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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. | 1 |
| 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. | 2 |
| 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. | 3 |
| 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. | 4 |
| 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. | 5 |
| 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. | 6 |
| Gaill; prison. Ginnes; engines, or plots. Glose; to deceive, or flatter. Geere; furniture, dress. Guerdon; reward. Gules; red colour, a term in heraldry. | 7 |
| Harrould; herald. Heast; behest, command. Historial; historical. Hoised; hoisted, raised up on high. | 8 |
| 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. | 9 |
| Lack; lake. | 10 |
| 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. | 11 |
| Ne; neither, nor. Nould; would not. | 12 |
| Opprobryes; shame, contempt, disgrace. Ourprest; overpowered. | 13 |
| 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. | 14 |
| 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. | 15 |
| 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. | 16 |
| Tearmelesse; endless. Thwakt; thatched. Thrid; thread. Tickle; uncertain. Tuns; tunes. | 17 |
| Vade; to fade. Vre; employ, use. | 18 |
| Waren; worn. Waxed; vexed. Whilome; once, sometime. Whist; hushed, silenced. Withouten; without. Wode; wide. Wrack; ruin, or violence Wray; betray. Wryed; gone astray. | 19 |
| Yeke; also, likewise. Yernfull; mournfull. Yerth; earth. Ysteare; to steer. Ywasht; washed. | 20 |
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