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Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845.

Glossary

Adawe;to overawe, or daunt, or keep in subjection.
Affy;to trust, or place confidence in.
Airount;around.
Aliauntes, alientes;aliens.
Amate;to subdue or daunt.
Amner;an almoner.
Apaid;rewarded.
Arrant;errand.
Assoyle;to liberate, set free, or to solve.

Baight;bate.
Bale;poison.
Batful’st;the most fruitful, rich, or productive.
Bedight;called or named.
Beene;used for being.
Behight;committed or entrusted, sometimes promised, commanded, reckoned, esteemed, spoken, adjudged.
Beprest;opprest.
Bin;used for have been.
B’leeue;belief, or faith.
Bleare;blind.
Bragges;rejoices.
Brast;burst.
Braueth;vies with.
Brent;burnt.
Brickle;brittle.

Cancred;ill-natured.
Carke;care, anxiety.
Carking;careful, anxious.
Carles;churlish persons.
Carren;carrion.
Chuffe;a churl, or miser.
Confracted;broken.
Couetise;covetousness.
Cratch;a rack.
Crouch;crutch.
Currers;couriers.

Dankish;somewhat damp.
Daze;to dazzle, to stun.
Defusion;confusion.
Demisse;humble.
Deneere;a denier, a piece of money.
Despeyred;a place of despair.
Dight;adorned.
Discreation;a being unmade.
Disloked;dislocated.
Distraughted;distracted.
Distent;space or length of extension, stretched out.
Dispend;to lay out, or spend, or consume.
Drowping;drooping.

Earst;before, or at length.
Ebuccinate;trumpet forth.
Edifide;built.
Egelidate;used in the sense of to mix or mingle with.
Electre;apparently used for elixir.
Emball;used in the sense of to contain.
Embrew;to wet with, steep, or moisten.
Empierced;pierced through.
Encleare;to make cleare, or to lighten.
Enflowering;full of flowers.
Engreening;to make green.
Enraunged;enranged, or set in order.
Ensew;to follow in order.
Eyas;a young hawk, unfledged.
Eyne;eye.

Fadome;fathom.
Faulters;transgressors.
Forelay;to lay wait for, to entrap.
Foyle;to trample upon, or overthrow, sometimes to defile.
Fraight;fraught.
Freting;used in the sense of sour.

Gaill;prison.
Ginnes;engines, or plots.
Glose;to deceive, or flatter.
Geere;furniture, dress.
Guerdon;reward.
Gules;red colour, a term in heraldry.

Harrould;herald.
Heast;behest, command.
Historial;historical.
Hoised;hoisted, raised up on high.

Imbowed;arched, vaulted, used in the sense of empty or hollow.
Impe;to lengthen by the addition of something else, to enlarge.
Ingowes;ingots.
Invulgar;free from vulgarity
Itost;tossed about.

Lack;lake.

Maistring;master-like.
Malist;regarded with ill-will.
Mells;meddles, or takes part with.
Mingle-mangle;to mix together, a mixture.
Moe;more.
Mought;might.
Mould-warp;a mole-hill.
Mountaynets;mountains.
Moyle;to defile.

Ne;neither, nor.
Nould;would not.

Opprobryes;shame, contempt, disgrace.
Ourprest;overpowered.

Paint;pant.
Portage;used in the sense of inheritance.
Peerelesse;unequalled.
Perling;purling, running with a murmuring noise as a stream or brook.
Phame;fame.
Pight;placed, or fixed.
Prief;proof.
Propines;offers of kindness or mercy.
Proyning;pruning.
Purtrayed;portrayed, depicted.

Rampiers;ramparts.
Rebutted;beat back.
Reede;precept or advice.
Retchlesse;wretched.
Rood;cross, representation of the crucifixion.
Rue;to hear, or attend to.
Ruth;pity.
Ruynate;to fall, also for ruinated, brought to ruin, thrown down.

Scarffing;scoffing.
’Scuses;abbreviation for excuses.
Shend;put to shame.
Shent;reproached, blamed.
Shonne;shunned.
Shredding;cutting, or destroying.
Sindon;very fine linen.
Sith;time, times, sometimes used for since.
Slippen;slippy.
Soare;soaring.
Solagement;solace.
Slats;slates.
Sted;place, station.
Stied;ascended.
Stintes;limits.
Stintlesse;unlimited.
Stowre;danger or misfortune.
Submisse;submissive.
Stubbes;stumps of trees, &c.

Tearmelesse;endless.
Thwakt;thatched.
Thrid;thread.
Tickle;uncertain.
Tuns;tunes.

Vade;to fade.
Vre;employ, use.

Waren;worn.
Waxed;vexed.
Whilome;once, sometime.
Whist;hushed, silenced.
Withouten;without.
Wode;wide.
Wrack;ruin, or violence
Wray;betray.
Wryed;gone astray.

Yeke;also, likewise.
Yernfull;mournfull.
Yerth;earth.
Ysteare;to steer.
Ywasht;washed.