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Mall, a blow.
Maltalent, ill will, spite.
Mand, manned, furnish-
ed, filled.

Manner, behaviour, carriage.

Mantleth, displayeth his wings. A term in falconry.

Many, company, B. iii. C. 9. St. 11, &c. Marge, margin, brim. Mark white, the white

mark.

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Mas, used for divine ser
vice.
Matchlesse, not alike.
Mated, conquered, sub-
dued.
Maulgre, in spite of, a-
gainst one's will, not-
withstanding.
Mavis, the cock thrush.
Mayle, a coat of mail.
Mazed, stunned.
Mazer bowl, properly a
bowl of maple.
Meane, means, conditions,
occasion.

Meare, a meer, light, or
boundary.
Measured, travelled.
Medle, to mingle.
Merd, reward, prize.
Mell, to intermeddle.
Memories, the obsequia
for the dead.

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Meynt, mingled.
Mickle, much.
Mieve, for move.
Millers, a kind of dance,
Shep. Cal. Oct.
Mincing minion, finical af
fected darling.
Minime, a minim in mu-

sic. Miniments, toys, trifles. Minished, for diminished. Mirk, dark, obscure. Mirksome air,obscure,foul. Miscreated, created amiss, ill begotten. Miscreant, originally signifies Infidel, or one of a wrong belief. Miscreaunces, dispraise or unbelief.

Miser, sometimes used for

miserable man.

Misfare, misfortune.
Misleeke, dislike.

Missdone, for misdo, .
to do amiss.

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Mister, manner, sort, art, Ne, neither, not.

mystery.

Mistereth not, needs not.
Mistrayned, wrongly trai-
ned, instructed amsis;
or misled, drawn aside.
Misween, to misjudge, in-
terpret wrongly.
Miswent, gone astray.
Mo, Moc, more.
Mochel, much.
Moldvarps, moles.
Mome, a stupid fellow.
Monastere, a monastery.
Mone, sorrow.
Morion, head-piece, hel-

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Needments, necessaries,
Nempt, named.
Nett, neat, clean.
Newell, novelty.
Newfanglenesse, a love of
novelty and changes.
Nill, will not. Cont. for
ne will.
Nimblesse, nimbleness.
Nis, is not.
Noblesse, nobility.
Nonce, for the nonce, for

the occasion.
Not, Note, know not
Cont. for ne vot.
Nould, would not.
Noule, the crown of the
head.

Nouriture, nurture, educa-
tion.

Noursle, to nourse
Noyance, harm.
Noyd, annoyed or hurt.
Noyous, hurtful or bale-
ful.

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Overbent, overtook.
Overraught, reaching over.
Overred, did read it over.
Overwent, overwhelmed.
Overweening, self-conceit-
ed, opinionated.
Ought, owed.

Ought the more, the more
at all.
Out-awell, flow out, yield
out, discharge.
Out of band, forthwith,
Out-win, get out, win the
way out.
Orches, bosses, or buttons
of gold.

P.

Pace, go Painim, pagan, infidel. Paire, impair, diminish. Palfrey, a horse; most commonly a lady's pad. Pall, a robe. Paled part per part, a phrase in heraldry. Palmer, a pilgrim. Panachaea, an universal medicine.

Pannikell, the skull, the crown of the head. Paragon, an example, pattern; companion, or fellow. Paramour, a lover. Paravant, publicly. Paravaunt, peradventure, by chance. Parbreake, vomit.

Parture, departure. Pas, go. Also surpass, exceed.

Pase, B. iii. C. 1. St. 19. signifies here, country, land, region. Paunce, a pancy, or violet. Pavone, a peacock. Payne, pains, endeavour. Peark, brisk.

Peece, a fort, a strong place, citadel, B. i. C. 10. St. 59. a ship, &c. Peise, poise. Paysd, poised Pent, shut up.

Perdie, Fr. par Dieu, an old oath.

Pere, companion. Peres, companions, equals. Peregal, equal. Perforce, by force. Perke, pert, brisk. Perling, purling, trickling down.

Perlous, perilous, danger

ous.

Persaunt, piercing.
Persue, pursuing, pursuit,
or chase.
Pheer, companion
Physnomy, physiognomy
Picturals, paintings.
Pight, placed, pitched,
fixed.

Pill, to rob, to pillage. Pine, to pine, to waste away; be done to pine, be put to death.

Pionings, works of pio

neers.

Plaine, to complain.
Plaint, complaint.
Pleasaunce, pleasure.
Pled, pleaded.

Plesh, for the rhyme, a
plash.
Plight, circumstance, con-
dition.
Point, armed completely,
Hughes. Car'd not for
God or man a point, not
at all, not a tittle, Upton.
Armed at all points, ib.
Poize, weight.
Polaze, or battle-axe.
Pols and pils, plunders,
and pillages.

Ponke, the fairy Robin
Good-fellow.
Port, behaviour, carriage.
Portaunce, comportment,
carriage.

Portcullis, a falling gate;
a gate to let down or
draw up at pleasure.
Portesse, a breviary, or
prayer-book.
Pouldred, reduced to pow-
der.

Pousse, pease. Poynant, poignant, sharp, piercing. Practicke paine, the cunning practise, plot and endeavour.

Prank, Some prank their

ruffes, i. e. exhibit forth, and proudly show. Prankt in reason's garb, pompously set forth, arrogantly tricked out. Preace, press, throng,

crowd.

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Pricking on the plaine, rid-
ing on the plain.
Priefe, proof, price.
Prise, scuffle, fight.
Prive, prove.

Procurd, solicited, entreat

ed. Project, to throw. Propense, weigh, consider, premeditate.

Protense, extension, drawing out.

Prow, brave; Prower, braver; Prowest, brav

est.

Puissance, valour, power, might. Puissant, powerful, mighty. Purfled, flourished with a needle, Hughes. Embroidered,or decorated,

as

with embroidery,

Upton. Purpose, discourse, talk, words. Purvay, provide. Puttockes, bitterns, kites. So Gloss, to Chaucer. Pyned ghost. Vide Pine. Pyonings. Vide Pionings. Q.

Quadrate, a square. Quaid, subdued. Perhaps instead of quailed or quelled.

Quaile, to subdue, to quell, Upton. Quail, to languish, Hughes. Quaint, nice, curious. Quarle, B. ii. C. 11. St.33. contracted from Quarrel, shaft, arrow. Querrey, prey. Quart, the western division; the fourth part. Quayd. Vide Quaid. Queem, or Queam, please. Queint, quenched, strange. Queint elect, quaintly or oddly chosen. Quell, sometimes used for to die. Quest, adventure, exploit. Quich, to quicken, to stir. Quicke, living creature. Shep. Cal. Mar. line

74.

Quight, to deliver, to free. Quip, taunt, flout, insult.

Quite, to requite.
Quited, requited, returned.
Quook, did quake, did
shake, did tremble.
R.

Race. Vide Rast.
Rad, for did read ; or
guessed.

Raft, Reft, bereft, bereav-
ed, Upton. Rent, tore,
Hughes.
Raid. Vide Ray.
Raile, adorne their sides
did raile, i. e. flow or
run along.

Raine, region. Rayne, rule
or kingdom.
Rakebell bands, similar to
Rascal rout.

Ramp, to paw, or fly out,
like a mad horse.
Rank, in order.
Ransackt, plundered, ri-
fled, violated.
Rapt, in rapture.
Rash, mailes did rash, did
break, did shiver in
pieces.
Rast, Razed, erased, effa-
ced.
Ratbe, early.

Raught, reached, did reach. Ravin, rapine, spoil, ravening. Ray, to Ray, to discolour, bewray. Ray, for Array, ornament, furniture. Also for in

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