Chapter XXIX: Part 29

Rackets, playing at, ii. 488.
_radevore_, iii. 342 (l. 2352), 343.
_rakel_, v. 441.
_rakelnesse_, i. 557.
_rake-stele_, v. 317.
_rakle_, v., ii. 483.
_Ram, the_, v. 2.
Ram, as a prize, v. 48, 187, 481.
_rape and renne_, v. 431-2.
_rape of rees_ (Gam.), v. 479.
Rebeck, v. 102.
_recchelees_, v. 22.
_rechased_, i. 473, 474.
_reclaim_, v. 439.
_reclaiming_, iii. 324.
_recoverer_, i. 566.
_recreant_, v. 467.
Red Sea, ii. 437.
_rede_ (pipe), iii. 268.
_rees_ (Gam.), v. 479.
_refere_, _referre_, ii. 463.
_refreyd_, i. 550;
_refreyded_, v. 453.
_refut_, v. 160, 405.
Regulus, ii. 433.
_relay_, i. 472.
_relees, oute of_, v. 404.
_releved_, iii. 294.
Relics, v. 270.
Reliq. Antiq. i. 233; v. 308.
_rémembraunce_, iii. 289.
_renably_, v. 327.
_resalgar_, v. 426.
_rese_, verb, v. 79.
_resport_, ii. 485.
_reste, to_, v. 492.
_ret_, pr. s.; ii. 469.
Reve, the, v. 50.
_reverdye_, i. 421.
_reverents_, ii. 438.
_reward_, v. 212.
_rewel-boon_, v. 197.
_rewtheless_, i. 524.
_reyes_, iii. 270.
Reynard, iii. 345.
Reynes (Rennes), i. 469.
_reysed_, v. 7.
_rhyme_, _rime_, v. 183.
_ribaud_, i. 441.
_ribybe_, v. 325.
Richard, St. (Gam.), v. 480-1.
_riche hil_, i. e. Richmond in Yorkshire; John of Gaunt was Earl of
Richmond (note partly wrong), i. 495; v. 490.
_rideled_, i. 427.
Riding into hall, v. 374.
_rime_, _rhyme_, v. 183.
Rime, an imperfect, i. 560 (l. 23); 565 (xx. 7).
Rimes, repeated, v. 379;
dissyllabic, 55;
in _-y_ or _-ye_, 199.
_rim-ram-ruf_, v. 446.
_rist_, pr. s., iii. 315.
_rit_, pr. s., v. 418.
River, hawking by the, v. 186-7.
Robin, Jolly, i. 450; ii. 500 (l. 1174).
Rochester, v. 224-5.
_rochet_, i. 427.
_rodebeem_, v. 303 (l. 496).
_roggeth_, iii. 351.
Roland, i. 491.
_rolleth_, ii. 500; v. 289.
Romaunt of the Rose, i. 1, 417; iii. 301.
Romulus' mother, i. 516.
_ron_, pt. s., ii. 478.
_Ronyan_, v. 266.
Ronan, St., v. 266-7.
_ronges_, v. 107-8.
_roon_, i. 430.
Root, or Radix, iii. 367 (l. 44); v. 151-2, 394.
_ropen_, pt. pl., iii. 293.
_Rosarie_, v. 432.
_roser_, v. 470.
_rote_ (fiddle), v. 27.
_rote_ (root), v. 2 (l. 2); 434.
_rouketh_, v. 69.
_Rouncival_, v. 55.
_rouncy_, v. 38.
Roundel, i. 524-5; iii. 307.
_roundel_ (circle), iii. 260.
_rowes_, i. 495, 496.
_royales_, v. 194-5.
Rubeus, v. 82-3.
_rubible_, _ribible_, v. 102.
_rubifying_, v. 424.
Ruggieri, v. 241.
_rum, ram, ruf_, v. 446.
Russia, v. 371.
Rusticiana, ii. 430.

_-s_, sign of pl. adj., iii. 353.
Saddle-bow, v. 90.
_sadly_, v. 159.
_saffron_, v. 269, 270.
Sails, purple, iii. 313.
Saints carried to heaven, v. 334.
_Sal armoniacum_, v. 424.
_sal peter_, v. 425.
_sal tartre_, v. 425.
_salwes_, v. 308.
Sapor, v. 236.
Sarai, v. 370.
_sarpulers_, ii. 422.
Satan, v. 228.
Saturn, influence of, iii. 349; v. 88.
Sauces, v. 34.
_savour_, i. 551.
_save_ (sage), v. 91.
_sawcefleem_, v. 52.
_saylours_, i. 423.
_saynt_, i. 449.
Scholars, poor, v. 31.
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Scipio (Africanus Minor), i. 506.
_scolering_, v. 293.
_scorkleth_, ii. 433.
_scorning_, i. 518.
Scorpion, i. 479; v. 153, 365, 441;
-- with woman's face, 153.
Scot (horse's name), v. 51.
_scriveyn_, i. 539.
Scylla, daughter of Nisus, i. 515; ii. 500; iii. 334.
Sea, keeping the, v. 29, 30.
Sea-fights, v. 39.
Seals, virtue of, v. 374-5.
_secree of secrees_, v. 433.
_seet_ (sat), i. 477.
_seet_, _sete_, i. 477.
_seint-e_, v. 189.
_seken, to_, v. 427.
_selle_ (flooring), v. 112.
_sely_, iii. 321.
_semëly_, v. 14.
_semi-cope_, v. 225.
Semiramis, iii. 314.
_sendal_, v. 42.
_sene_, i. 565; iii. 314; v. 16.
Seneca, v. 243, 443.
_sent_, pr. s., v. 351.
_sente_, v. 164.
_septem triones_, ii. 433.
_sereyns_, i. 421.
_seriaunt_, ii. 439.
Serpent in form of woman, v. 153.
_servant_, (lover), i. 459, 511; iii. 257, 301; v. 74.
_sessions_, v. 34.
_set_, pr. s., i. 461.
_sete_, pp., iii. 320.
_sette his howve_, v. 115.
_seur_, _siker_, v. 217.
_seven yeer_, v. 493.
_sewe_, i. 554.
_sewes_, v. 373.
Sewing letters, ii. 472.
_sey_ (saw), v. 132.
_së-ynt_, v. 111.
Shadow, length of the, v. 133.
_shal_, i. 528, 568.
_shalmye_, iii. 268.
_shalt_, v. 67.
_shamefast_, iii. 327.
_sheeld_, v. 173;
_sheeldes_, 30 (l. 278).
Sheffield knives, v. 117.
_shene_, v. 18.
_shipe_ (hire), i. 536;
_shepe_, v. 463.
Shipman, the, v. 38-9.
_shipnes_, v. 315.
_shirt_, iii. 349 (l. 2629).
_sho_, v. 28.
Shoes, slashed, v. 101.
_sholder-boon_, v. 464.
_shoop him_, v. 168.
_shot-windowe_, v. 103-4.
Shoulder-blade, divination by a, v. 271.
_shoures_, ii. 481.
_shynede_, iii. 321.
_sib_, v. 215.
_sicer_, v. 230.
Sichæus, iii. 319.
_sight-e_, s., iii. 291.
_sighte_, pt. s., v. 163.
_significavit_, v. 53.
Signs, influence of the, iii. 359.
_siker_, iii. 349-50.
_sikerly_, v. 16.
Simile: like buckets in a well, v. 72.
Simkin, v. 118
_simphonye_, v. 192.
_simpilly_, i. 437.
Sinon, iii. 317-8; v. 376-7.
Sins, Seven, v. 359, 455.
Sir Thopas, metre of, v. 183.
_sis cink_, v. 143-4.
_sisours_ (Gam.), v. 488.
_sit_, v. 354.
_site_, iii. 362.
Sitho, iii. 346.
_sitte on knees_, i. 466;
_sit on knee_, iii. 337.
Sittingbourne, v. 313.
_skaffaut_, i. 436.
_sledes_, ii. 446.
_slider_, v. 68.
_slit_, i. 505.
_slong_, v. 442.
_sloppes_, v. 459.
Sloth, v. 466-8.
_slowe_, s., i. 438.
_sly_, _slyly_, v. 70.
_slyde_, v. 343.
_smal_ (voice), i. 549.
_smoterlich_, v. 119.
_snewed_, v. 34.
_so mote I thee_, v. 192, 253.
_so that_, iii. 327-8.
_so theech_, v. 290.
Socrates and Xantippe, v. 311.
_sokingly_, v. 220.
_sol_, v. 433.
_solas_, i. 184.
_soler_, v. 120.
_Soler-halle_, v. 119-20.
_som_ (singular), i. 470; v. 428;
_some_, ii. 472.
Somer, John, iii. 353.
_somer-sesoun_, ii. 440, 453.
Somnour, the, v. 51.
_songe_, ii. 504.
_sonne_, fem., v. 404.
_sop-in-wine_, v. 33.
_sort_, v. 464.
_sote_, v. 1.
_sothe_, v. 419.
_souded_, v. 179.
Sound, theory of, iii. 259, 260.
_souneth into_, v. 225, 384, 441;
_souninge_, 29.
_soure_ (buck), i. 475.
_sours_, iii. 255; v. 336.
_souse_, (mod. E.), iii. 255.
Southern dialect, v. 445.
_sovereines_, pl. adj., ii. 455.
_spanisshing_, i. 434.
Sparrow, the, i. 519.
_sparth_, v. 89.
_spectacle_, v. 322.
_spending-silver_, v. 429.
_spenser_ (Gam.), v. 484.
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Spheres, the, i. 557; ii. 425, 446, 474, 504-5;
seven --, i. 496-7;
nine --, i. 506, iii. 355; v. 149, 394-5, 406.
Spheres, harmony of the, i. 507.
Spices and wine, ii. 506; iii. 320;
Spices, v. 189, 381.
Spicery, v. 145, 195.
Spirits (in alchemy), v. 423, 426-7.
_spitous_, i. 566.
_springen_, v. 167.
_springers_, v. 455.
_springoldes_, i. 436.
_spyced conscience_, v. 46-7.
_spycerye_, v. 145, 195;
_see_ Spices.
_squaymous_, v. 102-3.
Squire, v. 9.
_squire, as just as a_, v. 338.
_staf-slinge_, v. 192.
_stalke_, iii. 332, v. 116.
_stamin_, iii. 343.
_stand (in) awe_, v. 482.
_stant_, v. 375.
_stape_, v. 248.
Starling, the, i. 518.
Stars, seven, i. 483;
-- (on a Rete), iii. 357-8.
_startling_, iii. 322.
Statius, iii. 277.
_stele_, (handle), v. 111, 317.
_stellifye_, iii. 256.
_stemed_, v. 24.
_stepe_, v. 24.
_-ster_, as a suffix, v. 276-7.
_sterres fixes_, iii. 357.
_steven_, _sette_, v. 130.
_stewe_, v. 34.
_stewes_, v. 324.
_steyre_, i. 500.
_Stilbon_, v. 282.
_stillatorie_, v. 418.
Stoics, the, ii. 458.
_stole_, iii. 342.
_stoon-stille_ (Gam.), v. 479.
_store_, adj., v. 368.
Stork, the, i. 520.
_stot_, v. 51, 329.
_stounde_, v. 68.
Strode, Ralph, ii. 505.
Strother, v. 120.
_stree_, v. 215.
_streite swerd_, v. 257.
_style_, v. 374.
Sublimation, v. 422-3.
_subiection_, v. 453.
Substance and accident, ii. 493; v. 279.
Suetonius, v. 242, 245.
_suffice_, i. 551.
Sugar or soot, ii. 481.
_sukkenye_, i. 426.
Summer, the hot, v. 39.
Summer-games, v. 307-8.
Sun, gender of the, iii. 360.
Sun, position of the, v. 133.
_surquidrie_, v. 457.
_sursanure_, v. 391.
Swallow, the, i. 519.
_swalow_, iii. 320.
Swan, the, i. 517;
Swans eaten, v. 373.
Swearing, v. 283-4.
_swete_, v. 1.
_swete fo_, i. 537 (l. 272).
_sweveninges_, i. 417.
_sweynt-e_, iii. 281.
_swinke_, iii. 337;
_swinken_, v. 22.
_swore_, pp., v. 483.
_sworn, had it_, v. 65 (l. 1089).
_sworn-e_, pl., v. 325.
_sy_ (saw), v. 431.
Symmachus, ii. 430.
_syte_, verb, ii. 471.

_tabard_, v. 4.
_table dormant_, v. 34.
_tables_, v. 332.
Tables, Alphonsine, iii. 347 (§ 44);
Toletan, v. 393.
_tache_, i. 565.
_tailages_, v. 468.
_taille_ (tally), v. 50.
_take_, iii. 321; v. 160.
_takel_, v. 12.
_tale_, v., v. 455.
_talent_, iii. 332; v. 211-2.
_talle_, i. 497.
Tallies, v. 173 (l. 1606).
_tapinage_, i. 449.
_tappestere_, v. 27.
Tarquinius, iii. 331.
_Tars, cloth of_, v. 85.
_tas_, v. 64.
_taste_, iii. 336; v. 413.
_tatarwagges_, i. 449.
Taurus, sign of, ii. 468; iii. 294.
_taylagiers_, i. 446.
Telephus, king, v. 378.
_telle_, imp. s., v. 419.
_temen on bere_, iii. 280.
_tempest_, i. 551; v. 62.
Templars, the, i. 445.
Temple of Mars, v. 79;
-- of Venus, 77.
_temps_, v. 427.
_tenson_ (French), iii. 293.
Tereus, iii. 341.
_terins_, i. 421.
Term (in astrology), v. 395.
Termagaunt, v. 191.
_terme_, v. 64;
_in termes_, 32.
Tertullian, v. 309.
_texpounden_, v. 178.
_text_, v. 21.
_textuel_, v. 447.
_thakketh_, v. 328.
_thalighte_, v. 175.
Thames Street, v. 281.
_thank god of al_, i. 552, 553.
_thankes, his_, v. 73.
_thar, him_, i. 455; v. 127;
_thar ye nat_, v. 207.
Thebes, brooch of, i. 504.
_thedom, yvel_, v. 173.
_theek, so_, v. 113.
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Theft punished by hanging, v. 288-9.
Theodoric, ii. 424.
Theophrastus, v. 354.
Theseus, iii. 335, 338-9; v. 61.
_thestaat_, v. 144.
_thewes_, iii. 347; v. 346.
_thing_, pl., iii. 288;
_thinges_, v. 374; (pieces), 169.
_thinketh me_, v. 5, 63 (l. 954).
Thiodamas, iii. 270; v. 359-60.
_this_ = _this is_, i. 522; v. 66, 341.
Thisbe, iii. 314-7.
_thise_, v. 137.
Thoas, king, iii. 326.
Thomas, St., of India, v. 336-7, 353.
Thomas a Waterings, v. 59.
_thombe of gold_, v. 49.
_thonder-leyt_, ii. 422.
_Thopas_, v. 183.
_thou_ and _ye_, v. 175.
_thropes_, _thorpes_, v. 315.
Thunder, cause of, v. 379.
Thunder-bolts, iii. 254, 255.
_thurfte_, _thurte_, i. 425; ii. 477.
_thurrok_, v. 454.
_thurte_, i. 425; ii. 477.
_thwitel_, v. 117.
Tiberius Constantine, v. 145.
Tides, high, v. 391.
_tidifs_, v. 386.
Tigers at Thebes, iii. 276, 277.
_timbestere_, i. 422.
_tipet_, v. 26, 118.
_tire-lire_, i. 455.
_tissew_, ii. 470.
Titan, _for_ Tithonus, ii. 482.
_titlelees_, v. 441.
_to_- (prefix), v. 229.
_to borwe_, iii. 338.
_to-bete_, v. 412.
_to-breketh_, v. 428.
_to-go_, iii. 313.
_to-hangen_, iii. 281 (l. 1782).
_to-hepe_, ii. 483; iii. 336.
Toll, for Millers, v. 49.
_tombestere_, v. 276-7.
_took_, v. 429.
_torets_, v. 85.
_tormentour_, v. 411.
_to selle_ (gerund), v. 280.
_to-slitered_, i. 423.
_to-stoupe_, v. 328.
_totelere_, iii. 303.
_tother, the_, v. 408.
_to-tore_, v. 419.
_toty_, _totty_, v. 126.
_toune, in_, v. 190, 493;
_to t._, 193.
Tournaments, v. 89.
_to-yere_, v. 295.
_tragedie_, v. 226-7.
Trains, long, v. 459.
_traverse_, ii. 478, 506;
_travers_, v. 362.
_tree_, v. 139.
Trees, list of, i. 511; v. 92.
_tregetour_, iii. 271, 273; v. 392.
Tremezen, v. 7.
_trenden_, ii. 443.
_trentals_, v. 331.
_trepeget_, i. 444.
_tressour_, i. 420.
_tret_, pr. s., v. 337.
_tretys_, v. 17.
_trewe-love_, v. 109.
_trip_, v. 333.
Tristram, i. 515, 550.
Triton, iii. 280.
Troilus described, ii. 498.
Trojan leaders, ii. 485.
Trophee, v. 233.
Trotula, v. 309.
_trouble_, adj., v. 441.
_trouthe_, i. 548, 551.
Troy, romance of, v. 377.
Troy, its six gates, ii. 470.
Trumpington, v. 116.
Tubal, for Jubal, i. 492.
_tukked aboute_, v. 51.
_tulle_, v. 125.
Tullus Hostilius, v. 320.
Tunis, i. 470.
Turkish bow, v. 490.
_turne coppes_, v. 116.
_turneth his corage_, v. 206.
Turtle, the, i. 519.
_twelfte_, i. 500-1.
Twelvemonth and day, v. 316.
_two so riche_, iii. 342.
Tydeus, ii. 498, 499.
_tydif_, iii. 295.
_tyne_, i. 549.
_tyraunt_, i. 517.
Tyrian dye, ii. 432.

Ugolino, Count, v. 241.
Umbra extensa and umbra versa, iii. 367.
_unconninge_, v. 224.
_uncouple_, v. 243.
_undermeles_, v. 315.
_undern_, v. 345.
_unholsom_, ii. 487.
_unset stevene_, v. 71.
_untyme, in_, v. 474.
_up peyne_, iii. 279; v. 74.
_upright_, i. 468; v. 125, 243, 253 (l. 4232).
_uprist_, pr. s., i. 496.
_upriste_, dat., v. 65.
_up-so-doun_, i. 556; v. 418.
_upward_, iii. 366 (§ 40.13).
Urban, St., v. 407.
Ursa maior, v. 83.
Ursula, St., i. 443.

_vache_, i. 553.
_Valaunce_, i. 501, 502.
Valence, i. 514.
Valentine's day, i. 516.
Valerius ad Rufinum, iii. 302.
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Valerius Flaccus, iii. 326-7.
Valerius Maximus, v. 245.
_vassalage_, iii. 330.
_vavasour_, v. 35.
_vekke_, i. 436.
_veluët_, i. 428.
_venerye_, v. 20.
Venus described, v. 78;
-- invoked, ii. 474;
the planet --, v. 310, 381;
temple of --, i. 513.
_verdegrees_, v. 424.
_verger_, i. 434.
_vernage_, v. 168, 361.
_vernicle_, v. 56.
Verses deficient in first syllable, iii. 286, 292.
_vertu_, v. 2.
_vese_, v. 79.
_vessel_, v. 234, 460.
_vicaire_, i. 521.
_vigilyes_, v. 37.
_vilage_, for _visage_, i. 542.
_vilanie, lucre of_, v. 176.
_vileins_, adj., v. 440;
_vilainsly_, i. 429;
_vileinsly_, v. 441, 450.
_vileinye_, v. 8.
Vincent of Beauvais, i. 507; iii. 303.
Virelay, iii. 307.
_viritoot_, v. 110-1.
_viritrate_, v. 329.
Virtue natural, v. 91-2.
_visage_, i. 542, 543.
_visage_, v., v. 368.
Visconti, the, iii. 304, 305.
Vitellio, v. 378.
_vitremyte_, v. 237.
_vitriole_, v. 425.
_voidee_, _voydee_, ii. 478, 506.
_volage_, v. 441.
_volatyl_, v. 168-9.
_voluper_, v. 99.
_vounde_, i. 447.
_Vulcano_, iii. 249.

_wachet_, v. 101-2.
Wade's boat, v. 356.
Wafer-women, v. 277.
_wafres_, v. 104.
Walls, painted, i. 472.
_walweth_, v. 319.
_wang-toth_, v. 230.
_wanhope_, v. 467.
_wanten_, i. 460; iii. 304 (l. 361).
_wantown_, v. 25.
_warderere_, v. 124.
_wardrobe_, v. 179.
_wariangles_, v. 325-6.
_warisoun_, i. 429.
_warisshe_, v. 202-3.
_wark_ (ache), v. 122.
_warne_, i. 453.
_warnestore_, v. 212-3.
_wastel-breed_, v. 16, 17.
Watling-street, iii. 263.
_watre, to_, ii. 476.
_way-feringe_, ii. 432.
_webbe_, v. 35-6.
_welaway_, i. 418.
_weld_, i. 540, 541.
_wenche_, v. 366, 441.
_wende_, v. 4.
_went, is_, v. 413-4.
_wente_, s., i. 474.
_were_, weir, ii. 476.
_wered_, v. 233.
_wesele_, v. 214.
_wey of the sonne_, iii. 364 (§ 30).
_wheel_, iii. 260; (orbit), 276.
_whelkes_, v. 53.
_wher_ = _whether_, iii. 293.
_wher-as_, v. 176.
_whippel-tree_, v. 93.
Whistle, to wet one's, v. 125.
_wil, good_, (Gam.), v. 479.
_wil_ (wills), v. 180.
Wild fire, v. 125, 301, 460.
_wilful_, v. 274.
_wimpel_, v. 17.
_windas_, v. 375.
_windinge_, v. 459.
_windinge_, error for _windy_, ii. 434.
Windows, glass, i. 147.
_windred_, i. 424.
Wines, white and red, v. 249;
Rhenish --, 281;
Spanish --, 280.
_winter_, v. 230.
_wirdes_, iii. 347.
_wis_, adv., i. 477;
_as wis_, v. 399.
_wisly_, i. 567 (l. 72); v. 383.
_wite ye_, v. 435.
_with_ (by), v. 182;
follows a verb, 58, 95, 383.
_with-holde_, v. 204, 410.
Wits, five, v. 216, 451, 472.
_wivere_, ii. 480.
_wo_, v. 34.
_wodewales_, i. 421.
_wold_, pp., i. 560; iii. 322; v. 216.
_wolves-heed_, (Gam.), v. 487.
Women, nineteen, v. 137-8.
_wond_, iii. 341-2.
_wonder_, adv., i. 417.
_wood_, adj., v. 264, 484;
_for pure wood_, i. 418.
Woodstock, i. 510.
_woon_, ii. 492; iii. 338.
_woot_, v. 59.
_word and ende_, ii. 473; v. 245.
_wordes, hadde the_, v. 447.
_worm_, v. 271-2.
_worth up_, ii. 428;
_w. upon_, v. 187.
_worthy_, v. 26;
_w. under wede_, 200.
_wrecche_, v. 404.
Wrestling-matches, v. 481;
prize for --, 48.
_wrytheth_, ii. 422.
_wyn ape_, v. 436-7.
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_wynt_, pr. s., iii. 293.
_wyser_, iii. 349.

Xristus = Christus, i. 456.

_y-bete_, iii. 321; v. 64.
_ydel, in_, v. 389.
_ye_ and _you_, i. 453;
_ye_, _thou_, v. 175.
_ye_, _yis_, v. 183, 248, 418.
_yë, at_, v. 429.
Year, the great, i. 508.
Years, expanse and collect, v. 393-4.
_yeddinges_, v. 27.
_yeer_, pl., v. 10.
Yellow (for jealousy), v. 78.
Yeman, v. 11.
Yeoman, Canon's, v. 417.
_yerde, under the_, v. 169, 342.
_your_ (of you), v. 179.
_youthe_ (right reading), v. 262.
_ypocras_, v. 266.
Ypotis, Sir, v. 198.
_y-reke_, v. 114.
_y-sene_, iii. 349.
_y-shette_, pl., v. 202.
_y-tukked up_, iii. 319.
_y-wimpled_, iii. 315.

_Zanzis_, ii. 487.
Zenith (etymology of), iii. 357.
Zenobia, v. 235.
_Zephirus_, v. 2.
Zeuxis, v. 261.
Zodiac, ii. 499; iii. 358 (l. 29), 359;
animals in the --, iii. 263.

END OF VOL. V.

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[1] The scribe is usually right. I only remember observing one MS. in which the scribe is reckless; see vol. i. p. 47.

[2] To which add, as a twenty-third, the three stanzas on Gentilesse quoted in Scogan's poem (no. 33).

[3] Now known to be Lydgate's; see vol. i. p. 35, note 3.

[4] I have lately made a curious discovery as to the Testament of Love. The first paragraph begins with a large capital M; the second with a large capital A; and so on. By putting together all the letters thus pointed out, we at once have an acrostic, forming a complete sentence. The sentence is--MARGARET OF VIRTW, HAVE MERCI ON TSKNVI. Of course the last word is expressed as an anagram, which I decipher as KITSVN, i. e. Kitsun, the author's name. The whole piece is clearly addressed to a lady named Margaret, and contains frequent reference to the virtues of pearls, which were supposed to possess healing powers. Even if 'Kitsun' is not the right reading, we learn something; for it is quite clear that TSKNVI cannot possibly represent the name of Chaucer. See The Academy, March 11, 1893; p. 222.

[5] No. 38 is not noticed in the Index, on its reappearance at p. 555.

[6] Originally (I understand) 1845. I have only a copy with a reprinted title-page and an altered date.

[7] It should be--'and of _some of_ those other pieces'; for the 'Account' does not profess to be exhaustive.

[8] See the pieces numbered 1-68, in vol. i. pp. 31-45. But four pieces are in prose, viz. Boethius, Astrolabe, Testament of Love, and Jack Upland. Of course Tyrwhitt rejected Jack Upland. He admitted, however, rather more than 26, the number in the edition of 1845.

[9] The false rime of _now_ with _rescowe_ in st. 46 may be got over, it is suggested, by a change in the readings. On the other hand, I now observe a fatal rhyme in st. 17, where _upon_ and _ron_ rime with _mon_, a man. When such a form as _mon_ (for _man_) can be found in Chaucer, we may reconsider his claim to this poem. Meanwhile, I would note the curious word _grede_ in st. 27. It does not occur in Chaucer, but is frequent in The Owl and the Nightingale.

[10] Exception may be taken to the riming of _mene_ (l. 20) with open _e_, and _grene_ with close e.

[11] Hoccleve's Poems; ed. Furnivall, p. 49; cf. p. 56.

[12] See the admirable remarks on this subject in Lounsbury's Studies in Chaucer, i. 305-28. Much that I wish to say is there said for me, in a way which I cannot improve.

[13] MS. Lansdowne (the worst of the seven) has _Alle_, and _Gyngelinge_; Cm. has _Gyngelyn_; Hl. has _Euery man_; and that is all.

[14] The phrase _wel a ten_ (F. 383) is not precisely parallel.

[15] Thus, the Parson calls his Tale 'a mery' one (I. 46). Tyrwhitt has 'a litel tale.'

[16] _Ielousye_ cannot rime with _me_.

[17] The latter line answers to A. 2018; lines 2012-7 being wholly omitted.

[18] Which, by the way, makes _come_ monosyllabic.

[19] Dryden had some reason; for whenever (as often) the editors omitted some essential word, the line could not possibly be right.

[20] The explanation of these rules depends upon Middle-English grammar and pronunciation; for which see the Introduction to vol. vi.

[21] A word like _taverne_ is _ta-vér-ne_, in three syllables, if the accent be on the second syllable; but when it is on the first, it becomes _táv-ern'_, and is only dissyllabic.

[22] Many of them were discovered by Dr. Köppell.

[23] It has been objected, that this makes the tournament to take place, not on the _anniversary_ of the duel, but two days later. But see l. 2095, where the anniversary of the duel is plainly made the day for _assembling the hosts_, not for the fight.

[24] 'Thou were nought _skoymus_ to take the maydenes womb' is the reading given in The Prymer, ed. H. Littlehales, p. 22.

[25] The black-letter editions have _mare_; and Tyrwhitt follows them. I take this to be a mere guess.

[26] Spelt _Xeuxis_ in one MS., and _Zensis_ in another, in the same passage; see Anglo-Latin Satirists, ed. Wright, ii. 303.

[27] This seems to be a mistake; the MSS. and old editions have simply 'god you see.'

[28] The words _vel e contrario_ are in the margin of E., but not in the printed edition.

[29] The reading _Burdeuxs_ actually occurs in MS. Camb. Univ. Lib. Ii. 3. 26. See _Boundys_ in the Glossary; and see vol. iii. p. 400.

[30] No quotation is given to support this assertion.

[31] Unluckily misprinted Poincy (vol. iii. p. 422).

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Corrections made to printed text:

P. 31: A. 309. "cautious", corrected from "cautions".

P. 53: A. 635. "See Prov. xxiii. 31.", corrected from "xxxiii".

P. 87. A. 2313. "and in hell, Proserpina", corrected from "Prosperpina".

P. 249. B. 4032. "The white wine", corrected from "line".

P. 250. B. 4045. "reckoned from 6 A.M. to 6 P.M.'", corrected from "reckon-" (split word at end of line not completed).

P. 252. B. 4123. "Burton's Anat. of Melancholy", corrected from "Bruton's".

P. 266. C. 306. "Hippocrates' sleeve", corrected from "Hippocates".

P. 278. C. 517. "fauces nostras transeat", corrected from "notras".

P. 345. E. 242. "In the next line he is emphatic", corrected from "empathic".

P. 345. E. 2229-30. "In l. 2264, we again have Próserpýne", corrected from "Próserpýn".

P. 345. F. 671-672. "In MS. E., after l. 672", corrected from "atfer".

P. 458. I. 411. "already occurred in A. 4061", "in" corrected from "it".