ACCOMPT, account, 2852

ACCOMPTED, accounted, 1625

ALCUME. This can only be meant for Alcmene, mother of Hercules, for the sake of whose love, Jupiter extended the night. Cf. Chaucer, Troil. III., 1427: —

ASTONNE, overpower, stun, 2131

ASTOUND, astounded, 2033

ATROPOS, one of the three Fates. See SISTERS THREE

ATTAINT, convicted, 2846; infected, 2770

AYE, ever, 84

BARE, bore, 2630

BEEN, are, 3018

BEFALL, befallen, 1060

BEFILED, defiled; a rather uncommon and archaic form, superseded by befoul. Collier's statement that our instance is merely a printer's error for defiled is not warranted. 398

BEHEST, promise, 1884

BESEEKS, beseeches, 543

BESIDE, except, 2354

BESIEGEN, besiege, the old plural form, 2089

BESPRENT, sprinkled, 1576

BET, better, 600

BETORN, torn, 2422

BEWRAY, disclose, betray, 455

BIN, are, 743; been, 1093

BLEAR, blur, dim, 2292

BLIN, cease, 379

BLINDFOLD GODDESS, Fortune, 911

BLISS, bless, 285

BLISSED, blessed, 2633

BOCCACE, Boccaccio, the Italian novelist, 16; 394

BOOT, avail, 1833

BOOT, remedy, 1922

BRACKISH, salt, 1576

BRAKE, broke, 1699

BRAST, burst, 2441

BRICKLE, brittle, 1850

BRUIT, noise, news, 2816

BUT, except, 1643

CAITIVE, distressed or afflicted person, 2751

CAPEL'S, Capulet's, 157

CAREFUL, full of care, 1484

CHILLISH, chill, 2388

CHOLER, anger, rage, 1505

CLEPED, called, named, 30

CLOSE, secret, 2336

CONVICT, convicted, 2824

CORSE, corpse, 1040

COULD, was able to do, 1159

COVERT, secret, 630

COVETISE, covetousness, 2581

CUPID, 782, 915, etc.; his brand, 1442 ; his whip, 606

CURIOUS, careful, 1895

CURIOUSLY, carefully, 2803

DAW, arouse, 2417

DEBATE, strife, 166

DEFAME, blame, ill-repute, 2999

DEPART, separate, 1224

DEPOSE, call as witness, cause to depose, 2969

DESART, desert, 710

DIDO, Queen of Carthage, who loved Æneas, driven to her shores by a storm after the fall of Troy. Mercury compelled Æneas to depart, and Dido burnt herself on a funeral pile. 391

DIGHT, dressed, adorned, 897

DISDAINFUL, indignant, 1931

DIS-EASE, discomfort, set ill at ease; common in Chaucer, 2207, 2310

DOMAGE, damage, 2858

DRAVE, drove, 1184

DREMPT, dreamed, 646

DRENCHED, steeped, 2352

EASELY, easily, 1202

EFT, again, 1295

EFTSOONS, forthwith, 1235

EGALL, equal, 33

ERST, before, 586; first, 2017

ESTATE, state, condition, 51

EYNE, eyes, 87

FALSE, turn false, 594

FARE, go, 2234

FATES, HEAVENLY, another reference to the Three Fates. See SISTERS THREE. 4

FEARFUL, full of fear, 1944, 2637

FELL, cruel, perfidious, 78

FERES, companions, friends, 101

FET, fetch, 1076

FETS, fetches, 846

FIELD-BED, a portable bed, likened to a field of war. Boaistuau has here 'un lict de camp.' Shakspere has a play on the same word in Romeo, II., i., 40. 897

FILED, "tongue so smoothly filed," a common expression, occurring in Skelton, Spenser, and Shakspere. Cf. "His discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his eye ambitious," etc. (Love's Labour's Lost, V., i.) 1017

FLAWS, sudden gusts or bursts of wind, 1361

FOLDE, folded, 216

FONE, foes, 1288

FORCED NOT, cared not, 74

FORCE, "I force it not," I take no account of it, care not, 860

FORDONE, exhausted, 1468

FORLORN, lost, 1204

FORTUNE, 1343, etc.; wheel of, 935, etc.

FRAILLESS, in the original frayllesse. The line may signify, "glass (hard as it is) is brittle (and breaks), but youth, even less frail, is frail too." 1850.

FRAUGHTED, fraught, filled, 1116

FRAY, frighten, 911

FRO, from, 2618

'GAN, began, 48

GEAR, stuff, preparation, 2585

GEASON, scanty, 1554

GEAST, guest, 162

GHASTFULLY, dismally, 2033

GHOSTLY, spiritual, 595

'GIN, begin, 1235

'GINS, begins, 237

GLEAD, fire, flame, 303

GLIST'RING, flashing, sparkling, 2404

GRAFFED, planted, 268

GRECIAN RAPE, Helen carried off by Paris, 2237

GRIPE, grip, 259

GRISLY, horrible, dreadful, 40

GUERDON, reward, 1042

GUERDONLESS, without reward, 338

GUIE, guide, 2188

HALT, from the French hault, proud, high-minded, 966

HAP, chance, fortune, 15

HAPLY, by good chance, 1469

HASTE AWAY, hasten on, 1924

HATH WRONG, is wronged, 1048

HEIR, heiress, 1880

HENT, held, 1808

HEST, command, 19

HIED, went, 1090

HIETH, hies, travels, 2256

HIGHT, was named, 223

HOLP, helped, 580

HORSES, tearing asunder by, 1902

HUGY, huge, 2053

HYMENË, hymen, rites of marriage, 2510. French, hymenée

IMPORTUNE, importunate, 2275

IMPORTUNENESS, importunity or importuning, 2946

INGRAVED, buried, laid in grave, 2648

INTOMBED, entombed, 2373

IT, used in the genitive, as in the folio of Shakspere, till superseded by the modern its. The form is retained here as appropriate in the language of the foolish old Nurse. 654

JENNET, a small Spanish horse, 723

JOICELESS, juiceless, dry, withered, 1139. Boaistuau has here, p. 58: 'mon corps espuisé de toute humidité.'

JOVE, 1305

KINDLY, natural, proper, 2154, 2662

LASTEN, last, 1339

LAVAS, lavish, 491

LEECHES, doctors, 2455

LEGEND, legendary, of the nature of legend, 39

LET, hindrance, 2766

LET, prevent, hinder, 2621

LETHE'S FLOOD, a river of Hades, a draught of whose waters brought oblivion, 214

LETTETH, prevents, hinders, 1620

LEWD, vicious, evil, 14

LEWDNESS, baseness, 1959

LIGHTED DOWN, alighted, 2613

LIST, chose, pleased, 28

LISTED, had pleased or chosen, 232

LIVELY THREAD, an allusion to the three Fates, 501. See SISTERS THREE.

'LONGED, belonged, 2287

LORE, learning, 66

LORE, lost, 1813

LORN, lost, 115

LUCIFER, the star, 1704

MAKE, companion, mate, 2021, 2737

MARS, 916

MAUGRE, in spite of, 174

MEAN, means, 1561

MO, more, 597

MOON, WASTED HORNS OF THE, 153

MOST, "the most," most men, 2740

MUET, Mute (dissyllabic), 1535, 1944

MURTHERING, murdering, 1145

MURTHERERS, murderers, 2815

NE, nor, 190; not, 130

NILL, will not, 300

NOULD, would not, 1996

NOVEL, new, 208

OCEAN, "Ocean to the sea of Ind," a reference to Ocean as the great water which surrounded the world, 877

OTHER, others, other people, 822, 1381, 2473

OVID, 394

PEISED, poised, 524

PERCASE, perchance, 2201

PERCHER LIGHT, large wax candle, 2318. (The Cambridge University Library MS. of Chaucer's Troil. has percher in Book iv., 1. 1245, instead of the usual morter. See Skeat's Note to his edition, p. 492.)

PHOEBUS, the Sun; a name for Apollo, 228

PHOEBUS, steeds of, 920 1254

PLEASURE, Mount of, and the pit of pain, 1672

PLIGHT, folded, 2635

PLIGHT, plighted, gave, 145

POISONED HOOK, wrapped in the pleasant bait, 388

PORT, appearance, bearing, 138

POST, "in post," in haste, hastily, 2532

PREAST, pressed, 2445

PRESS, throng, crowd, 2984

PREST, ready. Copied from Boaistuau, p. 48 b.: 'preste & appareillèe de vous suiure.' 314

PROPER, own, 513, 2082

PROVERBS:—
    'Unminded oft are they that are unseen,' 206
    The poisoned hook is oft wrapped in the pleasant bait, 388
    Falsehood hides in cloak of Truth, 389
    'There is no better way to fish than with a golden hook,' 712
    Lost opportunities never recur, 891-2
    Love's troubles last long, 1339
    'Pleasures grow of sight,' 1660
    'The thing that hurteth is the malice of his [a man's] will,' 2879

QUARIERS, small candles consisting of a block of wax with a wick in the middle, 836

QUELL, kill, 1233

QUOD, quoth, said, 633

RACE, people, populace, 248

RAMPETH, reareth, rageth, 1027

RAMPIRE, rampart, 1154

RAPT, carried away, transported, 283, 1095, 2239

RAUGHT, reached, seized, 263

REAVED, tore, or snatched away, 38

RECOURSE, return; perhaps visiting place, 2419

RECURE, recovery, 73

REDETH, counsels, advises, 599

REFT, snatched away, 2667

REPORT; her trumpet, 398

RESTINESS, sluggishness, 1756

RIVE, rend, cleave, 1192

RIVE, tear away, banish, 208

ROUND, whisper, 344

ROUT, crowd, 163

RUE, sorrow, 2814

SCANT, scarcely, 16

'SCAPE, escape, 1250

SEECH, seek, 2834. "His wits to seech," his wits wanting.

SEEK, sicken, 413

SEELY, fond, foolish, 122, 640

SELD, seldom, 315

SHENT, chidden, blamed, 648

SHOPE, shaped, 1030

SHROUD, cover, conceal, 1290

SISTERS THREE, the three Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, who presided over the destiny of men. The first was represented as holding the distaff and as spinning the thread, and Atropos as cutting it. Very frequently mentioned by Chaucer. 23

SITH, since, 19

SKIES, turning, the revolving heavens, 1747

SKILLESS, without skill, 23

SKILLS, knowledge, ability, 571

SOWND, swoon, 847

SPRITE, spirit, 1109

STALE, stole, 2272

STAY, prevention, 2766

STEDE, stead, 1416

STERVE, perish, 134

STERVED, dead, 2462

STRAITLY, closely, tightly, 2635

STRAKE, struck, 234

'SUAGE, assuage, 2725

TAIL, posterior, with an implied pun on tale, 663

TANTALUS, condemned to suffer intolerable thirst in Hades, steeped up to the chin in water which he could not drink, 339

TARE, tore, 1291

TESTY, petulant, 1931

THESEUS, governor of Athens; he married Hippolyta (cf. Midsummer Night's Dream) and was met by a number of female suppliants complaining of Creon, King of Thebes. Theseus took Thebes and slew Creon, capturing there Palamos, and Arcite (cf. Chaucer's Knight's Tale). 198, 392

THRALLED, subdued, 2415

THROUGH-GIRT, smitten through, pierced (Troil., iv., 627), 2789

TICKEL, unstable, 1405

TIDE, time, 1253

TILT, tilth, tillage ground, 786

TOFORE, before, 1919

TOOTING HOLE, spyhole, 450

TRODE, trodden, 2750

UNGRATE, ingrate, ungrateful, 2212

UNSHUT, opened, 2405

UNTIL, unto, 1910

UPRIGHT BEAM, "With Upright beam he weighed," etc.; he judged without bias, as though weighing with level balances, 195. (See also l. 524.)

URE, use, 2953

VENUS, 917

VENUS' CHILD, Cupid, 782

VIAL, phial, bottle, 2149

WALT'RING, wallowing, weltering, 1293

WAN, won, 1332

WARE, wore, 1292

WARELESS, unwary, 220

WARELY, warily, 249

WAXEN, grow, wax, 1039

WEED, robe, clothes, 1620

WEEN, think, consider, 332

WEEPEN, weep (plural), 2473

WELL AWAY, alas! 2409

WIGHT, man, person, 338

WIST, knew, 265

WITHOUTEN, without, 1735

WONE, dwell, 2497

WONES, dwells, 1963

WORTH, worthy, 2649

WOX, waxed, 209

WRACK, wreck, 808

WRACKED, wrecked, 1368

WRACKFUL, dangerous, 802

WRAPPED, carried away, transported, 483

WRAPT, seized, 220

WREAKFUL, revengeful, 2116

Y-FERE, in companionship, 2788

Y-FOLD, folded, 1319

Y-THRALLED, subjected, 1873