ABIDE, suffer

ABUSE (DISBUSE), dishonour, insult

ABYE, atone, suffer for

ACCOMPT, account

ADAMANT, loadstone

ADDICTED, devoted, bound by vow

ADDREST, prepared

ADMIRE, wonder

ADVISED, well-considered, deliberate, cautious

AFFECT, affection, desire

AFFECT, love

A-HUFF, in a huff (Oxford Diet.)

ALDER, of all, " alder truest "

ALIE LAND, ? holy, or kindred, neighbouring (see ed. by Farmer, Early English Dramatists)

ALLOW, approve

ALMAIN, German

AMAZED, bewildered, perplexed

AMORETS, love-kindling looks (Dyce), or love tricks

AMORT (À LA MORT), dejected

ANATOMY, dissected body

ANGEL, gold coin worth ten shillings, stamped with the figure of the Archangel Michael

ANON, straightway, presently

ANSWER, answer for

ANTIC, ANTIQUE, buffoon

APPLY, comply, consent; fit, suit; " - pastimes," take them as representing real events and persons

APPOSE, pose with hard question

ASLAKED, abated

AVOID, 'VOID, begone, stand away

AVOUCH, sanction, justify

AY, I

BABY, doll

"BACKARE, etc.," Baccare, a cant word meaning "go back," used in allusion to this proverbial saying; probably made in ridicule of some man who affected a knowlede of Latin, etc. (Nares)

BALE, evil, sorrow, injury

BANDOG, band-dog, dog tied or chained up

BARTLET, Barclay, author of the English version of The Ship of Fools

BASH, be abashed, ashamed; confound, put out of countenance

BATTEN, grow fat with ease and plenty

BATTLING, battening, fattening

BEHOLDING, beholden

BERY, berry, mound, hillock

BESEEM, seem, appear

BEWRAY, betray, reveal

BIE, bye (see abye)

BILBO, Spanish blade

BILL, kind of pike or halbert (combined axe and spear), the usual weapon of watchmen

BILLIMENT, some kind of gold or jewelled ornament of attire

BIND, "- my shame," find (Dyce), bide (Grosart); perhaps binde, technical phrase in hawking for tiring or seizing (Collins)

BLAZE, proclaim

BLEND, render turbid, agitate, trouble (see Oxford Dict.)

BOCARDO, a prison so-called situated at the old north gate of Oxford

BODKIN, short pointed weapon of some kind

BOLT, arrow

BONNET, cap

BORD, joke, jest

BORROW, " Saint George to -," defend

BOTTOM, valley

BOTS, a worm disease

BRAVE, bragging, bravado

BRAVE, fine, gay

BRAVERY, finery

BRAWN, muscle; "brawn fallen," with lost strength and nerve

BRIM, fierce, fiercely

BROOK, suffer, endure, put up with

BROTHS, decoctions

BRUIT, report

BRUTE, the Trojan Brut, legendary first King of Britain; hence a noble, or prince, a hero

BUCKLE, grapple, meet in close combat

BUM, strike, beat

BUNTING, name of a group of birds

BURBOLT, birdbolt, blunt-headed arrow for shooting at birds

BUSK, bush or copse

BY AND BY, immediately, at once

CALEYS, Calais

CALLETA, callet, drat

CAMMOCK, crooked stick

CAN, know, be able; "can (con) thanks," give, express thanks

CARRIAGE, burden

CARVEL, light vessel

CASSOCK, loose dress or coat

CAST, " a stroke, a touch " (Johnson), specimen, "taste" (Oxford Diet.). (" Show a cast "; " cast of mine office ")

CAST, forecast, anticipate; design, plan

CATES, provisions, dainties

CENSURE, criticise, pass judgment

CHAD, chotte, chwas, chwine, I had, I wot, I was, I ween

CHAFE, state of anger and fret

CHARM, hold in check by magic

CHEAP, " good -," at a low price

CHEER, countenance, expression, mood; entertainment

CHERRY, chirr, chirrup

CHICKEN-PEEPER, chick peeping from its shell

CHIP, cheep, chirp

CHOP-CHERRY, game of bob-cheery (trying to seize a floating cherry with the mouth)

CIRCUMSTANCE, circumlocution, details

CLEVE (CLEEVE), cliff

CLIME, region

CLOUT, cloth, handkerchief, patch, piece of leather, etc., for mending

COAT, cote, outstrip

COCK, corrupt form of God

COCKELL-BREAD, reference to "a wanton sport " played by "young wenches " ..."a relique of natural magic - an unlawful philtrum" (Dyce)

COG, cheat

COIL, tumult, fuss, confusion

COIL, beat

COLLOCAVIT, some kind of kitchen utensil

COLOUR, pretext, excuse; " in colours," in feigning

COMBUST, said of a planet in such near conjunction with the sun that its light is extinguished

COMPACT, composition, combination

COMPLETE, equipped with necessary accomplishments

CONCEIT, fancy, idea, witty notion or expression, etc.; opinion

CONCEITED, of intelligence, understanding, hence " base conceited "

CONSENT, harmony

CONSUMPTION, act of consuming, waste

CONTEMN, scorn, dispise

CONVEY, steal

CONVEYANCE, juggling, trickery

COPE, purchase, barter

CORIVAL, one having equal rights, etc.

COSTARD, head

COTSOLD, Cotswold; "cotsold lion," sheep

COUNSEL, counsellor

COUNTENANCE, patronage, favour

COUNTERFEIT, image, portrait

COUNTERVAIL, balance, outweigh; prevail against

COURTESY, " keep your -," this and similar expressions refer to the covering or uncovering the head

COUSTRELING, groom, squire, knave

COVER, spread, set the table

COXCOMB, fool's cap, head

CRAKE, crack, boast; (" facing and craking ")

CROSS, thwart

CROSS-POINT, name of a step in dancing (Oxford Dict.)

CROWD, fiddle

CULL, coll, hug, embrace; ("kill by culling")

CULLION, low fellow, rascal

CUNNING, skill, knowledge

CURIOUS(LY), elegant, dainty; scrupulous(ly), particular(ly)

CURRY, beat

CURST, shrewish

CUTTING, bullying, swaggering

DAUNT, abate, check, subdue

DAW, simpleton, fool

DAW, awaken, rouse, revive

DAWCOCK, male jackdaw, dolt

DAZE, become dazed

DECEIT, deception, evil wile or device

DEEM, judge, think

DEPART, departure

DESERT, deserter

DESPITE, spite, malice, hate, contempt

DETRACT, forbear, hold back

DICTAMNUS, dittany

DISCOVER, reveal; uncover

DISGRACE, misfortune

DISTEMPERED, vexed, put out, troubled

DOCKET, ? dock

DOOM, sentence, judgment

DOTAGE, extreme fondness

DOTING, senile, foolish

DOTTRELL, plover; simpleton, dolt, from the fact that the silly bird easily lets itself be caught

DRIFT, purpose, aim, intention

DUMP, mournful, plaintive melody; fit of musing, reverie

EARNEST, money in advance

EARST, erst, formerly

EFFECT, fulfilment

EKE, also, moreover

EMPLOY (ON), bestow

ENCHANTING, charming by magic means

ENE, eyen, eyes

ENGIN(E), agent

ENTERTAIN, take into service

ENTWITE, twit, reproach

ESSAY (ASSAY), trial, attempt; "at all -s," ready for anything

FACE, brag, bully; ("facing and craking")

FACT, feat, deed

FAIN, well pleased or disposed

FAIR, beauty

FANCY, love; "fast fancied," bound by love

FASHION, figure, shape

FATAL, ill-fated, doomed

FAVOUR, features; appearance, charm, etc.

FEARFUL, full of fear

FERDEGEW, ? farthingale, hooped petticoat

FET, fetch

FETCH, stratagem, trick

FEY, FAY, faith

FILED, polished, neatly finished

FIST, handwriting

FIT, division of a song, song

FIT, to be suitable, meet

FIT, set, start

FLURT, sudden jerk or movement, quick throw or cast (Oxford Dict.)

FODGE, trudge, jog along (Oxford Dict.)

FOIL, repulse, check

FOIL, soil, pollute

FOISON, plenty

FOND, foolish

FOOT, step to music, dance

FORCE, "no force," no matter; "of force," possessing the power

FORDO, undo

FOUL, ugly

FRANION, gay, idle fellow

FROM, away from

FRUMP, flout

GAINST, against, in anticipation of

GALLIARD, lively dance in triple time

GAR, make, force

GARB, manner, fashion

GARD (GUARD), facing, or trimming, ornament

GEAR, matter, business; dress

GEOMANTICK, pertaining to geomancy, divination by lines and figures

GIF, if

GIGLOT, wanton

GILLYFLOWER, clove

GIRDLE, "by your -," alluding to practise of wearing keys hung at the girdle (Oxford Diсt.)

GITTERN, kind of guitar

GLAD, make glad

GLASS PROSPECTIVE, magic glass, showing things distant and to come

GLOMING, glumness

GLORY, bestow glory on, glorify

GOME, man, this is suggested by Dyce for "gone," but the Oxford Diсt. gives 1515 as latest use of the word

GOOD, "a good," in good earnest

GRACE ("gracing"), adorn, embellish

GRATULATE, gratify, please, welcome

GREE, grade, degree

GREE, agree

GREETS, greetings

GRIEF, grievance; "take with me no -," bear me no grudge

GRISTLE, one of young and tender age

GRUDGE, grumble

GUESSE, guests

HADROMATICK, hydromancy, divination by water

HAMPER (UP), fetter, restrain; tie up, make fast

HAND-FAST, betroth

HAP, chance, fortune

HAPPILY, haply, perchance

HARD-FAVOURED, harsh featured

HARDILY, HARDLY, by all means

HASTE, "no - but good" (prov.). See proverb, Act iii. 3, "good hap is not hasty"

HARP-SHILLING, Irish coin with harp stamped on it, worth ninepence

HATEFUL, full of hate

HAZE, have us

HEAL, health

HEIDEGYES, hay-de-guy, - guise, particular kind of "hay," a dance of the nature of a reel (Oxford Dict.)

HELLITROPIAN, heliotrope

HIGHT, called, named

HILDING, base good-for-nothing

HOB, country bumpkin, clown

HOBALL, fool, clown

HOBBY, species of falcon

HOE, "out of all -," out of all bounds or measure (from the interjection Ho! originally a call, afterward rather like a stop or limit, as in the phrase above. See Nares)

HOLD, take

HOMELY, familiarly

HORISONS, orisons, prayers

HUFF-SNUFF, fierce, bullying person; from huff, and snuff, both denoting anger (Nares)

HUMBLE, do obeisance

HUMER, uncertain meaning

IMP, engraft feathers in the wing of a hawk, to supply the loss or deficiency

IMPENDENT, threatening

IMPORT, concern

INCAST, throw in, add

INCH, "at an -," in the nick of time

INCONVENIENT, unbecoming

INDIRECTION, indirect means

INFEOFFE, invest with estate, property

INJURIOUS, pernicious, hurtful, insulting

INTEND, attend to

INTEND, intention

INTENTIVE, attentive, intent

INTREAT (ENTREAT), treat

I wis, YWIS, indeed, certainly

JACK, BLACK-JACK, jug, tankard, pitcher made of leather

JACK-AN-APES, ape, monkey

JET, strut

JIG, short lively performance, act, or interlude

JOY, rejoice

JUST, joust, distinguished from the tourney, in which many knights engaged, by being a combat between two only (see Strutt, Sports and Pastimes)

JUT, jostle

KA, quotha

KEN, know

KNOT, company

Ko, quoth

LAID, laden

LADE, load, laden

LAMB'S-WOOL, strong ale mixed with pulp of roasted crab-apples

LAMP, ? lampreys (see ed. Dr. Ward, Clarendon Press)

LATE, lately, recently

LAWND, open space or glade

LAVOLTA, lively dance

LEAVE, leave off, let be

LEAVE, LEFT, leave, left off

LEECH (LECH), liege

LESE (LEESE), lose

LEST, unless

LET, hindrance, impediment

LET, hinder

LEVEL, aim

LEWD, low, ignorant

LEWELY, ? lovely

LIFTER, thief

LIGGE, lie

LIKE, the like, similarly

LILBURN, heavy, stupid fellow (Halliwell)

LILY, white, pure

LIST, like, choose

LIVELY, true to life

LOBCOCKE, lubber

LOB'S POUND, jail, any tight place or difficulty, "thraldom of henpecked husband" (Bullen)

LOCKRAM, coarse linen

LONG, belong

LOPE, leap

LOUR, frown

LOUT, mock at for a lout

LOVELY, loving

LOW (see allow)

LOZEL, worthless fellow

LUMPE, lump fish, a thick, clumsy shaped fish

LUNARY, moonwort

LURCHER, robber

LURDEN, heavy, dull fellow

LYTHERNESS, listlessness, lack of energy

M, for Master (see girdle)

MAIDENHEAD, maidenhood

MAINTAIN, uphold, encourage

MALKIN, term of contempt

MALLARD, drake

MAN KINE, mankind, masculine, fierce as a man

MARGARITES, pearls

MARRY-GUP, corruption of Mary of Egypt

MASHIP, mastership

MATCH, bargain

MATE, confound

MATTE, "by the -," mass

MEAN, moderation; means, measure; middle part in a musical composition

MEDICINE, poison

MERK(MIRK)EST, dark(est), mirkiest

METELY, fitly

MINION, darling, pet

MIRABILES, mirabolanes, dried plums

MISCHIEF, harm, evil

MISS, fault, error

Mo, more

MOLY, Homer's magic herb has been identified with various plants, among them the wild garlic

MOME, blockhead

MOP, grimace

MORGLAY, name of Bevis of Southampton's sword

MORRIS (MOORISH) DANCE, dance in which different personages were represented; the dancer (Morisco) was hung with bells

MOTION, proposal; puppet-show

MUTTON, woman of ill repute

NEAR, nearer; the old proverb runs "early up and never the nearer"

NEAT, larger horned cattle

NEAT, dainty, spruce; unmixed

NICE, fastidious, particular, coy

NIGHTGOWN, dressing-gown, wrapper

NILL, not will

NOCENT, guilty

NOISE, music, or company of musicians

NONES, nonce, occasion, time being

NONST (see Nones)

NOTABLE, remarkable, egregious

NOWN, short for "mine own"

ONCE, once for all

OPPOSITE, OPPOSITION, astronomical terms applied to heavenly bodies when directly opposite one another

OUT, fallen out

OVERTHWART, contention, repartee, sharp retort or speech

OVERWATCH, watch out, watch through

PAGGLE, hang loosely, like a bag

PAIR (OF CARDS), pack

PAISHE, PASHE, passion

PANTABLES (see Pantofles)

PANTOFLES (PANTOPHLES), ornamented slippers or other rich footgear

PARAGE, lineage, birth

PARDIE, par Dieu

PART, depart

PASS, care, trouble about; exceed bounds or belief

PASSING, exceedingly

PASTANCE, pastime

PATCH, fool, in reference to his motley dress

PEAT, pet

PEEVISH(NESS), perverse, capricious, childish, foolish(ness)

PELTING, paltry

PENTAGERON, a mystic five-pointed figure of the magicians

PEREMPTORY, fixed, determined

PEZZANT, peasant

PHILAUTIA, self-love

PHOBETER, god of sleep

PICKEREL, young pike

PICKPACK, pick-a-back

PIGSNIE, little pig, term of endearment

PIROMANCY, divination by fire

PITCH, fix

PLACKERD, placket-hole, pocket

PLAIN, explain

POLL, plunder

PORTACE, portable breviary

POSY, motto

POTGUN, mocking term for some inefficient weapon, popgun

POWL (see poll)

POWTING (POUTING), kind of small fish; small kind of whiting, a whiting-pout (Oxford Dict.)

PRACTICE, treacherous device, intrigue, stratagem

PREASE, press

PRESENT(LY), immediate, instant(ly)

PRETEND, intend

PRIZE, stake

PROCURE, induce, persuade

PROPER, handsome

PROSECUTE, pursue

PROSPECTIVE, able to forecast (see glass)

PSALTERY, ancient stringed instrument of the zither type

PUG, puck, term of endearment

PURSUIVANT (PERSEVANT), king's messenger, herald

PURSY, short winded

QUAINT, fine, dainty, elegant

QUEAN, hussy

QUILLER, bird not fully fledged

QUIRIE, equerry

QUITE, requite, repay

QUOD, quoth

RABBIT-SUCKER, sucking rabbit

RACE, erase, obliterate

RAIL, one of the Rallidae family of birds

RATHER, earlier

RECEIPT, "at -," hunting term; to be at stand to await driven game

RECK, heed, care

RECORD, tune, warble

RECORDER, kind of flageolet

RECURE, recover, restoration

RECURED, healed, recovered

RECURELESS, beyond cure

REFLUENCE, flowing back

REMOVE, move; ("whose hearts are removed")

RENTED, rent, torn

REPAIR, coming, arrival

REPINE, show displeasure, dissatisfaction

REPRIEF, reproof

RESOLVE YOU, be assured, make up your mind

RESORT, act of visiting

REVOLT, overthrown

RID, destroy, do away; rede, advise

RIDSTALL MAN, stable cleaner, from rid or red to cleanse, etc. (Collins, after Skeat)

RIM-RAM-RUFFE, expressive of something high-flown and swaggering

ROIL, roam, romp

ROUND(ING), whisper(ing)

ROUT, assemble

ROVE, to shoot with rovers, arrows used by archers when aiming at a random mark

RUFF, old game of cards

RUFFLERS, brawlers, swaggerers

RUTH, pity

SAD(LY), sober, grave, serious(ly)

SADNESS, seriousness

SAID SAW, proverb (Halliwell)

SALAMICH, salamander

SALE, "by my -," soul

SALL, shalt

SAUNCE, santis, sanctus, a hymn to St. Satan

SAVOUR, scent

SCAB, term of contempt

SCALD, word of contempt, implying poverty, disease, etc.

SCALLOP-SHELL, the badge of the pilgrim

SCAPE (SKAPE), escapade

SCAPE, escape

SCONCE, head

SECOND, secondary

SECRETARY, confidant, one to whom secrets are confided

SECTOUR, executor

SECURE,confident

SEEN, skilled, proved

SENS (see since)

SENSE, feeling, perception

SENSELESS, devoid of sensation or feeling

SEWER, officer who served the dishes at table

SHADOW, screen, excuse ("- Helen's rape"), or foreshadow, "justify us in anticipating, etc." (Collins); depict in painting, pourtray

SHAMEFAST, shamefaced

SHEAT, apparently, trim, or some such sense (Whitney)

SHELF, reef, shoal, rock

SHENT, blamed, scolded

SHIFT, cheat, cog, cozen

SHOOT-ANCHOR, sheet-anchor, chief hope or resource

SHORT, snappish, cross

SHREW, beshrew, curse

SHREWDNESS, shrewishness

SHROUD, shelter, hide

SHROW, shrew

SIB, some one of kin, relative

SIDE SLOPS, wide breeches

SILLY, simple, plain

SIMPLENESS, simplicity, sincerity

SIMPLES, herbs

SINCE, already

SITH, since

SKILL, have understanding, comprehend; matter, signify

SKRINE (SCRINE), chest, or case of some kind

SLIGHT, sleight, artifice

SLUT, young woman of lower class

SMOOTH, flatter, cajole

SMOOTH, soft, mild

SOOTH, truth, true; "for sooth," in truth

SOOTH(E), assent to, confirm; humour, flatter

SORE, fierce, terrible, mighty

SORRY, sad

SORT, company

SORT, turn out, fall out, come to pass

SPAVIN, disease of horses, causing lameness

SPED, done for

SPEED, cause to succeed, prosper

SPEEDER, one who is successful, who speeds

SPILL, destroy

SPIGHT, spite

SPITE, vex, mortify

SQUARE, measure, compare with

STALE, lure, decoy

STAMMELL, coarse woollen cloth

STAPLED, with fleece of a certain staple or quality

STAY, support; check

STAY, detain, hold back, etc.

STEM, stern

STOCK, sword (Dyce); "long stock," fashionable stocking fastened high above the knee (Bullen)

STOMACH, courage, resolution

STOMACH, resent

STORRIE (unexplained)

STOUND, grief, bewilderment, alarm, or blow, attack

STOUT, proud, stubborn

STOUTNESS, obstinacy

STRANGE, cold, distant, like a stranger

STRIP, outstrip

STROND, strand, shore

STROUTING, swelling

STYLE (STILE), title

SUBSISER, under sizar or student

SUCCESS, result, issue

SUCKET, sweetmeat

SUPERSTITIOUS, scrupulous

SUSPECT, suspicion

SUSPENCE, pause, hesitation

SWATHE, swadling

TABLES, note book, tablets

TAINT, tint

TAKE ME WITH YOU, "let me understand you," "let me go along with you"; or "don't leave me out of consideration" (Bond)

TARBOX, shepherd, who carried tar with him for dressing his sheep's sores

TEISER, teaser, hound

TEMPER, prepare, bring by mixing, etc., to required state; qualify

TENDER, cherish, care for

THEN, than

THO, "what -," then

THREAP, contradict

TICKLING, exciting to any kind of feeling, emotion

TIMELY, early

TIRED, attired

TOIL, net, snare

TOUCH, touchstone

TOWARD, in preparation, at hand

TRASH, money

TRATTLE, tattle

TRAVICE, traverse

TREAT, entreat

TREY, three

TRICK, smart

TRICK UP, adorn

TRIM, "fine," "capital"

TROW, think, believe, know

TRUMP, old game of cards

TURKIS, turquoise

TWAY, two

UMBLES (HUMBLES), the inward parts

UNACQUAINTED, unknown, unheard of

UNAPT, unfit

UNCOUTH, strange, unknown

UNEQUAL, unjust

UNETH, scarcely, not easily

UNKEMBD, uncombed

UNSMOOTHED, unmoved by flattery or blandishments

UNTEWED, undressed, uncombed (see Nares)

UNTOWARD, perverse

UNTRUSS, undo, untie the "points" (tagged laces) that fastened different parts of the dress together

USE, to be used or accustomed

VAIL, lower

VENIE, venue, bout, hit, or thrust in fencing

VILD, vile

VOUCH, answer for, guarantee

WAGPASTY, young rascal, jackanapes

WAKE-ROBIN, any species of arum; cuckoo-pint (Webster)

WAMBLE, rumble

WANION, "with a -," with a vengeance, with a plague (Nares)

WARD, guard in fencing

WATCHET, pale blue

WEALTH, welfare

WEAN, perhaps for "whean," a northern English form of "quean," woman (Collins)

WELKIN, sky

WELT, trimming, border (see Gard)

WHAYET, quiet

WHEREAS, where

WHILST, until

WHINIARD, short sword or dagger

WHIPPET, frisk about

WHIST, silent

WHIT, jot

"WHITE SON," term of endearment

WHUR, hurry, scurry

WIDE, wide of the mark

WILL, command

WINDGALL, disease of horses

WIT, know

WITHDRAW, cause to retire

W'ONDER, miracle

WONDER, marvel and admire

WONDER, used as adjective, wondrous

WOODCOCK, simpleton

WOODEN, mad

WOOND, wonned, dwelt

YEAR WHAYLE, erewhile