau{n}t \u00fe{a}t he hit se\u00fee faste\n  & he deruely at his dome dy\u021dt hit bylyue.                          632\n    [Sidenote: Abraham appears bare-headed before his guests.]\n  \u00dee burne to be bare-heued buske\u021d hy{m} \u00fee{n}ne,\n    [Sidenote: He casts a clean cloth on the green, and sets before\n    them cakes, butter, milk, and pottage.]\n  Cleche\u021d to a clene clo\u00fee & keste\u021d on \u00fee grene,\n  \u00derwe \u00feryftyly \u00fe{er}-on \u00feo \u00fere \u00feerue kake\u021d,\n  & bry{n}ge\u021d butt{er} wyth-al, & by \u00fee bred sette\u021d                  636\n  Mete; messe\u021d of mylke he merkke\u021d bytwene,\n  Sy\u00fee{n} potage & polment i{n} plater honest;\n  As sewer i{n} a god assyse he serued hem fayre,\n  Wyth sadde semblau{n}t & swete of such as he hade,                 640\n\n[Headnote: GOD DISCLOSES HIS PURPOSE TO ABRAHAM.]\n\n    [Sidenote: God praises his friend\u2019s feast, and after the meat is\n    removed, He tells Abraham that Sarah shall bear him a son.]\n  & god as a glad gest mad god chere,\n  \u00deat wat\u021d fayn of his frende & his fest praysed.\n  Abraham, al hodle\u021d w{i}t{h} arme\u021d vp-folden,\n  Mynystred mete byfore \u00feo men \u00feat my\u021dtes al welde\u021d;                 644\n  \u00dee{n}ne \u00feay sayden, as \u00feay sete same{n} alle \u00fery{n}ne,\n  When \u00fee mete wat\u021d remued & \u00feay of mensk speken,\n  \u201cI schal efte here away abram,\u201d \u00feay sayden,\n  \u201c\u021cet er \u00fey lyue\u021d ly\u021dt le\u00fee vpon er\u00fee,                              648\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 66a.]]\n  & \u00fee{n}ne schal sar\u00e9 consayue & a su{n} bere,\n  \u00deat schal be abrahame\u021d ayre, & aft{er} hy{m} wy{n}ne\n  W{i}t{h} wele & wyth worschyp \u00fee wor\u00feely peple\n  \u00deat schal halde i{n} heritage, \u00feat I haf men \u021dark.\u201d                652\n    [Sidenote: Sarah, who is behind the door, laughs in unbelief.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne \u00fee burde byhynde \u00fee dor for busmar la\u021ded;\n  & sayde sothly[31] to hir-self sar\u00e9 \u00fee madde:\n  \u201cMay \u00fe{o}u traw for tykle \u00feat \u00fe{o}u to{n}ne mo\u021dte\u021d,\n  & I so hy\u021de out of age & also my lorde,\u201d                           656\n  For so\u00feely, as says \u00fee wryt, he wern of sadde elde,\n  Bo\u00fee \u00fee wy\u021de & his wyf, such werk wat\u021d hem fayled,\n  Fro mony a brod day by-fore ho barayn ay byene,[32]\n  \u00deat selue sar\u00e9 w{i}t{h}-outen sede i{n}-to \u00feat same tyme.          660\n    [Sidenote: God tells Abraham that Sarah laughs at His words.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne sayde oure syre \u00feer he sete \u201cse! so sar\u00e9 la\u021des,\n  Not trawande \u00fee tale \u00feat I \u00fee to schewed;\n  Hope\u021d ho o\u021dt may be harde my honde\u021d to work?\n  & \u021det I a-vow v{er}ayly \u00fee avau{n}t \u00feat I made,                    664\n  I schal \u021deply a\u021dayn & \u021delde \u00feat I hy\u021dt,\n  & sothely sende to sar\u00e9 a so\u00f1 & an hayre.\u201d\n    [Sidenote: Sarah denies that she laughed.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne swenged forth sar\u00e9 & swer by hir traw\u00fee,\n  \u00deat for lot \u00feat \u00feay lansed[33] ho la\u021ded neu{er}.                   668\n  \u201cNow i{n}nogh{e} hit is not so\u201d \u00fee{n}ne n{ur}ned \u00fee dry\u021dtyn,\n  \u201cFor \u00fe{o}u la\u021ded alo\u021d, bot let we hit one.\u201d\n    [Sidenote: Abraham\u2019s guests set out towards Sodom, two miles\n    from Mamre.]\n  With \u00feat \u00feay ros vp radly as \u00feay rayke schulde,\n  & setten toward sodamas her sy\u021dt alle at-one\u021d;                     672\n  For \u00feat Cite \u00fe{er} bysyde wat\u021d sette i{n} a vale,\n  No myle\u021d fro mambre mo \u00fee{n} tweyne,\n  Where-so wonyed \u00feis ilke wy\u021d \u00feat wende\u021d w{i}t{h} oure lorde,\n  For to tent hy{m} w{i}t{h} tale & teche hy{m} \u00fee gate,             676\n    [Sidenote: The patriarch accompanies them.]\n  \u00deen glyde\u021d forth god, \u00fee godmo{n} hy{m} fol\u021de\u021d.\n  Abraham helde\u021d hem wyth, he{m} to co{n}ueye,\n  I{n} towarde \u00fee Cety of sodamas \u00feat sy{n}ned had \u00fee{n}ne\n  I{n} \u00fee faute of \u00feis fyl\u00fee; \u00fee fader hem \u00feretes,                   680\n  & sayde \u00fe{us} to \u00fee segg \u00feat sued hy{m} aft{er}:\n    [Sidenote: God determines to reveal to Abraham his secret\n    purposes.]\n  \u201cHow my\u021dt I hyde myn hert fro habraham \u00fee trwe,\n  \u00deat I ne dyscou{er}ed to his corse my cou{n}sayl so dere.\n  Sy\u00feen he is chosen to be chef chyldryn fader,                      684\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 66b.]]\n  \u00deat so folk schal falle fro, to flete alle \u00fee worlde,\n  & vche blod i{n} \u00feat burne blessed schal wor\u00fee.\n  Me bos telle to \u00feat tolk \u00fee tene of my wylle\n  & alle myn atly{n}g to abraham vn-haspe bilyue.                    688\n\n    [Sidenote 30: _cov-hous_ = cow-house (?).]\n    [Sidenote 31: ? _softly_ or _sotly_ = foolishly]\n    [Sidenote 32: ? _bycame_.]\n    [Sidenote 33: _laused_ (?).]\n\n\n[Headnote: THE FILTHINESS OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH.]\n\nIX.\n\n    [Sidenote: He informs him of the destruction about to fall upon\n    the cities of the plain, for their great wickedness, in abusing\n    the gifts bestowed upon them.]\n  \u201cThe grete sou{n} of sodamas synkke\u021d i{n} my{n} ere\u021d,\n  & \u00fee gult of gomorre gare\u021d me to wrath;\n  I schal ly\u021dt i{n}-to \u00feat led & loke my seluen,\n  If[34] \u00feay haf don as \u00fee dyne dryue\u021d on-lofte,                     692\n  \u00deay han lerned a lyst \u00feat lyke\u021d me ille,\n  \u00deat \u00feay han fou{n}den i{n} her flesch of faute\u021d \u00fee werst,\n  Vch male mat\u021d his mach a man as hy{m} seluen,\n  & fylt{er} folyly i{n} fere, on fe{m}male\u021d wyse.                   696\n  I compast hem a kynde crafte & kende hit hem derne,\n    [Sidenote: The ordinance of marriage had been made for them, but\n    they foully set it at nought.]\n  & amed hit i{n} my{n} ordenau{n}ce oddely dere,\n  & dy\u021dt drwry \u00feer-i{n}ne, doole al\u00fe{er}-swettest,\n  & \u00fee play of paramore\u021d I portrayed my seluen;                      700\n  & made \u00feer-to a man{er} myriest of o\u00fe{er},\n  When two true togeder had ty\u021ded hem seluen,\n  By-twene a male & his make such m{er}\u00fee schulde conne;[35]\n  Wel ny\u021de pure paradys mo\u021dt preue no bett{er},                      704\n  Elle\u021d \u00feay mo\u021dt honestly ay\u00fe{er} o\u00fe{er} welde.\n  At a stylle stollen steuen, vnstered wyth sy\u021dt,\n    [Sidenote: The flame of love.]\n  Luf lowe hem bytwene lasched so hote,\n  \u00deat alle \u00fee meschefe\u021d on mold mo\u021dt hit not sleke;                  708\n  Now haf \u00feay skyfted my skyl & scorned natwre,\n    [Sidenote: Therefore shall they be destroyed as an example to\n    all men for ever.]\n  & hentte\u021d hem i{n} he\u00fey{n}g an vsage vn-clene;\n  Hem to smyte for \u00feat smod smartly I \u00feenk\n  \u00deat wy\u021de\u021d schal be by hem war, worlde w{i}t{h}-outen ende.\u201d        712\n\n[Headnote: ABRAHAM PLEADS FOR THE CITIES.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Abraham is full of fear, and asks God whether the\n    \u201csinful and the sinless\u201d are to suffer together.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne ar\u021ded abraham & alle his mod chau{n}ge[d],\n  For hope of \u00fee harde hate \u00feat hy\u021dt hat\u021d oure lorde;\n  Al sykande he sayde \u201cs{ir} w{i}t{h} yor leue,\n  Schal synful & sakle\u021d suffer al on payne;                          716\n  We\u00fe{er} eu{er} hit lyke my lorde to lyfte such dome\u021d,\n  \u00deat \u00fee wykked & \u00fee wor\u00fey schal on wrake suffer,\n  & weye vpon \u00fee worre half \u00feat wrathed \u00fee neu{er}?\n  \u00deat wat\u021d neu{er} \u00fey won \u00feat wro\u021dte\u021d v{us} alle.                    720\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 67a.]]\n    [Sidenote: Whether he will spare the cities provided fifty\n    righteous are found in them?]\n  Now fyfty fyn frende\u021d wer fou{n}de i{n} \u021donde toune\n  In \u00fee Cety of Sodamas & also gomorr\u00e9\n  \u00deat neu{er} lakked \u00fey laue, bot loued ay trau\u00fee,\n  & re\u021dt-ful wern & resou{n}able & redy \u00fee to serue,                 724\n  Schal \u00feay falle i{n} \u00fee faute \u00feat o\u00fe{er} freke\u021d wro\u021dt\n  & ioyne to her iuggement her iuise to haue?\n  \u00deat nas neu{er} \u00feyn note, vnneuened hit wor\u00fee,\n  \u00deat art so gaynly a god & of goste mylde!\u201d                         728\n    [Sidenote: For the sake of fifty the cities shall be spared.]\n  \u201cNay for fyfty,\u201d q{uod} \u00fee fader, \u201c& \u00fey fayre speche,\n  &[36] \u00feay be fou{n}den i{n} \u00feat folk of her fyl\u00fee clene,\n  I schal for-gyue alle \u00fee gylt \u00feur\u021d my g{ra}ce one,\n  & let hem smolt al unsmyten smo\u00feely atone\u021d.\u201d                       732\n    [Sidenote: The patriarch beseeches God to spare the city for the\n    sake of forty-five righteous.]\n  \u201cAA! blessed be \u00feow,\u201d q{uod} \u00fee burne, \u201cso boner & \u00feewed,\n  & al halde\u021d i{n} \u00fey honde, \u00fee heuen & \u00fee er\u00fee,\n  Bot for I haf \u00feis talke tat\u021d to non ille,\n  \u021cif I mele a lyttel more \u00feat mul am & aske\u021d;                       736\n  What if fyue faylen of fyfty \u00fee nou{m}bre,\n  & \u00fee remnau{n}t be reken, how restes \u00fey wylle?\u201d\n    [Sidenote: For the lack of five the cities shall not be\n    destroyed.]\n  \u201cAnd fyue wont of fyfty,\u201d q{uod} god, \u201cI schal for\u021dete alle\n  & wyth-halde my honde for horty{n}g on lede.\u201d                      740\n  \u201c& quat if faurty be fre & fauty \u00feyse o\u00fe{er}\n  Schalt \u00feow schortly al schende & schape non o\u00fe{er}.\u201d\n    [Sidenote: For forty the cities shall be spared.]\n  \u201cNay \u00fea\u021d faurty forfete \u021det fryst I a whyle,\n  & voyde away my vengau{n}ce, \u00fea\u021d me vyl \u00feynk.\u201d                     744\n  \u00dee{n} abraham obeched hym & lo\u021dly hi{m} \u00feonkke\u021d,\n  \u201cNow sayned be \u00feou sauio{ur}, so symple i{n} \u00fey wrath!\n  I am bot er\u00fee ful euel & vsle so blake,\n    [Sidenote: Abraham entreats God\u2019s forbearance for his speech.]\n  Forto mele wyth such a mayst{er} as my\u021dte\u021d hat\u021d alle,              748\n  Bot I haue by-go{n}nen wyth my god, & he hit gay{n} \u00feynke\u021d,\n  \u021cif I for-loyne as a fol \u00fey frau{n}chyse may serue;\n  What if \u00feretty \u00feryuande be \u00ferad i{n} \u021don tou{n}e\u021d,\n  What schal I leue if my lorde, if he hem le\u00fee wolde?\u201d              752\n  \u00dee{n}ne \u00fee godlych god gef hy{m} onsware,\n    [Sidenote: Thirty righteous, found in the cities, shall save\n    them from destruction.]\n  \u201c\u021cet for \u00feretty i{n} \u00ferong I schal my \u00fero steke,\n  & spare spakly of spyt i{n} space of my \u00feewe\u021d,\n  & my rankor refrayne fo{ur} \u00fey reken worde\u021d.\u201d                      756\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 67b.]]\n  \u201cWhat for twenty,\u201d q{uod} \u00fee tolke, \u201cvntwyne\u021d \u00fe{o}u hem \u00fee{n}ne?\u201d\n  \u201cNay, \u021dif \u00fe{o}u \u021derne\u021d hit, \u021det \u021dark I hem g{ra}ce;\n    [Sidenote: For the sake of twenty guiltless ones God will\n    release the rest.]\n  If \u00feat twenty be trwe I tene hem no more,\n  Bot relece alle \u00feat regiou{n} of her ronk werkke\u021d.\u201d                760\n  \u201cNow a\u00feel lorde,\u201d q{uod} Abraham, \u201cone\u021d a speche\n  & I schal schape no more \u00feo schalkke\u021d to helpe;\n  If ten trysty i{n} toune be tan i{n} \u00fei werkke\u021d\n    [Sidenote: Or if ten only should be found pure.]\n  Wylt \u00fe{o}u mese \u00fey mode & menddy{n}g abyde?\u201d                       764\n  \u201cI grau{n}t,\u201d q{uod} \u00fee grete god, \u201cgrau{n}t mercy,\u201d \u00fe{a}t o\u00fe{er}.\n  & \u00fee{n}ne arest \u00fee renk & ra\u021dt no fyrre;\n  & godde glyde\u021d his gate by \u00feose grene waye\u021d\n  & he co{n}ueyen hy{m} con w{i}t{h} cast of his y\u021de,                768\n    [Sidenote: The patriarch intercedes for Lot.]\n  & als he loked along \u00feere as oure lorde passed,\n  \u021cet he cryed hy{m} aft{er} w{i}t{h} careful steuen:\n  \u201cMeke mayst{er} on \u00fey mon to my{n}ne if \u00fee lyked,\n  Loth lenge\u021d i{n} \u021don leede \u00feat is my lef bro\u00fe{er},                 772\n  He sytte\u021d \u00feer i{n} sodomis, \u00fey seruau{n}t so pou{er}e\n  Among \u00feo mansed men \u00feat han \u00fee much g{r}eued;\n    [Sidenote: Beseeches Him to \u201ctemper His ire,\u201d and then departs\n    weeping for sorrow.]\n  \u021cif \u00fe{o}u tyne\u021d \u00feat tou{n}, te{m}pre \u00feyn yre\n  As \u00fey mersy may malte \u00fey meke to spare.\u201d                           776\n  \u00dee{n} he wende\u021d, wende\u021d his way wepande for care\n  To-warde \u00fee mere of mambre wepande for so[r\u021de,][37]\n  & \u00feere i{n} longy{n}g al ny\u021dt he lenge\u021d i{n} wones,\n  Whyl \u00fee sou{er}ayn to sodamas sende to spye.                       780\n\n    [Sidenote 34: MS. i{n}f.]\n    [Sidenote 35: _come_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 36: _An_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 37: _sorewe_ is written by a late hand over the\n    original word.]\n\n\n[Headnote: MESSENGERS ARE SENT TO LOT.]\n\nX.\n\n    [Sidenote: God\u2019s messengers go to Sodom.]\n  His sondes i{n}-to sodamas wat\u021d sende i{n} \u00feat tyme,\n  I{n} \u00feat ilk euentyde, by au{n}gels tweyne,\n  Meuand meuande[38] mekely togeder as myry me{n} \u021donge,\n    [Sidenote: Lot is sitting alone at the \u201cdoor of his lodge.\u201d]\n  As loot i{n} a loge dor lened hy{m} alone,                         784\n  I{n} a porche of \u00feat place py\u021dt to \u00fee \u021dat{es},\n  \u00deat wat\u021d ryal & ryche, so wat\u021d \u00fee renk{es} seluen.\n    [Sidenote: Staring into the street he sees two men.]\n  As he stared i{n}-to \u00fee strete \u00fe{er} stout men played\n  He sy\u021de \u00feer swey i{n} asent swete men tweyne;                      788\n    [Sidenote: Beardless chins they had, and hair like raw silk.]\n  Bolde burne\u021d wer \u00feay bo\u00fee w{i}t{h} berdles chy{n}ne\u021d,\n  Royl rollande fax to raw sylk lyke,\n  Of ble as \u00fee brere flo{ur} where-so \u00fee bare scheweed,\n  Ful clene wat\u021d \u00fee cou{n}tenau{n}ce of her cler y\u021den;               792\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 68a.]]\n    [Sidenote: Beautifully white were their weeds.]\n  Wlonk whit wat\u021d her wede & wel hit hem semed.\n  Of alle feture\u021d ful fyn & fautle\u021d bo\u00fee;\n  Wat\u021d non autly i{n} ou\u00fe{er}, for aungels hit wern,\n  & \u00feat \u00fee \u021dep vnder-\u021dede \u00feat i{n} \u00fee \u021date sytte\u021d.                   796\n\n[Headnote: LOT ENTERTAINS THE MESSENGERS.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Lot runs to meet them.]\n  He ros vp ful radly & ran hem to mete\n  & lo\u021de he loute\u021d hem to, loth, to \u00fee grou{n}de,\n  & sy\u00feen soberly [sat\u021d] \u201csyre\u021d I yow by-seche,\n    [Sidenote: Invites them to remain awhile in his house, and in\n    the morning they may take their way.]\n  \u00deat \u021de wolde ly\u021dt at my loge & lenge \u00fe{er}-i{n}ne,                 800\n  Come\u021d to yo{ur} knaues kote I craue at \u00feis one\u021d;\n  I schal fette yow a fatte yo{ur} fette forto wasche;\n  I norne yow bot for on ny\u021dt ne\u021de me to lenge,\n  & i{n} \u00fee myry morny{n}g \u021de may yo{ur} waye take.\u201d                 804\n  & \u00feay nay \u00feat \u00feay nolde ne\u021d no howse\u021d,\n  Bot stylly \u00feer i{n} \u00fee strete as \u00feay stadde wern,\n  \u00deay wolde lenge \u00fee long na\u021dt & logge \u00fe{er}-oute;\n  Hit wat\u021d ho{us} inno\u021de to hem \u00fee heuen vpon lofte.                 808\n    [Sidenote: Lot invites them so long that at last they comply.]\n  Loth la\u00feed so longe wyth luflych worde\u021d,\n  \u00deat \u00feay hy{m} grau{n}ted to go & gru\u021dt no leng{er}.\n  \u00dee bolde to his byggy{n}g brynge\u021d hem bylyue,\n    [Sidenote: The wife and daughters of Lot welcome their visitors.]\n  \u00deat ryally [wat\u021d] arayed, for he wat\u021d ryche eu{er}.                812\n  \u00dee wy\u021de\u021d wern welcom as \u00fee wyf cou\u00fee,\n  His two dere do\u021dt{er}e\u021d deuoutly he{m} haylsed,\n  \u00deat wer maydene\u021d ful meke, maryed not \u021det,\n  & \u00feay wer semly & swete, & swy\u00fee wel arayed.                       816\n    [Sidenote: Lot admonishes his men to prepare the meat, and to\n    serve no salt with it.]\n  Loth \u00fee{n}ne ful ly\u021dtly loke\u021d hy{m} aboute,\n  & his me{n} amonest{es} mete forto dy\u021dt,\n  Bot \u00feenkke\u021d on hit be \u00ferefte what \u00feynk[39] so \u021de make,\n  For wyth no so{ur}[40] ne no salt serue\u021d hy{m} neu{er}.            820\n  Bot \u021det I wene \u00feat \u00fee wyf hit wroth[41] to dyspyt,\n  & sayde softely to hir self \u201c\u00feis vn-sau{er}e[42] hyne\n  Loue\u021d no salt i{n} her sauce \u021det hit no skyl were\n  \u00deat o\u00fe{er} burne be boute \u00fea\u021d bo\u00fee be nyse.\u201d                       824\n    [Sidenote: Lot\u2019s wife disregards the injunction.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne ho sau{er}e\u021d w{i}t{h} salt her seue\u021d vchone\n  Agayne \u00fee bone of \u00fee burne \u00feat hit forboden hade,\n  & als ho scelt he{m} i{n} scorne \u00feat wel her skyl knewen.\n  Why wat\u021d ho wrech so wod, ho wrathed oure lorde!                   828\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 68b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The guests are well entertained.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne seten \u00feay at \u00fee soper, wern serued by-lyue,\n  \u00dee gest{es} gay & ful glad, of glam debonere,\n  Welawy{n}nely wlonk tyl \u00feay waschen hade,\n  \u00dee trest{es} tylt to \u00fee wo\u021de & \u00fee table bo\u00fee.                      832\n\n[Headnote: LOT\u2019S HOUSE IS BESET.]\n\n    [Sidenote: But before they go to rest the city is up in arms.]\n  Fro \u00fee segge\u021d haden souped & seten bot a whyle,\n  Er eu{er} \u00feay bosked to bedde \u00fee bor\u021d wat\u021d al vp;\n  Alle \u00feat weppen my\u021dt welde, \u00fee wakker & \u00fee stronger,\n  To vmbe-ly\u021de lothe\u021d ho{us} \u00fee lede\u021d to take,                       836\n  In grete flokke\u021d of folk, \u00feay fallen to his \u021date\u021d,\n  As a scowte-wach scarred, so \u00fee asscry rysed;\n    [Sidenote: With \u201ckeen clubs\u201d the folk clatter on the walls, and\n    demand that Lot should deliver up his guests.]\n  W{i}t{h} kene clobbe\u021d of \u00feat clos \u00feay clat\u021d on \u00fee wowe\u021d,\n  & wyth a schrylle scharp schout \u00feay schewe \u00feyse worde:             840\n  \u201cIf \u00fe{o}u louye\u021d \u00fey lyf loth i{n} \u00feyse wone\u021d\n  \u021cete v{us} out \u00feose \u021dong men \u00feat \u021dore-whyle here entred,\n  \u00deat we may lere hym[43] of lof, as oure lyst bidde\u021d,\n  As is \u00fee asyse of Sodomas to segge\u021d \u00fe{a}t passen.\u201d                 844\n  Whatt! \u00feay sputen & speken of so spito{us} fyl\u00fee,\n  What! \u00feay \u021de\u021ded & \u021dolped of \u021destande sor\u021de,\n    [Sidenote: The wind yet stinks with their filthy speech.]\n  \u00deat \u021det \u00fee wynd, & \u00fee weder, & \u00fee worlde stynk{es}\n  Of \u00fee brych \u00feat vp-brayde\u021d \u00feose bro\u00feelych worde\u021d.                  848\n  \u00dee god man glyfte w{i}t{h} \u00fe{a}t glam & gloped for noyse,\n  So scharpe schame to hy{m} schot, he schrank at \u00fee hert,\n  For he knew \u00fee costou{m} \u00feat ky\u00feed \u00feose wreche\u021d,\n  He doted neu{er} for no doel so depe i{n} his my{n}de.             852\n    [Sidenote: Lot is in great trouble.]\n  Allas! sayd hy{m} \u00fee{n}ne loth, & ly\u021dtly he ryse\u021d\n  & bowe\u021d forth fro \u00fee bench i{n}-to \u00fee brode \u021dat{es}.\n  What! he wonded no wo\u00fee of wekked knaue\u021d,\n  \u00deat he ne passed \u00fee port \u00fee p{er}il[44] to abide.                  856\n    [Sidenote: He leaves his guests and addresses the Sodomites.]\n  He went forthe at \u00fee wyket & waft hit hy{m} aft{er},\n  \u00deat a clyket hit cle\u021dt clos hy{m} byhynde.\n  \u00dee{n}ne he meled to \u00feo men mesurable worde\u021d,\n  For harlote\u021d w{i}t{h} his hendelayk he hoped to chast;             860\n  \u201cOo! my frende\u021d so fre, yo{ur} fare is to strange,\n  Dot\u021d away yo{ur} derf dyn & dere\u021d neu{er} my gest{es},\n  Avoy! hit is yo{ur} vylaynye, \u021de vylen yo{ur} seluen;\n  &[45] \u021de ar iolyf gentylmen yo{ur} iapes ar ille.                  864\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 69a.]]\n  Bot I schal ke{n}ne yow by kynde a crafte \u00feat is bett{er};\n    [Sidenote: He offers to give up to them his two daughters.]\n  I haf a tresor i{n} my telde of tow my fayre de\u021dt{er},\n  \u00deat ar maydene\u021d vnmard for alle men \u021dette;\n  In sodamas, \u00fea\u021d I hit say, non semloker burdes,                    868\n  Hit arn ronk, hit arn rype & redy to ma{n}ne;\n  To samen wyth \u00feo semly \u00fee solace is bett{er},\n  I schal biteche yow \u00feo two \u00feat tayt arn & quoy{n}t,\n  & layke\u021d wyth hem as yow lyst & lete\u021d my gest{es} one.\u201d            872\n    [Sidenote: The rebels raise a great noise, and ask who made him\n    a justice to judge their deeds, who was but a boy when he came\n    to Sodom.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne \u00fee rebaude\u021d so ronk rerd such a noyse,\n  \u00deat a\u021dly hurled i{n} his ere\u021d her harlote\u021d speche;\n  \u201cWost \u00fe{o}u not wel \u00fe{a}t \u00fe{o}u wone\u021d here a wy\u021de strange,\n  An out-comly{n}g, a carle, we kylle of \u00feyn heued.                  876\n  Who Ioyned \u00fee be iostyse oure iape\u021d to blame,\n  \u00deat com a boy to \u00feis bor\u021d, \u00fea\u021d \u00fe{o}u be burne ryche?\u201d\n  \u00de{us} \u00feay \u00ferobled & \u00ferong & \u00ferwe vmbe his ere\u021d,\n  & distresed hy{m} wonder strayt, w{i}t{h} strenk\u00fee i{n} \u00fee prece,  880\n\n[Headnote: THE MEN OF SODOM SMITTEN WITH BLINDNESS.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The young men bring Lot within doors, and smite those\n    outside with blindness.]\n  Bot \u00feat \u00fee \u021donge me{n}, so \u021depe, \u021dornen \u00fe{er}-oute,\n  Wapped vpon \u00fee wyket & wo{n}nen hem tylle,\n  & by \u00fee honde\u021d hy{m} hent & horyed hy{m} w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne,\n  & steken \u00fee \u021dat{es} ston-harde wyth stalworth barre\u021d.              884\n  \u00deay blwe a boffet i{n} blande \u00feat ba{n}ned peple,\n  \u00deat \u00feay blust{er}ed as blynde as bayard wat\u021d eu{er};\n    [Sidenote: In vain they try to find the door of Lot\u2019s house.]\n  \u00deay lest of lote\u021d loggi{n}g any lysou{n} to fynde,\n  Bot nyteled \u00fe{er} alle \u00fee ny\u021dt for no\u021dt at \u00fee last;                888\n  \u00dee{n}ne vch tolke ty\u021dt hem \u00feat hade of tayt fayled,\n  & vchon ro\u00feeled to \u00fee rest \u00feat he reche mo\u021dt;\n  Bot \u00feay wern wakned al wrank[46] \u00feat \u00fe{er} i{n} won lenged,\n  Of on \u00fee vglokest vnhap \u00feat eu{er} on erd suffred.                 892\n\n    [Sidenote 38: So in MS.]\n    [Sidenote 39: _\u00feyng_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 40: savo{ur} (?).]\n    [Sidenote 41: _wro\u021dt_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 42: MS. vnfau{er}e.]\n    [Sidenote 43: _hem_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 44: MS. _pil_.]\n    [Sidenote 45: _And_ = _An_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 46: _wrang_ (?).]\n\n\n[Headnote: LOT IS SENT OUT OF THE CITY.]\n\nXI.\n\n    [Sidenote: Early in the morning the angels command Lot to\n    depart from Sodom, with his wife and two daughters, and to look\n    straight before him, for Sodom and Gomorrah shall be destroyed.]\n  Ruddon of \u00fee day-rawe ros vpon v\u021dten,\n  When merk of \u00fee mydny\u021dt mo\u021dt no more last,\n  Ful erly \u00feose aungele\u021d \u00feis ha\u00feel \u00feay ru\u00feen\n  & glopnedly on gode\u021d halue gart hy{m} vpryse,                      896\n  Fast \u00fee freke ferke\u021d vp ful ferd at his hert;\n  \u00deay comau{n}ded hy{m} cof to cach \u00feat he hade,\n  \u201cWyth \u00fey wyf & \u00fey wy\u021de\u021d & \u00fey wlone de\u021dtters,\n  For we la\u00fee \u00fee, s{ir} loth, \u00feat \u00fe{o}u \u00fey lyf haue;                 900\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 69b.]]\n  Cayre tid of \u00feis kythe er combred \u00fe{o}u wor\u00fee,\n  With alle \u00fei here vpon haste, tyl \u00fe{o}u a hil fynde;\n  Fou{n}de\u021d faste on yo{ur} fete, bifore yo{ur} face lokes,\n  Bot bes neu{er} so bolde to blusch yow bihynde,                    904\n  & loke \u021de ste{m}me no stepe, bot streche\u021d on faste,\n  Til \u021de reche to a reset, rest \u021de neu{er};\n  For we schal tyne \u00feis tou{n} & tray\u00feely disstrye,\n  Wyth alle \u00feise wy\u021de\u021d so wykke wy\u021dtly de-voyde                      908\n  & alle \u00fee londe w{i}t{h} \u00feise lede\u021d we losen at one\u021d;\n  Sodomas schal ful sodenly synk i{n}-to grou{n}de,\n  & \u00fee grou{n}de of gomorre gorde i{n}-to helle,\n  & vche a koste of \u00feis kyth{e} clater vpon hepes.                   912\n    [Sidenote: Lot asks what is best to be done, that he may escape.]\n  \u00dee{n} laled loth, \u201clorde what is best?\n  If I me fele vpon fote \u00feat I fle mo\u021dt,\n  Hov schulde I huyde me fro hem \u00fe{a}t hat\u021d his hate ky{n}ned,\n  I{n} \u00fee brath of his breth \u00feat bre{n}ne\u021d alle \u00fei{n}ke\u021d,[47]        916\n  To crepe fro my creato{ur} & know not wheder,\n  Ne whe\u00feer his fooschip me fol\u021de\u021d bifore o\u00fe{er} bihynde?\u201d\n  \u00dee freke sayde \u201cno foschip oure fader hat\u021d \u00fee schewed,\n  Bot hi\u021dly heuened \u00fei hele fro hem \u00feat arn combred:                 920\n    [Sidenote: He is told to choose himself a dwelling which shall\n    be saved from destruction.]\n  Nov walle \u00fee a wo{n}ny{n}g \u00feat \u00fee warisch my\u021dt,\n  & he schal saue hit for \u00fey sake \u00feat hat\u021d v{us} sende hider,\n  For \u00fe{o}u art oddely \u00feyn one out of \u00feis fyl\u00fee,\n  & als Abraham \u00feyn em[48] hit at hi{m} self asked.\u201d                 924\n  \u201cLorde, loued he wor\u00fee,\u201d q{uod} loth, \u201cvpon er\u00fee!\n    [Sidenote: He chooses Zoar.]\n  \u00dee{n} is a cite herbisyde \u00feat segor hit hatte,\n  Here vtt{er} on a rou{n}de hil hit houe\u021d hit one,\n  I wolde, if his wylle wore, to \u00feat won scape.\u201d                     928\n    [Sidenote: The angels command Lot to depart quickly.]\n  \u201c\u00dee{n}n fare forth,\u201d q{uod} \u00feat fre, \u201c& fyne \u00fe{o}u neu{er}\n  W{i}t{h} \u00feose ilk \u00feat \u00feow wylt \u00fe{a}t \u00ferenge \u00fee aft{er},\n  & ay goande on yo{ur} gate, wyth-outen agayn-tote,\n  For alle \u00feis londe schal be lorne, longe er \u00fee son{n}e rise.\u201d      932\n    [Sidenote: He wakes his wife and daughters.]\n  \u00dee wy\u021de wakened his wyf & his wlonk de\u021dt{er}es,\n  & o\u00fe{er} two myri men \u00feo maydene\u021d schulde wedde;\n  & \u00feay token hit as tyt & tented hit lyttel,\n  \u00dea\u021d fast la\u00feed hem loth, \u00feay le\u021den ful stylle.                     936\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 70a.]]\n    [Sidenote: All four are hastened on by the angels,\n    who \u201cpreach to them the peril\u201d of delay.]\n  \u00dee aungele\u021d hasted \u00feise o\u00fe{er} & a\u021dly hem \u00feratten,\n  & enforsed alle fawre forth at \u00fee \u021date\u021d,\n  \u00deo wern loth & his lef, his luflyche de\u021dt{er},\n  \u00deer so\u021dt no mo to sauement of cities a\u00feel fyue.                    940\n  \u00deise aungele\u021d hade hem by hande out at \u00fee \u021date\u021d,\n  Prechande hem \u00fee perile, & beden hem passe fast.\n  \u201cLest \u021de be taken i{n} \u00fee teche of tyrau{n}te\u021d here,\n  Loke \u021de bowe now bi bot, bowe\u021d fast hence!\u201d                        944\n    [Sidenote: Before daylight Lot comes to a hill.]\n  & \u00feay kayre-ne con & kenely flowen;\n  Erly, er any heuen glem, \u00feay to a hil comen.\n\n[Headnote: THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITIES.]\n\n    [Sidenote: God aloft raises a storm.]\n  \u00dee grete god i{n} his greme bygy{n}ne\u021d onlofte;\n  To wakan wedere\u021d so wylde \u00fee wynde\u021d he calle\u021d,                     948\n  & \u00feay wro\u00feely vp-wafte & wrastled togeder,\n  Fro fawre half of \u00fee folde, flytande loude.\n  Clowde\u021d clust{er}ed bytwene kesten vp torres,\n  \u00deat \u00fee \u00feik \u00feu{n}der \u00ferast \u00feirled hem ofte.                         952\n    [Sidenote: A rain falls thick of fire and sulphur.]\n  \u00dee rayn rueled adou{n}, ridlande \u00feikke,\n  Of felle flau{n}kes of fyr & flakes of soufre,\n  Al in smolderande smoke smachande ful ille,\n    [Sidenote: Upon the four cities it comes, and frightens all\n    folks therein.]\n  Swe[49] aboute sodamas & hit syde\u021d alle,                           956\n  Gorde to gomorra \u00feat \u00fee grou{n}de lansed;\n  Abdama & syboym, \u00feise ceteis alle faure,\n  Al birolled wyth \u00fee rayn, rostted & bre{n}ned,\n  & ferly flayed \u00feat folk \u00feat i{n} \u00feose fees lenged;                 960\n  For when \u00feat \u00fee helle herde \u00fee hou{n}de\u021d of heuen\n  He wat\u021d ferlyly fayn, vnfolded bylyue.\n    [Sidenote: The great bars of the abyss do burst.]\n  \u00dee grete barre\u021d of \u00fee abyme he barst vp at one\u021d,\n  \u00deat alle \u00fee regiou{n} to-rof i{n} riftes ful grete,                964\n    [Sidenote: Cliffs cleave asunder.]\n  & clouen alle i{n} lyttel cloutes \u00fee clyffe\u021d aywhere,\n  As lance leue\u021d of \u00fee boke \u00feat lepes i{n} twy{n}ne.\n    [Sidenote: The cities sink to hell.]\n  \u00dee brethe of \u00fee brynston bi \u00feat hit blende were,\n  Al \u00feo citees & her sydes sunkken to helle.                         968\n  Rydelles wern \u00feo grete rowtes of renkkes w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne,\n  When \u00feay wern war of \u00fee wrake \u00fe{a}t no wy\u021de achaped,\n    [Sidenote: Such a cry arises that the clouds clatter again.]\n  Such a \u021dom{er}ly \u021darm of \u021delly{n}g \u00feer rysed;\n  \u00deer-of clat{er}ed \u00fee cloudes \u00feat kryst my\u021dt haf raw\u00fee.             972\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 70b.]]\n  \u00dee segge herde \u00feat sou{n} to segor \u00feat \u021dede,\n  & \u00fee wenches hy{m} wyth \u00feat by \u00fee way fol\u021ded;\n    [Sidenote: Lot and his companions are frightened, but continue\n    to follow their face.]\n  Ferly ferde wat\u021d her flesch, \u00feat flowen ay ilyche,\n  Trynande ay a hy\u021de trot \u00feat torne neu{er} dorsten.                 976\n  Loth & \u00feo luly-whit his lefly two de\u021dt{er},\n  Ay fol\u021ded here face, bifore her bo\u00fee y\u021den;\n  Bot \u00fee balleful burde, \u00feat neu{er} bode keped,\n\n[Headnote: LOT\u2019S WIFE BECOMES A STIFF STONE.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Lot\u2019s wife looks behind her, and is turned to a stiff\n    stone \u201cas salt as any sea.\u201d]\n  Blusched by-hynden her bak, \u00feat bale forto herkken;                980\n  Hit wat\u021d lusty lothes wyf \u00feat ou{er} he[r] lyfte schulder.\n  Ones ho bluschet to \u00fee bur\u021de, bot bod ho no lenger,\n  \u00deat ho nas stadde a stiffe ston, a stalworth image\n  Al so salt as ani se & so ho \u021det stande\u021d.                          984\n    [Sidenote: Her companions do not miss her till they reach Zoar.]\n  \u00deay slypped bi & sy\u021de hir not \u00feat wern hir samen feres,\n  Tyl \u00feay i{n} segor wern sette, & sayned our lorde;\n  Wyth ly\u021dt loue\u021d vplyfte \u00feay loued hy{m} swy\u00fee,\n  \u00deat so his seruau{n}tes wolde see & saue of such wo\u00fee.             988\n    [Sidenote: By this time all were drowned.]\n  Al wat\u021d dampped & don, & drowned by \u00fee{n}ne;\n    [Sidenote: The people of Zoar, for dread, rush into the sea and\n    are destroyed.]\n  \u00dee lede\u021d of \u00feat lyttel tou{n} wern lopen out for drede,\n  I{n}-to \u00feat malscrande mere, marred bylyue,\n  \u00deat no\u021dt saued wat\u021d bot segor \u00feat sat on a lawe,                   992\n    [Sidenote: Only Zoar with three therein (Lot and his daughters)\n    are saved.]\n  \u00dee \u00fere lede\u021d \u00feer-i{n}, loth & his de\u021dter;\n  For his make wat\u021d myst, \u00feat on \u00fee mou{n}t lenged\n  In a stonen statue \u00feat salt sauor habbes,\n    [Sidenote: Lot\u2019s wife is an image of salt for two faults:\n    1. She served salt before the Lord at supper.\n    2. She looked behind her.]\n  For two fautes \u00feat \u00fee fol wat\u021d fou{n}de i{n} mistrau\u00fee;            996\n  On, ho serued at \u00fee soper salt bifore dry\u021dtyn\n  & sy\u00feen, ho blusched hir bihynde, \u00fea\u021d hir forboden were;\n  For on ho standes a ston, & salt for \u00feat o\u00fe{er},\n  & alle lyst on hir lik \u00feat arn on launde bestes.                  1000\n    [Sidenote: Abraham is up full early on the morn.]\n  Abraham ful erly wat\u021d vp on \u00fee morne,\n  \u00deat alle na\u021dt [so] much niye hade no mon i{n} his hert,\n  Al i{n} longi{n}g for loth leyen i{n} a wache,\n  \u00deer he lafte hade oure lorde, he is on lofte wo{n}nen;            1004\n    [Sidenote: He looks towards Sodom, now only a pit filled with\n    pitch, from which rise smoke, ashes and cinders, as from a\n    furnace.]\n  He sende toward sodomas \u00fee sy\u021dt of his y\u021den,\n  \u00deat eu{er} hade ben an erde of er\u00fee \u00fee swettest\n  As aparau{n}t to paradis \u00feat plantted \u00fee dry\u021dtyn,\n  Nov is hit plu{n}ged i{n} a pit like of pich fylled.              1008\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 71a.]]\n  Suche a ro\u00feu{n} of a reche ros fro \u00fee blake,\n  Aske\u021d vpe i{n} \u00fee ayre & vselle\u021d \u00feer flowen,\n  As a fornes ful of flot \u00feat vpon fyr boyles,\n  When bry\u021dt bre{n}nande bronde\u021d ar bet \u00fe{er} an-vnder.             1012\n  \u00deis wat\u021d a uengau{n}ce violent \u00feat voyded \u00feise places,\n  \u00deat fou{n}dered hat\u021d so fayr a folk & \u00fee folde sonkken.\n\n[Headnote: THE DEAD SEA COVERS THE FIVE CITIES.]\n\n    [Sidenote: A sea now occupies the place of the four cities.]\n  \u00deer faur{e} citees wern set, nov is a see called,\n  \u00deat ay is drouy & dym, & ded i{n} hit kynde,                      1016\n  Blo, blubrande, & blak, vnbly\u00fee to ne\u021de,\n    [Sidenote: It is a stinking pool, and is called the Dead Sea.]\n  As a stynkande stanc \u00feat stryed sy{n}ne,\n  \u00deat eu{er} of sy{n}ne & of smach, smart is to fele;\n  For-\u00fey \u00fee derk dede see hit is demed eu{er} more,                 1020\n  For hit dede\u021d of de\u00fee duren \u00feere \u021det.\n  For hit is brod & bo\u00fee{m}le\u021d, & bitter as \u00fee galle,\n    [Sidenote: Nothing may live in it.]\n  & no\u021dt may lenge i{n} \u00feat lake \u00feat any lyf bere\u021d,\n  & alle \u00fee coste\u021d of kynde hit combre\u021d vchone;                     1024\n    [Sidenote: Lead floats on its surface.]\n  For lay \u00fe{er}-on a lump of led & hit on loft flete\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: A feather sinks to the bottom of it.]\n  & folde \u00fe{er}-on a ly\u021dt fy\u00fe{er} & hit to fou{n}s synkke\u021d.\n    [Sidenote: Lands, watered by this sea, never bear grass or weed.]\n  & \u00fe{er} wat{er} may walt{er} to wete any er\u00fee,\n  Schal neu{er} grene \u00fe{er}-on growe, gresse ne wod naw\u00fe{er}.       1028\n  If any schalke to be schent wer schowued \u00fe{er}-i{n}ne,\n  \u00dea\u021d he bode i{n} \u00feat bo\u00fee{m} bro\u00feely a monyth,\n    [Sidenote: A man cannot be drowned in it.]\n  He most ay lyue i{n} \u00feat lo\u021de i{n} losy{n}g eu{er}-more,\n  & neu{er} dry\u021de no dethe, to dayes of ende;                       1032\n  & as hit is corsed of kynde & hit cooste\u021d als,\n    [Sidenote: The clay clinging to it is corrosive, as alum,\n    alkaran, sulphur, etc., which fret the flesh and fester the\n    bones.]\n  \u00dee clay \u00feat clenges \u00fe{er}-by arn corsyes strong,\n  As alu{m} & alkaran,[50] \u00feat angr\u00e9[51] arn bo\u00fee,\n  Soufre so{ur}, & sau{n}dyu{er}, & o\u00fe{er} such mony;               1036\n  & \u00feer walte\u021d of \u00feat wat{er} i{n} waxlokes grete,\n  \u00dee spuniande[52] aspaltou{n} \u00feat spysere\u021d sellen;\n  & suche is alle \u00fee soyle by \u00feat se halues,\n  \u00deat fel fretes \u00fee flesch & festred[53] bones.                     1040\n    [Sidenote: On the shores of this lake grow trees bearing fair\n    fruits, which, when broken or bitten, taste like ashes.]\n  & \u00feer ar tres by \u00feat terne of trayto{ur}es;\n  & \u00feay borgou{n}e\u021d & beres blome\u021d ful fayre,\n  & \u00fee fayrest fryt \u00feat may on folde growe,\n  As orenge & o\u00fe{er} fryt & apple garnade                           1044\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 71b.]]\n  Also red & so ripe & rychely hwed,\n  As any dom my\u021dt deuice of dayntye\u021d oute;\n  Bot quen hit is brused o\u00fe{er} broken, o\u00fe{er} byten i{n} twy{n}ne,\n  No worlde\u021d goud hit wyth-i{n}ne, bot wydowande[54] askes;         1048\n\n[Headnote: IT IS A TOKEN OF WICKEDNESS AND VENGEANCE.]\n\n    [Sidenote: All these are tokens of wickedness and vengeance.]\n  Alle \u00feyse ar teches & tokenes to trow vpon \u021det,\n  & wittnesse of \u00feat wykked werk & \u00fee wrake aft{er},\n  \u00deat oure fader forferde for fyl\u00fee of \u00feose ledes.\n    [Sidenote: God loves the pure in heart.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne vch wy\u021de may wel wyt \u00feat he \u00fee wlonk louies,              1052\n  & if he louyes clene layk \u00feat is oure lorde ryche,\n    [Sidenote: Strive to be clean.]\n  & to be cou\u00fee i{n} his co{ur}te \u00fe{o}u coueytes \u00fee{n}ne\n  To se \u00feat semly i{n} sete & his swete face,\n  Clerrer cou{n}seyl, cou{n}sayl con I non,\n        bot \u00feat \u00fe{o}u clene wor\u00fee.                                  1056\n    [Sidenote: Jean de Meun tells how a lady is to be loved.]\n  For clopy{n}gnel i{n} \u00fee compas of his clene rose,\n  \u00deer he expoune\u021d a speche, to hy{m} \u00feat spede wolde,\n  Of a lady to be loued, loke to hir sone,\n    [Sidenote: By doing what pleases her best.]\n  Of wich bery{n}g \u00feat ho be, & wych ho best louyes,                1060\n  & be ry\u021dt such i{n} vch a bor\u021de of body & of dedes,\n  & fol\u021d \u00fee fet of \u00feat fere \u00feat \u00fe{o}u fre haldes.\n  & if \u00fe{o}u wyrkkes on \u00feis wyse, \u00fea\u021d ho wyk were,\n  Hir schal lyke \u00feat layk \u00feat lyknes hir tylle.                     1064\n  If \u00fe{o}u wyl dele drwrye wyth dry\u021dtyn \u00fee{n}ne,\n    [Sidenote: Love thy Lord!]\n  & lelly louy \u00fey lorde & his leef wor\u00fee.\n    [Sidenote: Conform to Christ, who is polished as a pearl.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne co{n}fo{ur}me \u00fee to kryst, & \u00fee clene make,\n  \u00deat eu{er} is polyced als playn as \u00fee p{er}le seluen.             1068\n  For loke fro fyrst \u00feat he ly\u021dt w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne \u00fee lel mayden!\n    [Sidenote: By how comely a contrivance did he enter the womb of\n    the virgin!]\n  By how comly a kest he wat\u021d clos \u00feere,\n  When venkkyst wat\u021d no v{er}gynyt\u00e9, ne vyole{n}ce maked,\n  Bot much clener wat\u021d hir corse, god ky{n}ned \u00feeri{n}ne;           1072\n    [Sidenote: In what purity did he part from her!]\n  & efte when he borne wat\u021d i{n} be\u00feelen \u00fee ryche,\n  I{n} wych puryt\u00e9 \u00feay dep{ar}ted; \u00fea\u021d \u00feay pou{er} were,\n  Wat\u021d neu{er} so blysful a bo{ur} as wat\u021d abos[55] \u00fee{n}ne\n    [Sidenote: No abode was better than his.]\n  Ne no schroude ho{us} so schene as a schepon \u00feare,                1076\n  Ne non so glad vnder god as ho \u00feat grone schulde;\n    [Sidenote: The sorrow of childbirth was turned to joy.]\n  For \u00feer wat\u021d seknesse al sou{n}de \u00feat sarrest is halden,\n  & \u00feer wat\u021d rose reflayr where rote hat\u021d ben eu{er},\n  & \u00feer wat\u021d solace & songe wher sor\u021d hat\u021d ay cryed;                1080\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 72a.]]\n    [Sidenote: Angels solaced the virgin with organs and pipes.]\n  For au{n}gelles w{i}t{h} i{n}strumentes of organes & pypes,\n  & rial ry{n}gande rotes & \u00fee reken fy\u00feel,\n  & alle hende \u00feat honestly mo\u021dt an hert glade,\n  Aboutte my lady wat\u021d lent, quen ho delyu{er} were.                1084\n\n[Headnote: CHRIST WAS EVER PURE.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The child Christ was so clean that ox and ass\n    worshipped him.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne wat\u021d her bly\u00fee barne burnyst so clene,\n  \u00deat bo\u00fee \u00fee ox & \u00fee asse hym hered at-ones;\n  \u00deay knewe hy{m} by his clannes for ky{n}g of nature,\n  For non so clene of such a clos com neu{er} er \u00fee{n}ne;           1088\n  & \u021dif clanly he \u00fee{n}ne com, ful cortays \u00fe{er}-aft{er},\n    [Sidenote: He hated wickedness, and would never touch ought that\n    was vile.]\n  \u00deat alle \u00feat longed to lu\u00fe{er} ful lodly he hated;\n  By nobleye of his norture he nolde neu{er} towche\n  O\u021dt \u00feat wat\u021d vngoderly o\u00fe{er} ordure wat\u021d i{n}ne.                 1092\n    [Sidenote: Yet there came to him lazars and lepers, lame and\n    blind.]\n  \u021cet comen lodly to \u00feat lede, as la\u021dares monye,\n  Su{m}me lepre, su{m}me lome, & lom{er}ande blynde,\n  Poysened & parlatyk & pyned i{n} fyres,\n    [Sidenote: Dry and dropsical folk.]\n  Drye folk & ydropike, & dede at \u00fee laste;                         1096\n  Alle called on \u00feat cortayse & claymed his g{ra}ce.\n    [Sidenote: He healed all with kind speech.]\n  He heled hem wyth hynde speche of \u00feat \u00feay ask aft{er},\n  For what-so he towched also-tyd to{ur}ned to hele,\n  Wel cla{n}ner \u00feen any crafte cow\u00fee devyse;                        1100\n  So clene wat\u021d his hondely{n}g vche ordure hit schonied,\n    [Sidenote: His handling was so good, that he needed no knife to\n    cut or carve with.]\n  & \u00fee gropy{n}g so goud of god & man bo\u00fee,\n  \u00deat for fetys of his fyngeres fonded he neu{er}\n  Nau\u00fe{er} to cout[56] ne to kerue, w{i}t{h} knyf ne wyth egge,     1104\n  For-\u00fey brek he \u00fee bred blades wyth-outen;\n    [Sidenote: The bread he broke more perfectly than could all the\n    tools of Toulouse.]\n  For hit ferde freloker i{n} fete i{n} his fayre honde,\n  Displayed more pryuyly when he hit part schulde,\n  \u00dee{n}ne alle \u00fee toles of tolowse mo\u021dt ty\u021dt hit to kerue,          1108\n    [Sidenote: How can we approach his court except we be clean?]\n  \u00de{us} is he kyryo{us} & clene \u00feat \u00fe{o}u his cort askes;\n  Hov schulde \u00fe{o}u com to his kyth bot if \u00fe{o}u clene were?\n  Nov ar we sore & synful & sov[_er_]ly[57] vch one,\n  How schulde we se, \u00fee{n} may we say, \u00fe{a}t syre vpon throne?      1112\n    [Sidenote: God is merciful.]\n  \u021cis, \u00feat mayst{er} is mercyable; \u00fea\u021d \u00fe{o}u be man fe{n}ny,\n  & al to-marred i{n} myre whyl \u00fe{o}u on molde lyuyes,\n  \u00de{o}u may schyne \u00feur\u021d schryfte, \u00fea\u021d \u00fe{o}u haf schome serued,\n\n[Headnote: PENANCE MAKES MAN PURE AS A PEARL.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Through penance we may shine as a pearl.]\n  & pure \u00fee with penau{n}ce tyl \u00fe{o}u a perle wor\u00fee.                1116\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 72b.]]\n    [Sidenote: Why is the pearl so prized?]\n  Perle praysed is prys, \u00fe{er} perre is schewed,\n  \u00dea\u021d hy{m} not derrest be demed to dele for penies,\n  Quat may \u00fee cause be called, bot for hir clene hwes,\n  \u00deat wy{n}nes worschyp, abof alle whyte stones?                    1120\n  For ho schynes so schyr \u00feat is of schap rou{n}de,\n  Wyth-outen faut o\u00fe{er} fyl\u00fee \u021dif ho fyn were;\n    [Sidenote: She becomes none the worse for wear.]\n  & wax eu{er} i{n} \u00fee worlde i{n} wery{n}g so olde,\n  \u021cet \u00fee perle payres not whyle ho i{n} pyese lasttes               1124\n    [Sidenote: If she should become dim, wash her in wine.]\n  & if hit cheue \u00fee chau{n}ce vncheryst ho wor\u00fee,\n  \u00deat ho blyndes of ble i{n} bo{ur} \u00fe{er} ho lygges,\n  No-bot wasch hir wyth wo{ur}chyp i{n} wyn as ho askes,\n    [Sidenote: She then becomes clearer than before.]\n  Ho by kynde schal be-com clerer \u00feen are;                          1128\n  So if folk be defowled by vnfre chau{n}ce,\n    [Sidenote: So may the sinner polish him by penance.]\n  \u00deat he be sulped i{n} sawle, seche to schryfte\n  & he may polyce hym at \u00fee prest, by penau{n}ce taken,\n  Wel bry\u021dt{er} \u00feen \u00fee beryl o\u00fe{er} browden perles.                 1132\n    [Sidenote: Beware of returning to sin.]\n  Bot war \u00fee wel, if \u00fe{o}u be waschen wyth wat{er} of schryfte,\n  & polysed als playn as parchmen schauen,\n  Sulp no more \u00fee{n}ne i{n} sy{n}ne \u00fey saule \u00fe{er}-aft{er},\n    [Sidenote: For then God is more displeased than ever.]\n  For \u00fee{n}ne \u00fe{o}u dry\u021dtyn dyspleses w{i}t{h} dedes ful sore,      1136\n  & entyses hy{m} to tene more tray\u00fely \u00fee{n} eu{er}\n  & wel hatt{er} to hate \u00fee{n} hade \u00fe{o}u not waschen;\n    [Sidenote: The reconciled soul God holds as His own.]\n  For when a sawele is sa\u021dtled & sakred to dry\u021dtyn,\n  He holly haldes hit his & haue hit he wolde,                      1140\n  \u00dee{n}ne efte lastes hit likkes, he loses hit ille,\n    [Sidenote: Ill deeds rob Him of it.]\n  As hit were rafte wyth vn-ry\u021dt & robbed wyth \u00feewes.[58]\n  War \u00fee \u00fee{n}ne for \u00fee wrake, his wrath is achaufed,\n\n[Headnote: GOD PUNISHES IMPURITY.]\n\n    [Sidenote: God forbids us to defile any vessels used in His\n    service.]\n  For \u00feat \u00feat ones wat\u021d his schulde efte be vn-clene,               1144\n  \u00dea\u021d hit be bot a bassy{n}, a bolle, o\u00fe{er} a scole,\n  A dysche o\u00fe{er} a dobler \u00fe{a}t dry\u021dtyn one\u021d serued,\n  To defowle hit eu{er} vpon folde fast he for-bedes,\n  So is he scoym{us} of sca\u00fee \u00feat scylful is eu{er}.                1148\n    [Sidenote: In Belshazzar\u2019s time, the defiling of God\u2019s vessels\n    brought wrath upon the king.]\n  & \u00feat wat\u021d bared i{n} babyloyn i{n} Balta\u021dar tyme,\n  Hov harde vnhap \u00feer hy{m} hent & hastyly sone,\n  For he \u00fee vesselles avyled \u00feat vayled i{n} \u00fee temple\n  I{n} seruyse of \u00fee sou{er}ayn su{m} tyme byfore.                  1152\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 73a.]]\n  \u021cif \u021de wolde ty\u021dt me a tom telle hit I wolde,\n  Hov charged more wat\u021d his chau{n}ce \u00feat he{m} cherych nolde\n  \u00deen his fader forloyne \u00feat feched he{m} wyth stren\u00fee,\n  & robbed \u00fee relygiou{n} of relykes alle.                          1156\n\n    [Sidenote 47: \u00fei{n}ge\u021d.]\n    [Sidenote 48: _bro\u00feer_ is written over in a later hand.]\n    [Sidenote 49: _Sweyed_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 50: _alkatran_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 51: _augre_ = _aigre_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 52: _spinnande_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 53: _festres_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 54: MS. wy{n}dowande.]\n    [Sidenote 55: _abof_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 56: _cut_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 57: MS. _sovly_.]\n    [Sidenote 58: _\u00feeues_. (?).]\n\n\nXII.\n\n    [Sidenote: Daniel in his prophecies tells of the destruction of\n    the Jews.]\n  Danyel i{n} his dialoke\u021d de-vysed su{m} tyme,\n  As \u021det is proued ex-presse i{n} his p{ro}fecies,\n  Hov \u00fee gentryse of Iuise & Ih{e}r{usa}l{e}m \u00fee ryche\n  Wat\u021d disstryed wyth distres, & drawen to \u00fee er\u00fee,                 1160\n    [Sidenote: For their unfaithfulness in following other gods, God\n    allowed the heathen to destroy them, in the reign of Zedekiah,\n    who practised idolatry.]\n  For \u00feat folke i{n} her fayth wat\u021d fou{n}den vntrwe,\n  \u00deat haden hy\u021dt \u00fee hy\u021de god to halde of hy{m} eu{er};\n  & he hem hal\u021ded for his & help at her nede\n  In mukel meschefes mony, \u00feat meruayl [is] to here;                1164\n  & \u00feay forloyne her fayth & fol\u021ded o\u00fe{er} goddes,\n  & \u00feat wakned his wrath & wrast hit so hy\u021de,\n  \u00deat he fylsened \u00fee faythful i{n} \u00fee falce lawe\n  To for-fare \u00fee falce i{n} \u00fee faythe trwe;                         1168\n  Hit wat\u021d sen i{n} \u00feat sy\u00fee \u00feat \u021dedechyas[59] re{n}gned,\n  I{n} Iuda, \u00feat iustised \u00fee iuyne ky{n}ges.\n  He sete on Salamones solie, on solemne wyse,\n  Bot of leaute he wat\u021d lat to his lorde hende;                     1172\n  He vsed abominaciones of idolatrye,\n  & lette ly\u021dt bi \u00fee lawe \u00feat he wat\u021d lege tylle;\n  For-\u00fei oure fader vpon folde a foman hy{m} wakned,\n\n[Headnote: NEBUCHADNEZZAR BESIEGES JERUSALEM.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Nebuchadnezzar becomes his foe.]\n  Nabigo-de-no\u021dar nuyed hy{m} swy\u00fee.                                1176\n  He pur-sued i{n} to palastyn w{i}t{h} proude men mony,\n  & \u00feer he wast wyth[60] werre \u00fee wones of \u00feorpes.\n  He her\u021ded vp alle isr{ae}l & hent of \u00fee beste,\n    [Sidenote: He besieges Jerusalem, and surrounds the walls.]\n  & \u00fee gentylest of Iudee i{n} I{e}r{usa}l{e}m biseged,             1180\n  Vmbe-walt alle \u00fee walles wyth wy\u021des ful stronge,\n  At vche a dor a do\u021dty duk, & dutte hem wyth-i{n}ne;\n    [Sidenote: The city is stuffed full of men.]\n  For \u00fee bor\u021d wat\u021d so bygge baytayled alofte,\n  & stoffed wyth-i{n}ne w{i}t{h} stout men\n        to stalle hem \u00fe{er}-oute.                                   1184\n  \u00dee{n}ne wat\u021d \u00fee sege sette \u00fee Cete aboute,\n    [Sidenote: Brisk is the skirmish.]\n  Skete skarmoch skelt, much ska\u00fee lached;\n  At vch brugge a berfray on basteles wyse,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 73b.]]\n    [Sidenote: Seven times a day are the gates assailed.]\n  \u00deat seuen sy\u00fee vch a day asayled \u00fee \u021dates,                        1188\n  Trwe tulkkes i{n} to{ur}es teueled wyth-i{n}ne,\n  In bigge brutage of borde, bulde on \u00fee walles;\n    [Sidenote: For two years the fight goes on, yet the city is not\n    taken.]\n  \u00deay fe\u021dt & \u00feay fende of, & fylt{er} togeder\n  Til two \u021der ou{er}-torned, \u021det tok \u00feay hit neu{er}.               1192\n    [Sidenote: The folk within are in want of food.]\n  At \u00fee laste vpon longe, \u00feo ledes wyth-i{n}ne,\n  Faste fayled hem \u00fee fode, enfaminied monie;\n  \u00dee hote hunger wyth-i{n}ne hert hem wel sarre,\n  \u00deen any dunt of \u00feat douthe \u00feat dowelled \u00fe{er}-oute.               1196\n  \u00dee{n}ne wern \u00feo rowtes redles i{n} \u00feo ryche wones,\n    [Sidenote: Meager they become.]\n  Fro \u00feat mete wat\u021d myst, megre \u00feay wexen,\n    [Sidenote: For so shut up are they that escape seems impossible.]\n  & \u00feay stoken so strayt, \u00fe{a}t \u00feay ne stray my\u021dt\n  A fote fro \u00feat forselet to forray no goudes.                      1200\n  \u00dee{n}ne \u00fee ky{n}g of \u00fee kyth a cou{n}sayl hy{m} takes,\n  Wyth \u00fee best of his burnes, a blench forto make;\n    [Sidenote: But on a quiet night they steal out, and rush through\n    the host.]\n  \u00deay stel out on a stylle ny\u021dt er any steuen rysed,\n  & harde hurles \u00feur\u021d \u00fee oste, er enmies hit wyste,                 1204\n  Bot er \u00feay at-wappe ne mo\u021dt \u00fee wach wyth-oute,\n    [Sidenote: They are discovered by the enemy.]\n  Hi\u021de skelt wat\u021d \u00fee askry \u00fee skewes an-vnder,\n    [Sidenote: A loud alarm is given.]\n  Loude alarom vpon lau{n}de lulted wat\u021d \u00fee{n}ne;\n  Ryche, ru\u00feed of her rest, ran to here wedes,                      1208\n  Hard hattes \u00feay hent & on hors lepes;\n  Cler claryou{n} crak cryed onlofte.\n    [Sidenote: They are pursued and overtaken.]\n  By \u00feat wat\u021d alle on a hepe hurlande swy\u00feee,\n  Fol\u021dande \u00feat o\u00fe{er} flote, & fonde hem bilyue,                    1212\n  Ou{er}-tok hem, as tyd, tult hem of sadeles,\n  Tyl vche prynce hade his per put to \u00fee grou{n}de;\n\n[Headnote: THE KING OF JUDAH IS MADE PRISONER.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Their king is made prisoner.]\n  & \u00feer wat\u021d \u00fee ky{n}g ka\u021dt wyth calde pry{n}ces,\n  & alle hise gentyle for-iusted on ierico playnes,                 1216\n    [Sidenote: His chief men are presented as prisoners to\n    Nebuchadnezzar.]\n  & presented wern as presoneres to \u00fee prynce rychest,\n  Nabigo-de-no\u021dar noble i{n} his chayer,\n  & he \u00fee faynest freke \u00feat he his fo hade,\n  & speke spito{us}ly hem to & spylt \u00fe{er}aft{er}.                  1220\n    [Sidenote: His sons are slain.]\n  \u00dee ky{n}g{es} su{n}nes i{n} his sy\u021dt he slow eu{er} vch one,\n    [Sidenote: His own eyes are put out.]\n  & holkked out his auen y\u021den het{er}ly bo\u00fee\n    [Sidenote: He is placed in a dungeon in Babylon.]\n  & bede \u00fee burne to be bro\u021dt to babyloyn \u00fee ryche,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 74a.]]\n  & \u00feere i{n} dongou{n} be don to dre\u021de \u00fe{er} his wyrdes.           1224\n  Now se, so \u00fee sou{er}ay[n] set hat\u021d his wrake;\n  Nas hit not for nabugo ne his noble nau\u00fe{er},\n  \u00deat o\u00fe{er} depryued wat\u021d of pryde with paynes stronge,\n    [Sidenote: All for his \u201cbad bearing\u201d against the Lord, who might\n    otherwise have been his friend.]\n  Bot for his bery{n}g so badde agayn his bly\u00fee lorde;              1228\n  For hade \u00fee fader ben his frende \u00feat hy{m} bifore keped,\n  Ne neu{er} trespast to him i{n} teche of mysseleue.\n  To Colde wer alle Calde & kythes of ynde,\n  \u021cet take torkye hem wyth her tene hade ben little;                1232\n    [Sidenote: Nebuchadnezzar ceased not until he had destroyed\n    Jerusalem.]\n  \u021cet nolde neu{er} nabugo \u00feis ilke note leue,\n  Er he hade tuyred \u00feis tou{n} & torne hit to grou{n}de;\n  He ioyned vnto I{e}r{usa}l{e}m a gentyle duc \u00fee{n}ne,\n    [Sidenote: Nebuzaradan was \u201cchief of the chivalry.\u201d]\n  His name wat\u021d nabu-\u021dardan, to noye \u00fee iues;                       1236\n  He wat\u021d mayster of his men & my\u021dty hi{m} seluen,\n  \u00dee chef of his cheualrye his chekkes to make,\n  He brek \u00fee bareres as bylyue, & \u00fee bur\u021d aft{er},\n  & enteres i{n} ful ernestly, i{n} yre of his hert.                1240\n  What! \u00fee maysterry wat\u021d mene, \u00fee me{n} wern away,\n    [Sidenote: The best men were taken out of the city.]\n  \u00dee best bo\u021ded wyth \u00fee burne \u00feat \u00fee bor\u021d \u021demed;\n  & \u00feo \u00feat byden wer so[61] biten with \u00fee bale hunger,\n  \u00deat on wyf hade ben wor\u00fee \u00fee welgest fo{ur}re;                    1244\n    [Sidenote: Nevertheless Nebuzaradan spared not those left.]\n  Nabi\u021dardan no\u021dt for-\u00fey nolde not spare,\n  Bot bede al to \u00fee bronde vnder bare egge.\n  \u00deay slowen of swettest semlych burdes,\n    [Sidenote: Brains of bairns were spilt.]\n  Ba\u00feed barnes i{n} blod & her brayn spylled;                       1248\n    [Sidenote: Priests pressed to death.]\n  Prestes & prelates \u00feay presed to de\u00fee,\n    [Sidenote: Wives and wenches foully killed.]\n  Wyues & wenches her wombes tocoruen,\n  \u00deat her boweles out-borst aboute \u00fee diches,\n    [Sidenote: All that escaped the sword were taken to Babylon, and\n    were made to drag the cart or milk the kine.]\n  & al wat\u021d carfully kylde \u00feat \u00feay cach my\u021dt,                       1252\n  & alle [\u00feat] swypped vnswol\u021ded of \u00fee sworde kene,\n  \u00deay wer cagged & ka\u021dt on capeles al bare,\n  Festned fettres to her fete vnder fole wombes,\n  & bro\u00feely bro\u021dt to babyloyn \u00feer bale to suffer,                   1256\n  To sytte i{n} seruage & syte; \u00feat su{m}tyme wer ge{n}tyle,\n  Now ar chau{n}ged to chorles & charged wyth werkkes,\n  Bo\u00fee to cayre at \u00fee kart & \u00fee kuy mylke,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 74b.]]\n  \u00deat su{m}tyme sete i{n} her sale syres & burdes.                  1260\n\n[Headnote: NEBUZARDAN PILLAGES THE TEMPLE.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Nebuzaradan burst open the temple, and slew those\n    therein.]\n  & \u021det nabu\u021dardan nyl neu{er} stynt,\n  Er he to \u00fee tempple tee wyth his tulkkes alle;\n  Betes on \u00fee barers, brestes vp \u00fee \u021dates,\n  Slouen alle at a slyp \u00feat serued \u00feer-i{n}ne,                      1264\n    [Sidenote: Priests, pulled by the poll, were slain along with\n    deacons, clerks, and maidens.]\n  Pulden prestes bi \u00fee polle & plat of her hedes,\n  Di\u021dten dekenes to de\u00fee, dungen dou{n} clerkkes,\n  & alle \u00fee maydenes of \u00fee mu{n}st{er} ma\u021dtyly hokyllen\n  Wyth \u00fee swayf of \u00fee sworde \u00feat swol\u021ded he{m} alle.                1268\n    [Sidenote: The enemy pillages the temple of its pillars of brass,\n    and the golden candlestick from off the altar.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne ran \u00feay to \u00fee relykes as robbors wylde,\n  & pyled alle \u00fee apparement \u00feat pented to \u00fee kyrke,\n  \u00dee pure pyleres [o]f bras po{ur}trayd i{n} golde,\n  & \u00fee chef chau{n}deler charged with \u00fee ly\u021dt,                      1272\n  \u00deat ber \u00fee lamp vpon lofte, \u00feat lemed eu{er} more,\n  Bifore \u00fe[e] sancta s{an}c{t}or{um} \u00feer selcouth wat\u021d ofte.\n  \u00deay ca\u021dt away \u00feat condelstik, & \u00fee crowne als,\n  \u00deat \u00fee aut{er} hade vpon, of a\u00feel golde ryche;                    1276\n    [Sidenote: Goblets, basins, golden dishes, all are taken by\n    Nebuzaradan, and hampered together.]\n  \u00dee gredirne & \u00fee goblot{es} garnyst of sylu{er},\n  \u00dee bases of \u00fee bry\u021dt postes & bassynes so schyre;\n  Dere disches of golde & dubleres fayre,\n  \u00dee vyoles & \u00fee vesselment of v{er}tuo{us} stones.                 1280\n  Now hat\u021d nabu\u021dardan nome{n} alle \u00feyse noble \u00fey{n}ges,\n  & pyled \u00feat p{re}cio{us} place & pakked \u00feose godes;\n  \u00dee golde of \u00fee ga\u021dafylace to swy\u00fee gret nou{m}bre,\n  Wyth alle \u00fee vrnmentes of \u00feat ho{us}, he hamppred to-geder.       1284\n  Alle he spoyled spito{us}ly i{n} a sped whyle,\n    [Sidenote: Solomon had made them with much labour.]\n  \u00deat salomon so mony a sadde \u021der so\u021dt to make,\n  Wyth alle \u00fee coyntyse \u00feat he cow\u00fee clene to wyrke;\n  De-uised he \u00fee vesselment, \u00fee vestures clene,                     1288\n  Wyth sly\u021dt of his ciences, his sou{er}ayn to loue,\n  \u00dee ho{us} & \u00fee ano{ur}nementes he hy\u021dtled to-gedere.\n  Now hat\u021d nabu\u021dardan nu{m}ne{n}d[62] hit al samen,\n    [Sidenote: The temple he beats down, and returns to Babylon.]\n  & sy\u00feen bet dou{n} \u00fee bur\u021d & brend hit i{n} askes;                1292\n  \u00dee{n}ne wyth legiou{n}es of ledes ou{er} londes he rydes,\n  Her\u021de\u021d of Israel \u00fee hyrne aboute.\n  Wyth charged chariotes \u00fee cheftayn he fynde[\u021d],\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 75a.]]\n    [Sidenote: Presents the prisoners to the king, among whom were\n    Daniel and his three companions.]\n  Bike{n}nes \u00fee catel to \u00fee ky{n}g, \u00feat he ca\u021dt hade,               1296\n  P{re}sented him \u00fee p{r}isoneres i{n} pray \u00feat \u00feay token,\n  Moni a wor\u00fely wy\u021de whil her worlde laste,\n  Moni semly syre son{e}, & swy\u00fee rych maydenes,\n  \u00dee pruddest of \u00fee p{ro}uince, & p{ro}phetes childer,              1300\n  As Ananie & a\u021darie & als Mi\u021dael,\n  & dere daniel also, \u00feat wat\u021d deuine noble,\n  With moni a modey moder chylde mo \u00fee{n} i{n}-noghe.\n\n[Headnote: NEBUCHADNEZZAR IS PLEASED WITH THE SPOIL.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Nebuchadnezzar has great joy, because his enemies are\n    slain.]\n  & nabugo-de-no\u021dar makes much ioye,                                1304\n  Nov he \u00fee ky{n}g hat\u021d c{on}quest & \u00fee kyth wu{n}nen,\n  & dreped alle \u00fee do\u021dtyest & derrest i{n} armes,\n  & \u00fee lederes of her lawe layd to \u00fee grou{n}de,\n  & \u00fee pryce of \u00fee p{ro}fecie p{r}isoners maked;                    1308\n\n[Headnote: HE PRIZES GREATLY THE SACRED JEWELRY.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Great was his wonder when he saw the sacred jewelry.]\n  Bot \u00fee ioy of \u00fee iuelrye so gentyle & ryche,\n  When hit wat\u021d schewed hy{m} so schene, scharp wat\u021d his wonder,\n  Of such vessel auayed \u00feat vayled so huge,\n  Neu{er} \u021det nas nabugo-de-no\u021dar er \u00fee{n}ne.                       1312\n    [Sidenote: He praises the God of Israel.]\n  He sesed hem w{i}t{h} solemnet\u00e9, \u00fee sou{er}ayn he praysed,\n  \u00feat wat\u021d a\u00feel ou{er} alle, israel dry\u021dtyn;\n    [Sidenote: Such vessels never before came to Chaldea.]\n  Such god, such gomes, such gay vesselles\n  Comen neu{er} out of kyth, to Caldee reames.                      1316\n    [Sidenote: They are thrust into the treasury.]\n  He trussed hem i{n} his tresorye i{n} a tryed place\n  Rekenly wyth reu{er}ens, as he ry\u021dt hade;\n  & \u00fe{er} he wro\u021dt as \u00fee wyse, as \u021de may wyt here-aft{er},\n  For hade he let of hem ly\u021dt, hy{m} mo\u021dt haf lu{m}pen worse.       1320\n  \u00deat ryche i{n} gret rialt\u00e9 rengned his lyue,\n    [Sidenote: Nebuchadnezzar reigns as emperor of all the earth,\n    through the \u201cdoom of Daniel,\u201d who gave him good counsel.]\n  As {con}quero{ur} of vche a cost he cayser wat\u021d hatte,\n  Emp{er}o{ur} of alle \u00fee er\u00fee & also \u00fee saudan,\n  & als \u00fee god of \u00fee grou{n}de wat\u021d grauen his name                 1324\n  & al \u00feur\u021d dome of daniel, fro[63] he deuised hade,\n  \u00deat alle goudes com of god, & gef hit hy{m} bi samples,\n  \u00deat he ful clanly bi-cnv[64] his carp bi \u00fee laste,\n  & ofte hit mekned his my{n}de, his mayst{er}ful werkkes.          1328\n  Bot al drawes to dy\u021de w{i}t{h} doel vp[o]n ende;\n  Bi[65] a ha\u00feel neu{er} so hy\u021de he heldes to grou{n}de,\n    [Sidenote: Nebuchadnezzar dies and is buried.]\n  & so nabugo-de-no\u021dar as he nedes moste;\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 75b.]]\n  For alle his empire so hi\u021de i{n} er\u00fee is he g{ra}uen.             1332\n    [Sidenote: Belshazzar succeeds him.]\n  Bot \u00fee{n}n \u00fee bolde balta\u021dar, \u00feat wat\u021d his barn aldest,\n  He wat\u021d stalled i{n} his stud, & stabled \u00fee rengne;\n    [Sidenote: He holds himself the biggest in heaven or on earth.]\n  I{n} \u00fee bur\u021d of babiloyne \u00fee biggest he trawed,\n  \u00deat nau\u00fe{er} i{n} heuen ne no[66] er\u00fee hade no pere;              1336\n  For he bigan i{n} alle \u00fee glori \u00feat hy{m} \u00fee gome lafte,\n  Nabugo-de-No\u021dar, \u00feat wat\u021d his noble fader;\n  So kene a ky{n}g i{n} Caldee com neu{er} er \u00fee{n}ne.\n    [Sidenote: He honours not God, but worships false phantoms.]\n  Bot hono{ur}ed he not hy{m} \u00feat in heuen wonies,                  1340\n  Bot fals fantu{m}mes of fendes, formed with handes\n  Wyth tool out of harde tre, & telded on lofte,\n  & of stokkes & stones, he stoute goddes call\u021d\n  When \u00feay ar gilde al with golde & gered wyth sylu{er},            1344\n  & \u00feere he kneles & calle\u021d, & clepes after help.\n    [Sidenote: He promises them rewards if good fortune befal.]\n  &[67] \u00feay reden hi{m} ry\u021dt rewarde he hem hetes,\n  & if \u00feay gruchen hi{m} his grace to gremen his hert,\n    [Sidenote: If they vex him he knocks them in pieces.]\n  He cleches to a gret klubbe & knokkes hem to peces;               1348\n  \u00de{us} in pryde & oliprau{n}ce his Empyre he haldes,\n  In lust & i{n} lecherye, & lo\u00feelych werkkes;\n    [Sidenote: He has a wife, and many concubines.]\n  & hade a wyf forto welde, a wor\u00feelych quene,\n  & mony a le{m}man, neu{er} \u00fee lat{er}, \u00feat ladis wer called.      1352\n  In \u00fee clernes of his {con}cubines & curio{us} wede\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: The mind of the king was fixed upon new meats and\n    other vain things.]\n  In noty{n}g of nwe metes & of nice gettes,\n  Al wat\u021d \u00fee mynde of \u00feat man, o{n} misschapen \u00fei{n}ges,\n  Til \u00fee lorde of \u00fee lyfte liste hit abate.                         1356\n\n    [Sidenote 59: MS. _\u021dedethyas_.]\n    [Sidenote 60: MS. _wyth with_.]\n    [Sidenote 61: The MS. reads _fo._]\n    [Sidenote 62: _nummen_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 63: _for_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 64: Looks like bicuv{er} in MS.]\n    [Sidenote 65: _be_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 66: _on_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 67: _An_ (?).]\n\n\n[Headnote: BELSHAZZAR PROCLAIMS A FEAST, TO WHICH KINGS AND EMPERORS\nARE INVITED.]\n\nXIII.\n\n    [Sidenote: Belshazzar, to exhibit his vainglory, proclaims\n    throughout Babylon, that all the great ones should assemble on a\n    set day, at the Sultan\u2019s feast.]\n  The{n}ne \u00feis bolde Balta\u021dar bi\u00feenkkes hy{m} ones,\n  To vouche on a vayment of his vayne g[l]orie;\n  Hit is not i{n}nogh{e} to \u00fee nice al no\u021dty \u00fei{n}k[68] vse,\n  Bot if alle \u00fee worlde wyt his wykked dedes.                       1360\n  Balta\u021dar \u00feur\u021d babiloyn his ba{n}ne gart crye,\n  & \u00feur\u021d \u00fee cu{n}tre of caldee his cally{n}g con spry{n}g,\n  \u00deat alle \u00fee grete vpon grou{n}de schulde geder hem samen\n  & assemble at a set day at \u00fee saudans fest.                       1364\n    [Sidenote: Kings, dukes, and lords were commanded to attend the\n    court.]\n  Such a mangerie to make \u00fee man wat\u021d auised,\n  \u00deat vche a kythyn ky{n}g schuld com \u00feider;\n  Vche duk wyth his duthe & o\u00fe{er} dere lordes,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 76a.]]\n  Schulde com to his co{ur}t to ky\u00fee hy{m} for lege,                1368\n  & to reche hy{m} reu{er}ens & his reuel herkken;\n    [Sidenote: To do the king honour many nobles came to Babylon.]\n  To loke on his lemanes & ladis hem calle,\n  To rose hy{m} i{n} his rialty rych me{n} so\u021dtten,\n  & mony a barou{n} ful bolde, to babyloyn \u00fee noble.                1372\n  \u00deer bowed toward babiloyn burnes so mony,\n  Ky{n}ges, Cayseres ful kene, to \u00fee co{ur}t wo{n}nen,\n  Mony ludisch lordes \u00feat ladies bro\u021dten,\n    [Sidenote: It would take too long to name the number.]\n  \u00deat to neuen \u00fee nou{m}bre to much nye were.                       1376\n    [Sidenote: The city of Babylon is broad and big.]\n  For \u00fee bo{ur}\u021d wat\u021d so brod & so bigge alce,\n  Stalled i{n} \u00fee fayrest stud \u00fee sterre\u021d an-vnder,\n    [Sidenote: It is situated on a plain, surrounded by seven\n    streams, a high wall, and towers.]\n  Prudly on a plat playn, plek al\u00fe{er}-fayrest,\n  Vmbe-sweyed on vch a syde w{i}t{h} seuen grete wat{er}es,         1380\n  W{i}t{h} a wonder wro\u021dt walle wruxeled ful hi\u021de,\n  W{i}t{h} koy{n}t carneles aboue, coruen ful clene,\n  Troched toures bitwene twenty spere len\u00fee,\n  & \u00feiker \u00ferowen vmbe \u00feo{ur}[69]-w{i}t{h} ou{er}-\u00fewert palle.       1384\n    [Sidenote: The palace was long and large, each side being seven\n    miles in length.]\n  \u00dee place, \u00feat plyed \u00fee pursau{n}t wyth-i{n}ne,\n  Wat\u021d longe & ful large & eu{er} ilych sware,\n  & vch a syde vpon soyle helde seuen myle,\n  & \u00fee saudans sete sette i{n} \u00fee myddes;                           1388\n  \u00deat wat\u021d a palayce of pryde passande alle o\u00fe{er},\n  Bo\u00fee of werk & of wu{n}der & walle al aboute;\n    [Sidenote: High houses were within the walls.]\n  He\u021de houses w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne \u00fee halle to hit med,\n  So brod bilde i{n} a bay, \u00fe{a}t blonkkes my\u021dt re{n}ne.            1392\n    [Sidenote: The time of the feast has come.]\n  When \u00fee terme of \u00fee tyde wat\u021d to vsched of \u00fee feste,\n  Dere dro\u021den \u00fe{er}-to & vpon des metten,\n    [Sidenote: Belshazzar sits upon his throne: the hall floor is\n    covered with knights.]\n  & balta\u021dar vpon bench was busked to sete,\n  Stepe stayred stones of his stoute throne.                        1396\n  \u00dee{n}ne wat\u021d alle \u00fee halle flor hiled w{i}t{h} kny\u021dtes,\n  & barou{n}es at \u00fee side-bordes bounet ay-where,\n  For non wat\u021d dressed vpon dece bot \u00fee dere seluen,\n  & his clere concubynes i{n} clo\u00fees ful bry\u021dt.                     1400\n    [Sidenote: When all are seated, service begins.]\n  When alle segges were \u00fe{er} set, \u00fee{n} seruyse bygy{n}nes,\n    [Sidenote: Trumpets sound everywhere.]\n  Sturnen trumpen strake steuen i{n} halle,\n  Aywhere by \u00fee wowes wrasten krakkes,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 76b.]]\n  & brode baneres \u00feer-bi blusnande of gold;                         1404\n    [Sidenote: Bread is served upon silver dishes.]\n  Burnes berande \u00fee[70] bredes vpon brode skeles,\n  \u00deat were of sylu{er}en sy\u021dt & se{er}ved[71] \u00fe{er}-wyth,\n  Lyfte logges \u00feer-ou{er} & on lofte coruen,\n  Pared out of paper & poynted of golde,[72]                        1408\n  Bro\u00fee baboynes abof, besttes an-vnder,\n  Foles i{n} foler flakerande bi-twene,\n  & al i{n} asure & ynde enaumayld ryche,\n    [Sidenote: All sorts of musical instruments are heard in the\n    hall.]\n  & al on blonkken bak bere hit on honde.                           1412\n  & ay \u00fee nakeryn noyse, notes of pipes,\n  Ty{m}bres & tabornes, tulket amo{n}g,\n  Sy{m}bales & sonete\u021d sware \u00fee noyse,\n  & bougou{n}\u021d busch bat{er}ed so \u00feikke;                            1416\n  So wat\u021d serued fele sy\u00fee \u00fee sale alle aboute,\n    [Sidenote: The king, surrounded by his loves, drinks copiously\n    of wine.]\n  W{i}t{h} solace at \u00fee sere course, bifore \u00fee self lorde,\n  \u00deer \u00fee lede & alle his loue lenged at \u00fee table.\n    [Sidenote: It gets into his head and stupifies him.]\n  So faste \u00feay we\u021ded to hi{m} wyne, hit warmed his hert             1420\n  & brey\u00feed vppe i{n} to his brayn & blemyst his my{n}de,\n  & al waykned his wyt, & wel ne\u021de he foles,\n  For he wayte\u021d onwyde, his wenches he byholdes,\n  & his bolde baronage, aboute bi \u00fee wo\u021des;                         1424\n    [Sidenote: A cursed thought takes possession of him.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne a dotage ful depe drof to his hert,\n  & a caytif cou{n}sayl he ca\u021dt bi hy{m} seluen.\n\n[Headnote: BELSHAZZAR BRINGS OUT THE SACRED VESSELS TO DECK THE\nFESTIVE HALL.]\n\n    [Sidenote: He commands his marshal to bring him the vessels\n    taken from the temple by Nebuchadnezzar, and to fill them with\n    wine.]\n  Maynly his marschal \u00fee mayst{er} vpon calles,\n  & comau{n}des hym cofly coferes to lance,                         1428\n  & fech for\u00fee vessel \u00fe{a}t his fader bro\u021dt\n  Nabugo-de-no\u021dar, noble i{n} his stren\u00fee,\n  Conquerd with his kny\u021dtes & of kyrk rafte\n  I{n} iude, i{n} i{e}r{usa}l{e}m i{n} gentyle wyse:                1432\n  \u201cBry{n}g hem now to my borde, of beu{er}age he{m} fylles,\n  Let \u00feise ladyes of hem lape, I luf he{m} i{n} hert;\n  \u00deat schal I cortaysly ky\u00fee & \u00feay schi{n} knawe sone,\n  \u00deer is no bou{n}t\u00e9 i{n} burne lyk balta\u021dar \u00feewes.\u201d                1436\n    [Sidenote: The marshal opens the chests.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne towched to \u00fee treso{ur} \u00feis tale wat\u021d sone,\n  & he w{i}t{h} keyes vn-closes kystes ful mony;\n  Mony bur\u00feen ful bry\u021dt wat\u021d bro\u021dt i{n}-to halle,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 77a.]]\n    [Sidenote: Covers the cupboard with vessels.]\n  & cou{er}ed mony a cupborde with clo\u00fees ful quite.                1440\n  \u00dee iueles out of i{e}r{u}s{a}l{e}m[73] w{i}t{h} ge{m}mes ful bry\u021dt,\n    [Sidenote: The Jewels of Jerusalem deck the sides of the hall.]\n  Bi \u00fee syde of \u00fee sale were semely arayed;\n    [Sidenote: The altar and crown, blessed by bishop\u2019s hands, and\n    anointed with the blood of beasts, are set before the bold\n    Belshazzar.]\n  \u00dee a\u00feel auter of brasse wat\u021d hade i{n}-to place;\n  \u00dee gay corou{n} of golde gered on lofte,                          1444\n  \u00deat hade ben blessed bifore wyth bischopes hondes\n  & wyth besten blod busily anoynted,\n  In \u00fee solempne sacrefyce \u00feat goud sauor hade,\n  Bifore \u00fee lorde of \u00fee lyfte i{n} louy{n}g hy{m} seluen,           1448\n  Now is sette for to serue satanas \u00fee blake,\n  Bifore \u00fee bolde balta\u021dar wyth bost & wyth pryde.\n    [Sidenote: Upon this altar were noble vessels curiously carved,\n    basins of gold, cups arrayed like castles with battlements, and\n    towers with lofty pinnacles.]\n  Houen vpon \u00feis auter wat\u021d a\u00feel vessel,\n  \u00deat wyth so[74] curio{us} a crafte coruen wat\u021d wyly;              1452\n  Salamon sete him s[eue]n \u021dere & a sy\u00fee more,\n  W{i}t{h} alle \u00fee syence \u00feat hy{m} sende \u00fee sou{er}ayn lorde,\n  For to compas & kest to haf hem clene wro\u021dt;\n  For \u00feer wer bassynes ful bry\u021dt of brende golde clere,             1456\n  En-aumaylde w{i}t{h} a\u021der & eweres of sute;\n  Cou{er}ed cowpes foul[75] clene, as casteles arayed,\n  Enbaned vnder batelment w{i}t{h} bantelles quoy{n}t,\n  & fyled out of fygures of ferlyle[76] schappes.                   1460\n  \u00dee cop{er}ou{n}es of \u00fee canacles \u00feat on \u00fee cuppe reres,\n  Wer fetysely formed out i{n} fylyoles longe,\n    [Sidenote: Upon them were pourtrayed branches and leaves, the\n    flowers of which were white pearls, and the fruit flaming gems.]\n  Pinacles py\u021dt \u00feer apert \u00feat p{ro}fert bitwene,\n  & al boiled abof w{i}t{h} brau{n}ches & leues,                    1464\n  Pyes & papeiayes purtrayed with-i{n}ne,\n  As \u00feay prudly hade piked of pomgarnades;\n  For alle \u00fee blomes of \u00fee bo\u021des wer blyknande perles\n  & alle \u00fee fruyt i{n} \u00feo formes of flau{m}beande ge{m}mes,         1468\n  Ande safyres, & sardiners, & semely topace,\n  Alabau{n}derynes, & amarau{n}\u021d & amaffised stones,\n  Casydoynes, & crysolytes, & clere rubies,\n  Penitotes, & pynkardines, ay perles bitwene,                      1472\n  So trayled & tryfled a trau{er}ce wer alle,\n  Bi vche bekyrande \u00fee bolde, \u00fee brurdes al vmbe;\n  \u00dee gobelotes of golde grauen aboute,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 77b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The goblets were ornamented with flowers of gold.]\n  & fyoles fretted w{i}t{h} flores & flee\u021d of golde,                1476\n  Vpon \u00feat avter wat\u021d al aliche dresset.\n    [Sidenote: The candlestick was brought in, with its pillars of\n    brass, and ornamental boughs, upon which sat birds of various\n    hues.]\n  \u00dee candelstik bi a cost wat\u021d cayred \u00feider sone,\n  [V]pon \u00fee pyleres apyked \u00feat praysed hit mony,\n  Vpon hit base\u021d of brasse \u00feat ber vp \u00fee werkes,                    1480\n  \u00dee bo\u021des bry\u021dt \u00feer abof, brayden of golde,\n  Brau{n}ches bredande \u00feer-on, & bryddes \u00feer seten\n  Of mony kyndes, of fele-kyn hues,\n  As \u00feay w{i}t{h} wy{n}ge vpon wynde hade waged her fy\u00fe{er}es,      1484\n    [Sidenote: Lights shone bright from the candlestick, which once\n    stood before the \u201cHoly of Holies.\u201d]\n  In-mo{n}g \u00fee leues of \u00fee lampes wer gray\u00feed;\n  & o\u00fe{er} louelych[77] ly\u021dt \u00feat lemed ful fayre,\n  As mony mort{er}es of wax merkked w{i}t{h}-oute,\n  W{i}t{h} mony a borlych best al of brende golde.                  1488\n  Hit wat\u021d not wonte i{n} \u00feat wone to wast no serges,\n  Bot i{n} te{m}ple of \u00fee trau\u00fee trwly to stonde;\n  Bifore \u00fee s{an}c{t}a, s{an}c{t}or{um} so\u00feefast dry\u021dtyn,\n  Expouned his speche sp{irit}ually to special p{ro}phetes.         1492\n    [Sidenote: The pollution of the sacred vessels is displeasing\n    to God.]\n  Leue \u00fe{o}u wel \u00feat \u00fee lorde \u00fe{a}t \u00fee lyfte \u021demes\n  Displesed much, at \u00feat play i{n} \u00feat plyt stronge,\n  \u00deat his ineles so gent wyth iaueles wer fouled,\n  \u00deat p{re}syo{us} i{n} his presens wer proued su{m} whyle.         1496\n  Soberly i{n} his sacrafyce su{m}me wer anoynted,\n  \u00deur\u021d \u00fee somones of him selfe \u00feat syttes so hy\u021de;\n    [Sidenote: For \u201ca boaster on bench\u201d drinks from them till he is\n    as \u201cdrunken as the devil.\u201d]\n  Now a bost{er} on benche bibbes \u00feerof\n  Tyl he be dronkken as \u00fee deuel, & dotes \u00fe{er} he syttes;          1500\n    [Sidenote: God is very angry.]\n  So \u00fee worcher of \u00feis worlde wlates \u00feer-wyth,\n  \u00deat i{n} \u00fee poynt of her play he poruayes a mynde;\n    [Sidenote: Before harming the revellers He sends them a warning.]\n  Bot er harme hem he wolde i{n} haste of his yre,\n  He wayned hem a warny{n}g \u00feat wonder hem \u00feo\u021dt.                    1504\n  Nov is alle \u00feis guere geten glotou{n}es to serue;\n  Stad i{n} a ryche stal & stared ful bry\u021dt\u021d,[78]\n\n[Headnote: THE SACRED VESSELS ARE DEFILED.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Belshazzar commands the sacred vessels to be filled\n    with wine.]\n  Balta\u021dar i{n} a brayd bede v{us} \u00fe{er}-of.\n  \u201cWe\u021de wyn i{n} \u00feis won, wassayl!\u201d he cryes.                       1508\n  Swyfte swaynes ful swy\u00fee swepen \u00fe{er}-tylle,\n    [Sidenote: The cups and bowls are soon filled.]\n  Kyppe kowpes i{n} honde ky{n}ge\u021d to serue,\n  I{n} bry\u021dt bolle\u021d, ful bayn birlen \u00feise o\u00fe{er},\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 78a.]]\n  & vche mon for his mayst{er} machches alone.                      1512\n    [Sidenote: Music of all kind is heard in the hall.]\n  \u00deer wat\u021d ry{n}gi{n}g, on ry\u021dt, of ryche metalles,\n  Quen renkkes i{n} \u00feat ryche rok re{n}nen hit to cache,\n  Clat{er}i{n}g of conacle\u021d \u00feat kesten \u00feo burdes,\n  As sonet out of sau[t]{er}ay songe als myry.                      1516\n  \u00deen \u00fee dotel on dece drank \u00feat he my\u021dt,\n    [Sidenote: Dukes, princes, concubines, and knights, all are\n    merry.]\n  & \u00fee{n}ne arn dressed duke\u021d & prynces,\n  Concubines & kny\u021dtes, bi cause of \u00feat m{er}the;\n  As vchon hade hy{m} i{n} helde he haled of \u00fee cuppe,              1520\n    [Sidenote: Drinking of the sweet liquors they ask favours of\n    their gods, who, although dumb, are as highly praised \u201cas if\n    heaven were theirs.\u201d]\n  So long likked \u00feise lordes \u00feise lykores swete,\n  & gloryed on her falce goddes & her g{ra}ce calles,\n  \u00deat were of stokkes & stones, stille euer more;\n  Neu{er} steuen hem astel, so stoken is[79] hor tonge,             1524\n  Alle \u00fee goude golden goddes \u00fee gaule\u021d \u021det neuenen,\n  Belfagor & belyal & belssabub als,\n  Heyred hem as hy\u021dly as heuen wer \u00feayres,\n  Bot hy{m} \u00feat alle goudes giues, \u00feat god \u00feay for-\u021deten,           1528\n    [Sidenote: A marvel befals the feasters.]\n  For \u00feer a ferly bifel \u00feat fele folk se\u021den;\n    [Sidenote: The king first saw it.]\n  Fyrst knew hit \u00fee ky{n}g & alle \u00fee cort aft{er},\n\n[Headnote: THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Upon the plain wall, \u201ca palm with pointel in fingers\u201d\n    is seen writing.]\n  I{n} \u00fee palays pryncipale vpon \u00fee playn wowe,\n  I{n} contrary of \u00fee candelstik \u00feat clerest hit schyned.           1532\n  \u00deer apered a paume, w{i}t{h} poyntel i{n} fyngres\n  \u00deat wat\u021d grysly & gret, & grymly he wrytes,\n  Non o\u00fe{er} forme bot a fust faylande \u00fee wryste,\n  Pared on \u00fee parget, purtrayed lettres.                            1536\n    [Sidenote: The bold Belshazzar becomes frightened.]\n  When \u00feat bolde balta\u021dar blusched to \u00feat neue,\n  Such a dasande drede dusched to his hert,\n  \u00deat al falewed his face & fayled \u00fee chere;\n  \u00dee stronge strok of \u00fee stonde strayned his ioy{n}tes,             1540\n    [Sidenote: His knees knock together.]\n  His cnes cachches to close & cluchches his ho{m}mes,\n  & he w{i}t{h} plat-ty{n}g his paumes displayes his lers,[80]\n    [Sidenote: He roars for dread, still beholding the hand, as it\n    wrote on the rough wall.]\n  & romyes as a rad ryth \u00feat rore\u021d for drede,\n  Ay biholdand \u00fee honde til hit hade al g{ra}uen,                   1544\n  & rasped on \u00fee ro\u021d wo\u021de runisch saue\u021d.\n  When hit \u00fee scrypture hade scraped wyth a scrof[81] pe{n}ne,\n  As a colto{ur} i{n} clay cerues \u00fe{o} for\u021des,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 78b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The hand vanishes but the letters remain.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne hit vanist v{er}ayly & voyded of sy\u021dt,                    1548\n  Bot \u00fee lettres bileued ful large vpon plast{er}.\n\n[Headnote: THE KING CONSULTS HIS DIVINERS.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The king recovers his speech and sends for the\n    \u201cbook-learned;\u201d but none of the scholars were wise enough to\n    read it.]\n  Sone so \u00fee ky{n}ge for his care carpi{n}g my\u021dt wy{n}ne,\n  He bede his burnes bo\u021d to \u00feat wer{e} bok lered,\n  To wayte \u00fee wryt \u00feat hit wolde & wyt{er} hym to say,              1552\n  \u201cFor al hit frayes my flesche \u00fee fyngres so gry{m}me.\u201d\n  Scoleres skelten \u00feeratte \u00fee skyl forto fynde,\n  Bot \u00feer wat\u021d neu{er} on so wyse cou\u00fee on worde rede,\n  Ne what ledisch lore ne langage nau\u00fe{er}                          1556\n  What ty\u00fey{n}g ne tale tokened \u00feo dra\u021dtes.\n    [Sidenote: Belshazzar is nearly mad.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne \u00fee bolde balta\u021dar bred ner wode.\n    [Sidenote: Commands the city to be searched throughout for the\n    \u201cwise of witchcraft.\u201d]\n  & ede[82] \u00fee Cet\u00e9 to seche segges \u00feur\u021d-out,\n  \u00deat wer wyse of wyche-crafte & warla\u021des o\u00fe{er},                   1560\n  \u00deat con dele wyth dem{er}layk, & deuine lettres:\n  \u201cCalle hem alle to my cort \u00feo calde clerkkes,\n  Vn-folde hem alle \u00feis ferly \u00feat is bifallen here,\n    [Sidenote: He who expounds the strange letters, shall be clothed\n    in \u201cgowns of purple.\u201d]\n  & calle wyth a hi\u021de cry; \u2018he \u00feat \u00fee ky{n}g wysses,                1564\n  In expouny{n}g of speche \u00feat spredes i{n} \u00feise lettres,\n  & make \u00fee mat{er} to malt my mynde wyth-i{n}ne,\n  \u00deat I may wyt{er}ly wyt what \u00feat wryt menes,\n  He schal \u00fee gered ful gaye i{n} gounes of porpre,                 1568\n    [Sidenote: A collar of gold shall encircle his throat.]\n  & a coler of cler golde clos vmbe his \u00ferote;\n    [Sidenote: He shall be the third lord in the realm.]\n  He schal be prymate & prynce of pure clergye,\n  & of my \u00fereuenest lorde\u021d \u00fee \u00ferydde he schal\n  & of my reme \u00fee rychest to ryde wyth myseluen,                    1572\n  Out-taken bare two & \u00fee{n}ne he \u00fee \u00ferydde.\u2019\u201d\n    [Sidenote: As soon as this cry was upcast, to the hall came\n    clerks out of Chaldea, witches and diviners, sorcerers and\n    exorcists.]\n  \u00deis cry wat\u021d vp-caste, & \u00feer comen mony\n  Clerkes out of caldye \u00feat ke{n}nest wer knauen,\n  As \u00fee sage sathrapas \u00feat sorsory cou\u00fee;                           1576\n  Wyche\u021d & walkyries wo{n}nen to \u00feat sale,\n  Deuinores of demorlaykes \u00feat dremes cow\u00fee rede,\n  Sorsers & exorsism{us} & fele such clerkes;\n    [Sidenote: But after looking on the letters they were as\n    ignorant as if they had looked into the leather of the left\n    boot.]\n  & alle \u00feat loked on \u00feat lett{er} as lewed \u00feay were,               1580\n  As \u00feay had loked i{n} \u00fee le\u00fe{er} of my lyft bote.\n  \u00dee{n}ne cryes \u00fee ky{n}g & kerues his wedes;\n    [Sidenote: The king curses them all and calls them churls.]\n  What! he corsed his clerkes & calde hem chorles,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 79a.]]\n    [Sidenote: He orders the harlots to be hanged.]\n  To henge \u00fee harlotes he he\u021ded ful ofte,                           1584\n  So wat\u021d \u00fee wy\u021de wytles, he wed wel ner.\n    [Sidenote: The queen hears the king chide.]\n  Ho herde hy{m} chyde to \u00fee chambre \u00feat wat\u021d \u00fee chef quene;\n    [Sidenote: She inquires the cause.]\n  When ho wat\u021d wyt{er}ed bi wy\u021des what wat\u021d \u00fee cause,\n  Suche a chau{n}gande chau{n}ce i{n} \u00fee chef halle,                1588\n  \u00dee lady to lauce[83] \u00feat los \u00feat \u00fee lorde hade,\n    [Sidenote: Goes to the king, kneels before him, and asks why he\n    has rent his robes for grief, when there is one that has the\n    Spirit of God, the counsellor of Nebuchadnezzar, the interpreter\n    of his dreams, through the holy Spirit of God.]\n  Glydes dou{n} by \u00fee grece & gos to \u00fee ky{n}g;\n  Ho kneles on \u00fee colde er\u00fee & carpes to hy{m} seluen,\n  Wordes of worchyp wyth a wys speche.                              1592\n  \u201cKene ky{n}g,\u201d q{uod} \u00fee quene, \u201ckayser of vr\u00fee,\n  Eu{er} laste \u00fey lyf i{n} len\u00fee of dayes;\n  Why hat\u021d \u00feou rended \u00fey robe for redles here-i{n}ne,\n  \u00dea\u021d \u00feose ledes ben lewed lettres to rede,                         1596\n  & hat\u021d a ha\u00feel i{n} \u00fey holde, as I haf herde ofte,\n  \u00deat hat\u021d \u00fee gostes of god \u00feat gyes alle so\u00fees;\n  His sawle is ful of syence, sa\u021des to schawe,\n  To open vch a hide \u00fey{ng} of aunt{er}es vn-cow\u00fee;                 1600\n  \u00deat is he \u00feat ful ofte hat\u021d heuened \u00fey fader\n  Of mony ang{er} ful hote w{i}t{h} his holy speche.\n  When nabugo-de-no\u021dar wat\u021d nyed i{n} stou{n}des,\n  He de-vysed his dremes to \u00fee dere traw\u00fee,                         1604\n  He keu{er}ed hy{m} w{i}t{h} his cou{n}sayl of caytyf wyrdes;\n  Alle \u00feat he spured hym i{n} space he expowned clene,\n  \u00deur\u021d \u00fee sped of \u00fee spyryt \u00feat sprad hy{m} w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne,\n  Of \u00fee godelest godde\u021d \u00feat gaynes ay-where.                        1608\n  For his depe diuinit\u00e9 & his dere sawes,\n    [Sidenote: The name of this man is Daniel, who was brought a\n    captive from Jud\u00e6a.]\n  \u00dey bolde fader balta\u021dar bede by[84] his name,\n  \u00deat now is demed danyel of derne coni{n}ges,\n  \u00deat ca\u021dt wat\u021d i{n} \u00fee captyuid\u00e9 i{n} cu{n}tre of iues;            1612\n  Nabu\u021dardan hy{m} nome & now is he here,\n  A prophete of \u00feat prouince & pryce of \u00fee worlde.\n\n[Headnote: DANIEL IS SENT FOR.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The queen tells the king to send for Daniel.]\n  Sende i{n}-to \u00fee cet\u00e9 to seche hy{m} bylyue,\n  & wy{n}ne hy{m} w{i}t{h} \u00fee worchyp to wayne \u00fee bote,             1616\n  & \u00fea\u021d \u00fee mat{er} be merk \u00feat merked is \u021dender,\n  He schal de-clar hit also, as hit on clay stande.\u201d\n    [Sidenote: Her counsel is accepted.]\n  \u00deat gode cou{n}seyl at \u00fee quene wat\u021d cached as[85] swy\u00fee,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 79b.]]\n  \u00dee burne byfore balta\u021dar wat\u021d bro\u021dt i{n} a whyle,                 1620\n    [Sidenote: Daniel comes before Belshazzar.]\n  When he com bifore \u00fee ky{n}g & clanly had halsed,\n  Balta\u021dar vmbe-brayde hy{m} & \u201cleue s{ir},\u201d he sayde,\n    [Sidenote: The king tells him that he has heard of his wisdom,\n    and his power to discover hidden things, and that he wants to\n    know the meaning of the writing on the wall.]\n  \u201cHit is tolde me bi tulkes, \u00feat \u00fe{o}u trwe were\n  Profete of \u00feat prouynce \u00feat prayed my fader,                      1624\n  Ande \u00feat \u00fe{o}u hat\u021d i{n} \u00fey hert holy co{n}ny{n}g,\n  Of sapyence \u00fei sawle ful so\u00fees to schawe;\n  Goddes gost is \u00fee geuen \u00feat gyes alle \u00fey{n}g{es},\n  & \u00fe{o}u vnhyles vch hidde \u00feat heuen ky{n}g my{n}tes;              1628\n  & here is a ferly byfallen, & I fayn wolde\n  Wyt \u00fee wytte of \u00fee wryt, \u00feat on \u00fee wowe clyues,\n  For alle calde clerkes han cowwardely fayled;\n    [Sidenote: Promises him, if he can explain the text of the\n    letters and their interpretation, to clothe him in purple and\n    pall, and put a ring about his neck, and to make him \u201ca baron\n    upon bench.\u201d]\n  If \u00fe{o}u w{i}t{h} quay{n}tyse co{n}quere hit,\n        I quyte \u00fee \u00fey mede.                                         1632\n  For if \u00fe{o}u redes hit by ry\u021dt & hit to resou{n} bry{n}ges,\n  Fyrst telle me \u00fee tyxte of \u00fee tede lettres,\n  & sy\u00feen \u00fee mat{er} of \u00fee mode, mene me \u00fe{er}-aft{er},\n  & I schal halde \u00fee \u00fee hest \u00feat I \u00fee hy\u021dt haue;                    1636\n  Apyke \u00fee i{n} porpre clo\u00fee, palle al\u00feer-fynest,\n  & \u00fee by\u021de of bry\u021dt golde abowte \u00fey{n} nekke,\n  & \u00fee \u00feryd \u00feryuenest \u00feat \u00fery{n}ges me aft{er},\n  \u00de{o}u schal be barou{n} vpon benche, bede I \u00fee no lasse.\u201d         1640\n\n[Headnote: DANIEL DESCRIBES HOW NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS PUNISHED FOR\nHIS PRIDE.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Daniel addresses the king, and reminds him how that\n    God supported his father, and gave him power to exalt or abase\n    whomsoever he pleased.]\n  Derfly \u00fee{n}ne danyel deles \u00feyse wordes:\n  \u201cRyche ky{n}g of \u00feis rengne rede \u00fee oure lorde,\n  Hit is surely soth, \u00fee sou{er}ayn of heuen\n  Fylsened eu{er} \u00fey fader & vpon folde cheryched,                  1644\n  Gart hy{m} grattest to be of gou{er}nores alle,\n  & alle \u00fee worlde i{n} his wylle welde as hy{m} lykes.\n  Who-so wolde wel do, wel hy{m} bityde,\n  & quos deth so he de\u021dyre he dreped als fast;                      1648\n  Who-so hy{m} lyked to lyft, on lofte wat\u021d he sone,\n  & quo-so hy{m} lyked to lay, wat\u021d lo\u021ded bylyue.\n    [Sidenote: Nebuchadnezzar was established on account of his\n    faith in God.]\n  So wat\u021d noted \u00fee note of nabugo-de-no\u021dar,\n  Styfly stabled \u00fee rengne bi \u00fee stronge dry\u021dty{n},                 1652\n  For of \u00fee hy\u021dest he hade a hope i{n} his hert,\n  \u00deat vche pou{er} past out of [\u00fe]at prynce euen;\n    [Sidenote: So long as he remained true, no man was greater.]\n  & whyle \u00feat wat\u021d cle\u021dt clos i{n} his hert,\n  \u00deere wat\u021d no mon vpon molde of my\u021dt as hy{m} selue{n},            1656\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 80a.]]\n    [Sidenote: But at last pride touches his heart.]\n  Til hit bitide on a tyme, towched hy{m} pryde\n  For his lordeschyp so large, & his lyf ryche;\n  He hade so huge an insy\u021dt to his aune dedes,\n    [Sidenote: He forgets the power of God, and blasphemes His name.]\n  \u00deat \u00fee power of \u00fee hy\u021de prynce he purely for\u021detes.                1660\n  \u00dee{n}ne bly{n}nes he not of blasfemyon to blame \u00fee dry\u021dty{n},\n  His my\u021dt mete to goddes he made w{i}t{h} his wordes:\n    [Sidenote: He says that he is \u201cgod of the ground,\u201d and the\n    builder of Babylon.]\n  \u201cI am god of \u00fee grou{n}de, to gye as me lykes,\n  As he \u00feat hy\u021de is i{n} heuen his au{n}geles \u00fe{a}t weldes;         1664\n  If he hat\u021d formed \u00fee folde & folk \u00fe{er} vpone,\n  I haf bigged babiloyne, bur\u021d al\u00fe{er}-rychest,\n  Stabled \u00feer-i{n}ne vche a ston i{n} strenk\u00fee of my{n} armes,\n  Mo\u021dt neu{er} my\u021dt bot myn make such ano\u00fe{er}.\u201d                    1668\n    [Sidenote: Hardly had Nebuchadnezzar spoken, when God\u2019s voice is\n    heard, saying, \u201cThy principality is departed.]\n  Wat\u021d not \u00feis ilke worde wo{n}nen of his mow\u00fee one,\n  Er \u00fee{n}ne \u00fee sou{er}ayn sa\u021de souned i{n} his eres,\n  \u201cNow nabugo-de-no\u021dar i{n}no\u021de hat\u021d spoken,\n  Now is alle \u00fey pryncipalt\u00e9 past at ones,                          1672\n    [Sidenote: Thou, removed from men, must abide on the moor, and\n    walk with wild beasts, eat herbs, and dwell with wolves and\n    asses.\u201d]\n  & \u00fe{o}u, remued fro mo{n}nes su{n}es, on mor most abide,\n  & in wast{ur}ne walk & wyth \u00fee wylde dowelle,\n  As best, byte on \u00fee bent of braken & erbes,\n  W{i}t{h} wro\u00fee wolfes to won & wyth wylde asses.\u201d                 1676\n  In mydde \u00fee poynt of his pryde de-parted he \u00feere,\n  Fro \u00fee soly of his solempnet\u00e9, his solace he leues,\n    [Sidenote: For his pride he becomes an outcast.]\n  & carfully is out-kast to contr\u00e9 vnknawen,\n  Fer i{n}-to a fyr fryth \u00feere frekes neu{er} comen.                1680\n    [Sidenote: He believes himself to be a bull or an ox.]\n  His hert heldet vnhole, he hoped non o\u00fe{er}\n  Bot a best \u00feat he be, a bol o\u00fe{er} an oxe.\n    [Sidenote: Goes \u201con all fours,\u201d like a cow, for seven summers.]\n  He fares forth on alle faure, fogge wat\u021d his mete,\n  & ete ay as a horce when erbes were fallen,                       1684\n  \u00deus he cou{n}tes hy{m} a kow, \u00feat wat\u021d a ky{n}g ryche,\n  Quyle seuen sy\u00fee\u021d were ou{er}-seyed som{er}es I trawe.\n    [Sidenote: His thighs grew thick.]\n  By \u00feat, mony \u00feik thy\u021de \u00fery\u021dt vmbe his lyre,\n  \u00deat alle wat\u021d dubbed & dy\u021dt i{n} \u00fee dew of heuen;                 1688\n    [Sidenote: His hair became matted and thick, from the shoulders\n    to the toes.]\n  Faxe fylt{er}ed, & felt flosed hy{m} vmbe,\n  \u00deat schad fro his schulderes to his schyre wykes,\n  & twenty-folde twyna{n}de hit to his tos ra\u021dt\n  \u00deer mony clyuy as clyde hit cly\u021dt to-geder.                       1692\n    [Sidenote: His beard touched the earth.]\n  His berde I-brad alle his brest to \u00fee bare vr\u00fee,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 80b.]]\n    [Sidenote: His brows were like briars.]\n  His browes bresed as breres aboute his brode chekes;\n    [Sidenote: His eyes were hollow, and grey as the kite\u2019s.]\n  Hol\u021de were his y\u021den & vnder campe hores,\n  & al wat\u021d gray as \u00fee glede, w{i}t{h} ful gry{m}me clawres         1696\n  \u00deat were croked & kene as \u00fee kyte paune;[86]\n    [Sidenote: Eagle-hued he was.]\n  Erne-hwed he wat\u021d & al ou{er}-brawden,\n  Til he wyst ful wel who wro\u021dt alle my\u021dtes,\n  & cow\u00fee vche kyndam tokerue & keu{er} when hy{m} lyked;           1700\n    [Sidenote: At last he recovered his \u201cwit,\u201d and believed in God.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne he wayned hy{m} his wyt \u00feat hade wo soffered,\n  \u00deat he com to knawlach & ke{n}ned hy{m} seluen,\n  \u00dee{n}ne he laued[87] \u00feat lorde & leued i{n} traw\u00fee,\n  Hit wat\u021d non o\u00fe{er} \u00feen he \u00feat hade al i{n} honde.                1704\n    [Sidenote: Then soon was he restored to his seat.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne sone wat\u021d he sende agayn, his sete restored;\n  His barou{n}es bo\u021ded hy{m} to, bly\u00fee of his come,\n  Ha\u021derly i{n} his aune hwe his heued wat\u021d cou{er}ed,\n  & so \u021deply wat\u021d \u021darked & \u021dolden his state.                        1708\n    [Sidenote: But thou, Belshazzar, hast disregarded these signs,\n    and hast blasphemed the Lord, defiled his vessels, filling them\n    with wine for thy wenches, and praising thy lifeless gods.]\n  Bot \u00fe{o}u balta\u021dar his barne & his bolde ayre,\n  Se\u021d \u00feese sy{n}gnes w{i}t{h} sy\u021dt & set hem at lyttel,\n  Bot ay hat\u021d hofen \u00fey hert agaynes \u00fee hy\u021de dry\u021dt[y]n,\n  W{i}t{h} bobau{n}ce & w{i}t{h} blasfamye bost at hy{m} kest,      1712\n  & now his vessayles avyled i{n} vanyt\u00e9 vnclene,\n  \u00deat i{n} his hows hy{m} to hono{ur} were heue{n}ed of fyrst;\n  Bifore \u00fee barou{n}\u021d hat\u021d hom bro\u021dt, & byrled \u00fe{er}i{n}ne\n  Wale wyne to \u00fey wenches i{n} waryed stou{n}des;                   1716\n  Bifore \u00fey borde hat\u021d \u00fe{o}u bro\u021dt beu{er}age i{n} \u00feede,\n  \u00deat bly\u00feely were fyrst blest w{i}t{h} bischopes hondes,\n  Louande \u00feeron lese godde\u021d, \u00feat lyf haden neu{er},\n  Made of stokkes & stone\u021d \u00feat neu{er} styry mo\u021dt.                  1720\n    [Sidenote: For this sin God has sent thee this strange sight,\n    the fist with the fingers writing on the wall.]\n  & for \u00feat fro\u00feande fyl\u00fee, \u00fee fader of heuen\n  Hat\u021d sende[88] i{n}-to \u00feis sale \u00feise sy\u021dtes vncow\u00fee,\n  \u00dee fyste w{i}t{h} \u00fee fy{n}g{er}es \u00feat flayed \u00fei hert,\n  \u00deat rasped renyschly \u00fee wo\u021de w{i}t{h} \u00fee ro\u021d pe{n}ne.             1724\n\n[Headnote: THE INTERPRETATION OF THE HANDWRITING.]\n\n    [Sidenote: These are the words: \u201cMene, Tekel, Peres.]\n  \u00deise ar \u00fee wordes here wryten w{i}t{h}-oute werk more,\n  By vch fygure, as I fynde, as oure fader lykes.\n  \u201cMane, techal, phares, merked i{n} \u00fery{n}ne,\n  \u00deat \u00feretes \u00fee of \u00fey{n} vn\u00feryfte vpon \u00fere wyse;                    1728\n  Now expowne \u00fee \u00feis speche spedly I \u00feenk.\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 81a.]]\n    [Sidenote: Mene.-- God has counted thy kingdom and finished it.]\n  Mane menes als much as, maynful gode\n  Hat\u021d cou{n}ted \u00fey kyndam bi a clene nou{m}bre,\n  & ful-fylled hit i{n} fayth to \u00fee fyrre ende.                     1732\n    [Sidenote: Tekel.-- Thy reign is weighed and is found wanting in\n    deeds of faith.]\n  To teche \u00fee of techal, \u00feat terme \u00fe{us} menes,\n  \u00dey wale rengne is walt i{n} we\u021dtes to heng,\n  & is fu{n}de ful fewe of hit fayth dedes.\n  & phares fol\u021des for \u00feose fawtes to frayst \u00fee traw\u00fee,              1736\n    [Sidenote: Peres.-- Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the\n    Persians.]\n  In phares fynde I forso\u00fee \u00feise felle sa\u021des;\n  De-parted is \u00fey pryncipalt\u00e9, depryued \u00fe{o}u wor\u00fees,\n  \u00dey rengne rafte is \u00fee fro, & ra\u021dt is \u00fee perses,\n    [Sidenote: The Medes shall be masters here.\u201d]\n  \u00dee medes schal be mayst{er}es here, & \u00fe{o}u of menske schowued.\u201d  1740\n    [Sidenote: The king commands Daniel to be clothed in a frock of\n    fine cloth.]\n  \u00dee ky{n}g comau{n}ded anon to cle\u00fee \u00fe{a}t wyse,\n  In frokkes of fyn clo\u00fe, as forward hit asked;\n    [Sidenote: Soon is he arrayed in purple, with a chain about his\n    neck.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne sone wat\u021d danyel dubbed i{n} ful dere porpor\n  & a coler[89] of cler golde kest vmbe his swyre.                  1744\n  \u00dee{n} wat\u021d demed a de-cre bi \u00fee duk seluen,\n    [Sidenote: A decree is made, that all should bow to him, as the\n    third lord that followed Belshazzar.]\n  Bolde balta\u021da[r] bed \u00feat hy{m} bowe schulde\n  \u00dee comynes a lof calde \u00feat to \u00fee ky{n}g lo{n}ged,\n  As to \u00fee prynce pryuyest preued \u00fee \u00ferydde,                        1748\n  He\u021dest of alle o\u00fe{er}, saf onelych tweyne,\n  To bo\u021d aft{er} balta\u021dar i{n} bor\u021de & i{n} felde.\n    [Sidenote: The decree was made known, and all were glad.]\n  \u00deys wat\u021d cryed & knawen i{n} cort als fast,\n  & alle \u00fee folk \u00feer-of fayn \u00feat fol\u021ded hy{m} tylle;                1752\n    [Sidenote: The day, however, past.]\n  Bot how-so danyel wat\u021d dy\u021dt, \u00feat day ou{er}-\u021dede,\n    [Sidenote: Night came on.]\n  Ny\u021dt ne\u021ded ry\u021dt now w{i}t{h} nyes fol mony,\n    [Sidenote: Before another day dawned, Daniel\u2019s words were\n    fulfilled.]\n  For da\u021ded neu{er} an o\u00fe{er} day \u00feat ilk derk aft{er},\n  Er dalt were \u00feat ilk dome \u00feat danyel deuysed,                     1756\n    [Sidenote: The feast lasts till the sun falls.]\n  \u00dee solace of \u00fee solempnet\u00e9 i{n} \u00feat sale dured\n  Of \u00feat farand fest, tyl fayled \u00fee su{n}ne;\n    [Sidenote: The skies become dark.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne blykned[90] \u00fee ble of \u00fee bry\u021dt skwes,\n  Mo{ur}kenes \u00fee mery weder, & \u00fee myst dryues                       1760\n  \u00deor\u021d \u00fee lyst of \u00fee lyfte, bi \u00fee lo\u021d medoes;\n    [Sidenote: Each noble hies home to his supper.]\n  Vche ha\u00feel to his home hy\u021des ful fast,\n  Seten at her sop{er} & songen \u00fe{er}-aft{er},\n  \u00deen fou{n}de\u021d vch a fela\u021dschyp fyrre at for\u00fe na\u021dtes.              1764\n    [Sidenote: Belshazzar is carried to bed, but never rises from it,\n    for his foes are seeking to destroy his land, and are assembled\n    suddenly.]\n  Balta\u021dar to his bedd with blysse wat\u021d caryed,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 81b.]]\n  Reche \u00fee rest as hy{m} lyst, he ros neu{er} \u00feer-aft{er};\n  For his foes i{n} \u00fee felde i{n} flokkes ful grete\n  \u00deat longe hade layted \u00feat lede his londes to strye,               1768\n  Now ar \u00feay sodenly assembled at \u00fee self tyme,\n  Of hem wyst no wy\u021de \u00feat i{n} \u00feat won dowelled.\n\n[Headnote: DARIUS LAYS SIEGE TO BABYLON.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The enemy is Darius, leader of the Medes.]\n  Hit wat\u021d \u00fee dere daryus \u00fee duk of \u00feise medes,\n  \u00dee prowde prynce of perce & porros of ynde,                       1772\n    [Sidenote: He has legions of armed men.]\n  W{i}t{h} mony a legiou{n} ful large, w{i}t{h} ledes of armes,\n  \u00deat now hat\u021d spyed a space to spoyle caldee\u021d.\n    [Sidenote: Under cover of the darkness, they cross the river.]\n  \u00deay \u00ferongen \u00feeder i{n} \u00fee \u00feest{er} on \u00ferawen hepes,\n  Asscaped ou{er} \u00fee skyre watt{er}es & sca\u00feed \u00fee walles,           1776\n    [Sidenote: By means of ladders they get upon the walls, and\n    within an hour enter the city, without disturbing any of the\n    watch.]\n  Lyfte laddres ful longe & vpon lofte wonen,\n  Stelen stylly \u00fee tou{n} er any steue{n} rysed,\n  W{i}t{h}-i{n}ne an oure of \u00fee ny\u021dt[91] an entr\u00e9 \u00feay hade;\n  \u021cet afrayed \u00feay no freke, fyrre \u00feay passen,                       1780\n  & to \u00fee palays pry{n}cipal \u00feay aproched ful stylle;\n    [Sidenote: They run into the palace, and raise a great cry.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne ran \u00feay i{n} on a res, on rowtes ful grete,\n  Blastes out of bry\u021dt brasse brestes so hy\u021de,\n  Ascry scarred on \u00fee scue \u00feat scomfyted mony.                      1784\n    [Sidenote: Men are slain in their beds.]\n  Segges slepande were slayne er \u00feay slyppe my\u021dt,\n  Vche ho{us} heyred wat\u021d, w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne a honde-whyle;\n\n[Headnote: BELSHAZZAR IS BEATEN TO DEATH.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Belshazzar is beaten to death, and caught by the\n    heels, is foully cast into a ditch.]\n  Balta\u021dar i{n} his bed wat\u021d beten to de\u00fee,\n  \u00deat bo\u00fee his blod & his brayn blende on \u00fee clo\u00fees;                1788\n  The ky{n}g i{n} his cortyn wat\u021d ka\u021dt bi \u00fee heles,\n  Feryed out bi \u00fee fete & fowle dispysed;\n  \u00deat wat\u021d so do\u021dty \u00feat day & drank of \u00fee vessayl,\n  Now is a dogge al so dere \u00feat in a dych lygges;                   1792\n    [Sidenote: Darius is crowned king, and makes peace with the\n    barons.]\n  For \u00fee mayst{er} of \u00feyse medes on \u00fee morne ryses,\n  Dere daryo{us} \u00feat day dy\u021dt vpon trone,\n  \u00deat cet\u00e9 seses ful sou{n}de, & sa\u021dtly{n}g makes\n  Wyth alle \u00fee barou{n}\u021d \u00fe{er}-aboute, \u00feat bowed hy{m} aft{er}.     1796\n    [Sidenote: Thus the land was lost for the king\u2019s sin.]\n  & \u00fe{us} wat\u021d \u00feat londe lost for \u00fee lordes sy{n}ne,\n  & \u00fee fyl\u00fee of \u00fee freke \u00feat defowled hade\n  \u00dee orne-mentes of godde\u021d ho{us} \u00feat holy were maked;\n    [Sidenote: He was cursed for his uncleanness, and deprived of\n    his honour, as well as of the joys of heaven.]\n  He wat\u021d corsed for his vn-cla{n}nes, & cached \u00fe{er}-i{n}ne,       1800\n  Done dou{n} of his dy{n}gnet\u00e9 for dede\u021d vnfayre,\n  & of \u00feyse worldes worchyp wrast out for eu{er},\n  & \u021det of lyky{n}ges on lofte letted, I trowe,\n    [Sidenote: Thus in three ways has it been shown, that\n    uncleanness makes God angry.]\n  To loke on oure lofly lorde late bitydes.                         1804\n  \u00deus vpon \u00fery{n}ne wyses I haf yow \u00fero schewed,\n  \u00deat vn-cla{n}nes to-cleues i{n} corage dere\n  Of \u00feat wy{n}nelych lorde \u00feat wonyes i{n} heuen,\n  Entyses hy{m} to be tene, telled[92] vp his wrake;                1808\n    [Sidenote: Cleanness is His comfort.]\n  Ande cla{n}nes is his comfort, & coyntyse he louyes,\n    [Sidenote: The seemly shall see his face.]\n  & \u00feose \u00feat seme arn & swete schy{n} se his face.\n    [Sidenote: God give us grace to serve in His sight!]\n  \u00deat we gon gay i{n} oure gere \u00feat g{ra}ce he v{us} sende,\n  \u00deat we may serue i{n} his sy\u021dt, \u00fe{er} solace neu{er} bly{n}ne\u021d.\n        Amen.\n\n    [Sidenote 68: _\u00feing_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 69: _\u00feore_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 70: MS. \u00fee \u00fee.]\n    [Sidenote 71: MS. sev{er}ed.]\n    [Sidenote 72: MS. _glolde_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 73: MS. i{e}s{u}r{a}l{e}m.]\n    [Sidenote 74: MS. _fo_.]\n    [Sidenote 75: _ful_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 76: _ferlyke_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 77: Looks like _louflych_.]\n    [Sidenote 78: ? _bry\u021dte_.]\n    [Sidenote 79: MS. \u012bs.]\n    [Sidenote 80: MS. ler{n}s.]\n    [Sidenote 81: MS. _strof_.]\n    [Sidenote 82: _bede_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 83: _lance_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 84: _be_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 85: MS. _as as_.]\n    [Sidenote 86: ? _panne_.]\n    [Sidenote 87: _loued_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 88: MS. _hat\u021d sende hat\u021d sende_.]\n    [Sidenote 89: MS. _cloler_.]\n    [Sidenote 90: _blaykned_ (?)]\n    [Sidenote 91: MS. _my\u021dt_.]\n    [Sidenote 92: _telles_ (?).]\n\n\n\n\nNOTES: _Cleanness_.\n\n\nP. 37.\n\n  l. 3 _forering_ = _for-bering_. (?)\n  10 _reken_, reverently, solemnly.\n  12 _cleche gret mede_, take great reward.\n  16 _& hym to greme cachen_, and him to wrath drive.\n  18 _hagherlych_, fitly, decently.\n  21 _scoymous & skyg_, scrupulous and particular; _skyg_ implies\n      dread, fear, shyness.\n  23 _in a carp_, in a discourse.\n  24 _heuened a\u021dt happe\u021d_, exhibited eight blessings.\n  25 _me myne\u021d_, I remember.\n\nP. 38.\n\n  l. 27 _hapene\u021d_, is happy, blessed.\n  29 _as so sayt\u021d_, as one says.\n  32 _May not byde \u00feat burne_ (? _burre_) _\u00feat hit his body ne\u021den_,\n    May not abide (suffer) that man (? blow), that it (? he) should\n      approach his body.\n  39 _helded_, approached.\n  41 _tote\u021d_ = _tot\u021d_ = toes.\n  49 _wor\u00felych_, worshipful (? _worldlych_, worldly).\n  50 _in her_ (? _herin_).\n  52 _here dere_, beloved heir.\n  54 _comly quoyntis_, comely attire.\n  56 _with scla\u021dt_, against (for) slaughter.\n  59 _ro\u00feeled_, ready prepared, literally hastened.\n  62 _skyly_, device, excuse.\n\nP. 39.\n\n  l. 65 _nayed_, refused; _nurned_, uttered.\n  71 _a-dre\u021d_, aback, aside.\n  76\n    _More to wyte is her wrange, \u00feen any wylle gentyl_,\n    More to blame is their fault, than any forlorn gentile.\n  _Wylle_ has the significations of wandering, astray; as \u201c_wyl\n      dremes_,\u201d wandering dreams, \u201c_wylle of wone_,\u201d astray from human\n      habitations, having lost one\u2019s way; and hence _wylle_ is often\n      used to denote uncertainty, bewilderment.\n  81 _la\u00fee\u021d_, invite.\n  90 _sty\u021dtled_, established, placed.\n  91 _\u00fee marchal_, i.e. the marshal of the hall, whose duty it was,\n      at public festivals, to place every person according to his rank\n      and station.\n  95 _at \u00fei banne_, at thy command.\n  96 _renischche renke\u021d_, strange men.\n  97 _layte\u021d \u021det ferre_, search yet farther.\n\nP. 40.\n\n  l. 99 _wayte\u021d_, watch.\n  103 _balterande cruppele\u021d_, limping cripples. _Balter_ signifies to\n      jump, skip, hop, etc.\n  110 _demed_, decreed.\n  112\n    _Hit weren not alle on wyue\u021d sune\u021d, wonen with on fader_,\n    They were not all one wife\u2019s sons, begotten with one father.\n  127\n    _& rehayte rekenly \u00fee riche & \u00fee poueren_,\n    And cheer, prince-like (nobly), the rich and the poor.\n  _Rehete_ is the most common form of the word:\n    \u201cHim would I comforte and _rehete_.\u201d --Rom. Rose, l.\u00a06509.\n  131 _syled fyrre_, proceeded farther.\n  132 _Tron fro table to table_, went from table to table. _Tron_ is\n      the pret. of the verb _tryne_, to go, walk.\n\nP. 41.\n\n  l. 134 _Hit wat\u021d not_, there was one (who) was not.\n  135 _\u00fery\u021dt_, thrust; _un\u00feryuandely_, badly.\n  144 _ratted_, rent, torn.\n  145 _goun febele_. Cf. _feble wede_, bad or poor clothing.\n      --Havelok the Dane, l.\u00a0418.\n  149 _bro\u00fee worde\u021d_, angry (fierce) words.\n  150 _Hurkele_, cower, hang. _Hurkele_ signifies, literally, to squat,\n      nestle, rest.\n  153 _laled_, spoke (quickly).\n  164 _ful\u021ded_, baptised.\n  166 _harme lache_, take hurt.\n\nP. 42.\n\n  l. 179 _As_, also; _bolnande priyde_, swelling pride.\n  180\n    _\u00deroly in-to \u00fee deuele\u021d \u00ferote man \u00ferynge\u021d bylyue_,\n    Roughly into the devil\u2019s throat man is thrust soon.\n  181 _colwarde_, deceitful, treacherous. I have not been able to meet\n      with the word _colle_ used as noun or verb in any writer of the\n      14th or 15th century. _Col_ occurs, however, as a prefix, in\n      _Col-prophet_ (false prophet), _Col-fox_ (crafty fox), used by\n      Chaucer; _Col-knyfe_ (treacherous knife), which occurs in the\n      \u201cTownley Mysteries.\u201d\n  200 _hatel of his wylle_, anger of his will.\n\nP. 43.\n\n  l. 207 _attled_, endowed.\n  215 _met\u021d_ = _mess_ (?), pity.\n  216 _tynt \u00fee ty\u00fee dool_, lost the tenth part.\n  222 _weued_, cut off. _swap_, blow.\n  230 _\u00fee wrech sa\u021dtled_, appeased the vengeance.\n  231 _wylnesful_, wilfulness.\n  233\n    _For-\u00fey \u00fea\u021d \u00fee rape were rank, \u00fee raw\u00fee wat\u021d lyttel_,\n    Wherefore, though the blow were smart, the sorrow was little.\n  237 _in obedyent_ = _in-obedyent_ (?), disobedient.\n\nP. 44.\n\n  l. 246 _drepe_, destroy (slay).\n  257 _forme-foster_ should be _forme-fostere\u021d_, being in apposition\n      with _auncetere\u021d_.\n  261 For _lede_ read _lede\u021d_ (?).\n  270 _de\u021dter of \u00fee dou\u00fee_, the daughters of the mighty (doughty) ones.\n  271 _on folken wyse_, after the manner of men.\n\nP. 45.\n\n  l. 273 _me\u00feele\u021d_, immoderate, intemperate.\n  274 _alosed_, (? noted).\n  298 _\u00feryuen_, grown up, adult.\n  306 _nwyed_ = annoyed, _i.e._ displeased.\n\nP. 46.\n\n  l. 320 _dutande_, shutting.\n  321 _halke\u021d_, recesses.\n  331 _\u00feis meyny of a\u021dte_, this company (household) of eight.\n  335 _horwed_, unclean.\n\nP. 47.\n\n  l. 350 _with-outen \u00ferep_, without contradiction, gainsaying.\n  354 _a rowtande ryge_, a rattling shower.\n  359 _styste\u021d_ = _stynte\u021d_ stops, ceases.\n  362 _& alle woned in \u00fee whichche_, and all abode in the ark.\n      _Whichche_ is another (and genuine) form of _hutch_.\n  364\n    _Waltes out vch walle-heued, in ful wode streme\u021d_,\n    Bursts out each well-head (spring, fountain) in full wild streams.\n  365 _brymme_, stream.\n  366 _\u00fee mukel lauande loghe_, the great flowing deep.\n  369 _fon_, ceased.\n  373 _moon_, moan, sorrow.\n  374 _dowed_, availed.\n  375 _wylger_, wilder, fiercer.\n  376 _dowelled_ = _dwelled_.\n  377 _feng to \u00fee fly\u021dt_, took to flight.\n  378 _Vuche burde with her barne_, each woman with her child (bairn).\n\nP. 48.\n\n  l. 379 _bowed_, hastened; _brentest_, highest, steepest.\n  380 _heterly_, quickly, (hotly); _haled_, rushed.\n  381 _Bot al wat\u021d nedle\u021d her note_, but their device was altogether\n      in vain.\n  382 _\u00fee ro\u021de raynande ryg_, the rough raining shower; _raykande\n      wawe\u021d_, flowing waves.\n  383 _bo\u00feom_, a _bottom_ or valley.\n  384 _demmed_, collected, accumulated.\n  391 _\u00fee hy\u021de_, the heights, high grounds.\n  392 _bausene\u021d_, badgers.\n  394 _re-coverer_, succour, refuge.\n  395 _\u00deat amounted_, etc., read _\u00deat amounted \u00fee mase_, etc., that\n      the astonishment increased. (Professor Child).\n  397 _Bi \u00feat_, by that time. This phrase is still preserved in the\n      North of England.\n  399\n    _Frende\u021d, fellen in fere, fa\u00femed to-geder_.\n    Friends, fallen in company, _embraced_ (fathomed) together.\n  The verb _fa\u00feme_ in Early English also signifies to _grope_.\n  400 _dry\u021d_, suffer; _delful_, doleful.\n  404 _freten_, devoured; _wa\u021de\u021d_, waves.\n  406 _hurkled_, rested. This word is still preserved in the local\n      dialects of the North of England, with the sense of \u201cto cower,\u201d\n      \u201csquat.\u201d\n  407 _mourkne_, rotten.\n  409 _here_, company.\n  411 _a\u021dt-sum_, in care, sorrowful.\n  413 _hurlande gote\u021d_, rushing streams.\n  414 _kythe\u021d vncou\u00fee_, unknown regions.\n\nP. 49.\n\n  l. 421 _flyt_, current, flitting.\n  424 _lumpen_, the passive participle of _lympen_, to befal, happen.\n  430 _yre\u021d_ is evidently an error for _y\u00fee\u021d_, waves.\n  433 _Rac_, moving clouds, mists. Still in provincial use.\n  436 _meth_, pity, mercy.\n  438 _lasned_, lessened, became smaller.\n  439 _stac vp \u00fee stange\u021d_, closed up the pools. _Stang_ = _stanc_,\n      _stank_, a word still used in the North of England.\n  441 _lo\u021d_ = _logh_, deep.\n  443 _lome_ = _loom_, i.e., the ark.\n  446 _rasse_ = the provincial _raise_, a mound.\n  449 _kyste_ = chest (ark); _wern_ = _were_ (?).\n\nP. 50.\n\n  l. 451 _egge\u021d_, _edges_, banks, hills; _vnhuled_, uncovered.\n  452 _bynne_, within. Cf. _boute_, without.\n  461 _smach_ smack, scent; _smoltes_ (? _smolte_, i.e. smelt).\n  463 _\u021dederly_, quickly, soon; _steuen_, command, literally voice.\n  466 _fode\u021d_, persons; _elle\u021d_, provided that.\n  469 _doune_ = _dovene_, a female dove (see line 481).\n  476 _dre\u021dly_, drearily, sorrowfully.\n  480 _naytly_, dexterously (neatly).\n  482 _borne_ = _burne_, stream.\n  483 _skwe_, sky, cloud; _skowte\u021d_, looks.\n\nP. 51.\n\n  l. 485 _downe_ = _dovene_ (see ll. 469, 481).\n  487 _What!_ lo!\n  490 _sa\u021dtlyng_, reconciliation.\n  496 _woned_ = _waned_, decreased, gone down.\n  498 _tyned_, enclosed.\n  499 _gode\u021d glam_, God\u2019s message (word); _glod_, came, literally\n      glided.\n  501 _walt_ _wafte_ (?) (see B. l. 857).\n  504 _\u00feroly \u00ferublande in \u00feronge_, quickly pressing in throng (crowd),\n      _i.e._, huddling together.\n  509 _bre\u00fee_, steam, savour.\n  511 _spede\u021d & spylle\u021d_, prospers (speeds) and spoils.\n  517 _barnage_, childhood.\n\nP. 52.\n\n  l. 525 _sadde_, sharp, bitter.\n  529 _\u00feen wat\u021d a skylly skyualde_, then was a design (purpose)\n      manifested (ordered).\n  531 _nayte_, use, employ.\n  533 _wry\u00fee\u021d_, crawl, creep.\n  534 _folmarde_, polecat.\n  536 _lake ryftes_, fissures of the lake.\n  537 _Herne\u021d_ = _erne\u021d_, eagles.\n  539 _at a brayde_, in a moment.\n\nP. 53.\n\n  l. 558 _merked_, ordained.\n  561 _ra\u021dt_, extended to, gave.\n  566 _syt_, fault.\n  567 _quyke\u021d_, living (things); _qued_, wickedness.\n  573 _vnhappen glette_, unfortunate filth, unhappy sin.\n  579 _he\u00feyng of seluen_, contempt of [God\u2019s] self.\n  583 _steppe y\u021de_, bright eye; _steppe_ = _stepe_ is often explained\n      by steep, deep set; but we often meet with such phrases as\n      \u201c_stepe_ stones,\u201d bright stones, \u201c_stepe_ starres,\u201d bright stars.\n  586 _losed \u00fee listen_, lost the hearing; _lysten_, in O.E. has\n      frequently the meaning of _to hear_.\n  587 _trave_ = _trawe_, trow, believe.\n  588\n    _\u00feer is no dede so derne \u00feat ditte\u021d his y\u021den_.\n    There is no deed so secret that closes His eyes\n      (_i.e._ that He does not see).\n\nP. 54.\n\n  l. 591 _gropande_, searching, examining.\n  592\n    _Rypande of vche a ring \u00fee reynye\u021d & hert_\n    Trying (probing) the reins and heart of every man.\n  _Rype_ is still used in the North of England in the sense of to\n      plunder. Cf. our modern use of the word _ransack_ with its\n      earlier meanings of to try, probe, search.\n  596 _honyse\u021d_, disgraces, ruins, destroys.\n  598 _scarre\u021d_, literally _scares_, is frightened, startled.\n  599 _to drawe allyt_ = _to draw a lyte_ = to draw back a little.\n  603 _blykked_, shone, glared.\n  605 _schunt_, aside, from _schunt_, to slip away, retreat.\n\nP. 55.\n\n  l. 623 _orppedly_, quickly, hastily.\n  626 _happe_, cover, still in use in the north provincial dialects.\n  627 _som quat fat_, some sort of a vessel; _\u00fee fyr bete_, make up the\n      fire; _bete_ signifies, literally, to mend.\n  632 _deruely_ = _derfely_, quickly.\n  635 _\u00feerue kake\u021d_ = _therfe_ or _tharfe_ cakes, _i.e._, cakes made\n      without leaven.\n  646 _mensk_, thanks.\n  648 _le\u00fee_, cease.\n  652 _\u021dark_, select, chosen.\n  653 _for busmar_, in scorn.\n  655\n    _May \u00feou traw for tykel \u00feat \u00feou tonne mo\u021dte\u021d_,\n    Mayst thou trow (believe) for the uncertainty (of such a thing)\n      that thou mightest conceive;\n  _for tykel_, on account of the uncertainty.\n  654 _sothly_ = truly (? _sotly_, foolishly or _softly_).\n\nP. 56.\n\n  l. 659 _byene_ = _ben_, been or _bycame_. The sense would require\n      _hade_ before _byene_, if _byene_ = _ben_.\n  668\n    _\u00deat for lot \u00feat \u00feay lansed ho la\u021ded neuer_,\n    That for (any) sound that they uttered, she never laughed;\n  _lot_ = late, in the sense of _sound_, is not very common in Old\n      English authors.\n  670 _a-lo\u021d_ = lowly, softly.\n  686 _blod_, child.\n  687 _bos_, behoves.\n  688 _atlyng_, intention, purpose; _vn-haspe_, disclose.\n\nP. 57.\n\n  l. 696 _fylter_, join.\n  698 _amed_, placed; _oddely dere_, singularly dear. _Oddely_ occurs\n      in some northern works with the sense of illustriously, nobly.\n  699 _drwry_, love; _doole al\u00feer-swettest_, the sweetest of all gifts;\n      gift the sweetest of all.\n  703 _conne_ is probably an error for _come_, but it may signify, be\n      kindled, produced, begotten.\n  706 _stollen_, stealthy, secret.\n  711 _smod_ = the Scotch _smot_, _smad_, stain, filth.\n  719 _\u00fee worre half_, the weaker portion, literally, the worse half.\n  723 _laue_, law.\n\nP. 58.\n\n  l. 732 _smolt_, be at peace.\n  740 _for hortyng_, for hurting = for fear of hurting. This sense of\n      _for_ is very common in writers of the 16th and 17th centuries.\n  743 _fryst_, delay, put off.\n  747 _vsle_, ashes, cinders.\n  752 _le\u00fee_, destroy.\n  754 _I schal my \u00fero steke_, I shall moderate (literally, shut up) my\n      anger.\n  756 _reken_, wise.\n\nP. 59.\n\n  l. 764 _mese \u00fey mode_, temper thy wrath.\n  778 _mere_, boundary, _meer_.\n  784 _lened_ = leaned, reclined; but we may read _leued_ = _beleued_,\n      remained.\n\nP. 60.\n\n  l. 796 _vnder-\u021dede_ = _vnder-\u021dete_, understood.\n  801 _knaue\u021d kote_, servant\u2019s house. It looks at first sight like\n      _kuchie\u021d kote_.\n  802 _fatte_ = _vat_, vessel.\n  803 _norne_ = _nurne_, request.\n  810 _gru\u021dt_, gruched = begrudged.\n  813 _cou\u00fee_, knew.\n  814 _haylsed_, saluted.\n  824 _boute_, without.\n  830 _of glam debonere_, of pleasant, courteous conversation.\n  831 _wela-wynnely_, very joyfully.\n\nP. 61.\n\n  l. 832 _wo\u021de_ = _wowe_, wall.\n  835 _wakker_ comp. _wayk_, weak.\n  836 _vmbe-ly\u021de_, surround.\n  838 _scowte-wach_, sentinel; _asscry_, cry, shout, noise.\n  846 _\u021de\u021ded_ = chattered, gaggled; _\u021destande sor\u021de_, afflicting (or\n      frothing) sorrow.\n  848 _brych_ = what is low, vile, filthy (? _bryth_, breath);\n      _vpbrayde\u021d_, raises.\n  849 _glyfte with \u00feat glam_, was frightened at that speech.\n  855 _wonded no wo\u00fee_, avoided no danger (hurt).\n  859 _meled_, spoke.\n  860 _hendelayk_, courtesy, civility.\n\nP. 62.\n\n  l. 871 _tayt_ = lively.\n  874 _a\u021dly_ = _awly_, fearfully.\n  876 _out-comlyng_, a stranger. In this form it is still known in the\n      North of England. _Comlyng_ is the more usual form of the word in\n      our early literature; _carle = churl_.\n  881 _\u021dornen_, ran.\n  882 _wapped_, beat.\n  885 _in blande_ = together (?); _banned_, cursed.\n  888 _nyteled_, laboured, toiled.\n  889 _of tayt_, from fear. _Teyt_, fear, alarm, occurs in the northern\n      romance of Alexander.\n  890 _ro\u00feeled_, hastened.\n  892 _vglokest vnhap_, the most dreadful misfortune.\n  893\n    _Ruddon of \u00fee day-rawe ros vpon v\u021dten_.\n    The light of the day-break rose on the morn.\n  894 _merk_, darkness.\n  895 _ru\u00feen_, rouse.\n  901 _cayre tid of \u00feis kythe_, depart quickly from this land.\n\nP. 63.\n\n  l. 905 _stemme no stepe_, stop (keep back), no step. Cf. our modern\n      phrase \u201c_stem_ the tide.\u201d\n  909 _losen_, destroy.\n  911 _gorde_, rush.\n  912 _clater_, shatter.\n  915 _kynned_, kindled.\n  916 _\u00fee brath of his breth_, the fierceness of his wrath.\n  918 _foo-schip_, enmity.\n  921 _walle_ = _wale_, choose; _wonnyng_, dwelling, abode.\n  927 _vtter_, without.\n  928 _wore_ = _ware_ = were. Cf. _thore_ = _thare_ = there.\n  931 _agayn-tote_, looking back; _tote_ (toot) occurs frequently with\n      the sense of \u201cto peep,\u201d \u201clook,\u201d in Early English.\n\nP. 64.\n\n  l. 944 _Loke \u021de bowe now bi bot_, Look ye go now by (according to)\n      command.\n  947 _greme_, wrath.\n  948 _wakan_, arouse, stir up.\n  950 _flytande_, chiding, murmuring.\n  955 _smachande_, savouring, smelling.\n  964 _riftes_, fissures.\n  965 _cloutes_, pieces.\n  969 _Rydelles_ = _redeless_ = without counsel, helpless; _rowtes_,\n      companies.\n  971\n    _Such a \u021domerly \u021darm of \u021dellyng \u00feer rysed_,\n    Such a mournful (pitiful) outcry of yelling there rose.\n\nP. 65.\n\n  l. 976 _Trynande ay a hy\u021de trot_, going ever (at) a great pace.\n  987 _loue\u021d_, not _loaves_, but = the provincial _looves_ = hands.\n  989 _dampped_ = _dumped_, beaten down.\n  991 _malscrande mere_, accursed lake.\n  992 _on a lawe_, on a hill.\n  1000 _& alle lyste on hir lik_ (i.e. _lick_) _\u00feat arn on launde\n      bestes._\n    \u201cAls so sco loked hir behind,\n    A stan sco standes bi \u00feat way\n    And sua sal do to domesday;\n    In a salt stan men seis hir stand\n    \u00deat best likes o \u00feat land;\n    \u00deat anes o \u00fee wok day,\n    \u00dean is sco liked al away\n    And \u00fean \u00feai find hir on \u00fee morn,\n    Hale als sco was ar beforn.\u201d\n      (Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 17b.)\n  1002 _niye_, anguish.\n\nP. 66.\n\n  l. 1009 _a ro\u00feun of a reche_, a rush of smoke, a mass of vapour;\n      _blake_, the black (pit).\n  1011 _flot_, fat, grease.\n  1016 _drouy_, turbid, from _droue_, to trouble.\n  1024 _coste\u021d of kynde_ = natural properties.\n  1030 _bo\u00feem bro\u00feely_, filthy pit.\n  1031 _losyng_, perdition.\n  1033 _cooste\u021d_ = properties.\n  1035 _alkaran_, Mandeville employs the term _alkatran_;\n      _angr\u00e9_ = poisonous or grievous, or _augre_ = _aigre_, sharp.\n  1036 _saundyuer_ = _sandiver_, glass-gall.\n  1037 _waxlokes_, waves.\n  1038 _spuniande_, cleaving, sticky.\n  1039 _se halues_, sea coasts.\n  1041 _terne_ = _tarne_, lake.\n  1044 _apple garnade_ = pomegranate.\n\nP. 67.\n\n  l. 1072 _kynned_, conceived.\n  1076 _a schepon_ = a stable.\n\nP. 68.\n\n  l. 1079 _reflayr_, smell, odour; _rote_, decay.\n  1082 _\u00fee reken fy\u00feel_, the merry fiddle.\n  1094 _lomerande blynde_, the hesitating (slow, creeping), blind.\n      The primitive meaning of _lomerande_ seems to be that of _slow_,\n      sluggish.\n  1108 _ty\u021dt_, endeavour.\n\nP. 69.\n\n  l. 1113 _fenny_, dirty, filthy, and hence sinful.\n  1118 _to dele_, to exchange.\n  1123 For \u201c_& wax euer_,\u201d etc., the sense seems to require that we\n      should read \u201c_& wax ho euer_,\u201d etc.\n  1124 _in pyese_ = whole.\n  1126 _blyndes of ble_, becomes dull of hue, loses its colour.\n  1127 _No-bot_, only.\n  1141 _lastes_, vices.\n  1142 _\u00feewes_ = _\u00feeues_ (?), thieves, or _un\u00feewes_, vices (?)\n\nP. 70.\n\n  l. 1153 _ty\u021dt me a tom_ = give me an opportunity; _tom_ has the sense\n      of _leisure_ and not of _time_.\n  1167 _fylsened_, helped, aided.\n  1172 _lat_, late, slow.\n  1178 _\u00feorpes_, cities.\n\nP. 71.\n\n  l. 1186 _skete skarmoch_, _skelt_, brisk skirmish, hastened (came on\n      quickly).\n  1190 _brutage_ = _bretage_, parapets of a wall.\n  1202 _blench_, stratagem.\n  1205 _at-wappe_, escape.\n  1206 _skelt_, spread.\n  1208 _ru\u00feed_, roused.\n  1209 _hard hattes_, (?) hats made of tow; _herd_, _hard_ (_harden_,\n      _hards_), in O.\u00a0English signify cloth made of tow.\n\nP. 72.\n\n  l. 1219 _faynest_, gladdest.\n  1224 _dre\u021de \u00feer his wyrdes_, endure there his destiny.\n  1246 _to \u00fee bronde_, to the sword.\n\nP. 73.\n\n  l. 1254 _on capeles_, on horses.\n  1255 _fole wombes_, bellies of foals.\n  1259 _to cayre at \u00fee kart & \u00fee kuy mylke_, to drag at the cart and\n      milk the cows.\n  1265 _plat of_, strike off.\n  1284 _hamppred_ = _hampered_, packed up for removal.\n\nP. 74.\n\n  l. 1290 _hy\u021dtled_, ornamented.\n  1303 _modey_ = _moody_, proud.\n  1313 _sesed_, took possession of.\n\nP. 75.\n\n  l. 1327 _bi-cnv_ = _bicneu_, acknowledged.\n  1330 _heldes_, descends.\n  1332 _grauen_, buried.\n  1334 _stalled in his stud_, placed in his stead (position).\n  1342 _tre_, wood; _telded_, raised.\n  1344 _gered_, covered, decked.\n  1346 _reden_, advise.\n  1354 _notyng_, devising, contriving; _gettes_, devices.\n\nP. 76.\n\n  l. 1358 _avayment_, exhibition.\n  1361 _banne_, proclamation.\n  1362 _callyng_, decree.\n  1366 _vche a kythyn kyng_, every king of countries.\n  1375 _ludisch lordes_, lords of nations.\n  1379 _plek_, spot (plot of ground).\n\nP. 77.\n\n  l. 1396\n    _Stepe stayred_ [_\u00fee_] _stones of his stoute throne_,\n    Bright shone the stones of his firm throne.\n  1397 _hiled_ = covered.\n  1398 _bounet_, went about.\n  1402 _strake steuen_ = struck up sound.\n  1403 _wrasten krakkes_, sounds (notes) are raised.\n  1410 _foles_, fowls, birds. _flakerande_, flickering, fluttering.\n  1412 _on blonkken bak_, on the back of horses. In lines 1407-1412 we\n      have evidently an allusion to the \u201ctable subtilties\u201d of the\n      fourteenth century.\n  1420 _we\u021ded_, served.\n  1425 _dotage_, folly.\n\nP. 78.\n\n  l. 1435 _schin_, shall.\n  1446 _besten blod_, blood of beasts; _busily_, laboriously.\n  1462 _fylyoles_, round towers.\n\nP. 79.\n\n  l. 1472 Penitotes. So in MS., but read _Peritotes_.\n  1478 _cost_, contrivance.\n  1495 _iaueles_ = worthless wretches, used by Hall and Spenser.\n\nP. 80.\n\n  l. 1501 _wlates_, is disgusted.\n  1504 _wayned_, granted.\n  1505 _glotoun_, a general term of reproach.\n  1507 _vus_ = _use_, drink.\n  1510 _kyppe_, take, seize, catch up.\n  1511 _birlen_, pour out.\n  1517 _dotel_, fool.\n  1520 as each one was disposed so tossed he off the cup.\n\nP. 81.\n\n  l. 1537 _neue_, fist.\n  1542 _lers_, features, but (?) _fers_, fears.\n  1543 _as a rad ryth_, as a frightened hound (literally mastiff).\n  1545 _runisch saue\u021d_, strange words.\n  1554 _skelten_, hasten.\n  1557 _\u00feo dra\u021dtes_, the characters.\n  1559 _ede_ = went, but _bede_, bade, commanded.\n  1560 _warla\u021des_, wizards.\n  1566 _malt_, to soothe.\n  1568 _gered_, clothed.\n\nP. 82.\n\n  l. 1585 _he wed wel ner_, he became nearly mad.\n  1603 _in stoundes_, at times.\n\nP. 83.\n\n  l. 1606 _spured_, asked, enquired of.\n  1634 _tede_ = _tene_, ten (?)\n  1637 _apyke_, adorn, clothe.\n\nP. 84.\n\n  l. 1650 _lo\u021ded_, made low.\n  1654 _pouer_, power.\n  1674 _wasterne_, wilderness; _dowelle_, dwelle.\n  1675 _braken_, fern.\n\nP. 85.\n\n  l. 1678 _soly_, seat.\n  1684 _ay_ (?) = hay.\n  1686 _ouer-seyed_, passed over.\n  1690 _wykes_, members.\n  1692 _clyde_, plaister (?).\n  1694 _bresed_, rough, bristly; Sir F. Madden interprets it _broken_.\n  1695 _campe hores_, shaggy hairs.\n  1697 _glede_, kite.\n  1701 _wayned_, recovered.\n  1707 _ha\u021derly_, properly.\n\nP. 86.\n\n  l. 1713 _auyled_, defiled.\n  1716 _wale wyne_, choice wine; _in waryed stoundes_, in accursed\n      moments.\n\nP. 87.\n\n  l. 1755 _da\u021ded_, dawned.\n  1759 _blykned_ = _blaykned_, became dark, blackened.\n  1760 _Mourkenes_, becomes murky.\n  1761 _lyst_, path.\n  1768 _layted_, sought.\n  1773 _ledes of armes_, men of arms.\n  1775 _\u00feester_, darkness.\n\nP. 88.\n\n  l. 1785 _slyppe_, escape.\n  1786 _honde-whyle_, a moment.\n  1788 _blende_, mingled.\n  1792 _now is a dogge also dere_, now is as valuable as a dog.\n  1808 _telled_ = raised (?) _telles_ = raises.\n  1811 _gere_, clothing.\n\n\n\n\n  Errata (noted by transcriber)\n\n  Line 91 text: w{i}t{h} marchal\n  Note to line 91: \u00fee marchal\n    [_Each line printed as shown_]\n\nMinor spelling variations-- such as added or missing final \u201ce\u201d-- between\nthe main text and endnotes were left as printed.\n\n  [Sidenote 9] _fowle_ (?).  [_fowle_ (?),]\n  [65 Sidenote] ... \u201cpull in the plough.\u201d  [plough,\u201d]\n  [263 Sidenote] No law was laid upon them.]  [them,]\n  [320 Sidenote] ... door in the side, together with ...\n    [side. together]\n  [349 Sidenote] ... to destroy all flesh.  [flesh,]\n  [577 Sidenote] [Fol. 65a.]  [Fol. 65.]\n  [614 Sidenote] ... wash their feet, and bring ...  [feet. and]\n  [667] \u00dee{n}ne swenged forth sar\u00e9 & swer by hir traw\u00fee,\n    [swer hy hir _but 1864 edition has \u201cby\u201d_]\n  [721 Sidenote] [Fol. 67a.]  [Fol, 67a]\n  [937 Sidenote] [Fol. 70a.]  [Fol. 70a,]\n  [937 Sidenote] ... \u201cpreach to them the peril\u201d of delay.\n    [\u201cpreach to them the peril\u201d of delay.\u201d]\n  [1674] & in wast{er}ne walk\n    [wast{ur}ne _corrected from Notes and 1864 edition_]\n  [1737 Sidenote] ... divided, and given ...  [divided. and]\n\n  ORPHANED QUOTATION MARKS\n  [211] \u201cI schal telde vp my trone i{n} \u00fee tra mou{n}tayne\n  [682] \u201cHow my\u021dt I hyde myn hert fro habraham \u00fee trwe,\n  [899] \u201cWyth \u00fey wyf & \u00fey wy\u021de\u021d & \u00fey wlone de\u021dtters,\n  [1642] \u201cRyche ky{n}g of \u00feis rengne rede \u00fee oure lorde,\n\n  NOTES\n  365  [364]\n  414 kythe\u021d vncou\u00fee  [kythe\u021d, vncou\u00fee]\n  449 ... _wern_ = _were_ (?).\n    [_second note numbered 448 and printed on previous line_]\n  461 _smach_ smack, scent  [_definition printed in italics_]\n  501 ... (see B. l. 857).  [_Printed as shown, with superfluous \u201cB.\u201d_]\n  654 _sothly_ = truly (? _sotly_, foolishly or _softly_).\n    [_Note is numbered 655 and printed after longer note for 655. The\n    word \u201csothely\u201d also occurs in 657, but the text note (\u201csotly...\u201d)\n    refers to 654._]\n  1358 _avayment_, exhibition.  [_body text has two words \u201ca vayment\u201d_]\n  1696  [1697]\n  1792 _Now is a dogge also dere_  [_body text has two words \u201cal so\u201d_]\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n           *       *       *       *\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPATIENCE.\n\n\n  [Headnotes:\n  PATIENCE IS TO BE COMMENDED.\n  JONAH IS SENT TO NINEVEH.\n  HE SAILS FOR TARSHISH.\n  HE IS OVERTAKEN BY A TEMPEST.\n  JONAH IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH, AND IS CAST OVERBOARD.\n  A WILD WHALE SWALLOWS JONAH.\n  THE WHALE WANDERS ABOUT.\n  JONAH PRAYS FOR HIS DELIVERANCE.\n  THE WHALE VOMITS UP JONAH.\n  THE PROPHET PREACHES AGAINST NINEVEH.\n  GOD\u2019S MERCY DISPLEASES JONAH.\n  JONAH IS SHELTERED BY A WOODBINE.\n  HE LAMENTS ITS DESTRUCTION.\n  GOD JUSTIFIES HIS MERCY AND FORBEARANCE.]\n\n\n[Headnote: PATIENCE IS TO BE COMMENDED.]\n\nI.\n\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 83a.]]\n    [Sidenote: Patience is often displeasing, but it assuages heavy\n    hearts, and quenches malice.]\n  Pacience is a poynt, \u00fea\u021d hit displese ofte,\n  When heuy herttes ben hurt wyth he\u00fey{n}g o\u00fe{er} elles,\n  Suffrau{n}ce may aswage{n}[1] hem & \u00fee swelme le\u00fee,\n  For ho quelles vche a qued, & quenches malyce;                       4\n  For quo-so suffer cow\u00fee syt, sele wolde fol\u021de,\n    [Sidenote: Happiness follows sorrow.]\n  & quo for \u00fero may no\u021dt \u00feole, \u00fee \u00feikker he sufferes;\n    [Sidenote: It is better to suffer than to be angry.]\n  \u00dee{n} is bett{er} to abyde \u00fee bur vmbe-stou{n}des,\n  \u00deen ay \u00ferow forth my \u00fero, \u00fea\u021d me \u00feynk ylle.                          8\n  I herde on a halyday at a hy\u021de masse,\n    [Sidenote: Matthew tells us of the promises made by Christ:\n    Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.]\n  How mathew melede, \u00feat his mayst{er} his meyny con teche,\n  A\u021dt happes he hem hy\u021dt & vche on a mede,\n  Su{n}derlupes for hit dissert vpon a ser wyse:                      12\n  Thay arn happen \u00feat han i{n} hert pouert\u00e9,\n  For hores is \u00fee heuen-ryche to holde for eu{er};\n    [Sidenote: Blessed are the meek, for they shall \u201cwield the\n    world.\u201d]\n  \u00deay ar happen also \u00feat hau{n}te mekenesse,\n  For \u00feay schal welde \u00feis worlde & alle her wylle haue;               16\n    [Sidenote: Blessed are the mourners, for they shall be comforted.]\n  Thay ar happen also \u00feat for her harme wepes,\n  For \u00feay schal comfort encroche i{n} kythes ful mony;\n    [Sidenote: Blessed are the hungry, for they shall be filled.]\n  \u00deay ar happen also \u00feat hungeres aft{er} ry\u021dt,\n  For \u00feay schal frely be refete ful of alle gode;                     20\n    [Sidenote: Blessed are the merciful, for mercy shall be their\n    reward.]\n  Thay ar happen also \u00feat han i{n} hert rau\u00fee,\n  For mercy i{n} alle man{er}es her mede schal wor\u00fee;\n    [Sidenote: Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see\n    the Saviour.]\n  \u00deay ar happen also \u00feat arn of hert clene,\n  For \u00feay her sauyo{ur} in sete schal se w{i}t{h} her y\u021den;           24\n    [Sidenote: Blessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be\n    called God\u2019s sons.]\n  Thay ar happen also \u00feat halden her pese,\n  For \u00feay \u00fee g{ra}cio{us} godes su{n}es schal godly be called;\n    [Sidenote: Blessed are they that live aright, for theirs is the\n    kingdom of heaven.]\n  \u00deay ar happen also \u00feat con her hert stere,\n  For hores is \u00fee heuen-ryche, as I er sayde.                         28\n    [Sidenote: These blessings are promised to those who follow\n    poverty, pity, penance, meekness, mercy, chastity, peace and\n    patience.]\n  These arn \u00fee happes alle a\u021dt \u00feat v{us} bihy\u021dt weren,\n  If we \u00feyse ladyes wolde lof i{n} lykny{n}g of \u00feewes;\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 83b.]]\n  Dame pouert, Dame pitee, Dame penau{n}ce \u00fee \u00ferydde,\n  Dame Mekenesse, Dame mercy & Miry cla{n}nesse,                      32\n  & \u00fee{n}ne Dame pes & pacyence put i{n} \u00fe{er}-aft{er}.\n  He were happen \u00feat hade one, alle were \u00fee bett{er},\n  Bot syn[2] I am put to a poy{n}t \u00feat pou{er}te hatte,\n    [Sidenote: Poverty and patience are to be treated together.]\n  I schal me poruay pacyence, & play me w{i}t{h} bo\u00fee;                36\n  For in \u00fee tyxte, \u00feere \u00feyse two arn i{n} teme layde,\n    [Sidenote: They are \u201cfettled in one form,\u201d and have one meed.]\n  Hit arn fettled in on forme, \u00fee forme & \u00fee laste,\n  & by quest of her quoyntyse enquylen on mede,\n  & als i{n} myn vpynyou{n} hit arn of on kynde;                      40\n    [Sidenote: Poverty will dwell where she lists, and man must\n    needs suffer.]\n  For \u00feer as pouert hir proferes ho nyl be put vtt{er},\n  Bot lenge where-so-eu{er} hir lyst, lyke o\u00fe{er} greme,\n  & \u00feere as pouert enpresses, \u00fea\u021d mon pyne \u00feynk,\n  Much maugre his mun,[3] he mot nede suffer,                         44\n    [Sidenote: Poverty and patience are play-fellows.]\n  Thus pou{er}te & pacyence arn nedes play-feres.\n  Sy\u00feen I am sette w{i}t{h} he{m} samen, suffer me by-houes,\n  \u00dee{n}ne is me ly\u021dtloker hit lyke & her lotes prayse,\n  \u00dee{n}ne wy\u00fe{er} wyth & be wroth & \u00fee wers haue.                     48\n    [Sidenote: What avails impatience, if God send affliction?]\n  \u021cif me be dy\u021dt a destyn\u00e9 due to haue,\n  What dowes me \u00fee dedayn, o\u00fe{er} dispit make?\n  O\u00fe{er} \u021dif my lege lorde lyst on lyue me to bidde,\n  O\u00fe{er} to ryde, o\u00fe{er} to re{n}ne, to rome i{n} his ernde,          52\n  What gray\u00feed me \u00fee grychchy{n}g bot grame more seche?\n  Much \u021dif he me ne made, maugref my chekes,\n    [Sidenote: Patience is best.]\n  & \u00fee{n}ne \u00ferat moste I \u00feole, & vn\u00feonk to mede,\n  \u00dee[t] had bowed to his bode, bongre my hyure.                       56\n    [Sidenote: Did not Jonah incur danger by his folly?]\n  Did not Ionas i{n} Iude suche Iape su{m}-whyle,\n  To sette hy{m} to sewrte, vnsou{n}de he hy{m} feches?\n  Wyl \u021de tary a lyttel tyme[4] & tent me a whyle,\n  I schal wysse yow \u00feer-wyth as holy wryt telles.                     60\n\n    [Sidenote 1: MS. _aswagend_.]\n    [Sidenote 2: MS. _fyn_.]\n    [Sidenote 3: _mon_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 4: MS. _tyne_.]\n\n\n[Headnote: JONAH IS SENT TO NINEVEH.]\n\nII.\n\n    [Sidenote: Jonah was a prophet of the gentiles.]\n  Hit bi-tydde su{m}-tyme i{n} \u00fee termes of Iude,\n  Ionas ioyned wat\u021d \u00fe{er}-i{n}ne ientyle p{ro}phete;\n    [Sidenote: God\u2019s word came to him, saying, \u201cRise quickly, take\n    the way to Nineveh.]\n  Goddes glam to hy{m} glod, \u00feat hy{m} vnglad made,\n  W{i}t{h} a roghlych rurd rowned i{n} his ere;                       64\n  \u201cRys radly,\u201d he says, \u201c& rayke forth euen,\n  Nym \u00fee way to nynyue, wyth-outen o\u00fe{er} speche,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 84a.]]\n  & in \u00feat cete my sa\u021des sogh{e} alle aboute,\n    [Sidenote: Say that which I shall put in thine heart.]\n  \u00deat, i{n} \u00feat place at \u00fee poy{n}t, I put i{n} \u00fei hert;              68\n  For Iwysse hit arn so wykke \u00feat i{n} \u00feat won dowelle\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: Wickedness dwells in that city.]\n  & her malys is so much I may not abide,\n  Bot venge me on her vilanye & venym bilyue;\n    [Sidenote: Go swiftly and carry my message.\u201d]\n  Now swe\u021de me \u00feider swyftly & say me \u00feis arende.\u201d                    72\n  When \u00feat steuen wat\u021d stynt, \u00feat stowned his my{n}de,\n    [Sidenote: Jonah is full of wrath.]\n  Al he wrathed i{n} his wyt & wy\u00fe{er}ly he \u00feo\u021dt,\n  If I bowe to his bode & bry{n}g he{m} \u00feis tale,\n    [Sidenote: He is afraid that the shrews will put him in the\n    stocks, or put out his eyes.]\n  & I be Nu{m}men in Nuniue, my nyes begy{n}es;                       76\n  He telles me \u00feose trayto{ur}es arn typped schrewes,\n  I com wyth \u00feose ty\u00fey{n}ges, \u00feay ta me bylyue,\n  Pyne\u021d me i{n} a prysou{n}, put me i{n} stokkes,\n  Wry\u00fee me i{n} a warlok, wrast out myn y\u021den.                         80\n  \u00deis is a m{er}uayl message a man for to preche,\n  Amonge enmyes so mony & mansed fendes;\n    [Sidenote: He thinks that God desires his death.]\n  Bot if my gaynlych god such gref to me wolde,\n  For[5] desert of su{m} sake \u00feat I slayn were,                       84\n\n[Headnote: HE SAILS FOR TARSHISH.]\n\n    [Sidenote: He determines not to go near the city, but fly to\n    Tarshish.]\n  At alle peryles, q{uod} \u00fee p{ro}phete, I aproche hit no nerre,\n  I wyl me su{m} o\u00fe{er} waye, \u00feat he ne wayte aft{er};\n  I schal tee i{n}-to tarce, & tary \u00feere a whyle,\n  & ly\u021dtly, when I am lest, he letes me alone.                        88\n    [Sidenote: Grumbling, he goes to port Joppa.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne he ryses radly, & raykes bilyue\n  Ionas toward port Iaph, ay Ianglande for tene,\n  \u00deat he nolde \u00feole, for no-\u00fey{n}g, non of \u00feose pynes,\n    [Sidenote: He says that God will not be able to protect him.]\n  \u00dea\u021d \u00fee fader \u00feat hy{m} formed were fale of his hele.                92\n  \u201cOure syre syttes,\u201d he says, \u201con sege so hy\u021de\n  I{n} his g[l]wande glorye, & glou{m}bes ful lyttel,\n  \u00dea\u021d I be nu{m}men i{n} nuniue & naked dispoyled,\n  On rode rwly to-rent, w{i}t{h} rybaudes mony.\u201d                      96\n    [Sidenote: Jonah reaches the port, finds a ship ready to sail.]\n  \u00de{us} he passes to \u00feat port, his passage to seche,\n  Fyndes he a fayr schyp to \u00fee fare redy;\n  Maches hy{m} w{i}t{h} \u00fee maryneres, makes her paye,\n  For to towe hy{m} i{n}-to tarce, as tyd as \u00feay my\u021dt.               100\n    [Sidenote: The seamen catch up the cross-sail, fasten the cables,\n    weigh their anchors, and spread sail.]\n  Then he tron on \u00feo tres & \u00feay her tra{m}me ruchen,\n  Cachen vp \u00fee crossayl, cables \u00feay fasten,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 84b.]]\n  Wi\u021dt at \u00fee wyndlas we\u021den her ankres,\n  Sprude spak to \u00fee sprete \u00fee spare bawe-lyne,                       104\n  Gederen to \u00fee gyde ropes, \u00fee grete clo\u00fe falles;\n  \u00deay layden i{n} on ladde-borde & \u00fee lofe wy{n}nes.\n    [Sidenote: A gentle wind wafts the ship along.]\n  \u00dee bly\u00fee bre\u00fee at her bak \u00fee bosum he fyndes,\n  He swenges me \u00feys swete schip swefte fro \u00fee hauen.                 108\n    [Sidenote: Was never a Jew so joyful as was Jonah then.]\n  Wat\u021d neu{er} so Ioyful a Iue, as Ionas wat\u021d \u00fee{n}ne,\n  \u00deat \u00fee daunger of dry\u021dtyn so derfly ascaped;\n  He wende wel \u00feat \u00feat wy\u021d \u00fe{a}t al \u00fee world planted,\n  Hade no ma\u021dt i{n} \u00feat mere no man forto greue.                     112\n    [Sidenote: He has, however, put himself in peril, in fleeing\n    from God.]\n  Lo! \u00fee wytles wrechche, for he wolde no\u021dt suffer,\n  Now hat\u021d he put hy{m} i{n} plyt of p{er}il wel more;\n  Hit wat\u021d a weny{n}g vn-war \u00feat welt i{n} his mynde,\n  \u00dea\u021d he were so\u021dt fro samarye \u00feat god se\u021d no fyrre,                 116\n  \u021cise he blusched ful brode, \u00feat burde hy{m} by sure,\n    [Sidenote: The words of David.]\n  \u00deat ofte kyd hy{m} \u00fee carpe \u00feat ky{n}g sayde,\n  Dy{n}gne dauid on des, \u00feat demed \u00feis speche,\n  I{n} a psalme \u00feat he set \u00fee saut{er} w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne;              120\n  O Fole\u021d i{n} folk fele\u021d o\u00fe{er} whyle,\n    [Sidenote: Does He not hear, who made all ears?]\n  & vnderstondes vmbe-stou{n}de, \u00fea\u021d he be stape fole,\n  Hope \u021de \u00feat he heres not \u00feat eres alle made?\n    [Sidenote: He is not blind that formed each eye.]\n  Hit may not be \u00feat he is blynde \u00fe{a}t bigged vche y\u021de.             124\n    [Sidenote: Jonah is now in no dread.]\n  Bot he dredes no dynt \u00feat dotes for elde,\n  For he wat\u021d fer i{n} \u00fee flod fou{n}dande to tarce;\n    [Sidenote: He is, however, soon overtaken.]\n  Bot, I trow, ful tyd, ou{er}-tan \u00feat he were,\n  So \u00feat schomely to schort he schote of his ame.                    128\n    [Sidenote: The wielder of all things has devices at will.]\n  For \u00fee welder of wyt, \u00feat wot alle \u00fey{n}ges,\n  \u00deat ay wakes & waytes, at wylle hat\u021d he sly\u021dtes;\n  He calde on \u00feat ilk crafte he carf w{i}t{h} his hondes,\n  \u00deay wakened wel \u00fee wro\u00feeloker, for wro\u00feely he cleped:              132\n\n[Headnote: HE IS OVERTAKEN BY A TEMPEST.]\n\n    [Sidenote: He commands Eurus and Aquilo to blow.]\n  \u201cEwr{us} & aq{u}ilou{n}, \u00feat on est sittes,\n  Blowes bo\u00fee at my bode vpon blo watt{er}es.\u201d\n    [Sidenote: The winds blow obedient to His word.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne wat\u021d no tom \u00feer bytwene his tale & her dede,\n  So bayn wer \u00feay bo\u00fee two, his bone for to wyrk.                    136\n    [Sidenote: Out of the north-east the noise begins.]\n  An-on out of \u00fee nor\u00fe est \u00fee noys bigynes,\n  When bo\u00fee bre\u00fees con blowe vpon blo watteres;\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 85a.]]\n  Ro\u021d rakkes \u00feer ros w{i}t{h} rudny{n}g an-vnder,\n    [Sidenote: Storms arose, winds wrestled together, the waves\n    rolled high, and never rested.]\n  \u00dee see sou\u021ded ful sore, gret selly to here;                        140\n  \u00dee wyndes on \u00fee wo{n}ne wat{er} so wrastel to-geder,\n  \u00deat \u00fee wawes ful wode walt{er}ed so hi\u021de,\n  & efte busched to \u00fee abyme \u00feat breed fysches;\n  Durst nowhere for ro\u021d arest at \u00fee bothem.                          144\n  When \u00fee breth & \u00fee brok & \u00fee bote metten,\n    [Sidenote: Then was Jonah joyless.]\n  Hit wat\u021d a ioyles gyn \u00feat Ionas wat\u021d i{n}ne,\n    [Sidenote: The boat reeled around.]\n  For hit reled on rou{n}[d] vpon \u00fee ro\u021de y\u00fees.\n    [Sidenote: The gear became out of order.]\n  \u00dee bur ber to hit baft \u00feat braste alle her gere,                   148\n  \u00deen hurled on a hepe \u00fee helme & \u00fee sterne,\n    [Sidenote: Ropes and mast were broken.]\n  Furst to murte mony rop & \u00fee mast aft{er}.\n  \u00dee sayl sweyed on \u00fee see, \u00fee{n}ne suppe bihoued\n    [Sidenote: A loud cry is raised, Many a lad labours to lighten\n    the ship.]\n  \u00dee coge of \u00fee colde[6] wat{er}, & \u00fee{n}ne \u00fee cry ryses;            152\n  \u021cet coruen \u00feay \u00fee cordes & kest al \u00fe{er}-oute.\n  Mony ladde \u00feer forth-lep to laue & to kest,\n  Scopen out \u00fee sca\u00feel wat{er}, \u00feat fayn scape wolde;\n  For be mo{n}nes lode[7] neu{er} so lu\u00fe{er}, \u00fee lyf is ay swete.    156\n    [Sidenote: They throw overboard their bags and feather beds.]\n  \u00deer wat\u021d busy ou{er}-borde bal{e} to kest\n  Her bagges, & her fe\u00fe{er} beddes, & her bry\u021dt wedes,\n  Her kysttes, & her coferes, her caraldes alle,\n  & al to ly\u021dten \u00feat lome, \u021dif le\u00fee wolde schape;                    160\n    [Sidenote: But still the wind rages, and the waves become wilder.]\n  Bot eu{er} wat\u021d ilyche loud \u00fee lot of \u00fee wy{n}des,\n  & eu{er} wro\u00fe{er} \u00fee wat{er}, & wodder \u00fee stremes.\n  \u00dee{n} \u00feo wery for-wro\u021dt wyst no bote,\n    [Sidenote: Each man calls upon his god.]\n  Bot vchon glewed on his god \u00feat gayned hy{m} beste;                164\n    [Sidenote: Some called upon Vernagu, Diana, and Neptune, to the\n    sun and to the moon.]\n  Summe to vernagu \u00fe{er} vouched a-vowes solemne,\n  Summe to diana deuout, & derf nepturne,\n  To mahou{n} & to mergot, \u00fee mone & \u00fee su{n}ne,\n  & vche lede as he loued & layde had his hert.                      168\n    [Sidenote: Then said one of the sailors: \u201cSome lawless wretch,\n    that has grieved his God, is in the ship.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne bispeke \u00fee spakest dispayred wel nere:\n  I leue here be su{m} losynger, su{m} lawles wrech,\n  \u00deat hat\u021d greued his god & got\u021d here amonge v{us};\n  Lo al synkes i{n} his sy{n}ne & for his sake marres!               172\n    [Sidenote: I advise that we lay lots upon each man.]\n  I lovne \u00feat we lay lotes on ledes vchone,\n  & who-so ly{m}pes \u00fee losse, lay hy{m} \u00fe{er}-oute;\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 85b.]]\n    [Sidenote: When the guilty is gone the tempest may cease.\u201d]\n  & quen \u00fee gulty is gon what may gome trawe,\n  Bot he \u00feat rules \u00fee rak may rwe on \u00feose o\u00fe{er}?                    176\n    [Sidenote: This is agreed to.]\n  \u00deis wat\u021d sette i{n} asent, & sembled \u00feay were,\n    [Sidenote: All are assembled, from all corners of the ship, save\n    Jonah the Jew, who had fled into the bottom of the boat.]\n  Her\u021ded out of vche hyrne to hent \u00feat falles.\n  A lodes-mon ly\u021dtly lep vnder hachches,\n  For to layte mo ledes & hem to lote bry{n}g,                       180\n  Bot hy{m} fayled no freke \u00feat he fynde my\u021dt,\n  Saf Ionas \u00fee Iwe \u00feat Iowked i{n} derne.\n  He wat\u021d flowen for ferde of \u00fee flode lotes\n  I{n}-to \u00fee bo\u00feem of \u00fee bot, & on a brede lyggede,                  184\n  On helde by \u00fee hurrok, for \u00fee heuen wrache,\n    [Sidenote: There he falls asleep.]\n  Slypped vpon a slou{m}be, selepe, & sloberande he routes.\n    [Sidenote: Soon he is aroused, and brought on board.]\n  \u00dee freke hy{m} fru{n}t w{i}t{h} his fot & bede hy{m} ferk vp,\n  \u00deer ragnel i{n} his rakentes hy{m} rere of his dremes;             188\n  Bi \u00fee haspede he hentes hy{m} \u00fee{n}ne,\n  & bro\u021dt hy{m} vp by \u00fee brest & vpon borde sette,\n    [Sidenote: Full roughly is he questioned.]\n  Arayned hy{m} ful runyschly what raysou{n} he hade\n  I{n} such sla\u021dtes of sor\u021de to slepe so faste;                      192\n  Sone haf \u00feay her sortes sette & serelych deled,\n\n[Headnote: JONAH IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH, AND IS CAST OVERBOARD.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The lot falls upon Jonah.]\n  & ay \u00fee[8] lote, vpon laste, lymped on Ionas.\n    [Sidenote: Then quickly they said: \u201cWhat the devil hast thou\n    done, doted wretch?]\n  \u00dee{n}ne ascryed \u00feay hy{m} sckete, & asked ful loude,\n  \u201cWhat \u00fee deuel hat\u021d \u00fe{o}u don, doted wrech?                        196\n    [Sidenote: What seekest thou on the sea?]\n  What seches \u00fe{o}u on see, sy{n}ful schrewe,\n  W{i}t{h} \u00fey lastes so lu\u00fe{er} to lose v{us} vchone?\n    [Sidenote: Hast thou no God to call upon?]\n  Hat\u021d \u00fe{o}u, gome, no gou{er}no{ur} ne god on to calle,\n  \u00deat \u00fe{o}u \u00fe{us} slydes on slepe when \u00fe{o}u slayn wor\u00fees?           200\n    [Sidenote: Of what land art thou?]\n  Of what londe art \u00fe{o}u lent, what laytes \u00fe{o}u here\n  Whyder i{n} worlde \u00feat \u00fe{o}u wylt, & what is \u00feyn arnde?\n    [Sidenote: Thou art doomed for thy ill deeds.\u201d]\n  Lo \u00fey dom is \u00fee dy\u021dt, for \u00fey dedes ille!\n  Do gyf glory to \u00fey godde, er \u00fe{o}u glyde hens.\u201d                    204\n    [Sidenote: Jonah says: \u201cI am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the\n    world\u2019s Creator.]\n  \u201cI am an Ebru,\u201d q{uod} he, \u201cof Israyl borne;\n  \u00deat wy\u021de I worchyp, Iwysse, \u00feat wro\u021dt alle \u00fey{n}ges,\n  Alle \u00fee worlde w{i}t{h} \u00fee welkyn, \u00fee wynde & \u00fee sternes,\n  & alle \u00feat wone\u021d \u00feer w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne, at a worde one.              208\n    [Sidenote: All this mischief is caused by me, therefore cast me\n    overboard.\u201d]\n  Alle \u00feis meschef for me is made at \u00feys tyme,\n  For I haf greued my god & gulty am fou{n}den;\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 86a.]]\n  For-\u00fey bere\u021d me to \u00fee borde, & ba\u00fee\u00fees[9] me \u00fe{er}-oute,\n  Er gete \u021de no happe, I hope forso\u00fee.\u201d                              212\n  He ossed hy{m}[10] by vnny{n}ges \u00feat \u00feay vnder-nomen,\n    [Sidenote: He proves to them that he was guilty.]\n  \u00deat he wat\u021d flawen fro \u00fee face of frelych dry\u021dtyn;\n    [Sidenote: The mariners are exceedingly frightened.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne such a ferde on hem fel & flayed he{m} w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne,\n  \u00deat \u00feay ruyt hy{m} to rowwe & letten \u00fee ry{n}k one.                216\n    [Sidenote: They try to make way with their oars, but their\n    endeavours are useless.]\n  Ha\u00feeles hy\u021ded i{n} haste w{i}t{h} ores ful longe,\n  Sy{n} her sayl wat\u021d hem aslypped on syde\u021d to rowe;\n  Hef & hale vpon hy\u021dt to helpen hym seluen,\n  Bot al wat\u021d nedles note, \u00feat nolde not bityde:                     220\n  In bluber of \u00fee blo flod bursten her ores,\n    [Sidenote: Jonah must be doomed to death.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne hade \u00feay no\u021dt i{n} her honde \u00feat hem help my\u021dt;\n  \u00dee{n}ne nas no cou{m}fort to keu{er}, ne cou{n}sel non o\u00feer,\n  Bot ionas i{n}-to his Iuis Iugge bylyue.                           224\n    [Sidenote: They pray to God, that they may not shed innocent\n    blood.]\n  Fyrst \u00feay prayen to \u00fee prynce \u00fe{a}t p{ro}phetes seruen,\n  \u00deat he gef hem \u00fee g{ra}ce to greuen hy{m} neu{er},\n  \u00deat \u00feay i{n} balele\u021d blod \u00feer blenden her hande\u021d,\n  \u00dea\u021d \u00feat ha\u00feel wer his, \u00fe{a}t \u00feay here quelled.                     228\n    [Sidenote: Jonah is cast overboard.]\n  Tyd by top & bi to \u00feay token hy{m} sy{n}ne,\n  I{n}-to \u00feat lodlych lo\u021de \u00feay luche hy{m} sone;\n    [Sidenote: The tempest ceases and the sea settles.]\n  He wat\u021d no tytter out-tulde[11] \u00feat tempest ne sessed,\n  \u00dee se sa\u021dtled \u00fe{er}-w{i}t{h}, as sone as ho mo\u021dt.                  232\n  \u00dee{n}ne \u00fea\u021d her takel were torne, \u00fe{a}t tot{er}ed on y\u00fee\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: The stiff streams drive the ship about.]\n  Styffe stremes & stre\u021dt hem strayned a whyle,\n  \u00deat drof hem dry\u021dlych adou{n} \u00fee depe to serue,[12]\n    [Sidenote: At last they reach a bank.]\n  Tyl a swetter ful swy\u00fee he{m} swe\u021ded to bonk.                      236\n    [Sidenote: The seamen thank God, and perform solemn vows.]\n  \u00deer wat\u021d louy{n}g on lofte, when \u00feay \u00fee londe wo{n}nen,\n  To oure mercyable god, on moyses wyse,\n  W{i}t{h} sacrafyse vp-set, & solempne vowes,\n  & grau{n}ted hy{m} vn-to be god & graythly non o\u00fe{er};             240\n    [Sidenote: Jonah is in great dread.]\n  \u00dea\u021d \u00feay be Iolef for Ioye, Ionas \u021det dredes,\n  \u00dea\u021d he nolde suffer no sore, his seele is on ant{er};\n  For what-so wor\u00feed of \u00feat wy\u021de, fro he i{n} wat{er} dipped,\n  Hit were a wonder to wene, \u021dif holy wryt nere.                     244\n\n    [Sidenote 5: MS. _fof_.]\n    [Sidenote 6: MS. _clolde_.]\n    [Sidenote 7: _lote_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 8: MS. _\u00fee \u00fee_.]\n    [Sidenote 9: _ba\u00fees_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 10: _hem_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 11: _out-tulte_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 12: _sterue_ (?).]\n\n\n[Headnote: A WILD WHALE SWALLOWS JONAH.]\n\nIII.\n\n    [Sidenote: Jonah is shoved from the ship.]\n  Now is ionas \u00fee Iwe Iugged to[13] drowne;\n  Of \u00feat schended schyp men schowued hy{m} sone.\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 86b.]]\n    [Sidenote: A wild whale swims by the boat.]\n  A wylde walt{er}ande whal, as wyrde \u00fee{n} schaped,\n  \u00deat wat\u021d beten fro \u00fee abyme, bi \u00feat bot flotte,                    248\n  & wat\u021d war of \u00feat wy\u021de \u00feat \u00fee wat{er} so\u021dte,\n    [Sidenote: He opens his swallow, and seizes the prophet.]\n  & swyftely swenged hy{m} to swepe & his swol\u021d opened;\n  \u00dee folk \u021det haldande his fete \u00fee fysch hy{m} tyd hentes,\n  W{i}t{h}-outen towche of any tothe he tult i{n} his \u00ferote.         252\n  The{n}ne he swenge\u021d & swayues[14] to \u00fee se bo\u00feem,\n  Bi mony rokke\u021d ful ro\u021de & rydelande strondes,\n  Wyth \u00fee mo{n} i{n} his mawe, malskred i{n} drede.\n    [Sidenote: It is not to be wondered at that Jonah suffered woe.]\n  As lyttel wonder hit wat\u021d \u021dif he wo dre\u021ded,                        256\n  For nade \u00fee hy\u021de heuen ky{n}g, \u00feur\u021d his honde my\u021dt,\n  Warded \u00feis wrech man i{n} warlowes gutte\u021d,\n  What lede mo\u021dt lyue bi lawe of any kynde,\n  \u00deat any lyf my\u021dt be lent so longe hy{m} w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne?           260\n  Bot he wat\u021d sokored by \u00feat syre \u00feat syttes so hi\u021de,\n    [Sidenote: The prophet is without hope.]\n  \u00dea\u021d were waule\u021d[15] of wele, i{n} wombe of \u00feat fissche,\n  & also dryuen \u00feur\u021d \u00fee depe, & in derk walt{er}e\u021d.\n    [Sidenote: Cold was his comfort.]\n  Lorde! colde wat\u021d his cu{m}fort & his care huge,                   264\n  For he knew vche a cace & kark \u00feat hy{m} lymped;\n  How fro \u00fee bot i{n}-to \u00fee blober wat\u021d w{i}t{h} a best lachched,\n  & \u00ferwe[16] i{n} at hit \u00ferote, w{i}t{h}-outen \u00feret more,\n    [Sidenote: Jonah was only a mote in the whale\u2019s jaws.]\n  As mote i{n} at a mu{n}ster dor, so mukel wern his chawle\u021d,        268\n    [Sidenote: He entered in by the gills, and by means of one of\n    the intestines of the fish, came into a space as large as a\n    hall.]\n  He glydes i{n} by \u00fee giles, \u00feur\u021d glaymande glette,\n  Relande i{n} by a rop, a rode \u00feat hy{m} \u00feo\u021dt,\n  Ay hele ou{er} hed, ho{ur}lande aboute,\n  Til he blu{n}t i{n} a blok as brod as a halle;                     272\n    [Sidenote: The prophet fixes his feet firmly in the belly of the\n    whale.]\n  & \u00feer he festnes \u00fee fete & fathme\u021d aboute,\n  & stod vp i{n} his stomak, \u00feat stank as \u00fee deuel;\n  \u00de{er} in saym & i{n} sor\u021de \u00feat sauo{ur}ed as helle,\n  \u00de{er} wat\u021d bylded his bour, \u00feat wyl no bale suffer;                276\n  & \u00fee{n}ne he lurkkes & laytes where wat\u021d le best,\n    [Sidenote: He searches into every nook of its navel.]\n  In vche a nok of his nauel, bot nowhere he fynde\u021d\n  No rest ne recou{er}er, bot ramelande myre,\n  In wych gut so eu{er} he got\u021d; bot eu{er} is god swete;            280\n    [Sidenote: The prophet calls upon God.]\n  & \u00feer he lenged at \u00fee last & to \u00fee lede called.\n  \u201cNow prynce, of \u00fey p{ro}phete pit\u00e9 \u00fe{o}u haue!\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 87a.]]\n  \u00dea\u021d I be fol, & fykel, & falce of my hert,\n    [Sidenote: He cries for mercy.]\n  De-woyde now \u00fey vengau{n}ce, \u00feur\u021d v{er}tu of rauthe;               284\n  Tha\u021d I be gulty of gyle as gaule of p{ro}phet{es},\n  \u00de{o}u art god, & alle gowde\u021d ar gray\u00feely \u00feyn owen;\n  Haf now m{er}cy of \u00fey man & his mys-dedes,\n  & preue \u00fee ly\u021dtly a lorde, i{n} londe & i{n} wat{er}.\u201d             288\n    [Sidenote: He sits safely in a recess, in a bowel of the beast,\n    for three days and three nights.]\n  With \u00feat he hitte to a hyrne & helde hy{m} \u00fe{er}-i{n}ne,\n  \u00de{er} no de-foule of no fyl\u00fee wat\u021d fest hy{m} abute;\n  \u00deer he sete also sou{n}de, saf for merk one,\n  As i{n} \u00fee bulk of \u00fee bote, \u00feer he by-fore sleped.                 292\n  So in a bouel of \u00feat best he bide\u021d on lyue,\n  \u00dere dayes & \u00fe[r]e ny\u021dt ay \u00feenkande on dry\u021dtyn,\n  His my\u021dt & his m{er}ci, his mesure \u00fee{n}ne;\n  Now he knawe\u021d hy{m} i{n} care \u00feat cou\u00fee not i{n} sele.             296\n\n[Headnote: THE WHALE WANDERS ABOUT.]\n\n    [Sidenote: The whale passes through many a rough region.]\n  Ande eu{er} walt{er}es \u00feis whal bi wyldren depe,\n  \u00deur\u021d mony a regiou{n} ful ro\u021de, \u00feur\u021d ronk of his wylle,\n    [Sidenote: Jonah makes the whale feel sick.]\n  For \u00feat mote i{n} his mawe mad hy{m}, I trowe,\n  \u00dea\u021d hit lyttel were, hy{m} wyth to wamel at his hert,              300\n  Ande assayled \u00fee segge; ay sykerly he herde\n  \u00dee bygge borne on his bak & bete on his sydes;\n    [Sidenote: The prophet prays to God in this wise:]\n  \u00deen a prayer ful prest \u00fee p{ro}phete \u00fe{er} maked\n  On \u00feis wyse, as I wene, his worde\u021d were mony:                      304\n\n    [Sidenote 13: MS. to to.]\n    [Sidenote 14: _swaynes_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 15: _wanle\u021d_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 16: _\u00ferwen_ (?).]\n\n\n[Headnote: JONAH PRAYS FOR HIS DELIVERANCE.]\n\nIV.\n\n    [Sidenote: \u201cLord! to thee have I cried out of hell\u2019s womb.]\n  \u201cLorde to \u00fee haf I cleped, i{n} care\u021d ful stronge,\n  Out of \u00fee hole \u00fe{o}u me herde, of hellen wombe\n  I calde, & \u00fe{o}u knew myn vncler steuen;\n    [Sidenote: Thou dippedst me in the sea.]\n  \u00de{o}u dipte\u021d me of \u00fee depe se, i{n}-to \u00fee dy{m}me hert,            308\n    [Sidenote: Thy great floods passed over me.]\n  \u00dee grete flem of \u00fey flod folded me vmbe;\n  Alle \u00fee gote\u021d of \u00fey guferes, & grou{n}dele\u021d powle\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: The streams drive over me.]\n  & \u00fey stryuande streme\u021d of strynde\u021d so mony,\n  I{n} on daschande dam, dryue\u021d me ou{er};                           312\n    [Sidenote: I am cast out from thy sight.]\n  & \u021det I say, as I seet i{n} \u00fee se bo\u00feem,\n  \u2018Care-ful am I kest out fro \u00fey cler y\u021den\n  & deseu{er}ed fro \u00fey sy\u021dt; \u021det surely I hope,\n  Efte to trede on \u00fey temple & teme to \u00fey seluen.\u2019                   316\n  I am wrapped i{n} wat{er} to my wo stou{n}de\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: The abyss binds me.]\n  \u00dee abyme byndes \u00fee body \u00feat I byde i{n}ne;\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 87b.]]\n    [Sidenote: The rushing waves play on my head.]\n  \u00dee pure poplande ho{ur}le playes on my heued,\n  To laste mere of vche a mou{n}t man am I fallen;                   320\n  \u00dee barre\u021d of vche a bonk ful bigly me haldes,\n    [Sidenote: Thou possessest my life.]\n  \u00deat I may lachche no lont[17] & \u00fe{o}u my lyf weldes;\n  \u00de{o}u schal releue me renk, whil \u00fey ry\u021dt slepe\u021d,\n  \u00deur\u021d my\u021dt of \u00fey m{er}cy \u00fe{a}t mukel is to tryste.                  324\n    [Sidenote: In my anguish I remembered my God, and besought His\n    pity.]\n  For when \u00feacces of anguych wat\u021d hid i{n} my sawle,\n  \u00dee{n}ne I remembred me ry\u021dt of my rych lorde,\n  Prayande hi{m} for pet\u00e9 his prophete to here,\n  \u00deat in-to his holy ho{us} myn orisou{n} mo\u021dt entre.                328\n  I haf meled w{i}t{h} \u00fey maystres mony longe day,\n  Bot now I wot wyt{er}ly, \u00feat \u00feose vnwyse ledes\n  \u00deat affyen hy{m}[18] i{n} vanyt\u00e9 & i{n} vayne \u00fey{n}ges,\n  For \u00fei{n}k[19] \u00feat mou{n}tes to no\u021dt, her mercy forsaken;          332\n    [Sidenote: When I am delivered from this danger, I will obey thy\n    commands.\u201d]\n  Bot I dewoutly awowe \u00feat v{er}ray bet\u021d halden,\n  Soberly to do \u00fee sacrafyse when I schal saue wor\u00fee,\n  & offer \u00fee for my hele a ful hol gyfte,\n  & halde goud \u00feat \u00fe{o}u me hetes; haf here my trauthe.\u201d             336\n\n[Headnote: THE WHALE VOMITS UP JONAH.]\n\n    [Sidenote: God speaks fiercely to the whale, and he vomits out\n    the prophet on a dry space.]\n  The{n}ne oure fader to \u00fee fysch ferslych bidde\u021d,\n  \u00deat he hy{m} sput spakly vpon spare drye;\n  \u00dee whal wende\u021d at his wylle & a war\u00fee fynde\u021d,\n  & \u00fe{er} he brake\u021d vp \u00fee buyrne, as bede hy{m} oure lorde.          340\n    [Sidenote: Jonah has need to wash his clothes.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne he swepe to \u00fee sonde i{n} sluchched clo\u00fees,\n  Hit may wel be \u00feat mest{er} were his mantyle to wasche;\n  \u00dee bonk \u00feat he blosched to & bode hy{m} bisyde,\n  Wern of \u00fee regiou{n}es ry\u021dt \u00feat he renayed hade;                   344\n    [Sidenote: God\u2019s word comes to the prophet.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne a wynde of godde\u021d worde efte \u00fee wy\u021de bruxle\u021d,\n  \u201cNylt \u00fe{o}u neu{er} to nuniue bi no-ky{n}ne\u021d waye\u021d?\u201d\n  \u201c\u021cisse lorde,\u201d q{uod} \u00fee lede, \u201clene me \u00fey g{ra}ce\n    [Sidenote: He is told to preach in Nineveh.]\n  For to go at \u00fei gre, me gayne\u021d non[20] o\u00fe{er}.\u201d                    348\n  \u201cRis, aproche \u00fee{n} to prech, lo \u00fee place here!\n  Lo! my lore is i{n} \u00fee loke,[21] lance hit \u00feer-{in}ne.\u201d\n  \u00dee{n}ne \u00fee renk radly ros as he my\u021dt,\n    [Sidenote: By night Jonah reaches the city.]\n  & to niniue \u00feat na\u021dt he ne\u021ded ful euen;                            352\n    [Sidenote: Nineveh was a very great city.]\n  Hit wat\u021d a cet\u00e9 ful syde & selly of brede,\n  On to \u00ferenge \u00fe{er}-\u00feur\u021de wat\u021d \u00fere dayes dede.\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 88a.]]\n  \u00deat on Io{ur}nay ful Ioynt Ionas hy{m} \u021dede,\n  Er eu{er} he warpped any worde to wy\u021de \u00fe{a}t he mette,             356\n\n[Headnote: THE PROPHET PREACHES AGAINST NINEVEH.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Jonah delivers his message; \u201cYet forty days and\n    Nineveh shall come to an end.]\n  & \u00fee{n}ne he cryed so cler, \u00feat ke{n}ne my\u021dt alle;\n  \u00dee trwe tenor of his teme he tolde on \u00feis wyse:\n  \u201c\u021cet schal forty daye\u021d fully fare to an ende,\n  & \u00fee{n}ne schal Niniue be nomen & to no\u021dt wor\u00fee;                   360\n  Truly \u00feis ilk tou{n} schal tylte to grou{n}de,\n    [Sidenote: It shall be turned upside down, and swallowed quickly\n    by the black earth.\u201d]\n  Vp-so-dou{n} schal \u021de du{m}pe depe to \u00fee abyme,\n  To be swol\u021ded swyftly wyth \u00fee swart er\u00fee,\n  & alle \u00feat lyuyes here-i{n}ne lose \u00fee swete.\u201d                      364\n    [Sidenote: This speech spreads throughout the city.]\n  \u00deis speche sprang i{n} \u00feat space & spradde alle aboute,\n  To borges & to bacheleres, \u00feat i{n} \u00feat bur\u021d lenged;\n    [Sidenote: Great fear seizes all.]\n  Such a hidor hem bent & a hatel drede,\n  \u00deat al chau{n}ged her chere & chylled at \u00fee hert.                  368\n  \u00dee segge sesed not \u021det, bot sayde eu{er} ilyche\n  \u201c\u00dee verray vengau{n}ce of god schal voyde \u00feis place.\u201d\n    [Sidenote: The people mourn secretly, clothe themselves in\n    sackcloth, and cast ashes upon their heads.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne \u00fee peple pitosly pleyned ful stylle,\n  & for \u00fee drede of dry\u021dtyn doured i{n} hert;                        372\n  Het{er} hayre\u021d \u00feay hent \u00feat asperly bited,\n  & \u00feose \u00feay bou{n}den to her bak & to her bare syde\u021d,\n  Dropped dust on her hede & dy{m}ly biso\u021dten,\n  \u00deat \u00feat penau{n}ce plesed hi{m} \u00fe{a}t playne\u021d on her wronge.       376\n    [Sidenote: The message reaches the ears of the king.]\n  & ay he cryes i{n} \u00fe{a}t kyth tyl \u00fee ky{n}g herde;\n  & he radly vp-ros & ran fro his chayer,\n    [Sidenote: He rends his robes, clothes himself in sackloth, and\n    mourns in the dust.]\n  His ryche robe he to-rof of his rigge naked,\n  & of a hep of askes he hitte i{n} \u00fee mydde\u021d;                       380\n  He aske\u021d heterly a hayre & hasped hy{m} vmbe,\n  Sewed a sekke \u00feer abof, & syked ful colde;\n  \u00deer he dased i{n} \u00feat duste, w{i}t{h} droppande teres,\n  Wepande ful wonderly alle his wrange dedes.                        384\n    [Sidenote: He issues a decree, that all in the city, men,\n    beasts, women and children, prince, priest, and prelates,\n    should fast for their sins.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne sayde he to his seriau{n}tes, \u201csamnes yow bilyue,\n  Do dryue out a decre demed of my seluen,\n  \u00deat alle \u00fee bodyes \u00feat ben w{i}t{h}-i{n}ne \u00feis bor\u021d quyk,\n  Bo\u00fee burnes & bestes, burde\u021d & childer,                            388\n  Vch prynce, vche prest & prelates alle,\n  Alle faste frely for her falce werkes;\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 88b.]]\n    [Sidenote: Children are to be weaned from the breast.]\n  Sese\u021d childer of her sok, sogh{e} hem so neu{er},\n  Ne best bite on no brom, ne no bent nau\u00fe{er},                      392\n  Passe to no pasture, ne pike non erbes,\n    [Sidenote: The ox is to have no hay, nor the horse any water.]\n  Ne non oxe to no hay, ne no horse to wat{er};\n  Al schal crye for-cle{m}med, w{i}t{h} alle oure clere stren\u00fee,\n  \u00dee rurd schal ryse to hy{m} \u00feat raw\u00fee schal haue;                  396\n    [Sidenote: Who can tell if God will have mercy?]\n  What wote o\u00feer wyte may \u021dif \u00fee wy\u021de lykes,\n  \u00deat is hende i{n} \u00fee hy\u021dt of his gentryse?\n    [Sidenote: Though He is mighty, He is merciful,\n    and may forgive us our guilt.]\n  I wot his my\u021dt is so much, \u00fea\u021d he be mysse-payed,\n  \u00deat i{n} his mylde amesy{n}g he m{er}cy may fynde;                 400\n  & if we leuen \u00fee layk of oure layth sy{n}nes,\n  & stylle steppen i{n} \u00fee sty\u021de he sty\u021dtle\u021d hy{m} seluen,\n  He wyl wende of his wodschip, & his wrath leue,\n  & for-gif v{us} \u00feis gult \u021dif we hy{m} god leuen.\u201d                  404\n    [Sidenote: All believed and repented.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne al leued on his lawe & laften her sy{n}nes,\n  Par-formed alle \u00fee penau{n}ce \u00feat \u00fee prynce radde;\n    [Sidenote: God forgave them through his goodness.]\n  & god \u00feur\u021d his godnesse forgef as he sayde,\n  \u00dea\u021d he o\u00fe{er} bihy\u021dt, [&] w{i}t{h}-helde his vengau{n}ce.          408\n\n    [Sidenote 17: _lond_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 18: _hem_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 19: _\u00feing_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 20: MS. _mon_.]\n    [Sidenote 21: _loken_ (?).]\n\n\n[Headnote: GOD\u2019S MERCY DISPLEASES JONAH.]\n\nV.\n\n    [Sidenote: Much sorrow settles upon Jonah.]\n  Muche sor\u021de \u00fee{n}ne satteled vpon segge Ionas,\n  He wex as wroth as \u00fee wynde towarde oure lorde,\n    [Sidenote: He becomes very angry.]\n  So hat\u021d ang{er} onhit his hert; he calle\u021d\n    [Sidenote: He prays to God and says: \u201cWas not this my saying,\n    when Thy message reached me in my own country?]\n  A prayer to \u00fee hy\u021de prynce, for pyne, on \u00feys wyse:                 412\n  \u201cI biseche \u00fee syre now \u00fe{o}u self iugge,\n  Wat\u021d not \u00feis ilk my worde \u00feat wor\u00feen is nou\u00fee,\n  \u00deat I kest i{n} my cu{n}tre, when \u00fe{o}u \u00fey carp sende\u021d,\n  \u00deat I schulde tee to \u00feys tou{n}, \u00fei talent to preche?              416\n    [Sidenote: I knew Thy great goodness, Thy long-suffering,\n    and Thy mercy.]\n  Wel knew I \u00fei cortaysye, \u00fey quoy{n}t soffrau{n}ce.\n  \u00dey bou{n}t\u00e9 of debonert\u00e9 & \u00fey bene g{ra}ce,\n  \u00dey longe abydy{n}g wyth lur, \u00fey late vengau{n}ce,\n  & ay \u00fey mercy is mete, be mysse neu{er} so huge.                   420\n  I wyst wel when I hade worded quatsoeu{er} I cow\u00fee,\n    [Sidenote: I knew these men might make their peace with Thee,\n    therefore I fled unto Tarshish.]\n  To manace alle \u00feise mody men \u00feat i{n} \u00feis mote dowelle\u021d,\n  Wyth a prayer & a pyne \u00feay my\u021dt her pese gete,\n  & \u00feer-fore I wolde haf flowen fer i{n}-to tarce.                   424\n    [Sidenote: Take my life from me, O Lord!]\n  Now lorde lach out my lyf, hit lastes to longe,\n  Bed me bilyue my bale sto{ur}, & bry{n}g me on ende,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 89a.]]\n    [Sidenote: It is better for me to die than live.\u201d]\n  For me were swett{er} to swelt, as swy\u00fee as me \u00feynk,\n  \u00dee{n} lede lenger \u00fei lore, \u00feat \u00fe{us} me les make\u021d.\u201d                428\n    [Sidenote: God upbraids Jonah, saying: \u201cIs this right to be so\n    wroth?\u201d]\n  \u00dee sou{n} of oure sou{er}ayn \u00feen swey i{n} his ere,\n  \u00deat vpbraydes \u00feis burne vpon a breme wyse:\n  \u201cHerk renk! is \u00feis ry\u021dt so ronkly to wrath,\n  For any dede \u00feat I haf don o\u00fe{er} demed \u00fee \u021det?\u201d                   432\n    [Sidenote: Jonah, jangling, uprises, and makes himself a bower,\n    of hay and ever-fern, to shield him from the sun.]\n  Ionas al Ioyles & Ianglande vp-ryses\n  & halde\u021d out on est half of \u00fee hy\u021de place,\n  & farandely on a felde he fettele\u021d hy{m} to bide,\n  For to wayte on \u00feat won what schulde wor\u00fee aft{er}.                436\n  \u00deer he busked hy{m} a bo{ur}, \u00fee best \u00feat he my\u021dt,\n  Of hay & of eu{er}-ferne & erbe\u021d a fewe,\n  For hit wat\u021d playn i{n} \u00feat place for plyande greue\u021d,\n  For to schylde fro \u00fee schene, o\u00fe{er} any schade keste.             440\n  He bowed vnder his lyttel bo\u00fee, his bak to \u00fee su{n}ne,\n\n[Headnote: JONAH IS SHELTERED BY A WOODBINE.]\n\n    [Sidenote: He slept heavily all night.]\n  & \u00feer he swowed & slept sadly al ny\u021dt,\n    [Sidenote: God prepared a woodbine.]\n  \u00dee whyle god of his grace ded growe of \u00feat soyle,\n  \u00dee fayrest bynde hy{m} abof \u00feat eu{er} burne wyste.                444\n  When \u00fee dawande day dry\u021dtyn con sende,\n    [Sidenote: Jonah awakes, and is exceedingly glad of the bower.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne wakened \u00fee wy\u021d vnder wodbynde,\n  Loked alofte on \u00fee lef \u00feat lylled grene;\n  Such a lefsel of lof neu{er} lede hade,                            448\n  For hit wat\u021d brod at \u00fee bo\u00feem, bo\u021dted onlofte,\n  Happed vpon ay\u00fe{er} half a ho{us} as hit were,\n  A nos on \u00fee nor\u00fe syde & nowhere non elle\u021d,\n  Bot al schet i{n} a scha\u021de \u00feat schaded ful cole.                   452\n    [Sidenote: The prophet, under its gracious leaves, is protected\n    from the sun\u2019s rays.]\n  \u00dee gome gly\u021dt on \u00fee grene g{ra}ciouse leues,\n  \u00deat eu{er} wayued a wynde so wy\u00fee & so cole;\n  \u00dee schyre su{n}ne hit vmbe-schon, \u00fea\u021d no schafte my\u021dt\n  \u00dee mou{n}tau{n}ce of a lyttel mote, vpon \u00feat man schyne,           456\n  \u00dee{n}ne wat\u021d \u00fee gome so glad of his gay logge,\n  Lys loltrande \u00feer-i{n}ne, lokande to toune,\n  So bly\u00fee of his wodbynde he balt{er}es \u00feer vnde[r],\n  \u00deat of no diete \u00feat day \u00fee[22] deuel haf, he ro\u021dt;                 460\n  & eu{er} he la\u021ded as he loked \u00fee loge alle aboute,\n    [Sidenote: Jonah wishes he had such a lodge in his own country.]\n  & wysched hit were i{n} his kyth, \u00feer he wony schulde,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 89b.]]\n  On he\u021de vpon Effraym o\u00fe{er} ermo{n}nes hille\u021d,\n  \u201cI-wysse a wor\u00feloker won to welde I neu{er} keped.\u201d                464\n  & quen hit ne\u021ded to na\u021dt nappe hy{m} bihoued;\n  He slyde\u021d on a slou{m}be, slep slogh{e} vnder leues,\n    [Sidenote: God prepared a worm, that made the woodbine wither.]\n  Whil god wayned a worme \u00feat wrot vpe \u00fee rote,\n  & wyddered wat\u021d \u00fee wodbynde bi \u00feat \u00fee wy\u021de wakned;                 468\n  & sy\u00feen he warne\u021d \u00fee west to waken ful softe,\n  & saye\u021d vnte[23] \u021defer{us} \u00feat he syfle warme,\n  \u00deat \u00feer quikken no cloude bi-fore \u00fee cler su{n}ne,\n  & ho schal busch vp ful brode & bre{n}ne as a candel.              472\n    [Sidenote: Jonah awakes and finds his woodbine destroyed.]\n  \u00deen wakened \u00fee wy\u021de of his wyl dremes,\n  & blusched to his wodbynde \u00feat bro\u00feely wat\u021d marred,\n    [Sidenote: The leaves were all faded.]\n  Al welwed & wasted \u00feo wor\u00feelych leues;\n  \u00dee schyre su{n}ne hade hem schent, er eu{er} \u00fee schalk wyst,       476\n    [Sidenote: The sun beat upon the head of Jonah.]\n  & \u00fee{n} hef vp \u00fee hete & het{er}ly bre{n}ned;\n  \u00dee warm wynde of \u00fee weste wert{es} he swy\u00fee\u021d.\n  \u00dee man marred on \u00fee molde \u00feat mo\u021dt hy{m} not hyde,\n  His wodbynde wat\u021d away, he weped for sor\u021de,                        480\n\n[Headnote: HE LAMENTS ITS DESTRUCTION.]\n\n    [Sidenote: He is exceedingly angry, and prays God that he may\n    die.]\n  \u201cWith hatel ang{er} & hot, het{er}ly he calle\u021d:\n  A! \u00fe{o}u maker of man, what mayst{er}y \u00fee \u00feynke\u021d\n  \u00de{us} \u00fey freke to forfare forbi alle o\u00fe{er},\n  W{i}t{h} alle meschef \u00feat \u00fe{o}u may, neu{er} \u00fe{o}u me spare\u021d?      484\n  I keu{er}ed me a cu{m}fort \u00feat now is ca\u021dt fro me,\n  My wod-bynde so wlonk \u00feat wered my heued,\n  Bot now I se \u00fe{o}u art sette my solace to reue;\n  Why ne dy\u021dtte\u021d \u00fe{o}u me to di\u021de; I dure to longe?\u201d                 488\n    [Sidenote: God rebukes the prophet.]\n  \u021cet oure lorde to \u00fee lede lansed a speche:\n    [Sidenote: \u201cDost thou well,\u201d He says, \u201cto be angry for the\n    gourd?\u201d]\n  \u201cIs \u00feis ry\u021dt-wys \u00fe{o}u renk, alle \u00fey ronk noyse,\n  So wroth for a wodbynde to wax so sone,\n  Why art \u00fe{o}u so waymot wy\u021de for so lyttel?\u201d                       492\n    [Sidenote: Jonah replies, \u201cI would I were dead.\u201d]\n  \u201cHit is not lyttel,\u201d q{uod} \u00fee lede, \u201cbot lykker to ry\u021dt,\n  I wolde I were of \u00feis worlde wrapped i{n} molde\u021d.\u201d\n    [Sidenote: God asks if it is to be wondered at that He should\n    help His handy work.]\n  \u201c\u00dee{n}ne by\u00feenk \u00fee mon, if \u00fee for-\u00feynk sore,\n  If I wolde help my honde werk, haf \u00fe{o}u no wonder;                496\n    [Sidenote: Is not Jonah angry that his woodbine is destroyed,\n    which cost him no labour?]\n  \u00de{o}u art waxen so wroth for \u00fey wod-bynde,\n  & trauaylede\u021d neu{er} to tent hit \u00fee tyme of an howre,\n    [Sidenote: [Fol. 89a.]]\n  Bot at a wap hit here wax & away at an o\u00fe{er},\n  & \u021det lyke\u021d \u00fee so lu\u00fe{er}, \u00fei lyf wolde\u021d \u00fe{o}u tyne;               500\n    [Sidenote: God is not to be blamed for taking pity upon people\n    that He made.]\n  \u00dee{n}ne wyte not me for \u00fee werk \u00feat I hit wolde help,\n  & rwe on \u00feo redles \u00feat remen for sy{n}ne.\n  Fyrst I made he{m} myself of mat{er}es my{n} one,\n  & sy\u00feen I loked he{m} ful longe & hem on lode hade;                504\n  & if I my trauayl schulde tyne of t{er}mes so longe,\n    [Sidenote: Should He destroy Nineveh the sorrow of such a sweet\n    place would sink to His heart.]\n  & type dou{n} \u021donder tou{n} when hit turned were,\n  \u00dee sor of such a swete place burde synk to my hert,\n  So mony malicio{us} mon as mo{ur}ne\u021d \u00fe{er}-i{n}ne;                 508\n    [Sidenote: In the city there are little bairns who have done no\n    wrong.]\n  & of \u00feat sou{m}me \u021det arn su{m}me such sotte\u021d for madde,\n  As lyttel barne\u021d on barme \u00feat neuer bale wro\u021dt,\n  & wy{m}men vnwytt\u00e9 \u00feat wale ne cou\u00fee\n  \u00deat on hande fro \u00feat o\u00fe{er} for[24] alle \u00feis hy\u021de worlde,          512\n    [Sidenote: And there are others who cannot discern between their\n    right hand and their left hand.]\n  Bitwene \u00fee stele & \u00fee stayre disserne no\u021dt cu{n}en,\n  What rule renes i{n} rou{n} bitwene \u00fee ry\u021dt hande\n  & his lyfte, \u00fea\u021d his lyf schulde lost be \u00feer-for;\n    [Sidenote: There are also dumb beasts in the city incapable of\n    sinning.]\n  & als \u00feer ben dou{m}be beste\u021d i{n} \u00fee bur\u021d mony,                   516\n  \u00deat may not sy{n}ne i{n} no syt hem seluen to greue,\n  Why schulde I wrath wyth hem, sy\u00fee{n} wy\u021de\u021d wyl torne,\n  & cu{m}[25] & cnawe me for ky{n}g, & my carpe leue?\n  Wer I as hastif a[s] \u00fe{o}u, heere were harme lu{m}pen,             520\n  Cou\u00fee I not \u00feole bot as \u00fe{o}u \u00feer \u00feryued ful fewe;\n  I may not be so mal[i]cio{us} & mylde be halden,\n\n[Headnote: GOD JUSTIFIES HIS MERCY AND FORBEARANCE.]\n\n    [Sidenote: Judgment must be tempered with mercy.]\n  For malyse is no\u021d[t] to may{n}tyne boute mercy w{i}t{h}i{n}ne;\n  Be no\u021dt so gryndel god man, bot go forth \u00fey wayes.\u201d                524\n    [Sidenote: He that is too hasty to rend his clothes must\n    afterwards sit with worse ones to sew them together.]\n  Be preue & be pacient, i{n} payne & i{n} Ioye,\n  For he \u00feat is to rakel to renden his clo\u00fee\u021d,\n  Mot efte sitte w{i}t{h} more vn-sou{n}de to sewe he{m} togeder.\n    [Sidenote: Poverty and pain must be endured.]\n  For-\u00fey when pou{er}t\u00e9 me enprece\u021d & payne\u021d i{n}-no\u021de,              528\n  Ful softly w{i}t{h} suffrau{n}ce sa\u021dttel me bihoue\u021d,\n    [Sidenote: Patience is a noble point, though it displeases oft.]\n  For \u00fee penau{n}ce & payne to preue hit i{n} sy\u021dt,\n  \u00deat pacience is a nobel poy{n}t, \u00fea\u021d hit displese ofte. Amen.\n\n    [Sidenote 22: _de_ altered to \u00fee.]\n    [Sidenote 23: _vnto_ (?).]\n    [Sidenote 24: MS. _fol_.]\n    [Sidenote 25: _Or_ cu{n}.]\n\n\n\n\nNOTES: _Patience_.\n\n\nP. 89.\n\n  l. 3 _\u00fee swelme le\u00fee_, lessen the heat.\n  4 _qued_, evil.\n  5 _syt_, sorrow; _sele_, happiness.\n  6 _\u00fero_, anger.\n  7\n    _\u00feen is better to abyde \u00fee bur vmbe-stoundes_,\n    Then is it better to abide the blow sometimes.\n  10 _melede_, related.\n  11 _a\u021dt_, eight.\n  12 _sunder-lupes_, severally.\n  13 _happen_, blessed.\n\nP. 90.\n\n  l. 30 _lyknyng_, likeness; _\u00feewes_, virtues.\n  42 _lyke o\u00feer greme_, pleasing or displeasing.\n  47 _ly\u021dtloker_, more easily; _lotes_, forms.\n  50 _what dowes me \u00fee dedayn_, what avails me anger.\n  53 _gray\u00feed_, availed.\n  56 _\u00fee(t) had bowed_, etc., That should have been obedient.\n\nP. 91.\n\n  l. 63 _Goddes glam to hym glod_, God\u2019s message came to him.\n  66 _wythouten o\u00feer speche_, without contradiction, without more words.\n  67 _my sa\u021des soghe_, etc., my saws (words) sow, etc.\n  77 _typped schrewes_, great sinners; literally, extreme, tip-top,\n      schrews.\n  78 _ta me_, take me, seize me.\n  82 _mansed_, cursed.\n  94 _glwande_, glowing, bright; _gloumbes_, sees (indistinctly).\n\nP. 92.\n\n  l. 98 _to the fare_, to the voyage.\n  101 _tramme_, gear.\n  104\n    _Sprude spak to \u00fee sprete \u00fee spare bawlyne_,\n    Spread quickly to the sprit the spar bowline (?).\n  106 _ladde-borde_, larboard.\n  107 _bly\u00fee bre\u00fee_, gentle wind; _bosum_, tide.\n  108 _He_ refers to _bre\u00fee_.\n  112 _ma\u021dt_, might; _mere_, sea.\n  115 _wenyng_, supposition.\n  117 _burde_, behoved.\n  119 _demed_, uttered.\n  122 _stapefole_ = _stapeful_ = high (?)\n\nP. 93.\n\n  l. 131 _crafte_, power.\n  135 _tom_, interval.\n  140 _sou\u021ded_, sobbed, moaned; _selly_, marvel.\n  141 _wonne_, pale.\n  143 _busched_ = _busked_, went.\n  144 _for ro\u021d_ = for roughness.\n  148 _bur_ = wave.\n  150 _to murte_, (?) _to-marte_, crushed, broken in pieces.\n  152 _coge_, boat.\n  155 _sca\u00feel_, hurtful, dangerous.\n  156 _lode_ = _lote_, lot.\n  160 _le\u00fee_, calm, quiet.\n  161 _lot_, noise, roar.\n\nP. 94.\n\n  l. 173 _I lovne_, I offer (this advice), propose.\n  183 _flode lotes_, the noises of the flood.\n  184 _brede_, board.\n  185 _hurrok_, oar.\n  191 _runyschly_, fiercely.\n  192 _sla\u021dte_, strokes.\n  198 _lastes_, crimes.\n\nP. 95.\n\n  l. 208 _at a worde one_, at a word alone.\n  213 _ossed_, showed, proved; _vnnynges_, signs.\n  216 _ruyt_, rush, hasten.\n  227 _balele\u021d_, innocent.\n  229 _synne_, after.\n\nP. 96.\n\n  l. 247 _as wyrde \u00feen schaped_, as fate then devised.\n  255 _malskred_, entranced, bewildered.\n  258 _warlowes_, monster\u2019s.\n  259 _lyue_ = _leue_, believe.\n  262 _waule\u021d_ = shelterless, destitute, but _wanle\u021d_ = _wonle\u021d_\n      = hopeless, is perhaps a better reading.\n  268 _chawle\u021d_, jaws.\n  269 _glaymande glette_, slimy mud.\n  270 _rop_, gut, intestine.\n\nP. 97.\n\n  l. 273 _fa\u00feme\u021d_, gropes.\n  275 _saym_, fat, grease.\n  277 _le_, shelter.\n  291 _merk_, darkness.\n  292 _bulk_, stern.\n  302 _borne_ = _burne_, man.\n\nP. 98.\n\n  l. 309 _flem_ = _flum_, stream.\n  317 _to my wo stounde\u021d_ = ? until my woe over-powers (confounds) me.\n  320 _to laste_ ? to the last; _mere_, boundary.\n  325 _\u00feacces_, blows.\n  329 _meled_, conversed.\n  338 _spare drye_ dry _spar_ (rafter) but ? _spare_ = _space_.\n  339 _a warthe_, a ford.\n  341 _sluchched_ = _sluched_, dirty, muddy.\n  342 _mester_, need.\n\nP. 99.\n\n  l. 345 _bruxle\u021d_, reproaches, upbraids,\n  350 _loke_ = _loken_, fastened.\n  362 _dumpe_, be thrust.\n  364 _swete_, life; _to lose \u00fee swete_ = to lose the (sweet) life.\n  372 _doured_, mourned, grieved. Cf. Sc. _dour_.\n  373 _Heter hayre\u021d \u00feay hent_, etc., rough hair shirts they took, etc.\n\nP. 100.\n\n  l. 395 _for-clemmed_, very hungry, starved.\n  396 _rurd_, cry.\n  400 _amesyng_ = _mesyng_ = _mese_, pity, mercy.\n  403 _wodschip_, wrath.\n  411 _on-hit_, struck or inflamed (?); _calle\u021d_, addresses.\n\nP. 101.\n\n  l. 418 _bene_, bountiful, kind.\n  419 _lur_, loss.\n  426 _bale-stour_, death-pang; _bale_ in the sense of death is not\n      very common.\n  447 _lylled_, flourished.\n  448 _lefsel_ = _leaf-bower_. See Glossary.\n\nP. 102.\n\n  l. 449 _bo\u021dted_, curved.\n  450 _happed_, covered.\n  451 _a nos_ = a projection, opening (?) or is it a clerical error\n      for _abof_ = _above_.\n  452 _scha\u021de_ = wood, shaw.\n  453 _gly\u021dt_, glanced.\n  460 _\u00fee deuel_ ? _ded euel_, did evil.\n  470 _syfle_, blow.\n  473 _wyl_, wandering.\n  478 _wertes he swy\u00fee\u021d_, herbs he scorches.\n\nP. 103.\n\n  l. 486 _wered_, protected.\n  489 _lansed_, uttered.\n  492 _waymot_ = angry, passionate.\n  502 _remen_, mourn, lament.\n  509 _soumme_, company.\n\nP. 104.\n\n  l. 524 _gryndel_, angry.\n  526 _rakel_, hasty.\n\n\n\n\n  Errata (noted by transcriber)\n\nMinor spelling variations-- such as added or missing final \u201ce\u201d-- between\nthe main text and endnotes were left as printed.\n\n  [33 Sidenote] ... peace and patience.  [patience,]\n  [237 Sidenote] ... thank God, and perform ...  [God. and]\n  [391 Sidenote] [Fol. 88b.]\n    [_missing folio number supplied from 1864 edition_]\n  [463 Sidenote] [Fol. 89b.]\n  [499 Sidenote] [Fol. 89a.]\n    [_text unchanged: 1864 edition has same error_]\n\n  NOTES\n\n  273 _fa\u00feme\u021d_, gropes.\n    [_body text and glossary have \u201cfathme(\u021d)\u201d_]\n  317  [316]\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n           *       *       *       *\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGLOSSARIAL INDEX\n\n\n  Abate, lessen, put an end to, A. 123; B. 1356.\n  Abate, abode, A. 617.\n  Abayst, downcast, abashed, B. 149, pret. of _abaisse_ or _abash_, Fr.\n    _esbahir_.\n  Able, A. 599.\n  Abof, above, A. 1023.\n  Abominacione, B. 1173.\n  Abroched, commenced, A. 1123.\n  Abyde, (_a_) await, B. 436, 486; (_b_) endure, C. 7. A.S. _abidan_.\n  Abydyng, _sb._ C. 419.\n  Abyme, abyss, B. 363; C. 143.\n  Abyt, habit, dress, B. 141.\n  {Accorde, Acorde,} agreement, A. 509, Fr. _accorder_, to agree with.\n  Achaped, escaped, B. 970.\n  Achaufe, kindle, B. 1143.\n  Acheue, accomplish, A. 475.\n  Acroche, encroach, A. 1069, Fr. _accrocher_, to hook on; from _croc_,\n    a hook.\n  Adaunt = daunt, A. 157.\n  Adoun, down, A. 988; B. 953.\n  Adre\u021d, aside, aback, B. 71. The word is used by Gower under the form\n    _adrigh_. _O-dreghe_, _one-dreghe_, are other forms of the word. Sc.\n    _on-dreich_.\n      \u201cThe tother withdrewe, _one-dreghe_\n      And durste do none other.\u201d --(Morte Arthure, p. 352.)\n      \u201cThe tother dro\u021dhe him _o-dreghe_ for drede of the kny\u021dte.\u201d\n        --(Anturs of Arther, xliv. 3.)\n      \u201cHe with drogh hym _a draght_ & a dyn made.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 1224.)\n  {Adubbement, Adubmente,} adornment, A. 84, 85, O.Fr. _adoubement_;\n    _dober_, _douber_, garnish, deck; Fr. _douber_, to rig or trim a\n    ship; Prov. Fr. _adobar_, to arrange, prepare.\n  Adyte, A. 349.\n  Affraye, _sb._ fear, A. 1174; _vb._ frighten, B. 1780; Fr. _effrayer_,\n    to scare, affright; _effroi_, terror. Cf. _fray_, to scare birds.\n  Affyen, trust, C. 331.\n  {Agayn, Agayne, Agaynes,} against, B. 266, 826, 1711.\n  Agayne\u021d, towards, B. 611.\n  Agayn-tote, _sb._ a looking back, B. 931. _Tote_, look, peep, as a\n    verb or a noun, is common in Old English writers.\n      \u201cShe went up wightly by a wall syde,\n      To the toppe of a tower, & _tot_ ouer the water.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 862.)\n  Age, A. 412, B. 426.\n  Agly\u021dte, slipped from, A. 245. _Gly\u021dt_, as a verb, signifies not only\n    to slip but to _glance_, look. Cf. _leme_ = gleam, glance, slip.\n  Alabaunderynes, B. 1470.\n  Alarom, alarm, B. 1207.\n  Al-bare, clearly, A. 1025.\n  Alce = als, also, B. 1377.\n  Alder = elder, A. 621, _Aldest_, A. 1042, B. 1333.\n  Alder-men, elders, A. 887.\n  Alegge, alledge, A. 703.\n  Aliche, alike, B. 1477.\n  Alkaran = alkatran, B. 1035.\n  Alle-kynne\u021d, all kinds of, A. 1028.\n  Allyt = a lyt = ? a little, B. 599.\n  Almy\u021dt, almighty, A. 498.\n  Alofte, on high, B. 1183.\n  Al-one, A. 933.\n  Al-only, except, A. 779.\n  Alosed, destroyed, B. 274. See _lose_.\n  Alow, approve, praise, reward, A. 634. O.Fr. _louer_. Lat. _laudare_.\n  Aloynte, removed, far from (from O.E. _aloigne_, _alogne_, to remove,\n    carry off. O.Fr. _aloigner_).\n  Alo\u021d, alow, softly, B. 670.\n  Als, also, B. 253, 827, C. 516.\n  Also, as, B. 984, 1045, 1792.\n  {Also-tyd, Als-tyd, As-tyd,} at once, immediately, B. 64. See _tyd_.\n  Al-\u00fea\u021d, although, A. 759.\n  Al\u00feer-fayrest, fairest of all, B. 1379.\n  Al\u00feer-fynest, finest of all, B. 1637.\n  Al\u00feer-rychest, richest of all, B. 1666.\n  Al\u00feer-swettest, sweetest of all, B. 699.\n  Alum, B. 1035.\n  Amaffised, B. 1470.\n  Amaraun\u021d, B. 1470.\n  Amatyst, amethyst, A. 1016.\n  Ame, (1) _vb._ place, B. 698; (2) _sb._ purpose, C. 128. Germ.\n    _ahmen_. Bavarian, _amen_, _h\u00e4men_, to guage a cask, fathom,\n    measure.\n  Amended, B. 248.\n  Amesyng, _sb._ moderation, C. 400. See _mese_.\n  Amoneste, admonish, B. 818.\n  Amounted, B. 395.\n  Amoynt, company, A. 895.\n  And = an, if, B. 864.\n  An-ende (on-ende), lastly, finally, A. 186.\n  An-ende = anente, opposite, A. 1136; respecting, A. 697.\n  An-ende\u021d = anentes, opposite, A. 975. Sc. _anens_.\n  Anger, A. 343, B. 572.\n  Angr\u00e9, bitter, B. 1035.\n  Anguych, anguish, C. 325.\n  Ankre\u021d, anchors, B. 418, C. 103.\n  Anon, at once (= anane, onane, in one moment), A. 584.\n  Anournement, ornament, B. 1290.\n  Anoynted, B. 1446.\n  Answar, answer, A. 518.\n  Anter, peril, C. 242. To _aunter_, put a thyng in daunger, or\n    adventure, _adventurer_ (Palsgrave).\n  An-vnder, under, A. 1081. Sc. _anonder_. Cf. _down_ and _adown_, _low_\n    and _alow_.\n  Aparaunt, B. 1007.\n  Apassed, past, A. 540.\n  Apert, openly, A. 589.\n  Apparaylmente, ornaments, A. 1052.\n  Apparement, ornaments, B. 1270. Fr. _appareiller_, to fit, suit.\n  Appose, _vb._ question, A. 902. Fr. _apposer_, to lay or set on, or\n    near to.\n  Aproche, A. 686, B. 8, 167. Fr. _approcher_, draw near. Lat. _prope_,\n    near.\n  Apyke, adorn, B. 1479, 1637.\n  Aquyle, demand, ask, obtain, A. 690, 966. O.Fr. _aquillir_, to gather.\n  {Aray, Araye,} A. 719, 1166; B. 816, 1442. O.Fr. _arroyer_, _arr\u00e9er_,\n    dispose, set in order.\n  Arayned, arraigned, C. 191. O.Fr. _arraisonner_, _arraigner_.\n  Are, before, previously, B. 438, 1128.\n  Arende, errand, message, C. 72, A.S. _aerend_, _aerende_.\n  Arest, _sb._ abode, resting place, B. 906.\n  Areset, _vb._ stop, cease, B. 766, remain, C. 144. Fr. _arrester_.\n    Lat. _arestare_.\n  Arewarde, apostate, B. 208. Sc. _areird_, backward.\n  {Arn, Arne,} are, A. 458, 628, B. 8, 1810.\n  Aryue, A. 447.\n  Ary\u021dt, aright, A. 112.\n  Ar\u021de, terrify, frighten, fear, B. 572, 713. Provincial _arfe_,\n    _arghe_, afraid. Cf. \u201c_Arwe_ or ferefulle (_arwhe_, K. arowe or\n    ferdfulle P.). Timidus, pavidus, formidolus.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.) The\n    original notion is that of laziness, inertness, and hence timidity,\n    fear, etc. A.S. _earg_, inert, timid, weak. Ger. _arg_, bad. Du.\n    _erg_. Icel. _argr_, lazy, cowardly. Sc. _argh_, _arch_, to\n    hesitate, be reluctant.\n      \u201cAntenor _arghet_ with austerne wordes.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 1977.)\n      \u201cAntenor, _arghly_ auntrid of ship.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 1831.)\n      \u201cA! Anec. quoth the qwene\n      me _ar\u021des_ of my selfe,\n      I am all in aunter, sa\n      akis me the wame.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 29.)\n      \u201cSir Alexander and his ost was _ar\u021ded_ unfaire.\u201d\n        --(_Ibid._ p. 132.)\n  Ar, are, B. 1725.\n  Are ? ane, one, A. 711.\n  As, also, B. 179.\n  As-bare, ? _al bare_, clearly, openly, A. 836.\n  Asayl, B. 1188.\n  Ascape, escape, B. 569.\n  Ascry, _sb._ cry, outcry, B. 1784. _vb_. C. 195. Swed. _anskri_,\n    outcry, scream. O.N. _skri_, cry.\n  {Asent, Asente,} A. 391, \u201cin _asent_,\u201d B. 788.\n  Aske\u021d, ashes, B. 626.\n  Askry, shout, cry, B. 1206. See _ascry_.\n  Aslypped, escaped, lost, C. 218.\n  Aspaltoun, asphalt, B. 1038.\n  Asperly, sharply, C. 373.\n  Assayl, C. 301.\n  Asscaped, escaped, B. 1776.\n  Asscry, cry, shout. See _ascry_.\n  Assemble, B. 1364, 1769.\n  Assembl\u00e9, A. 760.\n  Asspye, espy, see, A. 704, 1035.\n  {Assyse, Asyse,} form, fashion, A. 97, B. 844, service, B. 639.\n  Astate, state, A. 393.\n  Astraye, A. 1162.\n  Astel, stole from, B. 1524.\n  As-tyt, immediately, at once, A. 645, B. 935.\n  Asure, B. 1411.\n  Aswage, C. 3.\n  At, that, A. 672.\n  Atlyng, purpose, B. 688. Sc. _ettle_, to endeavour. N.Prov.E. _ettle_,\n    _attle_, intend. Icel. _aetla_.\n      \u201cArmur & all thing _atlet_ before.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 855.)\n  A\u00feel, noble, B. 258, 411, 940, gracious, B. 761, fine, B. 1276, A.S.\n    ae\u00feele, noble, excellent.\n  Atount, so much (?), A. 179.\n  At-slyke, slip away, A. 575.\n  Atteny, attain, reach, A. 548.\n  Attled, endeavoured. See _atlyng_.\n  Attled, endowed, B. 207. It sometimes occurs under the form _aghteld_.\n    N.Prov.E. _ettle_, to deal out, distribute. A.S. _aeht_, possession.\n      \u201cShe was eldist & heire _etlit_ to his londes.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 394.)\n  At-wappe, escape, B. 1205. See _Wap_.\n  Atyre, B. 114.\n  Augoste, august, A. 39.\n  Auncetere\u021d, auncestors, B. 258.\n  {Aven, Aune,} own, B. 11, 1222.\n  Aunte, A. 233.\n  Aunter, adventure, marvel, B. 1600. See T.\u00a0B. 1899.\n  Auter, altar, B. 10.\n  Autly, noble, B. 795. A.S. _\u00e1htl\u00edce_, courageously, manfully.\n  Avaunt, _sb._ promise, B. 664.\n  Avayment, show, B. 1358. F. _avoier_.\n  Auaye, show, B. 1311.\n  Auenture, adventure, A. 64. O.Fr. _aventure_.\n  Auise, advise, B. 1365.\n  Avow, B. 664.\n  Avoy, away! B. 863.\n  Avyle, defile, B. 1151, 1713.\n  Avysyoun, vision, A. 1184.\n  Awayed, shown, A. 710.\n  Awayle, avail, B. 408.\n  Awowe, avow, C. 333.\n  Ay, always, ever, A. 33, 720. A.S. _\u00e1va_, _a_, all, ever. O.Fris. _a_.\n    Germ. _je_, ever.\n  Ayre, heir, B. 650, 1709.\n  Ay\u00feer, each, A. 831.\n  Aywhere, everywhere, B. 228.\n  A\u021der = asure, B. 1457.\n  A\u021dly = awly, fearfully, B. 874, 937. Dan. _ave_, fear. Eng. _awe_.\n    O.Eng. _agh_. Cf. A.S. _agl\u00e1c_, misery, grief.\n  {A\u021dt, A\u021dte,} ought, _pret._ of _a\u021de_, _agh_, or _awe_, B. 122.\n  A\u021dt, eight, B. 357, C. 11, 29.\n  A\u021dt-sum, sorrowful, B. 411.\n  A\u021dt\u00fee, eighth, A. 1011.\n\n  Baboyne, baboon, B. 1409.\n  Babtem, A. 627. See _Baptem_.\n  Bachlere\u021d, batchelors, young men not yet raised to the order of\n    knighthood, B. 86.\n  Baft, abaft, C. 148. A.S. _baefta_, the hinder part.\n  Bagge, baggage. C. 158.\n  Bale, bales, C. 157. Sw. _bal_. Fr. _balle_, _bal_, a ball or pack.\n  Bale, sorrow, woe; also misery, calamity, A. 18, 373; B. 1243, 1256;\n    _bale\u021d_, A. 123, 807. O.Fris. _bale_. A.S. _bealu_, torment,\n    destruction. Icel. _b\u00f6l_. Phrases: \u201cbodyly _bale_\u201d (pain), A. 478;\n    \u201c_bale_ (torment) of helle,\u201d A. 651, \u201c_bale_-stour,\u201d death pang,\n    C. 426.\n  Balele\u021d = baleless, innocent, C. 227.\n  Balke, ridge of land, balk, A. 62. Icel. _balkr_, the division between\n    the stalls in a cow-house. Sw. _balka_, to partition off.\n      \u201cTo my shepe wylle I stalk, and herkyn anone,\n      Ther abyde on a _balk_, or sytt on a stone.\u201d\n        --(Town. Myst. p.\u00a099.)\n  Balleful = baleful, wretched, wicked, B. 979.\n  Balter, hop, jump, skip, C. 459.\n  Balterande, halting, limping, B. 103. Sc. _balter_, to dance.\n      \u201cHe baltyrde, he bleryde.\u201d --(Morte Arthure, p. 66.)\n    Etymologically it is connected with _palter_ and _falter_, and is\n    applicable either to the unsteady gait of the lame or faltering\n    steps of the blind.\n  Baly = bayly, authority, jurisdiction, dominion, A. 1083.\n  Baneres, B. 1404.\n  Banne, proclamation, decree, B. 95, 1361.\n  Banne, curse, B. 468, 885. Sw. _bann_, excommunication; _banna_, to\n    reprove, chide, curse.\n      \u201c_Bannet_ worthe the bale tyme \u00feat ho borne was.\u201d\n        T.\u00a0B. 1388.\n  Banne, comfort, strengthen, B. 620. O.Sc. _bawne_.\n  Bantel, A. 991, 1017; B. 1459, posts, pillars.\n  Baptem, baptism, A. 627, 653.\n  Baptysed, A. 818.\n  Barayn, barren, B. 659.\n  Bare, _adj._ naked, B. 452; _sb._ 791.\n  Bare, only, B. 1573. Sw. _bara_.\n  Bared, disclosed, B. 1149.\n  Bare-heued, bare-headed, B. 633.\n  {Bareres, Barre\u021d,} bars, barriers, B. 963, 1239; C. 321. W. _bar_,\n    rail, shaft. Fr. _barre_; _barri\u00e8re_, a\u00a0barrier. Cf. Sw. _s-parre_.\n    Eng. _s-par_.\n  Barme, bosom, C. 510. A.S. _bearm_. \u201c_Barme_ gremium.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n      \u201cHe fond Horn in arme\n      On Rymenhilde _barme_.\u201d --(K. Horn, p. 294.)\n  Barnage, childhood, B. 517.\n  Barne, child, son, A. 426; _barne\u021d_, A. 1040; B. 1085. Sc. _bairn_.\n    A.S. _bearn_.\n  Baronage, nobility, B. 1424. See T.\u00a0B. 211.\n  Baroune\u021d, barons, B. 82, 1398.\n  {Barre\u021d, Barers,} bars, B. 884, 1263.\n  Barst, burst, B. 963.\n  {Base, Basse,} base, foundation, A. 1000, B. 1278. See T.\u00a0B. 1652.\n  Bassyn, basin, B. 1145, 1278.\n  Bastele, B. 1187. \u201c_Bastyle_ of a castelle or cytye. Fascennia.\u201d\n    (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Basyng, base, A. 992.\n  Bated, abated, B. 440.\n  Bater, B. 1416.\n  Batelment, B. 1459.\n  Ba\u00fee, dip, plunge, B. 1248.\n  Bausen, badger, B. 392. \u201c_Bawstone_ or _bawsone_, or a gray, Taxus,\n    melota.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Bawelyne, bow-line, B. 417.\n  Bay, recess, B. 1392. The original meaning seems to be _opening_ of\n    any kind. Cf. _bay_, space in a building between two main beams\n    (Forby).\n  Bayly, dominion, A. 315, 442.\n  Bayn, _adv._ readily, willingly, A. 807, B. 1511; ready, C. 136.\n    N.Prov.E. _bane_, near, convenient. \u201c_Beyn_ or plyaunte.\n    Flexibilis.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.) _Bainly_, readily, T.\u00a0B. 135.\n  Baysment, abasement, A. 174.\n  Bayte, B. 55. O.N. _beita_.\n  Baytayled, fortified, B. 1183.\n  Beaut\u00e9, A. 749.\n  {Bed, Bede,} bid, command, invite; _p.p._ _beden_, A. 715, B. 95, 440.\n    See T.\u00a0B. 389.\n  Beke, beak, B. 487.\n  Bekyrande, _sb._ bikering, fighting, B. 1474. \u201c_Bekyryn_ or fyghtyn\n    (_bikkeringe_), Pugno, dimico.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n      \u201cBolde men to batell and _biker_ with hond.\u201d\n        T.\u00a0B. 2944.\n  Bele, _vb._ boil, A. 18. N.Prov.E. _bele_.\n  Bem, beam, ray, \u201c_bem_ of \u00fee brode heuen,\u201d B. 603.\n  Bem, tree, A. 814.\n  {Ben, Bene,} are, _3rd pers. pl._ A. 572.\n  Bench, seat, B. 130, 854.\n  Bene, fair, A. 198.\n  Bene, _adj._ kind, merciful, C. 418.\n  Bent, field, plain, B. 532, 1675. See T.\u00a0B. 1192.\n  Ber, bore, _pret._ of _bere_, to bear, A. 426, B. 1480.\n  Berdles, beardless, B. 789.\n  Bereste, breast, A. 854.\n  Berfray, watch tower, B. 1187. O.F. _berfroi_, _beffroit_. Fr.\n    _beffroir_. M.Lat. _belfredum_. The modern English _belfry_ is a\n    corruption of _berfray_.\n  Beryl, A. 110, 1011.\n  Beryng, condition, state, behaviour, B. 1060, 1228.\n  Best, beast, B. 288, 351.\n  Beste, _sb._ best (one), A. 279.\n  Besten, of beasts, B. 1446.\n  Bete, (the fire) mend, repair, kindle, B. 627, _p.p._ _bet_, B. 1012.\n    Prov.E. _beat_, to mend, repair. A.S. _b\u00e9tan_, (1) to improve,\n    repair; (2) joined with _fyr_ to mend a fire, to light or make a\n    fire, to kindle.\n  Bete, save, A. 757. A.S. _b\u00e9tan_, to remedy. Du. _boeten_, mend, fine,\n    expiate.\n  Bet\u021d = bes, shall be, A. 611. Present tense with future signification.\n  Beuerage, drink, liquor, B. 1433, 1717. Fr. _beuvrage_, from Lat.\n    _bibere_.\n  Bewar, beware, B. 292.\n  Bewt\u00e9, A. 765.\n  Beyng, _sb._ being, existence, A. 446.\n  Bibbe, sip, drink, B. 1499. Prov.E. _beb_. Du. _biberen_, to drink\n    much.\n      \u201cBacus he was brayne-wode for _bebbing_ of wynes.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 154.)\n  Bicalt, becalled, called from, A. 1163.\n      \u201cThe kyng was full curteus, _calt_ on a maiden.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 388.)\n  Bi-cnv, acknowledged, B. 1327.\n  Bidde, bide, abide. C. 51.\n  Biden, _p.p._ of _bide_ = _abide_, B. 616.\n  {Bifalle, Byfalle,} befal, A. 186.\n  Bifore, before, A. 49.\n  {Bigge, Bygge,} great, B. 43, _bygger_, A. 374.\n  Bigge, build, B. 1666. A.Sax. _byggan_. Icel. _byggia_. O.Sw. _bygga_,\n    build, also inhabit.\n  Bigly, strongly, C. 321. See T.\u00a0B. 904.\n  Bigonne, began, B. 123.\n  Bihynde, behind, B. 918.\n  Biholde, behold, B. 150.\n  Bihy\u021dt, promised, C. 29.\n  Bikenne, give, hand over, B. 1296.\n  Bilde, built, B. 1392.\n  Bileue, remain, B. 1549.\n  Bilooghe, below, B. 116.\n  Birle, pour out, B. 1511. Prov.E. _burl_. A.S. _byrelian_, to give to\n    drink.\n      \u201cAnd seruanz war at this bridale\n      That _birled_ win in cupp and schal.\u201d --(Met. Hom. p. 120.)\n  Birolled, berolled, B. 959.\n  Biseche, beseech, B. 614.\n  Biso\u021dten, besought, C. 375.\n  Bispeke, speak, C. 169.\n  Bisyde, beside, B. 926.\n  Bi-talt, aroused, A. 1161. A.S. _tealtian_, _tealtrian_; (1) to\n    _tilt_, shake; (2) to be in danger. William of Shoreham uses one\n    form of this word:\n      \u201cFor \u021def that water his kende lest\n      That cristninge stant _te-tealte_.\u201d --(Poems, p. 9.)\n      \u201cFor if that water its kind loseth,\n      That christening standeth tottery, insecure\u201d (_i.e._ not binding).\n  Biteche, give up to, entrust to, B. 871; pret. _bita\u021dt_.\n  Bited, bit, C. 373.\n  {Bi\u00feenkke, Bi\u00feenke,} bethink, B. 1357.\n  Bi\u00feo\u021dt, bethought, B. 125.\n  Bityde, betide; _pret._ bitydde, C. 61.\n  Bityde, befall, B. 1804.\n  Blade, B. 1105.\n  Blake, black, A. 945; B. 747, 1449.\n  Blame, _vb._ A. 275; B. 877, 1661; _sb._ B. 43.\n  Blande, \u201cin blande,\u201d together, B. 885. See _blende_.\n  {Blasfamye, Blasfemyon,} B. 1661, 1712.\n  Blayke, yellow, A. 27. Brockett has _blayke_ with the sense of yellow,\n    of a golden colour. \u201c_Bleyke_ of coloure.\u201d Pallidus, subalbus.\n    (Prompt. Parv.)\n      \u201cTher (in paradyse) were floures bothe blew and _blake_,\n      Of alle frutes thei myth ther take.\u201d --(Cov. Myst. p. 2.)\n  Bla\u021dt, white, A. 212, _p.p._ of _bleach_, just as _ra\u021dt_ is of\n    _reach_. Sc. _blaucht_.\n      \u201cAs _bla\u021dt_ ere thaire wedis\n      As any snyppand snawe.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 54.)\n  Ble, colour, complexion, A. 76, 212; B. 791, 1759. Prov.E. _ble_,\n    _bly_. A.S. _bleo_.\n  Bleaunt, a robe of fine linen, A. 163. O.Eng. _bliant_, fine linen,\n    W.\u00a0_llian_, linen. The _bl_ is merely an imitation of the Celtic\n    _ll_.\n      \u201cA blewe _bleaunt_ obofe brade him al ovir.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 167.)\n  Blench, stratagem, device, B. 1202. O.N. _blekkia_.\n  Blemyst, blemished, B. 1421. O.Fr. _blesmir_.\n  {Blende, Blente,} blended, mingled, mixt. A. 385, 1016; B. 967, 1788.\n    A.S. _blendian_. Icel. _blanda_, to mix.\n  Blo = bla, blue, livid, pale. B. 1017; C. 134. O.H.G. _blao_, N.Fris.\n    _bla_. O.Sc. _bla_.\n  {Blober, Bluber,} = blubber, waves, C. 221, 266. Prov.E. _blubber_,\n    bubble; _blob_, _bleb_, a\u00a0bubble. \u201c_Blobure_ (blobyre, P.)\n    Burbulium.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.) \u201c_Blober_ upon water (or bubble)\n    bouteillis.\u201d (Palsg.) \u201cThe water _blubbers_ up.\u201d (Baker,\n    Northamptonshire Glossary.)\n  Blod, a child, B. 686. Supposing the _bl_ to represent _ll_ we might\n    refer it to the W. _llawd_, a\u00a0youth, _lad_. O.Sw. _g-lott_. Cf.\n    _bliant_, _bleant_, from W. _llian_.\n      \u201c\u00feis Abel was a blissid _blod_,\n      Bot Caim was the findes (devil\u2019s) fode (offspring).\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 7b.)\n  Blod, blood, A. 650.\n  Blok, space, C. 272.\n  {Blom, Blome,} flower, bloom, A. 578, B. 1467. Sw. _bloma_, a\u00a0flower.\n    Du. _bloeme_. Ger. _blume_. \u201c_Blome_ flowre. Flos.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Blome\u021d, blooms, flowers, A. 27.\n  Blonk, horse, _pl._ _blonke\u021d_, B. 87, 1392. See T.\u00a0B. 2371.\n  Blonkken, _gen. pl._ of horses, B. 1412.\n  Blosched, looked, C. 343. See _Blusch_.\n  Blose = blese, blaze, flame. A. 911. Icel. _blossi_, a flame. A.S.\n    _blaese_, a\u00a0torch. Dan. _blus_.\n  Blot, spot, blemish, defilement, A. 782.\n    \u201cYe ben worthy, he saide, to be _blottede_ and _spottede_, foulede\n    and defoulede with fenne (mire) and with drit of water (_luto\n    inquinari_), and of blode, that in tyme of werre ne were nat be\n    bespreynt, ne be wette with ennemyes blode.\u201d (Quoted by Way, from\n    Roy. MS. 18, A. xii. B. iii. c. 10.)\n  Blubrande = blubbering, bubbling, foaming, B. 1017. See _blobber_.\n  Blunt, rushed, C. 272.\n  Blunt, faint, A. 176. Icel. _blunda_, to sleep. Sw. _blunda_, to close\n    the eyes. Dan. _blende_, to dazzle. Cf. \u201cBlunt of wytte. Hebes.\u201d\n    (Prompt. Parv.)\n  {Blusch, Blusche,} look, glance, A. 980, 1083, B. 904, 998, 1537.\n    N.Prov.E. _blush_, resemblance. Cf. \u201cAt the first _blush_,\u201d at the\n    first appearance, at first sight. Dan. _blusse_, to blaze, flame,\n    glow. There seems to be an etymological connection with words\n    signifying to look, glow, blaze, shine, etc.\n      \u201cThe kyng _blyschit_ on the beryne (man) with his brode eghne.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, p. 10.)\n      \u201cHe _blusshed_ ouer backeward to \u00fee brodesee.\u201d --(See T.\u00a0B. 1316.)\n  {Blusnande, Blysnande,} shining, B. 1404. Icel. _blys_. Dan. _blus_,\n    a\u00a0torch. Du. _blos_, redness. Dan. _blusse_, to glow. Icel. _lysa_,\n    to shine. Pl. D. _bleistern_, to glisten.\n  Bluster, B. 886, to wander or stray about.\n      \u201cAc there was wight noon so wys\n      The wey thider kouthe,\n      But _blustreden_ forth as beestes\n      Over bankes and hilles.\u201d --(Piers Ploughman, p. 108.)\n  Blwe, blue, A. 423.\n  Blwe, blew, B. 885.\n  Blykked, shone, B. 603. A.S. _blican_, glitter, dazzle. Ger.\n    _blicken_, shine, glance, look. Du. _blicken_, glitter; _blick_,\n    a\u00a0flash.\n      \u201cHire bleo _blyketh_ so bryht\n      So feyr heo is ant fyn.\u201d --(Lyric Poems, p. 52.)\n  Blyknande, shining, B. 1467.\n  Blykned = blaykned, became black, B. 1759.\n  Blynde, to become faded, dull, B. 1126.\n  Blynne, cease, A. 729, B. 440, 1661, 1812. A.S. _blinnan_ (for\n    _be-linnan_).\n  {Blysfol, Blysful,} blissful, A. 279, 409.\n  Blysnande, shining, A. 163. See _blusnande_.\n  Blysned, shone, A. 1048.\n  Bly\u00fee, joy, A. 354. Blythe is still used as a noun in the North of\n    England.\n  Bly\u00feely, joyfully, A. 385.\n  Bobaunce, boasting, Fr. _bobance_, B. 179, 1712.\n  {Bod, Bode,} command, B. 979; C. 56. A.S. _bod_, _gebod_, command,\n    precept, message. \u201c_Bode_ or massage (_boode_, H.) nuncium.\u201d\n    (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Bod = abode, _pret._ of _bide_ = abide, A. 62; B. 982; wait for,\n    B.\u00a0467.\n  Bodworde, message, B. 473. See T.\u00a0B. 6262.\n  Bodyly, A. 478.\n  Boffet, blast, B. 885.\n  Boffete\u021d, buffets, blows, A. 809; _boffet_, B. 43.\n  Bok-lered, book-learned, B. 1551.\n  Bold, bad, A. 806. A.S. _b\u00e1ld_, audacious. Sw. _b\u00e5ld_, proud, haughty,\n    warlike. In early English writers the term was applied indifferently\n    to men and women of bad character.\n      \u201c\u00deou do me bote again \u00feis _bald_ (bad one)\n      For al \u00fee soth I haf \u00fee tald.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 48b.)\n  Bol, bull, B. 1682; _pl._ _bole\u021d_, B. 55.\n  Bole, the round stem of a tree, B. 622. It enters also into\n    composition in the word _throte_-bolle. _Pl._ _bolle\u021d_, A. 76.\n    Icel. _bolr_. Dan. _bul_. Sw. _b\u00e5l_, trunk of a man\u2019s body. See\n    T.\u00a0B. 4960.\n  Bolle, bowl, B. 1145, 1511. A.S. _bolla_. Icel. _bolli_.\n  Bolled, embossed, B. 1464.\n  Bolnande, swelling, B. 179.\n  Bolne, swell, A. 18; B. 363. Icel. _bolgna_. Sw. _bulna_, to swell. In\n    some early English works we find _bollen_ (ibol\u021de) the _p.p._ of a\n    verb _bol\u021de_ = bulge, swell. \u201cBolnyn, Tumeo, turgeo, tumesco.\u201d\n    (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Bonc, bank, A. 907.\n  Bone, prayer, petition, command (= boon). A. 912, 916; B. 826. A.S.\n    _ben_. S.Sax. _bone_. O.N. _b\u00f3n_ rogatio. \u201c_Bone_ or graunte of\n    prayer (_boone_ P.) Precarium, peticio.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Bone, good, B. 28.\n  {Boner, Bonere,} good, B. 733.\n  Bonert\u00e9, goodness, A. 762.\n  Bongre, willingly, agreeably to, C. 56. See _Gre_.\n  Bonk, bank, hill, A. 931, B. 379. Ger. _bank_, bench, bank of a river,\n    etc.\n  Bor, bower, chamber, dwelling, A. 964. A.S. _bur_, a\u00a0chamber. Icel.\n    _bur_. N.Prov.E. _boor_, a\u00a0parlour.\n  Bore, born, A. 239, B. 584.\n  Borde, table, B. 1433, 1717.\n  Borde, board of a vessel, B. 470; C. 211.\n  Bore\u021d, boars, B. 55.\n  Borges, burgess; sometimes written _burgeise_, C. 366. O.Fr.\n    _bourgeois_, from Lat. _burgensis_.\n  Borgoun, to burgeon, bud forth, B. 1042. Fr. _bourgeon_, _bourjon_,\n    young bud or sprig. Prov. Fr. _boure_, bud. Fr. _abourioner_, to bud\n    or sprout forth. See T.\u00a0B. 4964.\n  Borlych, burly, B. 1488.\n  Borne = burne, stream, water, B. 482; _borne\u021d heued_, head of the\n    stream, source, A. 974. A.S. _burne_. Goth. _brunna_. Icel.\n    _brunnr_. G. _born_, _brunnen_, well, spring.\n  Bornyst, burnished, A. 77, 220, B. 554. Fr. _brunir_, to polish.\n  Boro\u021dt = bro\u021dt, brought, A. 628.\n  {Bor\u021d, Bor\u021de,} city, town, A. 957, 989, B. 45, 834, 1750. A.S. _burg_,\n    _burh_. Goth. _baurgs_. Icel. _borg_.\n  Bos = bus = behoves, B. 687.\n  Bosk, take, B. 351; _boske_ to, go to, B. 834. See _Busk_.\n  Boske\u021d, bushes, B. 322. Icel. _buskr_.\n  Bosum, bay, C. 107. Cf. N.Prov.E. _bosom_, the eddy.\n      \u201cEneas and his feris on the strand\n      Wery and forwrocht, sped thame to the nerrest land,\n      And at the cost of Lyby arryvit he.\n      Ane havyn place with a lang hals or entre\n      Thar is, with an ile enveronyt on ather part,\n      To brek the wallis and storm of every art,\n      Within, the water in a _bosum_ gays.\u201d --(G. Doug. vol. i. p. 33.)\n  Bost, boast, arrogance. B. 179, 1450.\n  Boster, boaster, B. 1499.\n  Bostwys = busteous, boisterous, rough, fierce, A. 814. Pl. Du.\n    _b\u00fcster_, wild, fearful, savage. Cf. \u201c_Boystows_, rudis.\u201d (Prompt.\n    Parv.) _Bustus_, rudis, rigidus, to be _bustus_, rudere. (Cath.\n    Angl.) The form _bostwys_ would seem to point to _bost_, boast, as\n    the probable root.\n  Bot, \u201cto bot,\u201d to boot, B. 473.\n  Bot, command, B. 944. A.S. _beot_, threat, promise.\n  Bot, only, A. 18, 382, except, A. 972; _bot-if_, unless, B. 1110.\n  Bote, saviour, A. 275, 645; remedy, safety, C. 163. A.S. _b\u00f3t_,\n    amends, atonement; _geb\u00e9tan_, to make amends. Du. _boet_, remedy;\n    _boeten_, to mend.\n  Bo\u00fee, booth, tent, C. 441.\n  {Bo\u00feem, Bo\u00feom,} valley, dale, B. 383, 450; pit, sea, B. 1030.\n    _Bottom_, a\u00a0valley, is still used in many of our provincial\n    dialects, and is a frequent element in local names. A.S. _botm_,\n    lowest point, depth, abyss. Du. _bodem_. Germ. _boden_. Icel.\n    _botn_.\n  Bothem, bottom, C. 144.\n  Bo\u00feemle\u021d, bottomless, B. 1022.\n  {Bouel, Bowel,} bowel, gut, B. 1251; C. 293.\n  Bougoun (?) B. 1416.\n  Boun, (1) ready; (2) finished, A. 534, 992, 1103. See T.\u00a0B. 827.\n    N.Prov.E. _boun_. Icel. _bua_, to prepare, p.p.\u00a0_buinn_, prepared,\n    ready.\n  Bounden, fastened, B. 322; bound (_p.p._ of _binde_), A. 1103.\n  Bounet, went, _pret._ of _boun_ or _bown_, to go, B. 1398. See _boun_.\n    See T.\u00a0B. 827, 5230.\n      \u201cAnd (he) _bownnes_ over a brode mede\n      With breth (anger) at his herte.\u201d --(M. Arthure, p. 290.)\n  Bount\u00e9, goodness, B. 1436.\n  Boure\u021d (bowers), chambers. B. 322. See _Bor_.\n  Bourne = burne, man, A. 617.\n  Bour\u021d = bor\u021d, city, B. 1377. See _Bor\u021d_.\n  Boute, without, B. 260, 824; C. 523.\n  {Bow, Bowe,} to go, walk, literally, to bend (one\u2019s steps). A. 126,\n    974; B. 45, 379, 482.\n      \u201cForth heo gunnen _bugen_\n      In to Bruttaine.\u201d --(La\u021d. 2, 410.)\n      \u201cThe burd _bowet_ from \u00fee bede.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 775.)\n    A.S. _b\u00fagan_, to _bow_, _bend_, avoid, flee.\n  Bowe, obey (bend to), C. 56, 75.\n  Boy, a boy, youth, B. 878.\n  Boye\u021d, boys, men of low position, servants; generally used in a bad\n    sense, \u201c_boye\u021d bolde_,\u201d A. 806.\n      \u201c---- bot a _boye_ one (alone)\n      Hoves by hym on a blonke (horse) and his spere holdes.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, p. 211.)\n      \u201cI wende no Bretones walde bee basschede for so lyttille\n      And fore bare-legyde _boyes_ that one the bente houys.\u201d\n        --(_Ibid._ p. 178.)\n  Bo\u021d = bow, go, A. 196; B. 1242, 1551. See _Bow_.\n  Bo\u021de, bough, B. 616, 1467.\n  Bo\u021dt, bought, A. 651.\n  Bo\u021dted, curved, C. 449. A.S. _bugan_, to bend. Dan. _bugt_, bend,\n    turn. Sc. _bought_, to fold, bend.\n  Brade, broad, A. 138.\n  Brake vp = break up, throw up, spew, C. 340. Ger. _sich brechen_. Du.\n    _braeken_, to vomit. \u201c_Brakyn_, or castyn or spewe. Vomo.\u201d (Prompt.\n    Parv.)\n  Braken (_brake_, _bracken_), fern, B. 1675, Sw. _br\u00e4ken_, Dan.\n    _bregne_, Icel. _brok_, sedge. \u201cA _brakane_ filix, a\u00a0_brakan_,\n    _buske_ filicarium.\u201d (Cath. Angl.)\n  Braste, burst, C. 148.\n  Brathe = bre\u00fee, anger, ire, also fierceness. A. 1170; B. 916. O.N.\n    _braedi_, anger. It sometimes signifies angry.\n      \u201cBade hom blyn of hor _brathe_.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 5075.)\n      \u201cFor this word was Saul wrath,\n      For oft-sith was he bremli brath.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 42b.)\n  Bra\u00fee\u021d, _pl._ of bra\u00fee, A. 346.\n  Braunches, B. 1464.\n  Braundysch, display, A. 346.\n  Bray, utter (aloud), roar, A. 346. Sw. _br\u00e4ka_.\n  Brayde, brought, A. 712; aroused, awakened, A. 1170; \u201cat a _brayde_,\u201d\n    at a start (Icel. at _bragdi_), at once, B. 539; \u201cin a _brayd_,\u201d in\n    a moment, B. 1507. O.N. _bregtha_, weave, move, brandish, seize,\n    awake, to leap, start. _Bragth_, quick motion.\n      \u201c\u00dee Philistienes wituten les\n      Ran on Sampson in a res,\n      Bot Sampson \u00feat selcuth smert,\n      Ute o \u00feair handes son he stert\n      And gave a _braid_ sa fers and fast,\n      \u00deat alle \u00fee bandes of him brast.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 40b.)\n  Brayden, ornamented, _p.p._ of _braid_, B. 1481.\n  Bred, bread, B. 636.\n  {Brede, Bred,} = breed, become, B. 1558; replenish, A. 415, 814;\n    B. 257.\n  Brede, board, C. 184. \u201c_Brede_ or lytylle borde. Mensula, tabula,\n    tabella, asserulus.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.) A.S. _bred_, plank, board, etc.\n  Brede, breadth, A. 1030.\n  Brede, stretch out, A. 814.\n  Breed, bred, C. 143.\n  Bref, short, brief, A. 268.\n  Brek, broke, B. 1105, 1239.\n  Breme, full, complete, A. 863. A.S. _breme_, famous, glorious.\n  Breme, fierce, A. 346; B. 229; C. 430. Du. _bremen_, to burn with\n    desire. Fris. _brimme_, to rage.\n      \u201cA _brem_ lowe.\u201d (T.\u00a0B. 860.)\n  Bremly, vigorously, B. 509.\n  {Brend, Brende,} = brente, burnt, bright, A. 989; B. 1292.\n  Brennande, burning, B. 1012.\n  Brenne, burn, B. 509, 916.\n  Brent, burnt, bright, A. 106.\n  Brent, steep; _superl._ _brentest_, highest, B. 379. N.Prov.E.\n    _brant_, steep. Sw. _brant_, steep, a\u00a0precipice.\n      \u201cA man may syt on a _brante_ hyll syde.\u201d\n        --(Ascham\u2019s Toxoph. p. 58, ed. Arber.)\n      \u201cApon the bald Bucifelon _brant_ up he sittes.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 124.)\n      \u201cThane come thai blesnande till a barme of a _brent_ lawe (hill).\u201d\n        --(_Ibid._ p. 164.)\n  Brere, briar, B. 791, 1694. N.Prov.E. _brere_, _breer_. A.S. _br\u00e9r_.\n  Bresed, rough, like bristles, shaggy (?), B. 1694. Cf. Sc. _birs_,\n    _birse_, bristle.\n  Brest, attack, outburst, B. 229. N.Prov.E. _birst_, attack (Brockett).\n    O.E. _burst_ = injury, A.S. _byrst_.\n  Breste, to burst, B. 1783.\n  {Breth, Brethe,} wind, C. 107, 138; smell, vapour, B. 509, 967. Cf.\n    \u201c_brethe_ of smoke.\u201d (Hampole\u2019s Pricke of Conscience, l.\u00a04727.) Sc.\n    _broth_. Ger. _brodem_, _broden_, steam, vapour. A.S. _br\u00e6th_, an\n    odour, scent, breath. \u201c_Brethe_ at his wille.\u201d (T.\u00a0B. 1945.)\n  Breth, wrath, B. 916. See _Brath_.\n  Breue, tell, A. 755.\n      \u201c_Breve_ us thi name.\u201d (K. Alex. p.\u00a078.)\n  Breued, related, written, B. 197. O.N. _brefa_.\n  Brey\u00feed, rushed, B. 1421. See _Braid_.\n  Brod, great; \u201c_brod_ wonder,\u201d B. 584.\n  Brode, broad, A. 650.\n  {Brok, Broke,} brook, river, stream, A. 981; _pl._ _broke\u021d_. A. 1074,\n    sea; C. 145. A.S. _broca_.\n  Brom (broom), heath, C. 392. A.S. _br\u00f3m_.\n  Bronch, branch, B. 487.\n  Bronde, sword, B. 1246. O.N. _brandr_.\n  Brond, brand, B. 1012.\n  Bro\u00fee, angry, fierce, rough, B. 149, 1409. The original form in O.E.\n    is _brathe_. It is connected with _brethe_, _brathe_, anger, wrath.\n      \u201cWreth it es a _brath_ on-fall (outburst)\n      Menging o mode that cums o galle.\u201d\n        --(The Deadly Sins, in Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii.)\n  {Bro\u00feely, Bro\u00felych,} fierce, rough, and hence vile, bad, B. 848, 1030;\n    vilely, B. 1256; C. 474. The original form is _bra\u00fely_, fiercely,\n    vigorously.\n      \u201cThoner o-loft fal sal he (Antichrist) gar,\n      And tres _brathli_ blomes bere;\n      _Brathli_ to do the see be reth (stormy)\n      And _brathli_ to do it be smeth.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 124a.)\n  Broun, brown, A. 537, 990.\n  Browden, clustered, B. 1132.\n  Bro\u021dt, brought, A. 286.\n  Brugge = brigge, bridge, B. 1187. A.S. _bricge_.\n  Brunt, blow, A. 174.\n      \u201cAll \u00feat was bitten of the best (beast)\n      was at a brunt dede.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 134.)\n  Brurd, border, edge, B. 1474. Sc. _breard_. A.S. _brerd_, _breard_,\n    _briord_, _breord_, brim, margin, rim, shore, brink.\n  Brurd-ful, brimful, full up to the brim, B. 383. Chaucer uses\n    _bret-ful_ in the same sense.\n  Brutage = bretage, parapets of a wall, ramparts, B. 1190. Fr.\n    _breteche_.\n  Bruxle, upbraid, reprove, C. 345. O.N. _br\u00edxla_, to reprove, reproach.\n  Brych, filth, uncleanness, B. 848. The meaning here assigned to\n    _brych_ is conjectural. Cf. Du. _brack_, refuse, damaged. Ger.\n    _brechen_, to vomit, _Bryche_ as an adjective occurs in Robt.\n    Brunne\u2019s \u201cHandlyng Synne,\u201d p.\u00a0182, where it is glossed low (loghe)\n    _i.e._ vile.\n      \u201cNow ys Pers bycome _bryche_\n      That er was bothe stoute and ryche.\u201d\n    In the Romance of Alexander, ed. Stevenson, we find the form\n    _bicchid_ = _briched_ (?). Cf. _shille_ and _shrille_, etc.\n      \u201cAnd on the a\u021dtent day, eftire the prime\n      A basilisk in a browe, breis (annoys) thaim unfaire,\n      A stra\u021dtill and a stithe worme _stinkande_ of elde,\n      And es so bitter, and so breme, and _bicchid_ (foul) in himselfe,\n      That with the _stinke_ and the strenth he stroyes no\u021dt allane,\n      Bot quat he settes on his si\u021dt, he slaes in a stonde.\u201d --(p. 165.)\n  Bryd, lady, A. 769. A.S. _bryd_, a bride, a wife, woman.\n  Brydde, bird, B. 288, 1482.\n  Brydale, wedding, marriage, B. 142.\n  {Brym, Brymme,} bank, shore, A. 232, 1074. Dan. _bremme_.\n  Brymme, stream, water, B. 365. A.S. _brym_, the sea. In this sense\n    _brymme_ seems to have been unknown to the Southern dialect.\n      \u201cO \u00feis water \u00feat sua stanc\n      Wa was \u00feam \u00feat it nedings dranc,\n      \u00deat to\u00feer oncom \u00feat him felle,\n      Was frosse \u00feat na tung moght telle,\n      \u00deat ute o _brim_ and brokes bred,\n      And si\u00feen over al Egypte spred.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 32b.)\n  Brynke\u021d, brinks, banks, B. 384.\n  Brynston, brimstone, B. 967.\n  Bry\u021dt, _adj._ bright, A. 110; _sb._ bright one, A. 755.\n  Bukke\u021d, bucks, B. 392.\n  Bulde, built, B. 1190.\n  Bule\u021d, bulls, B. 392.\n  Bulk, stern of a ship. A.S. _bolca_, O.H.G. _pl._ _balkun_. Agiavia,\n    loca per qu\u00e6 ad remiges acceditur. (Graff. iii. p.\u00a0108.)\n  {Bur, Burre,} blow, assault, A. 176; C. 7. O.Sc. _byr_, a blow.\n    N.Prov. _birre_, _burr_. W. _bur_, violence, rage. See Wicliffe, St.\n    Luke, viii. 33.\n      \u201c---- no buerne might ffor the _birre_ it abide.\u201d\n        --(T.\u00a0B. 170. Cf. T.\u00a0B. 571, 1902.)\n  Bur, wave, C. 148. Prov.E. _bore_. Icel. _bara_. O.Ger. _bare_. Du.\n    _baar_, wave, billow. In La\u021damon, vol. iii. p.\u00a0121, _\u00dee beares_\n    occurs in the latter version for _\u00fea v\u00f0en_ of the older copy.\n  Burde, behoved, A. 316; C. 117, 507. O.N. _byrjar_. Dan. _b\u00f6r_.\n  Burde, a woman, lady. B. 80, 653. See _Bryd_. See T.\u00a0B. 3984.\n  {Burghe, Bur\u021d, Bur\u021de,} city, town, A. 980; B. 982; C. 366.\n  Burne, man, A. 397, 712; B. 1202; \u201c_burne\u021d & burde\u021d_,\u201d men and women,\n    B. 80. A.S. _beorn_, warrior, hero.\n  {Burnist, Burnyst,} burnished, B. 1085.\n  Burre, blow, A. 176. See _bur_.\n  Bur\u00feen, burden, B. 1439.\n  Butter, B. 636.\n  Bur\u021d, city, town, B. 1666. See _burghe_.\n  {Busch, Busche,} = buske, to go, B. 1416; C. 143, 472.\n      \u201c& he (she) wist it as wel or bet as \u021dif it were hire owne,\n      Til hit big was & bold to _buschen_, on felde.\u201d\n        --(William and the Werwolf, p. 7.)\n  Busily, laboriously, B. 1446.\n  Busk, prepare, made ready, dress, to direct one\u2019s steps towards a\n    place, to go, hasten. B. 142, 333, 351, 633, 1395; C. 437. Icel. _at\n    buast_ (for _at buasc_) = _at bua sig_, to bend one\u2019s steps, to\n    prepare, etc. See T.\u00a0B. 1186.\n  Busmar, scorn, mockery, B. 653. A.S. _bismer_, reproach, blasphemy.\n  Bustwys, impetuous, fiery, A. 911. See _bostwys_.\n  Busye\u021d = busies, troubles, A. 268.\n  Buyrne = burne, man, C. 340. See _Burne_.\n  Bycalle, call, A. 913.\n  Bycalt, aroused, called, A. 1163.\n  Bycom, became, A. 537.\n  Byde, abide, A. 399; suffer, A. 664; B. 32; remain, B. 449, 622.\n  Bydene, quickly, A. 196.\n  Bye, buy, A. 732.\n  Byfallen, befallen, B. 1629.\n  Byfore, before, A. 530.\n  {Bigge, Byge,} great, B. 229.\n  {Byggyng, Bygyng,} building, A. 932; dwelling, B. 378. A.S. _byggan_,\n    to build, Icel. _byggia_. See T.\u00a0B. 1379.\n  Bygly, great, strong; \u201c_bygly bylde_,\u201d great building, A. 963. See\n    T.\u00a0B. 5216.\n  {Bygonne, Bygonnen,} begun, _p.p._ of _byginne_, A. 33; B. 749; began,\n    A. 549.\n  Bygyn, begin, A. 547.\n  Bygynner, beginner, A. 436.\n  Byhelde, beheld, B. 452.\n  Byhod, behoved, A. 928. Cf. _bud_, behoved; _bus_, behoves.\n  Byholde, behold, A. 810; B. 64.\n  {Byhynde, Byhynden,} behind, B. 653, 980.\n  {Byld, Bylded,} built, See _Bulde_.\n  Bylde, building, A. 727, 963.\n  Bylyue, immediately, at once, quickly, B. 353, 610.\n  Bynde, bine, woodbine, C. 444. Sw. _binda_. Ger. _winde_. Eng.\n    _bind_-weed.\n  Bynne, within, B. 452, 467.\n  Byrled, poured out, B. 1715. See _Birle_.\n  {Bysech, Byseche,} beseech, A. 390.\n  Byseme, beseem, A. 310.\n  Bysulpe, defile, B. 575. See _Sulpe_.\n  Byswyke, defraud, A. 568. A.S. _sw\u00edcan_, deceive.\n  Bysyde, beside, B. 673.\n  {Byta\u021dt, Byta\u021dte,} = betaught, entrusted, confided; _pret._ of\n    _biteche_, A. 1207; B. 528.\n  Byte, fierce, A. 355.\n  By\u00feenk, repent, B. 582.\n  Bytterly, _adv._ B. 468.\n  Bytwene, between, A. 140, 658.\n  Bytwyste, betwixt, A. 464.\n  Bytyde, betide, happen, A. 397; B. 522.\n  Byye, buy, A. 478.\n  By\u021de, crown, A. 466; ring, collar, B. 1638. A.S. _be\u00e1h_, _be\u00e1g_, ring,\n    collar, diadem.\n  By\u021donde, beyond, A. 141, 146, 158, 981.\n\n  Cable, C. 102.\n  Cace, case, chance, C. 265.\n  {Cache, Cachche,} = catch, drive away, take away. (1) \u201c_cache_ to,\u201d\n    run to, B. 629; (2) take, B. 898, 1252. _Cachche_, to knock\n    together, B. 1541. _Cached_, caught, B. 1800. Prov. Fr. _cacher_.\n    Fr. _chasser_. It. _cacciare_.\n  Cachen (_3d pers. pl._ of _cache_), B. 16.\n  Cagged, drawn along (?), B. 1254.\n  Caggen (_3d pers. pl. pres._ of _cagge_), draw (?), A. 512.\n      \u201cCables were _caget_ togedur.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 3703.)\n      \u201cHe plyes ovir the pavement with pallene webis.\n      Mas on hi\u021dt ovir his hede for hete of the sone,\n      Sylours of sendale to sele ovire the gatis,\n      And sammes thaim on aither side with silken rapis,\n      And then he _caggis_ up one\n      Cordis, as curteyns it ware.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 52.)\n  Cal, _sb._ call, invitation, B. 61.\n  Calder, colder, A. 320.\n  Calle\u021d, addresses, C. 411.\n  Callyng, _sb._ proclamation, B. 1362. N.Prov.E. calling, notice.\n      \u201c_Callynge_, or clepyng to mete: Invitacio.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Calsydoyne, chalcedony, A. 1003.\n  Cambe, came, A. 775.\n  Canacle, B. 1461. M.Lat. _canicellus_, a little box, chest.\n  Candel, C. 472.\n  Candelstik, B. 1478.\n  Capeles, horses, B. 1254. _Capul_ or _caple_, horse. Caballus.\n    (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Capstan, B. 418.\n  Captyuid\u00e9, captivity, B. 1612.\n  Caraldes, C. 159.\n  Carayne, carrion, B. 459.\n  Care, sorrow, A. 50, 371; B. 777. A.S. _c\u00e1ru_. Goth. _kara_.\n  Careful, sorrowful, B. 770.\n  Carf, carved, formed, C. 131.\n  Carfully, sorrowfully, B. 1252.\n  Carle, a low fellow, a churl, B. 876. A.S. _ceorl_, a man, countryman.\n    Du. _kaerle_. Ger. _kerl_.\n  Carneles, battlements, embrasures, B. 1382.\n  Carpe, _sb._ discourse, A. 883; parable, B. 23; speech, B. 1327.\n  Carpe, _vb._ to discourse, talk, speak, A. 381; B. 74; of carpe,\n    discourse of, A. 752. \u201c_Carpyn_ or talkyn, fabulor, confabulor,\n    garrulo.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.) Port. _carpire_, cry.\n  Carping, discourse, speech, B. 1550.\n  Cas, case, A. 673.\n  {Cast, Caste, Kest,} condition, A. 1163.\n  Cast, look, B. 768.\n  Casydoyne, B. 1471. See _Calsydoyne_.\n  Catel, wealth, B. 1296.\n  Cawse, reason, B. 65.\n  Cause, A. 702.\n  Cayre, to turn one\u2019s steps to a place, to go, A. 1031; B. 85, 901,\n    1259. \u201cKaire to \u00fei londe,\u201d T.\u00a0B. 836. A.S. _c\u00e9rran_. Ger. _kehren_.\n    Du. _keeren_, to turn.\n  Cayser, emperor, B. 1322.\n  Caytif, wretched, B. 1426.\n  {Ca\u021dt, Ca\u021dte,} caught, A. 50; ca\u021dte of, took off, A. 237; ca\u021dt away,\n    B. 1275; C. 485. See _Cache_.\n  Certe\u021d, truly, B. 105.\n  Cerue, cut, dig, B. 1547.\n  Cet\u00e9, city, A. 927.\n  Ceuer, recover, reach, A. 319.\n  Chace, drive, A. 443.\n  Chambre, A. 904; B. 1586.\n  Chapel, A. 1062.\n  Charde, turned, A. 608. A.S. _c\u00e9rran_, to turn, avert. Cf. _ajar_,\n    older form a-_char_, on-_char_.\n  Charged, commanded, B. 464.\n  Charged, loaded, B. 1154, 1295.\n  Chariote, B. 1295.\n  Charyt\u00e9, A. 470.\n  Chast, chasten, B. 860.\n  Chastyse, B. 543.\n  Chaufen, heat, increase, B. 128.\n  Chaunce, chance, B. 1125.\n  Chaundeler, candlestick, B. 1272.\n  Chaunge, change, B. 1588.\n  Chawle\u021d, jaws, C. 268. N.Prov.E. _chavel_. A.S. _ceafl_. S.Sax.\n    _cheuele_. Cp. the vulgar phrase \u201ccheek by _jowl_.\u201d\n  {Chayer, Chayere,} chair, seat, A. 885; B. 1218.\n  Chef, chief, B. 684, 1238.\n  Cheftayn, chieftain, B. 1295.\n  Chekke, B. 1238.\n  Chere, cheer, A. 407; countenance, A. 887. Prov. Sp. _cara_, O.Fr.\n    _chiere_, countenance, favour, look.\n  {Cheryche, Cherisch,} cherish, B. 128, 543, 1154, 1644.\n  Ches, chose (_pret._ of _chese_), A. 759.\n  Cheualrye, chivalry, B. 1238.\n  Cheue, achieve, accomplish, B. 1125. Fr. _achever_, to bring to a\n    head, accomplish. Fr. _chevir_, to compass.\n  {Cheuetayn, Cheuentayn,} chieftain, A. 605; B. 464. O.Fr.\n    _chevetaine_.\n  {Childer, Chylder,} children, A. 718; B. 1300.\n  Chorles, churl, B. 1258. See _Carle_.\n  Chos, went. See \u201cchosen,\u201d T.\u00a0B. 490.\n  Chyche, niggard, A. 605. Fr. _chice_, avarice. _Chynche_ and _kynche_\n    are other forms of the same word.\n  Chyde, A. 403.\n  Chyldryn, (_gen. pl._) of children, B. 684.\n  Chylled = chilled, shivered, became cold, C. 368.\n  Chysly = choysly, aptly, well, B. 543.\n  Ciences, sciences, knowledge, B. 1289.\n  Clam (_pret._), climbed, B. 405.\n  Clambe (_2 sing. pret._), climbedst, A. 773.\n  Clanner, cleaner, B. 1100.\n  {Clanly, Clanlych,} cleanly, purely, A. 2; B. 264, 1089, 1327; neatly,\n    B. 310. T.\u00a0B. 53.\n  Clannes, clannesse, cleanness, purity, B. 1, 12, 1809.\n  Claryoun, clarion, B. 1210.\n  {Clater, Clatter,} shatter, B. 912.\n      \u201cSo hard was she beseged soth for to telle,\n      And so harde sautes to the cite were \u021deuen,\n      That the komli kerneles were to-_clatered_ with engines.\u201d\n        --(William and the Werwolf, p. 103.)\n  Clatering, clattering, B. 1515. Du. _klateren_, to rattle.\n  Clat\u021d, clash, clatter, B. 839. Ger. _klatschen_, to clap; _klatsch_,\n    slap, clash.\n  Clawres, claws, B. 1696. _Clawres_ is perhaps an error for _clawes_.\n    It may, however, be another form of O.E. _clever_, _claver_, a\u00a0claw.\n    Du. _klaveren_, _kleveren_. N.Prov.E. _claiver_, to claw oneself up,\n    to scramble.\n  Clay, B. 312. _Clay_-daubed, B. 492.\n  Clayme, call for, cry for, B. 1096.\n  Cleche, receive, take, B. 12. \u201c_Cleches_ to,\u201d takes, lays hold of,\n    B.\u00a0634. Sc. _cleik_, _clek_, _cluke_, claw, hook; _cleke_, _cleik_,\n    catch, snatch. O.Sw. _klaencka_, to snatch, seize.\n  Clef, cleft, split (_pret._ of _cleve_), B. 367.\n  Clem, claim, A. 826.\n  Cleme, daub, plaster with clay, B. 312. N.Prov.E. _cleam_. _Clam_, to\n    daub, glue. S.Prov.E. _cloam_, earthenware; _clomer_, a\u00a0potter. A.S.\n    _clem_, _cl\u00e1m_, clay; _cl\u00e6mian_, to _clam_, smear.\n      \u201cI stoppe thys ouyn wythowtyn dowte,\n      With clay I _clome_ yt uppe ryght fast,\n      That non heat cum [ther] owte.\u201d\n        --(The Play of the Sacrament, p. 132.)\n  Clene, perfect, whole, B. 1731.\n  Clenge, cling, stick, B. 1034. Dan. _klynge_, to cluster, crowd.\n    S.Prov.E. _clunge_, to crowd, squeeze; _clungy_, sticky.\n  Clente, clenched, fastened, A. 259. Cf. _queynte_ = quenched,\n    _dreynte_ = drenched.\n  Clepe, to call, B. 1345. A.S. _clypian_.\n  {Cler, Clere,} clear, A. 2, 207; bright, A. 620, 735; plain, B. 26.\n  Clergye, learning, B. 1570.\n  Clerke\u021d, clerks, scholars, B. 193.\n  Clernes, clearness, beauty, B. 1353.\n  Cle\u00fee, clothe, B. 1741.\n  {Cle\u021dt, Cly\u021dt,} = clutched, fastened, (_p.p._ of _cleche_), B. 858;\n    fixed, B. 1655.\n  Clobbe\u021d, clubs, B. 839.\n  Clos, enclosure, house, B. 839.\n  Clos, closed, A. 183; B. 12.\n  Closed, enclosed, B. 310.\n  Clot, mount, hill, A. 789. In the \u201cOwl and Nightingale,\u201d 999, we find\n    _clude_, a hill. A.S. _cl\u00fad_. Low Ger. _kloot_, a\u00a0hill.\n  Clot, soil, earth, A. 22, 320. Du. _klot_, _klotte_, clod, clot.\n  Clotte\u021d, clods, A. 857.\n  Clo\u00fe, sail, C. 105.\n  {Cloutes, Clowte\u021d,} pieces, B. 367, 965.\n  Cloystor, cloister, A. 969.\n  Cluchche, clutch, B. 1541.\n  Clustered, B. 367, 951. See T.\u00a0B. 1647.\n  Clutte, clouted, patched (?), B. 40. A.S. _cl\u00fat_, a clout.\n  Clyde, plaister (?), B. 1692. A.S. _clitha_. Cf. \u201c_Clyte_, _clete_, or\n    vegge (_clete_ or wegge, K.) cuneus.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Clyffe, cliff, A. 159; B. 405, 965.\n  Clyket, clicket, latch, B. 858. Prov. Fr. _cliche_, a latch, bolt.\n    _Clyket_ of a dore, _clicquette_. (Palsgrave.)\n  Clynge, wither, decay, A. 857. A.S. _clingan_.\n  Clyppe, fasten, B. 418. A.S. _clyppan_, to embrace.\n      \u201cI wold yonder worthy weddit me hade,\n      So comly, so cleane to _clippe_ uppon nightes.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 474.)\n  Clypper, shearer, A. 802.\n  {Clyue, Clyuy,} cleave, cling to, B. 1630, 1692. Du. _kleeven_,\n    _klijven_, to fasten. A.S. _cl\u00edfan_.\n  Clyuen, cleave, A. 1196.\n  Cly\u021dt, clutched, stuck, B. 1692.\n  Cnawe, know, acknowledge, C. 519.\n  Cnawyng, _sb._ knowledge, A. 859.\n  Cnoken, knock, A. 727.\n  Cob-hous = cov (cow)-house (?), B. 629. _Cob_ may be another form of\n    Prov. Ger. _colb_, a\u00a0heifer.\n  Cof, quickly, B. 60, 898; quick, B. 624. A.S. _c\u00e1f_, quick, expert.\n  {Cofer, Cofere,} coffer, chest, coffin, A. 259; ship, ark, B. 310,\n    339; jewel box, 1428. Fr. _coffre_.\n  Cofly, quickly, B. 1428.\n  Coge, boat, C. 152. _Cogges_ with cablis cachyn to londe, T.\u00a0B. 1077.\n  Cokre\u021d, cockers, a kind of rustic high shoes or half boots fastened\n    with laces or buttons, B. 40. \u201c_Cocur_ boote. Ocrea. coturnus.\u201d\n    (Prompt. Parv.) The term is still used in the north of England =\n    gaiters, leggings.\n  Cole, coal, B. 456.\n  Cole, cool, C. 452.\n  Colde, great, severe, A. 50; \u201c_care\u021d_ colde,\u201d great sorrow, A. 808.\n  Coler, collar, B. 1569, 1744.\n  Colored, B. 456.\n  Colour, A. 753.\n  Coltour = coulter, (of a plough), B. 1547. Fr. _coultre_. Lat.\n    _culter_.\n  Colwarde, deceitful, B. 181. See note on this word. Cf. _kolsipe_\n    (col-ship), deceit.\n  Comaunde, B. 1428.\n  Combre, to trouble, destroy, B. 901, 1024. Du. _kommer_, _kombre_,\n    loss, adversity, care, grief.\n  Combraunce, trouble, B. 4. See T.\u00a0B. 726.\n  Come, _sb._ coming, arrival, A. 1116; B. 467\n      \u201cOf his _come_ fayne.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 975.)\n  Comende, B. 1.\n  {Comfort, Comforte,} _sb._ A. 55, 357.\n  {Comly, Comlych,} comely, A. 259; B. 546.\n  Commune, common, A. 739.\n  Comparisune, _vb._ compare, B. 161.\n  Compas, A. 1072, B. 319, 1455.\n  Compast, B. 697.\n  Compaynye, company, B. 119.\n  Comyne, B.   . See T.\u00a0B. 12863.\n  Con = can, did (used as an auxiliary of the past tense), A. 453;\n    B. 1561; _cone\u021d_, didst, A. 482.\n  Conacle = canacle, cup, B. 1515.\n  Conciens, conscience, A. 1089.\n  Concubine, B. 1353.\n  Condelstik, candlestick, B. 1275.\n  Confourme, conform, B. 1067.\n  {Coninge, Connyng,} wisdom, science, B. 1611, 1625.\n  Conquere, B. 1431, 1632.\n  Conquerour, B. 1322.\n  Conquest, conquered, B. 1305.\n  Consayue, conceive, B. 649.\n  Conterfete, counterfeit, feign, B. 13.\n  Contrar\u00e9, contrary, B. 4, 266; in _contrary_, opposite, B. 1532.\n  Controeued, contrived, B. 266.\n  Contryssyoun, contrition, A. 669.\n  Conueye, guide, B. 678, 768.\n  Cooste\u021d, properties, B. 1033.\n  Coperounes, tops, B. 1461. \u201c_Coporne_ or _coporoun_ of a thyng\n    (_coperone_, K.\u00a0H. _coperun_, P.), capitellum.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.) \u201cThe\n    Catholicon explains _capitellum_ as signifying merely the capital of\n    a column, but in the Medulla it is rendered \u2018_summa pars capitis_.\u2019\u201d\n    (A.\u00a0Way, in Prompt. Parv.)\n  Coppe, top; \u201chyl _coppe_,\u201d A. 791. A.S. _copp_, head, top, apex.\n      \u201cNow bowis forth this baratour and bidis na langir,\n      Up at a martene mountane, he myns with his ost,\n      And viii daies bedene the dri\u021de was and mare,\n      Or he mi\u021dt covir to the _copp_, fra the cave undire.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 163.)\n  Corage, heart, B. 1806.\n  Corbyal, raven, B. 456.\n  Cordes, C. 153.\n  Coroun, _sb._ A. 237; _vb._ A. 415, 767.\n  Cors, course, B. 264.\n  Corse, corpse, A. 320.\n  Corse, to curse, B. 1032, 1583.\n  Corsye, corrosive, B. 1034.\n  {Cortays, Cortayse,} courteous, A. 433; B. 512; pure, B. 1089.\n  Cortaysye, courtesy, A. 468, 480; good conduct, B. 13.\n  Cortaysly, courteously, A. 381; kindly, B. 564, 1435.\n  Corte, court, A. 701.\n  Cortel, kirtle, A. 203. A.S._cyrtel_. Dan. _kjortel_, a garment either\n    for a man or woman.\n  Corte\u021d, courteous, A. 754.\n  Corupte, B. 281.\n  Coruen (_p.p._ of _kerue_), cut, reaped. A. 40; B. 1407.\n  Cost, contrivance, B. 1478. A.S. _costian_. O.Sw. _kosta_. Du.\n    _koste_, to try, attempt. This word is sometimes written _cast_.\n    See \u201cWilliam and the Werwolf,\u201d p.\u00a0167.\n  Cost, coost, property, B. 1024, 1033.\n  Cost, coast, border, side, B. 85.\n  Costoum, custom, B. 851.\n  Coumforde, comfort, A. 369.\n  {Counseyl, Counsayl,} counsel, A. 319; B. 683, 1201.\n  Counte, B. 1685, 1731.\n  Countenaunce, appearance, B. 792.\n  Counterfete, defraud, A. 556.\n  Countes, countess, A. 489.\n  Courtaysye, courtesy, A. 457.\n  Cout, cut, B. 1104.\n  Couthe, knew, known, B. 813, 1054.\n  Coueyte, covet, desire, B. 1054.\n  {Couenaunde, Couenaunt,} covenant, A. 562, 563.\n  Couetyse, covetousness, B. 181.\n  Cowpe, cup, B. 1458.\n  Cow\u00fee, could; cow\u00fee\u021d, couldst, A. 484.\n  Cowwardely, cowardly, B. 1631.\n  Coyntyse, skill, craft, B. 1287. _Coint_, skilful, occurs in\n    T.\u00a0B. 125.\n      \u201chir _coint_ artys.\u201d\n    Cf. _Coyntly_, T.\u00a0B. 164.\n  Crafte, power, wisdom; _pl._ crafte\u021d, A. 356; contrivance, A. 890;\n    power, C. 131.\n  Crage\u021d, crags, B. 449.\n  Crak, sound, B. 1210.\n  Craue, ask, pray for, A. 663; beg, B. 801.\n  Crede, creed, A. 485.\n  Cresse, cress, A. 343.\n  Creste, A. 856.\n  Croked, bad, B. 181.\n  Croke\u021d, reapinghooks, sickles, A. 40.\n  Crone\u021d, cranes, B. 58.\n  Crossayl, cross-sail, C. 102.\n  Crouke\u021d, croaks, B. 459.\n  Cruppele\u021d, cripples, B. 103.\n  Cry, proclamation, B. 1574.\n  {Crysolite, Crysolyt,} chrysolite, A. 1009.\n  Crysopase, chrysoprasus, A. 1013.\n  Crystal, A. 159.\n  Cumly, A. 929. See _Comly_.\n  Cupborde, B. 1440.\n  {Cupyde, Cubit,} B. 315, 319, 405.\n  Cumfort, C. 485.\n  Cupple, pair, B. 333.\n  Cure, care, A. 1091.\n  Curious, B. 1353.\n  {Cyt\u00e9, Cet\u00e9,} city, A. 927, 939.\n\n  Dale, B. 384 (phrase: \u201cdoun and _dale\u021d_,\u201d hill and dale), A. 121.\n  Dalt, dealt, fulfilled, B. 1756.\n  Dam, stream, A. 324; the deep, B. 416. Icel. _dammr_. Dan. _dam_,\n    a\u00a0fish pond.\n  Dampned, damned, condemned, A. 641.\n  Dampped, quelled, B. 989. Ger. _dampfen_, to suffocate, choke. Du.\n    _dempen_. Sw. _d\u00e5mpa_, to extinguish, repress, damp.\n  Damysel, damsel, A. 489.\n  Dare, to tremble, be afraid, A. 839. Sw. _darra_, to tremble, shake.\n  Dard = dured, endured, A. 609.\n  Daschande, dashing, C. 312.\n  Dasande, stupefying, B. 1538.\n  Dase, lie hid, cower, C. 383. Cf. _dare_, to lie hid, cower. For the\n    interchange of _r_ and _s_ compare O.E. _gaure_, to gaze.\n  Dased, stupid, frightened, A. 1085. Sc. _dozen_, _dosen_, to stupefy,\n    benumb. Du. _daesen_, to lose one\u2019s wits; _daes_, _dwaes_, foolish,\n    mad. (Kil.) Prov. Ger. _dasen_, to be still.\n      \u201cFor he was _dased_ of the dint and half dede him semyd.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 136.)\n  Date, A. 492; limit, A. 493; time, A. 504, 516; age, A. 1040.\n  Daube, daub, plaister, B. 313, 492. Prov.E. _daub_, clay. \u201c_Dawber_ or\n    cleyman; _dawbyn_, lino, muro.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Daunce, dance, A. 345.\n  Daunger, power, A. 11; insolence, B. 71.\n  Dawande, dawning, C. 445. A.S. _dagian_, to become day. Icel. _dagan_,\n    dawn.\n  Dawe\u021d, days; \u201cdon out of _dawe\u021d_,\u201d deprived of life, dead, A. 282.\n  Dayly, A. 313.\n  Daynty, B. 38, 1046.\n  Day-rawe, daybreak, B. 893; _rawe_ or _rewe_ signifies a _streak_. Cf.\n    _day-rim_, in \u201cOwl and Nightingale,\u201d l.\u00a0328.\n      \u201cQwen the _day-rawe_ rase, he rysis belyfe.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 14.)\n  Da\u021ded, dawned, became day, B. 1755. See _Dawande_.\n  Debate, strife, contest, A. 390.\n  Debonere, gracious, courteous, kind, A. 162; B. 830.\n  Debonert\u00e9, goodness, A. 798; C. 418.\n  Dece = dese, seat of honour, B. 38, 1399. See _Dese_.\n  Declar, explain, B. 1618.\n  Declyne, A. 333.\n  Decre, decree, B. 1745; C. 386.\n  Dedayn, disdain, displeasure, B. 74; C. 50.\n  Defence, prohibition, B. 243, 245.\n  Defoule, defilement, C. 290.\n  Defowle, to defile, B. 1129, 1147.\n  Degre, degree, condition, B. 92.\n  Degres, steps, A. 1022.\n  Dekenes, deacons, B. 1266.\n  Dele, deal, distribute, give, A. 606; exchange, B. 1118.\n  Dele, utter, B. 344.\n  Dele (dole), sorrow, A. 51.\n  Deled, dealt, C. 193.\n  Delful, doleful, sorrowful, B. 400.\n  Delfully, dolefully, sorrowfully, A. 706.\n  Delyt, delight, A. 642, 1116.\n  Delyuer, delivered, B. 1084.\n  Delyuer, deliver, A. 652; B. 500.\n  Deme, deem, judge, A. 312, 313; B. 1118; utter, decree, B. 1745;\n    C. 119; call, name, B. 1020, 1611. A.S. _d\u00e9man_.\n  {Demerlayk, Demorlayk,} magic, glamour, B. 1561, 1578. S.Sax.\n    _dweomer-lake_, magic. A.S. _dweomere_, a\u00a0juggler.\n      \u201cAnd all this _demerlayke_ he did bot be the devylle craftes.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 15.)\n  Demme, _vb._ become faded, lost, A. 223. A.S. _dem_, damage, hurt,\n    loss.\n  Demmed = dammed, collected (?), B. 384. A.S. _demman_, to dam, stop\n    water. Carr gives _demin_, a\u00a0term applied to clouds when collected\n    in masses. Sw. _d\u00e4mma_. O.Fris. _demma_, to stop, obstruct.\n  Dene, vale, dale, A. 295. A.S. _dene_, _denu_.\n  Denely, loud, A. 51.\n  Denned, resounded. If it does not signify _dinned_, it must mean\n    settled, took up its abode. A. 51.\n  Denounce, renounce, forsake, B. 106.\n  Departe, separate, part, A. 378; B. 396, 1677.\n  Depaynt, painted, adorned, A. 1102.\n  {Dep, Depe,} profound, A. 406; B. 1609.\n  Depres, depress, A. 778.\n  Depryue, A. 449; take away, B. 185.\n  Dere, _vb._ to harm, injure, A. 1157; B. 862. See T.\u00a0B. 1260. A.S.\n    _derian_, to hurt, damage, injure.\n  Dere, precious, A. 400; valuable, B. 1792. A.S. _de\u00f3re_, dear,\n    precious.\n  Dere, dear ones, A. 777.\n  {Derelych, Derely,} = dearly, beautifully, excellently, A. 995; very,\n    B. 270.\n  Dere\u021d, _sb._ harms, injuries, A. 102. See T.\u00a0B. 920. A.S. _dar_,\n    _daru_, hurt, harm.\n      \u201cThai dre\u021de him up to the drye (land), and he na _dere_ sufird.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 189.)\n  Derf, great, bold, B. 862. O.N. _diafr_. Sw. _djerf_, strong, bold. \u201cA\n    _derfe_ dragon,\u201d T.\u00a0B. 166. \u201cDang him _derffly_ don in a ded hate.\u201d\n    _Ib._ 1339.\n  Derfly, quickly, B. 1641; C. 110.\n  Derk, dark, B. 1020; C. 263; night, B. 1755. A.S. _deorc_.\n  Derne, _adj._ secret, hidden, B. 588, 1611; _adv._ secretly, B. 697.\n    See T.\u00a0B. 1962. A.S. _dearn_, dark, secret, hidden.\n  Derrest, dearest, B. 115, 1306.\n  Der\u00fee = dearth, preciousness, value, worth, A. 99. See _Dere_.\n  Deruely = derfely, quickly, B. 632.\n  Derworth, precious, beautiful, A. 109. See _Dere_.\n  {Des, Dese,} dais, seat of honour, A. 766; B. 115, 1394.\n  Desert, C. 84.\n  Desserte, desert, A. 595.\n  Deseuered, severed, C. 315.\n  Dessypele, disciple, A. 715.\n  Destyn\u00e9, A. 758; C. 49.\n  Desyre, B. 545.\n  Determynable, A. 594.\n  Deuine, _sb._ divine, B. 1302; _vb._ B. 1561.\n  Deuinores, diviner, B. 1578.\n  Deuote, devout, A. 406.\n  Deuoutly, B. 814.\n  Deuoyde, do away with, destroy, A. 15; B. 908.\n  {Deuyce, Deuyse, Deuice,} devise, imagine, B. 1046, 1100; describe,\n    A.\u00a099, 984; order, B. 110, 238.\n  Deuyse, _sb._ device, A. 139.\n  Deuysement, description, A. 1019.\n  Devoydynge, putting away, _sb._ B. 544.\n  Dewoutly, devoutly, C. 333.\n  Dewoyde = devoyde, C. 284.\n  Dewyne = dwine, pine, A. 11.\n  Deystyn\u00e9, destiny, B. 400.\n  {De\u021dter, De\u021dteres, De\u021dtters,} daughters, B. 270, 866, 899, 933, 939.\n    See T.\u00a0B. 1489.\n  Dialoke, discourse, B. 1157.\n  Dispayred, in despair, C. 169.\n  Display, B. 1107.\n  Displese, C. 1.\n  Dispit, spite, C. 50.\n  Dispoyled, stripped, C. 95.\n  Disserued, B. 613.\n  Disstrye, destroy, B. 907, 1160.\n  Disserne, discern, C. 513.\n  Dissert, desert, C. 12.\n  Distres, B. 880, 1160.\n  Diuinit\u00e9, B. 1609.\n  Ditte\u021d, stops up, closes, B. 588. N.Prov.E. _ditt_, to stop up. A.S.\n    _dyttan_.\n  Di\u021de, die, C. 488.\n  Di\u021dte, order, arrange, B. 1266. A.S. _dihtan_, to set in order,\n    dispose, arrange, direct, etc.\n  Do, doe, \u201c_daunce as any do_,\u201d A. 345.\n  Dobler, dish, B. 1146. O.Fr. _doublier_.\n  Doc, duke, A. 211.\n  {Doel, Dol,} sorrow, A. 326, 339, 642; B. 852.\n  Dole, part, A. 136.\n  {Dom, Dome,} doom, judgment, purpose, A. 157, 580, 667; B. 597;\n    command, B. 632; doom, C. 203.\n  Dongoun, dungeon, B. 1224.\n  Dool, part, B. 216.\n  Dool (dole), sorrow. See _Doel_.\n  Doole, gift, B. 699.\n  Dor, door, B. 320.\n  Dotage, folly, B. 1425.\n  Dote, act foolishly, B. 286, 1500; C. 125; be astonished, frightened,\n    B. 852. Sc. _doit_. Icel. _dotta_, to slumber. Du. _doten_,\n    _dutten_, delirare, desipere. (Kilian.) \u201cMaddyn, or _dotyn_,\n    desipio.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Doted, foolish, wicked, C. 196. N.Prov.E. _doited_, stupid.\n  Dotel, a fool, B. 1517.\n  Doun, down, A. 230.\n  Doun, down, hill, A. 121.\n  Doungoun, dungeon, A. 1187.\n  Doured, grieved, mourned, C. 372. Sc. _dour_.\n  Dousour, sweetness, A. 429.\n  Doute, doubt, A. 928.\n  {Douth, Dou\u00fee,} brave, noble, A. 839, B. 270, 597, A.S. _duguth_, the\n    nobility, senate, etc. _Dugeth_, good, virtuous. _Dugan_, to profit,\n    avail, be good, etc.\n  {Doune, Dovene,} a female dove, B. 469, 481. Cf. O.E. _wulvene_, a\n    female wolf, and E. _vixen_, a\u00a0female fox.\n  Dowe, avail, profit, B. 374; C. 50. See T.\u00a0B. 5001. See _Douth_.\n  Dowelle, dwell, B. 376, 1770; C. 69.\n  Downe, dove, B. 485.\n  Downe\u021d, downs, hills, A. 73, 85.\n  Dowyne, dwine, pine, A. 326.\n  Dowrie, B. 185.\n  Do\u021dter, daughter, B. 814.\n  Do\u021dty, doughty, valiant, B. 1182, 1791. See _Douthe_.\n  Do\u021dtyest, bravest, B. 1306.\n  Dra\u021d, draw, A. 699.\n  Dra\u021dt = draught, character, B. 1557.\n  Drede, doubt, A. 1047.\n  Drepe, to kill, slay, B. 246; destroy, B. 599, 1306.\n      \u201cThis stone with his stremys stroyed all the venym,\n      And _drepit_ the dragon to the dethe negh.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 929.)\n    A.S. _drepan_. O.N. _drepa_.\n  Dresse, order, direct, prepare, A. 495, 860; B. 92; _pret._ _dressed_,\n    _drest_.\n  Dreue, drive, A. 323.\n  Dreued, drove, went, A. 980.\n  Dre\u021de = dreghe, suffer, endure, B. 1224. Sc. _dree_. A.S. _dre\u00f3gan_,\n    to bear, suffer, endure. Cf. \u201cdyntes full _dregh_.\u201d T.\u00a0B. 935.\n  Dre\u021dly, sorrowfully, B. 476. See T.\u00a0B. 2379.\n  Drof, drove, A. 30, 1153.\n  Drouy, turbid, B. 1016. A.S. _dr\u00e9fe_, muddy, foul; _dr\u00e9fan_, to\n    trouble, make turbid. O.E. _drove_, to trouble. Goth. _drobjan_, to\n    trouble. Du. _droeven_. \u201c_Drovy_ turbidus, turbulentus.\u201d (Cath.\n    Ang.)\n    \u201cHe (the fool-large) is like to an hors that seketh rather to\n    drynke _drovy_ watir and trouble, than for to drinke water of the\n    welle that is cleer.\u201d (The Persones Tale: _Remedium contra\n    avariciam_.)\n  Drowned, was drowned, B. 372.\n  Dro\u021d, drew, A. 1116; B. 71; _pl._ _dro\u021den_, B. 1394.\n  Dro\u021dthe = drouthe, drought. A.S. _druguth_. Du. _drooghte_. Sc.\n    _drouth_, from A.S. _dryg_. Du. _droogh_, dry.\n  Druye, dry, B. 412; dry land, B. 472.\n  Drwry, dreary (?), A. 323.\n  Drwry = drury, love, B. 699, 1065. O.Fr. _druerie_, _drurie_.\n  {Dry\u021d, Dry\u021de,} dry, B. 385.\n  {Dry\u021d, Dry\u021de,} heavy, sorrowful, A. 823; B. 342.\n  Dry\u021de, suffer, B. 372, 400, 1032. See _Dre\u021de_.\n  {Dry\u021dly, Dry\u021dlych,} strongly, rapidly, A. 125; wrathfully, angrily,\n    B.\u00a074, 344; C. 235.\n  Dry\u021dtyn, Lord, A. 349; B. 1065. A.S. _drihten_.\n  {Dubbed, Dubbet,} decked, A. 73, 97, 202; adorned, B. 115. See T.\u00a0B.\n    1683.\n  Dubbement, adornment, A. 121.\n  Dublere, a dish, B. 1279. See _Dobler_.\n  Due, A. 894; C. 49.\n  Duk, duke, B. 38, 1182; leader, B. 1771.\n  Dumpe, be dashed, fall, C. 362.\n      \u201c_Dumpe_ in \u00fee depe.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 1996.)\n      \u201c\u00dean sal \u00fee rainbow descend,\n      In hu o galle it sal be kend;\n      Wit \u00fee wind sal it melle,\n      And drive \u00feam dun alle until helle;\n      And _dump_ the devels \u00feider in,\n      In \u00feair bale alle for to brin.\u201d\n        --(_Signa Ante Judicium_, in Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii.)\n  Dungen, _3d pers. pl. pret._ of _ding_, to beat, B. 1266. Sw. _d\u00e4nga_.\n      \u201cSo _dang_ he \u00feat dog with dynt of his wappon.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 302.)\n  Dunne, dun, A. 30. See T.\u00a0B. 925.\n  Dunt, blow. See _Dynt_.\n  Durande, lasting, during, A. 336.\n  Dure, last, B. 1021; C. 488.\n  Dusched, struck, B. 1538. Sc. _dusche_, to smite; _dusch_, a blow.\n      \u201cAll _dusshet_ into the diche.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 4776.)\n    Dan. _daske_, to slap. Icel. _dust_ a blow.\n  Dutande, shutting, closing (from _dutte_, to shut), B. 320. See\n    _Ditte\u021d_.\n  Dutte, fasten, close, B. 1182. Prov.E. _dyt_, stop up. O.N. _ditta_.\n  Dych, ditch, A. 607; B. 1792.\n  Dyd, caused, A. 306.\n  Dylle = dull, slow, sluggish, foolish, A. 680. N.Prov.E. _dull_, hard\n    of hearing. O.N. _dilla_, lallare.\n  Dym, black, B. 1016.\n  Dymly, secretly, C. 375.\n  Dymme, dark, B. 472.\n  Dyn, noise, B. 862.\n      \u201cAll _dynnet_ the _dyn_ the dales aboute.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 1197.)\n  Dyngne, worthy, C. 119.\n  Dyngnet\u00e9, dignity, B. 1801.\n  Dynt, blow, C. 125.\n  Dyscreuen, describe, A. 68.\n  Dyscouere, reveal, make known, B. 683.\n  Dysheriete, disinherit, B. 185.\n  Dysplese, to be displeased, A. 422; to displease, A. 455; B. 1136.\n  Dyspyt, spite, B. 821.\n  Dyssente, descend, A. 627.\n  Dysstrye, destroy, B. 520.\n  Dystresse, distress, A. 280, 337.\n  Dystryed, destroyed, A. 124.\n  Dyt, doeth, A. 681.\n  Dy\u021de, die, A. 306.\n  Dy\u021dt, decked, A. 202, 987; ordered, prepared, B. 243, 632; ordained,\n    C. 49; placed, seated, A. 920; B. 1794.\n  Dy\u021dtte\u021d, causest, C. 488.\n\n  Efte, again, A. 328; afterwards, A. 332; B. 562.\n  Egge = _edge_, hill, B. 451.\n  Egge, edge (of a knife), B. 1104; of a hill, B. 383. A.S. _ecge_. O.N.\n    _egg_, edge. Du. _egghe_, an angle, corner, angle. Ger. _ecke_,\n    a\u00a0corner.\n  Eggyng, instigation, B. 241. Prov.E. \u201cegg on.\u201d O.N. _egg_, an edge;\n    _eggia_, to sharpen, and hence instigate.\n  Elde, age, B. 657; C. 125. A.S. _eld_, _yld_, age.\n  Elle\u021d, else, otherwise, A. 32; 724; so that, B. 466.\n  {Emerad, Emerade,} emerald, A. 118, 1005.\n  Emperise, empress, A. 441.\n  {Empire, Empyre,} A. 454; B. 540, 1332.\n  {Enaumayld, Enaumaylde,} enamelled, B. 1411, 1457.\n  Enbaned, supported (?), B. 1459. Sir F. Madden renders it\n    _ornamented_.\n  Enclose, B. 334.\n  Enclynande, inclining, bowing, A. 236.\n  Enclyned, prone, B. 518.\n  {Enclyin, Enclyne,} incline, A. 630, 1206.\n  Encres, increase, A. 959.\n  Encroche, approach, A. 1117; receive, C. 18.\n  Ende, die, B. 402; _on ende_, to death, C. 426. Cf. _ender-day_, and\n    _ending_ day = the day of one\u2019s death.\n  Endele\u021d, endless, A. 738.\n  Endente, A. 639, 1012.\n  Endentur, crevices, holes, B. 313. O.Fr. _endenter_, to notch, jag.\n  Endorde, adored, A. 368.\n  {Endure, Endeure,} A. 476, 1082.\n  Endyte, indite, A. 1126.\n  Ene, once; _at ene_, at once, A. 291; _at ene_, at one, A. 953. A.S.\n    _\u00e6ne_, once.\n  Enfaminied, famished, B. 1194.\n  Enforsed, forced, B. 938.\n  Engendered, begat, B. 272.\n  Enherite, inherit, B. 240.\n  Enle = enely (? _onlepi_), alone, singly, A. 849.\n  Enleuen\u00fee, eleventh, A. 1014.\n  {Enmie, Enmye,} enemy, B. 1204.\n  Enourled, encircled, surrounded, B. 18. Fr. _ourler_, to hem. _Orle_\n    in Heraldry = border. Ital. Orlo = hem, edge. Spanish and Portug.\n    Orla = selvedge, border.\n  {Enprece, Enpresse,} press, C. 43, 528.\n  Enpresse, impress, A. 1097.\n  Enpoysened, poisoned, B. 242.\n  Enprysonment, imprisonment, B. 46.\n  Enquylen, obtain, C. 39. See _Aquyle_.\n  Ensens, incense, A. 1122.\n  Entent, intent, A. 1191.\n  Entre, enter, A. 38, 1067.\n  Entr\u00e9, entrance, B. 1779.\n  Entyse, to provoke, B. 1137, 1808.\n  Enurned, adorned, decked, A. 1027.\n  Er, ere, before, A. 324, 328; B. 648.\n  {Erber, Erbere,} arbour, A. 9, 38, 1171.\n  Erbes, herbs, B. 1684.\n  Erde, land, abode, A. 248; B. 596, 601, 1006. A.S. _eard_, native\n    soil, country, region; _eardian_, to dwell, inhabit.\n      \u201cEson afterward _erdand_ on lyffe,\n      Endured his dayes drowpyaite (? _drowpande_) on age.\u201d\n        --(T.\u00a0B. 121.)\n  Erigant, arrogance, B. 148.\n  Erly, early, A. 392.\n  Ernde, errand, message, C. 52. See _Arende_.\n  Erne, eagle, B. 1698. A.S. _earn_, eagle.\n  Ernestly, quickly, rapidly, B. 277, 1240. A.S. _eornostl\u00edce_.\n  Errour, A. 422.\n  Erytage, heritage, A. 443.\n  E\u00fee, easy, A. 1202; B. 608. A.S. _e\u00e1th_.\n  Euen (wyth), _vb._ to be equal to, A. 1073.\n  Euen-songe, vespers, A. 529.\n  Euentyde, A. 582; B. 479.\n  Euer-ferne, ever-fern, C. 438. A.S. _eforfearn_, polypodium vulgare.\n    See Gloss. to Saxon Leechdoms, ii. 381.\n  Ewere, ewer, B. 1457.\n  Excuse, A. 281.\n  {Expoun, Expoune, Expowne,} expound, A. 37; B. 1058, 1729.\n  Expounyng, _sb._ expounding, B. 1565.\n  Expresse, A. 910; B. 1158.\n\n  Fable, A. 592.\n  Face, B. 1539.\n  Fader, father, A. 872.\n  {Falce, False,} B. 205, 474.\n  Falewed, became pale, faded, B. 1539. Ger. _falb_, pale, faded. A.S.\n    _fealo_, pale, reddish or yellowish; _fealwian_, to grow yellow.\n  Fale, good, C. 92. A.S. _f\u00e6l_, clean, good, true.\n  Falle\u021d, falls, happens, B. 494.\n  Falure, A. 1084.\n  Famacion, defamation, B. 188.\n  Famed, celebrated, B. 275.\n  Fande, found, A. 871.\n  Fanne\u021d, fans, flaps, B. 457.\n  Fantumme, phantom, B. 1341.\n  Farande, pleasing, A. 865; handsome, B. 607; joyous, B. 1758.\n    N.Prov.E. _farant_, decent, pleasant, nice. Gael, _farranta_, stout,\n    brave.\n  Farandely, pleasantly, C. 435. N.Prov.E. _farantly_.\n  Fare, _vb._ go, A. 129, 147; B. 100, 621, 929; fare, B. 466. A.S.\n    _faran_. O.N. _fara_.\n  Fare, _sb._ voyage, course, C. 98. A.S. _faru_, _f\u00e6r_.\n      \u201c\u00dee caf he cast o corn sum quile,\n      In \u00fee flum \u00feat hatt \u00fee Nile;\n      For-qui \u00feat flum \u00feat rennes \u00fear,\n      Til Joseph hus it has \u00fee _fare_.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 27b.)\n  Fare, conduct, A. 832; B. 861.\n  Faren, gone, passed, B. 403.\n  Fasor, form, A. 431. See T.\u00a0B. 3956.\n  Fasoun, fashion, A. 983, 1101.\n  Fat, B. 627.\n  Fate\u021d, fades, A. 1038.\n  Fathme, (_a_) embrace, B. 399; (_b_) grope, C. 273.\n      (_a_) \u201cAls I sat upon that lawe,\n      I bigan Denemark for to awe,\n      The borwes, and the castles stronge,\n      And mine armes weren so longe,\n      That I _fadmede_, al at ones,\n      Denemark with mine longe bones.\u201d --(Havelok the Dane, l. 1291.)\n    O.N. _fadma_. Dan. _fadme_. A.S. _f\u00e6thmian_, to embrace.\n  Fatte, vessel, B. 802. A.S. _f\u00e6t_.\n  Fatted, fattened, B. 56.\n  Faunt, child, maiden, A. 161.\n  Faure, four, B. 958.\n  Faurty, forty, B. 741, 743.\n  {Faut, Faute,} fault, B. 177, 236, 571.\n  Fautle\u021d, faultless, B. 794.\n  Fauty, faulty, sinful, B. 741.\n  {Fauor, Fauour,} A. 428; \u201cgret fauor,\u201d A. 968.\n  Fawre, four, B. 938.\n  Fawte, fault, B. 1736.\n  {Fax, Faxe,} hair, B. 790, 1689. A.S. _feax_.\n  Fay, _in faye_, in faith, indeed, A. 263; _par ma fay_, by my faith,\n    A. 489.\n  Faylande, failing, lacking, B. 1535.\n  Fayle, be wanting, B. 737. Set (of the sun), B. 1758.\n  Fayly, fail, A. 34; B. 548.\n  Fayn, glad, A. 393; _fayn of_, B. 642; _faynest_, B. 1219.\n  Fayned, false, B. 188.\n  Fayth, \u201cin _fayth_\u201d indeed, B. 1732; gen. sing, B. 1735.\n  Fa\u021dte, fought, A. 54.\n  {Febele, Feble,} poor, bad, B. 47, 101, 145.\n  {Fech, Feche,} fetch, A. 847, 1158; B. 621.\n  Fede, A. 29.\n  Fees, cities, B. 960. Fr. _fief_. Prov. Fr. _feu_, _fieu_. M.Lat.\n    _feudum_. Eng. _fee_. The origin of this term is to be found in\n    Goth. _faihu_, possessions. O.H.G. _fihu_, _fehu_, cattle. O.N.\n    _fe_. A.S. _feoh_, cattle, money.\n  Fel, bitterly, B. 1040. A.S. _fell_, cruel, severe.\n  Fela\u021dschyp, fellowship, B. 271.\n  Felde, field, B. 1750.\n  Fele, (?) hide, B. 914.\n  Fele, many, A. 21, 927. A.S. _f\u00e9la_.\n  Fele (feel), taste, B. 107.\n  Fele-kyn, many kinds of, B. 1483.\n  Felle, cruel, severe; _felle chere_, stern countenance, B. 139; sharp,\n    A. 367; B. 156, 1737; boisterous, rough, B. 421; bitter, B. 954.\n  Felly, fiercely, bitterly, B. 559, 571.\n  Felonye, crime, sin, A. 800; B. 205.\n  Feloun, sinner, criminal, B. 217.\n  Felt, hair, B. 1689. A.S. _felt_. Du. _velt_, felt, cloth. Cf. W.\n    _gwallt_, Gael. _falt_, hair of the head.\n  Femmale, female, B. 696.\n  Fende, fiend, devil, B. 205, 1341.\n  Fende, fend, B. 1191. Fr. _defendre_.\n  Fenden, of fiends, B. 224.\n  Feng, took (_pret._ of fonge), B. 377.\n  Fenny, dirty, vile, B. 1113. Cf. S.Prov.E. _venny_, mouldy. A.S.\n    _fenn_, mud, dirt. Goth. _fani_.\n  Fenyx, phenix, A. 430.\n  Fer, far, A. 334.\n  Ferd, Ferde, frightened, B. 897, 975.\n  Ferde, fear, B. 386; C. 215. A.S. _forhtian_, to fear; _forht_, fear.\n  Ferde, went, _pret._ of _fare_, B. 1106.\n  Fere, a companion; _in fere_, in company, together, A. 89, 884;\n    B. 985, 1062. A.S. _fera_, _gefera_, a\u00a0companion.\n  Fere\u021d, carries, A. 98. A.S. _f\u00e9rian_.\n  Fere\u021d, companions, A. 1150. See _fere_.\n  Ferke up, get up, B. 897; ferke over, go, walk over, B. 133.\n      \u201cThe freike upon faire\n      wise _ferke_ out of lyne.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 145.)\n      \u201cHe salle _ferkke_ before\n          And I salle come aftyre.\u201d --(Morte Arthure, p. 347.)\n      \u201cNow _ferkes_ to the fyrthe,\n          thees fresche mene of armes.\u201d --(_Ibid._ p. 209.)\n      \u201cThe kyng _ferkes_ furthe\n          on a faire stede.\u201d --(_Ibid._ p. 202.)\n    In T.\u00a0B. 185, it is\u00a0used transitively. The verb _to ferk_ seems\n    to\u00a0be\u00a0related\u00a0to\u00a0the Eng. _firk_, a\u00a0quick movement, jerk, etc.\n    A.S. _frician_, to\u00a0dance.\n  Ferly, _adj._ wondrous, A. 1084; _adv._ wonderfully,\u00a0B.\u00a0269, 960;\n    _sb._ wonder, astonishment,\u00a0A. 1086; marvel,\u00a0B.\u00a01529. A.S. _f\u00e6r_,\n    _f\u00e6rlice_, sudden.\n  Ferlyly, exceedingly, B. 962.\n  Ferre, farther, _comp._ of _fer_, B. 97, 98.\n  Fers, fierce, B. 101.\n  Ferslych, fiercely, C. 337.\n  Feryed, ferried, A. 946. O.N. _feria_ (from _fara_, to\u00a0go),\n    to\u00a0transport; set over.\n  Fest, fast, C. 290.\n  Fest, Feste, feast, A. 283; B. 642, 1758.\n  Festen, fasten, establish, B. 156, 327, 1255;\u00a0C.\u00a0273.\n  Fester, B. 1040.\n  Festiual, festive, B. 136.\n  Fete, _in fete_, indeed, B. 1106. O.Fr. _faict_. Fr. _fait_, a\u00a0deed,\n    feat.\n  Fe\u00feer-beddes, C. 158.\n  Fetly = featly, aptly, fitly, B. 585. See _fete_.\n  Fette, fetch, B. 802.\n  Fettle, set in order, provide, make, B. 343, 585; C. 38, 435.\n    Prov.E. _fettle_, set in order, etc. O.Fris. _fitia_, to\u00a0adorn.\n    Goth. _fetjan_. Norse, _fitla_, to labour at\u00a0a\u00a0thing\u00a0in\u00a0order\u00a0to\u00a0get\n    it right. Pl.D. _fisseln_, to bustle about.\n  Fettre, fetter, B. 1255.\n  Feture, feature, B. 794.\n  {Fetys, Fetyse,} neat, well made, B. 174; dexterity,\u00a0B.\u00a01103. O.Fr.\n    _faictis_. Lat. _factitius_, well made, neat, handsome.\n  Fetysely, handsomely, beautifully, B. 1462.\n  Fe\u021dt, fight, B. 275, 1191. A.S. _feoht_. Ger. _fecht_, fight. See\n    T.\u00a0B. 1751.\n  Fe\u021dtande, fighting, struggling, B. 404.\n  Filed, defiled. See _Fyled_.\n  Flake, flake; _flake of soufre_, B. 954. O.N. _flak_, plank, slice.\n  Flake = fleck, spot, blemish, A. 947. O.N. _fleckr_. Ger. _fleck_,\n    spot, blot, stain.\n  Flakerande, flickering, fluttering, B. 1410. Ger. _flackern_, to\n    flare, blaze, flutter.\n  Flambe, flame, A. 769.\n  Flaumbande, flaming, A. 90; shining, B. 1468.\n  Flaunke, spark, B. 954. Prov.E. _flanker_, a\u00a0flying spark. Pl. D.\n    _flunkern_, to\u00a0flicker, sparkle. Ger. _flunke_, spark.\n  Flauore, flavour, A. 87.\n  Flawen, fled, C. 214.\n  Flay, terrify, B. 960, 1723; C. 215. See T.\u00a0B. 4593. N.Prov.E. _flay_,\n    _flee_.\n  Flayn, flayed, A. 809.\n  Fla\u021dt, plot of ground, a flat, A. 57.\n  Flee\u021d, fleece (of golde), B. 1476.\n  {Flem, Fleme,} banish, A. 334; B. 31, 596. A.S. _flyman_.\n  Flem, stream, C. 309. Cf. Prov.E. _flume_, _flem_, _fleme_,\n    a\u00a0mill-stream. Norse, _flom_, _flaum_, flood, overflow of water;\n    _flauma_, to overflow.\n  {Fleschlych, Fleschly,} fleshly, carnal, B. 265; A. 1082.\n  Flet, _pret._ of flete, to flow, A. 1058.\n  {Flete, Flet,} flow, B. 1025; to people, B. 685. See T.\u00a0B. 278, 4715.\n    A.S. _fleotan_. Sw. _flyta_, flow, float. O.N. _fliota_. Prov.E.\n    _fleet_.\n  Flette, floated, _pret._ of _flete_, to float, B. 387.\n      \u201cChilder,\u201d he said, \u201cyee list and lete,\n      I sagh caf on \u00fee water _flete_.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 27b.)\n  Fle\u021de, flew, A. 431.\n  {Flod, Flode,} flood, A. 874, 1058; B. 369.\n  Flokke, flock, company, B. 386, 1767.\n  Flonc = flong = flung, A. 1165.\n  Flor, flower, A. 29, 962; _pl._ _flores_.\n  Flor, floor, B. 133.\n  Flosed, flossed, B. 1689. Cf. _floss_-silk. Ital. _floscio flosso_,\n    drooping, flaccid.\n  Flot, grease, fat, B. 1011. A.S. _fl\u00f3tan_, to float; _fl\u00f3t-smere_,\n    scum of a pot, floating fat. O.N. _fl\u00f3t_, the act of floating, the\n    grease swimming on the surface of broth. Prov.E. _fleet_.\n  {Flot, Flote,} company, A. 786, 946; army, B. 1212. O.Fr. _flote_,\n    a\u00a0crowd.\n  {Flot, Flote, Flotte,} flowed, floated, A. 46; B. 421, 432; C. 248.\n  Floty (? _flotery_), waving, A. 127.\n  Flour-de-lys, lily, A. 753.\n  Floury, flowery, A. 57.\n  Flowen, flew, fled, A. 89; B. 945.\n  Flowred, flowered, A. 270.\n  Flo\u021ded, flowed, B. 397.\n  Flurted, flowered, figured, A. 208.\n  Flyt, force, literally chiding, B. 421. O.S. _flit_, contention.\n  Flyte, to quarrel, strive, A. 353. Prov.E. _flite_, scold. A.S.\n    _flitan_.\n  Flytande, chiding, B. 950.\n  Fly\u021de, flay (?), A. 813.\n  Fly\u021dt, flight, B. 377.\n  Fo, enemy, B. 1219.\n  Fode, person, people, B. 466; _fode_, a child (King Horn, 1384);\n    _fodder_, producer, mother (King Alys. 645); A.S. _fedan_, _afedan_,\n    to bring forth, give birth to, rear. O.N._f\u00e6da_. Dan. _f\u00f6de_.\n  Fogge, dry grass, B. 1683. W. _fwg_.\n  Fol, full, B. 1754.\n  Fol, fool, B. 750, 996.\n  Fol, foolish, C. 283.\n  Folde, folded, A. 434.\n  Folde, earth, A. 334; B. 403, 950.\n  Folde, to beat, buffet, A. 813.\n  Fole, fowl, B. 1410.\n  Fole, fool, B. 202.\n  Fole, foal, B. 1255.\n  Foler, B. 1410.\n  Foles, acts foolishly, B. 1422.\n  {Folewande, Folwande,} following, A. 1040, B. 429, 1212.\n  {Folk, Folke,} people, B. 100, 542, 960.\n  Folken, of people, B. 271.\n  Folmarde. Properly the beech-martin, but commonly applied to the\n    pole-cat. O.Fr. _foine_, _faine_ (Lat. _fagina_), beechmast.\n  Folyly, foolishly, B. 696. See T.\u00a0B. 575.\n  Fol\u021de, follow, A. 127; B. 6, 677, 918, 1752. A.S. _folgian_.\n  Fol\u021ded, baptized, A. 654. A.S. _fullian_, _fulwian_, to baptize.\n  Foman, enemy, B. 1175.\n  Fon, ceased, _pret._, of _fyne_, A. 1030; B. 369. The northern form is\n    _fan_.\n      \u201cBot ai \u00fee quils he ne _fan_\n      To behald \u00fee leve maidan.\u201d --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii, fol. 20a.)\n  Fonde, to found, establish, A. 939; B. 173.\n  Fonde, to go, proceed, A. 150.\n  Fonde, try, B. 1103. A.S. _fandian_.\n  Fonden, found, B. 356.\n  Fonge, take, receive, A. 439, 479; B. 540; _fonge\u021d to the fly\u021dt_,\n    takes to flight, B. 457. A.S. _fon_. Ger. _fangen_, take, seize.\n    Goth. _fahan_.\n  Font, B. 164.\n  Fonte = _fond_, examined, A. 170, 327.\n  {Fooschyp, Foschip,} enmity, B. 918, 919.\n  For, from, B. 740; because, B. 323.\n  Forbede, forbid, A. 379; B. 1147.\n  Forbi, beyond, C. 483.\n  Forboden, forbidden, B. 826, 998.\n  Forbrent, burnt, A. 1139.\n  For-clemmed, starved, C. 395. Prov.E. _clem_, to starve, pinch with\n    hunger. Du. _klemmen_, to pinch, compress.\n  For-didden, did away with, A. 124.\n  For-dolked, severely wounded, A. 11. A.S. _dolc_, _dolh_, _dolg_,\n    a\u00a0wound; _dilgian_, to destroy.\n  Forering, B. 3. See Note.\n  Forfare, destroy; also to perish, B. 1168; C. 483; _forferde_,\n    (_pret._), B. 571, 1051.\n  Forfete, A. 619, 639; B. 743.\n  Forfyne, lastly.\n  {Forgart, Forgarte,} = for-did, lost, _pret._ of for-gar, ruin,\n    destroy, lose, A. 321; B. 240. See _Gar_.\n  Forged, made, B. 343.\n  Forhede, forehead, A. 871.\n  Foriusted, overthrown, defeated, B. 1216. Fr. _jouster_, to tilt.\n      \u201cSo mony groundes he _for-justede_ & of joy broght.\u201d\n        --(T.\u00a0B. 296.)\n  Forlete, lost, A. 327.\n  For long, very long, A. 586.\n  Forlonge, furlong, A. 1030.\n  Forlote\u021d = forlete\u021d, forsake, B. 101.\n      \u201c\u00dee laghes bath he (Adam) \u00fean _forlete_\n      Bath naturel and positif.\u201d --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 52b.)\n  Forloyne, forsake, depart, go astray, err, A. 368; B. 282, 750, 1155,\n    1165. Fr. _loin_, far.\n  For-madde, very mad (foolish), C. 509.\n  Formast, first, foremost, B. 494.\n  Forme, first, C. 38.\n  {Forme-fader, Forme-foster,} first-father, progenitor, A. 639; B. 257.\n  Fornes, furnace, B. 1011.\n  For-payned, severely troubled, A. 246.\n  Forray, forage, B. 1200. Fr. _fourrager_, to fodder, forrage, prey.\n    O.Fr. _fourrer_. Mid. Lat. _foderare_, _forrare_, from A.S. _foder_.\n    Ger. _futter_, food, victuals.\n  Forselet, a fortified place, B. 1200. \u201c_Forcelet_, stronge place\n    (_forslet_, H.\u00a0P.) Fortalicium.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.) O.Fr. _forcier_.\n    It. _forciere_. Mid. Lat. _forsarius_, a\u00a0strong box, safe, coffer.\n  Forser = forcer, forcet, A. 263. See preceding word.\n  Forsette, compass, B. 78.\n  Forsothe, forsooth, indeed, C. 212.\n  Forst, frost, B. 524. A.S. _forst_.\n  For\u00fee, way, passage, A. 150. See T.\u00a0B. 4094, 4166. Welsh, _ffordd_,\n    a\u00a0way.\n      \u201cThe kyng fraystez [seeks] a _furth_ over the fresche strandez,\n      One a strenghe by a streme in thas straytt landez.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, p. 103.)\n  Forth-lep, forth-leapt, C. 154.\n  For\u00feo\u021dt, repented, B. 557.\n  For\u00ferast, for-thrust, B. 249.\n  For\u00fey, therefore, wherefore, A. 234; B. 545, 1020.\n  For\u00feynke, repent, B. 285.\n  Fortune, A. 306.\n  Forwarde = forward, covenant, promise, B. 327, 1742. A.S.\n    _fore-weard_. \u201c_Forwarde_, or cuuinawnt, convencio, pactum.\u201d\n    (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Forwro\u021dt, over-worked, weary, C. 163.\n  For\u021des, furrows, B. 1547. A.S. _furh_. Ger. _furche_, a furrow.\n  For\u021dete, forgat, B. 203.\n  Fote, foot, A. 970.\n  Foted, footed, B. 538.\n  Founce, bottom, A. 113. See _Founs_.\n  Foundande, going, C. 126.\n  Founde, to go, B. 903.\n      \u201cQuen we suppose in our sele\n          to sit alther heist,\n      Than _fondis_ furth dame fortoun\n          to the flode \u021dates,\n      Dra\u021des up the damme borde\n          and drenchis us evir.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 64.)\n      \u201cFflorent and Floridas with fyve\n          score knyghttez,\n      ffollowede in the foreste, and on the\n          way _foundys_,\n      Fflyngande a faste trott,\n        and on the folke dryffes.\u201d\n          (Morte Arthure, p. 231.)\n  Foundemente, foundation, A. 993.\n  Founden, found, B. 547.\n  Foundered, destroyed, perished, B. 1014.\n  {Founs, Founce,} bottom, B. 1026.\n      \u201cOnone as thai on Alexander\n          and on his ost waites,\n      Thai flee as fast into flode,\n          and to the _founce_ plungid.\u201d\n      (K. Alex. p. 141.)\n  Fourferde, perished, _pret._ of _forfare_, B. 560.\n  Fowle, foully, B. 1790.\n  Fowled, became defiled, foul. B. 269.\n  Fowre, four, A. 886.\n  Foysoun, abundant, A. 1058. Fr. _foison_. O.Fr. _fuson_, from Lat.\n    _fusio_, pouring out.\n  Fraunchyse, liberality, A. 609; B. 750.\n  Fray, terrify, B. 1553. See _Afray_.\n  Frayne\u021d, demands, asks, desires, A. 129. A.S. _fregnan_, to ask. Goth.\n    _fraihnan_.\n  Frayste (_a_), sought, A. 169; (_b_) literally, to try, prove,\n    B. 1736. O.N. _fresta_.\n    (_a_)\n      \u201cBot wete thou wele this iwis, within a wale time,\n      Fra that I _fraist_ have that faire (faice?) of my faire lady,\n      I sall the seke with a sowme of seggis enarmed.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 69.)\n  {Frek, Freke,} man, B. 6, 79, 540. This word is used by Skelton. A.S.\n    _freca_, a\u00a0daring warrior, from _frec_, _freca_, bold, daring,\n    eager. The adjective _freke_ (_frek_, _frike_), was not unknown to\n    O.E. writers of the 14th century.\n      \u201cIsrael wit \u00feis uplepp,\n      \u00deat moght noght forwit strid a step,\n      Witouten asking help of sun;\n      \u00deat quak wit ilk lim was won,\n      \u00deat first for eild moght noght spek,\n      To bidd hast now es nan sa frek.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 29b.)\n  Freles, blameless, A. 431. O.N. _fryja_, to blame. _Frie_, to blame,\n    occurs in the romance of _Havelok the Dane_, 1998.\n  Freloker, more freely, B. 1106.\n  Frely, lordly, B. 162; beautiful, B. 173; freely, C. 20.\n  Frelych, lordly, B. 162; bountiful, C. 214.\n  French, an error for _frech_ (_fresh_) or _frelich_, A. 1086.\n  Frete, gnaw, eat, devour, B. 1040. A.S. _fretan_.\n  Freten, devoured, B. 404.\n  Frette, furnish, B. 339; ornament, B. 1476. A.S. _fr\u00e6tu_, ornament;\n    _fr\u00e6tewian_, _fr\u00e6twian_, trim, deck, adorn.\n  Fro, from, A. 427; B. 396. This is another form of the Northumbrian\n    _fra_. O.N. _fr\u00e1_; \u201c_to ne fro_,\u201d A. 347.\n  {Frok, Frokke,} dress, garment, frock, B. 136, 1742.\n  Fro\u00feande, frothing, frothy, filthy, B. 1721.\n  Frunt, kicked, C. 187. See T.\u00a0B. 5968.\n  Frym, beautiful, fresh, vigorous, A. 1079. Prov.E. _frim_; _frum_,\n    tender, fresh. A.S. _freme_, advantageous, good. Drayton uses the\n    phrase \u201c_frim_ pastures,\u201d _i.e._ luxuriant pastures.\n  Fryst, delay, put off, B. 743. A.S. _fyrstan_, to give respite;\n    _fyrst_, a\u00a0space of time, interval. Icel. _frest_, delay; \u201c_to\n    frist_, to trust for a time\u201d (Ray); to delay (Jam.).\n  {Fryt, Fryte,} fruit, A. 29; B. 1044.\n  Fryth, wood, A. 89; B. 534, 1680. Gael, _frith_, a heath, deer park,\n    forest.\n  Ful, foul, B. 231.\n  Fulfille, accomplish, B. 264, 1732.\n  Ful\u021ded, baptized, B. 164. See _Fol\u021ded_.\n  Fundament, foundation, A. 1010.\n  Funde, found, B. 1735.\n  Fust, fist, B. 1535.\n  Fyf, five, A. 849.\n  Fygure, A. 170, 747.\n  Fykel, treacherous, deceitful, C. 283.\n  Fyldor, gold thread, A. 106. Fr. _fil d\u2019or_.\n  Fyled, defiled, dirty, B. 136.\n  Fyled, formed, B. 1460.\n  Fylsened, strengthened, aided, supported, B. 1167, 1644. A.S. _fylst_,\n    help, assistance; _fylstan_, to help, aid.\n  Fylter, huddle together, B. 224; join, B. 696; meet together in\n    battle, B. 1191; become ragged, entangled. Prov.E. _felter_,\n    entangle, clot. Fairfax uses the phrase \u201c_feltred_ locks.\u201d Cf. the\n    phrase a \u201c_filtered_ fole,\u201d a shaggy foal. Baker says that the term\n    _felt_ is applied to a matted growth of grass.\n      \u201cHis fax and his foretoppe was _filterede_ togeder.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, p. 91.)\n  Fylyoles (= _fyells_, _phiolls_), round towers, B. 1462. Cf. _Fala_,\n    a\u00a0tour of tre. Med. Gram.\n  Fyne, _vb._ end, die, A. 328; cease, A. 353; B. 450; delay, B. 929.\n  Fyne, _sb._ cessation, A. 635.\n  Fynne, fin, B. 531.\n  Fyole, B. 1476.\n  Fyrmament, B. 221.\n  Fyrre, _adv._ farther, comp. of _fer_, A. 103, 127; B. 766; C. 116;\n    _adj._ distant, A. 148. A.S. _fyrre_.\n  Fyrte, fearful, trembling, A. 54. A.S. _fyrhto_; _fyrhtu_, fear,\n    fright, trembling; _forht_, fearful, timid.\n  Fy\u00feel, fiddle, B. 1082.\n  Fy\u00feere, feather, B. 530, 1026.\n\n  Galle, gall, stain, filth, A. 1060; B. 1022. Cf. to _gall_, fret. Fr.\n    _galler_. W. _gwall_. O.N. _galli_, fault, imperfection. Dan. _gal_,\n    wrong, ill.\n  Gain, against, A. 138.\n  Gardyn, A. 260.\n  Gare, cause, make, drive, A. 331; B. 690. N.Prov.E. _gar_. O.N.\n    _g\u00f6ra_, _gera_.\n  Garlande, A. 1186.\n  Garnyst, garnished, ornamented, B. 1277.\n  Gart, forced, made, A. 1151. See _gare_; _garten_, _3d pers. pl._\n    A. 86.\n  Gate, way, A. 395, 526; B. 676, 931. See T.\u00a0B. 6292. O.N. _gata_.\n  {Gaule, Gawle,} A. 463; C. 285. See _galle_.\n  {Gay, Gaye,} A. 260; B. 830, 1315.\n  Gayn, _vb._ avail, A. 343; C. 164; prevail, B. 1608. Sc. _gane_;\n    _gain_, to be fit or suitable.\n  {Gayn, Gayne,} useful, available, good, B. 259, 749.\n  {Gaynly, Gaynlych,} gainly, gracious, B. 728; C. 83. Cf. ungainly =\n    awkward. O.N. _gegn_, convenient, suitable; _gegna_, to meet.\n  Ga\u021dafylace, royal treasury, B. 1283.\n  Geder, gather, C. 105.\n  Gef, gave, A. 174.\n  Gele, spy, see, A. 931.\n  Gemme, A. 253.\n  Gendered, engendered, B. 300.\n  Gendre\u021d, genders, kinds, B. 434.\n  Generacyoun, A. 827.\n  {Gent, Gente,} gentle, noble, gracious, A. 118, 253, 265; B. 1495.\n  Gentryse, nobleness, B. 1159, 1216.\n  Gentyl, noble, A. 278; _gentyleste_, A. 1015; B. 1180.\n  Gentylmen, B. 864.\n  Gere, gear, B. 16; C. 148.\n  Gere, clothing, attire, B. 1811.\n  Gered, covered, clothed, ornamented, B. 1344, 1568. O.N. _gerfi_. A.S.\n    _gearwa_, habiliments. O.H.G. _garawi_, ornament, dress. A.S.\n    _gearwan_; _gearwian_, make ready, prepare, supply.\n  Gesse, tell, A. 499. Norse, _gissa_.\n  Geste, tale, saying, A. 277.\n  {Geste, Gest,} guest, B. 98, 640.\n  Gettes, devices, B. 1354. O.N. _geta_, to conceive. A.S.\n    \u201cand-_gitan_,\u201d get, know, understand.\n  Geuen, given, A. 1190.\n  Gilde, gilt, B. 1344.\n  Giles, gills, C. 269.\n  Gilofre, gilly flower, A. 43. Fr. _girofl\u00e9e_. Lat. _caryophyllus_,\n    a\u00a0clove.\n  Glace = glance, A. 171. Fr. _glacer_, _glacier_, slide, slip. Cf. O.E.\n    _glace_, to polish, glance as an arrow turned aside.\n  Glade, _vb._ to gladden, A. 861.\n  Glam, word, message, B. 499; C. 63; talk, speech, B. 830; noise,\n    B. 849. Obsolete Swedish, _glamm_, talk, chatter; _glamma_, to talk,\n    chatter. Gael. _glam_, outcry. O.N. _glam_, clash; _glamra_, to\n    rattle. Sc. _glamer_, noise, clatter.\n      \u201cAlle thire he closis in that cliffe, and cairis on forthire,\n      To the occyann at the erthes ende, and, ther in an ilee, he heres\n      A grete _glaver_ and a _glaam_ of grekin tongis.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 188.)\n  {Glas, Glasse,} A. 990, 1025.\n  Glauere, to deceive, A. 688. Cf. N.Prov.E. _glaver_, _glaiver_, to\n    talk foolishly; _glauver_, flattery. W. _glafr_. Irish _glafaire_,\n    a\u00a0babbler.\n      \u201cSir,\u201d sais syr Gawayne,\n          \u201cSo me gode helpe,\n      Siche _glaverande_ gomes\n          greves me bot lyttille.\u201d --(Morte Arthure, p. 212.)\n    See extract under word _glam_.\n  Glaymande, slimy, C. 269. Cf. \u201cgleyme or rewme, reuma;\u201d \u201cgleymyn or\n    _yngleymyn_, visco, invisco.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Glayre, glare, amber, A. 1026. A.S. _gl\u00e6re_, amber. O.N. _gler_. Dan.\n    _glar_, glass.\n  Glayue, a sword, A. 654. Fr. _glaive_. Lat. _gladius_.\n  Gle, joy, glee, A. 95, 1123.\n  Glede, kite, B. 1696. A.S. _gl\u00edda_.\n  {Glem, Gleme,} gleam, light, A. 79; brightness, B. 218; _day-glem_,\n    daylight, A. 1094; _heven-glem_, heaven light, B. 946.\n  Glemande, gleaming, shining, A. 70, 990.\n  Glene, glean, gather, A. 955.\n  {Glent, Glente,} shone, A. 70, 114, 1026; B. 218. Sc. _glent_,\n    _glint_, to gleam. Dan. _glindse_, to glisten; _glindre_, to\n    glitter.\n      \u201cThe schaftes of the schire sone schirkind the cloudis,\n      And gods glorious gleme _glent_ tham emannge.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 164.)\n  {Glent, Glente,} slipped, fell, A. 671. Sc. _glint_, _glent_, not only\n    signifies to gleam, shine, but also to glide, slide. W. _ysglentio_,\n    to slide.\n      \u201cGlissonand as the glemes \u00feat _glenttes_ of \u00fee snaw.\u201d\n        --(T.\u00a0B. 3067.)\n  Glente\u021d, _sb._ looks, A. 1144.\n  {Glet, Glette,} dirt, mud, slime, and hence filth, sin, A. 1060;\n    B. 306, 573; C. 269. Pl. D. _glett_, slippery. Sc. _gl\u00edt_, pus. O.N.\n    _gl\u00e6ta_, wet.\n  Glewed, called, prayed, C. 164. Fr. _glay_, cry.\n  Glode\u021d, glades, A. 79.\n  Gloped, was terrified, frightened, amazed, B. 849. O.N. _glapa_,\n    stare, gaze, gape. O.Fris. _glupa_, to look, peep. Dan. _glippe_,\n    to wink. N.Prov.E. _glop_, _gloppen_, to be amazed, to frighten.\n      \u201cBees not _aglopened_ madame ne greved at my fadire.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 30.)\n      \u201cThane _glopned_ the glotone and glorede unfaire.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, p. 90.)\n      \u201cO, my hart is rysand in a _glope_!\n      For this nobylle tythand thou shalle have a droppe.\u201d\n        --(Town. Myst. p. 146.)\n  Glopnedly, fearfully, B. 896.\n  Glory, A. 934; B. 1522.\n  {Gloryous, Glorious, Gloryus,} A. 799, 915.\n  Glotoun, a wicked wretch, a loose fellow, a ribald, B. 1505.\n  Gloumb, look, observe, C. 94. Chaucer uses _glombe_ in the sense of\n    looking gloomy, sullen, frowning. It seems to be connected with O.N.\n    _glampa_, to glitter, shine. Cf. O.E. _glent_, to shine, and\n    _glent_, to look. So also _stare_ signifies not only to look\n    steadfastly at, but to shine, glitter.\n  Glowed, shone, A. 114. O.N. _glo\u00e1_, to glow, burn, shine.\n  Glwande, glowing, shining, bright, C. 94.\n  Glydande, going, walking, B. 296.\n  Glyde, to go, walk, slip along, B. 325, 677, 1590. Pl. D. _gliden_,\n    _glien_, slip, glide.\n  Glyfte, became frightened, B. 849. Originally to stare, look\n    astonished.\n      \u201c\u00deys munke stode ande lokede \u00fearto,\n      And hade \u00feerof so moche drede,\n      \u00deat he wende have go to wede:\n      As he stode so sore _aglyfte_\n      Hys ry\u021dt hande up he lyfte,\n      Ande blessede hym self stedfastly.\u201d\n        --(Handlyng Synne, l. 3590.)\n    _Gliffe_, in O.E. signifies also to look, shine, glow. Sc. _glevin_,\n    to glow; _gliff_, a\u00a0glimpse; _gliffin_, to wink. Dan. _glippe_, to\n    wink.\n  Glymme, brightness, A. 1088. O.Sw. _glimma_, to shine.\n  Glysnande, shining, glistening. A. 1018. A.S. _glisnian_. O.N.\n    _glyssa_, to sparkle, glitter.\n  Gly\u021dt, shone, A. 114; looked, C. 453. Du. _glicken_, to shine. Icel.\n    _glugga_, to peep. _A-gly\u021dte_, slipped from, in line 245, is\n    evidently another form of _gly\u021dt_. Cf. N.Prov.E. _glea_, _aglea_,\n    crooked, aside; _gledge_, to look asquint. Sc. _gley_, _gly_, to\n    squint, all of which originally signified simply to look, shine. See\n    T.\u00a0B. 3943.\n  Gnede, niggardly, beggarly, B. 146. The MS. reads nede, but _gnede_ is\n    the correct form. Dan. _gnide_, to rub. A.S. _gnidan_. Cf. O.E.\n    _nithing_, a\u00a0miser. A.S. _gnethen_, moderate, sparing.\n      \u201cSua lang has thir tua boght \u00feair sede,\n      \u00deat \u00feair mon\u00e9 wex al _gnede_.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 31a.)\n      \u201cBot fra \u00feair store bigan to sprede\n      The pastur \u00feam bigan to _knede_.\u201d --(_Ibid._ fol. 15a.)\n      \u201cBot al he tok in godds nam,\n      And thold luveli al \u00feat scam;\n      For al to _gnede_ him thoght \u00fee gram\n      \u00deat he moght thol on his licam\u201d --(_Ibid._ fol. 51a.)\n  Goande, going, B. 931.\n  Goblote, goblet, B. 1277.\n  {God, Gode,} good, wealth. See _Goud_.\n  Godhede, godhead, A. 413.\n  Godlych, good, B. 753.\n  Golf, deep, abyss, A. 608.\n  Gome, man, A. 231; B. 1315.\n  Gorde = _girde_, rush, go headlong, B. 911, 957. See T.\u00a0B. 169.\n  Gore, filth, B. 306. A.S. _gor_, wet, filth, mud. N. _gor_.\n  Gorste, gorse, B. 99, 534. W. _gores_, _gorest_, waste, open.\n  {Gost, Goste,} spirit, A. 86; B. 325, 1598.\n  Gostly, spiritual, ghostly, A. 790.\n  Gote, stream, A. 934; B. 413; C. 310; _pl._ gote\u021d, A. 608. Prov.E.\n    _gote_, _goit_, _gowt_, ditch, sluice, mill-stream. Du. _gote_,\n    kennel, conduit. A.S. _geotan_, to pour.\n      \u201cAs _gotes_ out of _guttars_ in golanand, (glomand ?) wedors,\n      So voidis doun the venom be vermyns schaftes.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 163.)\n  {Goud, Goude, God,} _adj._ good, A. 33, 568; _sb._ wealth, riches,\n    A. 731, 734; B. 1326.\n  {Goun, Goune,} gown, dress, B. 145, 1568.\n  Governor, B. 1645; C. 199.\n  Gowde\u021d, goods, C. 286.\n  Grace, A. 436.\n  {Gracios, Gracious,} A. 95, 260, 934; C. 26.\n  Gracyously, B. 488.\n  Grame, wrath, vengeance, C. 53. A.S. _grama_. Ger. _gram_, anger,\n    displeasure.\n  Graunt, _sb._ leave, permission, A. 317; _vb._ grant, B. 765; C. 240.\n  Grauayl, gravel, pebbles, A. 81.\n  Grauen, graven, B. 1324.\n  Grauen, buried, B. 1332.\n  Grayne\u021d, grains, A. 31.\n  Gray\u00feed, prepared, B. 343, placed, B. 1485; availed, C. 53. See T.\u00a0B.\n    229. O.N. _greitha_, to make ready. N.Prov.E. _graid_.\n  Gray\u00feely, quickly, readily, B. 341; truly, A. 499; C. 240. N.Prov.E.\n    _gradely_. See T.\u00a0B. 54.\n      \u201cOn Gydo, a gome \u00feat _graidly_ had soght,\n      And wist all \u00fee werks by weghes he hade.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 229.)\n    Cf. _Grai\u00fee_ = ready.\n  Gre, will, desire, C. 348; hence _bongre_, _malgre_, etc. O.Fr.\n    _gret_. Fr. _gr\u00e9_, will, pleasure. Lat. _gratus_, pleasing.\n  Grece, step, B. 1590.\n  Gredirne, gridiron, B. 1277.\n  Greffe, grief, A. 86.\n  Greme, _adj._ displeasing, C. 42; wrath, B. 16, 947; _vb._ to make\n    angry, displease, B. 138, 1347. A.S. _gremian_, to displease.\n  Greme, spot, blemish, A. 465. Norse _grima_, a spot.\n  Gresse, grass, A. 10, 245; B. 1028.\n  Grete, the whole, A. 637, ? altogether A. 851; a _grete_, in the\n    gross--a head, A. 560.\n  Grete, weep, A. 331. A.S. _gr\u00e6tan_, Prov.E. _greet_.\n  Gretyng, _sb._ weeping, B. 159.\n  Greue, grieve, A. 471; B. 138, 302, 306.\n  Greue, grove, A. 321; B. 99.\n  Greuing, _sb._ sorrowing, grief, B. 159.\n  Gromylyoun, the herb _gromwell_, grey millet, (Lithospermum\n    officinale), A. 43. \u201c_Gromaly_ herbe. Milium solis.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Grone, groan, B. 1077.\n  Gropande, searching, trying, B. 591. A.S. _gr\u00e1pian_, to touch, feel,\n    seize, grope. O.N. _greipa_.\n  Gropyng, _sb._ handling, B. 1102.\n  Grounde, ground, sharpened, A. 654.\n  Groundele\u021d, bottomless, C. 310.\n  Grouelyng, on the face, A. 1120. O.N. _grufa_; _grufa nidr_, to stoop\n    down. _Liggia \u00e1 grufu_, to lie face downwards, to lie groveling.\n  Gruche, begrudge, B. 1347.\n  Gru\u021dt, _pret._ of _gruche_, B. 810.\n  Grychchyng, _sb._ murmuring, repining, C. 53.\n  Grym, black, A. 1070.\n  Grymly, sharply, A. 654; roughly, B. 1534.\n  Grymme, horrible, B. 1553; sharp, B. 1696. A.S. _grim_; _grimm_, fury,\n    rage; sharp, bitter; \u201ca _grym_ toole,\u201d T.\u00a0B. 938.\n  Grynde, A. 81.\n  Gryndel, angry, C. 524. Norse _grina_, wry the mouth; _grinall_, sour\n    looking. Du. _grinnen_, _grinden_, to grin, snarl.\n  Grysly, horrible, B. 1534. A.S. _grisl\u00edc_, horrible; _a-gr\u00edsan_, to\n    dread, fear greatly.\n  Gryspyng, _sb._ gnashing of the teeth. A.S. _grist-b\u00edtung_.\n  Gryste, dirt (?), A. 465.\n  Guere, gear, B. 1505.\n  Guferes, evidently an error for _guteres_, C. 310. See T.\u00a0B. 3072. See\n    extract under word _gote_.\n  {Gult, Gulte,} guilt, A. 942; B. 690.\n  Gulty, guilty, C. 210, 285.\n  Gut, C. 280.\n  Gyde-ropes, C. 105.\n  Gye, govern, B. 1598. Fr. _guider_; _guier_, direct, guide.\n  Gyle, guile, A. 671, 688; C. 285.\n  Gylt, guilt, B. 731.\n  Gylte\u021d, A. 655.\n  Gyltle\u021d, guiltless, A. 668.\n  Gyltyf, guilty, A. 669.\n  Gyn, machine; applied to the ark, B. 491; to a boat, C. 146.\n  Gyng, company, A. 455. A.S. _genge_. See T.\u00a0B. 1225.\n      \u201c\u00dean was Jacob busked yare,\n      Wit al \u00fee _gynge_ \u00feat wit him ware.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 30a.)\n  Gyngure, ginger, A. 43.\n  Gyse, guise, A. 1099.\n  Gyternere, A. 91. Fr. _guiterre_; _guiterne_, a gittern. (Cot.) Lat.\n    _cithara_, a\u00a0harp.\n\n  Habbe, have, B. 75; _habes_, _habbes_, has, B. 555, 995.\n  {Hach, Hachche,} hatch (of a ship), B. 409; C. 179.\n  Hafyng. See _Hauyng_.\n  Hagherlych, fitly, B. 18. See _Ha\u021derly_.\n  Haldande, holding, C. 251.\n  Halde, hold, A. 454, 490; B. 652.\n  Halden, held, A. 1191; B. 42.\n  Hale, flow, A. 125. The original meaning is to drag along. Ger.\n    _holen_. O.N. _hala_. Fr. _haler_. Cf. T.\u00a0B. 1782.\n  Hale, toss, B. 1520; C. 219.\n  Half, side, quarter, B. 950. O.N. _halfa_.\n  Halke, recess, B. 104, 321. A.S. _hylca_, hooks, turnings. \u201c_Halke_ or\n    hyrne. Angulus, latibulum.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.) See Canterbury Tales,\n    11433.\n  Halse, salute, wish one health, B. 1621. O.N. _heilsa_. Sw. _halsa_,\n    to salute. O.N. _heilsa_, health. See T.\u00a0B. 367.\n  Halt, lame, B. 102. O.N. _halltr_, lame; _haltra_, _halta_, to limp.\n  Halue, behalf, B. 896.\n  Halue, side, border, B. 1039.\n  Halyday, holy day, B. 134; C. 9.\n  Hal\u021ded, hallowed, sanctified, B. 506, 1163.\n  Hampre, to pack up for removal, B. 1284.\n  Han (_3d pers. pl. pres._), have, A. 776.\n  Hande-helme, B. 419.\n  Hapene\u021d, is blessed, B. 27.\n  Happe, joy, A. 16, 1195; _happe\u021d_, blessings, B. 24; C. 11. O.N.\n    _happ_.\n  Happe, cover, B. 626; C. 450. Prov.E. _hap_, to cover; _happing_,\n    covering.\n      \u201cLord, what (lo) these weders ar cold, and I am ylle _happyd_.\u201d\n        --(Town. Myst. p. 98.)\n    \u201c_Happyn_ or _whappyn\u2019_ yn clo\u00feys.\u201d \u201c_Lappyn\u2019_, or _whappyn\u2019_ yn\n    clo\u00feys (_happyn_ to-gedyr, S.; _wrap_ to-geder in clothes, P.)\n    Involvo.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Happen, _adj._ happy, blessed, C. 13, 17, 19, 21.\n  Hard, coarse cloth made of tow, \u201c_hard_ hattes,\u201d B. 1209. A.S.\n    _heordan_, _heordas_, hards, refuse of tow.\n      \u201cSum araies thaim in ringes, and sum in row breuys,\n      With _hard hattes_ on thaire hedis hied to thaire horsis.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 102.)\n  Hardy, bold, B. 143.\n  Hardyly, boldly, A. 3.\n  Hare, B. 391.\n  Harlot, underling, B. 39; servant, profane jester, B. 860, 1584;\n    _harlote\u021d_, harlot\u2019s, B. 34; harlots, B. 860. This term was not\n    originally confined to females, nor even to persons of bad\n    character. W. _herlawd_, _herlod_, a youth; _herlodes_, a\u00a0damsel.\n    Cf. \u201c_harlotte_ scurrus.\u201d \u201cGerro a tryfelour or a harlott.\u201d Med. MS.\n    Cant. \u201cAn _harlott_, balator, rusticus, gerror, mima, joculator,\n    nugatur, scurrulus, manducus. An _harlottry_, lecacitas,\n    inurbanitas,\u201d etc. To \u201cdo _harlottry_, scurrari.\u201d Cath. Ang. in\n    Prompt. Parv.\n      \u201cFfore _harlottez_ and _hause-mene_ (house-men) salle helpe bott\n      littille.\u201d --(Morte Arthure, p. 229.)\n  Harlottrye, profane speaking, B. 579.\n  Harme, _sb._ wrong, sin, C. 17; _pl._ _harme\u021d_, harms, A. 388.\n  Harmle\u021d, guiltless, A. 676, 725.\n  Harpe, A. 881.\n  Harpen (_3d pers. pl. pres._), play on the harp, A. 881.\n  Harpore\u021d, harpers, A. 881.\n  Haspe, fasten, B. 419; clothe, cover, C. 381. O.N. _hespa_, a\u00a0clasp,\n    buckle. Cf. \u201c_haspyng_ in armys.\u201d T.\u00a0B. 367.\n  Haspede, hook, C. 189. Cf. Dan. _haspe_, windlass, reel; _haspevinde_\n    capstan of a ship.\n  {Hastif, Hastyf,} hasty, C. 520.\n  {Hastyfly, Hastyly,} hastily, quickly, B. 200, 1150.\n  Hat, call, B. 448. A.S. _h\u00e1tan_, to call.\n  {Hatel, Hattel,} anger, B. 200; fierce, B. 227; keen, sharp, C. 367,\n    481. S.Saxon _hatel_, _hetel_, keen, sharp, bitter. A.S. _h\u00e9tel_,\n    fierce. O.Sax. _hatol_. A.S. _atol_, dire, cruel.\n  Hatere, clothing, garments, B. 33. A.S. _h\u00e6tern_, _h\u00e6ter_, clothing,\n    apparel.\n  Ha\u00feel, man, literally noble, A. 676; B. 27, 409, 1597. A.S. _\u00e6thele_,\n    noble; _\u00e6theling_, a\u00a0ruler, man.\n      \u201cHomer was holden _haithill_ of dedis.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 38.)\n  Hatte, is called, B. 926; C. 35.\n  Haunte, practise, C. 15. Fr. _hanter_, frequent, haunt, literally, to\n    follow a certain course.\n  Haueke, hawk, B. 537.\n  Hauen, haven, port, B. 420.\n  Hauyng, condition, behaviour, A. 450, 754.\n  Haylsed, saluted, A. 238; B. 612, 814. See _Halse_. See T.\u00a0B. 1792.\n  Hayre, heir, B. 666.\n  Hayre\u021d, shirts of horse-hair, hair-cloth, sack-cloth, C. 373. A.S.\n    _h\u00e9ra_.\n  Ha\u021derly, fitly, properly, B. 18. This word occurs in the Ormulum under\n    _ha\u021dherrlike_. O.N. _h\u00e6gr_, dexter, facilis. Dan. _haage_, to\n    please; _haagelig_, agreeable, acceptable.\n  Hede, notice, A. 1051.\n  Hef, heaved, raised, C. 219.\n  Heke = eke, also, A. 210.\n  Helde, bend to, come to, B. 1330. A.S. _healdan_; _hyldan_, incline,\n    lean to. Dan. _helde_.\n  Helde, _adv._ willingly, A. 1193; _in helde_, in mind, in purpose,\n    disposed, B. 1520.\n  Helded, approached, B. 39.\n  Helde\u021d, goes, walks, B. 678.\n      \u201c\u00deir brether _helid_ ai forth \u00feair wai\n      \u00deat to \u00feair fader ful suith com \u00feai.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 29b.)\n  Hele, safety, C. 335; health, B. 1099; pleasure, A. 16. A.S. _h\u00e9l_.\n  Helle-hole, B. 223.\n  Hellen, of hell, C. 306.\n  Helme, C. 149.\n  Hem, them, C. 180.\n  Hemme, border, A. 1001.\n  Hende, gracious, B. 612; C. 398; pleasant, B. 1083. Norse _hendt_,\n    adapted; _hendug_. Dan. _h\u00e6ndig_, handy, dextrous. Cf. _hendly_,\n    T.\u00a0B. 1792.\n  Hendelayk, mildness, civility, B. 860. Hard-_laike_ occurs in T.\u00a0B.\n    2213.\n  {Heng, Henge,} hang, B. 1584, 1734.\n  Hens, hence, C. 204.\n  {Hent, Hente,} take, seize, receive, A. 388, 669; B. 151, 376, 883,\n    1150. O.N. _henda_. A.S. _hentan_.\n  Hepe, heap, company. B. 1775.\n  Her, their, A. 888.\n  Here, heir, B. 52.\n    \u201cBede his doughter come downe and his _dere heire_.\u201d (T.\u00a0B. 389.)\n  Here, hair, A. 210.\n  Here, company, B. 409, 902. T.\u00a0B. 6253. A.S. _here_, an army, host,\n    etc.\n  Hered, honoured, B. 1086. A.S. _h\u00e9rian_, to praise, commend.\n  {Herken, Herkne,} hearken, B. 193, 458.\n  Herne\u021d, brains, A. 58. O.N. _hjarni_. Sw. _hjerna_.\n  Herne\u021d = erne\u021d, eagles, B. 537.\n  Hert, heart, B. 1723.\n  Hertte, hart, B. 391, 535.\n  Heruest, harvest, B. 523.\n  Hery, honour, praise, B. 1527. See _hered_.\n  {Herytage, Heritage,} A. 417; B. 652.\n  Her\u021de, harry, B. 1179, 1294; drag out, C. 178. Sc. _herry_; _harry_,\n    rob, spoil, pillage. A.S. _hergian_, _herian_, to plunder, afflict,\n    vex. Fr. _harrier_, provoke, molest. O.N. _heria_, to make an inroad\n    on.\n  {Hest, Heste,} command, A. 633; B. 94, 341; promise, B. 1636.\n  Hete, promise, vow, A. 402; B. 1346; C. 336. O.N. _haeta_, to\n    threaten. T.\u00a0B. 240.\n  Heter, rough, C. 373. See T.\u00a0B. 5254. N.Prov. _hetter_, _hitter_,\n    eager, earnest.\n  Heterly, quickly, greatly, fiercely, A. 402; B. 380, 1222; C. 381,\n    477. See T.\u00a0B. 3499.\n  He\u00fee, heath, B. 535.\n  He\u00feen, hence, A. 231. O.N. _h\u00ebthan_. See T.\u00a0B. 5115.\n  He\u00feyng, scorn, contempt, B. 579, 710; C. 2. O.N. _h\u00e1thung_. See T.\u00a0B.\n    1753, 1818.\n  Heue, heave, raise, A. 314, 473. O.N. _hefia_.\n  Heued, head, A. 459, 465.\n  Heuen, raise, exalt, A. 16; B. 24, 506; increase, \u201c_heuen \u00fei hele_.\u201d\n    B.\u00a0920. We also meet with the phrase to \u201c_heuen harm_.\u201d\n      \u201cQua folus lang wit uten turn,\n      Oft his fote sal find a spurn;\n      Reu his res \u00fean sal he sare,\n      Or _heuen_ his harme with foli mare.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 25a.)\n  Heuen-ryche, the kingdom of heaven, A. 719; C. 14.\n  Heuy, sorrowful, A. 1180; C. 2.\n  Heyred, harried, dragged, pulled, B. 1786. See _Her\u021de_. \u201c_Harryn\u2019_ or\n    _drawyn\u2019_ trahicio, pertraho\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Heyred = heryed, honoured, B. 1527. See _Hered_.\n  He\u021de, high, lofty, B. 1391, 1749.\n  He\u021de, hasten, B. 1584. See _Hy\u021de_.\n  {He\u021dt, He\u021d\u00fee,} height, A. 1031; B. 317.\n  {Hide, Hidde,} hid, hidden, B. 1600, 1628.\n  Hidor, fear, C. 367. O.Fr. _hisdour_; _hidour_, dread.\n  Hiled, covered, B. 1397. A.S. _h\u00e9lan_, _h\u00e9lian_. Prov.E. _hele_,\n    _hill_, _hile_, to cover. O.N. _hylia_, to hide.\n  Hitte, to make for, C. 289; come, B. 479; C. 380. O.N. _hitta_, to\n    light on, find.\n      \u201c\u00deai turne into Tessaile withouten tale more,\n      _Hit_ up into a havyn all the hepe samyn.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 991.)\n  Hi\u021de = high, loud, B. 1564.\n  Hi\u021dly, greatly, B. 920.\n  Ho, she, A. 232, 233; B. 659. A.S. _heo_. Prov.E. _hoo_.\n  Ho-beste\u021d, she-heasts, B. 337.\n  Hod, hood, B. 34.\n  Hodle\u021d, hoodless, B. 643.\n  Hofen, (_p.p._ of _heve_), exalted, raised, B. 1711.\n  Hokyllen, beat, B. 1267. Is this an error for _hollkyen_? See\n    _Holkke_.\n  Hol, whole, B. 102, 594.\n  Hole-foted, B. 538.\n  Holde, dominion, B. 1597.\n  Holkke, thrust out, B. 1222. The original meaning seems to be \u201cto make\n    hollow, dig out, pierce.\u201d A.S. _holian_, to hollow; _hol_, _holh_,\n    a\u00a0hole. Cf. O.Sc. and O.E. _holket_, hollow; _holk_, dig out.\n    Prov.E. _hulk_, to take out entrails of rabbits and hares (Baker).\n    Sw. _holka_, _hulka_, to hollow.\n  Holly, wholly, B. 104, 1140.\n  Holte\u021d, woods, A. 921. A.S. _holt_, wood, grove; \u201c_holte woddes_,\u201d\n    T.\u00a0B. 1351.\n  Hol\u021de, hollow, B. 1695. A.S. _holh_.\n  Homly, familiar, domestic, A. 1211.\n  Hommes, hams, thighs, B. 1541. O.N. _h\u00f6m_, the back of the thigh.\n  Honde, hand, A. 49, 706; B. 174.\n  Hondel, handle, B. 11.\n  Hondelyng, _sb._ handling, B. 1101.\n  Hondelynge, _adv._ with hands, A. 681.\n  Honde-werk, handwork, C. 496.\n  Honde-whyle, a moment, B. 1786. A.S. _hand-hw\u00edl_; \u201cin a _hond-while_,\u201d\n    T.\u00a0B. 406.\n  Hone, to delay, abide, A. 921. See Met. Hom., p.\u00a0129.\n  Honest, B. 14, 18.\n  Honestly, B. 134, 705.\n  Honour, A. 852; B. 594.\n  Honyse\u021d, destroys, ruins, B. 596. O.Fr. _honeison_, shame; _honnir_,\n    to shame, blame, borrowed from Goth, _haunjan_. Ger. _h\u00f6hnen_.\n      \u201cAnd Alexander alle that quile asperly rydis\n      To the grete flode of Granton, and it one a glance fyndes,\n      Or he was so\u021dt to the side \u021dit sondird the qweryns,\n      His hors it _hunyschist_ for evir, and he with hard schapid.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 102.)\n  Hope, expect, think, suppose, A. 142; B. 663.\n  Hores, theirs, C. 14.\n  Hores (?), B. 1695.\n  Hortyng, _sb._ hurting, harm, B. 740.\n  Horwed, unclean, B. 335. A.S. _horwa_, _h\u00f3ru_, dirt; _hyrwian_, to\n    defile.\n  Horyed, hurried, B. 883.\n  {Hot, Hote,} angry, B. 200.\n  Hourlande, rolling, rushing, hurling, C. 271.\n  Hourle, wave, C. 319.\n  Household, B. 18.\n  Houe, abide, B. 927. W. _hofian_; _hofio_, to fluctuate, hover,\n    suspend.\n  Houe\u021d, hovers, B. 458, 485.\n  Houen, exalted, raised, B. 206, 413, 1451.\n  Hue, cry, voice, A. 873.\n  {Hue, Huee,} hue, complexion, A. 842; B. 1483.\n  Huge, great, B. 4, 1659.\n  Hunger, _vb._ C. 19.\n  Hurkele, hang, B. 150; rest, 406. The original meaning is to nestle,\n    crouch, squat. N.Prov.E. _hurkle_, to squat, crouch, nestle. Du.\n    _hurken_, to squat. O.N. _hruka_.\n      \u201cThen come ther in a litill brid into his arme fle\u021de,\n      And ther _hurkils_ and hydis as sche were hande tame,\n      Fast scho flekirs about his fete, and fle\u021dtirs aboute.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 18.)\n  Hurlande, hurling, rushing, B. 413, 1211.\n  Hurle, rush, B. 44, 223, 376, 874, 1204; \u201c_hurlet_ out of houses,\u201d\n    T.\u00a0B. 1365.\n  Hurrok, oar, B. 419; C. 185. Prov.E. _orruck_. \u201c_Orruck_-holes,\n    oar-drawing holes, as distinct from thole-pins, which are less used\n    in our boats: _rykke_, to draw (Dan.). Compare English _rullocks_.\u201d\n    Norfolk Words: Miss A. Gurney in Transactions of Philological\n    Society for 1855, p.\u00a034.\n  Huyde, hide, B. 915.\n  Huyle, while, A. 41.\n  Hwe, hue, A. 896; _hwes_, B. 1119.\n  Hwed, coloured, B. 1045.\n  Hyde, skin, A. 1136.\n  Hyl-coppe, hill-top, A. 791. See _Coppe_.\n  Hynde = hende, courteous, A. 909; B. 1098.\n  Hyne, servants; _hinds_, A. 505, 632, 1211. A.S. _hina_, _hine_ (for\n    _higna_, _higne_), a\u00a0domestic. O.N. _hion_, family.\n  Hyre, _sb._ hire, wages, A. 534, 539.\n  Hyre, _vb._ A. 507, 560.\n  Hyrne, corner, B. 1294; C. 178. A.S. _hyrne_. \u201cHyd hom in houles and\n    _hyrnys_ aboute,\u201d T.\u00a0B. 1362.\n  Hytte\u021d, strives, seeks, A. 132.\n  Hyue, hive, B. 223.\n  Hyure, hire, C. 56.\n  Hy\u021de, high grounds, heights, B. 391.\n  {Hy\u021de, Hy\u021d,} high, A. 39, 395; B. 380; \u201con _hy\u021de_,\u201d B. 413; \u201c_hy\u021de_\n    trot,\u201d quick pace, B. 976.\n  Hy\u021de, hie, hasten, B. 33, 392, 538; C. 217. A.S. _higan_, _higian_.\n  Hy\u021de, labourer, servant, B. 67. A.S. _higo_, a servant. See _Hine_.\n  Hy\u021dly, greatly, B. 1527.\n  Hy\u021dt, named, called, promised, A. 305, 950; B. 24, 665, 1162.\n  Hy\u021dt, height, B. 458; C. 398.\n  Hy\u021dtled, ornamented, decorated, B. 1290.\n      \u201cHe had a hatt on his hede _hi\u021dtild_ o floures.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 155.)\n\n  I-brad, extended, reached, B. 1693. See _Brayde_.\n  Ichose, chosen, A. 904.\n  Idolatrye, B. 1173.\n  Ilk, same, B. 1755.\n  Ille, bad, evil, B. 577.\n  Ilyche = alike, B. 228, 975; C. 161. A.S. _gel\u00edc_.\n  Image, B. 983.\n  In-blande, together, B. 885. Dan. _iblandt_. See _Bland_.\n  Inflokke, flock in, B. 1767.\n  Inlyche, alike, A. 546, 603.\n  In-melle, among, A 1127. This word is usually written _i-melle_. Icel.\n    _\u00e1-milli_.\n  {In-monge, In-monge\u021d,} among, amidst, B. 278, 1485.\n  {In-mydde, In-mydde\u021d,} amidst, B. 125, 1677.\n  Innocens, innocence, A. 708.\n  {Innoghe, Inno\u021de,} enough, sufficiently, A. 612, 625, 637; abundant,\n    C. 528.\n  In-nome, taken in, A. 703.\n  {Innossent, Inoscente,} innocent, A. 666, 672, 684.\n  Inobedyent, disobedient, B. 237. Fr. _inobedient_.\n  In-seme, together, A. 838. A.S. _gesome_. O.E. _ysome_.\n  In-stoundes, at times, B. 1603.\n  Instrumente, B. 1081.\n  Insy\u021dt, opinion, B. 1659.\n  Ire, wrath, B. 572.\n  Iwysse, truly, indeed, B. 84. A.S. _gewis_.\n  In-wyth, within, A. 970.\n\n  Jacynth, A. 1014.\n  Janglande, muttering, C. 90. O.Fr. _jangler_, to chatter.\n  Jape, device, sin, B. 272, 864; C. 57. Fr. _japper_, to yelp, chatter.\n    The original meaning of _jape_ is in O.E. to deceive, to lie.\n  Jasper, A. 999.\n  Jauele, a wicked wretch, a base fellow, B. 1495. \u201c_Javel_, Joppus,\n    gerro.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n    \u201cThe Lieutenant of the Tower advising Sir Thomas Moor to put on\n    worse cloaths at his execution, gives this reason, because he that\n    is to have them is but a _javel_; to which Sir Thomas replied,\n    shall I count him a _javel_ who is to doe me so great a benefit.\u201d\n      --(MS. Lansd. 1033, in Hall.)\n  Jeaunte, giant, B. 272.\n  {Jolef, Jolyf, Joly,} handsome, happy, true, A. 842, 929; B. 300, 864;\n    C. 241.\n  Joparde, jeopardy, A. 602.\n  Jostyse, justice, judge, B. 877.\n  Journay, C. 355.\n  Jowked, slept, C. 182.\n  {Joy, Joye,} A. 266.\n  Joyfol, A. 288.\n  Joyle\u021d, joyless, sorrowful, A. 252; C. 146.\n  Joyne, B. 726.\n  Joyned, A. 1009; B. 434.\n  Joyned, enjoined, B. 877; C. 62, 355.\n  Joynte, B. 1540.\n  Joyst, B. 434.\n  {Juel, Juele,} jewel, A. 249, 253, 278.\n  {Jueler, Juelere,} jeweller, A. 252, 264.\n  Juelrye, jewelry, B. 1309.\n  Jugge, judge, A. 7, 804; C. 224.\n  Juggement, judgment, B. 726.\n  {Juis, Juise,} judgment, doom, B. 726; C. 224.\n  Jumpred (? _Jumpre_ from A.S. _geomer_, miserable, sad), trouble,\n    B.\u00a0491.\n  Justyfyet, justified, A. 700.\n\n  Kable, B. 418.\n  Kake, B. 625, 635.\n  Kark, sorrow, C. 265. W. and Gael. _carc_, care.\n  Karle, churl, B. 208. See _Chorle_.\n  Kart, B. 1259.\n  Kayrene, to go, B. 945. See _Cayre_.\n  Kayser, emperor, B. 1593.\n  Ka\u021dt, caught, B. 1215.\n  Kene, great, noble, B. 839, 1593; sharp, B. 1697.\n  Kenely, quickly, B. 945.\n  Kenne, to know, make known, show, A. 55; B. 865, 1707; C. 357. O.N.\n    _kenna_. Norse _kjenna_, to perceive by sense, recognise, observe.\n  Kennest, keenest, B. 1575.\n  Kepe, care for, regard, B. 508.\n  Kerve, dig, A. 512; cut, B. 1104; rend, B. 1582.\n  {Kest, Keste,} contrive, B. 1070, 1455; cast, A. 66; B. 414.\n  Keue, depart, A. 320.\n  Keued, separated, A. 981.\n  Keuer, recover, restore, B. 1605, 1700.\n  Keye, key, B. 1438.\n  Klubbe, club, B. 1348.\n  Klyffe\u021d, cliffs, A. 66, 74.\n  Knaue, knave, B. 855; servant, B. 801.\n  {Knaue, Knaw, Knawe,} know; _knawen_, known, A. 637; B. 1435, 1575.\n  Knawlach, knowledge, B. 1702; See T.\u00a0B. 1083.\n  Knot, crowd, company, A. 788.\n  Knyt, knit, unite, establish, B. 564.\n  Kost, coast, border, B. 912.\n  Kote, house, B. 801.\n  Koynt = quaint, curious, crafty, B. 1382.\n  Krakke, sound, B. 1403.\n  Kuy, kine, cows, B. 1259.\n  {Kyd, Kydde,} showed, proved, (_pret._ of _kythe_), B. 23, 208.\n    _Kyde_, as an _adj._ = renowned.\n      \u201cThis kyde realme.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 213.)\n  Kylle, to strike, B. 876. See T.\u00a0B. 1211, 1213.\n  Kyndam, kingdom, B. 1700.\n  Kynde, nature, species, B. 266, 505, 507.\n  {Kyndely, Kyndly,} naturally, properly, B. 1, 319.\n  Kynne, conceive, B. 1072. A.S. _cennan_, to conceive, beget.\n  Kynned, kindled, B. 915. O.N. _kynda_.\n  Kynne\u021d, \u201calle kynne\u021d = of every kind,\u201d A. 1028.\n  Kyntly = kyndly, naturally, A. 690.\n  Kyppe, take up, seize, B. 1510. Prov.E. _kep_. O.N. _kippa_. A.S.\n    _c\u00e9pan_. See Robt. of Glouc. 125. Havelok the Dane, 2407. \u201c_Kyppyn\u2019_\n    idem quod _Hynton_;\u201d \u201c_Kyppynge_ or _hyntynge_ (_hentynge_, K.\u00a0P.),\n    Raptus.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  {Kyrk, Kyrke,} church, temple, A. 1061; B. 1270.\n  Kyryous = curious, careful, particular, B. 1109.\n  {Kyst, Kyste,} chest, ark, B. 449, 1438; C. 159.\n  Ky\u00fee, show, exhibit, A. 356; B. 851, acknowledge, B. 1368. A.S.\n    _c\u00edthan_, to make known.\n      \u201cYe _ky\u00fee_ me suche kyndnes,\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 557.)\n  {Ky\u00fe, Ky\u00fee,} city, land, region, A. 1198; B. 414, 571, 901, 912;\n    C. 18. A.S. _cyth_, a\u00a0region, home, native place.\n      \u201cTher was a kyng in \u00feat coste \u00feat \u00fee _kithe_ ought.\u201d\n        --(T.\u00a0B. 103.)\n  Ky\u00feyn (_gen. pl._ of _ky\u00fee_), of cities, B. 1366.\n\n  Labour, _sb._ A. 634; _vb._ A. 504.\n  {Lache, Lachche,} = latch, take, receive, B. 166; _lached_, received,\n    B. 1186; taken, C. 266; reach, C. 322; \u201c_lach_ out,\u201d take away,\n    C. 425. A.S. _l\u00e6ccan_.\n  Lad, led, A. 801.\n  Ladde = lad, man (of inferior station), B. 36; C. 154. O.H.G. _laz_,\n    libertinus. Ger. _lasse_. Du. _laete_, a\u00a0peasant.\n  Ladde-borde, larboard, C. 106.\n  Laddres, ladders, B. 1777.\n  Lade, led, A. 1146.\n  Ladyly, A. 774.\n  Ladyschyp, A. 578.\n  Lafte, left, B. 1004.\n  Laften, (_3d pers. pl. pret._) left, A. 622; C. 405.\n  {Lake, Llak,} lake, deep, B. 438, 536.\n  Lakke, sin against, abuse, B. 723. Dan. and Sw. _lak_, fault, vice.\n    Dan. _lakke_, decay, decline.\n  {Lalled, Laled,} spoke, B. 153, 913. Dan. _lalle_, to prattle.\n    Bavarian _lallen_, to speak thick, talk. Gr. \u03bb\u03b1\u03bb\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd, to\n    talk.\n  Lance, take, C. 350.\n  Langage, language, B. 1556.\n  Langour, sorrow, A. 357.\n  Lansed (? _laused_), uttered, B. 668; C. 489. _Launch_, in the dialect\n    of Worcestershire, signifies to cry out, groan.\n  Lansed, ? quaked, B. 957.\n  Lante\u021d (? _lance\u021d_), lentest, gavest, B. 348.\n  Lantyrne, A. 1047.\n  Lape, lap, taste, B. 1434. _Lape_, lape, taste (Baker\u2019s Northampton\n    Glossary).\n  Lappe, _sb._ A. 201. A.S. _l\u00e6ppa_, border, hem. \u201c_Lappe_, skyrte\n    (_lappe_, barme, K.). Gremium.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n    \u201cThe word _lap_, according to many ancient writers, signified the\n    skirt of a garment. Thus G. de Bibelsworth says,\n      \u2018Car par deuant avez eskours (_lappes_),\n      Et d\u2019en cost\u00e9 sont vos girouns (sidgoren).\u2019\n    It denoted, likewise, the hinder skirt.\u201d (Way in Prompt. Parv.)\n  Lapped, folded, clothed, B. 175. See T.\u00a0B. 236.\n  Lasched, B. 707. ? became hot, lascivious.\n  Lasned = lessened, made smaller, B. 438, 441.\n  Lasse, less, A. 599, 600; B. 1640.\n  Laste, follow, A. 1146; C. 320. A.S. _last_, footstep. Goth,\n    _laistjan_, to follow after.\n  Laste, fault, crime, C. 198.\n  Lastes, becomes faulty, B. 1141. Dan. _last_, vice, fault. O.N.\n    _l\u00f6str_. S.Sax. _last_, calumny, blame. Icel. _last_. Ger.\n    _l\u00e4sterung_, slander.\n  Lat, slow, late, B. 1172. A.S. _l\u00e6t_, slow, late. Cf. _\u201clat_-a foot,\n    slow in moving.\u201d (Wilbraham\u2019s Cheshire Glossary.)\n  La\u00fee, to invite, B. 81. A.S. _lathian_. O.Sax. _lathian_. O.N. _lada_.\n    Prov.E. _lathe_, to invite. A.S. _lathu_, invitation. N.Prov.E.\n    _lathing_, invitation.\n  Lauce, loosen, do away with (?), B. 1589.\n  Laue, law, B. 723.\n  Lauande, pouring, flowing, B. 366.\n  Laue, pour out, A. 607; C. 154. A.S. _lafian_.\n  Launce\u021d, branches (of trees), A. 978.\n  Launde, an open space between woods, a park; _lawn_, B. 1000, 1207.\n    \u201c_Saltus_ a lawnd.\u201d (Nominale MS.) Welsh _llan_. \u201c_Lawnde_ of a\n    wode. Saltus.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.) \u201c_Indago_, a parke, a huntynge place,\n    or a _launde_.\u201d (Ortus.) \u201c_Lande_, a _land_ or _launde_, a\u00a0wild\n    untilled shrubbie or bushy plaine.\u201d (Cotg.) O.Fr. _lande_, saltus.\n      \u201cSythyne [he] wente into Wales wyth his wyes alle;\n      Sweys into Swaldye with his snelle houndes,\n      For to hunt at the hartes in thas hye _laundes_.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, p. 6.)\n  Lawe, hill, B. 992. Sc. _law_. A.S. _hl\u00e6w_, mound, mount. Goth.\n    _hlaiw_.\n  Lawles, C. 170.\n  Lay, put down, B. 1650.\n  Layke, _sb._ sport, play, amusement, B. 122, 1053.\n  Layke, _vb._ to play, B. 872. A.S. _l\u00e1c_, play; _l\u00e1can_, to play.\n  Layke, device, B. 274; C. 401.\n  Layned, kept secret, A. 244. N.Prov.E. _lane_, to hide. O.N. _leyna_.\n  Layth, vile, evil, C. 401. A.S. _l\u00e1th_, evil, harm; _l\u00e1th_, hateful,\n    evil; \u201c_laithe_ hurtes,\u201d T.\u00a0B. 1351.\n  Layte, seek, search, B. 97, 1768. N.Prov.E. _late_. Icel. _leita_. Sw.\n    _leta_, to look for; \u201c_laytyng_ aboute,\u201d T.\u00a0B. 2348.\n  La\u021dares, lepers, B. 1093.\n  La\u021de, laugh, B. 653, 661.\n  {La\u021dte, La\u021dt,} = laught, took, A. 1128, 1205. See _Lache_.\n  Le, shelter, C. 277. A.S. _hleo_, shade, shelter. Cf. T.\u00a0B. 2806. O.N.\n    _hlja_, to protect. Cf. _Leeside_ = the sheltered side of a ship.\n      \u201c---- thar I the tell\n      Is the richt place and sted for \u021dour cite,\n      And of \u021dour travell ferm hald to rest in _le_.\u201d\n        --(G. Doug. vol. i. p. 152.)\n      \u201c\u00dee wicked alsua \u00fee gode sal se,\n      Wit-in \u00feair gamen stad and gle,\n      \u00deat \u00feai \u00fee sorfuller sal be,\n      \u00deat losen folili has \u00feat _le_.\u201d (_i.e._, heaven).\n        --(\u201cDe Penis,\u201d quoted in \u201cHampole\u2019s Pricke of Conscience,\u201d l.\u00a04,\n        p.\u00a0xii.)\n  Leauty, loyalty, B. 1172.\n  Lebarde, leopard, B. 536.\n  Lecherye, B. 1350.\n  {Led, Lede,} man, person, A. 542; B. 412. A.S. _le\u00f3d_, man.\n  {Led, Leede,} people, nation, B. 691, 772, 909. A.S. _le\u00f3de_, people,\n    folk.\n  Ledden = leden, sound, A. 878. Chaucer uses the word _leden_ in the\n    sense of _speech_, _language_. A.S. _hlyd_. O.N. _hliod_, a\u00a0sound.\n  Ledisch, national, pertaining to a people or country, B. 1556. S.Sax.\n    _leodisce_. See _Lede_.\n  {Leef, Lef,} _adj._ dear, precious; _sb._ dear one, wife, A. 266, 418;\n    B. 772, 939, 1066. A.S. _le\u00f3f_.\n  Lefly, dear, beloved, B. 977. A.S. _le\u00f3fl\u00edc_.\n  Lefsel, bower, house formed of leaves, C. 448.\n      \u201cBy a lauryel ho (Dame Gaynour) lay, vndur a _lefe-sale_,\n      Of box and of barber\u00e8, byggyt ful bene.\u201d\n        --(The Anturs of Arther in Robson\u2019s Met. Rom. p.\u00a03, vi. 5.)\n      \u201cWith _lefsales_ uppon lofte lustie and faire.\u201d (T.\u00a0B. 337.)\n    A.S. _leaf_, a leaf, and _sel_, dwelling, hall. Sw. _l\u00f6fsal_, a\u00a0hut\n    built of green boughs. _Levesel_ (another form of _lefsel_) is used\n    by Chaucer (Reve\u2019s Tale, 4059), but is left unexplained in the\n    glossary to Wright\u2019s edition. Tyrwhitt\u2019s derivation of this term\n    from A.S. _lefe_, folium, and _setl_, sedes, is certainly very near\n    the mark. Cf. \u201c_levecel_ beforne a wyndowe, or other place.\n    Umbraculum.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Lege, liege, subject, B. 94, 1174.\n  Legioune, A. 1121, B. 1293.\n  Lel, true, B. 425. \u201cLeve this for _lell_.\u201d T.\u00a0B. 239.\n  Lelly, truly, faithfully, A. 305; B. 1066. See T.\u00a0B. 420.\n  Leme, glide away, A. 358.\n  Leme, shine, gleam, A. 119, 1043; B. 1273. A.S. _le\u00f3ma_, a ray of\n    light; _le\u00f3man_, to shine. See T.\u00a0B. 699.\n  Lemman = leof-man, beloved one, mistress, A. 763, 796, 805; B. 1352.\n    A.S. _le\u00f3f_, dear, and _man_. O.E. _leofmon_, a\u00a0lover.\n  Lene, grant, C. 347. A.S. _l\u00e6nian._\n  Lenge, dwell, abide, A. 261, 933; B. 81, 412, 497, 994; C. 42. See\n    T.\u00a0B. 1937.\n  Lenger, longer, A. 600, 977; B. 810; _lengest_, B. 256.\n  Lenghe, length, A. 416.\n  Lent (_pret._ of _lend_), abode, dwelt, B. 256; _wat\u021d lent_, had\n    dwelt, B. 1084.\n  Lent, arrived, C. 201. A.S. _gelandian_, to land, arrive.\n      \u201cLangour _lent_ is in land, all lychtnes is lost.\u201d\n        --(G. Douglas, vol. i. p. 447.)\n  Len\u00fee, length, A. 1031; B. 425, 1594.\n  Lep, leaped, C. 179.\n  Lere, to teach, B. 843. A.S. _l\u00e6ran_\n  Lere, reward, ? _here_, A. 616.\n  {Ler, Lere,} countenance, A. 398; _pl._ _lers_, features, B. 1542 A.S.\n    _hleor_. See T.\u00a0B. 480.\n  Lese, false, A. 865. See _Lese_.\n  Lesande, loosening, opening, A. 837. O.E. _lese_, _les_, to loose.\n    Goth. _lausjan_.\n  Lese, false, B. 1719. A.S. _leas_.\n  {Lest, Leste,} lost, A. 9; B. 887.\n  Lesyng, _sb._ lie, A. 897. A.S. _leasung_.\n  Le\u00fee, assuage, lessen, cease, bate, cool. A. 377; B. 648; C. 3. A.S.\n    _leothian_, to release, slacken. See Met. Hom. p.\u00a0135.\n  Le\u00fee, _sb._ calm, C. 160. N.Prov.E. _leath_, rest, quiet. Stratmann\n    compares O.Du. _lede_, ease, _leath_.\n  Lether, leather, B. 1581.\n  Lette, hinder, prevent, A. 1050; B. 1803.\n  Letter, B. 1580.\n  Lettrure, letters, learning, A. 751.\n  Leue, \u201c_aske leue_,\u201d A. 316; \u201c_take leue_,\u201d B. 401.\n  Leue, forsake, C. 401.\n  Leue, believe, A. 69, 865, 876; B. 1493.\n  Leued, leaved, A. 978.\n  Lewed, ignorant, B. 1580. A.S. _le\u00f3de_, _le\u00fad_, the people.\n  Lik, to lick, B. 1000.\n  Likke, sip, drink, B. 1521.\n  Liure\u021d, dresses, garments, A. 1108. O.Fr. _livree_.\n  Lode, lot, C. 156.\n  Lode, course, conduct, guidance, C. 504. A.S. _l\u00e1d_, _l\u00e1du_, way. O.N.\n    _leid_, course. Cf. _lode_, a\u00a0way for water.\n  Lodesmon, conductor, pilot, B. 424; C. 179. A.S. _l\u00e1dman_, a leader.\n  {Lodly, Lodlych,} loathsome, hateful, vile, B. 274, 1090, 1093.\n    N.Prov.E. _laidly_, ugly, foul. A.S. _l\u00e1thl\u00edc_, odious, detestable.\n      \u201cHe laid on \u00feat _loodly_, lettyd he noght.\u201d (T.\u00a0B. 934.)\n  Lofly, dear, lovely, B. 1804.\n  Lofte, \u201c_upon lofte_,\u201d on high, B. 206, 318, 808. O.N. _lopt_, sky,\n    air.\n  {Loge, Logge,} tent, lodge, B. 784, 807, 1407; C. 457. Fr. _loge_,\n    a\u00a0hut. See T.\u00a0B. 1140, 1369.\n  Logging, lodging, B. 887.\n  {Loghe, Lo\u021d,} = low, lau, pit, deep, abyss, B. 366. O.N. _lagr_. Sw.\n    _l\u00e5g_, low.\n  Lokande, looking, C. 458.\n  Loke = loken, enclosed, C. 350.\n  Loke, guard, watch over, C. 504.\n  Lokyng, _sb._ sight, looking, A. 1049.\n  Loltrande, ? _loitrande_, lolling, loitering, C. 458. Du. _loteren_,\n    to loiter. O.N. _lotra_, to go lazily.\n  Lombe, lamb, A. 841, 1047.\n  Lome, lame, B. 1094.\n  Lome, vessel, instrument of any kind; (1) ark; (2) boat, B. 314, 412,\n    443; C. 160. A.S. _gel\u00f3ma_, _l\u00f3ma_.\n  Lomerande, hesitating, creeping, B. 1094. This term seems to be\n    connected with _lumber_. O.E. _lumer_, _lomer_, to move heavily.\n    O.Du. _lammer_, _lemmer_, impedimentum, molestia. (Kil.) Dan.\n    _belemre_. Du. _belemmern_, to encumber, impede.\n  Lompe, lamp, A. 1046.\n  Londe, land, A. 148, 937.\n  Lone, path, lane, A. 1066. N.Prov.E. _lone_, _lannin_. Fris. _lona_,\n    _lana_, a\u00a0narrow way between gardens and houses. Is it connected\n    with O.N. _leyna_, to hide, conceal?\n  Longande, belonging, A. 462.\n  Longed, belonged, B. 1090, 1747.\n  Lont, land, C. 322.\n  Lopen (_p.p._ of _lepe_, to leap), leapt, B. 990.\n  Lore, wisdom, learning, B. 1556. A.S. _l\u00e1r_.\n  Lore, mode, wise, A. 236.\n  Lorn, lost, destroyed, B. 932.\n  Los, loss, B. 1589.\n  Lose, destroy, B. 909; C. 198; depart, be lost, A. 908.\n  Losed, lost, B. 586.\n  Losyng, perdition, B. 1031.\n  Losynger, _sb._ liar, deceiver. O.Fr. _losengier_.\n  {Lot, Lote,} sound, noise, roar, A. 876; C. 161, 183; word, B. 668.\n    Sw. _l\u00e5ta_, to sound; _l\u00e5t_, sound; _l\u00e5te_, cry, voice. A.S.\n    _hle\u00f3thor_, a\u00a0sound, noise. O.E. _lud_, voice. The original form of\n    the word is _late_.\n      \u201cThan have we liking to lithe (listen to) the _lates_ of the\n      foules.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 149.)\n      \u201c(He) _late_ so lathely a _late_ and sa loude cried\n      That all the fest was aferd and othire folke bathe.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 17.)\n      \u201cHe gaped, he groned faste, with grucchande _latez_.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, p. 90.)\n  Lote = late, countenance, feature, form, manner, A. 899; C. 47. This\n    word occurs in La\u021damon under the form _late_, looks, glances.\n    Glossarial remarks to La\u021damon, p.\u00a0449. _Lete_, countenance, is found\n    in the Owl and Nightingale, 35, 403. A.S. _wlite_. O.N. _l\u00e6ti_.\n  Lote, lot, A. 1205; C. 173.\n  Lote = lout, bow, A. 238. A.S. _l\u00fatan_, to bend, bow, stoop. Sw.\n    _luta_. See T.\u00a0B. 1900.\n  Lo\u00fee, _sb._ sorrow, A. 377. A.S. _l\u00e1th_, evil, harm.\n  Lo\u00feelych, wicked, bad, B. 1350.\n  Loute, abide, sit, A. 933.\n  Loute, bow, make obeisance. B. 798. See _Lote_.\n  Louande, praising, B. 1719.\n  Loue, praise, A. 285, 1124, 1127; B. 497, 987. A.S. _lofian_.\n  Loue\u021d, hands, B. 987. N.Prov.E. _leuf_, palm of the hand, and hence\n    used for the hand itself. _Palm_ is used for the hand in early\n    English authors. O.N. _lofi_. Sc. _loof_.\n      \u201c(He) held the letter in his _love_.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 71.)\n      \u201c----he takis\n      The licor in his awen (one) _loove_,\n      the letter in the tothire.\u201d --(_Ibid._ l. 2569.)\n  Loueloker, more lovely, A. 148.\n  Lovne, offer (advice), propose, C. 173. N.Prov.E. _loave_, _loff_, to\n    offer. O.N. _lofa_, promise, praise. Du. _looven_. Flem. _loven_,\n    estimate. Cf. \u201c_Lovon_ and bedyn as chapmen, Licitor.\u201d (Prompt.\n    Parv.)\n  Louy, love, B. 841, 1053.\n  {Louely, Louyely, Louyly, Louelych,} lovely, A. 565, 693; B. 1486.\n  Lowe, flame; \u201c_luf lowe_,\u201d flame of love, B. 707. O.E. _logh_ (see\n    T.\u00a0B. 168) \u201cthe _lowe hot_,\u201d T.\u00a0B. 494.\n  Lowkande, locking, shutting, B. 441.\n  {Lo\u021d, Lo\u021de,} the deep, pit, sea, A. 119; B. 441, 1031; C. 230. See\n    _Loghe_.\n  Lo\u021d, Lo\u021de, low, B. 798, 1761.\n  Lo\u021ded, made low, abased, B. 1650.\n  Lo\u021den, laughed (_3rd pers. pl. pret._ of _la\u021de_, B. 495.\n  Lo\u021dly, humbly, B. 614, 745.\n  Luche, pitch, throw, C. 230. N.Prov.E. _lutch_, to pulsate strongly.\n    W. _lluchio_, to fling, throw violently. Stratmann suggests A.S.\n    _lyccan_, pull, lutch.\n  {Ludych, Ludisch,} national, B. 73, 1375. See _Ledisch_.\n  Luf, _gen. sing._, of love, B. 707.\n  {Lufly, Luflych, Luflyly,} lovely, A. 880; B. 81; 939; C. 419.\n  Lufsoum, _sb._ lovesome, beloved one, A. 398.\n  Luged, was pulled, B. 443. O.N. _lugga_.\n  Lulted, sounded, B. 1207. O.N. _lulla_, to lull, sing to sleep. Cf.\n    \u201c_lullit_ on slepe,\u201d T.\u00a0B. 648. Ger. _lallen_, to sing without\n    words, only repeating the syllable _la_. N.Prov.E. _lilt_, to sing\n    with a loud voice; _lilt_, a\u00a0song.\n  Luly-whit, lilly-white, B. 977.\n  Lumpen, befallen, B. 424, 1320. See _Lympe_.\n  Lur, loss, C. 419.\n      \u201cWhat _lure_ is of my lyfe & I lyffe here.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 582.)\n  Lure\u021d, losses, A. 339, 358. A.S. _lyre_, _lor_.\n  {Lurke, Lurkke,} A. 978; C. 277. See T.\u00a0B. 1140.\n  Lusty, B. 981.\n  Luther, bad, wicked, B. 163, 1090; C. 156. A.S. _lyther_.\n  Luuy, love. See _Louy_.\n  Lyf, life, B. 1719.\n  Lyflode, sustenance in life, B. 561. A.S. _lif-l\u00e1de_, from _l\u00e1d_,\n    a\u00a0way.\n  {Lyft, Lyfte,} heavens, firmament, sky, B. 212, 366, 1356, 1448. A.S.\n    _lyft_.\n  Lyftande, lifting, rising, B. 443.\n  Lyfte, raised, A. 567.\n  Lyfte, left, B. 981, 1581.\n  Lygge, lie, B. 1126, 1792. A.S. _licgan_.\n  Lyke, _vb. impers._ please, A. 566; B. 36, 411, 693, 1646.\n  Lyke, _adj._ pleasing, C. 42.\n  Lykker, more like, C. 493.\n  Lykne\u021d, likens, compares, A. 500; is like, B. 1064.\n  Lyknyng, _sb._ likeness, C. 30.\n  Lykore\u021d, liquors, drinks, B. 1521.\n  Lykyng, _sb._ pleasure, A. 247; B. 172, 1803. See T.\u00a0B. 2912.\n  Lylled, flourished, shone, C. 447. N.Prov.E. _lilli-lo_, a bright\n    flame. Cf. Mod. Gr. \u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03bb\u03bf\u03cd\u03b4\u03b9, a\u00a0blossom; \u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03bb\u03bf\u03c5\u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b6\u03c9, to flourish,\n    bloom. Is _lylle_, to flourish, connected with the word _lilly_?\n  Lympe, befall, happen, C. 174, 194. See T.\u00a0B. 36. A.S. _limpan_, to\n    happen, concern.\n  Lyne, lineage, A. 626.\n  Lynne, linen, A. 731.\n  Lyre, flesh, B. 1687. A.S. _lira_.\n  Lysoun, trace, B. 887.\n  {Lyst, Lyste,} _sb._ pleasure, A. 467, 908; B. 843; lust, B. 693;\n    _vb._ desire, please, A. 146; B. 415, 1766.\n  Lyst, path, border, B. 1761. Du. _lijst_, edge, border.\n  Lysten, to hear, A. 880.\n  Lysten, hearing, B. 586. A.S. _hlist_, hearing; _hlistan_, to hear,\n    listen. O.N. _hlust_, an ear.\n  Lyte, little, B. 119.\n  Lyth, limb, A. 398. A.S. _lith_.\n  Ly\u00fee, assuage, lessen, A. 357. See _Le\u00fee_.\n  Ly\u00fee, grant, A. 369.\n  Ly\u00feer, evil, wickedly, A. 567. See _Lu\u00feer_.\n  Ly\u00feerly, badly, negligently, B. 36.\n  {Lyuie, Lyuy,} live, B. 558, 581; C. 364.\n  Lyuyande, living, A. 700.\n  Ly\u021de, lie, A. 304.\n  Ly\u021dt, light, A. 69, 1043; bright, A. 500; innocent, guiltless, pure,\n    A. 682; B. 987; _lette_ _ly\u021dt_, esteem, treat lightly, B. 1174,\n    1320.\n  {Ly\u021dt, Ly\u021dte,} _vb._ to light, fall upon, A. 247, 943, 988; B. 213,\n    1069.\n  Ly\u021dten, to lighten, C. 160.\n  Ly\u021dtly, easily, A. 358; soon, quickly, B. 817, 853; C. 88. Comp.\n    _ly\u021dtloker_, C. 47.\n\n  Ma, make, A. 283; B. 625.\n  Ma, man (?), A. 323.\n  {Mach, Machche,} = make, fellow, companion, B. 124, 695, 1512. See\n    _Make_.\n  Mache, to make familiar with, C. 99.\n  {Mad, Madde,} foolish, A. 267, 290, 1166; B. 654. Prov. Ger. _maden_,\n    to tattle; _madeln_, to mutter.\n      \u201cThi momlyng and thi _mad_ wordes.\u201d --(See T.\u00a0B. 1864.)\n  Madde, _vb._ to render foolish, A. 359.\n  Maddyng, folly, A. 1154.\n      \u201c_Madding_ marrid has thi mode, and thi mynd changid.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 121.)\n  {Mak, Make,} = mach, match, equal, fellow, wife, A. 759; B. 248, 331,\n    994. A.S. _maca_, a mate; _mace_, a\u00a0wife.\n      \u201c\u00dee king him (Joseph) did a wiif to tak,\n      Hight Assener, a doghti _mak_.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 27a.)\n  Makele\u021d, matchless, A. 435, 733, 757, 780.\n  Male, B. 337, 695.\n  Malicious, C. 508.\n  Malscrande, accursed, B. 991.\n  Malskred, bewildered, C. 255. Bosworth quotes \u201c_malscra_, a\n    bewitching,\u201d upon the authority of Somner.\n  {Malt, Malte,} ease, assuage, soothe, B. 776, 1566. O.N. _melta_, to\n    dissolve.\n  Malte, discourse, speak, A. 224, 1154. A.S. _m\u00e6lan_, to speak,\n    converse; _mathelian_, _m\u00e6thlan_, to discourse.\n  {Malyce, Malys,} B. 250, 518; C. 4.\n  Man = maken (_3d pers. pl. pres._), make, A. 512.\n  Manace, threaten, C. 422.\n  Manayre, manor, A. 1029.\n  Mancioun, mansion, B. 309.\n  Maner, manner, B. 701.\n  Maner, manor, A. 918.\n  Manerly, properly, decently, B. 91.\n  Mangerie, feast, B. 52, 1365. Fr. _manger_, to eat, from Lat.\n    _manducare_.\n  Mankyn, mankind, A. 637.\n  Mansed, cursed, B. 774; C. 82. A.S. _a-m\u00e1nsumian_, to excommunicate.\n  Mantyle, mantle, C. 342.\n  Marchal, marshal, B. 91, 118.\n  Mare, more, A. 145.\n  {Margary, Margyrye,} pearl, A. 199, 1037; B. 556.\n  Marie, marry, B. 52.\n  Marked, market, A. 513.\n  Marre, corrupt, spoil, destroy, perish, A. 23; B. 279, 991; C. 172,\n    474. O.H.G. _marrjan_, to hinder, make void. A.S. _merran_,\n    _myrran_, to hinder. Du. _merren_, to obstruct.\n  Marere\u021d = marre\u021d (?). A. 382.\n  {Maryag, Maryage,} A. 414, 778; B. 186.\n  Maryed, married, B. 815.\n  Marryng, _sb._ spoiling, preventing, B. 186.\n  Marschal, B. 1427.\n  Maryners, C. 99.\n  Mas, mass, A. 1115.\n  Mascelle\u021d, spotless, A. 732.\n  Mascle, spot, A. 726. Du. _maese_, _masche_, _maschel_, a spot, stain;\n    _maschelen_, to stain.\n  Mase (masse), astonishment, alarm, B. 395.\n  {Maskele\u021d, Maskelles, Maskelle\u021d,} spotless, A. 744, 745, 756, 768.\n  Maskle, spot, stain, B. 556. See _Mascle_.\n  Masporye (?), A. 1018.\n  Mate, dejected, downcast, subdued, A. 386. Fr. _mat_.\n  Mate, to overcome, A. 613. Fr. _mater_. O.Fr. _amater_. Cf. Du. _mat_,\n    exhausted, overcome. Ger. _matt_, feeble, faint.\n  Mater, subject, B. 1617.\n  Matere, matter, C. 503.\n  {Maugre, Maugref, Mawgre,} C. 44, 54. Fr. _malgr\u00e9_, in spite of,\n    against the will of; _mal_, ill; _gr\u00e9_, will, pleasure. In B. 250\n    _mawgre_ is used as a _sb._ = displeasure.\n  Mawe, stomach, C. 255. Ger. _magen_. Du. _maag_.\n  May, maid. A. 435, 780. A.S. _m\u00e6g_.\n  Maynful, great, powerful, A. 1093; B. 1730. A.S. _m\u00e6gen_, power,\n    force, strength. O.N. _megin_, strength; _mega_, to be able.\n  Maynly, loudly, B. 1427.\n  Mayntnaunce, maintenance, B. 186.\n  Mayntyne, maintain, C. 523.\n  Mayster, master, lord, A. 462, 900; B. 1793.\n  Maysterful, powerful, A. 401; B. 1328.\n  Maystery, mastery, C. 482.\n  Ma\u021dt, power, C. 112. Goth. _mahts_. Ger. _macht_, might, power.\n  Ma\u021dty, mighty, B. 273, 279.\n  Ma\u021dtyly, mightily, B. 1267.\n  Mede = meed, reward, B. 1632.\n  Medoes, meadows, B. 1761.\n  Megre, meagre, lean, B. 1198. Fr. _maigre_. Lat. _macer_, lean.\n  Mekne, make meek, B. 1328.\n  Mele, meal, B. 625.\n  Mele, _sb._ discourse, A. 23.\n  Mele, _vb._ to talk, relate, say, A. 497, 589; B. 736; C. 10.\n    \u201cTo _mele_ of this mater.\u201d (T.\u00a0B. 209.)\n  Melle, speak, A. 797. See _Malte_.\n  Membre\u021d, members, A. 458.\n  Mendes, amends, A. 351.\n  Mendyng, _sb._ improvement, repentance, A. 452; B. 764.\n  Mene, general, common, B. 1241. A.S. _gem\u00e6ne_. Ger. _gemein_.\n  Mene, mean, A. 293.\n  Mene, tell, explain, B. 1635. A.S. _m\u00e6nan_, to tell.\n  {Meng, Menge,} mix, join, B. 337, 625. A.S. _mengan_.\n  {Mensk, Menske,} _sb._ honour, A. 162, 783; B. 121, 522; thanks,\n    B.\u00a0646; _vb._ to honour, B. 141, 1740. A.S. _mennisc_, human.\n    N.Prov.E. _mense_, to grace, deck; _mense_, decency, good manners.\n  Mensked, honoured, B. 118.\n  Menteene, maintain, A. 783.\n  Mercy, A. 576, 623.\n  Mercyable, merciful, B. 1113; C. 238.\n  Mercyles, B. 250.\n  Mere = meer, boundary, B. 778; C. 320. Du. _meere_. O.N. _m\u00e6ri_,\n    boundary.\n  Mere, sea, lake, stream, A. 140, 158, 1166; B. 991; C. 112. A.S.\n    _mere_. O.Sax. _meri_. O.N. _mar_.\n  Merit, B. 613.\n  Merk, _adj._ dark, obscure, B. 1617.\n  Merk, _sb._ darkness, B. 894; C. 291. A.S. _myrc_, dark. O.N. _myrkr_,\n    darkness; _myrka_, to darken, grow dark.\n  Merke, make, devise, order, place, B. 558, 637, 1487, 1617. A.S.\n    _mearcian_. O.N. _merkia_, to mark, perceive, signify.\n  Mersy, A. 383; B. 776.\n  {Meruayle, Merwayle,} _adj._ marvellous, C. 81; _sb._ a marvel,\n    A.\u00a01081, 1130; B. 586.\n  Meruelous, A. 1166.\n  Mery, pleasant, B. 1760.\n  Mes, A. 862. See _Messe_.\n  Message, B. 454; C. 81.\n  Meschef, evil, misfortune, A. 275; B. 373, 1164.\n  Mese, moderate, temper, assuage, B. 764. See _Methe_.\n      \u201cSir Pylate mefe you now no more,\n      But _mese_ youre hart, and mend youre mode.\u201d\n        --(Town. Myst. p. 175.)\n      \u201cKyng Eolus set hie apon his chare,\n      With ceptoure in hand, thar muyd (mood) to _meys_ and stille.\u201d\n        --(G. Douglas, vol. i. p. 27.)\n      \u201cThe blastis _mesit_.\u201d --(_Ibid._ p. 130.)\n      \u201cA _mes_ you of malice,\n      but a mene qwile.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 12842.)\n  Messe, mass, service, A. 497.\n  Messe\u021d, messes (of meat), B. 637.\n  Mester, need, B. 67; C. 342.\n  Mesure, measure, moderation, A. 224; B. 215, 247, 565; C. 295.\n  Mesurable, mild, temperate, B. 859.\n  Metalles, B. 1513.\n  Mete, meat, food, applied to an apple, A. 641.\n  Meten, to measure, A. 1032.\n  {Meth, Me\u00fee,} moderation, mildness, pity, B. 247, 436, 565.\n      \u201cAnd Mari ledd hir life with _methe_\n      In a toun that hiht Nazarethe.\u201d --(Met. Hom. p. 107.)\n    A.S. _m\u00e6thian_, to measure, estimate, use gently; _m\u00e6th_, measure,\n    degree; _m\u00e6thlic_, kind, courteous. N.Prov.E. _meedless_, without\n    measure, immoderate.\n  Me\u00feele\u021d, immoderate, B. 273.\n  Mette, measure, B. 625.\n  Met\u021d = mese (?), pity, B. 215.\n  Meuande, moving, B. 783.\n  Meue, move, A. 156; B. 303.\n  Meuen (_3rd pers. pl. pres._), move, A. 64. See T.\u00a0B. 384.\n  Meyny, labourers, servants, A. 542; household, B. 331; company,\n    A.\u00a0892, 899, 925; B. 454; C. 10.\n  Miry, pleasant, C. 32.\n  Misschapen (monstrous), wicked, B. 1355.\n  Mistrauthe, unbelief, B. 996.\n  Mo, more, A. 870, 1194; B. 674.\n  {Mod, Mode,} = mood, pride, A. 401, 738; B. 565, 764.\n  Moder, mother, A. 435.\n  {Modey, Mody,} = proud, haughty, B. 1303; C. 422.\n  Mokke, muck, dirt, A. 905.\n  Mol = mul, dust, A. 382. Flem. _mul_, _gemul_, dust. Du. _mullen_, to\n    crumble. Pl. D. _mull_, loose earth, dust. Cf. \u201cpeat-_mull_,\u201d the\n    dust and fragments of peat. (Brockett.)\n  Molde, earth, B. 279; _molde\u021d_, lands, B. 454; \u201c_on molde_,\u201d on earth,\n    B. 514, 1114; \u201c_in molde\u021d_,\u201d in earth, C. 494. A.S. _molde_, mould,\n    earth. Goth. _mulda_. O.H.G. _molta_. Dan. _muld_.\n      \u201cLoo! here the duchez dere to daye was cho takyne,\n      Depe dolvene and dede, dyked _in moldez_.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, p. 82.)\n  Mon, man, A. 310.\n  Mon, moan, sorrow, A. 374.\n  Mone, moon, A. 923.\n  Monkynd, mankind, B. 564.\n  Mon-sworne, perjury, B. 182. Other forms of this word are\n    _main-sworn_, _man-sworn_. O.H.Ger. _meinsweridi_, perjury, from\n    _main_, _mein_, spot, stain, injury, impure, bad. O.N. _mein_, sore,\n    crime.\n  Mony, many, A. 572; B. 1164.\n  Monyth, month, B. 493, 1030.\n  Moon, moan, sorrow, B. 373.\n  Moote = mote, spot, blemish, A. 948.\n  Mor, moor, B. 385, 1673. A.S. _m\u00f3r_, a moor, heath.\n  Morehond, more, A. 475. Cf. _nerehande_, near; _betuixande_, betwixt.\n  {Morn, Morne,} morning, B. 493; morrow, B. 1001.\n  Mornyf, mournful, A. 386.\n  Mornyng, _sb._ mourning, A. 262.\n  Morteres, mortars, B. 1487.\n  {Most, Moste,} greatest, B. 254, 385.\n  Mot, must, may, A. 397, 663.\n  {Mot, Mote,} spot, blemish, sin, A. 764, 843, 855. Du. _mot_, dust.\n  Mote, _vb._ speak to, A. 613. A.S. _m\u00f3tian_, to moot, debate. Then\n    Medea with mowthe _motys_ thus agayne. T.\u00a0B. 610.\n  Mote, building, dwelling, abode, A. 142, 936, 937, 948, 949; city,\n    C. 422. _Mote_ signifies a hill, mound, moat, and hence a city on\n    a hill (?). Mid. Lat. _mota_, hill or mound. O.Fr. _mote_.\n      \u201c\u00dee bryght cet\u00e9 of heven is large and brade,\n      Of whilk may na comparyson be made\n      Tille na cet\u00e9 \u00feat on erth may stand,\n      Ffor it was never made with mans hand.\n      Bot yhit, als I ymagyn in my thoght,\n      I lyken it tylle a cet\u00e9 \u00feat war wroght\n      Of gold, of precyouse stones sere,\n      Opon a _mote_, sett of berylle clere,\n      With walles, and wardes, and turrettes,\n      And entr\u00e9, and yhates, and garrettes.\u201d\n        --(Hampole\u2019s Pricke of Conscience, p. 239, l.\u00a08896.)\n    MS. Lansd. 348, reads _mount_ for _mote_.\n  {Moteles, Motele\u021d,} spotless, A. 899.\n  Moul = mould, earth, A. 23.\n  Moun (_3rd pers. pl._ of _mowe_, to be able), are able, A. 536.\n  Mount, A. 868; B. 447.\n  Mountaunce, amount, C. 456.\n  Mountayne, B. 385.\n  {Mountes, Mounte\u021d,} = amounts, avails, A. 351; C. 332.\n  Mourkenes, _mirkens_, becomes dark, B. 1760. O.N. _myrka_, to darken,\n    Dan. _m\u00f6rkne_.\n  Mourkne, to rot, become rotten, B. 407. From this verb is derived the\n    O.E. _morkin_, a dead beast, carrion, a\u00a0scarecrow. O.N. _morkinn_,\n    rotten; _morkna_, to rot.\n  Mourne, to mourn, C. 508.\n  Mo\u021dt, might, could, B. 1108, 1668.\n  Mudde, B. 407.\n  Mukel, great, B. 52, 366, 1164. O.N. _mikill_.\n  Mul, dust, dirt, A. 905; B. 736. See _Mol_.\n  Multyplyed, B. 278.\n  Mun, C. 44. This may be another form of _mon_ = moan. But the phrase\n    \u201c_maugre his mun_,\u201d leads us to reject this interpretation. _Maugre_\n    is generally used with some part of the body, as \u201c_mawgre his\n    tethe_,\u201d \u201c_maugre his chekes_,\u201d etc. _Mun_ may therefore signify the\n    mouth. (Sw. _mun_, a\u00a0mouth.) The term is still retained in the north\n    of England. Halliwell quotes the following:\n      \u201cA common cry at Coventry on Good Friday is--\n        \u2018One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns,\n        Butter them and sugar them and put them in your _muns_.\u2019\u201d\n  Munster = minster, church, cathedral, temple, B. 1267; C. 268.\n  Munt, purpose, A. 1161. N.Prov.E. _munt_, a hint. See _Mynt_.\n  Murte, break, crush, C. 150. Pl. D. _murten_, to crush. See\n    _to-murte_. In T.\u00a0B. 4312 we have _myrte_ = to crush. Bothe\n    mawhownus & maumettes _myrtild_ in peces.\n  Mydde\u021d, midst, A. 740. See _In-mydde\u021d_.\n  Mydny\u021dt, midnight, B. 894.\n  Myke, _sb._ B. 417. Cf. Du. _mik_. The crutches of a boat, which\n    sustain the main boom or mast and sail when they are lowered for the\n    convenience of rowing.\n  Myke\u021d, free labourers (?), A. 572. A.S. _mecg_, a man. In the _Cursor\n    Mundi_, Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 17, the angels are represented\n    as speaking to Lot as follows:\n      \u201c\u2018Has \u00feou her,\u2019 \u00feai said, \u2018ani man,\n      Sun or doghter, _mik_ or mau,\n      To \u00fee langand, or hei or lau\n      \u00deou lede \u00feam suith out o \u00feis tun\n      Ar \u00feat hit be sunken don.\u2019\u201d\n    But ? _be myke\u021d_ = he _myke\u021d_, he chooses.\n  Myne\u021d, \u201c_me myne\u021d_,\u201d I remember, B. 25. A.S. _mynan_, to remember.\n    O.N. _minna_.\n  Mynge, record, mention, A. 855. A.S. _myngian_, to remind.\n  Mynne, recollect, remember, A. 583; B. 436, 771. See T.\u00a0B. 1434. See\n    _Myne\u021d_.\n  Mynte, devise, purpose, B. 1628. A.S. _myntan_, _myntian_ to dispose,\n    settle, appoint. \u201c_Myntyn\u2019_ or _amyn\u2019_ towarde for to assayen.\n    Attempto.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Mynstralsy, B. 121.\n  Mynyster, minster, temple, A. 1063.\n  Mynystre, _vb._ B. 644.\n  Myre, B. 1114.\n  Myr\u00fee\u021d, joys, A. 140.\n  Myr\u00fee\u021d, gladdens, A. 862.\n  {Myri, Myry,} = merry, pleasant, A. 23, 158; B. 417, 804; _myryer_,\n    A.\u00a0850; _myryest_, A. 435.\n  Myryly, pleasantly, joyously, B. 493.\n  {Mys, Mysse,} wrong, sin, A. 262; C. 420.\n  Myserecorde, mercy, A. 366.\n  Myse-tente, misunderstood, A. 257.\n  Mysse, to lose, A. 329; B. 189. O.N. _missa_, to lose. Du. _missen_,\n    to fail, miss.\n  Mysse, loss, grief, A. 364.\n  Mysseleue, unbelief, B. 1230.\n  Mysse-payed, displeased, C. 399.\n  Mysse-\u021deme, mis-use, A. 322.\n  Myst, B. 1760.\n  Myste, mysteries, secrets, (?), A. 462.\n  Mysterys, A. 1194.\n  My\u00fee, to trouble, weary (?), A. 359. A.S. _m\u00e9the_, wearied; _m\u00e9th_,\n    feeble.\n  My\u021dt, might, A. 630.\n  My\u021dtes = mights, powers, B. 644, 1699.\n\n  Nadde = ne hadde, had not, B. 404.\n  Nakeryne (_gen. pl._ of _naker_), B. 1413; _naker_, _nacaire_, seems\n    to signify a kettle-drum.\n  Nas = ne was, was not, B. 727, 983.\n  Nature, A. 749.\n  Nauel, C. 278.\n  Naule, nail, A. 459.\n  {Nau\u00feele\u021d, Naw\u00feeles,} nevertheless, A. 877, 950.\n  {Nau\u00feer, Naw\u00feer,} neither, A. 1087; B. 1226.\n  Nawhere, nowhere, A. 534.\n  Nay, refuse, deny, B. 805.\n  Nayed, refused, B. 65.\n  Nayt, use, employ, B. 531. See T.\u00a0B. 1038. A.S. _neotan_. O.N. _nyta_.\n  Naytly, neatly, dexterously, B. 480. See T.\u00a0B. 2427. Nestor, a\u00a0noble\n    man, _naitest_ in werre. T.\u00a0B. 1038. N.Prov.E. _nately_, neatly.\n  Na\u021dte, night, A. 1203; B. 484, 807, 1002.\n  Ne, nor, B. 1226.\n  Nece, niece, A. 233.\n  Nedde, needed, A. 1044; hem nedde = they needed.\n  {Nede, Nede\u021d,} of necessity, A. 344.\n  Nedle\u021d, needless, useless, B. 381; C. 220.\n  Nee = ne, nor, A. 262.\n  Nel, ne wille, will not, B. 513.\n  Nem, took (_pret._ of _nimme_), A. 802; B. 505.\n  Nemme, name, A. 997. See T.\u00a0B. 152.\n  Nente, ninth, A. 1012.\n  Nere, _ne were_, were not, B. 21.\n  {Nere, Ner,} near, nigh, A. 286, 404; _wel ner_, nearly, B. 1585.\n  Nerre, nearer, A. 233; C. 85.\n  Nesch, gently, A. 606. A.S. _hnesc_, soft, tender.\n  Neue, fist, hand, B. 1537. N.Prov.E. _neve_, _neif_, a fist. O.N.\n    _hnefi_.\n  Neuen, name, B. 410, 1376, 1525. O.N. _nafn_, a name; _nefna_, to\n    name.\n  {Ne\u021d, Ne\u021de,} nigh, near, A. 528; B. 803.\n  {Ne\u021d, Ne\u021de, Ne\u021den,} approach, B. 32, 143, 805, 1017, 1754.\n  Nice, _adj._ foolish, B. 1354; _sb._ B. 1359. Fr. _nice_, foolish,\n    simple.\n  Nif, ne-if, if not, B. 30.\n  Niye, trouble, B. 1002.\n  Noble, A. 1097.\n  Nobley, nobleness, B. 1091.\n  No-bot, only, B. 1127. N.Prov.E. _no-bot_.\n  Nok, nook, C. 278.\n  Nolde, ne wolde, would not, B. 805, 1091.\n  {Nom, Nome,} took, A. 587; B. 1613; _pret._ of _nimme_, to take.\n  Nome, name, A. 872.\n  Nomen, seized, taken; _p.p._ of _nimme_, B. 1281; C. 360.\n  Norne, entreat, ask, B. 803. A.S. _gnornian_, to complain, murmur.\n  Norture, nurture, B. 1091.\n  Note, city, A. 922; B. 1233.\n  Note, devise, ordain, B. 1651; C. 220.\n  Note, device, purpose, A. 155; B. 381, 727. A.S. _nota_, use, duty,\n    employment; _notian_, to employ, use.\n      \u201cThe Bibel telles us openlye\n      Of Nembrot and his maistri,\n      Hou the fole that was wit him\n      Bigan to mak a tour that tim,\n      That suld reche to the lifte;\n      Bot Godd that skilfulli kan skift.\n      Mad them alle serely spekand,\n      That nan moht other understand,\n      And gert them lef thair wilgern werk,\n      Bot of thair _not_ yet standes merk,\n      In Babilony the tour \u021det standes,\n      That that folk mad wit thair handes.\u201d --(Met. Hom. p. 61.)\n      \u201cMony noble for \u00fee nonest to \u00fee _note_ gode.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 284.)\n  Note, A. 879, 883.\n  Notyng, device, devising, B. 1354. See _Note_.\n  Noumbre, number, B. 1283, 1376.\n  Nou\u00fee, now, C. 414.\n  Now\u00feelese, nevertheless, A. 889.\n  Noye, trouble, annoy, B. 1236.\n  {Noys, Noyse,} B. 849; C. 490.\n  No\u021dt, naught, nothing, A. 520; B. 888; not, B. 106.\n  No\u021dty, bad, B. 1359.\n  Nummen (_p.p._ _nimme_), taken, B. 1291; C. 76.\n  Nurne, speak, say, B. 669.\n  Nuye, displease, B. 578.\n  Nuyed, troubled, B. 1176.\n  {Nw, Nwe,} new, A. 527; anew, A. 1079.\n  Nwy, wrath, B. 301.\n  Nwyed, displeased, B. 306.\n  Nye, trouble, B. 1376; _nyes_, troubles, B. 1754; C. 76.\n  Nyed, troubled, B. 1603.\n  Nyf = ne if, if not, B. 424.\n  Nyl, ne wyl, will not, B. 1261; C. 41.\n  Nylt, ne wylt, wilt not, C. 346.\n  {Nym, Nymme,} take, B. 481. A.S. _niman_.\n  Nys, ne ys, is not, A. 951.\n  Nyse, nice, dainty, B. 824.\n  Nyteled, laboured, toiled, B. 888. Prov.E. _nattle_, to endeavour, to\n    be busy about trifles. O.E. _nyte_, to use, employ, enjoy. O.N.\n    _nyta_.\n  Ny\u021de, nigh, B. 484; _wel ny\u021de_, B. 704.\n  {Ny\u021dt, Ny\u021dte,} night, A. 243; B. 526.\n\n  Obeche, reverence, B. 745. Prov. Fr. _obezir_.\n  Obes, obey, A. 886.\n  Odde, (1) not even, B. 426; (2) spotless, faultless, B. 505. See T.\u00a0B.\n    4401, 6157, 6172, 6179, 6189, 6194, 6198.\n  Oddely, (_a_) alone, B. 923; (_b_) nobly, B. 698.\n    (_b_)\n      \u201cI Alexandre the aire and eldest childe hattene,\n      Of kyng Philip the fers, that fest am in Grece,\n      And of the quene Olimpades, the _oddest_ under heven,\n      To all \u021dow of Athenes, thus I etill my sa\u021des.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 79.)\n      \u201cFor thai the mesure and the mett of alle the mulde couthe,\n      The sise of alle the grete see and of the gryme wawys,\n      Of the ordere of that _odde_ home [heaven] that overe the aire\n          hingis.\u201d --(_Ibid._ p. 2.)\n  Oke, oak, B. 602.\n  Olipraunce, vanity, fondness for gay apparel, B. 1349. Prov.E.\n    _olypraunce_, a\u00a0merry making.\n      \u201cOf tournamentys y preue thereynne\n      Seven poyntes of dedly synne;\n      Fyrst ys pryde, as \u00feou wel wost\n      Avauntement, bobaunce and bost;\n      Of rych atyre ys here avaunce,\n      Prykyng here hors wyth _olypraunce_.\u201d\n        --(Robt. of Brunne\u2019s Handlyng Synne, p. 145.)\n  On, an, A. 9.\n  One, alone, self, B. 872, 923, 1669.\n  Onelych, only, B. 1749.\n  One\u021d, once, B. 801.\n  Onhede, unity, concord, B. 612.\n  On-hit, struck, inflamed with anger (?), C. 411. A.S. _onh\u00e6tan_ to\n    inflame, heat.\n  On-lofte, aloft, on high, B. 692; 947.\n  On-ry\u021dt, aright, B. 1513.\n  On-syde\u021d, aside, C. 219.\n  On-wyde, about, B. 1423.\n  On-y\u021ded, one-eyed, B. 102.\n  Ordaynt, ordained, B. 237.\n  Ordenaunce, ordinance, B. 698.\n  Ordure, filth, B. 1092.\n  Ore, oar, C. 218.\n  Orenge, orange, B. 1044.\n  Organe, B. 1081.\n  Orisoun, prayer, C. 328.\n  Ornemente, ornament, B. 1799.\n  Orppedly, quickly, B. 623. N.Prov.E. _orput_, quick (at learning).\n    Orped is generally derived from O.N. _verpa_, to throw; _p.p._\n    _orpinn_. But this etymology is very doubtful. Cf. \u201c_Orpud_, audax,\n    bellipotens.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Ossed, showed, C. 213. N.Prov.E. _awse_, _oss_, to attempt, offer. W.\n    _osi_.\n      \u201cQuat and has thou _ossed_ to Alexander\n      this _ayndain_ (angry) wirdes.\u201d --(K. Alex., p. 79.)\n  Oste, host, army, B. 1204.\n  O\u00feer, or, A. 141.\n  Ouer-borde, C. 157.\n  Ouer-brawden, covered over, B. 1698.\n  Ouer-seyed, passed over, gone, B. 1686.\n  Ouer-tan, overtaken, C. 127.\n  Ouer-\u00fewert, across, B. 316, 1384.\n  Ouer-tok, B. 1213.\n  Ouer-torne, past, B. 1192.\n  Ouer-walte, overflowed, B. 370.\n  Ouer-\u021dede, past, went, B. 1753.\n  Ouerte, open, clear, A. 593.\n  Ouerture, opening, A. 218.\n  Oure, prayer, A. 690.\n  Out-borst, _vb._ outburst, B. 1251.\n  Out-comlyng, a stranger, B. 876. N.Prov.E. _out-cumling_, a foreigner,\n    stranger. The more usual form in early English is _comling_.\n  Out-dryf, drive out, A. 777.\n  Out-fleme, banished, A. 1177. See _Fleme_.\n  Out-kast, B. 1679.\n  Out-sprent, outburst, A. 1137.\n  Out-taken, excepted, B. 1573.\n  Out-tulde, thrown out, C. 231.\n  O\u021de = owe, ought, A. 552.\n  {O\u021dt, O\u021dte,} _vb._ ought, A. 341.\n  {O\u021dt, O\u021dte,} _pr._ aught, A. 274; B. 663.\n\n  Pace, passage, A. 677.\n  {Pacience, Pacyence,} C. 1, 36.\n  Pakke, pack, B. 1282.\n  Pakke, company, A. 929.\n  {Palayce, Palays,} B. 83, 1389, 1531.\n  Pale, A. 1004.\n  Palle = pall, fine cloth, B. 1384, 1637.\n  Pane, a side, division of a building, A. 1034. Lat. _pagina_, a\u00a0leaf,\n    any flat expanse. \u201cA _pane_, piece or pannel of a wall, of wainscot,\n    of a glasse window.\u201d (Cotg.) \u201c_Pane_ of a wall, _pan de\n    mur_.\u201d (Palsg.)\n  Panne, head, but we may read _paune_, paws, claws, B. 1697.\n  Papeiay = a popinjay, a parrot, B. 1465. It. _papagallo_. O.Fr.\n    _papegau_, _papegay_. Sp. _papagayo_, parrot.\n  Parage, kindred, rank, nobleness, A. 419; B. 167. O.Fr. _parage_.\n  Paramore\u021d, paramours, lovers, B. 700. Fr. _par amour_, by way of love.\n  Paraunter, peradventure, A. 588.\n  Parchmen, parchment, B. 1134.\n  Pare, cut, B. 1408, 1536.\n  Parform, perform, B. 542; C. 406.\n  Parfyt, perfect, A. 638.\n  Parget, plaister of a wall, B. 1536. \u201c_Pariette_ for walles,\n    blanchissure.\u201d (Palsg.)\n  Parlatyk, paralytic, B. 1095.\n  Partle\u021d, partless, portionless, A. 335.\n  Partrykes, partridges, B. 57.\n  Pass, surpass, A. 428.\n  Passage, journey, C. 97.\n  Passande, passing, B. 1389.\n  Pasture, C. 393.\n  Pater, paternoster, A. 485.\n  Paume, palm, hand, B. 1533, 1542.\n  {Pay, Paye,} pleasure, A. 1, 1164, 1176; C. 99.\n  Pay, please, A. 1165, 1177.\n  Payment, A. 598.\n  Paynt, A. 750.\n  Payre, pair, B. 335.\n  Payre = appayre, become worse, fade, B. 1124. Lat. _pejor_, worse.\n    \u201cTo _appayre_ to waxe worse.\u201d (Palsg.)\n  Payred, impaired, A. 246.\n  Pechche, sin, fault, A. 841. Fr. _p\u00e9ch\u00e9_.\n  {Penance, Penaunce,} A. 477.\n  Pene\u021d, pens, folds (for cattle), B. 322.\n  Penitotes, (? _Peritotes_), a kind of stone (the _peritot_ or\n    _peridot_ Marsh), B. 1472.\n  Penne, B. 1724.\n  Penne-fed, B. 57.\n  Pensyf, pensive, A. 246.\n  Pented, appertained, belonged to, B. 1270.\n  Peraunter, peradventure, B. 43.\n  {Pere, Per,} equal, peer, A. 4; B. 1214, 1336.\n  Pere\u021d, pears, A. 104.\n  Perile, B. 856, 942.\n  Perr\u00e9, precious stones, jewelry, A. 730; B. 1117.\n  Pertly = apertly, openly, B. 244. See T.\u00a0B. 1130. Cf. \u201c_pert_ wordes,\u201d\n    T.\u00a0B. 977.\n  Peryle, A. 695; C. 85.\n  Pes, peace, A. 952.\n  Pich, pitch, B. 1008.\n  Pike = pick, pluck, B. 1464.\n  Pinnacle, B. 1463.\n  Pit\u00e9, pity, B. 232.\n  {Pitously, Pytosly,} A. 370, 798.\n  Planed, B. 310.\n  Planete, A. 1075.\n  Plaster, B. 1549.\n  Plat, flat, B. 1379.\n  Plat, struck (_pret._ of _plette_, to strike), B. 1265. A.S.\n    _pl\u00e6ttian_.\n      \u201cHwan he hauede him so schamed,\n      His hand (he) of _plat_, and yvele lamed.\u201d\n        --(Havelok the Dane, 2755.)\n  Plater, plate, platter, B. 638.\n  Plate\u021d, A. 1036.\n  Plat-ful, brimful, B. 83.\n  Plattyng, _sb._ striking (or folding?), B. 1542.\n  Play, A. 261.\n  Play-fere, play-fellow, companion, C. 45.\n  Playn, _adj._ even, clear, A. 178, 689; B. 1068; C. 439.\n  Playn, _sb._ A. 104, 122; B. 1216.\n  Playned, lamented, A. 53, 242.\n  Playne\u021d, complains, C. 376.\n  Playnt, complaint, A. 815.\n  Plek, place, plot of ground, B. 1379. \u201c_Pleckke_ or plott,\n    porculetum.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.) N.Prov.E. _pleck_. A.S. _pl\u00e6c_.\n    \u201cSe that the hare hathe be at pasture in grene corne, or in eny\n    other _plek_.\u201d --(Quoted by Way from MS. Harl. 5086, fol. 47.)\n  Pleny, to complain, A. 549.\n  Plete, demand, plead for, A. 563.\n  Pleyn, mourn, C. 371.\n  Plontte, plant, A. 104.\n  Plow, plough, B. 68.\n  Plyande, pliant, C. 439.\n  Plye, A. 1039; B. 196, 1385.\n  Plyt, danger, fault, A. 647; B. 1494; C. 114. A.S. _pliht_.\n  Ply\u021dt, condition, A. 1075; B. 111.\n  Pobbel, pebble, A. 117.\n  Pole, pool, stream, A. 117.\n  Polle, poll, head, B. 1265. Du. _polle_, _pol_, head, top, crown.\n  Polmente, a kind of pottage, B. 628. O.Fr. _polment_. Lat.\n    _pulmentum_. \u201c_Pulmentarium_ a _pulment_.\u201d Nominale, MS.\n      \u201cHis brother (Jacob) he fand give--and his tent\n      To grayth a riche _pulment_.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 21a.)\n  {Polyce, Polyse,} polish, B. 1068, 1131, 1134.\n  Polyle, poultry, B. 57. Fr. _poule_, a hen; _poulet_, a chicken. Lat.\n    _pullus_. \u201c_Polayle_, bryddys or fowlys, Altilis.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Pomgarnade, pomegranate, B. 1466. Cf. Lat. _malum granatum_. It.\n    _granata_. Sp. _granada_.\n  Poplande, rushing, foaming, C. 319. N.Prov.E. _popple_, to tumble\n    about with a quick motion. O.Sc. _pople_, to flow, rush.\n      \u201cThe wawis of the wild see apone the wallis betes,\n      The pure _populand_ hurle passis it umby.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 40.)\n      \u201cAnd on the stanys owt thar harnys [he] dang,\n      Quhil brayn and eyn and blude al _poplit_ owt.\u201d\n        --(G. Douglas, vol. i. p. 167.)\n  Porchase, purchase, A. 439.\n  Porche, B. 785.\n  Pore, poor, A. 873.\n  Porfyl, hem, A. 216. Fr. _pourfiler_, to work upon the edge,\n    embroider; _fil_, a\u00a0thread. O.E. _purfle_, to overlay with gems or\n    gold. \u201c_Purfyll_ or hemme of a gowne, bort.\u201d (Palsg.)\n  Porpre, purple, B. 1568.\n  Porros, B. 1772.\n  Port, gate, B. 856; harbour, C. 90.\n  Portale, A. 1036.\n  Portray, B. 700.\n  {Poruay, Poruaye,} to provide, B. 1502; C. 36.\n  Possyble, A. 452.\n  Potage, B. 638.\n  Poursent, course, A. 1035.\n  Pourtray, B. 1271. Fr. _pourtraire_.\n  Pouer, power, B. 1654.\n  {Pouer, Pouere,} poor, B. 615, 1074.\n  Poueren (_pl._ of _pouer_), poor, B. 127.\n  Pouert, poverty, C. 43.\n  Pouert\u00e9, C. 13.\n  Powdered, A. 44.\n  Powle\u021d, pools, C. 310.\n  Poyned, trimmed, ornamented, A. 217.\n  Poynt, _sb._ particle, A. 891.\n  Poysened, B. 1095.\n  Poyntel, a style, B. 1533.\n  Pray, _sb._ prey, B. 1297; _vb._ to plunder, B. 1624.\n  Prayse, A. 301.\n  Prece, press, B. 880.\n  Prechande, preaching, B. 942.\n  {Precios, Precious,} A. 4, 216; B. 1282.\n  Prelate, B. 1249; C. 389.\n  Pres, press, A. 730; to press, A. 957.\n  Prese, praise, honour; \u201chis _prese_, his _prys_,\u201d A. 419. Sp. _prez_,\n    honour, glory. Fr. _prix_, value, worth, price.\n      \u201cFra \u00fean forth heild Sir Moyses\n      \u00deis wandes bath in _pris_ and _pres_.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 36a.)\n  {Prese, Pres,} _sb._ press, A. 1114; _vb._ B. 1249.\n  {Presens, Presente,} presence, A. 389; B. 8, 1496.\n  Present, _vb._ B. 1217.\n  Presonere, prisoner, B. 1217.\n  Prest, ready, B. 147; C. 303. Ital. _presto_.\n  Prestly, quickly, B. 628.\n  Presyous, B. 1496.\n  Pretermynable, A. 596.\n  Preue, prove, A. 983; B. 704, 1748.\n  Prisoner, B. 1297.\n  Profecie, B. 1158, 1308.\n  Profere, A. 235, 1200.\n  Profert, B. 1463.\n  Professye, A. 821.\n  Profete, prophet, A. 797.\n  Proper, A. 686.\n  Propert\u00e9\u021d, properties, A. 752.\n  Property, A. 446.\n  Prophete, A. 831; B. 1300.\n  Prosessyoun, procession, A. 1096.\n  Prouince, B. 1300.\n  Pruddest, proudest, B. 1300.\n  Prudly, proudly, B. 1379, 1466. See T.\u00a0B. 857.\n  Pryce, chief, B. 1308.\n  Prymate, B. 1570.\n  Pryncipale, B. 1531, 1781.\n  Pryncipalt\u00e9, dominion, B. 1672, 1738.\n  {Priys, Prys,} value, worth, A. 272, 419, 755; B. 1117. See _Prese_.\n  Prysoun, C. 79.\n  Pryuely, B. 238.\n  Pryuy, A. 12; _pryuyest_, B. 1748.\n  Pulde, pulled, B. 1265.\n  Pulle, draw, B. 68.\n  Pure, _adj._ A. 227; B. 704; _vb._ B. 1116.\n  {Purely, Purly,} A. 1004; B. 1660.\n  Purpre, purple, A. 1016.\n  Pursaunt, a sergeant, B. 1385. O.Fr. _pursuivant_.\n  Pursue, B. 1177.\n  Purtraye, B. 1465, 1536.\n  Puryt\u00e9, B. 1074.\n  Pyche, pitch, fix, B. 477.\n  Pye, B. 1465.\n  Pyked, adorned, A. 1036.\n  Pyke\u021d, pick, choose, A. 573.\n  Pyle, building, A. 686.\n  Pyle, to rob, B. 1270, 1282. Fr. _piller_, to rob.\n  Pylere, pillar, B. 1271.\n  Pyne, _vb._ to torment, B. 1095; _sb._ pain, A. 330. Du. _pijnen_, to\n    torture.\n  Pyne = pynd, fasten, C. 79. A.S. _pyndan_, to shut in.\n  Pynkardine, ? _perre carnadine_, carnelian stone (Marsh), B. 1472.\n  Pyony, A. 44.\n  Pytosly, pitifully, A. 370.\n  Pyty, A. 1206.\n  Py\u021dt, fixed, placed (_pret._ of _pyche_), A. 117, 228, 742; B. 785.\n\n  Quat, what, A. 293.\n  Quat-kyn, what kind of, A. 771.\n  Quauende, flowing, waving, B. 324.\n  Quayle, _sb._ quail, A. 1085.\n  Quayntyse, wisdom, craft, B. 1632. O.Fr. _accointer_, to make known;\n    _coint_, informed, acquainted with. Lat. _cognitus_.\n  Qued, _sb._ evil, crime, ill, B. 567; C. 4. Du. _kwaad_, bad. Pl. D.\n    _quat_.\n  Quelle, kill, A. 799; B. 324; subdue, C. 4. A.S. _cwellan_.\n  Queme, _adj._ pleasing, A. 1179. A.S. _cweman_, to please. Your\n    _qweme_ spouse, T.\u00a0B. 634.\n  Quen, when, A. 40, 93, 232, 804.\n  Quenche, C. 4.\n  Quere, where, A. 65.\n  Query, A. 803.\n  Quest, C. 39.\n  Que\u00feer-so-euer, whether-so-ever, A. 606.\n  Quikken, C. 471.\n  Quo, who, A. 747.\n  Quo-so, who-so, B. 1647; C. 5.\n  Quos, whose, B. 1648.\n  Quoynt, wise, A. 889; B. 160, 871; curious, B. 1459. See _Quayntyse_.\n  Quoyntis, clothing, B. 54. \u201c_Quoyntyse_, yn gay floryschynge, or other\n    lyke. Virilia.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Quoyntyse, device, C. 39. See _Quayntyse_.\n  {Quyk, Quik,} quick, living (_pl._ _quyke\u021d_, A. 1179; B. 567), B. 324.\n  Quyl, while, B. 627.\n  Quyte, requite, reward, A. 595; B. 1632.\n  Quyte, white, A. 220, 842, 844.\n\n  Raas = rase, rese, way, course, A. 1167. A.S. _r\u00e6s_, way, course,\n    race. Sw. _resa_.\n  Rac, storm, vapour, B. 433. N.Prov.E. _rack_, driving clouds, clouds\n    driven along by the wind.\n      \u201cA _rak_ and a royde wynde rose in her saile.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 1984)\n  Rachche, proceed, go, B. 619. A.S. _r\u00e6can_, to reach, extend. O.H.G.\n    _rechen_. N.Prov.E. _ratch_, stretch. Perhaps _rachche_ is a\n    softened form of _rayke_ (Icel. _reika_, to go), to go. S.Sax.\n    _ruchen_.\n  Rad, frightened, B. 1543. Sw. _raedd_, afraid. N.Prov.E. _rade_.\n      \u201cIn a _rad_ haste.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 917.)\n      \u201cVn-to the gryselyche gost Syr Gauane is gone,\n      And rayket to hit in a res, for he was neuyr _radde_;\n      _Rad_ was he neuyr \u021dette, quoso ry\u021dte redus.\u201d\n        --(The Anturs of Arther, p. 5; ix. 8, 9.)\n  Radde, advised, C. 406 (_pret._ of _rede_, to advise). See _Rede_.\n  Radly, readily, quickly. A.S. _r\u00e1d_, ready, quick; _r\u00e1dlice_,\n    speedily.\n      \u201cThe sight of \u00feat semely sanke in hir herte,\n      And rauysshed hir _radly_ \u00fee rest of hir sawle.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 462)\n  Raft, bereft, took, (_pret._ of _reve_), B. 1142, 1431; taken,\n    B. 1739. See _Reue_.\n  Rak, C. 176. See _Rac_.\n  Rakel, hasty, rash, C. 526. N.Prov.E. _rackle_.\n  Rakente, chain (?), C. 188. A.S. _raccenta_.\n  Rakke, C. 139. See _Rac_.\n  Ramelande, fetid, filthy, C. 279. Prov.E. _ram_, fetid; _rammely_,\n    tall, rank; _ramel_, rubbish, dirt.\n  Rande\u021d, paths, borders, A. 105. A.S. _rand_, _rond_, a border, rim,\n    edge.\n  Rank, strong, severe, B. 233. Fris. _rank_, long-grown, rank. Dan.\n    _rank_, upright. See T.\u00a0B. 1392, 1879.\n  Ranker, rancour, B. 756.\n  Rape, blow, B. 233. Sw. _rapp_.\n  Rapely, quickly, A. 363, 1168. O.E. _rape_, haste. O.N. _r\u00e1pa_,\n    cursitare. In T.\u00a0B. rape = to hasten (818).\n  Rasch, A. 1167.\n  Rasp, B. 1545, 1724.\n  Rasse, summit, top, B. 446. N.Prov.E. _raise_, a mound, cairn. O.N.\n    _reysa_.\n  Ratted, rent, ragged, B. 144; from O.E. _ratte_, to tear, rend.\n    N.Prov.E. _rats_, pieces, fragments. Fris. _rite_, tear, pull.\n      \u201cThane the Romayns relevyde that are ware rebuykkyde,\n      And alle _to-rattys_ oure mene with theire rist\u00e9 horsses.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, E. E. T. S. 2235.)\n  {Rau\u00fee, Raw\u00fee,} = ruth, pity, sorrow, A. 858; B. 233, 972; mercy,\n    C.\u00a021.\n  Raue, A. 363, 665.\n  Rauen, B. 455.\n  Rauyste, ravished, A. 1088.\n  Rawe, row, \u201cvpon a _rawe_,\u201d in a row, in order, A. 545.\n  Rawe\u021d, rows, borders, A. 105.\n  Raw-sylk, B. 790.\n  Raxled, roused up, A. 1174. A.S. _r\u00e6scian_, to shake, rustle. O.N.\n    _ruska_. Sc. _rax_, to stretch.\n  Ray, A. 160.\n  Raykande, going, flowing, A. 112; B. 382.\n  Rayke, go, B. 465, 671; C. 89. O.N. _reka_. N.Prov.E. _rake_, to go\n    about.\n  Raynande, raining, B. 382.\n  Rayn-ryfte, rain-fissure, B. 368.\n  Raysoun, reason, cause, A. 268; C. 191.\n  {Ra\u021dt, Ra\u021dte,} afforded, extended (_pret._ of _rache_), B. 561, 766,\n    1691. See _Rachche_.\n  Reame, realm, B. 1316.\n  Rebaude, ribald, B. 873. Fr. _ribald_, from O.H.G. _hr\u00fapa_,\n    a\u00a0prostitute. (Burguy.)\n  Rebel, B. 455.\n  Rebounde, B. 422.\n  Rebuke, A. 367.\n  Recen, tell, A. 827. A.S. _recan_.\n  Reche, reach, extend, B. 10, 1369.\n  {Rech, Reche,} reck, care, A. 333; B. 465. A.S. _r\u00e9can_.\n  Reche = reke, smoke, B. 1009. A.S. _re\u00e1c_.\n  Recorde, _sb._ A. 831; _vb._ B. 25.\n  Recoverer, recovery, B. 394.\n  Rede, _vb._ to counsel, advise, B. 1346; explain, B. 1578. A.S.\n    _r\u00e6dan_.\n  {Redles, Redeles,} without counsel, uncertain, fearful, B. 1197;\n    C. 502.\n  Refete, feed, refresh, A. 88; C. 20.\n  Reflayr, smell, A. 46; odour, B. 1079. Fr. _flairer_, to smell. Prov.\n    Fr. _flairar_, to smell, sniff.\n  Refrayne, B. 756.\n  Reget, A. 1064.\n  Regretted, A. 243.\n  Regioun, A. 1178; B. 760, 964.\n  Rehayte, cheer, B. 127. O.Fr. _rehaiter._\n  Reiat\u00e9\u021d, kingdoms, royalties, A. 769. O.Fr. _reiaut\u00e9_ = _reialt\u00e9_,\n    royalty.\n  Reken, beautiful, A. 5, 906; joyous, A. 92; merry, B. 1082; pious,\n    B.\u00a010, 738; wise, B. 756. See Wright\u2019s Lyrical Poems, p.\u00a027. A.S.\n    _recan_. O.S. _recon_, to order, direct. Pl. D. _reken_, right,\n    straight, orderly.\n  Rekenly, nobly, princely, B. 127, 1318.\n  Rekken up, B. 2.\n  Relande, reeling, C. 270.\n  Rele, reel, roll, C. 147.\n  {Reles, Relece,} cessation, A. 956; B. 760.\n  Releue, C. 323.\n  Relusaunt, shining, A. 159. O.Fr. _reluire_, to shine.\n  Relygioun, B. 7, 1156.\n  Relyke, B. 1156, 1269.\n  Reme, realm, A. 448, 735.\n  Reme, lament, cry, A. 858, 1181; C. 502. A.S. _hreman_.\n  Remembre, C. 326.\n  Remnaunt, remainder, A. 1160; B. 433.\n  Remorde, grieved, A. 364.\n  {Remue, Remwe,} remove, A. 427, 899; B. 646, 1673.\n  Renay, reject, forsake, B. 105; C. 344.\n  {Renge, Rengne,} reign, B. 328, 1321.\n  Rengne\u021d, courses, B. 527. A.S. _ryne_, course.\n  Renischche, foreign, strange, B. 96. See _Runische_.\n  {Renk, Renke,} a man, originally a warrior, B. 7, 96, 766, 969. A.S.\n    _rinc_. O.N. _reckr_.\n  Renne, run, B. 527, 1392.\n  Renoun, A. 986, 1182.\n  Renowle\u021d, renews, A. 1080.\n  Renyschly, fiercely, B. 1724. See _Runische_.\n  Reparde, kept back, A. 611.\n  Repayre, _vb._ A. 1028.\n  Repente, A. 662.\n  Repreue, reprove, A. 544.\n  Requeste, A. 281.\n  Rere, rise, B. 366, 423; C. 188; raise, B. 873; proceed, A. 160.\n  Rert, if not _rered_, raised = _ert_, powerful, A. 591. Cf. _ertid_.\n    T.\u00a0B. 2641, 4841.\n  Res, onset, assault, B. 1782. See _Raas_.\n  Reset, resting place, seat, abode, A. 1067.\n  {Resonabele, Resounable,} A. 523; B. 724.\n  Resoun, A. 665, 716; B. 1633.\n  Respecte, \u201cin respecte of,\u201d A. 84.\n  Respyt, A. 644.\n  Resse, \u201con resse,\u201d in course, A. 874. See _Raas_.\n  Restay, keep back, restrain, A. 716, 1168.\n  Restle\u021d = restless, unceasing, B. 527.\n  Restore, A. 659; B. 1705.\n  Retrete, treat of, A. 92.\n  Reue, bereave, C. 487. A.S. _refian_, _reafian_. O.Fris. _r\u00e2va_.\n  Reuel, B. 1369.\n  Reuer, river, A. 105.\n  {Reuerence, Reverens,} B. 10, 1318.\n  Rewarde, A. 604.\n  Rewfully, sorrowfully, A. 1181.\n  Rewled, ruled, ordered, B. 294.\n  Reynye\u021d, reins, B. 592.\n  Re\u021dtful, rightful, B. 724.\n  Rial, royal, B. 1082.\n  Rialt\u00e9, royalty, B. 1321.\n  Ridlande, dropping (as out of a sieve), oozing, B. 953. A.S.\n    _hriddel_, a\u00a0sieve; _hridrian_, to sift.\n  Riboudrye, ribaldry, B. 184.\n  Rigge, back, C. 379. A.S. _hrycg_.\n  Rifte\u021d, pieces, fragments, B. 964.\n  Ring = rink, man, B. 592. See _Renk_.\n  Robbor, B. 1269.\n  Roborrye, B. 184.\n  Roche, rock, B. 537.\n  Rode, cross, A. 705; C. 96.\n  Rok, crowd, throng, B. 1514. Sc. _rok_. O.Sw. _rok_, cumulus.\n  Rollande, curly, waving, B. 790.\n  Rome = roam, go, C. 52.\n  Romy, roar, howl, B. 1543. A.S. _reomian_, to cry out. O.E. _rome_.\n    Sc. _rame_. Sw. _raama_.\n  Ronk = rank, fine, A. 844; bold, A. 1167; C. 490; bad, B. 455, 760;\n    full grown, B. 869; _sb._ boldness, C. 298.\n  Ronkly, fiercely, C. 431.\n  Rop, rope, C. 150.\n  Rop, gut, intestine, C. 270. N.Prov.E. _ropps_, the guts. A.S.\n    _roppas_, the bowels, entrails, the _raps_. Cf. A.S. _rop_-weorc,\n    the colic.\n    \u201cHuervore he (the liar) is ase the gamelos (chameleon), thet\n    leveth by the eyr, and na\u021dt ne heth ine his _roppes_ bote wynd,\n    and heth ech manere colour, thet ne heth non (of) his o\u021den.\u201d\n      --(The Ayenbite of Inwyt, E.\u00a0E.\u00a0T.\u00a0S. p.\u00a062.)\n  Rore, roar, cry, B. 390, 1543.\n  Rose, praise, B. 1371. Sc. _ruse_. Sw. _rosa_. Dan. _rose_, to praise.\n  {Rot, Rote,} root, A. 26.\n  Rote, _sb._ rot, decay, B. 1079.\n  Rote, lyre of seven strings, B. 1082. O.H.G. _hrotta_. M.H.G. _rotte_.\n    W. _crwth_. Eng. _crowd_.\n  Ro\u00feeled, prepared, B. 59; rushed, hastened, B. 890. A.S. _hrathian_,\n    to be quick. Or from Welsh _rhuthr_, a\u00a0sudden gust, onset, assault.\n    Lanc. _rhute_, passion. Sc. _ruther_, uproar.\n  Ro\u00feer, rudder, B. 419.\n  Ro\u00feun, rush, B. 1009. See _Ro\u00feeled_.\n  Roum, room, B. 96.\n  Roun = rune, discourse, C. 514. A.S. _r\u00fan_, a letter, character,\n    mystery, council, conversation.\n  Rourde, sound, A. 112. A.S. _reord_, _reard_, speech, language.\n  Route, snore, C. 186. Fr. _router_. O.N. _rauta_, to roar, bellow.\n      \u201cDormiendo sonare, Anglice to _rowtyn_.\u201d\n        --(MS. Bibl. Reg. 12 B. i. f. 88.)\n  Rownande, murmuring, A. 112.\n  Rowned, sounded, C. 64. A.S. _r\u00fanian_, to whisper.\n  Rowtande, rushing, B. 354. \u201cA _routond_ rayn,\u201d T.\u00a0B. 1986.\n  Rowte, company, band, host, B. 969, 1197, 1782.\n  Rowwe, row, C. 216.\n  Royl, royal, B. 790.\n  {Ro\u021d, Ro\u021de,} rough, B. 382, 1724; C. 139, 147; roughness, B. 1545;\n    C. 144.\n  Ro\u021dly, roughly, B. 433. Is it an error for _rwly_, sorrowful?\n  Ro\u021dt, cared for (_pret._ of _reche_), C. 460.\n  Ruchen, fettle, set in order, C. 101. M.H.G. _rechen_. O.S. _recon_.\n    A.S. _recan_, to order, direct.\n      \u201c(He) _riches_ him radly to ride and remowis his ost.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 172.)\n      \u201c[The king] Ricchis his reynys.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 1231.)\n  Ruddon, light, literally redness, B. 893. O.N. _rodna_, rubescere,\n    erubescere; _rodi_, rubor, rubigo. Prov.E. _roaded_, _rody_,\n    streaked.\n  Rudnyng, ? lightning, C. 139. See _Ruddon_.\n  Rueled, rushed, B. 953. O.N. _hrolla_. Dan. _rulle_.\n  Ruful, sorrowful, pitiful, A. 916.\n  Runnen (_p.p._ of _rinne_), run, A. 26, 874.\n  Runisch, strange, B. 1545. A.S. _r\u00e9nisc_, hidden; from _r\u00fan_,\n    a\u00a0mystery.\n  Runyschly, fiercely, roughly, C. 191. _Renisch_ or _runisch_,\n    signifies not only strange but fierce, rough. N.Prov.E. _rennish_,\n    _rinnish_, furious.\n      \u201cThan has sire Dary dedeyne and derfely he lokes;\n      Rysys him up _renysche_ and re\u021dt in his sete.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 100.)\n  Rurd, cry, noise, B. 390; C. 64. A.S. _reord_.\n  Ru\u00fee, arouse, B. 895, 1208. See _Ro\u00feeled_.\n  Ruyt, hasten, endeavour, C. 216. Fris. _rite_, to pull.\n  Rwe, to pity, C. 176, 502; _vb. impers._ _rwe_, repent, B. 290, 561.\n    A.S. _hre\u00f3wan_, to rue, repent, grieve; _hre\u00f3wian_, to be sorry for.\n  Rwly = ruly, sorrowfully, piteously, B. 390; C. 96.\n  Ryal, royal, A. 160; B. 786.\n  Ryally, royally, A. 987; B. 812.\n  Rybaude, ribald, C. 96.\n  Rybe, ruby, A. 1007.\n  Ryche, kingdom, A. 601, 722. A.S. _r\u00edce_.\n  Ryche, rich, A. 770.\n  Rydelande, drifting, C. 254. See _Ridlande_.\n  Rydelles, without counsel, uncertain, B. 969. See _Redeles_.\n  Ryf = rife, abundant, plentiful, A. 770, 844. A.S. _ryf_, frequent.\n    O.N. _rifr_.\n      \u201cFor\u00fei he hight (promised) \u00feam giftes _riif_,\n      \u00deat suld bring David of his liif;\n      In feild and tun, in frith and felle,\n      Saul soght David for to quelle.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 43a.)\n  {Ryg, Ryge,} rain, torrent, shower, B. 354, 382. O.N. _hregg_. A.S.\n    _racu_. N.Prov.E. _rag_.\n  Ryngande, ringing, B. 1082.\n  Rynk, man, C. 216. See _Renk_.\n  Rypande, searching, trying, B. 592. O.E. _rype_, to probe, plunder.\n    A.S. _rypan_; N.Prov.E. to investigate.\n      \u201cNow if ye have suspowse to Gille or to me,\n      Com and _rype_ oure howse, and then may ye se who had hir.\u201d\n        --(Town. Myst. p. 112.)\n    See State Papers, i. 295.\n  Rysed, rose, B. 1778.\n  Ryth, a hound, mastiff, B. 1543. A.S. _riththa_, a mastiff.\n  Ry\u021dt, right, A. 622.\n  Ry\u021dtwys, righteous, right, A. 675; C. 490.\n  Ry\u021dtwysly, aright, A. 709.\n\n  {Sacrafyce, Sacrefyce,} B. 510, 1447; C. 239.\n  {Sad, Sade, Sadde,} sad, staid, solemn, A. 211, 887; B. 595; long,\n    B.\u00a01286; bitter, B. 525.\n  Sadele, saddle, B. 1213.\n  Sadly, soundly, heavily, C. 442.\n  Saf, safe, secure, A. 672.\n  Saf, save, except, B. 1749.\n  {Saffer, Safyre,} sapphire, A. 1002; B. 1469.\n  Sage, B. 1576.\n  Saghe = saw, word, A. 226. See _Saw_.\n  Sake, fault, A. 800; C. 84. A.S. _sacu_.\n  Sakerfyse, sacrifice, A. 1064; B. 507.\n  Sakle\u021d = sakeless, innocent, faultless, B. 716. Sc. _sackless_. O.N.\n    _saklaus_, innocent. See _Sake_.\n  Sakred, hallowed, B. 1139.\n  Sale, hall, palace, B. 120, 1260, 1722. A.S. _sal_. T.\u00a0B. 1657.\n  Samen, _adv._ together, at once, A. 518; B. 400, 468; _adj._ B. 985.\n    O.N. _saman_.\n  Samen, to consort with, B. 870. A.S. _samnian_, to assemble, collect.\n  Samne, assemble, B. 53.\n  Samned, assembled, B. 126, 361.\n  Samnes (_imp._ of _samne_), C. 385.\n  Sample, example, A. 499; B. 1326.\n  Sapyence, wisdom, B. 1626.\n  Sardiner, sardine stone, B. 1469.\n  Sardonyse, sardonyx, A. 1006.\n  Sarre (_comp._ of _sare_), sorer, more painful, B. 1195; _superl._\n    _sarrest_, B. 1078.\n  Sattle, settle, C. 409. N.Prov.E. _sattle_.\n  {Sau, Saue,} = saw, word, B. 1545.\n  Sauce, B. 823.\n  Saudan, sultan, B. 1323.\n  {Saule, Sawle,} soul, A. 461; B. 290; C. 325.\n  Saundyuer, sandever, glass-gall, B. 1036.\n  Sauter, psalter, A. 677.\n  Sauteray, psaltery, B. 1516.\n  Saue, A. 666.\n  Sauer, _vb._ savour, B. 825.\n  Sauerly, savourly, sweet, A. 226.\n  {Sauor, Savour,} B. 510, 995, 1447; C. 275.\n  Sauyt\u00e9, safety, B. 489.\n  {Saw, Sawe,} word, A. 278; B. 109. A.S. _sagu_.\n  Sayde = sadde, stedfast, B. 470.\n  Saym, fat, grease, C. 275. Prov.E. _saim_, seam, lard. W. _saim_.\n  Sayned, blessed, B. 746. A.S. _senian_. Ger. _segnen_, to bless.\n      \u201cSwa sal I _saine_ \u00fee in lif mine,\n      Sic benedicam te in vita mea,\n      And sal lift mi handes in name thine,\n      Et in nomine tuo levabo manus meas.\u201d --(Psalm lxii. 5.)\n  Saynt, A. 835.\n  {Sa\u021d, Sa\u021de,} word, B. 1599, 1737. See _Saw_.\n  Sa\u021d, saw, A. 1021.\n  {Sa\u021dt, Sa\u021dte,} reconciliation, A. 1201; _adj._ at peace, A. 52. A.S.\n    _saht_, peace; _saht_, reconciled; _sahtlian_, to reconcile.\n  Sa\u021dtled, appeased, reconciled, B. 230, 1139.\n  Sa\u021dtled, settled, restored, B. 445; became calm, C. 232.\n  Sa\u021dtlyng, reconciliation, peace, B. 490, 1795.\n  Sa\u021dttel, to be calm, patient, C. 529.\n  Scale, A. 1005.\n  Scape, escape, B. 62, 529, 928; C. 155.\n  Scarre = scare, _vb._ be frightened, B. 598, 838; scatter, B. 1784.\n    N.Prov.E. _skair_, wild, timid. S.Sax. _skerren_, to terrify.\n  Sca\u00fee, harm, ruin, wrong, sin, B. 21, 196, 569, 600, 1148.\n  Sca\u00fee, to break, destroy, B. 1776. A.S. _scethan_, to injure, hurt,\n    harm. _Sceththe_, injury, loss, guilt.\n  Sca\u00feel, dangerous, C. 155. Goth. _skathuls_. O.H.G. _scadhal_,\n    hurtful.\n      \u201cLokez the contree be clere the corners are large:\n      Discoveres now sekerly skrogges and other,\n      That no _skathelle_ (hurtful thing) in the skroggez skorne us\n          here-aftyre;\n      Loke \u021de skyfte it so that no _skathe_ lympe.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, pp. 137-8.)\n    Ascalphus, a _skathel_ duke, T.\u00a0B. 4067.\n  Scelt, spread, served (?), B. 827.\n  Schad, descended, B. 1690.\n  Schadowed, shaded, A. 42.\n  Schaftes, beams, rays, A. 982; C. 455. A.S. _sceaft_, dart, arrow.\n      \u201c(He) had on a mitre\n      Was forged all of fyne gold, and fret fulle of perrils,\n      Sti\u021dt staffulle of stanes that stra\u021dt out bemes\n      As it ware schemerand _schaftis_ of the schire sonne.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 53.)\n  {Schalk, Schalkke,} man, fellow, B. 762, 1029; C. 476. A.S. _scealc_,\n    a\u00a0warrior, serving man. Goth. _skalks_. O.S. _scalc_. O.N. _sk\u00e1lkr_.\n  Schape, devise, form, C. 247; endeavour, B. 762; happen, C. 160. A.S.\n    _scapan_, to appoint, shape, create. O.N. _skapa_.\n  Schauen, shaven, scraped, B. 1134.\n  Schawe, show, B. 1599.\n  {Schawe, Scha\u021de,} grove, thicket, wood, A. 284; C. 452. Prov.E.\n    _scow_, _shaw_. O.N. _sk\u00f3gr_, Dan. _skov_, a\u00a0wood.\n  Schede, depart, A. 411.\n  Schelde\u021d, shields (of a boar), B. 58.\n  Schende, ruin, destroy, B. 519. A.S. _scendan_, to confound, shame,\n    destroy.\n  Schended, accursed, C. 246.\n  Schene = sheen, _sb._ bright, beautiful, A. 166, 965; brightness,\n    C. 440; _adj._ A. 203, 1145; B. 1076, 1310. A.S. _sceone_,\n    beautiful; _scine_, splendour.\n  {Schent, Schente,} destroyed, A. 668; B. 1029; ruined, B. 47, 580.\n  Schep, sheep, A. 801.\n  Schepon, stall, stable, B. 1076. A.S. _scypen_.\n  Schere, divide, separate, A. 107; purify, A. 165. A.S. _sc\u00e9ran_, to\n    divide.\n  Schet, shut, C. 452.\n  Schin, shall, B. 1435. See \u201cLiber Cure Cocorum,\u201d p.\u00a029, l.\u00a029.\n      \u201cFor in a slac thou shalle be slayn,\n      Seche ferl\u00e8s _schyn_ falle!\u201d\n        --(The Anturs of Arther, p. 12, xxiii. 13.)\n  Schome, shame, B. 1115.\n  Schomely, shamefully, C. 128.\n  Schonied, shunned, B. 1101.\n  Schor, shower, B. 227.\n  Schore, shore, A. 230.\n  Schorne (gold), purified, refined, A. 213. See _Schere_.\n  Schortly, quickly, hastily, B. 519, 600.\n  Schowte, shout, A. 877.\n  Schowue, shove, B. 44, 1029, 1740.\n  Schrewe, a wicked person, a wretch, B. 186; C. 77.\n  Schrewedschyp, wickedness, B. 580.\n  Schrowde, clothing, B. 47, 170. A.S. _scr\u00fad_, garment, shroud.\n  Schrylle = shrill, clear, A. 80.\n  Schulder, shoulder, B. 981, 1690.\n  Schunt = aside, aslant, B. 605. O.E. _shunt_, to slip aside, withdraw.\n    A.S. _scunian_, to shun. Du. _schuins_, slope, slant.\n      \u201cHe schodirde and schrenkys and _shontes_ bott lyttille.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, p. 354.)\n      \u201c\u021da werpes tham up (the \u021dates) quoth\n          the wee, and wide open settes,\n      If at \u021de schap \u021dow to _schount_ unschent\n          of oure handes.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 73.)\n  Schylde, to shield, A. 965; C. 440.\n  Schyldere, shoulder, A. 214.\n  Schym, bright, A. 1077. A.S. _scima_, a brightness. M.H.G. _sch\u00eem_.\n    A.S. _sciman_, to glitter, shine. See T.\u00a0B. 4974.\n  Schymeryng, _sb._ brightness, A. 80. A.S. _scimrian_, to shine. Du.\n    _sch\u00e9meren_, to dazzle. Sw. _skimra_, to glitter.\n  Schyn, shall, B. 1810. See _Schin_.\n  Schynde, shone, A. 80.\n  {Schyr, Schyre,} brightly, A. 28; bright, beautiful, A. 42, 284;\n    B. 553, 605, 1278; bare, B. 1690. Comp. _schyrrer_, A. 982. A.S.\n    _sc\u00edr_, _sheer_, pure, clear, bright. See T.\u00a0B. 1269.\n  Sclade = slade, valley, green plain, A. 1148. A.S. _sl\u00e6d_.\n  Scla\u021dt, slaughter, B. 56.\n  Scoghe, scoff, or perhaps perverseness, backsliding, A. 610. A.S.\n    _sceoh_, askew, perverse.\n  Scole, cup, B. 1145. O.N. _sk\u00e1l_. Dan. _skaal_.\n  Scolere, scholar, B. 1554.\n  Scomfyt, to discomfit, B. 1784.\n  Scope, scoop, C. 155.\n  {Scorn, Scorne,} _vb._ B. 709; _sb._ B. 827.\n  Scoumfit, discomfited, B. 151.\n  Scowte-wach, sentinel, guard, B. 838.\n      \u201cThane the price mene prekes and proves theire horsez,\n      Satilles to the cete appone sere halfes;\n      Enserches the subbarbes sadly thare-aftyre,\n      And skyrmys a lyttille;\n      Skayres thaire skottefers\n      And theire _skowtte-waches_.\u201d --(Morte Arthure, p. 206.)\n  Scoymous, particular, scrupulous, fearful, B. 21, 1148.\n  Scrof, rough, B. 1546.\n  Scrypture, writing, B. 1546.\n  Scue. See _Skewe_.\n  Scylle, wit, B. 151. It signifies also reason, cause. O.N. _skil_.\n  Scylful, wise, B. 1148.\n  {Sech, Seche,} seek, A. 354; B. 29, 420.\n  Seele, joy, happiness, C. 242. A.S. _s\u00e9l_, good, excellent. Cf.\n    _unsell_, T.\u00a0B. 1961.\n  Sege, seat, C. 93. Fr. _si\u00e9ge_.\n  Sege, siege, B. 1185.\n  {Segg, Segge,} a man, servant, B. 93, 398, 549, 681. A.S. _secg_,\n    a\u00a0man, literally a messenger, speaker; from _secgan_, to say.\n  Segge, say, B. 621.\n  Segh, saw, A. 790.\n  Sekke, sack, C. 382.\n  Selconth, a marvel, B. 1274. A.S. _sel-c\u00fath_ = _seld-c\u00fath_, rare,\n    seldom known.\n  Selden, seldom, A. 380. A.S. _seldan_.\n  Sele, happiness, bliss, C. 5. See _Seele_.\n  Selepe = slep, slept, C. 186.\n  Self, very, A. 1046; same, B. 1769.\n  Selly, a marvel, C. 140; wonderfully, C. 353. A.S. _s\u00e9ll\u00edc_, _s\u00edll\u00edc_,\n    worthy, wonderful; _s\u00e9ll\u00edce_, wonderfully.\n      \u201cFor thou has samned, as men sais, a _selly_ noimbre\n      Of wrichis and wirlinges out of the west endis,\n      Of laddis and of losengers and of litille thevys.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 59.)\n    See T.\u00a0B. 1544.\n  Sely, fortunate, blessed, happy, A. 659; B. 490. See _Seele_.\n  Sem, seam, B. 555.\n  Semblaunt, appearance, cheer, A. 211, 1143; B. 131, 640.\n  Sembl\u00e9, assembly, B. 126.\n  Sembled, assembled, C. 177.\n  Seme, seemly, A. 190; B. 549, 1810. O.Sw. _s\u00e6ma_. Dan. _s\u00f6mme_, to be\n    fitting, bear one\u2019s self becomingly. O.N. _s\u00e6mr_, seemly.\n  Seme, to be fitting, become, B. 793.\n  Semed, A. 760.\n  {Semely, Semly, Semlych,} seemly, beautiful, A. 34, 789; B. 209, 1442.\n    Comp. _sem-loker_, B. 868.\n  Sengeley, ever, constantly, A. 8. A.S. _singall\u00edce_, perpetually.\n  {Ser, Sere,} diverse, various, separate, B. 358; _ser kynde_, B. 507;\n    _sere course_, B. 1418; _ser wyse_, C. 12.\n  Serelych, severally, separately, C. 193.\n  Sergaunt, a royal servant, a squire, B. 109.\n  Serges, wax tapers, B. 1489. Lat. _cerea_.\n  Seriaunte, sergeant, C. 385. See _Sergaunt_.\n  Serkynde\u021d, diverse kinds, B. 336.\n  Serlype\u021d, diverse, different, separate, A. 994.\n  Sermoun, discourse, speech, A. 1185.\n  Sertain, certainly, A. 685.\n  Seruage, bondage, B. 1257.\n  Seruaunt, A. 699; B. 631.\n  Serue, avail, A. 331.\n  Serue, deserve, A. 553; B. 1115.\n  Seruyse, B. 1152, 1401.\n  Sese, cease, B. 523; _sese\u021d_, let cease, C. 391.\n  Sesoune, season, B. 523.\n  {Sessed, Sesed,} took possession of, A. 417; B. 1313.\n  {Sete, Seete,} sat, A. 161; B. 1171. _pl._ _seten_, B. 1763.\n  Sete, seat, C. 24.\n  Se\u00fee = seethe, boil, B. 631.\n  {Seue, Seve,} = sewe, sew, a kind of pottage, B. 108, 825.\n  Sewer, the officer who set and removed the dishes, tasted them, etc.,\n    B. 639.\n  Sewrt\u00e9, surety, C. 58.\n  Sexte, sixth, A. 1007.\n  Seyed, passed, B. 353.\n      \u201c_Seyet_ furth with sory chere.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 2512.)\n  Seysoun, season, A. 39.\n  Se\u021d, saw, A. 158, 531, 698; B. 209.\n  Side-borde, B. 1398.\n  Siue, sieve, B. 226.\n  Skarmoch, fight, skirmish, B. 1186.\n  Ska\u00fee, harm, danger, sin, B. 151, 598, 1186. See _Sca\u00fee_.\n  Skele, dish, B. 1405.\n  Skelt, scattered, spread, B. 1186, 1206. O.E. _skale_, to scatter.\n    N.Prov.E. _scale_, to spread. See Hall, Richard III. f. 15. A.S.\n    _scylan_, to separate, divide; _pret._ _scel_.\n      \u201cSkairen out skoute wacche for _skeltyng_ of harme.\u201d\n        --(T.\u00a0B. 1089, 6042.)\n  Skelt, hasten, run, B. 1554. Sw. _skala_, to scamper, scour.\n  Skete, quick, sudden, B. 1186; quickly, C. 195. See T.\u00a0B. 13672. O.N.\n    _skj\u00f3tt_.\n  Skewe, sky, cloud, B. 1206, 1759. Sw. _sky_, a cloud. A.S. _sc\u00faa_,\n    a\u00a0shadow.\n  Skowte, look, search, B. 483. See T.\u00a0B. 1089.\n  Skoymous, B. 598. See _Scoymous_.\n  Skwe, sky, B. 483.\n  Skyfte, devise, order, ordain, A. 569. A.S. _scyftan_.\n  Skyfte, shift, change, B. 709. Sw. _skifta_.\n  Skyg, scrupulous, careful, B. 21. Sw. _skygg_, shy. N.Prov.E. _sky_,\n    to shun.\n  {Skyl, Skyle,} reason, wit, A. 312; _by skylle_, rightly, reasonably,\n    A. 674; ordinance, B. 709; meaning, B. 1554. See _Scylle_.\n  Skylle\u021d, doubts, A. 54.\n  Skylly, device, purpose, B. 529.\n  Skyly, excuse, B. 62.\n  Skyre = shire = sheer, clear, B. 1776. See _Schyre_.\n  Skyrme, screams (?), B. 483.\n      \u201cScho gaffe _skirmande_ skrikes at all the skowis range.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 176.)\n    Or does it here signify to look about, like Prov.E. skime? O.N.\n    _Skima_, to look about.\n  Skyualde, ordained, manifested, B. 529. Prof. Child suggests Somerset,\n    _scaffle_, scramble, scuffle. See _Skyfte_.\n  Slade, valley, A. 141.\n  Slake, absolve (lit. to loosen), A. 942. A.S. _sleacian_, to slacken.\n  Slau\u00fee, sloth, B. 178.\n  Sla\u021dt, slaughter, A. 801.\n  Sla\u021dte, stroke, A. 59; C. 192. A.S. _slagan_, to strike, beat, kill.\n  Sleke, assuage, lessen, B. 708. See _Slake_.\n  Slente = slant, a slope, declivity, A. 141. Sw. _slinta_, to slip.\n  Slep, slept, C. 466.\n  Sloberande, slobbering, drivelling, C. 186. _Slobber_ is evidently\n    formed from _slob_, _slab_, in the same way as _blubber_ is formed\n    from _blob_, _blab_, a\u00a0drop. Cf. \u201c_Slobur_ or _blobur_, of fysshe\n    and other like Burbulum.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.) O.E. _slab_. Prov.E.\n    _slob_, thick, slimy. Ir. _slaib_, mud, ooze. O.N. _sluppra_. Dan.\n    _slubbre_, to sip, sup. Du. _slubberen_, to hang loose and slack.\n  Slode, slid, A. 59.\n  Sloghe, slow, C. 466.\n  Sloue, slew, B. 1264.\n  Sloumbe, slumber, C. 186, 466. N.Prov.E. _sloomy_, dronish, slow;\n    _sloum_, _sloom_, slumber. O.E. _slome_, _sleme_, to sleep. A.S.\n    _sluma_, a\u00a0slumber. O.N. _sl\u00e6mi_. Cf. the modern phrase, \u201cto slumber\n    and sleep.\u201d\n      \u201c(Sire Telomew) cairys into a cabayne, quare the kyng ligges,\n      Fand him _slomande_ and on slepe, and sleely him rayses.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 176.)\n  Slow, slew, B. 1221.\n  Sluchched, muddy, dirty, C. 341. Prov.E. _slutch_, mud; _slotch_,\n    a\u00a0sloven; _slotching_, slovenly.\n  Slyde, fall, C. 466.\n      \u201cAnd _slydyn_ uppon slepe by slomeryng of age.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 6.)\n  Slyke, slide, slip. O.N. _slikja_, to make smooth. See _Atslyke_.\n  Slyp, stroke, blow, B. 1264.\n  Slyppe, go, glide, make off, slip away, B. 985; fall, C. 186. A.S.\n    _slipan_.\n  Slyppe, escape, B. 1785. Sw. _slippa_, to escape.\n  Sly\u021dt, slight, A. 190.\n  Sly\u021dt, wisdom, B. 1289; device, C. 130. O.E. _sleghe_, _sle\u021de_, wise.\n    O.N. _sl\u00e6gr_.\n  Smach, scent, smell, B. 461, 1019. A.S. _sm\u00e6c_. Prov.E. _smatch_,\n    flavour.\n  Smachande, smelling, savouring, B. 955.\n  Smartly, quickly, B. 711.\n  Smod, stain, filth, B. 711. Sc. _smot_, _smad_. O.Sw. _smuts_, spot,\n    stain. Dan. _smuds_, dirty. Pl. D. _smuddern_, to dirty.\n  Smolderande, smouldering, smothering, B. 955.\n  Smolt, be at peace, quiet, B. 732. A.S. _smolt_, serene, clear.\n    Prov.E. _molt_-water, clear exudation; _smolt_, smooth, clear.\n    See _Smelt_, T.\u00a0B. 1669.\n  Smolt{es}; so in MS., but ? an error for smolt{e} = smelt, B. 461.\n      \u201cA smoke _smulte_ through his nase.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 911.)\n  Smo\u00fee, smooth, A. 6.\n  Smo\u00feely, quietly, B. 732.\n  Smylt, decayed (?), B. 226. Sw. _multna_, to moulder. Dan. _smuldre_,\n    to crumble, moulder.\n  Snaw, snow, B. 222.\n  Soberly, quietly, A. 256; courteously, decently, B. 117, 799, 1497.\n    See T.\u00a0B. 248.\n  Sobre, gentle, A. 532.\n  Sodanly, suddenly, A. 1098; B. 1769.\n  Soerly, an error for _Soberly_, B. 117.\n  Soffer, suffer, A. 940.\n  Soffraunce, forbearance, C. 417.\n  Soghe, sow, C. 67.\n  Soghe, moan, C. 391. A.S. _sw\u00f3gan_, _sw\u00e9gan_, to make a noise, howl.\n    O.S. _su\u00f4gan_.\n  Sok, _sb._ suck, C. 391.\n  Sokored, succoured, C. 261.\n  Solace, A. 130; B. 870, 1080.\n  Solased, B. 131.\n  {Solemne, Solempne,} B. 1171, 1447; C. 239.\n  Solempnely, B. 37.\n  {Solemnet\u00e9, Solempnet\u00e9,} B. 1313, 1678, 1757.\n  {Solie, Soly,} throne, B. 1171, 1678. A.S. _sylla_, a chair; _salo_,\n    a\u00a0hall, palace.\n  Somere, B. 1686.\n  {Sommoun, Somone,} _vb._ B. 1498; _sb._ summons, A. 1098.\n  Sonde, sand, C. 341.\n  Sonde = sande, message, word, A. 943; messenger, B. 53, 781. A.S.\n    _s\u00e1nd_.\n  Sonde\u021d-mon, messenger, B. 469.\n  Sone, soon, B. 461.\n  {Sonet, Sonete,} B. 1415, 1516.\n  Songen, _pl._ sang, B. 1763.\n  Sope, sup, B. 108.\n  Soper, supper, B. 107, 829, 997, 1763.\n  {Sor, Sore,} sorrow, A. 130; C. 242, 507; _adv._ sorely, A. 550;\n    B. 290.\n  Sorewe, sorrow, B. 778.\n  Sorquydry\u021de = surquedrie, presumption, arrogance, conceit, A. 309.\n  Sorsers, sorcerers, B. 1579.\n  Sorsory, sorcery, B. 1576.\n  Sorte, lot, C. 193.\n  {Sor\u021d, Sor\u021de,} sorrow, A. 352; B. 75, 563, 1080.\n  {Soth, So\u00fee,} true, truth, A. 482, 653; B. 515; _so\u00fees_, truths,\n    B.\u00a01598. A.S. _s\u00f3th_.\n  So\u00feefast, faithful, B. 1491.\n  Sothfol, truthful, A. 498.\n  {So\u00fely, So\u00feely,} truly, B. 299, 654, 657.\n  Sotte, fool, sot, B. 581; C. 501. A.S. _sot_. See T.\u00a0B. 1961.\n  Sotyle, subtle, A. 1050.\n  Soufre, sulphur, B. 954.\n  Soumme, company, C. 509.\n  Soun, sound, word, A. 532; C. 429; to sound, B. 973, 1670.\n  Sounande, sounding, A. 883.\n  Souped, supped, B. 833.\n  Sour, bad, vile, B. 192. Cf. \u201cSoory or defowlyd yn _sowr_ or filth.\n    Cenosus.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Sou\u021ded, sobbed, sighed, C. 140. See T.\u00a0B. 342. Prov.E. _sugh_, _sow_,\n    _suff_, to murmur. O.Sc. _swouch_, a noise, sound. A.S. _swoeg_,\n    a\u00a0noise; _sw\u00f3gan_, to sound, howl. Du. _zwoegen_, to pant, puff.\n  Souerayn, B. 93, 552.\n  Soyle, soil, earth, B. 1039, 1387; C. 443.\n  So\u021dt, sought, A. 518, 730; _so\u021dt to_, reached, B. 510, 563; made for,\n    C. 249; endeavoured, B. 1286.\n  Spak, quickly, C. 104; _spakest_, boldest, C. 169.\n  Spakk, spake, A. 938.\n  Spakly, certainly, surely, quickly, B. 755; C. 338.\n  Spare, spar, C. 104, 338. Sw. _sparre_. O.H.G. _sparro_.\n  Sparred, spurred, rushed, A. 1169.\n  Spec, speck, B. 551.\n  {Special, Specyal,} A. 235, 938; B. 1492.\n  Sped, help, B. 1607.\n  Spede, prosper, B. 511; hasten, B. 551.\n  Spedly, quickly, B. 1729.\n  Sped-whyle, a short space of time, a moment, B. 1285.\n  Speke, spoke, B. 1220.\n  Spelle, tell, relate, A. 793.\n  Spelle, speech, A. 363. A.S. _spell_.\n  Spenned, folded, A. 49. O.N. _spenna_. A.S. _spannan_.\n  Spenned, allured, enticed away, A. 53. A.S. _spanan_. N.Prov.E.\n    _span_, to wean from.\n  Spiritually, B. 1492.\n  Spitous, fell, abominable, B. 845.\n  Spitously, fiercely, angrily, B. 1220.\n  Sponne = spun, grew, A. 35.\n  Spornande, rushing, dashing, A. 363. O.E. _sporn_, _spurn_, to dash.\n    A.S. _spurnan_.\n      \u201cNow aithir stoure on ther stedis,\n      _Spurnes_ out spakly with speris in hand.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 27.)\n  Spot, blemish, A. 12, 764.\n  Spote, place, spot, A. 13; B. 551.\n  Spotle\u021d, spotless, pure, A. 856.\n  Spotty, to defile, A. 1070.\n  Spoyle, B. 1285, 1774.\n  {Sprad, Spradde,} spread (_pret._ of _sprede_), B. 1607; C. 365.\n  Sprange, sprung, A. 13.\n  Sprawlyng, B. 408.\n  Sprete = sprit (as in bow-sprit), C. 104. A.S. _sprit_.\n  Sprude = spread, fasten, C. 104.\n  Spryngande, springing, A. 35.\n  Spuniande = spinnande, sticky, cleaving, B. 1038. _Pynnand_ occurs in\n    this sense in the Northern Romance of Alexander, p.\u00a0142.\n      \u201cThan vmbyclappis thaim a cloude and covirs all ovir,\n      As any _pynnand_ pik (pitch) the planets it hidis.\u201d\n  Spure = spere, ask, inquire of, B. 1606. Sc. _speer_. A.S. _spirian_.\n    See T.\u00a0B. 823.\n  Sputen = spouted, uttered, B. 845.\n  Sput = spat, vomited, C. 338.\n  {Spyce, Spyse,} A. 235, 938; _pl._ _spyse\u021d_, A. 25, 35.\n  Spye, B. 780, 1774.\n  Spylt, destroyed, B. 1220.\n  Spyrakle, breath, spirit, B. 408.\n  Spysere\u021d, spice-mongers, B. 1038.\n  Spyt, cruelty, A. 1138; vengeance, B. 755.\n  Spytously, B. 1285. See _Spitously_.\n  Stable, _adj._ A. 597; _vb._ B. 1334, 1652.\n  Stac (_pret._ of _steke_), closed, fastened, B. 439. See _Steke_.\n  {Stad, Stadde,} placed, fixed (_pret._ of _stede_), B. 806, 983, 1506.\n  Stage, state, A. 410.\n  Stal, seat, B. 1506. A.S. _stal_, _steal_.\n  Stale, step, degree, place, A. 1002.\n  Stalke, A. 152.\n  Stalle, place, fix, B. 1334. A.S. _st\u00e6lan_.\n  Stalle, _vb._ bring, place, A. 188; B. 1184.\n      \u201cLia he (Jacob) _stalle_ until his bedd.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 22b.)\n  Stalworth, strong, B. 884; great, B. 983.\n  Stalwor\u00feest, bravest, B. 255.\n  Stamyn, threshold, B. 486.\n  Stanc, pool, B. 1018. N.Prov.E. _stank_. Gael. _stang_, a pool.\n      \u201c_Stagnum_, a pounde, a _stanke_, a dam.\u201d\n        --(MS. Harl. 2270, f. 181.)\n  Standen (_p.p._), stood, A. 519, 1148.\n  Stange, pool, B. 439. See _Stanc_.\n  Stape-fole, high, C. 122.\n  Stare, _vb._ A. 149; B. 389.\n  Stare, star, B. 583.\n  Stared, shone, B. 1506.\n  Staren (_3rd pers. pl. pres._), shine, A. 116. \u201c_Staring_ stone,\u201d\n    T.\u00a0B. 3037. Cf. \u201c_Staryng_, or schynyng as gaye thyngys. Rutilans.\u201d\n      \u201c_Stary\u00f1_ or schyny\u00f1 and glydery\u00f1, niteo.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n      \u201cMany _starand_ stanes strikes of thair helmes.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 28.)\n      \u201cAs ai stremande sternes _stared_ alle thaire wedes.\u201d\n        --(_Ibid._, p. 129.)\n  Start, A. 1159.\n  Statue, B. 995.\n  {Staue, Staw,} = stow, place, B. 352, 360, 480.\n  Stayre, shine, B. 1396. See _Staren_.\n  Stayre, ladder, C. 513.\n  Stayre, steep, high, A. 1022. A.S. _st\u00edgan_, to ascend; _st\u00e6ger_,\n    a\u00a0stair. O.E. _staire_, to ascend.\n      \u201cA hundreth daies and a halfe he held be tha playnes,\n      Till he was comen till a cliffe, at to the cloudis semed,\n      That was so _staire_ and so stepe, the stor\u00e9 me tellis,\n      Mi\u021dt ther no wee, bot with wynges, winne to the topp.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 164, l. 4828.)\n      \u201cWith that _stairis_ he forth the stye that stre\u021dt to the est.\u201d\n        --(_Ibid._, 4834.)\n  Steke, fasten, shut up, close, B. 157, 352, 754, 884. N.Prov.E.\n    _steek_. A.S. _stician_, to stick in. O.N. _steckr_, a\u00a0fold.\n  Stel, stole, B. 1203.\n  Stele, approach stealthily, B. 1778. A.S. _st\u00e9lan_.\n  Stele, a step (of a ladder), C. 513. See _Stale_.\n      \u201cThis ilke laddre (that may to hevene leste) is charite,\n      The _stales_ gode theawis.\u201d --(Poems of Wm. of Shoreham, p. 3.)\n  Stemme = stem, to stop, delay, B. 905. The same root occurs in\n    _stammer_, stumble, etc. Sw. _st\u00e4mma_, to dam.\n  Stepe, step, B. 905.\n  {Stepe, Steppe,} bright, B. 583, 1396. S.Sax. _steap_, bright,\n    brilliant. \u201cStepe ene.\u201d T.\u00a0B. 3101. Cf. \u201ceyen _stepe_.\u201d Chaucer.\n    C.\u00a0T. Prologue, l.\u00a0201.\n  Stere, direct, A. 623; rule, C. 27.\n  Sterne, star, A. 115; C. 207. O.N. _stjarna_.\n  Sterne (of a boat), C. 149.\n  Sterre, star, B. 1378.\n  Stewarde, B. 90.\n  Steuen, voice, A. 188; sound, A. 1125; B. 1203, 1402; noise, B. 1778;\n    command, B. 360, 463. A.S. _stefen_.\n  Stiffe, B. 983.\n  Stifly, firmly, B. 157.\n  Stik, fix, fasten, B. 157. See _Steke_.\n  Stille, dumb, B. 1523.\n  Stoffe, fill, B. 1184. See T.\u00a0B. 2748.\n  Stoken, fastened, enclosed, shut (_p.p._ of _steke_), A. 1065; B. 360,\n    1199, 1524.\n      \u201cSothe stories ben _stoken_ up & straught out of mind.\u201d\n        --(T.\u00a0B. 11.)\n  {Stokke, Stoke,} stocks, B. 46, 157.\n  Stonde, stand, B. 1490.\n  Stonde, blow, B. 1540. A.S. _stunian_, to beat, strike. O.E. _stund_,\n    to strike.\n      \u201cQuat! wyns (wenis) \u00feou I am a hund,\n      Wit \u00fei stans me for to _stund_.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 42b.)\n  Stonen, _adj._ of stone, B. 995.\n  Ston-harde, fast, B. 884.\n  Store, a great (number), A. 847.\n      \u201cA _store_ man of strength and of stuerne will.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 538.)\n  Stote, stand, stop still, A. 149. Dan. _st\u00f6tte_, stay, support.\n    S.Sax. _stuten_, to stop. Sc. _stoit_, stumble. \u201c_Stotyng_,\n    Titubatus.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n      \u201cAnone to the forest they found (go),\n      There they _stoted_ a stound.\u201d --(Sir Degrevant, 225.)\n      \u201cFfurth he stalkis a stye, by tha stille euys,\n      _Stotays_ at a hey strette, studyande hym one.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, p. 290.)\n      \u201cThan he _stotays_ for made, and alle his strenghe faylez.\u201d\n        --(_Ibid._, p. 357.)\n  Stound, Stounde, a space of time, moment, A. 659; B. 1716; _in\n    stoundes_, at times, B. 1603. A.S. _stund_.\n  Stounde, blow, and hence sorrow, A. 20. See _Stonde_.\n  Stour, conflict; _bale-stour_, death pang, C. 426. Cf. _dede-stoure_,\n    death conflict. Hampole\u2019s Pricke of Conscience, 1820, 5812. O.N.\n    _styr_.\n      \u201cSon efter-ward, it was not lang,\n      Gain Saul \u00feai gaf batail strang;\n      \u00deaa sar\u021dins \u00fean \u00fee king umsett,\n      In hard _stur_ \u00feai samen mett;\n      Ful snaip it was \u00feair, _stur_ and snelle,\n      The folk al fled of Israel.\u201d --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 43b.)\n  Stout, firm, stable, A. 779, 935; brave, B. 1184.\n  Stowed, placed, B. 113.\n  Stowned, troubled, astonished, C. 73. A.S. _stunian_.\n  Strake, struck up, sounded, B. 1402.\n  Strate, street, A. 1043.\n  Straunge, strange, B. 409.\n  Stray, A. 1173; B. 1199. See T.\u00a0B. 6258.\n  Strayne, strain, A. 128; labour, A. 691; pain, B. 1540; trouble,\n    C.\u00a0234.\n  Strayt, B. 880, 1199.\n  {Strech, Streche,} stretch, A. 843, 971; B. 905.\n  Stremande, shining, A. 115. See extract under the word _Staren_.\n  Strenkle, scatter, B. 307.\n  Stren\u00fee, strength, B. 1155, 1430.\n  Streny, strain, toil, labour, A. 551.\n  Stre\u021dt, strait, A. 691; C. 234. Cf. streght, T.\u00a0B. 351.\n  Stronde = strand, stream, river, A. 152; C. 254, 311.\n      \u201cMidward \u00feat land a wel springes,\n      \u00deat rennes out wit four _strandes_,\n      Fflummes farand in fer landes.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 7b.)\n      \u201cQuen thai war passed over _strand_,\n      And raght apon \u00fee toi\u00feer land,\n      Witte yee \u00feat \u00feai war ful gladd.\u201d --(_Ibid._, fol. 46a.)\n  Strot = strut, contest, chiding, A. 353, 848.\n      \u201cO pride bicums unbuxumnes,\n      Strif and _strutt_ and frawardnes.\u201d\n        --(The Seven Deadly Sins, in Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii.)\n  Stro\u00fee, bold, fierce (?), A. 115.\n  Strye, destroy, B. 307, 1768; _stryed_, B. 1018.\n  Stryf, A. 248.\n  Stryke, pass, go, A. 1125. A.S. _strican_.\n  Strynde = strond, stream, C. 311.\n  Stryuande, striving, C. 311.\n  Stud = stede, place, B. 389, 1334.\n  Sturnen, strong, B. 1402.\n  {Styf, Styffe,} strong, A. 779; C. 234; _styfest_, strongest, B. 255.\n  Styfly, fast, firmly, B. 352, 1652.\n  Styke = stryke, walk, go (?), A. 1186.\n  Stykked, fixed, placed, B. 583. See _Steke_.\n  Stylle, secret, A. 20; B. 589, 706; quiet, B. 1203; quietly, B. 486.\n    See T.\u00a0B. 1778.\n      \u201cState from \u00fee slyth kyng _styll\u00e9_ by night.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 988.)\n  Stylle, secretly, B. 806, 1778.\n  Styngande, stinging, B. 225.\n  Stynkande, stinking, B. 1018.\n  Stynst, a mistake for stynt, stop, A. 353.\n  Stynt, stop, B. 225, 381, 1261; stopped, C. 73. A.S. _stintan_.\n  Styry, stir, move, B. 403, 1720.\n  Styste\u021d = stynte\u021d, stops, B. 359.\n  Sty\u021de, path, C. 402. A.S. _st\u00edg_.\n  Sty\u021de, ascend, climb, B. 389. A.S. _st\u00edgan_, to ascend.\n  Sty\u021dtle, place, order, fix, B. 90; C. 402. A.S. _stihtan_, to arrange,\n    dispose. See T.\u00a0B. 1997.\n      \u201cUnstithe for to stire or _stightill_ the Realme.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 117.)\n  Sued, followed, B. 681.\n  {Suffer, Suffre,} A. 554.\n  Suffraunce, endurance, patience, C. 3, 529.\n  Suffyse, A. 135.\n  {Sulp, Sulpe,} defile, pollute, B. 15, 550, 1130, 1135. O.E. _sulwe_,\n    to defile, soil. M.H.D. _be-sulwen_. O.N. _s\u00f6la_, to pollute. Prov.\n    Ger. _sulpern_, unclean, to defile. The word _sulp_ (_solp_) occurs\n    in the Romance of K.\u00a0Alexander, ed. Stevenson, but the editor\n    renders it \u201c_to swallow_\u201d!\n      \u201cOure inward enmys ilkane we inwardly drepis,\n      That is to say alle the sin, at _solp_ may \u021de (the ?) saule.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 146.)\n  Sulpande, defiling, A. 726.\n  Sumkyn, of some kind, A. 619.\n  Sumoun, to summon, A. 539.\n  Sum quat, some sort of, B. 627.\n  Sum-while, formerly, C. 57.\n  Sunderlupes, severally, C. 12.\n  Suppe, B. 108; C. 151.\n  Supplantor, A. 440.\n  Sure, A. 1089.\n  Sum, one, \u201c_al & sum_,\u201d one and all, A. 584.\n  Surely, B. 1643; C. 315.\n  Sustnaunce, B. 340.\n  Sute (?) A. 203, 1108.\n  Sve = sue, follow, go after, A. 976.\n  Swalt, died, A. 816, 1160. See T.\u00a0B. 1200, 4687. See _Swelt_.\n  Swane\u021d, swans, B. 58.\n  Swange (_pret._ of _swenge_ or _swinge_), toiled, worked, A. 586. A.S.\n    _swingan_, to dash, to labour.\n  Swange, flowed, A. 1059.\n  Swangeande, flowing, rushing, A. 111. See T.\u00a0B. 13024.\n  Swap, blow, B. 222. A.S. _swipian_. O.N. _svipa_, to shake. O.E.\n    _swepe_, _swappe_, to beat. See T.\u00a0B. 1889.\n      \u201cHe swynges out with a swerd and _swappis_ him to dethe.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 38.)\n      \u201cWith a swinge of his sworde _swappit_ hym in \u00fee fase.\u201d\n        --(T.\u00a0B. 1271.)\n  Sware, square, A. 837; B. 1386.\n  Sware, answer, A. 240; B. 1415. O.N. _svara_. See T.\u00a0B. 1200.\n  Swarme, B. 223.\n  Swart, black, C. 363.\n  {Swat, Swatte,} sweated (_pret._ of _swete_), A. 586, 829.\n  Swayf, blow, literally, a sudden movement. See _Swayue_.\n      \u201cThan Alexander . . . . .\n      Swythe swyngis out his swerde and his _swayfe_ feches,\n      The nolle of Nicollas, the kyng, he fra the nebb partis.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 28.)\n  Swayne, swain, servant, B. 1509.\n  Swayue, swims. T.\u00a0B. 2358. Dan. _sw\u00e6ve_, to wave, move, flutter.\n  Swe, follow, A. 892; ran, B. 956.\n  Sweande, flowing, B. 420.\n  Sweft, swift, C. 108.\n  Swelme, heat, C. 3. A.S. _swell_, a burning; _sw\u00e9lan_, to burn,\n    _sweal_.\n      \u201c[He] lete asauage, or he sware (spoke), the _swelme_ of his\n      angirs.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 21.)\n  Swelt, die, perish, B. 108; C. 427; destroy, B. 332. A.S. _sweltan_.\n    O.N. _svelta_.\n  Swemande (_pres. part._ of _sweme_), afflicting, B. 563. A.S. _swima_,\n    a\u00a0stupor. S.Sax. _sweamen_, to grieve, vex.\n      \u201cWhan this was seide, his hert began to melt\n      For veray _sweme_ of this _swemeful_ tale.\u201d\n        --(Lydgate\u2019s Minor Poems, p. 38.)\n      \u201cSum swalt in a _swym_ with outen sware more.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 1200.)\n  Sweng, _sb._ toil, labour, A. 575. A.S. _sweng_, a stroke, blow. See\n    _Swange_. See T.\u00a0B. 1271.\n  Swenge, hasten, rush, dash out, B. 109, 667; C. 108, 250, 253.\n      \u201cHe _swynges_ out with a swerd and swappis him to dethe.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 33.)\n    A.S. _swingan_, to swing, dash.\n  Swepe, glide, A. 111; hasten, B. 1509. See T.\u00a0B. 342. O.E. _swippe_,\n    to pass quickly. O.N. _svip_, a\u00a0rapid movement; _svipa_, to whip, do\n    quickly, turn.\n  Swepe, to seize, C. 341. A.S. _swipian_, to take by violence.\n  Swer, swore, B. 69, 667.\n  Swete, life; _to lose the swete_ = to die, C. 364. _Swete_ may here\n    signify _sweet_, the word _life_ being understood.\n      \u201cAnd alle at lent ware on loft loste ther the _swete_.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 105.)\n      \u201c---- the brande es myne awene\n      Many swayne, with the swynge [struck], has the _swete_ levede.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, p. 281.)\n      \u201cAll the kene mene of kampe, knyghtes and other,\n      Killyd are colde dede and castyne over burdez\n      Theire swyers sweyftly has the _swete_ levyde.\u201d\n        --(_Ibid._ p. 309.)\n  Swetter, sweeter, C. 236.\n  Sweuen, dream, A. 62. A.S. _swefen_.\n  Swey, go, walk, B. 788; came, C. 429. See T.\u00a0B. 2512. O.N. _sweigia_.\n    Dan. _sveje_, to bend. N.Prov.E. _swey_, to swing; _sweigh_, to\n    press. See _Sve_.\n  Sweyed, swayed, C. 151.\n  Swe\u021de, go, C. 72; drove, C. 236.\n  Swol\u021de, swallow, C. 250, 363; kill, B. 1268.\n  Swone, swoon, A. 1180. A.S. _aswunan_.\n  Swowed, swooned, C. 442. S.Sax. _swowen_, to swoon.\n  Swyed = sweyed, followed, B. 87.\n  Swyere, squire, B. 87,\n  Swypped, escaped, B. 1253. See _Swepe_.\n  Swyre, neck, B. 1744. A.S. _sweora_.\n  Swy\u00fee, firm, strong, A. 354; C. 236; great, B. 1283; very, B. 816;\n    many, B. 1299; quickly, A. 1059; B. 354; greatly, B. 987. A.S.\n    _sw\u00edth_, strong, great; _sw\u00edthe_, very, greatly.\n  Swy\u00fee, burn, scorch, C. 478 (_pret._ _swath_). N.Prov.E. _swither_, to\n    singe; _swidden_, to scorch. O.N. _sv\u00edtha_.\n      \u201cMi Gode, als whele set \u00feam,\n      Als stubble bi-fore wind lickam\n      Als fire that brennes wode swa;\n      Als lowe _swi\u00feand_ hilles ma.\u201d --(Ps. lxxxii. 15.)\n  Syence, B. 1454, 1599.\n  Syfle, blow, C. 470. _Syfle_ sometimes signifies to _whistle_. It may\n    he connected with the Prov.E. _suffe_, to pant, blow. A.S.\n    _siofian_, mourn, lament.\n  Sykande, sighing, B. 715. A.S. _sycan_, to sigh.\n  Syked, sighed, C. 382.\n  Sykerly, surely, C. 301. O.Fris. _sikur_. Ger. _sicher_, sure.\n  Syle, to glide, go, proceed, B. 131. See T.\u00a0B. 364, 1307. Prov.E.\n    _sile_, to go. O.N. _s\u00edla_.\n      \u201cWith that the segge all himselfe _silis_ to his chambre.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 5.)\n    See T.\u00a0B. 364.\n  Sylueren, silver, B. 1406.\n  Symbale, B. 1415.\n  Symple, A. 1134; B. 746.\n  Sympelnesse, A. 909.\n  Syn, since, C. 218.\n  Syngne, sign, B. 489, 1710.\n  Synglerty, singularity, singleness, A. 429.\n  Synglure, uniqueness, A. 8.\n  Syngnette\u021d, signets, A. 838.\n  Synne, after, B. 229.\n  Syre, lord, B. 1260.\n  {Syt, Syte,} sorrow, sin, B. 566, 1257; C. 5, 517. O.N. _s\u00fat_.\n      \u201cJacob wen he was mast in _siit_,\n      God lighted him witouten _liit_.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 27b.)\n      \u201cThis tre in forbot haf I laid,\n      If \u00feou sa bald be it to bite,\n      \u00deou sal be ded in sorou and _site_,\n      And if \u00feou haldes mi forbot,\n      \u00deou sal be laverd ouer ilk crot.\u201d --(_Ibid._ fol. 52b.)\n  Sy\u00fee, time, A. 1079; B. 1169, 1417, 1686. A.S. _sith_.\n  Sy\u00feen, afterwards, A. 13, 643, 1207; B. 998; since, A. 245.\n  Sytole, citole, guitar, A. 91.\n  {Sy\u021d, Sy\u021de,} saw, A. 308, 788, 985; B. 985.\n  {Sy\u021dt, Sy\u021dte,} sight, A. 226; B. 552, 1710.\n\n  Ta, take, arrest, C. 78. \u201cTa me,\u201d take, arrest me. Tat\u021d, take, B. 735.\n    (Cf. O.E. _ma_ = make.)\n  Tabarde, coat. It sometimes signifies a short coat or mantle, B. 41.\n    Fr. _tabar_. Ital. _tabaro_.\n  Tabelment, A. 994.\n  Taborne, tabour, B. 1414.\n  Tached, fixed, fastened, A. 464.\n  Takel, C. 233.\n  Tale, tale, message, B. 1437.\n  Talent, will, pleasure, C. 416. See T.\u00a0B. 464.\n  Talle = tuly (?), B. 48.\n  Tan, taken, B. 763.\n  Tat\u021d, take, B. 735. See _Ta_.\n  Tayt, agreeable, lively, B. 871. O.N. _teitr_.\n      \u201cThe laddes were kaske and _teyte_.\u201d --(Havelok the Dane, 1841.)\n      \u201cTher mouhte men se the boles beyte,\n      And the bores with hundes _teyte_.\u201d --(_Ibid._ 2331.)\n  Tayt, fear, B. 889.\n      \u201cBrynges furthe, [as] sayd the boke, bestes out of noumbre,\n      And trottes on toward Tyre with _taite_ at thaire hertes.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 42.)\n  Teche, teach, B. 160.\n  Teche, mark, sign, B. 1049.\n  Teche, fault, B. 1230; device, B. 943. Fr. _tache_.\n  Tede, an error for _tene_ = ten (?), B. 1634.\n  Tee, go, B. 9, 1262; C. 87.\n      \u201cLet hym _tegh_ to \u00fee tempull.\u201d\n        --(T.\u00a0B. 2541.)\n    A.S. _teon_. Cf. _teght_, T.\u00a0B. 1786.\n  Telde, tent, B. 866. A.S. _teld_.\n  Telded, raised, B. 1342. See T.\u00a0B. 6075.\n  Telle, raise, excite, B. 1808. Du. _tillen_, to lift up.\n  Teme, approach, A. 460; B. 9; C. 316. See T.\u00a0B. 3306. It seems to be\n    connected with the A.S. _geteman_, to bear witness; _teama_, to\n    cite, summon. In La\u021damon _teman_ signifies to go, proceed, approach,\n    vol. i. p.\u00a053, l.\u00a01245.\n      \u201cAlbion hatte that lond;\n      Ah leode ne beoth thar nane,\n      Ther to thu scalt _teman_ [wende]\n      & ane neowe Troye thar makian.\u201d\n  Teme, team, C. 37.\n  Teme, theme, C. 358.\n  Tempest, C. 231.\n  Temple, A. 1062.\n  Tempre, moderate, B. 775.\n  Temptande, tempting, B. 283.\n  Tender, A. 412; B. 630.\n  Tene, _sb._ anger, sorrow, A. 332; B. 283, 687, 1137; C. 90; _adj._\n    angry, B. 1808; _vb._ punish, B. 759. A.S. _teonan_, _tynan_, to\n    anger; _teona_, wrong, mischief.\n  Tenfully, sorrowfully, bitterly, B. 160.\n  Tenor, C. 358.\n  Tenoun, A. 993.\n  {Tent, Tente,} attend, care for, B. 676, 935; C. 59, 498; heed,\n    A.\u00a0387.\n  Terme, term, A. 1053; B. 1393.\n  Terne, lake, B. 1041. N.Prov.E. _tarn_. O.N. _tj\u00f6rn_.\n  Teuel (or _tenel_ ?), enclose, or ? _undermine_, B. 1189.\n  \u00deacce, blow, C. 325. A.S. _thaccian_, to stroke.\n  \u00deayre\u021d, theirs, B. 1527.\n  \u00dea\u021d, though, A. 134.\n  \u00deede, country, A. 711. A.S. _the\u00f3d_.\n      \u201cI sett \u021dowe ane ensample \u021de se it alle day,\n      In thorps and in many _thede_ ther \u021de thur\u021de ride,\n      At ilka cote a kene curr, as he the chache walde,\n      Bot as bremely as he baies, he bitis never the faster.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 62.)\n  \u00deede, vessel, B. 1717. Prov.E. _thead_, a strainer used in brewing.\n    \u201c_Thede_, bruares instrument, qualus.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  \u00deeder, thither, B. 461.\n  \u00deef, thief, A. 273.\n  Theme, A. 944; C. 358.\n  {\u00deen, \u00deenne,} than, A. 134.\n  \u00deenkande, thinking, C. 294.\n  \u00deerue, unleavened, B. 635. Prov.E. _therf_, _tharf_, _thar_. A.S.\n    _theorf_, _therf_.\n  \u00deester, darkness, B. 1775. A.S. _theostru_. See T.\u00a0B. 2362.\n  \u00deewe, virtue, B. 1436; C. 30; ordinances, B. 544, 755.\n  \u00deewed, virtuous, B. 733.\n  \u00deewes, thieves, B. 1142.\n  \u00deikker, oftener, C. 6.\n  \u00deirled, pierced, B. 952.\n  \u00deo, the (_pl._), B. 635; those, A. 557.\n  \u00deole, suffer, A. 344; B. 190; C. 6. A.S. _th\u00f3lian_, to suffer, endure.\n  \u00deonc, _sb._ thank, A. 901.\n  \u00deonkke, _vb._ thank, B. 745.\n  \u00deore, there, A. 562.\n  \u00deorpe, city, B. 1178. O.N. _thorp_.\n  \u00deor\u021d, through. See _\u00deur\u021d_.\n  \u00deo\u021d, though, A. 345.\n  \u00deo\u021dt, seemed, A. 153; B. 562.\n  \u00deo\u021dt, imagination, B. 516.\n  \u00derad, reproached, tormented, B. 751. A.S. _threagan_ (_pret. thre\u00e1de_,\n    _p.p._ _thread_), to blame, vex, torment.\n  \u00derange, pierce, A. 17. See _\u00derenge_.\n  \u00derast, stroke, thrust, B. 952.\n  \u00derat, vexation, torment, C. 55. A.S. _threat_, threat; _threatian_, to\n    vex, distress.\n  \u00deratten (_3d pers. pl. pret._) threatened, B. 937.\n  \u00derawe, to reach, B. 590.\n  \u00derawen, close, thick, B. 1775.\n  \u00derenge, press, crowd after, follow, B. 930; pass, C. 354. A.S.\n    _thringan_, to press, crowd, throng. O.N. _threnga_.\n  \u00derep, contradiction, B. 350. N.Prov.E. _threap_, _threpe_, to dispute.\n    A.S. _threapian_, to reprove, chide.\n      \u201c_Withoutyn threp_ more.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 1127.)\n  \u00derepyng, _sb._ strife, B. 183. A.S. _threapung_.\n  {\u00deret, \u00derete,} threaten, A. 561; B. 680, 1728.\n  \u00deretty, thirty, B. 751.\n  \u00dereuenest, wisest, noblest, B. 1571.\n  \u00dero, anger, B. 754; C. 6; angry, A. 344. N.Prov.E. _thro_, keen,\n    eager. O.N. _thr\u00e1_.\n      \u201cBe \u00feou noght in \u00fei hert so _thra_.\u201d --(MS. Harl. 4196. fol. 94.)\n    Cf. \u201chis _throo_ hert,\u201d T.\u00a0B. 147. \u201cA _throo_ (bold) knight.\u201d\n    _Ib._ 1482.\n  \u00dero, good, A. 868.\n  \u00dero, sharply, quickly, B. 220. A.S. _thre\u00e1_.\n  \u00dero, thoroughly, B. 1805.\n  \u00deroble, press, B. 879.\n  \u00deroly, fiercely, quickly, B. 180, 514.\n      \u201c_Throly_ he thoght in his hert.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 209.)\n  {\u00derong, \u00deronge,} _sb._ crowd, B. 135, 504, 754.\n  \u00derongen (_3d pers. pl. pret._ of _thringe_), crowded, pressed,\n    B. 1775.\n      \u201cMony thoughtes full thro _thronge_ in hir brest.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 470.)\n  \u00derublande, pressing, B. 504. See _\u00deroble_.\n  {\u00derwen, \u00derowen,} thrown, B. 220, 504.\n  \u00derych, through, A. 17. O.Sc. _throuch_.\n  {\u00deryd, \u00deryde, \u00derydde,} third, A. 833; B. 249, 300, 1639.\n  \u00derye\u021d, thrice, B. 429.\n  \u00derynge, press, B. 180; follow, B. 1639. See _\u00derenge_.\n  \u00derynne, three, B. 606, 1727.\n  \u00deryuande, good, pure, B. 751. See T.\u00a0B. 1482.\n  \u00deryue, prosper, thrive, B. 249; C. 521.\n  \u00deryuen, prudent, wise, A. 868, 1192; grown up, adult, B. 298;\n    _\u00feryuenest_, wisest, noblest, B. 1639.\n  \u00dery\u021dt, thrust, pressed, thronged, A. 670, 706, 926; B. 135; Cf.\n    _thriccing_ of hondys. T.\u00a0B. 1522. A.S. _thryccan_ (_pret._\n    _thrycte_), to thrust, press, tread on.\n  \u00deur\u021d, through, A. 670.\n  \u00deykke, closely, B. 504.\n  \u00dey\u021de, thigh, B. 1687.\n  To, toe, C. 229.\n  To-cleues, separate, B. 1806.\n  To-corue (_3d pers. pl. pret._), slit, ript up, B. 1250.\n  Token, betoken, B. 1557.\n  To-kerue, divide, B. 1700.\n  {Tole, Tool,} tool, B. 1108, 1342.\n  {Tolk, Tolkke, Tulkke,} man, B. 687, 757. _Tolk_, like _segge_,\n    signified originally a speaker, an interpreter. O.N. _t\u00falka_, to\n    explain, interpret; _t\u00falkr_, an interpreter, a\u00a0mediator. See\n    T.\u00a0B. 63.\n  Tom, (1) leisure, A. 134; opportunity, B. 1153; interval, C. 135;\n    (2) time, A. 585. O.Sw. and O.N. _t\u00f3m_. \u201c_Toom_ oportunitas.\u201d\n    (Prompt. Parv.)\n      \u201cTharfore \u00feis _tyme_ I may noght cum\n      Telle \u00fei lord I haue no _tome_.\u201d\n        --(MS. Harl, 4196, fol. 105.)\n    In T.\u00a0B. 1088, we have _tomly_.\n  To-marred, spoilt, B. 1114.\n  To-murte, crushed to pieces, C. 150. See _murte_, T.\u00a0B. 6128.\n  Tonne (or toune?), conceive, B. 655.\n  Top, head, C. 229.\n  Topace, topaz, B. 1469.\n  Tor, tower, A. 966.\n  Tor, hard, A. 1109. O.N. _tor_. Sans. _dus_, hard, difficult. Cf. O.E.\n    _torfer_, hardship, T.\u00a0B. 81.\n      \u201cBut this tyme is so _tore_.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 645.)\n  {To-rente, To-rent,} rent asunder, A. 1136; B. 368; C. 96.\n  To-riuen, torn away, A. 1197.\n  Tormenttour, B. 154.\n  To-rof (_pret._ of _to-riue_), burst, B. 964; C. 379.\n  Torre\u021d, towers, A. 875,\n  Toter, totter, C. 233.\n  Tote\u021d = tot\u021d, toes; Cf. _got\u021d_ = goes, etc., B. 41.\n  To-torne, torn, B. 41.\n  Tot\u021d, goes, A. 513. Sw. _tota_.\n  Tour, tower, B. 216.\n  Tourne\u021d = turns, devices, B. 192.\n  Tow, two, B. 866.\n      \u201c_Two_ pyllers he pight in a place low.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 310.)\n  To-walten, overflowed (_3d pers. pl._), B. 428.\n  Towche, to relate, deliver a message, speak, A. 898; B. 1437.\n      \u201cLitille kyngis there come . . . . .\n      _Touches_ titly thair tale and tribute him askis.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 31.)\n  Towche, _sb._ touch, C. 252.\n  Towe, C. 100.\n  Towen, drawn, A. 251.\n  To\u021de, tough, B. 630.\n  To\u021dt, firm, binding, A. 522.\n  Tra, high (?), B. 211, or (?) _tor_, great, difficult of access.\n      \u201cThis castel es o luve and grace,\n      Bath o socur and o solace,\n      Apon the mathe it standes traist;\n      O fede ne dredes it na fraist;\n      It is hei sett upon \u00fee crag,\n      _Trai_ and hard wituten hag.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 55a.)\n  Tramme, tackle, gear? C. 101. In the northern Romance of Alexander,\n    p.\u00a05, _tramme_ signifies an instrument (optical).\n      \u201cHe toke _trammes_ him with to tute (look) in the sternes.\u201d\n  Tras = trace, path, course, A. 1113. \u201c_Trace_, a streyght way,\n    _trace_.\u201d (Palsg.)\n  Trasches = trauses or trossers, drawers or trousers? B. 40.\n  Trauayle, _sb._ labour, C. 505; _vb._ A. 550; C. 498.\n  Trave = trawe, believe, B. 587.\n  Trauerce = traverse, B. 1473.\n  {Traw, Trawe,} = trow, believe, suppose, A. 282, 295; B. 655, 1335,\n    1686. See T.\u00a0B. 298.\n  Trawande, believing, B. 662.\n  {Traw\u00fee, Trau\u00fee,} truth, A. 495; B. 63, 667; belief, 1490, 1703.\n  Trayled, B. 1473.\n  Traysoun, treason, B. 187.\n  {Tray\u00fely, Tray\u00feely,} certainly, surely? B. 907, 1137. If _tray\u00fely_ be\n    derived from _trauth_, _truth_, the meaning here assigned to it may\n    be correct; but the sense of _fiercely_, _fearfully_, would suit the\n    context better.\n  Traytoure, B. 1041; C. 77.\n  Tre, wood, B. 1342.\n  Trendel, roll, A. 41.\n  Tres, yards (of a ship), C. 101.\n  {Tresor, Tresore,} treasure, A. 237, 331, B. 866.\n  Tresorye, treasury, B. 1317.\n  Trespas, B. 48.\n  Trespast, B. 1230.\n  Trestes, trestles, B. 832.\n  Trichcherye, treachery, B. 187.\n  Troched, ornamented? An architectural term of uncertain meaning,\n    B.\u00a01383.\n  {Tron, Trone,} went (_pret._ of _tryne_), A. 1113; B. 132; C. 101. See\n    _Trynande_.\n  Trone, throne, A. 1055.\n  Trot, _sb._ pace, step, B. 976.\n  Trow, believe, B. 1049.\n  Trumpen, trumpets, B. 1402.\n  Trussed, deposited, B. 1317. See T.\u00a0B. 1819.\n  Trwe, true, A. 460.\n  Tryed, select, trusty, B. 1317. O.E. _trie_, choice. See T.\u00a0B. 695.\n  Tryfled = trayfoled, ornamented with knots, B. 1473. Fr. _treffilier_,\n    a\u00a0chain maker.\n  Trynande, going, walking, B. 976. Dan. _trine_, to go.\n      \u201cThan the traytoure treunted the Tyesday thar aftyre,\n      _Trynnys_ in with a trayne tresone to wirke.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, p. 326.)\n      \u201cThe trays (path) of the traytoure he _trynys_ fulle evenne,\n      And turnys in be Treynte, the traytoure to seche.\u201d\n        --(_Ibid._ p. 339.)\n      \u201cThey _tryne_ unto a tente whare tables whare raysede.\u201d\n        --(_Ibid._ p. 267.)\n  Tryste, trusty, A. 460; _vb._ to trust, C. 324.\n  Trysty, trusty, B. 763.\n  Try\u021de, to trust in, rely upon, A. 311. N.Prov.E. _trigg_, firm,\n    faithful. Sw. _trygg_, safe, sure.\n  Tuch, cloth, B. 48. Ger. _tuch_. Cf. Eng. _tuck_ and _tucker_.\n  Tulkke, man, soldier, B. 1189, 1262. See _Tolk_.\n      \u201cThe Tothyr was a _Tulke_ out of Troy selfe.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 63.)\n  Tulket = tulked, sounded, B. 1414. The original meaning of _tulk_ is\n    to speak, explain (O.N. _t\u00falka_), hence to utter, sound.\n      \u201cThe Tebies _tulked_ (addressed) us with tene (anger).\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 83.)\n  Tult, threw, pitched. B. 1213; C. 252. See _Tilt_, in T.\u00a0B. 914, 3704.\n    A.S. _tealtian_, to tilt, shake.\n  Tuyred, destroyed, B. 1234.\n  Twayned, separated, A. 251.\n  Tweyne, two, B. 674, 1749.\n  Twynande, entwining, B. 1691. Sw. _twinna_, to twine.\n  Twynne, two, A. 251; B. 1047.\n  Twynne, separate, B. 402.\n  Tyd, quickly, B. 64, 1213; C. 100, 229. A.S. _t\u00edd_, _t\u00eddl\u00edce_. Sw.\n    _tida_, frequently.\n  Tyde, time, B. 1393.\n  Tykel, uncertain, B. 655.\n  Tylle, to, B. 1064.\n  Tymbre, B. 1414. \u201cTymbyr a lytyl taboure, timpanellum.\u201d (Prompt.\n    Parv.)\n  Tylte, overturn, B. 832; tumble, C. 361.\n      \u201c_Tylude_ ouer borde.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 3704.)\n  Tynde, branch, A. 78. A.S. _tine_. O.E. _tind_, a tine, tooth, prong,\n    fork.\n  Tyne, lose, A. 332; destroy, B. 775, 907. O.N. _tyna_.\n  Tynt, lost, B. 216. See T.\u00a0B. 1208.\n  Type, overturn, C. 506.\n  Typped, extreme, C. 77.\n  Tyraunte, B. 943.\n  Tyrauntyr\u00e9, tyranny, B. 187.\n  Tyrne, flay, B. 630. Du. _tornen_, to rend, rip up.\n      \u201cAnd so thai did al bidene and sum oure douth slo\u021de,\n      Tuke out the tuskis and the tethe, and _ternen_ of the skinnes.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 140.)\n  Tyt, quickly, A. 728. N.Prov.E. _tite_, soon. Cf. _tytly_, T.\u00a0B. 1094.\n    See _Tyd_.\n  Ty\u00fee, tenth, B. 216.\n  Ty\u00feynge, tiding, B. 458, 498; C. 78.\n  Tytter, sooner, C. 231. N.Prov.E. _titter_. See _Tyt_.\n  Tyxt, text, B. 1634; C. 37.\n  Ty\u021ded, tied, A. 464; B. 702.\n  {Ty\u021dt, Ty\u021dte,} described, A. 1053; give, B. 1153; endeavour, B. 1108;\n    near, A. 503. See T.\u00a0B. 1358. A.S. _tihtan_, to draw.\n\n  U = o = of, A. 792.\n\n  {Vch, Vche, Vcha,} = ilk, ilka, each, every. A. 33, 117.\n  Vchon, each one, A. 546.\n  Vglokest (_superl._ of _vgly_), most horrid, dreadful, B. 892. See\n    _vgsome_, horrible, T.\u00a0B. 877.\n  Vmbe, about, B. 879, 1384; C. 309. A.S. _ymbe_.\n      \u201cGrete toures full toure all \u00fee toune _vmbe_.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 320.)\n  Vmbe-brayde, accost, B. 1622. See _Brayde_.\n  Vmbe-grouen, overgrown, B. 488.\n  Vmbe-kest, look about, B. 478.\n  Vmbe-ly\u021de, compass, surround, B. 836.\n  Vmbe-py\u021dte, surrounded, A. 1052.\n  Vmbre, rain, B. 524. Cf. _ymur_, in T.\u00a0B. 897. Lat. _imber_.\n  Vmbe-schon, shone about, C. 455.\n  {Vmbe-stounde, Vmbe-stoundes,} at times, sometimes, C. 7, 122.\n  Vmbe-sweyed, encircled, B. 1380.\n  Vmbe-walt, surrounded, B. 1181.\n  Vnavysed, unadvised, thoughtless, A. 292.\n  Vnblemyst, unblemished, A. 782.\n  Vn-brosten, unburst, B. 365.\n  Vnbly\u00fee, dismal, B. 1017.\n  Vncheryst, uncherished, uncared for, B. 1125.\n  Vnclannesse, uncleanness. B. 30, 1800, 1806.\n  Vnclene, B. 550, 1713.\n  Vncler, indistinct, C. 307.\n  Vnclose, disclose, B. 26, 1438.\n  Vncortoyse, uncourteous, A. 303.\n  {Vncou\u00fee, Vncow\u00fee,} unknown, B. 414, 1600, 1722.\n  Vnder, the third hour of the day, A. 513. A.S. _undern_. Goth.\n    _undaurns_.\n  Vnder-nomen, understood, perceived, C. 213.\n  Vnder-stonde, understand, A. 941; C. 122.\n  Vnder-\u021dede = under-\u021dete, understood, B. 796. A.S. _undergitan_, to\n    perceive.\n  Vndyd, destroyed, B. 562.\n  Vnfayre, bad, B. 1801.\n  Vnfolde, B. 1563.\n  Vnfre, unfortunate, B. 1129.\n  Vngarnyst, unadorned, B. 137.\n  Vnglad, sorry, C. 63.\n  Vngoderly, bad, wicked, B. 145, 1092.\n  Vnhap, misfortune, B. 143, 1150; misery, B. 892. See T.\u00a0B. 1402.\n  Vnhappen, unfortunate; and hence bad, B. 573.\n  Vnhaspe, disclose, B. 688.\n  Vnhole, badly, B. 1681.\n  Vnhonest, vile, B. 579.\n  Vnhuled, uncovered, B. 451. See _Hile_.\n  Vnhyde, disclose, A. 973.\n  Vnhyle, disclose, B. 1628. See _Hile_.\n  Vnknawen, unknown, B. 1679.\n  Vnkyndely, wickedly, B. 208.\n  Vnmard, undefiled, B. 867.\n  Vnmete, unmeet, unfit, A. 759.\n  Vnneuened, unnamed, B. 727. See _Neuen_.\n  Vnnynges, signs, C. 213. A.S. _unnan_, to give, grant, permit.\n  Vnpynne, to unpin, unfasten, A. 728.\n  Vnresounable, unreasonable, A. 590.\n  Vnry\u021dt, wrong, B. 1142.\n  Vnsmyten, B. 732.\n  Vnsounde, wicked, evil, bad, B. 575; C. 527; misfortune, wretched\n    state, C. 58. See T.\u00a0B. 495.\n  Vnsoundely, badly, B. 201. See T.\u00a0B. 1826.\n  Vnstered, unmoved, B. 706.\n  Vnstrayned, untroubled, A. 248.\n  Vnswol\u021ded, unhurt, B. 1253. See _Swol\u021de_.\n  {Vn\u00feank, Vn\u00feonk,} wrath, displeasure, B. 183; C. 55.\n  Vn\u00feewe, fault, vice, B. 190. See _Thewe_.\n  Vn\u00feryfte, folly, wickedness, B. 516, 1728.\n  Vn\u00feryftyly, unwisely, badly, B. 267.\n  Vn\u00feryuandly = unthrivingly, badly, B. 135. See T.\u00a0B. 4893.\n  Vntrwe, untrue, A. 897; B. 456; unfaithful, B. 1160.\n  Vntwynne, separate; and hence, destroy, B. 757.\n  Vnwar, foolish, C. 115.\n  Vnwaschen, unwashed, B. 34.\n  Vnwelcum, B. 49.\n  Vnwor\u00feelych, unworthy, B. 305.\n  Vnwytt\u00e9, unwise, foolish, simple, C. 511.\n  Vpbrayde, literally to raise; and hence to utter loudly, rebuke,\n    C. 430. See _Brayde_. In the sense of to utter, speak, we find\n    _upbrayde_ used in the following passage.\n      \u201cAgain my brether haue I bene\n      Oft-sith lightly for to tene,\n      Wit flitt, wit brixil, strive and strut;\n      Myn euen cristen haue I hurt,\n      And oft unsaght o him I said,\n      And of his lastes (faults) gane upbraid.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 156.)\n  Vp-caste, spoken, B. 1574.\n  Vp-folden, up-folded, B. 643.\n  Vp-lyfte, uplifted, B. 987.\n  Vpon, open, B. 453.\n  Vp-rerde, upreared, B. 561.\n  Vp-ros, uprose, C. 378.\n  Vpryse, C. 433.\n  Vp-set, raised, C. 239.\n  Vp-so-doun, upside down, C. 362.\n  Vp-wafte, uprose, B. 949.\n  Vpynyoun, opinion, C. 40.\n  Vrnementes, ornaments, B. 1284.\n  Vr\u00fee, earth, A. 442.\n  Vr\u00feely, earthly, A. 135; B. 35.\n  Vsage, B. 710.\n  Vsched, B. 1393, _to vsched_ = ? _tousched_ = _towched_, approached.\n    See B. 1437.\n  Vse, B. 11.\n  {Vsle, Vslle,} ashes, cinders, B. 747, 1010. A.S. _ysle_, ashes. O.N.\n    _usli_, fire. \u201cIsyl, of fyre. Favilla.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.) Prov.E.\n    _isle_, _easle_, embers; _eizle_, ashes.\n  Vtter, out, B. 42; without, B. 927.\n  Vt-wyth, without, outside, A. 969.\n  Vus, us, B. 842.\n  V\u021dten, the morning, dawn, B. 893. A.S. _uhta_.\n      \u201cHi slo\u021den and fu\u021dten\n      \u00dee ni\u021dt and \u00fee _u\u021dten_.\u201d --(K. Horn, 1424.)\n\n  Vale, A. 127; B. 673.\n  Vanyt\u00e9, B. 1713; C. 331.\n  Vanyste, vanished, B. 1548.\n  Vayle, avail, A. 912; B. 1151, 1311.\n  Vayment, exhibition, show, B. 1358.\n  Vayn, A. 811; B. 1358.\n  Vayned, brought, A. 249. See _Wayned_.\n  Venge, avenge, B. 199, 559; C. 71.\n  Vengeaunce, B. 247, 1013.\n  {Venkkyst, Venquyst,} vanquished, B. 544, 1071.\n  Venym, venom, filth, B. 574; C. 71.\n  {Veray, Verray,} true, A. 1184, 1185; truly, C. 333; very, C. 370.\n  Verayly, verily, B. 664, 1548.\n  Vered, veered, raised, A. 254.\n  Vergyne, virgin, A. 1099.\n  {Vergynt\u00e9, Vergynyt\u00e9,} virginity, A. 767; B. 1071.\n  Vertue, A. 1126.\n  Vertuous, precious, B. 1280.\n  Vessayl, vessel, B. 1713.\n  Vesselment, vessels, B. 1280, 1288.\n  Vesture, B. 1288.\n  Veued = weued, passed, A. 976. See _Weue_.\n  Vilanye, C. 71.\n  Vilt\u00e9, filth, vileness, B. 199. O.Fr. _vilt\u00e9_.\n  Violent, B. 1013.\n  Voched, prayed, A. 1121. Fr. _voucher_.\n  Vouche, resolve, B. 1358.\n  Vouched, vowed, C. 165.\n  Vowe, C. 239.\n  Voyde, do away with; B. 744; destroy, B. 1013; C. 370; depart,\n    B. 1548.\n  Vus, use, or ? drink, B. 1507. We may, however read, and thus preserve\n    the alliteration, _bus_ = _bous_ = _bouse_, to drink deeply. Du.\n    _buysen_.\n  Vycios, vicious, B. 574.\n  Vyf, wife, A. 772.\n  Vygour, 971.\n  Vyl, vile, evil, B. 744.\n  Vylanye, crime, sin, B. 544, 574.\n  Vyle, defile, B. 863.\n  Vyole, vial, B. 1280.\n  Vyolence, B. 1071.\n  Vyrgyn, A. 426.\n  {Vys, Vyse,} face, A. 254. O.Fr. _vis_.\n  Vyue\u021d, wives, A. 785.\n\n  Wach, watch, B. 1205.\n  Wade, A. 143, 1151.\n  Waft, closed, B. 857. A.S. _wefan_, _w\u00e6fan_, to cover. O.N. _vefa_.\n  Wafte, move, lift up, raise, B. 453 O.N. _veifa_, to raise, move,\n    swing. _Waft_, B. 857, in the sense of _closed_ may be of the same\n    origin with _wafte_.\n  Wage, endure, A. 416.\n  Wage, wave, B. 1484. A.S. _w\u00e1gian_.\n  Wake, watch, B. 85; C. 130. A.S. _w\u00e6ccan_. O.N. _vaka_.\n  Waken, raise, arouse, awake, A. 1171; B. 323, 437, 891, 933, 948;\n    C. 132; O.N. _vakna_.\n      \u201cWyndis at hir wille to _wakyn_ in the aire.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 404.)\n  Wakker (_comp._ of _wayke_), weaker B. 835.\n  {Wale, Walle,} _vb._ discern, A. 1000; choose, select, B. 921; C. 511;\n    _adj._ noble, choice, B. 1734. Sc. _wale_. See T. 386, 4716. Ger.\n    _w\u00e4hlen_, to choose, select. O.N. _val_, electio, optio, delectus.\n      \u201cO mister was ther wimmen tuin,\n      \u00deat ledd \u00fear liif wit sike and sin,\n      Ffor \u00feai had husing nan to _wale_,\n      \u00deai lended in a littel scale.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 48a.)\n      \u201cOf choys men syne, _walit_ by cut (lot), thai tuke\n      A gret numbyr, and hyd in bylgis dern.\u201d\n        --(G. Douglas, vol. i. p. 72.)\n      \u201cAwai \u00fean drou him son Davi,\n      Bot Saul dred him mo for\u00fei,\n      And of a thusand men o _wal_ (worth)\n      He made him ledder and marscal.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 43a.)\n      \u201cThat worthy had a wyfe _walit_ hym seluon.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 105.)\n  Walkyries, witches, fate-readers, B. 1577. O.N. _valkyriur_; _f. pl._\n    _Parc\u00e6_. Dan. _valkyrier_.\n  Wallande, boiling, bubbling up, A. 365. A.S. _weallan_, to boil up.\n  Walle-heued = well-head, spring, B. 364.\n  {Walt, Walte,} rolled, turned, B. 501, 1734. Prov.E. _walt_, _welt_.\n    A.S. _wealtian_, to roll. O.N. _vella_.\n      \u201cHit _walt_ up the wilde se.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 4633.)\n  Walter, roll, flow, B. 415, 1027; C. 142. O.Sc. _welter_, _walter_.\n    Dan. _v\u00e6lte_, to roll. See _Walt_.\n  Waltere\u021d, an error for watterez = waters? C. 263.\n  Walterande, swimming, C. 247.\n  Walte\u021d, pours, rushes, flows, B. 364, 1037. See _Walte_, T.\u00a0B. 3699,\n    4632.\n  Wame, belly. See _Wombe_.\n  Wamel, to wamble, C. 300. O.N. _vambla_. Dan. _vamle_, to wamble, to\n    create or cause a squeamishness or loathing. \u201c_Wamelyn\u2019_ in the\n    stomake. Nauseo.\u201d \u201c_Wamelynge_ of the stomake, Nausia.\u201d (Prompt.\n    Parv.)\n  Wan (_pret._ of _wynne_), got, reached, A. 107; B. 140.\n  Wap, a step, C. 449. O.N. _vapp_. It is generally explained by a blow,\n    stroke, which was probably its original meaning.\n      \u201cThe werld wannes at a _wappe_ and the wedire gloumes.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 141.)\n      \u201cIt (worldly wealth) wites away at a _wapp_, as the wynd turnes.\u201d\n        --(_Ibid._ p. 181.)\n    See T.\u00a0B. 207, 6405.\n  Wappe, to strike, knock, B. 882.\n  War, aware, A. 1096; crafty, B. 589. A.S. _w\u00e6r_, wary. O.N. _var_.\n  {War, Ware,} guard, beware, B. 165, 545, 1133. A.S. _w\u00e1rian_.\n  Warded, guarded, C. 258. A.S. _weardian_, to guard.\n  Ware, were, A. 151.\n  Warisch, protect, B. 921.\n  Warla\u021de, wizard, B. 1560. See _Warlow_.\n  Warlok, prison, C. 80.\n  Warlow, a monster, C. 258. A.S. _w\u00e9r-loga_, a liar, a faith-breaker.\n      \u201c\u00dee warla\u021d was wete of his wan atter.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 303.)\n  Warne, bid, C. 469.\n  Warnyng, _sb._ B. 1504.\n  {Warpe, Warpen,} cast, hurl, B. 444; ejaculate, utter, A. 879; B. 152,\n    213. O.N. _varpa_. A.S. _weorpan_, to throw, cast.\n  War\u00fee, a water-ford, C. 339. A.S. _warth_, _waroth_, the shore.\n  Wary, curse, B. 513. A.S. _w\u00e6rgian_, to curse.\n  Waryed, accursed, B. 1716.\n  Wassayl, B. 1508.\n  {Wast, Waste,} destroy, B. 326, 431, 1178. A.S. _w\u00e9stan_.\n  Wasturne, a wilderness, B. 1674. _Wasterne_ signifies a desert place,\n    from the A.S. _w\u00e9ste_, desert, barren, and _\u00e6rn_, a\u00a0place.\n      \u201cMethoughte I was in a wode willed myne one,\n      That I ne wiste no waye whedire that I scholde,\n      Ffore wolue\u021d and whilde swynne, swykkyde bestez,\n      Walkede in that _wasterne_ wathes to seche.\u201d\n        --(Morte Arthure, p. 270.)\n  Wate = wot, know, A. 502. A.S. _witan_ (_Ic w\u00e1t_, _\u00feu w\u00e1st_, _he\n    w\u00e1t_).\n  Water, stream, A. 107, 139; river, B. 1380.\n  Waule\u021d, shelterless, from the A.S. _w\u00e1h_, a wall (?), C. 262. We\n    should perhaps read wanle\u021d = wonle\u021d, hopeless, from the A.S. _w\u00e9n_.\n    O.N. _von_. O.E. _wone_, hope.\n  Wawe, wave, A. 287; B. 382; C. 142. A.S. _w\u00e6g_.\n  Wax, increase, B. 521.\n  Waxlokes, waves (?), B. 1037.\n  Wayferand, wayfaring, B. 79.\n  Waykned, weakened, B. 1422. O.N. _veikr_. A.S. _w\u00e1c_, weak; _w\u00e1can_,\n    to become weak.\n  Wayle, select, choice, B. 1716. See _Wale_.\n  Waymot, passionate, C. 492. A.S. _weamod_.\n  Wayne, give, B. 1504; gain, recover, 1616, 1701. The original meaning\n    seems to be that of gaining, getting. O.Fr. _gaagnier_. In some O.E.\n    works _wayne_ is used like our word _get_.\n      \u201cThan past up the proude quene into prev\u00e9 chambre,\n      _Waynes_ (_i.e._ puts out her head) out at wyndow and waytes\n        aboute.\u201d --(K. Alex. p. 33.)\n  Wayte, look into, search, B. 99; be careful, B. 292; look about,\n    B. 1423; inquire, B. 1552. See T.\u00a0B. 876. \u201c_Waytyn_ or _aspyyn_,\n    observo.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Wa\u021de\u021des, _wa\u021des_, waves, B. 404.\n      \u201cGirdon ouer the grym _waghes_.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 1410.)\n    See _Wawe_.\n  Webbe, cloth, A. 71.\n  Wedde, A. 772; B. 69.\n  Wedded wyf, B. 330.\n  Weddyng, A. 791.\n  {Wed, Wede,} garments, weeds, A. 748, 766; B. 793. A.S. _w\u00e6d_.\n  {Wed, Wede,} become mad, B. 1585. A.S. _w\u00e9dan_, to rave, be mad.\n  Weder, storm, B. 444, 948.\n  Weder, weather, B. 1760.\n  Wela-wynnely, very joyfully, B. 831. A.S. _welig_, rich, bountiful;\n    _wyn_, pleasure, joy.\n  {Welcom, Welcum,} B. 813.\n  Welde, govern, rule, wield, B. 195, 835; use, employ, possess, B. 705,\n    1351; C. 16. A.S. _wealdan_, rule, exercise, possess.\n  Welder, ruler, C. 129.\n  Wele, joy (_pl._ _wele\u021d_), A. 14, 154, 394; B. 651; C. 262. A.S.\n    _wela_.\n  Welgest, worthiest, B. 1244. A.S. _welig_ (_welga_), rich, wealthy.\n  Welke, walked, A. 101.\n  Welkyn, welkin, the sky. A.S. _welcn_, _wolcen_. O.Sc. _walk_,\n    a\u00a0cloud.\n  Welle-hede\u021d, springs, B. 428.\n  Welt, revolved, C. 115. See _Walter_.\n  Welwed, faded, C. 475. A.S. _wealwian_.\n      \u201cThe grond stud burrant, widderit dosk or gray,\n      Herbis, flowris and gersis _wallowyt_ away.\u201d\n        --(G. Douglas, vol. i. p. 378.)\n  Wely, joyous, happy, A. 101. A.S. _welig_.\n      \u201c_Welli_ make, Laverd, and noght ille,\n      To Syon in \u00fei gode wille.\u201d --(Ps. i. 20.)\n      \u201c\u00dean was \u00fear never suilk a hald,\n      Ne nan in _welier_ in werld to wald.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 55b.)\n  {Wem, Wemme,} spot, blemish, A. 1003. A.S. _wem_.\n  Wemle\u021d, spotless, without blemish.\n  Wenche, woman, B. 974, 1250; concubine, B. 1716. A.S. _wencle_, a\n    maid. S.Sax. _wenchell_, a\u00a0child.\n  Wende = wened, thought, A. 1148; C. 111.\n  Wene = ween, believe, A. 47; B. 821; C. 244. A.S. _w\u00e9nan_.\n  Wene, doubt, A. 1141.\n  Weng, avenge, B. 201.\n  Wenyng, supposition, C. 115.\n  Wepande, weeping, C. 384.\n  Weppen, weapon, B. 835.\n  Wered, guarded, protected, C. 486. A.S. _weren_. Ger. _wehren_,\n    defend.\n  Werke\u021d, labours, B. 136.\n  Werp (_pret._ of _warp_), threw, B. 284.\n  Werre, war, B. 1178.\n  Wers, worse, B. 80.\n  Werte, root, herb, C. 478. A.S. _wyrt_.\n  Weryng, wearing, age, B. 1123. \u201c_Weryn_ or wax olde, febyl,\n    veterasco.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Wesch, washed, A. 766.\n  Westernays, wrongly, A. 307. See Note on this word, p.\u00a0106. ?\n    wi\u00feer-ways, wrong-wise.\n  Wete, wet, A. 761.\n  Weue, pass, A. 318.\n  Weued, cut off (?), B. 222.\n  Wex (_pret._ of _wax_), became, A. 538; B. 204.\n  We\u021de, weigh (anchor), C. 103; carry round, B. 1420, 1508. A.S.\n    _wegan_, to weigh, carry.\n  We\u021dte, weight, B. 1734.\n  Wham, whom, A. 131.\n  Whate\u021d = wat\u021d, was, A. 1041.\n  What-kyn, what kind of, B. 100.\n  Whichche = hutch, ark, B. 362. \u201c_Hutche_ or _whyche_, cista, archa.\u201d\n    (Prompt. Parv.) A.S. _hw\u00e6cca_.\n  Whyle, moment, B. 1620.\n  Wite, blame. See _Wyte_.\n  With-dro\u021d, withdrew, A. 658.\n  With-nay, refuse, deny, A. 916.\n  Wi\u021dt = wight, quickly, C. 103. See _Wy\u021dt_.\n  Wlate, to abhor, hate, detest, B. 305; to be disgusted at, B. 1501.\n    A.S. _wl\u00e6ttian_.\n  Wlatsum, hateful, abominable, B. 541.\n  {Wlonc, Wlonk,} beautiful, A. 122, 1171; B. 606, 793, 933; C. 486;\n    good, A. 903. A.S. _wlanc_.\n  {Wod, Wode,} mad, enraged, B. 204, 1558; foolish, B. 828; fierce,\n    strong, B. 364; C. 142. A.S. _w\u00f3d_.\n  Wodbynde, woodbine, C. 446.\n  Wodder (_comp._ of _wode_), fiercer, rougher, C. 162.\n  Woghe, wrong, sin, A. 622. A.S. _woh_.\n  Wolde = walde, perform, do, A. 812. See _Welde_.\n  Wolde, would, A. 772.\n  Wolen, woollen, A. 731.\n  Wolle, wool, A. 844.\n  Wombe, belly, B. 462, 1250.\n  {Won, Wone,} _sb._ dwelling, abode, A. 32, 1049; B. 140, 928; wone\u021d,\n    A. 917, 924; _vb._ to dwell, A. 404, 298; B. 875. A.S. _wunian_.\n    O.Fris. _wona_.\n  Won = wone, custom, usage, B. 720. A.S. _wune_.\n  Wonde, fear, hesitate, B. 855. A.S. _wandian_.\n  Wonde = wande, delay, cease, A. 153.\n      \u201c[I wole] for no dethe _wonde_.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 591.)\n      \u201cI wille noghte _wonde_ for no werre,\n      To wende whare me likes.\u201d --(Morte Arthure, p. 292.)\n      \u201cSua did \u00feis wiif I yow of redd,\n      Sco folud Joseph ai \u00fear he fledd,\n      And for sco foluand fand a spurn,\n      Sco waited him wit a werr turn,\n      Hirself in godds gram and gilt,\n      And almast did him to be spilt;\n      How sco broght him to the fand (trial),\n      Fforth to telle wil I noght _waand_.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 25a.)\n  Wonder, _adj._ wonderful, A. 1095; B. 153.\n  Wonderly, wonderfully, B. 570; C. 384.\n  Woned = waned, decreased, B. 496. A.S. _wanian_, to decrease.\n  Wonen (_pret. pl._) got, B. 1777.\n  Wonne, pale, wan, C. 141. A.S. _wonn_, wan.\n  Wonne, got, A. 32.\n  Wonnen, begotten, B. 112.\n  Wonnyng, dwelling, B. 921. See _Won_.\n  Wont, be wanting, B. 739.\n  Wony, dwell, abide, live, A. 284; B. 431; C. 462. See _Won_.\n  Wonyande, dwelling, living, B. 293.\n  Wonys, dwells, A. 47.\n  Worche, _vb._ work, labour, A. 511.\n  Worcher = worker, maker, B. 1501.\n  Worchyp, honour, B. 1802.\n  Worded, spoken, uttered, C. 421.\n  Wore, were, A. 142, 232; B. 928.\n  Worme, reptile, B. 533.\n  Worre, weaker, literally, worse, B. 719. O.N. _verr_. Sw. _v\u00e4rre_.\n    O.Sc. _war_. O.E. _werr_, worse.\n  Worschyp, honour, A. 394.\n  Worte\u021d, herbs, A. 42. See _Werte_.\n  Wor\u00fee, to be, C. 22.\n  {Wor\u00feely, Wor\u00feelych, Wor\u00fely, Wor\u00felych, Wor\u00feyly,} worthy, A. 47, 846,\n    1073; B. 471, 651, 1298, 1351; beautiful, C. 475.\n  Wor\u00feloker, more worthy (_comp._ of _wor\u00feelych_), C. 464.\n  {Wost, Woste,} knowest, A. 293, 411; B. 875. See _Wot_.\n  Wot, know, A. 47, 1107; C. 129.\n  Wote, knows, C. 397.\n  Wo\u00fee, hurt, harm, B. 855. This word occurs under the forms _quathe_,\n    _wathe_, and seems to be related to O.E. _qued_. Low Ger. _quat_,\n    bad. O.E. _wathe_, bad; _wathely_, badly.\n      \u201cFfor _wo\u00fee_ of \u00fee worse.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 1223.)\n  Wo\u00fee, path, A. 151, 375. A.S. _w\u00e1th_, _w\u00e1thu_. O.E. _wathe_, a\u00a0way,\n    path. See extract under the word _Wasturne_.\n  {Wowe, Wo\u021de,} wall, A. 1049; B. 832, 839, 1403, 1531. A.S. _w\u00e1h_.\n    \u201c_Wowe_ or wal, murus.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  Wrache, vengeance, B. 204, 229; C. 185. A.S. _wrec_, _wracu_.\n  Wrak (_pret._ of _wreke_), avenged, B. 570.\n  Wrake, vengeance, B. 213, 235, 718, 970, 1225.\n  Wrakful, angry, bitter, B. 302, 541.\n  Wrang, wrong, A. 15; B. 76; wrongly, A. 488, 631; bad, C. 384.\n  Wraste (_pret._ of _wreste_), raised, uplifted, B. 1166, 1403; thrust,\n    1802; C. 80.\n  {Wrastel, Wrastle,} wrestle, B. 949; C. 141.\n  Wra\u00fee, become angry, B. 230; C. 74; make angry, B. 719.\n  Wra\u021dte, wrought, A. 56.\n  Wrech = wrache, vengeance, B. 230.\n  {Wrech, Wreche, Wrechche,} wretch, B. 84, 828; C. 113.\n  Wrech, wretched, C. 258. A.S. _wrec_, wretched. With _wrech_ and\n    _wretched_, cf. _wik_ and _wikked_.\n  {Wrek, Wreke,} avenged, B. 198.\n  Wrenche, device, B. 292. A.S. _wrence_.\n  Wro, passage; literally, corner, A. 866. O.Sw. _wraa_. Dan. _vraa_.\n  Wroken, (_pret._ of _wreke_), banished, exiled, A. 375. A.S. _wrecan_,\n    to exile, banish.\n  Wrot (_pret._ of _wrote_), grubbed up, C. 467. A.S. _wr\u00f3tan_, to turn\n    up with the snout; _wr\u00f3t_, a\u00a0snout.\n      \u201cWith wrathe he begynnus to _wrote_,\n      He ruskes vppe mony a rote\n      With tusshes of iij. fote.\u201d --(Avowynge of Arthur, xii. 13.)\n  Wro\u00fee, fierce, B. 1676. A.S. _wr\u00e1th_, wroth, enraged.\n  Wro\u00feeloker (_comp._ of _wro\u00feely_), more fiercely, angrily, C. 132.\n  {Wro\u00feely, Wro\u00fely,} angrily, fiercely, B. 280, 949; C. 132.\n  Wro\u00feer (_comp._ of _wro\u00fee_), fiercer, C. 162.\n  {Wro\u021dt, Wro\u021dte,} wrought, worked, A. 525, 748.\n  Wruxeled, raised, B. 1381. _Wrixle_ = change, turn, occurs in T.\u00a0B.\n    445.\n    \u201c\u00deis unwarnes of wit _wrixlis_ hys mynd.\u201d\n  Wryst, B. 1535.\n  Wryt, B. 1552.\n  Wry\u00fee, turn, A. 350, 488; wriggle, B. 533; toil, A. 511; bind, thrust,\n    C. 80. A.S. _writhan_, to writhe, bind, twist. \u201c_Writhen_ like a\n    wilde eddur.\u201d T.\u00a0B. 4432.\n  Wunder, B. 1390.\n  Wunnen, won, B. 1305.\n  Wyche, B. 1577.\n  Wyche-crafte, B. 1560.\n  Wyddere, wither, C. 468.\n  Wydowande (_wyndowande_), withering, dry, B. 1048; _wyndowand_ = burnt\n    up. N.Prov.E. _winny_, to dry, burn up.\n  Wyke, member, part, B. 1690. O.N. _vik_.\n  {Wykke, Wyk,} wicked, B. 908, 1063. A.S. _w\u00edcan_, to become weak, to\n    yield. O.N. _v\u00edkia_.\n  {Wykket, Wyket,} wicket, gate, door, B. 501, 857.\n  {Wyl, Wylle,} wandering, C. 473; forlorn, B. 76. O.N. _villa_, error;\n    _villa_, to lead astray, beguile. Phrase, _wille o wan_, astray from\n    abode, uncertain where to go; _wil-sum_, _wil-ful_, lonely,\n    solitary, desert.\n      \u201cSo I _wilt_ in the wod.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 2359.)\n      \u201cAdam went out ful _wille_ o wan.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 7a.)\n      \u201cAll wery I wex and _wyle_ of my _gate_.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 2369.)\n      \u201cSone ware thay _willid_ fra the way the wod was so thick.\u201d\n        --(K. Alex. p. 102.)\n      \u201cSorful bicom \u00feat fals file (the devil)\n      And thoght how he moght man _bi-wille_;\n      Agains God wex he sa gril,\n      \u00deat alle his werk he wend to spil.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 5b.)\n      \u201cHis suns \u00feat (we) of forwit melt,\n      Al \u00fee werld bituix \u00feam delt;\n      Asie to Sem, to Cham Affrik,\n      To Japhet Europ \u00feat _wilful_ wike:\n      Al \u00feer \u00fere \u00feai war ful rike.\u201d --(_Ibid._ fol. 13a.)\n  Wyldren = wyldern (?), waste, wilderness, C. 297. A.S. _wild_, wild,\n    and _\u00e6rn_, a\u00a0place (?). See _Wasturne_.\n      \u201cIn _wildrin_ land and in wastin,\n      I wil tham (the Israelites) bring of \u00feair nocin;\n      Bot wel I wat he (Pharaoh) is ful thra,\n      Lath sal him think to let \u00feam ga.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 33a.)\n  Wylsfully, wilfully, B. 268.\n  Wylger, wild, fierce, B. 375. See extract under the word _Note_.\n  Wylle, forlorn, B. 76. See _Wyl_.\n  Wylnes, apostacy, B. 231.\n  Wylne\u021d, desirest (_2d pers. sing_ of _wylne_), A. 318. A.S. _wilnian_.\n  Wyly, curiously, craftily, B. 1452. A.S. _wile_, a device.\n  Wyndas, windlass, C. 103.\n  Wyndowe, B. 453.\n  Wynne, joyful, A. 154. A.S. _wyn_, pleasure, delight.\n  Wynne, obtain, get, A. 579; B. 617. A.S. _winnan_. See T.\u00a0B. 1165.\n  Wynnelych, gracious, B. 1807, Cp. _wynly_ = dexterously, 1165.\n  Wyrde, fate, destiny, A. 249, 273; B. 1224. Sc. _wird_. A.S. _wyrd_.\n  Wyrle, flew, B. 475.\n  Wyschande, hoping for, wishing, A. 14.\n  Wyse, manner, A. 1095; _wyses_, B. 1805.\n  {Wyse, Wysse,} show, appear, A. 1135, B. 1564; direct, send out,\n    B.\u00a0453; instruct, C. 60. A.S. _wissian_.\n  {Wyst, Wyste,} knew, A. 376; B. 152.\n  Wyt, wisdom, B. 348; C. 129.\n  Wyt, know, learn, B. 1319, 1360. A.S. _witan_.\n  Wyte, blame, B. 76; C. 501. A.S. _w\u00edtian_.\n  Wyte, pass away (?), C. 397. A.S. _w\u00edtan_.\n  Wyter, true, truly, B. 1552. O.N. _vitr_, wise, prudent.\n      \u201c& her ice wile sh\u00e6wenn \u021daw\n      Summ \u00feing to _witter_ t\u00e1kenn.\u201d --(Ormulum, vol. i. p. 115.)\n      \u201cNe \u00fee nedder was noght bitter\n      \u00dean, \u00feowf he was ever _witter_;\n      Ffor of alle, als sheus \u00fee boke,\n      Mast he cuth o crafte and crok.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 5b.)\n  Wytered, informed, B. 1587.\n  Wyterly, truly, B. 171, 1567. Dan. _vitterlig_, known, manifest.\n  Wy\u00fee, gentle, soft, C. 454. A.S. _w\u00e9the_, soft, pleasant.\n  Wy\u00feer, contrary, opposite, A. 230; adverse, hostile, C. 48. S.Sax.\n    _witherr_, adverse, evil. A.S. _witherian_, to oppose, resist.\n    Cf. _wetheruns_ = _wetherings_, enemies, T.\u00a0B. 5048.\n      \u201cGa, _witherr_ gast, o bacch fra me.\u201d --(Ormulum, vol. ii. p. 41.)\n  Wy\u00feerly, fiercely, angrily, B. 198; C. 74.\n  Wyth-halde, withhold, B. 740.\n  Wythouten, without, A. 390.\n  Wytles, foolish, B. 1585; C. 113.\n  Wytte, meaning, B. 1630; wit, A. 294; _wytte\u021d_, devices, B. 515.\n  {Wy\u021d, Wy\u021de,} person, being, A. 131, 579; B. 545. A.S. _wiga_,\n    a\u00a0warrior, soldier; _wig_, war.\n  Wy\u021dt, quick, quickly, B. 617; C. 103. O.E. _wight_. Sw. _vig_, active.\n  Wy\u021dtly, quickly, B. 908.\n      \u201cHe waites vmbe hym _wightly_.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 876.)\n\n  Ydropike, dropsical, B. 1096.\n  Yle, isle, A. 693.\n  Ylle, bad, evil, C. 8.\n  Ynde, blue, A. 1016; B. 1411.\n      \u201c\u00dee toi\u00feer heu neist (to grennes) for to find,\n      Es al o _bleu_, men cals it _ynd_.\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 53a.)\n  Yow, you, A. 287.\n  Yor, your, A. 761.\n  Yre, anger, B. 775, 1240.\n  Y\u00fee, wave, B. 430; C. 147. A.S. _ythu_, a wave, flood. S.Sax. _uthe_.\n    \u201c\u00dee roghe _y\u00fees_.\u201d --T.\u00a0B. 1045.\n  Y\u021de, eye (_pl._ _y\u021den_), A. 254, 302.\n\n  \u021care = yare, plainly, accurately, A. 834. A.S. _gearo_, ready,\n    prepared, accurate.\n  \u021cark, _adj._ select, B. 652; prepare, B. 1708; _vb._ to grant, B. 758.\n    A.S. _gearcian_, to prepare, make ready. See T.\u00a0B. 414.\n  \u021carm, cry, B. 971. As the character \u021d in these poems always represents\n    _g_ or _gh_, _\u021darm_ is evidently not derived from the A.S. _cyrm_,\n    noise, retained in O.E. _charm_, a\u00a0humming noise, the cry of birds,\n    etc., but is from the Welsh _garm_, shout, outcry; _garmio_, to set\n    up a cry, from which the A.S. _cyrm_, is itself derived.\n  \u021cate, gate, A. 1034.\n  \u021ce, ye, A. 381.\n  \u021cede (_pret._ of _go_), went, A. 526, 1049; B. 432.\n  \u021cederly, quickly, soon, B. 463. O.N. _gedugr_, exceedingly. The\n    adjective _\u021deder_ does not occur in the poems, but was not unknown\n    to O.E. literature. It occurs in the glossary to the Romance of King\n    Alexander, ed. Stevenson, but is left unexplained by the editor.\n      \u201cThen bownes agayn the bald kyng, baldly he wepis,\n      That he so skitly suld skifte and fo his skars terme;\n      So did his princes, sais the profe, for pete of himselfe,\n      With _\u021dedire_ \u021doskinges and \u021derre \u021dette out to grete.\u201d\n      (p.\u00a0172.)\n      \u201c_\u021cedire \u021doskinges_ = great (frequent) sobbings.\u201d\n  \u021celde, yield, perform, B. 665.\n  \u021cellyng = yelling, outcry, B. 971. A.S. _geallian_, to yell.\n    \u201c_\u021cellyn\u2019_ or hydowsly cryin\u2019, Vociferor.\u201d (Prompt. Parv.)\n  \u021ceme, protect, guard, B. 1242, 1493. A.S. _g\u00e9man_, to care for, take\n    care of.\n  \u021cemen, yeomen, A. 535.\n  \u021cender, yonder, B. 1617.\n  {\u021cep, \u021cepe,} quick, active, bold, B. 796, 881. A.S. _g\u00e6p_.\n    \u201cSo yonge & so _\u021depe_.\u201d T.\u00a0B. 357.\n  \u021ceply, quickly, B. 665, 1708. See T.\u00a0B. 414.\n  {\u021cer, \u021cere,} year, A. 483, 588.\n  \u021cerne = yearn, desire, A. 1190; B. 66, 758.\n  \u021cestande, B. 846. If from the A.S. _g\u00e6ston_, \u201cafflicted,\u201d we may\n    render this term \u201cafflicting,\u201d but if, as is more probable, it is\n    from the A.S. _gist_, froth, yeast, we may explain it as \u201cfrothing,\u201d\n    \u201coverflowing.\u201d Cf. the phrase, \u201cthe _yesty_ waves.\u201d\n  \u021cete, offer, give, A. 558. O.E. _yate_ (_pret._ _yatte_). O.N. _g\u00e9ta_.\n      \u201cHe _yatte_ hir freli al hir bone (prayer).\u201d\n        --(Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 47a.)\n    _Gate_, in T.\u00a0B. 979, seems to mean a request.\n      \u201cAnd he hir graunted \u00feat _gate_ with a good wille.\u201d\n  \u021cete, yet, A. 1061.\n  \u021ce\u021ded, spoke, B. 846. Prov. Ger. _gaggen_, to stutter, gabble.\n  \u021cif, if, B. 758.\n  \u021cise, truly, yes, C. 117.\n  \u021cisterday, yesterday, B. 463.\n  \u021cokke, yoke, B. 66.\n  \u021colden, restored, B. 1708.\n  \u021colpe, _vb._ boast, B. 846. A.S. _gilpan_.\n  \u021comerly, sorrowful, lamentable, B. 971. A.S. _geomor_, sad;\n    _geomorl\u00edc_, doleful. Cf. _\u021domeryng_, T.\u00a0B. 1722.\n  \u021con, yon, A. 693; B. 772.\n  \u021conde, yonder, B. 721.\n  {\u021cong, \u021conge,} young, A. 412, 474; B. 783.\n  \u021core, before, A. 586. A.S. _geara_.\n  \u021core-fader, forefather, A. 322.\n  \u021core-whyle, ere-while, B. 842.\n  \u021cornen (_3rd pers. pl. pret._), ran, B. 881. A.S. _ge-yrnan_, to run.\n  \u021cyrd, go, hasten, A. 635. The original meaning of _\u021dyrd_ is perhaps a\n    sudden sting, blow, hence to strike, then to start forward. Goth.\n    _gazd_, a\u00a0sting, goad. Lat. _hasta_. O.E. _gird_, to strike.\n      \u201c_Gird_ out the grete teth of the grym best.\u201d --(T.\u00a0B. 177.)\n\n\n\n\nErrata (noted by transcriber)\n\nTypographical Errors\n\n  \u201cBacus he was brayne-wode for _bebbing_ of wynes.\u201d  [ofwynes]\n  Comyne, B.    . See T.\u00a0B. 12863.\n    [_printed as shown: the word \u201ccomynes\u201d appears at B. 1747_]\n    [_The only number that fits the space is 111. This entry is not in\n    the 1864 edition; the editor may have left a space, intending to\n    come back and fill in the correct line number._]\n  {Endure, Endeure,} A. 476, 1082.\n    [_\u201cEudeure\u201d but body text and 1864 edition both have \u201cEndeure\u201d_]\n  Harlot, underling ... To \u201cdo _harlottry_, scurrari.\u201d\n    [_open quote conjectural: also missing in 1864 edition_]\n  Soerly, an error for _Soberly_, B. 117.\n    [_\u201con error\u201d but 1864 edition has \u201can error\u201c_]\n  {Sulp, Sulpe,} ... M.H.D. _be-sulwen_.\n    [_printed as shown: error for \u201cM.H.G.\u201d?_]\n  Sty\u021dtle ... _stightill_ the Realme.\u201d\n    [_\u201cthe / the\u201d at line break_]\n\n\nPunctuation and Mechanics\n\n  Abate, lessen, put an end to, A. 123; B. 1356.  [end to.]\n  Atlyng ... (T.\u00a0B. 855.)  [(T.\u00a0B., 855).]\n  Attled ... (T.\u00a0B. 394.)  [T.\u00a0B.,]\n  Aunter, adventure, marvel, B. 1600. See T.\u00a0B. 1899.  [T.\u00a0B.,]\n  Bagge, baggage. C. 158.  [C. 158,]\n  Babtem, A. 627. See _Baptem_.  [_cross-reference not italicized_]\n  Baronage, nobility, B. 1424. See T.\u00a0B. 211.  [T.\u00a0B.,]\n  {Ben, Bene,} are _3rd. pers. pl._ A. 572.  [A 572.]\n  \u201cThe kyng was full curteus, _calt_ on a maiden.\u201d  [_\u201d missing_]\n  Bityde, betide; _pret._ bitydde, C. 61.  [_. missing_]\n  Brych ... B. 848. ... Ger. _brechen_  [B. 848, ... Gr.]\n  Byde, abide ... B. 449, 622.  [B. 449, 622,]\n  Bysyde, beside, B. 673.  [B. 673,]\n  {Cheuetayn, Cheuentayn,} ... O.Fr. _chevetaine_.  [_chevetaine_,]\n  {Childer, Chylder,} children, A. 718; B. 1300.  [A. 718:]\n  Enquylen, obtain, C. 39. See _Aquyle_.  [_Aquyle_..]\n  Fest, Feste, feast, A. 283; B. 642, 1758.  [1758..]\n  Flyte, to quarrel, strive ... _flitan_.  [_flitan_,]\n  Founce ... See _Founs_.  [_cross-reference not italicized_]\n  Grymme, horrible ... _grimm_, fury, rage;  [rage,;]\n  Haspe, fasten, B. 419 ... Cf. \u201c_haspyng_ in armys\u201d  [_\u201d missing_]\n  {Hatel, Hattel,} ... S.Saxon _hatel_, _hetel_  [S.Saxon,]\n  Heuen ... Or _heuen_ his harme with foli mare.\u201d  [_\u201d missing_]\n  Hyre, _sb._ hire, wages, A. 534, 539.  [wages.,]\n  Jauele ... --missing (MS. Lansd. 1033, in Hall.)  [_open ( missing_]\n  {Ky\u00fe, Ky\u00fee,} ... (T.\u00a0B. 103.)  [T.\u00a0B.,]\n  Lefsel ... Sw. _l\u00f6fsal_  [_\u00f6 printed as small e over o_]\n  Lote ... See T.\u00a0B. 1900.  [T.\u00a0B.,]\n  {Ne\u021d, Ne\u021de, Ne\u021den,} approach, B. 32, 143, 805, 1017, 1754.\n    [805 1017, 1754,]\n  Pray, _sb._ prey, B. 1297; _vb._ to plunder, B. 1624.  [Pray.]\n  Rowtande, rushing, B. 354. \u201cA _routond_ rayn,\u201d T.\u00a0B. 1986.\n    [_\u201d missing_]\n  Ruchen ... \u201c[The king] Ricchis his reynys.\u201d  [_. invisible_]\n  Rwe, to pity, C. 176, 502  [C, 176,]\n  Ryche, kingdom, A. 601, 722. A.S. _r\u00edce_.  [A, 601,]\n  Schauen, shaven, scraped, B. 1134.  [B, 1134.]\n  Soberly, quietly ... B. 117, 799, 1497.  [799.]\n  Stalle ... \u201cLia he (Jacob) _stalle_ until his bedd.\u201d  [_. invisible_]\n  Stour, conflict ... The folk al fled of Israel.\u201d  [_. invisible_]\n  Strot ... (... Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii.)  [_final . missing_]\n  Swap ... \u201cHe swynges out with a swerd and _swappis_ him to dethe.\u201d\n    [_\u201d missing_]\n  Tenfully, sorrowfully, bitterly, B. 160.  [B. B.]\n  Towche ... A. 898; B. 1437.  [_. missing_]\n  Vglokest ... T.\u00a0B. 877.  [T.\u00a0B.,]\n  Wafte ... same origin with _wafte_.  [_wafte_,]\n  Waken ... (T.\u00a0B. 404.)  [(T.\u00a0B. 404).]\n  {Wale, Walle,} ... T. 386, 4716  [_text unchanged_]\n  {Walt, Walte,} ... Prov.E. _walt_, _welt_.  [_walt_.]\n  {Wast, Waste,} destroy, B. 326, 431  [326, .431]\n  {Wor\u00feely ... Wor\u00feyly,} ... beautiful, C. 475.  [beautiful;]\n  Wyldren ... (Cott. MS. Vesp. A. iii. fol. 33a.)\n    [_a in \u201c33a\u201d not italicized_]\n  Wy\u021dtly ... (T.\u00a0B. 876.)  [(T.\u00a0B. 876).]\n  \u021cete, offer, give ... O.N. _g\u00e9ta_.  [O.N,]\n  \u021cyrd ... (T.\u00a0B. 177.)  [(T.\u00a0B. 177).]\n\n\n      *       *       *       *       *\n           *       *       *       *\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe Pearl: Sidenotes\n\nI.\nDescription of a lost pearl (_i.e._ a beloved child).\nThe father laments the loss of his pearl.\nHe often visits the spot where his pearl disappeared, and hears a\nsweet song.\nWhere the pearl was buried there he found lovely flowers.\nEach blade of grass springs from a dead grain.\nIn the high season of August the parent visits the grave of his lost\nchild.\nBeautiful flowers covered the grave.\nFrom them came a delicious odour.\nThe bereaved father wrings his hands for sorrow, falls asleep upon the\nflowery plot, and dreams.\n\nII.\nIn spirit he is carried to an unknown region, where the rocks and cliffs\ngleamed gloriously.\nThe hill sides were decked with crystal cliffs.\nThe leaves of the trees were like burnished silver.\nThe gravel consisted of precious pearls.\nThe father forgets his sorrow.\nHe sees birds of the most beautiful hues, and hears their sweet melody.\nNo tongue could describe the beauty of the forest.\nAll shone like gold.\nThe dreamer arrives at the bank of a river, which gave forth sweet\nsounds.\nIn it, stones glittered like stars in the welkin on a winter night.\n\nIII.\nHis grief abates, and he follows the course of the stream.\nNo one could describe his great joy.\nHe thought that Paradise was on the opposite bank.\nThe stream was not fordable.\nMore and more he desires to see what is beyond the brook.\nBut the way seemed difficult.\nThe dreamer finds new marvels.\nHe sees a crystal cliff, at the foot of which, sits a maiden clothed in\nglistening white.\nHe knows that he has seen her before.\nHe desires to call her but is afraid, at finding her in such a strange\nplace.\n\nIV.\nSo he stands still, like a well trained hawk.\nHe fears lest she should escape before he could speak to her.\nHis long lost one is dressed in royal array--decked with precious\npearls.\nShe comes along the stream towards him.\nHer kirtle is composed of \u2018sute,\u2019 ornamented with pearls.\nShe wore a crown of pearls.\nHer hair hung down about her.\nHer colour was whiter than whalebone.\nHer hair shone as gold.\nThe trimming of her robe consisted of precious pearls.\nA wonderful pearl was set in her breast.\nNo man from here to Greece, was so glad as the father, when he saw his\npearl on the bank of the stream.\nThe maiden salutes him.\n\nV.\nThe father enquires of the maiden whether she is his long-lost pearl,\nand longs to know who has deprived him of his treasure.\nThe maiden tells him that his pearl is not really lost.\nShe is in a garden of delight, where sin and mourning are unknown.\nThe rose that he had lost is become a pearl of price.\nThe pearl blames his rash speech.\nThe father begs the maiden to excuse his speech, for he really thought\nhis pearl was wholly lost to him.\nThe maiden tells her father that he has spoken three words without\nknowing the meaning of one.\nThe first word. The second. The third.\n\nVI.\nHe is little to be praised who loves what he sees.\nTo love nothing but what one sees is great presumption.\nTo live in this kingdom (_i.e._ heaven) leave must be asked.\nThis stream must be passed over by death.\nThe father asks his pearl whether she is about to doom him to sorrow\nagain.\nIf he loses his pearl he does not care what happens to him.\nThe maiden tells her father to suffer patiently.\nThough he may dance as any doe, yet he must abide God\u2019s doom.\nHe must cease to strive.\nAll lies in God\u2019s power to make men joyful or sad.\n\nVII.\nThe father beseeches the pearl to have pity upon him.\nHe says that she has been both his bale and bliss.\nAnd when he lost her, he knew not what had become of her.\nAnd now that he sees her in bliss, she takes little heed of his sorrow.\nHe desires to know what life she leads.\nThe maiden tells him that he may walk and abide with her, now that he is\nhumble.\nAll are meek that dwell in the abode of bliss.\nAll lead a blissful life.\nShe reminds her father that she was very young when she died.\nNow she is crowned a queen in heaven.\n\nVIII.\nThe father of the maiden does not fully understand her.\nMary, he says, is the queen of heaven.\nNo one is able to remove the crown from her.\nThe maiden addresses the Virgin.\nShe then explains to her father that each has his place in heaven.\nThe court of God has a property in its own being.\nEach one in it is a king or queen.\nThe mother of Christ holds the chief place.\nWe are all members of Christ\u2019s body.\nLook that each limb be perfect.\nThe father replies that he cannot understand how his pearl can be a\nqueen.\nHe desires to know what greater honour she can have.\n\nIX.\nShe was only two years old when she died, and could do nothing to\nplease God.\nShe might be a countess or some great lady but not a queen.\nThe maiden informs her father that there is no limit to God\u2019s power.\nThe parable of the labourers in the vineyard.\nThe lord of the vineyard hires workmen for a penny a day.\nAt noon the lord hires other men standing idle in the market place.\nHe commands them to go into his vineyard, and he will give them what is\nright.\nAt an hour before the sun went down the lord sees other men\nstanding idle.\nTells them to go into the vineyard.\n\nX.\nAs soon as the sun was gone down the \u201creeve\u201d was told to pay the\nworkmen.\nTo give each a penny.\nThe first began to complain.\nHaving borne the heat of the day he thinks that he deserves more.\nThe lord tells him that he agreed only to give him a penny.\nThe last shall be first, and the first last.\nThe maiden applies the parable to herself.\nShe came to the vine in eventide, and yet received more than others who\nhad lived longer.\nThe father says that his daughter\u2019s tale is unreasonable.\n\nXI.\nIn heaven, the maiden says, each man is paid alike.\nGod is no niggard.\nThe grace of God is sufficient for all.\nThose who live long on the earth often forfeit heaven by sinning.\nInnocents are saved by baptism.\nWhy should not God allow their labour.\nOur first father lost heaven by eating an apple.\nAnd all are damned for the sin of Adam.\nBut there came one who paid the penalty of our sins.\nThe water that came from the pierced side of Christ was baptism.\n\nXII.\nRepentance must be sought by prayer with sorrow and affliction.\nThe guilty may be saved by contrition.\nTwo sorts of people are saved, the _righteous_ and the _innocent_.\nThe words of David.\nThe innocent is saved by right.\nThe words of Solomon.\nDavid says no man living is justified.\nPray to be saved by innocence and not by right.\nWhen Jesus was on earth, little children were brought unto him.\nThe disciples rebuked the parents.\nChrist said, \u201cSuffer little children to come unto me,\u201d etc.\n\nXIII.\nNo one can win heaven except he be meek as a child.\nThe pearl of price is like the kingdom of heaven, pure and clean.\nForsake the mad world and purchase the spotless pearl.\nThe father of the maiden desires to know who formed her figure and\nwrought her garments.\nHer beauty, he says, is not natural.\nHer colour passes the fleur-de-lis.\nThe maiden explains to her father that she is a bride of Christ.\nShe is without spot or blemish.\nHer weeds are washed in the blood of Christ.\nThe father asks the nature of the Lamb that has chosen his daughter, and\nwhy she is selected as a bride.\n\nXIV.\nThe Lamb has one hundred and forty thousand brides.\nSt. John saw them on the hill of Sion in a dream, in the new city of\nJerusalem.\nIsaiah speaks of Christ or the Lamb.\nHe says that He was led as a lamb to the slaughter.\nIn Jerusalem was Christ slain.\nWith buffets was His face flayed.\nHe endured all patiently as a lamb.\nFor us He died in Jerusalem.\nThe declaration of St. John, \u201cBehold the Lamb of God,\u201d etc.\nWho can reckon His generation, that died in Jerusalem?\nIn the New Jerusalem St. John saw the Lamb sitting upon the throne.\n\nXV.\nThe Lamb is without blemish.\nEvery spotless soul is a worthy bride for the Lamb.\nNo strife or envy among the brides.\nNone can have less bliss than another.\nOur death leads us to bliss.\nWhat St. John saw upon the Mount of Sion.\nAbout the Lamb he saw one hundred and forty thousand maidens.\nHe heard a voice from heaven, like many floods.\nHe heard the maiden sing a new song.\nSo did the four beasts and the elders \u201cso sad of cheer.\u201d\nThis assembly was like the Lamb, spotless and pure.\nThe father replies to the maiden.\nHe says he is but dust and ashes.\nHe wishes to ask one question, whether the brides have their abode in\ncastle-walls or in manor.\n\nXVI.\nJerusalem, he says, in Judea.\nBut the dwelling of the brides should be perfect.\nFor such \u201ca comely pack\u201d a great castle would be required.\nThe city in Jud\u00e6a, answers the maiden, is where Christ suffered, and is\nthe Old Jerusalem.\nThe New Jerusalem is where the Lamb has assembled his brides.\nJerusalem means the city of God.\nIn the Old city our peace was made at one.\nIn the New city is eternal peace.\n\nXVII.\nThe father prays his daughter to bring him to the blissful bower.\nHis daughter tells him that he shall see the outside, but not a foot may\nhe put in the city.\n\nXVIII.\nThe maiden then tells her father to go along the bank till he comes to\na hill.\nHe reaches the hill, and beholds the heavenly city.\nAs St. John saw it, so he beheld it.\nThe city was of burnished gold.\nPitched upon gems, the foundation composed of twelve stones.\nThe names of the precious stones.\ni. Jasper. ii. Sapphire. iii. Chalcedony. iv. Emerald.\nv. Sardonyx. vi. Ruby. vii. Chrysolite. viii. Beryl.\nix. Topaz. x. Chrysoprasus. xi. Jacinth. xii. Amethyst.\nThe city was square.\nThe wall was of jasper.\nTwelve thousand furlongs in length and breadth.\n\nXIX.\nEach \u201cpane\u201d had three gates.\nEach gate adorned with a pearl.\nSuch light gleamed in all the streets, that there was no need of the sun\nor moon.\nGod was the light of those in the city.\nThe high throne might be seen, upon which the \u201chigh God\u201d sat.\nA river ran out of the throne; it flowed through each street.\nNo church was seen.\nGod was the church; Christ the sacrifice.\nThe gates were ever open.\nThere is no night in the city.\nThe planets, and the sun itself, are dim compared to the divine light.\nTrees there renew their fruit every month.\nThe beholder of this fair city stood still as a \u201cdased quail.\u201d\n\nXX.\nAs the moon began to rise he was aware of a procession of virgins\ncrowned with pearls, in white robes, with a pearl in their breast.\nAs they went along they shone as glass.\nThe Lamb went before them.\nThere was no pressing.\nThe \u201calder men\u201d fell groveling at the feet of the Lamb.\nAll sang in praise of the Lamb.\nThe Lamb wore white weeds.\nA wide wound was seen near his breast.\nJoy was in his looks.\nThe father perceives his little queen.\n\nXIX.\nGreat delight takes possession of his mind.\nHe attempts to cross the stream.\nIt was not pleasing to the Lord.\nThe dreamer awakes, and is in great sorrow.\nHe addresses his pearl; laments his rash curiosity.\nMen desire more than they have any right to expect.\nThe good Christian knows how to make peace with God.\nGod give us grace to be his servants!\n\n       *       *       *       *\n   *       *       *       *       *\n\nCleanness: Sidenotes\n\nI.\nCleanness discloses fair forms.\nGod is angry with the unclean worshipper, and with false priests.\nThe pure worshipper receives great reward.\nThe impure will bring upon them the anger of God, Who is pure and holy.\nIt would be a marvel if God did not hate evil.\nChrist showed us that himself.\nSt. Matthew records the discourse.\nThe clean of heart shall look on our Lord.\nWhat earthly noble, when seated at table above dukes, would like to see\na lad badly attired approach the table with \u201crent cockers,\u201d his coat\ntorn and his toes out?\nFor any one of these he would be turned out with a \u201cbig buffet,\u201d and be\nforbidden to re-enter, and thus be ruined through his vile clothes.\nThe parable of the \u201cMarriage of the King\u2019s Son.\u201d\nThe king\u2019s invitation.\nThose invited begin to make excuses.\nOne had bought an estate and must go to see it.\nAnother had purchased some oxen and wished to see them \u201cpull in the\nplough.\u201d\nA third had married a wife and could not come.\nThe Lord was greatly displeased, and commanded his servants to invite\nthe wayfaring, both men and women, the better and the worse, that his\npalace might be full.\nThe servants brought in bachelors and squires.\nWhen they came to the court they were well entertained.\nThe servants tell their lord that they have done his behest, and there\nis still room for more guests.\nThe Lord commands them to go out into the fields, and bring in the halt,\nblind, and \u201cone-eyed.\u201d\nFor those who denied shall not taste \u201cone sup\u201d to save them from death.\nThe palace soon became full of \u201cpeople of all plights.\u201d\nThey were not all one wife\u2019s sons, nor had they all one father.\nThe \u201cbrightest attired\u201d had the best place.\nBelow sat those with \u201cpoor weeds.\u201d\nAll are well entertained \u201cwith meat and minstrelsy.\u201d\nEach with his \u201cmate\u201d made him at ease.\n\nII.\nThe lord of the feast goes among his guests.\nBids them be merry.\nOn the floor he finds one not arrayed for a holyday.\nAsks him how he obtained entrance, and how he was so bold as to appear\nin such rags.\nDoes he take him to be a harlot?\nThe man becomes discomfited.\nHe is unable to reply.\nThe lord commands him to be bound, and cast into a deep dungeon.\nThis feast is likened to the kingdom of heaven, to which all are\ninvited.\nSee that thy weeds are clean.\nThy weeds are thy works that thou hast wrought.\nFor many faults may a man forfeit bliss.\nFor sloth and pride he is thrust into the devil\u2019s throat.\nHe is ruined by covetousness, perjury, murder, theft, and strife.\nFor robbery and ribaldry, for preventing marriages, and supporting the\nwicked, for treason, treachery, and tyranny, man may lose eternal bliss.\n\nIII.\nThe high Prince of all is displeased with those who work wickedly.\nFor the first fault the devil committed, he felt God\u2019s vengeance.\nHe, the fairest of all angels, forsook his sovereign, and boasted that\nhis throne should be as high as God\u2019s.\nFor these words he was cast down to hell.\nThe fiends fell from heaven, like the thick snow, for forty days.\nFrom heaven to hell the shower lasted.\nThe devil would not make peace with God.\nAffliction makes him none the better.\nFor the fault of one, vengeance alighted upon all men.\nAdam was ordained to live in bliss.\nThrough Eve he ate an apple.\nThus all his descendants became poisoned.\nA maiden brought a remedy for mankind.\n\nIV.\nMalice was merciless.\nA race of men came into the world, the fairest, the merriest, and the\nstrongest that ever were created.\nThey were sons of Adam.\nNo law was laid upon them.\nNevertheless they acted unnaturally.\nThe \u201c_fiends_\u201d beheld how fair were the daughters of these mighty men,\nand made fellowship with them and begat a race of giants.\nThe greatest fighter was reckoned the most famous.\nThe Creater of all becomes exceedingly wroth.\nFell anger touches His heart.\nIt repents Him that He has made man.\nHe declares that all flesh shall be destroyed, both man and beast.\nThere was at this time living on the earth a very righteous man: Noah\nwas his name.\nThree bold sons he had.\nGod in great anger speaks to Noah.\nDeclares that He will destroy all \u201cthat life has.\u201d\nCommands him to make \u201ca mansion\u201d with dwellings for wild and tame.\nTo let the ark be three hundred cubits in length, and fifty in breadth,\nand thirty in height, and a window in it a cubit square.\nAlso a good shutting door in the side, together with halls, recesses,\nbushes, and bowers, and well-formed pens.\nFor all flesh shall be destroyed, except Noah and his family.\nNoah is told to take into the ark seven pairs of every clean beast, and\none of unclean kind, and to furnish the ark with proper food.\nNoah fills the ark.\n\nV.\nGod asks Noah whether all is ready.\nNoah replies that all is fully prepared.\nHe is commanded to enter the ark, for God tells him that he will send a\nrain to destroy all flesh.\nNoah stows all safely in the ark.\nSeven days are passed.\nThe deep begins to swell, banks are broken down, and the clouds burst.\nIt rains for forty days, and the flood rises, and flows over the woods\nand fields.\nAll must drown.\nThe water enters the houses.\nEach woman with her bairns flees to the hills.\nThe rain never ceases.\nThe valleys are filled.\nPeople flock to the mountains.\nSome swim for their lives.\nOthers roar for fear.\nAnimals of all kinds run to the hills.\nAll pray for mercy.\nGod\u2019s mercy is passed from them.\nEach sees that he must sink.\nFriends take leave of one another.\nForty days have gone by, and all are destroyed.\nAll rot in the mud, except Noah and his family, who are safe in the ark.\nThe ark is lifted as high as the clouds, and is driven about, without\nmast, bowline, cables, anchors, or sail to guide its course.\nAt the mercy of the winds.\nOft it rolled around and reared on end.\nThe age of the patriarch Noah.\nDuration of the flood.\nThe completeness of the destruction.\nGod remembers those in the ark.\nHe causes a wind to blow, and closes the lakes and wells, and the\ngreat deep.\nThe ark settles on Mount Ararat.\nNoah beholds the bare earth.\nHe opens his window and sends out the raven to seek dry land.\nThe raven \u201ccroaks for comfort\u201d on finding carrion.\nHe fills his belly with the foul flesh.\nThe lord of the ark curses the raven, and sends out the dove.\nThe bird wanders about the whole day.\nFinding no rest, she returns about eventide to Noah.\nNoah again sends out the dove.\n\nVI.\nThe dove returns with an olive branch in her beak.\nThis was a token of peace and reconciliation.\nJoy reigns in the ark.\nThe people therein laugh and look thereout.\nGod permits Noah and his sons to leave the ark.\nNoah offers sacrifice to God.\nIt is pleasing to Him that \u201call speeds or spoils.\u201d\nGod declares that He will never destroy the world for the sin of man.\nThat summer and winter shall never cease.\nNor night nor day, nor the new years.\nGod blesses every beast.\nEach fowl takes its flight.\nEach fish goes to the flood.\nEach beast makes for the plain.\nWild worms wriggle to their abodes in the earth.\nThe fox goes to the woods.\nHarts to the heath, and hares to the gorse.\nLions and leopards go to the lakes.\nEagles and hawks to the high rocks.\nThe four \u2018frekes\u2019 take the empire.\nBehold what woe God brought on mankind for their hateful deeds!\nBeware of the filth of the flesh.\n\u201cOne speck of a spot\u201d will ruin us in the sight of God.\nThe beryl is clean and sound,--it has no seam.\n\nVII.\nWhen God repented that he had made man, he destroyed all flesh.\nBut afterwards He was sorry, and made a covenant with mankind that He\nwould not again destroy all the living.\nFor the filth of the flesh God destroyed a rich city.\nGod hates the wicked as \u201chell that stinks.\u201d\nEspecially harlotry and blasphemy.\nNothing is hidden from God.\nGod is the ground of all deeds.\nHe honours the man that is honest and whole.\nBut for deeds of shame He destroys the mighty ones.\n\nVIII.\nAbraham is sitting before his house-door under a green oak.\nHe sees three men coming along, and goes toward them.\nHe entreats them to rest awhile, that he may wash their feet, and bring\nthem a morsel of bread.\nAbraham commands Sarah to make some cakes quickly, and tells his servant\nto seethe a tender kid.\nAbraham appears bare-headed before his guests.\nHe casts a clean cloth on the green, and sets before them cakes, butter,\nmilk, and pottage.\nGod praises his friend\u2019s feast, and after the meat is removed, He tells\nAbraham that Sarah shall bear him a son.\nSarah, who is behind the door, laughs in unbelief.\nGod tells Abraham that Sarah laughs at His words.\nSarah denies that she laughed.\nAbraham\u2019s guests set out towards Sodom, two miles from Mamre.\nThe patriarch accompanies them.\nGod determines to reveal to Abraham his secret purposes.\n\nIX.\nHe informs him of the destruction about to fall upon the cities of\nthe plain, for their great wickedness, in abusing the gifts bestowed\nupon them.\nThe ordinance of marriage had been made for them, but they foully set it\nat nought.\nThe flame of love.\nTherefore shall they be destroyed as an example to all men for ever.\nAbraham is full of fear, and asks God whether the \u201csinful and the\nsinless\u201d are to suffer together.\nWhether he will spare the cities provided fifty righteous are found\nin them?\nFor the sake of fifty the cities shall be spared.\nThe patriarch beseeches God to spare the city for the sake of forty-five\nrighteous.\nFor the lack of five the cities shall not be destroyed.\nFor forty the cities shall be spared.\nAbraham entreats God\u2019s forbearance for his speech.\nThirty righteous, found in the cities, shall save them from destruction.\nFor the sake of twenty guiltless ones God will release the rest.\nOr if ten only should be found pure.\nThe patriarch intercedes for Lot.\nBeseeches Him to \u201ctemper His ire,\u201d and then departs weeping for sorrow.\n\nX.\nGod\u2019s messengers go to Sodom.\nLot is sitting alone at the \u201cdoor of his lodge.\u201d\nStaring into the street he sees two men.\nBeardless chins they had, and hair like raw silk.\nBeautifully white were their weeds.\nLot runs to meet them.\nInvites them to remain awhile in his house, and in the morning they may\ntake their way.\nLot invites them so long that at last they comply.\nThe wife and daughters of Lot welcome their visitors.\nLot admonishes his men to prepare the meat, and to serve no salt\nwith it.\nLot\u2019s wife disregards the injunction.\nThe guests are well entertained.\nBut before they go to rest the city is up in arms.\nWith \u201ckeen clubs\u201d the folk clatter on the walls, and demand that Lot\nshould deliver up his guests.\nThe wind yet stinks with their filthy speech.\nLot is in great trouble.\nHe leaves his guests and addresses the Sodomites.\nHe offers to give up to them his two daughters.\nThe rebels raise a great noise, and ask who made him a justice to judge\ntheir deeds, who was but a boy when he came to Sodom.\nThe young men bring Lot within doors, and smite those outside with\nblindness.\nIn vain they try to find the door of Lot\u2019s house.\n\nXI.\nEarly in the morning the angels command Lot to depart from Sodom, with\nhis wife and two daughters, and to look straight before him, for Sodom\nand Gomorrah shall be destroyed.\nLot asks what is best to be done, that he may escape.\nHe is told to choose himself a dwelling which shall be saved from\ndestruction.\nHe chooses Zoar.\nThe angels command Lot to depart quickly.\nHe wakes his wife and daughters.\nAll four are hastened on by the angels, who \u201cpreach to them the peril\u201d\nof delay.\nBefore daylight Lot comes to a hill.\nGod aloft raises a storm.\nA rain falls thick of fire and sulphur.\nUpon the four cities it comes, and frightens all folks therein.\nThe great bars of the abyss do burst.\nCliffs cleave asunder.\nThe cities sink to hell.\nSuch a cry arises that the clouds clatter again.\nLot and his companions are frightened, but continue to follow\ntheir face.\nLot\u2019s wife looks behind her, and is turned to a stiff stone \u201cas salt as\nany sea.\u201d\nHer companions do not miss her till they reach Zoar.\nBy this time all were drowned.\nThe people of Zoar, for dread, rush into the sea and are destroyed.\nOnly Zoar with three therein (Lot and his daughters) are saved.\nLot\u2019s wife is an image of salt for two faults:\n1. She served salt before the Lord at supper.\n2. She looked behind her.\nAbraham is up full early on the morn.\nHe looks towards Sodom, now only a pit filled with pitch, from which\nrise smoke, ashes and cinders, as from a furnace.\nA sea now occupies the place of the four cities.\nIt is a stinking pool, and is called the Dead Sea.\nNothing may live in it.\nLead floats on its surface.\nA feather sinks to the bottom of it.\nLands, watered by this sea, never bear grass or weed.\nA man cannot be drowned in it.\nThe clay clinging to it is corrosive, as alum, alkaran, sulphur, etc.,\nwhich fret the flesh and fester the bones.\nOn the shores of this lake grow trees bearing fair fruits, which, when\nbroken or bitten, taste like ashes.\nAll these are tokens of wickedness and vengeance.\nGod loves the pure in heart.\nStrive to be clean.\nJean de Meun tells how a lady is to be loved.\nBy doing what pleases her best.\nLove thy Lord!\nConform to Christ, who is polished as a pearl.\nBy how comely a contrivance did he enter the womb of the virgin!\nIn what purity did he part from her!\nNo abode was better than his.\nThe sorrow of childbirth was turned to joy.\nAngels solaced the virgin with organs and pipes.\nThe child Christ was so clean that ox and ass worshipped him.\nHe hated wickedness, and would never touch ought that was vile.\nYet there came to him lazars and lepers, lame and blind.\nDry and dropsical folk.\nHe healed all with kind speech.\nHis handling was so good, that he needed no knife to cut or carve with.\nThe bread he broke more perfectly than could all the tools of Toulouse.\nHow can we approach his court except we be clean?\nGod is merciful.\nThrough penance we may shine as a pearl.\nWhy is the pearl so prized?\nShe becomes none the worse for wear.\nIf she should become dim, wash her in wine.\nShe then becomes clearer than before.\nSo may the sinner polish him by penance.\nBeware of returning to sin.\nFor then God is more displeased than ever.\nThe reconciled soul God holds as His own.\nIll deeds rob Him of it.\nGod forbids us to defile any vessels used in His service.\nIn Belshazzar\u2019s time, the defiling of God\u2019s vessels brought wrath upon\nthe king.\n\nXII.\nDaniel in his prophecies tells of the destruction of the Jews.\nFor their unfaithfulness in following other gods, God allowed the\nheathen to destroy them, in the reign of Zedekiah, who practised\nidolatry.\nNebuchadnezzar becomes his foe.\nHe besieges Jerusalem, and surrounds the walls.\nThe city is stuffed full of men.\nBrisk is the skirmish.\nSeven times a day are the gates assailed.\nFor two years the fight goes on, yet the city is not taken.\nThe folk within are in want of food.\nMeager they become.\nFor so shut up are they that escape seems impossible.\nBut on a quiet night they steal out, and rush through the host.\nThey are discovered by the enemy.\nA loud alarm is given.\nThey are pursued and overtaken.\nTheir king is made prisoner.\nHis chief men are presented as prisoners to Nebuchadnezzar.\nHis sons are slain.\nHis own eyes are put out.\nHe is placed in a dungeon in Babylon.\nAll for his \u201cbad bearing\u201d against the Lord, who might otherwise have\nbeen his friend.\nNebuchadnezzar ceased not until he had destroyed Jerusalem.\nNebuzaradan was \u201cchief of the chivalry.\u201d\nThe best men were taken out of the city.\nNevertheless Nebuzaradan spared not those left.\nBrains of bairns were spilt.\nPriests pressed to death.\nWives and wenches foully killed.\nAll that escaped the sword were taken to Babylon, and were made to drag\nthe cart or milk the kine.\nNebuzaradan burst open the temple, and slew those therein.\nPriests, pulled by the poll, were slain along with deacons, clerks, and\nmaidens.\nThe enemy pillages the temple of its pillars of brass, and the golden\ncandlestick from off the altar.\nGoblets, basins, golden dishes, all are taken by Nebuzaradan, and\nhampered together.\nSolomon had made them with much labour.\nThe temple he beats down, and returns to Babylon.\nPresents the prisoners to the king, among whom were Daniel and his three\ncompanions.\nNebuchadnezzar has great joy, because his enemies are slain.\nGreat was his wonder when he saw the sacred jewelry.\nHe praises the God of Israel.\nSuch vessels never before came to Chaldea.\nThey are thrust into the treasury.\nNebuchadnezzar reigns as emperor of all the earth, through the \u201cdoom of\nDaniel,\u201d who gave him good counsel.\nNebuchadnezzar dies and is buried.\nBelshazzar succeeds him.\nHe holds himself the biggest in heaven or on earth.\nHe honours not God, but worships false phantoms.\nHe promises them rewards if good fortune befal.\nIf they vex him he knocks them in pieces.\nHe has a wife, and many concubines.\nThe mind of the king was fixed upon new meats and other vain things.\n\nXIII.\nBelshazzar, to exhibit his vainglory, proclaims throughout Babylon, that\nall the great ones should assemble on a set day, at the Sultan\u2019s feast.\nKings, dukes, and lords were commanded to attend the court.\nTo do the king honour many nobles came to Babylon.\nIt would take too long to name the number.\nThe city of Babylon is broad and big.\nIt is situated on a plain, surrounded by seven streams, a high wall, and\ntowers.\nThe palace was long and large, each side being seven miles in length.\nHigh houses were within the walls.\nThe time of the feast has come.\nBelshazzar sits upon his throne: the hall floor is covered with knights.\nWhen all are seated, service begins.\nTrumpets sound everywhere.\nBread is served upon silver dishes.\nAll sorts of musical instruments are heard in the hall.\nThe king, surrounded by his loves, drinks copiously of wine.\nIt gets into his head and stupifies him.\nA cursed thought takes possession of him.\nHe commands his marshal to bring him the vessels taken from the temple\nby Nebuchadnezzar, and to fill them with wine.\nThe marshal opens the chests.\nCovers the cupboard with vessels.\nThe Jewels of Jerusalem deck the sides of the hall.\nThe altar and crown, blessed by bishop\u2019s hands, and anointed with the\nblood of beasts, are set before the bold Belshazzar.\nUpon this altar were noble vessels curiously carved, basins of gold,\ncups arrayed like castles with battlements, and towers with lofty\npinnacles.\nUpon them were pourtrayed branches and leaves, the flowers of which were\nwhite pearls, and the fruit flaming gems.\nThe goblets were ornamented with flowers of gold.\nThe candlestick was brought in, with its pillars of brass, and\nornamental boughs, upon which sat birds of various hues.\nLights shone bright from the candlestick, which once stood before the\n\u201cHoly of Holies.\u201d\nThe pollution of the sacred vessels is displeasing to God.\nFor \u201ca boaster on bench\u201d drinks from them till he is as \u201cdrunken as the\ndevil.\u201d\nGod is very angry.\nBefore harming the revellers He sends them a warning.\nBelshazzar commands the sacred vessels to be filled with wine.\nThe cups and bowls are soon filled.\nMusic of all kind is heard in the hall.\nDukes, princes, concubines, and knights, all are merry.\nDrinking of the sweet liquors they ask favours of their gods, who,\nalthough dumb, are as highly praised \u201cas if heaven were theirs.\u201d\nA marvel befals the feasters.\nThe king first saw it.\nUpon the plain wall, \u201ca palm with pointel in fingers\u201d is seen writing.\nThe bold Belshazzar becomes frightened.\nHis knees knock together.\nHe roars for dread, still beholding the hand, as it wrote on the\nrough wall.\nThe hand vanishes but the letters remain.\nThe king recovers his speech and sends for the \u201cbook-learned;\u201d but none\nof the scholars were wise enough to read it.\nBelshazzar is nearly mad.\nCommands the city to be searched throughout for the \u201cwise of\nwitchcraft.\u201d\nHe who expounds the strange letters, shall be clothed in \u201cgowns of\npurple.\u201d\nA collar of gold shall encircle his throat.\nHe shall be the third lord in the realm.\nAs soon as this cry was upcast, to the hall came clerks out of Chaldea,\nwitches and diviners, sorcerers and exorcists.\nBut after looking on the letters they were as ignorant as if they had\nlooked into the leather of the left boot.\nThe king curses them all and calls them churls.\nHe orders the harlots to be hanged.\nThe queen hears the king chide.\nShe inquires the cause.\nGoes to the king, kneels before him, and asks why he has rent his robes\nfor grief, when there is one that has the Spirit of God, the counsellor\nof Nebuchadnezzar, the interpreter of his dreams, through the holy\nSpirit of God.\nThe name of this man is Daniel, who was brought a captive from Jud\u00e6a.\nThe queen tells the king to send for Daniel.\nHer counsel is accepted.\nDaniel comes before Belshazzar.\nThe king tells him that he has heard of his wisdom, and his power to\ndiscover hidden things, and that he wants to know the meaning of the\nwriting on the wall.\nPromises him, if he can explain the text of the letters and their\ninterpretation, to clothe him in purple and pall, and put a ring about\nhis neck, and to make him \u201ca baron upon bench.\u201d\nDaniel addresses the king, and reminds him how that God supported his\nfather, and gave him power to exalt or abase whomsoever he pleased.\nNebuchadnezzar was established on account of his faith in God.\nSo long as he remained true, no man was greater.\nBut at last pride touches his heart.\nHe forgets the power of God, and blasphemes His name.\nHe says that he is \u201cgod of the ground,\u201d and the builder of Babylon.\nHardly had Nebuchadnezzar spoken, when God\u2019s voice is heard, saying,\n\u201cThy principality is departed.\nThou, removed from men, must abide on the moor, and walk with wild\nbeasts, eat herbs, and dwell with wolves and asses.\u201d\nFor his pride he becomes an outcast.\nHe believes himself to be a bull or an ox.\nGoes \u201con all fours,\u201d like a cow, for seven summers.\nHis thighs grew thick.\nHis hair became matted and thick, from the shoulders to the toes.\nHis beard touched the earth.\nHis brows were like briars.\nHis eyes were hollow, and grey as the kite\u2019s.\nEagle-hued he was.\nAt last he recovered his \u201cwit,\u201d and believed in God.\nThen soon was he restored to his seat.\nBut thou, Belshazzar, hast disregarded these signs, and hast blasphemed\nthe Lord, defiled his vessels, filling them with wine for thy wenches,\nand praising thy lifeless gods.\nFor this sin God has sent thee this strange sight, the fist with the\nfingers writing on the wall.\nThese are the words: \u201cMene, Tekel, Peres.\nMene.-- God has counted thy kingdom and finished it.\nTekel.-- Thy reign is weighed and is found wanting in deeds of faith.\nPeres.-- Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Persians.\nThe Medes shall be masters here.\u201d\nThe king commands Daniel to be clothed in a frock of fine cloth.\nSoon is he arrayed in purple, with a chain about his neck.\nA decree is made, that all should bow to him, as the third lord that\nfollowed Belshazzar.\nThe decree was made known, and all were glad.\nThe day, however, past.\nNight came on.\nBefore another day dawned, Daniel\u2019s words were fulfilled.\nThe feast lasts till the sun falls.\nThe skies become dark.\nEach noble hies home to his supper.\nBelshazzar is carried to bed, but never rises from it, for his foes are\nseeking to destroy his land, and are assembled suddenly.\nThe enemy is Darius, leader of the Medes.\nHe has legions of armed men.\nUnder cover of the darkness, they cross the river.\nBy means of ladders they get upon the walls, and within an hour enter\nthe city, without disturbing any of the watch.\nThey run into the palace, and raise a great cry.\nMen are slain in their beds.\nBelshazzar is beaten to death, and caught by the heels, is foully cast\ninto a ditch.\nDarius is crowned king, and makes peace with the barons.\nThus the land was lost for the king\u2019s sin.\nHe was cursed for his uncleanness, and deprived of his honour, as well\nas of the joys of heaven.\nThus in three ways has it been shown, that uncleanness makes God angry.\nCleanness is His comfort.\nThe seemly shall see his face.\nGod give us grace to serve in His sight!\n\n       *       *       *       *\n   *       *       *       *       *\n\nPatience: Sidenotes\n\nI.\nPatience is often displeasing, but it assuages heavy hearts, and\nquenches malice.\nHappiness follows sorrow.\nIt is better to suffer than to be angry.\nMatthew tells us of the promises made by Christ: Blessed are the poor,\nfor theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\nBlessed are the meek, for they shall \u201cwield the world.\u201d\nBlessed are the mourners, for they shall be comforted.\nBlessed are the hungry, for they shall be filled.\nBlessed are the merciful, for mercy shall be their reward.\nBlessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see the Saviour.\nBlessed are the peace-makers, for they shall be called God\u2019s sons.\nBlessed are they that live aright, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.\nThese blessings are promised to those who follow poverty, pity, penance,\nmeekness, mercy, chastity, peace and patience.\nPoverty and patience are to be treated together.\nThey are \u201cfettled in one form,\u201d and have one meed.\nPoverty will dwell where she lists, and man must needs suffer.\nPoverty and patience are play-fellows.\nWhat avails impatience, if God send affliction?\nPatience is best.\nDid not Jonah incur danger by his folly?\n\nII.\nJonah was a prophet of the gentiles.\nGod\u2019s word came to him, saying, \u201cRise quickly, take the way to Nineveh.\nSay that which I shall put in thine heart.\nWickedness dwells in that city.\nGo swiftly and carry my message.\u201d\nJonah is full of wrath.\nHe is afraid that the shrews will put him in the stocks, or put out\nhis eyes.\nHe thinks that God desires his death.\nHe determines not to go near the city, but fly to Tarshish.\nGrumbling, he goes to port Joppa.\nHe says that God will not be able to protect him.\nJonah reaches the port, finds a ship ready to sail.\nThe seamen catch up the cross-sail, fasten the cables, weigh their\nanchors, and spread sail.\nA gentle wind wafts the ship along.\nWas never a Jew so joyful as was Jonah then.\nHe has, however, put himself in peril, in fleeing from God.\nThe words of David.\nDoes He not hear, who made all ears?\nHe is not blind that formed each eye.\nJonah is now in no dread.\nHe is, however, soon overtaken.\nThe wielder of all things has devices at will.\nHe commands Eurus and Aquilo to blow.\nThe winds blow obedient to His word.\nOut of the north-east the noise begins.\nStorms arose, winds wrestled together, the waves rolled high, and never\nrested.\nThen was Jonah joyless.\nThe boat reeled around.\nThe gear became out of order.\nRopes and mast were broken.\nA loud cry is raised, Many a lad labours to lighten the ship.\nThey throw overboard their bags and feather beds.\nBut still the wind rages, and the waves become wilder.\nEach man calls upon his god.\nSome called upon Vernagu, Diana, and Neptune, to the sun and to\nthe moon.\nThen said one of the sailors: \u201cSome lawless wretch, that has grieved his\nGod, is in the ship.\nI advise that we lay lots upon each man.\nWhen the guilty is gone the tempest may cease.\u201d\nThis is agreed to.\nAll are assembled, from all corners of the ship, save Jonah the Jew, who\nhad fled into the bottom of the boat.\nThere he falls asleep.\nSoon he is aroused, and brought on board.\nFull roughly is he questioned.\nThe lot falls upon Jonah.\nThen quickly they said: \u201cWhat the devil hast thou done, doted wretch?\nWhat seekest thou on the sea?\nHast thou no God to call upon?\nOf what land art thou?\nThou art doomed for thy ill deeds.\u201d\nJonah says: \u201cI am a Hebrew, a worshipper of the world\u2019s Creator.\nAll this mischief is caused by me, therefore cast me overboard.\u201d\nHe proves to them that he was guilty.\nThe mariners are exceedingly frightened.\nThey try to make way with their oars, but their endeavours are useless.\nJonah must be doomed to death.\nThey pray to God, that they may not shed innocent blood.\nJonah is cast overboard.\nThe tempest ceases and the sea settles.\nThe stiff streams drive the ship about.\nAt last they reach a bank.\nThe seamen thank God, and perform solemn vows.\nJonah is in great dread.\n\nIII.\nJonah is shoved from the ship.\nA wild whale swims by the boat.\nHe opens his swallow, and seizes the prophet.\nIt is not to be wondered at that Jonah suffered woe.\nThe prophet is without hope.\nCold was his comfort.\nJonah was only a mote in the whale\u2019s jaws.\nHe entered in by the gills, and by means of one of the intestines of the\nfish, came into a space as large as a hall.\nThe prophet fixes his feet firmly in the belly of the whale.\nHe searches into every nook of its navel.\nThe prophet calls upon God.\nHe cries for mercy.\nHe sits safely in a recess, in a bowel of the beast, for three days and\nthree nights.\nThe whale passes through many a rough region.\nJonah makes the whale feel sick.\nThe prophet prays to God in this wise:\n\nIV.\n\u201cLord! to thee have I cried out of hell\u2019s womb.\nThou dippedst me in the sea.\nThy great floods passed over me.\nThe streams drive over me.\nI am cast out from thy sight.\nThe abyss binds me.\nThe rushing waves play on my head.\nThou possessest my life.\nIn my anguish I remembered my God, and besought His pity.\nWhen I am delivered from this danger, I will obey thy commands.\u201d\nGod speaks fiercely to the whale, and he vomits out the prophet on a dry\nspace.\nJonah has need to wash his clothes.\nGod\u2019s word comes to the prophet.\nHe is told to preach in Nineveh.\nBy night Jonah reaches the city.\nNineveh was a very great city.\nJonah delivers his message; \u201cYet forty days and Nineveh shall come to\nan end.\nIt shall be turned upside down, and swallowed quickly by the black\nearth.\u201d\nThis speech spreads throughout the city.\nGreat fear seizes all.\nThe people mourn secretly, clothe themselves in sackcloth, and cast\nashes upon their heads.\nThe message reaches the ears of the king.\nHe rends his robes, clothes himself in sackloth, and mourns in the dust.\nHe issues a decree, that all in the city, men, beasts, women and\nchildren, prince, priest, and prelates, should fast for their sins.\nChildren are to be weaned from the breast.\nThe ox is to have no hay, nor the horse any water.\nWho can tell if God will have mercy?\nThough He is mighty, He is merciful, and may forgive us our guilt.\nAll believed and repented.\nGod forgave them through his goodness.\n\nV.\nMuch sorrow settles upon Jonah.\nHe becomes very angry.\nHe prays to God and says: \u201cWas not this my saying, when Thy message\nreached me in my own country?\nI knew Thy great goodness, Thy long-suffering, and Thy mercy.\nI knew these men might make their peace with Thee, therefore I fled unto\nTarshish.\nTake my life from me, O Lord!\nIt is better for me to die than live.\u201d\nGod upbraids Jonah, saying: \u201cIs this right to be so wroth?\u201d\nJonah, jangling, uprises, and makes himself a bower, of hay and\never-fern, to shield him from the sun.\nHe slept heavily all night.\nGod prepared a woodbine.\nJonah awakes, and is exceedingly glad of the bower.\nThe prophet, under its gracious leaves, is protected from the\nsun\u2019s rays.\nJonah wishes he had such a lodge in his own country.\nGod prepared a worm, that made the woodbine wither.\nJonah awakes and finds his woodbine destroyed.\nThe leaves were all faded.\nThe sun beat upon the head of Jonah.\nHe is exceedingly angry, and prays God that he may die.\nGod rebukes the prophet.\n\u201cDost thou well,\u201d He says, \u201cto be angry for the gourd?\u201d\nJonah replies, \u201cI would I were dead.\u201d\nGod asks if it is to be wondered at that He should help His handy work.\nIs not Jonah angry that his woodbine is destroyed, which cost him no\nlabour?\nGod is not to be blamed for taking pity upon people that He made.\nShould He destroy Nineveh the sorrow of such a sweet place would sink to\nHis heart.\nIn the city there are little bairns who have done no wrong.\nAnd there are others who cannot discern between their right hand and\ntheir left hand.\nThere are also dumb beasts in the city incapable of sinning.\nJudgment must be tempered with mercy.\nHe that is too hasty to rend his clothes must afterwards sit with worse\nones to sew them together.\nPoverty and pain must be endured.\nPatience is a noble point, though it displeases oft.","title":"Early English Alliterative Poems: in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":105501}