Belle dans la Tour. Add ‘Le Prince qui torture sa Fille,’ Beauquier,
Chansons p. recueillies en Franche-Comté, p. 147; copy from Normandy,
copy from Savoy, Revue des Traditions populaires, X, 641 f.
356 b, III, 517 a, IV, 482, V, 234 a. ‘Les trois capitaines.’ Add: ‘Au
château de Belfort,’ Beauquier, pp. 59 f., 369 f.
III, 517 b. Girl feigns death to avoid a disagreeable suitor; test of
water, fire, and hand in bosom, which last is the hardest to bear:
‘Vojvoda Janko i mlada Andjelija,’ Hrvatske Pjesme iz “Naše Sloge,” II,
65, No 68.
100. Willie o Winsbury.
P. 399, note. The ballad need not be older than the 16th century. Drop
“but it was hardly,” etc.
104. Prince Heathen.
P. 424 b. It is more commonly the lady that is rolled in silk; the son
is laid, dressed, rolled in silk, No 5, =C=, 82, No 20, =C=, 8 of the
places cited (=C=, 83, =E=, 32, are to be dropped), and No 104, =B=, 14.
112. The Baffled Knight.
II, 479 a. The Complete Collection of Old and New English and Scotch
Songs, 1735, a rare book, is in the library of the British Museum, and
Mr Round, who has kindly examined it for me, informs me that all the
ballads in it are repetitions from earlier publications; in the present
case of =B=, from Pills to purge Melancholy.
481 b, IV, 495 a. Add ‘Il fallait plumer la perdrix,’ Beauquier,
Chansons p. recueillies en Franche-Comté, p. 303.
481 b, III, 518 a, IV, 495 a, V, 239 b. Tears: add ‘L’Amant timide,’
Beauquier, Chansons p. recueillies en Franche-Comté’, p. 180; La
Tradition, 1895, p. 69.
483 b, V, 240 a. La Batelière rusée in Beauquier, Chansons populaires
recueillies en Franche-Comté, p. 40.
Slavic ballads of similar tenor (Servian), Rajković, ‘Mudra devojka,’
p. 16, No 23, ‘Lukava čobanka,’ p. 129, No 173.
VOL. III.
116. Adam Bell, etc.
P. 22. Translated after the original text by Professor Emilio Teza: ‘I
tre Banditi,’ Padova, 1894.
26, 87^1. I regret having changed ‘an oute-horne,’ which is the reading
in all the texts which have the stanza (=b=-=f=), to ‘a noute-home.’
Oute horne was originally given, and therefore this reading was not
entered in the variations of =c=-=f=, as should have been done later,
when the reading ‘a noute-home’ was adopted.
117. A Gest of Robyn Hode.
P. 43, note §. Right-hitting Brand is one of the attendants of Robin in
A. Munday’s Metropolis Coronata (1615), Fairholt, Pageants, I, 40. J.
M. Manly.
52 and note. See further on Le prêt miraculeusement remboursé, M. René
Basset, in Revue des Traditions populaires, IX, 14-31.
54. Mr Macmath has sent me a transcript of another copy of the song
in Deuteromelia which exhibits some variations. It was found April
5, 1895, in a bundle of papers that had belonged to John, Duke of
Roxburghe. This copy is in a 17th century hand, and at the end is
written: “This song was esteemed an old song before the rebellion broke
out in 1641.”
76, st. 412. The first two verses should be corrected according to =f=,
=g=, thus:
‘Mercy,’ then said Robyn to our kynge,
‘Vnder this.’
120. Robin Hood’s Death.
P. 103, note *, V, 240. Communion-bread called God (Lord). “For it was
about Easter, at what times maidens gadded abroade, after they had
taken their Maker, as they call it.” Wilson, Arte of Logike, fol. 84 b.
J. M. Manly.
“In oure louerd þat he had ynome wel ioyful he was þo.” St Edmund the
Confessor, v. 573, Furnivall, Early English Poems, Philol. Soc., p. 86.
“Preostes ... fette to þis holi maide godes flesch and his blod.” St
Lucy, v. 168, _ib._ p. 106. G. L. K.
103, note †. The met-yard, being a necessary part of an archer’s
equipment for such occasions as p. 29, 148, 158; p. 75, 397; p. 93, 28;
p. 201, 18, 21, may well enough be buried with him.
104. Russian. Similar directions as to the grave in Jakuškin, p. 99.
123. Robin Hood and The Curtal Friar.
P. 128 a, v. 80. The reading should be
Now am I, frere, without, and thou, Robyn, within:
otherwise there is no change in their relative plight.
125. Robin Hood and Little John.
P. 133 a. There is a black-letter copy, printed by and for W. Onley,
in Lord Crawford’s collection, No 1320; the date put at 1680-85. A
white-letter copy in Roxburghe, III, 728. See Ebsworth’s Roxburghe
Ballads, VIII, 504.
155. Sir Hugh or the Jew’s Daughter.
[241 a. The Life and Miracles of St William of Norwich have been edited
by Drs Jessopp and James.]
156. Queen Eleanor’s Confession.
P. 258 b, 3d paragraph. The Danish ballad is printed in Dania, II, 275,
1893: ‘Vise om Caroline Mathilde,’ derived from an old lady who in
childhood had heard it sung by a peasant girl, about 50 years before
the publication.
159. Durham Field.
P. 283 a. Knights wearing the king’s armor in battle. This was
naturally frequently done. So John at Poitiers had twenty in his
“parements,” Froissart (Buchon), III, 186, and Charles VIII a good
number at Fornovo, Daniel, Histoire de France, VIII, 222.
161. The Battle of Otterburn.
Pp. 294, 520 a, IV, 499, V, 244 b. St George Our Lady’s Knight. Add:
Torrent of Portyngale, v. 1677: E. Flügel, Neuenglisches Lesebuch, I,
441.
162. The Hunting of the Cheviot.
P. 306 a, 38 f. Motherwell has cited an apt passage from the romance of
Alisaunder which may well be repeated.
Ac theo deol that Alisaunder made
No may Y nought fully rede.
Darie starf in his armes two:
Lord that Alisaunder was wo!
He wrong his hondes saun faile,
Ofte he cried and ofte he uaile:
Y wolde Y hadde al Perce y-geve,
With that Y myghte have thy lif!
Weber, Kyng Alisaunder
vv. 4648-55.
P. 306, st. 54, IV, 502, V, 244. Hrafn fights after Gunnlaugr has
hewn off his feet: Gunnlaugs saga Ormstungu, ed. Mogk, p. 27. W. H.
Schofield.
Note †. The Highlander is paralleled by an Indian in The Observations
of Sir Richard Hawkins, Markham, The Hawkins’ Voyages, Hakluyt Society,
p. 243, and by Mordred in Malory’s Morte Darthur, ed. Sommer, Bk 21,
ch. 4. G. L. K.
168. Flodden Field.
P. 351 b (12, lapt all in leather), IV, 507 a. The dying witch of
Berkeley says to her children: Insuite me corio cervino, deinde in
sarcophago lapideo supinate, operculum plumbo et ferro constringite.
William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum, ed. Stubbs, Bk 2, I, 254,
§ 204.
169. Johnie Armstrong.
[P. 367. Johnie’s plain speech to the king. So in Li Charrois de Nymes,
v. 283, in Jonkbloet, Guillaume d’Orange, I, 80: “Et dit Guillaumes,
‘Dans rois, vos i mentez.’”]
367, and note. The Baron of Brackley’s son (No 203), set on the nurse’s
knee, uses nearly the same words as Johnie Armstrong’s in =B=, 24. M.
Gaidoz, Mélusine, VII, 70, cites from Hone the passage in No 54 (=B=,
5, 6, see also =A=, 5, 6, =D=, 4, 5), in which Jesus speaks from his
mother’s womb. See further Mélusine, IV, 447, V, 36, 257, VI, 92.
170. The Death of Queen Jane.
P. 372-6. Appendix. ‘The Duke of Bedford,’ Longman’s Magazine, XVII,
217, 1890, “sent from Suffolk,” is one half (sts 5-8) a plagiarism from
‘The Death of Queen Jane.’ Compare =A=, 5, 6, =B=, 8, =C=, 5, 6, =D= 6
of Queen Jane with what follows. The remainder of ‘The Duke of Bedford’
is so trivial that it is not worth the while at present to assign that
piece its own place. I have not attempted to identify this duke of
Bedford; any other duke would probably answer as well.
THE DUKE OF BEDFORD.
1
Six lords went a-hunting down by the seaside,
And they spied a dead body washed away by the tide.
2
Said one to the other, ‘As I’ve heard them say,
’Tis the famous Duke of Bedford, by the tide washed away.’
3
They took him up to Portsmouth, to the place where he was born,
From Portsmouth up to London, to the place where he was known.
4
They took out his bowels and laid down his feet,
And they garnished his body with roses so sweet.
5
Six lords went before him, six bare him from the ground,
Eight dukes followed after, in their black velvet gowns.
6
. . . . . . . . . .
And the Royal Princess Mary went weeping away.
7
So black was the funeral and so white were their fans,
And so pretty were the flamboys that they carried in their hands.
8
The drums they did beat and the trumpets they did sound,
And the great guns they did rattle as they put him in the ground.
173. Mary Hamilton.
P. 382. The passages following relate to the affair of the Frenchwoman
and the apothecary. Calendar of State Papers, Foreign Series, of the
Reign of Elizabeth, 1563. (Indicated to me by Mr Andrew Lang.)
The Queen’s apothecary got one of her maidens, a Frenchwoman, with
child. Thinking to have covered his fault with medicine, the child was
slain. They are both in prison, and she is so much offended that it is
thought they shall both die. Randolph to Cecil, Edinburgh, 21 Dec.,
1563, p. 637. The apothecary and the woman he got with child were both
hanged this Friday. Randolph to Cecil, Dec. 31, 1563, p. 650.
The heroine of this ballad is Mary Hamilton in all copies in which she
has a full name, that is, twelve out of the twenty-four which have
any name; Mary simply, or Mary mild,[127] is found in eleven copies,
and Maisry in one. Finding in the history of the court of Peter the
Great an exact counterpart of the story of the ballad with a maid of
honor named Mary Hamilton filling the tragic _rôle_, and “no trace of
an admixture of the Russian story with that of the Frenchwoman and
the queen’s apothecary,” I felt compelled to admit that Sharpe’s
suggestion of the Russian origin of the ballad was, however surprising,
the only tenable opinion (III, 382 f.). Somewhat later a version of the
ballad (=U=) was found at Abbotsford in which there is mention of the
apothecary and of the practices for which he suffered in 1568, and this
fact furnished ground for reopening the question (which, nevertheless,
was deferred).
Mr Andrew Lang has recently subjected the matter of the origin of the
ballad to a searching review (in Blackwood’s Magazine, September, 1895,
p. 381 ff.). Against the improbability that an historical event of
1718-9 should by simple chance coincide, very minutely and even to the
inclusion of the name of the principal actor, with what is related in
a ballad ostensibly recounting an event in the reign of Mary Stuart,
he sets the improbability that a ballad, older and superior in style
to anything which we can show to have been produced in the 18th, or
even the 17th century,[128] should have been composed after 1719, a
ballad in which a contemporary occurrence in a foreign and remote
country would be transferred to Scotland and Queen Mary’s day, and so
treated as to fit perfectly into the circumstances of the time: and
this while the ballad might entirely well have been evolved from a
notorious domestic occurrence of the date 1563, the adventure of Queen
Mary’s French maid and the apothecary--which has now turned out to be
introduced into one version of the ballad.[129]
I wish to avow that the latter improbability, as put by Mr Lang, has
come to seem to me considerably greater than the former.
The coincidence of the name of the heroine is indeed at first
staggering; but it will be granted that of all the “honorable houses”
no one might more plausibly supply a forgotten maid of honor than the
house of Hamilton. The Christian name is a matter of course for a
Queen’s Mary.
384 ff., IV, 507 ff., V, 246 f.
BB.
THE QUEEN’S MARIES.
Communicated by Mr Andrew Lang as received from Mrs Arthur Smith; sung
by a nurse. 4 is clearly modern.
1
Yestreen the queen had four Maries,
But the nicht she’ll hae but three;
There was Mary Beaton, and Mary Seaton,
And Mary Carmichell, and me.
2
Oh little did my mither think,
At nicht when she cradled me,
That I wad sleep in a nameless grave
And hang on the gallows-tree.
Yestreen, etc.
3
They’ll tie a kerchief round my een,
And they’ll na let me see t’dee,
And they’ll spread my story thro a’ the land,
Till it reaches my ain countrie.
4
I wish I micht sleep in the auld kirkyard,
Beneath the hazel tree,
Where aft we played in the long simmer nichts,
My brithers and sisters and me.
176. Northumberland betrayed by Douglas.
P. 411 a. Looking through a ring. “The Dul Dauna put a ring to his eye,
and he saw his grandfather on the deck walking.” Larminie, West Irish
Folk-Tales, p. 9. G. L. K.
177. The Earl of Westmoreland.
P. 417. Dr W. H. Schofield suggests that the romance imitated in the
second part of this ballad is, Libeaus Desconus. There the hero, who is
but a child in years (in the ballad he has a child’s voice), comes to
a fair city by a river side, the lady of which is besieged by a giant,
black as pitch. Libeaus undertakes to fight the giant, and is received
by him with disdainful language. The fight is “beside the water brim.”
They break their spears at the first encounter; then fight on foot with
swords. Libeaus strikes off the giant’s head and carries it into the
town; the people come out to meet him “with a fair procession,” and the
lady invites him to be her lord in city and castle. Compare the ballad,
etc., 54-78, and Libeaus Desconus, v. 1321 ff. [See Dr Schofield’s
Studies on the Libeaus Desconus, p. 242, in Studies and Notes in
Philology and Literature published under the direction of the Modern
Language Departments of Harvard University, Vol. IV.]
178. Captain Car, or, Edom o Gordon.
IV, 513 b, =H= 2^4. Mr Macmath is convinced that the missing
(illegible) word is _orghie_ (orgeis=a fish, a large kind of ling).
182. The Laird o Logie.
P. 456. Buchan’s original MS. p. 216 ff., ‘The Laird o Logie.’
1
Lady Margaret carries the keys o the cellar,
I wyte she carries them carefullie;
Nae other ane her favour coud gain
But the winsome laird o young Logie.
2
When the king gat word o that,
I wat an angry man was he;
He’s casten him into prison strong,
And sware high hanged he shoud be.
3
Lady Margaret tore her yellow hair,
She’s torn it out locks three by three;
Says, ‘Wae to the day I eer was born,
Or knew the young laird o Logie.’
4
‘Now hold your tongue,’ the queen she said,
‘And ye’ll let a’ your folly be;
I hae minded me on a wyle
Will gain the life o young Logie.’
5
Then she has done her up the stairs,
And she fell low down on her knee;
‘Win up, win up, my dame the queen,
What makes ye bow sae low to me?’
6
‘O do you mind when we were wed,
Ye promisd askings three by three?
And a’ the boun that I now crave
Is, Save the life o young Logie.
7
‘If ye had asked lands, my dame,
Ye might had askings three by three;
But a’ the lands in fair Scotland
Winna save the life o young Logie.’
8
Then she has done her down the stairs,
But nae gude tidings brought her wi;
The king has sworn a solemn oath,
And broken it can never be.
9
‘Hold your tongue, Margaret,’ said the queen,
‘And ye’ll lat a’ your folly be;
I’ll mind me on another wyle
To gain the life o young Logie.’
10
She’s counterfeit the king’s hand write,
And she has stole his right glove tee;
And sent the jailors strict command
To loose and set young Logie free.
11
She sent him a bag o gude red gowd,
Another bag o white monie;
Likewise a pistol by his side,
And bade him shoot when he wan free.
12
As he passd by the queen’s window,
He fell low down upon his knee;
Says, ‘Peace be wi the queen hersell,
And joy be in her companie.’
13
As he passd by the king’s window,
There a proud volley then gae he;
Says, ‘Hang your dogs when ye think time,
For ye’se neer hang him, young Logie.’
14
Out then speaks the king himsell,
I wyte a solemn oath sware he;
‘I’ll wad my head an my crown baith,
I hear the voice o young Logie.’
15
The king he calld his jailors all,
He called them then three by three;
Says, ‘How are the prisoners ane and a’?
Where is the laird o young Logie?’
16
‘Did you not send your ain hand write?
Did you not send your right glove tee?
We took the keys o the jail-house door,
And loosd and set young Logie free.’
17
Then out it speaks the king again,
I wyte an angry man was he;
‘The morn, before I eat or drink,
High hanged shall you jailors be.’
18
Then out it speaks the queen hersell,
I wyte a light laugh then gae she;
‘If ye’re to hang them ane and a’,
I fear ye will begin wi me.
19
‘Did I not steal your ain hand write?
Did I not steal your right glove tee?
Then sent the jailors strict command
To loose an’ set young Logie free.’
190. Jamie Telfer.
P. 5 a first paragraph. However, “in the list of Border thieves made in
the year 1552, William Patrick, the priest, and John Nelson, the curate
of Bewcastle, are both included”: Denham Tracts, I, 150. This shows
that the society was homogeneous.
191. Hughie Grame.
P. 14, =E.= Between 12 and 13 follows in Buchan’s original MS.:
Ye’ll tell this news to Maggy my wife,
The first time ye gang oer the muir,
She is the cause I loose my life:
She bade me steal the bishop’s mare.
192. The Lochmaben Harper.
P. 21. =E= has in Buchan’s original MS. this refrain at the end of the
verse:
Hey, didentie, didentie, didentie (_bis_).
196. The Fire of Frendraught.
P. 41, note ‡. Read: The peerage of Aboyne was first created in 1626,
in favor of John Gordon, fifth son of the first Marquis of Huntly
(Viscount of Aboyne and Melgum in 1627). He married Sophia Hay, a
daughter of Francis, Earl of Errol, The Records of Aboyne, edited by
the Marquis of Huntly, New Spalding Club; 1894, pp. 325, 526.
V, 251 b, P. 44. In “But Rothiemay lie,” _may_ seems to have been
accidentally omitted. The “Turn” in Scott was probably meant for Twin,
the dot of i being omitted.
200. The Gypsy Laddie.
P. 61 ff., V, 252. The three stanzas which follow are given in H. A.
Kennedy’s “Professor Blackie: his Sayings and Doings, London, 1895”
as they were sung by Marion Stodart, Professor Blackie’s aunt, to her
sister’s children. P. 12 f. (Communicated by Mr David MacRitchie, of
Edinburgh.)
There were seven gypsies all in a row,
And they were brisk and bonny; O
They sang till they came to the Earl o Cassilis’ gate,
And there they sang sae sweetly. O
They sang sae sweet and sae complete
That doun came the fair leddy;
And when they saw her weel-faured face
They cast the glamour ower her.
So she’s taen off her high-heeled shoes,
That are made o the Spanish leather,
And she’s put on her Highland brogues,
To skip amang the heather.
“On the discovery of which the earl’ saddled to him his milk-white
steed,’ and rested not till he had hanged the seven gypsies on a tree.”
O _at the end of the second and the fourth verse of each stanza_.
216. The Mother’s Malison, etc.
P. 186 f. In ‘Majčina kletva,’ Hrvatske Pjesme iz “Naše Sloge,” II, 22,
No 18, two lovers go off in a boat, under a mother’s curse, and are
both drowned.
229. Earl Crawford.
P. 280 a, =A=, =b=. =b= was written down March 25, 1890.
234. Charlie MacPherson.
P. 310. Mr Walker of Aberdeen suggests that Billy Beg in 3 should be
Bellabeg, a small property in Strathdon. It will be observed that two
other men in the same stanza are named by their estates.
235. The Earl of Aboyne.
P. 311 b, omit the paragraph beginning =J=, and say: Charles, first
Earl of Aboyne, married for his first wife Margaret Irvine of Drum, who
died in December, 1662. (The Records of Aboyne, edited by the Marquis
of Huntly, New Spalding Club, 1894, p. 552.) The story of the ballad,
so far as is known, is an absolute fiction.
In vol. ii of _Retours_ or Services of Heirs, No 4906 (Aberdeen), 17
June, 1665, there is the entry: Domina Anna Gordoun, hæres Dominæ
Margaretæ Irving, sponsæ Comitis de Aboyne matris. (Mr Walker of
Aberdeen.)
311, V, 270. Mr Macmath has sent me this stall-copy, printed by J.
Morren, Cowgate, Edinburgh.
PEGGY IRVINE.
1
Our lady stands in her chamber-door,
viewing the Grahams are a coming;
She knew by the light of their livery so red
they were new come down from London.
2
She called on her chambermaid,
and Jeany her gentlewoman:
You’ll dress my body in some fine dress,
for yon is my good lord a coming.
3
Her smock was of the holland so fine,
her body round with busting;
Her shoes were of the small corded twine,
and her stockings silk and twisting.
4
Her petticoats was of the silk so fine,
set out with the silver and scolloping;
Her gown was of the red damask silk so fine,
trimmed with the red gold gold mounting.
5
‘You guildery maids, come trim up my gauze,
and make them silver shining;
With strawberry flowers cover all my bowers,
and hang them round with the linen.
6
‘Ye minstrels all, be on our call
when you see his horses coming;
With music spring, spare not your string
when you hear his bridles ringing.’
7
She called on Meg her chamber-maid,
and Jeanny her gentlewoman:
‘Go bring me a bottle of the good Spanish wine,
for to drink his health that’s coming.’
8
She gently tripped down the stair,
and away to the gate to meet him:
‘You are welcome, you lord of the Boyne,
you are welcome home from London.’
9
‘If this be so, come let me know,
come kiss me for my coming;
For tomorrow should have been my wedding-day
if I had staid in London.’
10
She gave the glass out of her hand,
she was a woeful woman:
‘If the morrow should be your wedding-day,
Go back to your whores in London.’
11
He looked oer his right shoulder,
his comely court behind him:
‘This is a merry welcome’ he says,
‘that we have got from London.
12
‘To your horse, to your horse, my nobles all,
to your horse, let us be going;
This night we’ll lodge in Drummond castle,
and tomorrow we’ll march to London.’
13
Now this lady has fallen sick,
and doctors we her dealing,
But at length her heart did break,
and letters sent to London.
14
He took the letter in his hand,
and loud, loud was he laughing,
But before he read it to an end,
the tears did come down rapping.
15
‘To your horse, to your horse, my nobles all,
to your horse, let’s be going;
To your horse, let us all go in black,
and mourn for Peggy Irvine.’
16
When he came to his own castle-gate,
the knight was weary weeping:
‘Cheer up your heart, you lord of Boyne,
your lady is but sleeping.’
17
‘Sleeping deary, sleeping dow,
I’m afraid she’s oer sound sleeping;
It’s I had rather lost all the lands of the Boyne
before I would have lost Peggy Irvine.’
* * * * *
4^2. set out out.
10^3. If he.
238. Glenlogie, or, Jean o Bethelnie.
P. 338 b, 2d paragraph. As to the name Melville, Mr Walker of Aberdeen
remarks: If Buchan’s story (given in his notes) of the Glenlogie
incident were correct, the maiden’s name must have been Seaton, and not
Melville, the Seatons and Urquharts being the only two names which in
historical times could be called lairds of Meldrum or Bethelnie.
248. The Grey Cock, or, Saw you my Father?
P. 390. Add to the French ballads ‘Le voltigeur fidèle,’ Beauquier,
Chansons p. recueillies en Franche-Comté, p. 338.
250. Henry Martyn.
E
P. 393. ‘Andrew Bartin,’ communicated by Miss Louise Porter Haskell as
derived from Gen. E. P. Alexander of South Carolina, and derived by
him from the singing of a cadet at West Point Military Academy in the
winter of 1856-7. Two or three slight corrections have been made by Mrs
A. C. Haskell, sister of Gen. Alexander. This copy comes nearer than
the others to the original Andrew Barton; but sts 11-13 are derived
from Captain Ward, No 287, 8, 10.
1
Three bold brothers of merrie Scotland,
And three bold brothers were they,
And they cast lots the one with the other,
To see who should go robbing all oer the salt sea;
And they cast lots the one with the other,
To see who should go robbing all oer the salt sea.
2
The lot it fell on Andrew Bartin,
The youngest of the three,
That he should go robbing all oer the salt sea,
To maintain his two brothers and he.
3
He had not sailed but one long summer night,
When daylight did appear;
He saw a ship sailing far off and far round,
At last she came sailing quite near.
4
‘Who art? who art?’ says Andrew Bartin,
‘Who art thee comes sailing so nigh?’
‘We are the rich merchants of merrie England,
Just please for to let us pass by.’
5
‘Pass by? pass by?’ says Andrew Bartin,
‘No, no, that never can be;
Your ship and your cargo I will take away,
And your brave men drown in the sea.’
6
Now when this news reached merrie England--
King George he wore the crown--
That his ship and his cargo were taken away,
And his brave men they were all drowned.
7
‘Go build me a ship,’ says Captain Charles Stewart,
‘A ship both stout and sure,
And if I dont fetch this Andrew Bartin,
My life shall no longer endure.’
8
He had not sailed but one long summer night,
When daylight did appear,
He saw a ship sailing far off and far round,
And then she came sailing quite near.
9
‘Who art? who art?’ says Captain Charles Stewart,
‘Who art comes sailing so nigh?’
‘We are the bold brothers of merrie Scotland,
Just please for to let us pass by.’
10
‘Pass by? pass by?’ says Captain Charles Stewart,
‘No, no, that never can be;
Your ship and your cargo I will take away,
And your brave men carry with me.’
11
‘Come on! come on!’ says Andrew Bartin,
‘I value you not one pin;
And though you are lined with good brass without,
I’ll show you I’ve fine steel within.’
12
Then they drew up a full broadside
And at each other let pour;
They had not fought for four hours or more,
When Captain Charles Stewart gave oer.
13
‘Go home! go home!’ says Andrew Bartin,
‘And tell your king for me,
That he may reign king of the merry dry land,
But that I will be king of the sea.’
* * * * *
2^1, etc. Bartyn. _Gen. Alexander remarks that_ “the accent was on
the last syllable.”
* * * * *
‘Row tu me, row tu me,’ says He-ne-ry Burgin,
‘Row tu me, row tu me, I prah;
For I ha tarnd a Scotch robber across the salt seas,
Tu ma-i-ntn my tew brothers and me.’
Fragment of a Suffolk Harvest Home song, remembered by an old Suffolk
divine. Contributed by Edward Fitzgerald to Suffolk Notes and Queries
in the ‘Ipswich Journal,’ 1877-78; where another stanza follows which
has no connection with the above. See ‘Two Suffolk Friends,’ by Francis
Hindes Groome, Edinburgh and London, 1895, p. 79 f.
269. Lady Diamond.
[P. 29 a. Zupitza, Die mittelenglischen Bearbeitungen der Erzählung
Boccaccio’s von Ghismonda u. Guiscardo, in Geiger’s Vierteljahrsschrift
f. Kultur u. Litteratur der Renaissance, 1886, I, 63 ff.]
29. =Italian.= =D.= ‘Ricardo e Germonda,’ communicated by P. Mazzucchi,
Castelguglielmo, July, 1894, to Rivista delle Tradizioni pop. italiane,
I, 691.
[32 ff. On these stories of the husband who gives his wife her lover’s
heart to eat, see H. Patzig, Zur Geschichte der Herzmäre, Berlin, 1891.]
34. =A= is translated by Professor Emilio Teza, ‘Donna Brigida,’ in
Rassegna Napolitana, II, 63, 1895.
272. The Suffolk Miracle.
P. 60 ff. See Professor Schischmánov in Indogermanische Forschungen,
IV, 412-48, 1894, Der Lenorenstoff in der bulgarischen Volkspoesie,
Professor Schischmánov counts more than 140 versions of The Dead
Brother, ballad and tale, in Albanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Roumanian,
and Servian, 60 of these Bulgarian. Dozon 7 is affirmed to be a mere
plagiarism. The versions of the Romaic ballad run up to 41. A very
strong probability is made out of the derivation of all of the ballads
of ‘The Dead Brother’ from the Greek.
62. Compare La Jeune Fille et l’âme de sa mère, Luzel, I, 60, 61 ff. A
girl who grieves for her dead mother, and wishes to see her again, is
directed by the curé to go three nights to the church, taking each time
an apron for her mother. The mother tears the apron into 9, 6, 3 pieces
successively.
La mère va alors trouver sa fille
Et lui parle de la sorte:
‘Tu as eu du bonheur
Que je ne t’aie mise toi-même en morceaux!
‘Que je ne t’aie mise en pièces, toute vivante,
Comme je le faisais à mes tabliers!
‘Tu augmentais mes peines, chaque jour,
Par la douleur que tu me témoignais!’
64. A dead lover takes his mistress on his horse at midnight and
carries her to the grave in which he is to be buried the following day.
Her corpse is found there, flattened out and disfigured. ‘La fiancée du
mort,’ Le Braz, La Légende de la mort en Basse-Bretagne, pp. 359-67.
[65 a. =Romaic.= Add: Georgeakis et Pineau, Le Folk-lore de Lesbos, p.
253 (in translation).]
273. King Edward the Fourth and a Tanner of Tamworth.
P. 74 f. Similar tales: Sébillot, Contes pop. de la Haute-Bretagne, II,
149 f.; Luzel, Contes pop. de la Basse-Bretagne, I, 259.
274. Our Goodman.
P. 88 a. [A version similar to that in Smith’s Scotish Minstrel, but
not absolutely identical, is mentioned in Blätter f. literarische
Unterhaltung, 1855, p. 236, as contained, with a German translation,
in “Ten Scottish Songs rendered into German. By W. B. Macdonald of
Rammerscales. Scottish and German. Edinburgh, 1854.” Professor Child
refers to this version in a MS. note. A specimen of the translation is
given in the journal just cited, as well as enough of the Scotch to
show that the copy is not exactly like Smith’s. “Vetter Macintosh” and
“der Fürst Karl” are mentioned. Macdonald’s book is not at this moment
accessible. G. L. K.]
89 f., 281 a. ‘Le Jaloux, ou Les Répliques de Marion;’ add version
from Normandy (prose), Revue des Traditions populaires, X, 136;
Hautes-Pyrénées, p. 515.
The copy in Le chroniqueur du Périgord et de Limousin is ‘La rusade,’
Poésies pop. de la France, MSS, III, fol. 84. The copy in Le Pèlerinage
de Mireille (A. Lexandre), is from Provence, and closely resembles that
in Daudet’s Numa Roumestan.
=Italian.= Add ‘Marion,’ Rivista delle Tradizioni pop. italiane, II,
34-37. ‘O Violina’ is repeated, very nearly, in a Tuscan _Filastrocca_,
Rivista delle Tradizioni pop. italiane, II, 474 f.; see also Archivio,
III, 43, No 18. A Polish ballad has some little similarity: Kolberg,
Lud, XXI, 54, No 112.
275. Get up and bar the Door.
P. 96 ff., 281. Add: ‘Le fumeur de hachich et sa femme,’ cited by R.
Basset, Revue des Traditions Populaires, VII, 189. G. L. K. [Also ‘The
First Fool’s Story,’ M. Longworth Dames, Balochi Tales, Folk-Lore, IV,
195.]
277. The Wife Wrapt in Wether’s Skin.
P. 104. From the recitation of Miss Lydia R. Nichols, Salem,
Massachusetts, as heard in the early years of this century. Sung
by a New England country fellow on ship-board: Journal of American
Folk-Lore, VII, 253 ff., 1894.
As to “drew her table,” 13, the following information is given: “I have
often heard a mother tell her daughter to ‘draw the table.’ Forty years
ago it was not uncommon to see in farmhouses a large round table, the
body of which was made to serve as an armchair. When the table was not
in use the top was tipped back against the wall. Under the chair-seat
was a drawer in which the table linen was kept. When meal-time came the
table was drawn away from the wall, the top brought down on the arms
of the chair, and the cloth, which had been fished out of the drawer,
spread over it.”
1
Sweet William he married a wife,
Gentle Jenny cried rosemaree
To be the sweet comfort of his life.
As the dew flies over the mulberry tree.
2
Jenny couldnt in the kitchen to go,
For fear of dirting her white-heeled shoes
3
Jenny couldn’t wash, and Jenny couldn’t bake,
For fear of dirting her white apurn tape.
4
Jenny couldn’t card, and Jenny couldn’t spin,
For fear of hurting her gay gold ring.
5
Sweet William came whistling in from plaow,
Says, ‘O my dear wife, is my dinner ready naow?’
6
She called him a dirty paltry whelp:
‘If you want any dinner, go get it yourself.’
7
Sweet William went aout unto the sheep-fold,
And aout a fat wether he did pull.
8
And daown on his knees he began for to stick,
And quicklie its skin he thereof did strip.
9
He took the skin and laid on his wife’s back,
And with a good stick went whikety whack.
10
‘I’ll tell my father and all my kin
How still a quarrel you’ve begun.’
11
‘You may tell your father and all your kin
How I have thrashed my fat wether’s skin.’
12
Sweet William came whistling in from plaow,
Says, ‘Oh my dear wife, is my dinner ready naow?’
13
She drew her table and spread her board,
And, ‘Oh my dear husband,’ was every word.
14
And naow they live free from all care and strife,
And naow she makes William a very good wife.
Folk-Lore Society, County Folk-Lore, Printed Extracts: No 2, Suffolk,
1893, collected and edited by the Lady Eveline Camilla Gurdon, p. 139
f. Contributed by “a Suffolk man” to the Suffolk Notes and Queries
column of The Ipswich Journal, 1877.
1
There wus a man lived in the West,
Limbo clashmo!
There wus a man lived in the West,
He married the wuman that he liked best.
With a ricararo, ricararo, milk in the morn,
O dary mingo.
2
He married this wuman and browt her hom,
And set her in his best parlour rom.
3
My man and I went to the fowd,
And ketcht the finest wuther that we could howd.
4
We fleed this wuther and browt him hom,
Sez I, ‘Wife, now youar begun yar doon.’
5
I laid this skin on my wife’s back,
And on to it I then did swack.
6
I ’inted har with ashen ile,
Limbo clashmo!
I ’inted har with ashen ile,
Till she could both brew, bake, wash and bile.
O dary mingo--mingo.
278. The Farmer’s Curst Wife.
P. 107 a. This has no connection with the story in Wendenmuth,
Œsterley, I, 366, p. 402; see Œsterley’s note, V, 60.
Compare the broadside ballad ‘The Devil and the Scold,’ Roxburghe
Collection, I, 340, 341; Chappell, Roxburghe Ballads, II, i, 367 ff.;
Collier, Book of Roxburghe Ballads, 1847, p. 35 ff.
280. The Beggar-Laddie.
P. 116. Motherwell sent a copy of =C= to Sharpe with a letter from
Paisley, 8th October, 1825, and printed =C= in an article on “Scottish
Song” in the Paisley Magazine, 1828, p. 621, in both cases with two
or three insignificant variations. He mentions in the latter another
version in which the hero is called King James, in accordance with the
vulgar traditions concerning the Gudeman o Ballengoich.
In Findlay’s MSS, I, 144, there are five unimportant stanzas, nearer to
=D= than to the other versions, and having, like =D=, the title ‘The
Gaberlunzie Laddie.’
286. The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity).
P. 137. =B.= Mr Macmath has a copy of ‘The Goulden Vanitee’ in the
handwriting of Peter Scott Fraser which is identical with that printed
by Logan except that it has _Vanitee_ for _Vanitie_ in 1^3 and 9^2,
_Countree_ in 4^2, _they row’d_ in 6^1, _Oh!_ in 8^1, and _Eck
iddle dee_ (not _du_) in the burden. Mr. Macmath notes that =B= was
printed by Mrs. Gordon, in Christopher North, a Memoir of John Wilson,
Edinburgh, 1862, II, 317 ff., in a form identical with that in Mr.
Fraser’s MS. copy [except for one variation (_they’ve row’d_ for _they
row’d_ in 6^1)].
287. Captain Ward and the Rainbow.
P. 135. A copy taken down from the lips of an old Suffolk (Monk Soham)
laborer was contributed by Archdeacon Robert Hindes Groome to Suffolk
Notes and Queries in the Ipswich Journal [1877-78], and is repeated in
Two Suffolk Friends, 1895, p. 46. W. Macmath.
291. Child Owlet.
P. 156. Mr Macmath has called my attention to a ballad on the story
of Child Owlet by William Bennet in The Dumfries Monthly Magazine,
II, 402, 1826. This piece, called ‘Young Edward,’ “is founded upon
a tradition still current in the district in which Morton Castle is
situated.” Its quality is that of the old-magazine ballad.
294. Dugall Quin.
P. 165. Dugald Gunn, Mr Macmath suggests, may have been a mistaken
reading of Scott’s difficult handwriting on the part of the editor of
the Ballad Book; as is certainly the case with regard to The Stirrup of
Northumberland, V, 207 b, No 9, =G=.
I unhappily forgot Buchan’s ‘Donald M’Queen’s Flight wi Lizie Menzie,’
Ballads of the North of Scotland, II, 117, which, though I think it
corrupted at the end, removes the principal verbal difficulties in the
Old Lady’s copy. Mr Walker of Aberdeen has reminded me of Buchan’s
ballad, and he had previously suggested to me that Dunfermline was
proprietor of Fyvie, and this fact had disposed me to read Fyvie where
the text already given has farei, farie. Of the rightfulness of this
reading there can now be no doubt, though information is desirable as
to the tempting cheese of Fyvie, of which I have not found mention
elsewhere.
Buchan, II, 319, makes the following note on his copy:--
“Donald M’Queen, the hero of this ballad, was one of the servants of
Baron Seaton of Fyvie, who, with his master, had fled to France after
the rebellion in 1715. Baron Seaton having died in France, Donald,
his man, returned to Fyvie with one of his master’s best horses,
and procured a love potion, _alias_ ‘the tempting cheese of Fyvie,’
which had the effect of bewitching, or, in other words, casting the
glamour oer his mistress, Lizie Menzie, the Lady of Fyvie. Some years
afterwards this lady went through the country as a common pauper,
when, being much fatigued, and in a forlorn condition, she fell fast
asleep in the mill of Fyvie, whither she had gone to solicit an alms
(charity): on her awakening, she declared that she had just now slept
as soun a sleep with the meal-pock beneath her head, as ever she had
done on the best down-bed of Fyvie. This information I had from James
Rankin, an old blind man, who is well acquainted with the traditions
of the country.”
Alexander Seaton acquired Fyvie, it is said, in 1596, and in 1606
was created Earl of Dunfermline. Castle and title were forfeited in
1689, and the property was purchased of the crown in 1726 by the Earl
of Aberdeen. Dunfermline had no horses for Dugald or Donald to take
after 1689. The whole story of Lizie Menzie, Baroness of Seaton, seems
to be a fiction as sheer as it is vulgar. Lizie Menzie’s forsaking
her husband for a footman is refuted by the well-informed Rankin
himself, who tells us that the husband had died in France before his
man “returned to Fyvie with one of his master’s best horses.” The
conclusion is borrowed mostly from ‘The Gypsy Laddie,’ where even the
drinking of one’s own brewage is to be found; but ‘The Gypsy Laddie’ is
not to be reproached with the foolish last stanza.
1
Donald, he’s come to this town,
And he’s been lang awa,
And he is on to Lizie’s bedside,
Wi his tartan trews and a’.
2
‘How woud you like me, Lizie,’ he said,
‘An I ware a’ your ain,
Wi tartan coat upo my back,
And single-soled sheen,
A blue bonnetie on my head,
And my twa winking een?’
3
‘Weel woud I like you, Donald,’ she said,
‘An ye ware a’ my ain,
Wi tartan coat upo your back,
And single-soled sheen,
And little blue bonnetie on your head,
And blessings on your een.
4
‘But how woud ye like me, Donald,’ she said,
‘An I ware a’ your ain,
Wi a siller snood into my head,
A gowd fan in my hand,
And maidens clad in green satins,
To be at my command?’
5
‘Weel woud I like you, Lizie,’ he said,
‘And ye ware a’ my ain,
Wi a siller snood into your head,
A gowd fan in your hand,
But nane o your maidens clad in green,
To be at your command.’
6
Then but it speaks her mither dear,
Says, ‘Lizie, I maun cross you;
To gang alang wi this young man,
We’d think we had but lost you.’
7
‘O had your tongue, my mither dear,
And dinna think to break me;
For I will gang wi this young man,
If it is his will to take me.’
8
Donald M’Queen rade up the green,
On ane o Dumfermline’s horses,
And Lizie Menzie followed him,
Thro a’ her father’s forces.
9
‘O follow me, Lizie, my heart’s delight,
And follow me for you please;
Rype well the grounds o my pouches,
And ye’ll get tempting cheese.’
10
‘O wae mat worth you, Donald M’Queen!
Alas, that ever I saw thee!
The first love-token ye gae me
Was the tempting cheese o Fyvie.
11
‘O wae be to the tempting cheese,
The tempting cheese o Fyvie,
Gart me forsake my ain gudeman
And follow a footman-laddie!
12
‘But lat me drink a hearty browst,
Just sic as I did brew!
On Seton brave I turnd my back,
A’ for the sake o you.’
13
She didna wear the silken gowns
Were made into Dumbarton,
But she is to the Highlands gane,
To wear the weeds o tartan.
14
She’s casten aff the high-heeld sheen,
Made o the Turkey leather,
And she’s put on the single brogues,
To skip amo the heather.
15
Well can Donald hunt the buck,
And well can Lizie sew;
Whan ither trades begin to fail,
They can take their bowies and brew.
299. Trooper and Maid.
P. 174.
D.
‘The Trooper Lad.’ Communicated by Mr Macmath, with this note:
“Received, 21st August, 1895, at Crossmichael, from my aunt, Miss Jane
Webster. Learned by her many years ago, at Airds of Kells, from the
singing of John Coltart.”
1
The trooper lad cam to oor gate,
And oh! but he was weary,
He rapped at and chapped at,
Syne called for his kind deary.
2
The bonnie lass being in the close,
The moon was shining clearly,--
‘Ye’r welcome here, my trooper lad,
Ye’r welcome, my kind deary.’
3
She’s taen his horse by the bridle-reins,
And led him to the stable,
She’s gien him corn and hay to eat,
As much as he was able.
4
She’s taen the knight by the milk-white hand,
And led him to her chamber,
And gied him bread and cheese to eat,
And wine to drink his pleasure.
5
‘Bonnie lassie, I’ll lie near ye noo,
Bonnie lassie, I’ll lie near ye,
An I’ll gar a’ your ribbons reel
In the morning or I leave ye.’
6
. . . . . . .
. . . . . . .
And she put off her wee white smock,
Crying, ‘Laddie, are ye ready?’
* * * * * * *
7
The first time that the trumpet played
Was, Up, up and awa, man!
The next time that the trumpet played
Was, The morn’s the battle-day, man!
8
‘Bonnie lassie, I maun leave ye noo,
Bonnie lassie, I maun leave ye;
But, if e’er I come this way again
I will ca in an see ye.’
9
Bread and cheese for gentlemen,
An corn and hay for horses;
Pipes and tobacco for auld wives,
And bonnie lads for lasses.
10
‘When will us twa meet again?
When will we meet and marry?’
‘When cockle-shells turn silver bells,
Nae langer, love, we’ll tarry.’
11
So he’s taen his auld grey cloak about him noo,
An he’s ower the mountains fairly,
Crying, ‘Fare ye weel, my bonnie lass,
Fareweel, my ain kind deary.’
Mr Macmath adds the following stanza, “remembered by Miss Agnes
Macmath, 2nd January, 1896, from the singing of her mother.”
‘When will we twa meet again?
When will we meet and marry?’
‘When peace and truth come to this land,
Nae langer, love, we’ll tarry.’
305. The Outlaw Murray.
P. 186 a. Mr Macmath writes (Dec. 24, 1895) that he has examined two
boxes of MSS belonging to the late Mr George Wilson and found _not_
‘The Song of the Outlaw Murray,’ but ‘The Song of the Rid Square,’ in
a transcript (perhaps early rather than late) of the 17th century. He
thinks that by a slip of memory on Mr Wilson’s part ‘The Outlaw Murray’
was mentioned instead of this.
Fragments.
P. 202 b, last stanza. Mr Macmath has given me the following variation,
communicated (with a story of a wife carried off by fairies) by J. C.
to The Scottish Journal, II, 275, 1848.
O Alva woods are bonnie,
Tillycoultry hills are fair,
But when I think on the braes o Menstrie
It maks my heart aye sair.
* * * * *
P. 210 b, to III, 500. Mr Macmath informs me that the manuscript of
Motherwell here referred to is the same as that already printed, and
correctly printed, at III, 500 f.
FOOTNOTES:
[127] Mild Mary is an appellation which occurs elsewhere (as in No 91
=E=), and Mary Hamilton and Mary mild are interchangeable in =X=. It
is barely worth remarking that Myle, Moil, in =C=, =S=, are merely
varieties of pronunciation, and Miles in =W=, an ordinary kind of
corruption.
[128] In the 18th century we have ‘Derwentwater’ and ‘Rob Roy,’ both
of slight value; in the 17th ‘The Fire of Frendraught’ and ‘The Baron
of Brackley,’ both fairly good ballads, and others of some merit; but
nothing in either to be compared with ‘Mary Hamilton.’
[129] As to the “ballads” about the Maries mentioned by Knox, I
conceive that these may mean nothing more than verses of any sort to
the discredit of these ladies.
GLOSSARY
Notwithstanding every effort to make this glossary as complete as
possible, there remain not a few words and phrases with which I can
do nothing satisfactory. This is the case not only with ballads from
recent tradition, but with some that were taken down in writing three
hundred years ago or more.
At every stage of oral transmission we must suppose that some
accidental variations from what was delivered would be introduced,
and occasionally some wilful variations. Memory will fail at times;
at times the listener will hear amiss, or will not understand, and a
perversion of sense will ensue, or absolute nonsense,--nonsense which
will be servilely repeated, and which repetition may make more gross.
Dr Davidson informs me that one of his female relatives rendered ‘an
echo shrill did make’ (in Chevy Chace, 10) ‘an achish yirl did make,’
and that he took ‘aching or frightened earl’ to be the meaning until
he read the piece. Happy are we when we are sure of the nonsense; as
when, in The Gypsy Laddie, ‘they cast their glamourie owre her’ is
turned into ‘they called their grandmother over.’ “The combination of
two words into one,” says Dr Davidson, “is not rare in Scotch, nor is
the reverse process. For example, the word ‘hypochondriac’ is turned
into ‘keepach and dreeach,’ and the two parts often used separately.
‘I’m unco keepach’ and ‘I’m unco dreeach’ are common expressions among
old people. Imagine an etymologist, ignorant of the facts, trying to
discover the etymology of ‘keepach’ or of ‘dreeach.’” Words of one or
two syllables are long enough for the simple; a laboring man of my
acquaintance calls rheumatism ‘the tism’: what are the other syllables
to such, who understand no one of the three? Learned words do not occur
in ballads; still an old native word will be in the same danger of
metamorphosis. But, though unfamiliarity naturally ends in corruption,
mishearing may have the like effect where the original phrase is in no
way in fault; hence, perhaps, ‘with a bretther a degs ye’ll clear up my
nags,’ ‘a tabean briben kame,’ ‘I’ll have that head of thine, to enter
plea att my iollye,’ etc.
It must be borne in mind, however, that as to nonsense the burden
of proof rests always upon the expositor. His personal inability
to dispose of a reading is not conclusive; his convictions may be
strong, but patience and caution are his part and self-restraint as to
conjectures.
It is with a strong feeling of what ‘a kindly Scot’ signifies that I
offer my thanks to many gentlemen who have favored me with comments on
lists of words submitted to them. Especial acknowledgment is due to Dr
Thomas Davidson, a native of Old Deer, who has made his home in the
United States, and to Mr William Walker, of Aberdeen. Besides these, I
have to mention with gratitude the Rev. Robert Lippe, Rev. Dr Walter
Gregor, the late Dr William Alexander, Principal Sir W. D. Geddes, Dr
James Mori, Messrs William Forbes, James Aiken, David Scott, W. Carnie,
W. Cadenhead, and William Murison, all of Aberdeenshire; Dr James
Burgess, Messrs J. Logie Robertson and William Macmath, of Edinburgh;
Professor A. F. Murison, of London, and Dr Robert Wallace, M. P.;
Professor James Cappen, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario; Rev.
Professor J. Clarke Murray and Principal Dr W. M. Barbour, of Montreal;
Rev. Dr Alexander McDonald, St Francis Xavier’s College, Antigonish, N.
S.; Rev. Dr Waters, of Newark, N. J. For some difficult English words
help has been given by Dr W. Hand Browne of Johns Hopkins University,
Professor Manly of Brown University, and Professor Kittredge of Harvard
College.
It will be observed that ballads in the Skene MS which were derived
from the “Old Lady’s Collection” are not glossed, but the originals,
which should be substituted for Skene’s more or less incorrect copies.
[References are usually to volume, page, and stanza.]
A
=a’=, =aa=, =aw=, all.
=a’==every. a’man, I, 68, 27; II, 71, 16; 75, 13;
193, 24; IV, 46, 5, 6; 235, 10; V,
169, 6; 221, 10; 224, 22; 237, 8; 239,
36; 260 b, 5. a’body, V, 273 a.
=a=, abridgment of _have_, I, 315, 11; III, 215, 10;
440, 13; 441, 26; V, 55, 26; 79, 33; 213,
10; 224, 28; 251, 36.
=a==he, III, 54, 3, 7.
=a==I, in the phrase _a wat_ (a wait, a wite, etc.), II, 159, 11, 16,
19; 160, 10-16, 19; III, 299, 9: I know, verily, assuredly. II, 230,
6: used by a mere trick, with hardly a meaning. a’s, V, 266, 9: I’s, I
shall, will.
=a==of: III, 91, 2; 93, 36; 298, 59; 307, 10; 308, 12, 24; 309, 40 (a
trusti tre?); 349, 37, 39; 464, 11; IV, 504, 27.
=a==on. a grefe, III, 69, 268. a blode (ablode), I, 244, 9; V, 288 b,
v. 16. a row, III, 117, 24.
=a==one: I, 126, 4; 326, 7; 327, 24.
=a==ae, one single: V, 256 b, 2; 257, 6, 15; 278, 26. a warst, V, 215,
6. V, 239, 36: one and the same. =See ae.=
=a==to. abound, II, 109, 20: to go. a dee, 110, 25: to do. So, perhaps,
_abee_.
=a be=, =abe=, =a bee=, =abee=, =a beene= (with _let_), I, 356, =D b=
4; II, 29, 5; 108, 5; 159, 25; 185, 27; III, 455, 4, 8; V, 229, 35: be.
let abee with, IV, 96 f., =D= 9, 13. let abee of, IV, 97, =E= 4, 5; 98,
15; 99, 14, 15.
=abeen=, =abeene=, =aboon=, =abone=, etc., I, 315, 8; II, 468, 7; IV,
326, 16, 19: above. his hose abeen his sheen, V, 17, 35; 18, 14: his
stockings ungartered, falling above, over his shoes.
=abide=, =abyde=, III, 67, 219; 73, 345; V, 82, 24, 40: stop, wait.
III, 97, 8; 279, 13: withstand. _pret._ abode, III, 63, 143: waited.
_p. p._ abiden, abyden, III, 57 f., 25, 30: awaited.
=able=, II, 51, 4: suitable.
=ablins=, =aiblins=, III, 467, =b= 2: perhaps.
=aboard=, V, 134, 16: alongside; and so 8, 20, 22, or, _laid us aboard_
may be _boarded us_.
=abode=, III, 335 a: waiting, delay.
=abode=, III, 430, 1, _burden_: endured.
=aboone=, =aboun=, =abown=. See =abune=.
=abound.= ill a bound, II, 109, 20: ill (prepared) to go.
=about=, been, V, 52, 77: been engaged.
=abowthe=, III, 112, 52: about.
=abune=, =aboone=, =aboon=, =abon=, =abone=, =abown=, =aboun=, =abeen=,
II, 20, 8; 22, 16; 23, =D= 7, =E= 8; 24, =F= 10; 25, =G= 13; 27, 21;
28, 25; 29, 19; 30, 12; 145, 20: above (above them).
=abyde.= See =abide=.
=abyden.= See =abide=.
=abye=, III, 128, 84; V, 234 b, 3: pay, suffer consequences.
=Acaron=, III, 149, 32: being the oath of a Turk (36), this may be
taken as _Alcoran_.
=acward=, =ackward stroke=, III, 110, 17; IV, 148, 43: described as a
backhanded stroke. See =aukeward=.
=advance=, V, 147, 8: help on (?).
=aduenture=, III, 359, 90: hazard.
=aduise=, II, 436, 63: observe.
=ae==one, single: I, 310, 6; 467, 33; 478, 1; II, 77, 29; IV, 257, 10;
260, 10; 261, 9; 262, 24; 445, 1; 476, 3. ae best, I, 465, 13, 17; IV,
479, 13. ae first, I, 426, 7, 8; 494, 22. ae warst (a warst), V, 214
f., 1, 6. the ae ... the ither, III, 500 b, 7: the one ... the other.
=ae==mere, sole, ae licht o the moon, IV, 469, 4; 470, 35.
=ae==aye, always: I, 245, 7; II, 185, 40; 208, 12; IV, 247, =B= 11;
265, 13.
=aer=, I, 16, =C= 12: ear, plough.
=aevery=, III, 465, 25: voracious, very hungry. (A. S. gífre.)
=afar=, =afore=, =affore=, I, 438, =A= 1; II, 21, 15, 16; 138, 8; III,
405, 15; IV, 128 f., 19, 21, 23, 24: before.
=aff=, I, 346, 12: oft.
=affronted=, II, 367, 45; IV, 242 b: put to shame, mortified. III, 152,
6: confronted, opposed.
=a-fit=, V, 115, 7: on foot.
=aft=, III, 491, 8; V, 299 b, 4: oft.
=after=, after the way, III, 99, 57: along, on. aftere brade waye, I,
333, 1: along, over. after me, III, 74, 367: according to me, my advice.
=against=, III, 344, 36: by way of preparation for the case.
=agast of him=, III, 99, 49: alarmed about him (the consequences to
him).
=agaste=, V, 71, note †: terrified.
=agayn=(=e=), =ageyn=, III, 98, 29; 297, 46: against, =a-geyn= euyn,
III, 13, 3: towards.
=agoe=, V, 83, 44: gone.
=agree=, IV, 147, 32: bring to agreement.
=a-ȝon=, comyn a-ȝon, III, 13, 4: came upon, encountered.
=ahind=, =ahint=, =ahin=, I, 299, 14; II, 105, 11; 315, 5; III, 480,
14; 481, 30; IV, 246, 6: behind. V, 17, 32: over and above.
=aiblins=, =ablins=, I, 439, 4: perhaps.
=aileth at.= See =at=.
=air=, in a drowsy air, IV, 20, 11: _air_ seems to mean _atmosphere_
simply; possibly _disposition_, _condition_.
=air=, =aire=, =ayre=, =by air=, =by ayre=, II, 106, 1; 270, 30; III,
162, 58; 164, =b= 58; V, 270, 7: early, betimes.
=airn=, =ern=, I, 342, 33; 348, 13, 19; 355, 42; III, 474, 39; 481, 35;
505, 21: iron.
=airt=, =art=, II, 23, =E= 5: quarter of the heavens, point of the
compass, west-airt lands, II, 73, 30: western. rade the airt o, IV, 27,
31: in the direction of. a’airts o wind, II, 341, =Q=. been at that
art, III, 163, 87.
=airted=, V, 99, =C= 4: laid their course.
=aith=, oath.
=a’kin=, =a’kin kind=, II, 114, 2: all kind, every.
=’al=, that ’al, IV, 17, 3: ’ull, wull, will.
=al=, al so mote I the, III, 68, 243: absolutely.
=al=, will.
=alaffe=, III, 34, 11: aloof.
=alane=, I, 347, 2. mine alane, I, 332, =E= 1, =F= 1. See =lane=.
=alang=, along.
=albergs=, II, 340 b: houses, dwells.
=alean=, alone.
=alee=, IV, 516 b, 3: on the lea, a-field, but for the purpose of
keeping guard; cf. III, 487, =A= 15; 492, =D= 5; 495, =B b= 4.
=aleene=, I, 346, 4: alone.
=alelladay=, I, 220, =A= 1: exclamation of grief.
=algate=, IV, 93, note *: anyway.
=aliment=, IV, 91, a: provision for maintenance; here, apparently,
alimony.
=alive=, I loved ye best ye were born alive, IV, 521, 19: corrupted;
the sense appears in IV, 26, =A= 16, _I love best that’s born alive_,
best of all living things.
=all.= all and, I, 56, 6, 7; III, 432, 16, 17; all as she stood, I,
117, 16; all in my hand, III, 186, 20; all by the roode, III, 188, 2;
all by his side, V, 212 b, 8; all on, IV, 393, 5; 394, =B= 2, 5; 395
f., =B b= 2, 3, 5; V, 233 f., 2, 3, 5; all at her head, feet, V, 158,
9; all down, V, 293 b, 5; all oer, 302 b, 2.
=allacing=, IV, 18, 21: repeating of alace (alas).
=allther=, III, 57, 9; 70, 283, 284, representing the ancient genitive
plural of _all_, allther moste, allther best: best of all, etc.
=along of=, III, 279, 8: owing to.
=alongst=, V, 267 a, 7, 8: along.
=alow=, III, 4, 1: below.
=alow=, =aloe=, George Aloe, V, 133.
=als=, =alsua=, I, 327, 27; IV, 366 =D= 5: =also=.
=also=, I, 328, 46: all so, just as.
=althocht=, III, 370, 19: although.
=amain(e)=, III, 345, 48; 350, 51: with vigor, strength, force. blew,
sound, cald, amain, III, 181, 27; 341, 46; 343, 17; 344, 36: with
strength, loudly. II, 385, 24; IV, 13, 2: in force, in numbers. I, 398,
4; III, 176 f., 11, 16; 209, 9: at once, quickly.
=amain=, V, 134, 7, 16: (Fr. amener) lower, strike.
=a-married=, IV, 236, 4: married.
=a-marvel=, II, 386, 12: marvel (Fr. émerveiller).
=amense=, III, 465, 23: amends. (Should be printed as one word, not _a
mense_ as in the MS.)
=American leather=, I, 494, 14; III, 3, 13; 5, =C= 2: has been
explained as morocco made from American horsehides, for which a patent
was obtained c. 1799. See The Scots Magazine, 1799, LXI, 286. But the
date of the text at III, 3, is 1780.
=amo=, V, 306 b, 14: among.
=among=, II, 451, 89: between.
=amoued=, II, 442, 9: excited, agitated.
=an=, II, 75, 20; V, 214 b, 4: one.
=-an=, =-ane=, =-and=, =-en=, etc., annexed to the definite form of the
superlative of the adjective (preceded by _the_, _her_, etc.) or to
numerals, or following separately, seems to be _an_=_one_. (The history
of this usage has not been made out.) The firstan, nextan, firsten,
nexten, _passim_ (_the seconden_ only at I, 507, 3); the firstand, I,
135, =O= 18; the nextand, II, 94, 6; her firsten, thirden, etc., II,
161, 9-12; her nexten, II, 164, 19; the firstin, the nextin, II, 380,
22; the first an, the niest an, I, 351, 45; the warst in, the best in,
II, 98, 43, 44; the third ane, the fourth ane, etc., II, 71, 5, 6; 78,
8-11; the third one, fourth one, etc., II, 72, 5-7; the first ae, IV,
490, 20; the first y, III, 3, 15; the firsten ane, II, 370, 16. So,
that samen, II, 475, 17.
=an=, I, 295, 30; 468, 6, 9; 480, 6, 7; II, 21, =B= 11: and, if.
=ance=, =anse=, I, 341, 9; 342, 23; 344, 21, 22; V, 9, 2, 4: once.
=anchor=, did on anchor rise so high, III, 344, 34 (=c=, =g=, have
_ride_): the ship is in full sail; no apparent sense.
=ancient=, =ancyent=, III, 286, 40; 340, 37; 341, 46; 406, 30, 31, 39;
420, 20; 422, 65, 66: ensign.
=and=, _superfluous_ (as in “when that I was and a tiny little boy,”
and two other songs in Shakspere), see II, 57 b; II, 58, 7, 8; 59, 22,
27; 60, 39; 87, 31; III, 145, 6; 277, 16; 419, 8; IV, 448 a, 1, 2. The
same usage in German, Swedish, and especially Dutch ballads.
=and=, if.
=-and=, =-end=, termination of the present participle: whissland,
singand, cumand, seekand, etc., I, 326-329; II, 268, 17; IV, 195 f.,
=D= 2, 7, 10, 14; V, 192 f., 35, 49.
=ane==a, I, 327, 11.
=ane==alone. me ane, I, 333, 1.
=ane=, II, 191, 37=en, end.
=aneath=, =aneth=, II, 185, 29; 191, 23; V, 224, 17: beneath. aneath
the sun, III, 5, =D= 7: sheltering the eyes with the hand. So, below
the sun, III, 6, 6; 8, 6.
=anent=, I, 222, 8; II, 166, 21; 191, 24; 391, 20: over against, in the
face of.
=anew=, I, 305, 1; III, 495, =B b= 3-5; IV, 249, 10; 271, =B= 4:
enough, enow.
=angel(l)=, II, 444, 55; 449, 61; 453, 32; III, 156, 4; V, 101, 4: a
gold coin, of value varying from 6s. 8d. to 10s.
=angerly=, III, 286, 55; 361, =b= 21: angrily.
=ankir=, III, 66, 198: recluse, hermit.
=another=, III, 138, 8, 12, 13: _corrupt, or verbiage_.
=anse=, IV, 518, 3: once.
=answere= your quarrel, I, 411, 18: be responsible for, take on me to
settle, your difference.
=answery=, _v._, V, 283, 12: answer.
=ant=, I, 244; V, 288 b: and.
=antine= (Fr. antienne), IV, 439 =b=, 6: anthem.
=anunder=, I, 302, =A= 9: under.
=aout=, V, 304 b, 7: out.
=apayd=, euelle apayd, III, 322 a: ill satisfied, displeased.
=ape=, lead an ape in hell, penance for old maids: I, 232, 14.
=apparent=, III, 451, note *: heir apparent. (parand, II, 447, 2, 4.)
=applyed=, _p. p._, V, 51, 67: plied.
=appone=, I, 327, 14, 28: upon.
=apurn=, V, 304 b, 3: apron.
=ar=, I, 244, 18; III, 110, 18: or, before.
=arblast=, I, 311 a: cross-bow.
=archborde=, III, 340, 23, 29 (in 29, MS. charke-bord): may be a
misspelling of _hachebord_, st. 36 (_hatch-bord_, p. 342, 70). Barton
grappled the ship to his archborde, from which we should infer that
the word meant the side of the ship, as _hatch-bord_ would naturally
signify at p. 342, 70. But _archborde_ might of itself mean the stern
of the ship, a timber at the stern being still so called, and German
_hack-bord_ meaning the upper part of the stern of a ship. (It is
singular that none of the difficult words _archborde_, _hachebord_,
_hall_ (III, 340, 29) occur in the York copy, IV, 503, which, however,
has difficulties of its own.)
=archery=, III, 309, 41: collected archers.
=arches=, II, 307, 29: aims, shoots.
=are=, I, 327, 23: before.
=armorie=, I, 285, 34, seems to be employed in the sense of _armament_,
_men at arms_.
=armorye=, III, 286, 56: armor.
=arselins=, V, 124, 12: backwards.
=art=, =airt=, quarter of the heavens. been at that art, III, 163, 87:
in that quarter, at that place. See =airt=.
=as=, _pron._, I, 477, 6, 7, 13, 15; II, 4, =D= 4; 452, 14; V, 206 a,
1; b, 6: that, who.
=as=, _conj._, I, 477, 5, 18, 19; II, 453, 28: that.
=as=, V, 218 b, =D= 1: was.
=as ever=, III, 281, 10: as long as.
=asay=, _p. p._, III, 112, 48: tried. [Read _asayed_?]
=asembled=, III, 164, =b= 15: met (encountered).
=ask=, I, 353, =H= 11; 355, 41; II, 504, 32: newt, lizard. (A. S.
áðexe.) Cf. =ass=.
=askd=, my father he askd me an acre o land, I, 17, =D= 9: _askd_
seems to be an erroneous repetition from 8; _aucht_, owned, would be
expected; or _left_, _gave_, as in =K=, =L=.
=asking=, =asken=, =askend=, =askent=, II, 91, =D= 27, 28; 92, 22-25;
192, 7, 14; 194, 23; 359, 7-10; V, 221 f., 27, 29, 30, 32; 223, 5, 7;
418, 8: boon, request.
=askryede=, I, 326, 4: described.
=ass=, I, 349, 11, 15: ask, newt.
=assoyled=, absolved.
=aste=, I, 217, 1: east.
=astoned=, =astonied=, V, 76, 24; 82, 35: astonished, amazed.
=asurd=, I, 334, 5: of azure; should probably be _asur_.
=at.= reade must rise at, II, 53, 34, 35; take councell at, III, 405,
17, 23; take leaue att, III, 357, 42: from. ask at, beg at, spear at,
I, 497, =L= 5-8, =M= 2-5; III, 161, 32; 330, 15; IV, 331, 10: of, from.
ails ye at, aileth thee at, II, 72, 3; 78, 7; 80, 3; IV, 95, 12; 96, 4;
99, =H= 7: with (what ail comes to you from me?). see at me, IV, 345,
8: in. come atte, IV, 507, 81: to, to the presence of. I was at thee,
IV, 436, 1: (apud) with.
=at=, IV, 331 b, 8: out (?).
=at=, jobbing at, I, 104, =A b= 10: jogging off, away (?).
=at=, with ellipsis of _the door_, rappit at, clappit at, I, 105 a, 29;
IV, 444, 16, 35; V, 173, 1; 306 b, 1.
=at=, =att=, _pron._ and _conj._, II, 472, 24; III, 488, 19; IV, 348,
1; 446, 6; 469 b, 10, 12; V, 79, 31; 118, =B= 12; 220 b, 5; 224, 28;
236, 11^4; 256, 8: that, (_it_, V, 236, 11^2, may be for this _at_.)
=a ta=, III, 464, 1: at all.
=athort=, I, 305, 3: across (upon). far athort, V, 164, =D b= 13: a
long way.
=attempt=, III, 39, 110: tempt.
=attemptattis=, III, 451 b: enterprises.
=atteynt=, I, 328, 34: (here) lay hands on.
=attoure=, III, 458 b: outowr, over and above.
=atweel=, I, 22, 2, 3: I wot well, assuredly.
=atween=, I, 466, 11; II, 315, 6; V, 156, 11, 13: between. atween
hands, II, 139, 6: meanwhile.
=atwyn=, V, 80, 57: from one another.
=aucht=, =aught=. wha’s aucht?=who is it owned (owns)? whose is (are)?
I, 22, 4; 472, 1; II, 114, 11; 164, 8, 11; IV, 32, =C= 6; 194, 8;
199, 21; 202, 9; 203, 17. aught a bairn, II, 494, 4: had. where is
the knight aught me for wedding, IV, 182, =F= 6: who was (is) under
obligation to marry me? (This is my ransome I ought to him to pay, I,
294, 12.) It is not unlikely that _aucht_ in the phrase _wha’s aucht_
is present in sense. Indeed we have _aughts_, II, 336, =Q= 5. Cf. _who
owes?_ whose is? IV, 205, 27.
=aught=, _v._, suld hae come and aught a bairn to me, II, 494, 4: had
(a child by).
=aukeward=, =awkwarde= stroke, II, 59, 23; III, 93, 40: backhanded. See
=acward=.
=auld son=, without regard to absolute age: I, 79, 58; 184, 8, 9; IV,
94, =A= 4; 97, =F= 4. So old sister for elder sister, eldest of three:
I, 175, 8; auld dochter, II, 462, 33. auld son, of child just born and
the only one, II, 105, 7; 107, 3-6, 17; IV, 206, 15. So at II, 95, 11,
called young son immediately after. Of babe in the cradle, II, 325, 10.
See =old=.
=aull=, =auld=, old. I, 359, 6, 9, in four nights auld: at the age of
four days. II, 80, 9, in twall years auld.
=aussy pan=, I, 301, 6: ash pan.
=austerne=, I, 134, =N= 3: austere, harsh. See =osterne=.
=ava=, II, 189, 33; 323, 25; III, 7, 13, 14; IV, 257, 12; 300, 3: of
all. II, 360, 10; V, 112, =B b= 7: at all.
=avayle=, II, 436, 70: put down, doff.
=avow=, IV, 240, 7: seems to be used as _consent_ rather than _own_,
_confess_; but cf. IV, 56, =A= 8; V, 252 a.
=avowe=, _n._, III, 65, 180, 187, 190; 68, 240; 73, 346; 297, 44; 307,
1: vow.
=avowë=, =avower=, III, 67, 232; 520 a, No 161: patron, protector.
=avoyd=, V, 53, 102: begone.
=aw=, all.
=await=, lie at await, III, 409, note *: in wait.
=awaite=, =awayte=, III, 72, 330; 84, 330; 88, 331: lie in wait for.
awayte me scathe, III, 66, 202: lie in wait to do me harm.
=awende=, I, 244, 9: weened, imagined.
=awet=, III, 112, 64: know. Perhaps, await, descry.
=awkwarde= stroke, III, 93, 40: a backhanded stroke. See =aukeward=.
=awsom=, V, 193, 49: awful.
=ay=, I, 333, 1, 2, 3: a.
=ayenst=, III, 76, 420: against, towards, about.
=ayon=, =ayone=, =ayont=, I, 301, 1; 302, 1; 428, 20; II, 133, =D= 4,
6; IV, 412, 6: beyond. IV, 330 a, appendix, 1: and oddly of the man, as
farther from the wall. III, 392, 20, 21: beyond, across. I, 220, =A= 2;
IV, 8, 46: over against, in the face of.
=ayre=, =eare=, =ere=: heir.
B
=ba=, IV, 354, 1: a lullaby.
=baas=, balls.
=baba=, II, 339, 19: baby.
=bace=, V, 104 a=bash (Swed. basa): beat; _pret._ baist, III, 164, =b=
26(?). See =baist=.
=bacheeleere=, II, 58, 13: young knight devoted to the service of a
lady.
=back-spald=, V, 106, =E= 4: hinder part of the shoulder.
=bad=, =bade=, V, 18, 9; 27, 41; 243, 11: ordered, offered. (A. S.
beódan.)
=bad=, =bade=, =baed=, III, 267, 15: abode, stopped, waited for. II,
115, 22; III, 312, 28; V, 236, 17: remained, staid. (A. S. bídan.)
=badgers=, III, 477, 8: pedlars.
=baed=, II, 115, 22: abode, stopped. See =bad=.
=baffled=, II, 479: thwarted (perhaps, made a fool of). IV, 146 f., 11,
31: affronted, insulted, or disgraced.
=bail=, life in, III, 10, 19: in power, at disposal.
=bailie=, III, 385, 12: municipal officer, alderman. IV, 326, 12:
bailiff, steward, manager of an estate. See =baylye=.
=bairn=, =barn=, =bern=, III, 437, 28, 36; 453, 17; IV, 309, 5; 310,
12: child.
=baist=, _pret._, III, 164, =b= 26: beat. baste, _p. p._, III, 165, 92:
beaten. (Icel. beysta?) See =bace=.
=baked=, II, 403, 2: becked, curtsied, made obeisance.
=bale=, II, 45, 30, 44; 58, 11; 419, 51; 466, 34; III, 92, 11, 18; 99,
51: ill, trouble, mischief, harm, calamity, destruction. See =balys=.
=bale=, I, 355, 41: fire.
=bale-fire=, II, 118, 9; 119, 19; 155, 36; IV, 467, 12, 14: bonfire,
large fire.
=ballants=, IV, 129, 30: ballads.
=ballup=, III, 181, 15 (ballock): front or flap of breeches.
=balow=, IV, 351, 1; 352, =C= 1: lullaby, sing a lullaby to.
=balys=, III, 310, 68: misfortunes, troubles. See =bale=.
=ban=, =band=, I, 69, 38; 73, 53; II, 376, 36; III, 491, 12: hinge.
=ban=, =bann=, _v._, I, 304, =E= 5; 305, 6; III, 104, 8; IV, 87, 14; V,
115, 7: curse.
=ban=, =band=, =bande=, =bond=, IV, 388, 7: band. IV, 388, 11: bond.
=ban=, I, 55, 12: bound (_pret._).
=band(e)=, III, 430, 8; 431, 7: bond, compact.
=band-dogs=, =bandoggs=, III, 123, 16; 125, 31; 126, =B b= 31; =c= 31:
dogs that are kept chained (on account of their fierceness).
=banded=, IV, 388, 7: bound, secured with bands.
=bane=, I, 285, 33; III, 92, 7: destruction, death.
=bane.= saddle of the bane (MS. bone), I, 468, 13; bouer o bane, II,
185, 31: meaning probably the _royal bone_ of I, 466, 10. See =roelle
bone=.
=bane-fire=, II, 146, 23; 331, 17: bonfire.
=bang=, II, 438, 4: may be any implement for banging; it is sometimes
stick, here strap (_in_ should be _wi_).
=bang=, IV, 85, 5: emend to _hang_.
=bangisters=, IV, 37, 7; 38, 9: people violent and regardless of law.
=banis=, III, 78, 453: slayers, murderers.
=banished=, III, 401, 15: possibly with the meaning banned, but the
ordinary sense does well enough.
=bank=, sea-bank, IV, 229, 3, 7: shore (?).
=bankers=, I, 334, 9: carpets, tapestries for benches.
=banket=, III, 446 b: banquet.
=banneret=, II, 395, =N= 1: banner-bearer (see =B= 1; =E= 1; =I= 1; =K=
1; =M= 1; =P= 1).
=barck=, =bark=, II, 239, 1: birk, birch.
=barelins=, II, 212, 12: barely.
=bargain=, III, 181, 13: brawl, fight.
=barker=, V, 78, 11; 80, 43, 49, etc.; 82, 20: tanner.
=barking=, I, 109, =C= 10: who uses bark, as a tanner.
=barm=, I, 243, 7: lap.
=barn-well= thrashing, II, 322, 8: the well has no sense, and has
probably been caught from 9, at the far well washing. To be dropped.
=barn=, =barne=, II, 437, 85; IV, 141, 17; V, 114, 10; 267, 3: (A. S.
bearn) child. III, 308, 14: (A. S. beorn) man, fighting man.
=baron=, I, 293, 2; 294 f., 5, 9, 23, 28: simply knight, and that, in
all cases but the first, vaguely.
=barras=, oer the, IV, 372, 6: beyond the barriers (as 374, =A b=,
after 5).
=barrine=, bairn.
=base-court=, III, 470 b: lower or outer court.
=bassonet=, =basnet=, =basnit=, III, 298, 51, 52; 308 f., 29, 32: a
light helmet, shaped like a skull-cap.
=bat=, but.
=batit=, baited.
=batts=, blows, burden of, III, 465, 20: all the blows (beating) he can
bear.
=baubee=, =bawbee=, III, 268, 6; 269, =D= 6; 270, 4, 5; V, 242 b, 5:
halfpenny.
=baube=, II, 132, 30: babe.
=baucheld= sheen, IV, 380, 26: shoes down at the heels (ill-bukled,
wrongly, V, 276, 18).
=bay=, by.
=bayberry kame=, IV, 471 f., 2, 4: a corrupt passage, yielding no sense
(so of other readings here).
=bay dogs=, III, 126 f., =e=, =f= 31: dogs that bring to bay, or that
bay (?).
=baylleful=, III, 298, 58: destructive, deadly.
=baylye=, III, 28, 140: bailiff, sheriff’s officer (to execute writs,
etc.). III, 332, 15: chief magistrate, mayor. See =bailie=.
=bayne=, perdition.
=bayr=, V, 110, 13: =byre=, cowhouse.
=be===by. be to and al be on, I, 242, 11: by two[s] and all by one[s].
be, be that, III, 100, 73; 482, 26: by the time that. sey be, V, 79,
26: about. See =by=.
=be’s=, it be’s, III, 160, 9: shall be==it s’ be.
=be wi=, IV, 261, 23: tolerate, bear with.
=beager=, beggar.
=beagly=, V, 224, 10. See =bigly=.
=beam=, beam gold, II, 402, 10: for _beaming_? Probably corrupt.
=beame=, of the utuer beame, IV, 506, 59: utuer is perhaps utter,
outer; but what outer beam would Horsley come to in climbing the mast?
Probably corrupt. If we read, of (==on) the utter (outer) bane (bone),
which rhymes, we have to explain the outer bone of the buttocke.
=bean=, bone.
=bear=, I, 149, 6: move on, proceed.
=bear=, bier.
=bear=, beer.
=bear=, IV, 324, =C= 1: barley.
=bear-seed=, IV, 323, 6: barley; bear-seed time seems to refer to
barley-harvest.
=beare mercy=, as the lawes will thee beare, V, 53, 98: have for (as
in, bear malice, etc.).
=beare=, _pret._, II, 266, 30: bare.
=beared=, buried.
=bearing arrow=, III, 29, 150; 202, 33; 341, 53: “an arrow that carries
well,” Percy; “an arrow made to carry especially straight,” Nares;
but on the first occasion a broad arrow is used when “an arrow that
carries well” (straight) is equally, or even more, necessary, and on
the third a bearing and a broad arrow are used indifferently, III,
29, 153, 159; 341, 56. Perhaps a very long arrow, such as required to
be carried in the hand. “Longe arrowes like standarts with socetts
of stell for my Lord’s foutemen to bere in their hands, when they ryn
with my Lorde” are noted as _berrying_ arrows in the preparations for
the Earl of Northumberland’s expedition to Terouenne, 5 Henry VIII.
Dillon’s Fairholt’s Costume in England, II, 8, 1885. Mr C. J. Longman,
himself an archer, remarking that a bearing arrow is used for a range
of 20 score paces, III, 29, 148, 150, and a broad arrow for 6 score,
153, suggests that a bearing arrow was probably what is now called
a flight-arrow,--a thin, light arrow with a tapering point for long
shooting.
=bearly=, V, 219, 17: buirdly.
=beat=, IV, 379, 15: boot, recompense.
=became=, II, 422, 2: came.
=became his courtisie=, III, 464, 18: that is, his courtesy became
him (as in Shakspere’s “youth becomes the livery that it wears”). See
=become=.
=because=, III, 29, 157: in order that.
=beck=, made a beck on her knee, II, 359, 7, 9: curtsy.
=becke= (A. S. bec), I, 334, 8: stream, brook.
=become= them well, IV, 147, 22: look well in them (i.e., they became
him well); so III, 464, 18; cf. set, IV, 331, 18. place, part, does
well become me, IV, 152, =D= 2; 153, 1: suit. See =became=.
=becomed=, _pret._ of become, IV, 505, 53.
=bed=, I, 272, 9: offered. See =bede=.
=bed-head=, I, 184, 44, 46: the top of the box or case of a Scottish
bed. I, 116, =C= 5: should be bed-stock, as the rhyme shows.
=bed-stock=, I, 115, 3; IV, 94, 7; V, 208, 4: the outer side of a bed,
that farther from the wall.
=bede=, _v._, II, 499 b: offer. See =bed=.
=bedone=, I, 271, 2; II, 183, 20: worked, ornamented.
=bedyls=, III, 28, 140: under-bailiffs, summoners.
=bee-ba=, II, 330, 11, 12: sounds to lull a child.
=beeds.= that beeds, I, 69, 67: string of beads.
=beek=, =biek=, IV, 69, 22; 77, 3, =c= 3: bask.
=beenits=, IV, 381, 12: bayonets.
=beere=, II, 445, 73: bare, bore.
=beerly= (bride), II, 132, 24: large and well made; stately. See
=bierly=. beerly, burly cheer, I, 298, 4; 300, 4: great, huge.
=beet=, =bete=, =beik=, III, 495 a; IV, 517, 15: better, help. Of fire,
II, 120, 16, 17; IV, 467, 13: kindle, keep up. _p. p._ bett, II, 44,
14. See =bete=.
=beet=, II, 475, 7; III, 281, 2: behooved.
=beet=, _v._, _inf._, II, 151, =H= 2: boot, furnish with boots. _pret._
bet, 4.
=beets=, _n. pl._, IV, 187, 10: boots.
=beette=, III, 298, 54: _pret._ of beat.
=befa=, IV, 357, =C= 4: may befall (he does not care what name he
gets). IV, 357 f., 6, 8, 12, 14: belong to, suit.
=befalle=, I, 241, 2: may it befall!
=before=, taen your God before, II, 62 b, 15, representing ‘minged not
Christ before,’ II, 59, 21: an artificial-sounding expression, which
may mean, previously taken God for your helper.
=beforne=, II, 58, 15; III, 13, 12, 14: before. II, 58, 15, before
(morning).
=beft=, III, 161, 26: beat. 164, 92: beaten.
=begane=, =bigane=, IV, 366, =D= 4: overlaid, covered.
=begeck=, =begack=, give a, III, 162, 63; 164, =b= 63: play a trick on,
make a fool of. (A. S. geác, cuckoo, simpleton.)
=begoud=, =begood=, =begud=, I, 473, 11; II, 99, =B b= 9; IV, 167, =C=
10; 194, =B= 5; 195, 14; 201, 21; 203, 15; 224, 13: began.
=beguile=, _p. p._, III, 36, 41: beguiled.
=begule=, beguile.
=behad=, II, 160, 3: behold.
=behear=, II, 240 f., 7, 9; III, 93, 46; 131, 3: hear, beheard him,
III, 421, 58: heard.
=beheld=, II, 61, 12: tarried.
=behestë=, III, 90 b: promise.
=behind his hand=, a stroke behind his hand, II, 63, 24:
seems==backhanded stroke.
=behote=, III, 71, 315; _pres._, promise, thou behotë, III, 71, 297:
didst promise.
=beik=, =beet=, =bete=, on, II, 121, 20: put on fuel.
=being=, II, 410, 26: means of living.
=belinger=, IV, 74, =G b= 3: corruption or misprint for (best?) ginger.
=beliue=, =belyfe=, =b(e)lyue=, III, 4, 18; 28, 125; 29, 144; 35, 18;
84, 87, 300; 94, 53; 117, 13: soon, immediately.
=bell=, silken, III, 261, =D= 7: conical canopy? corrupted from beild,
shelter (screen)? Aytoun, with great probability, conjectures pall. Cf.
=A= 10; =E= 10; =F= 14, which support the emendation.
=Bell= (Archie), III, 491, 3, 7: billie (comrade, brother), as in =D=,
III, 492, 2.
=belle=, bere the, I, 328, 42; II, 58, 1; V, 202 b: stand foremost,
take the lead.
=bell-groat=, I, 251, =A= 3, 5. Same as next word.
=belling-great=, I, 252, 3, 5: groat for ringing bell.
=belly-=, =billie-blind=. See =Billie Blin=.
=below the sun=, lookit below the sun, II, 78, 15; III, 6, 6; in below
the sun, 8, 6. See =aneath the sun=.
=belted plaids=, IV, 84, 11; 85, 3; 87, 2; V, 253, No 203, =D= 2:
“properly twelve yards of tartan cloth worn round the waist, obliquely
across the breast and left shoulder, and partly depending backwards, ut
in bello gestatur.”
=belyfe=, straightway. See =beliue=.
=belyue.= See =beliue=.
=bemean=, V, 163, 4: bemoan, compassionate.
=ben.= Good ben be here, III, 267, 10: God’s (or good) benison?
Probably corrupt.
=ben= (shoes o, sheen o), IV, 378, 7; 380, 14: bend, bend-leather,
strong ox-leather, thickened by tanning.
=ben=, I, 56 f., =C= 2, 14; III, 267, 20; 268, 17; 270, 16; 272, 20;
274, 33: towards the inner apartment of the house, or parlor, in,
within. come farer ben, I, 369, 51; he was ben, II, 313, 16; he wood
her butt, he wood her ben, I, 56, 2. V, 216, =B a= 7; 219, 10; 242 b, 8.
=ben=, royal ben, I, 478 f., 12, 46: (emended from _bend_) bone. See
=roelle-bone=.
=benbow=, III, 54, 6; 104, 5; 132, 5; bend bow, III, 7, 4; 8, 25; 11,
6; bende bowe, III, 309, 44; bent bow, III, 8 =G= 2; 106, 16, 17: bow,
simply, the bow being in actual use only in III, 11, 54, 104 (?), 106,
16, 309.
=bend=, III, 145, 5: where the way turned (?).
=bend=, III, 362, 71: _pret._ of bend. So II, 125, =G= 6: _pret._ of
bend (should not have been changed to bent, p. 122).
=bended=, IV, 78, 1: bounded.
=benjed=, II, 403, 2; beenged, bynged, made humble obeisance, cringed.
=bent the way=, IV, 442, 13: took her course over.
=bent=, sword bent in the middle clear, middle brown, IV, 12, 11, 12:
nonsense, or close upon nonsense.
=bent=, I, 3, 1; 5, =D= 1: a coarse, reedy grass.
=bent=, =bents=, II, 58, 16, 18; 62, 11; 172, 24, 25, 27, 35, 43; III,
295, 5; 296, 20; 297, 40; 307, 5, 8; 308, 26; 312, 28; IV, 86, 3:
field, fields covered with bent grass.
=benty ground=, atween the brown and benty ground, IV, 27, 12: between
heather and bent ground.
=benty line=, III, 7, 5: line of bent grass.
=ber=, _pret._ of bear.
=berafrynd=, V, 71 b: a drinking word, in response to passilodion.
=bere=, V, 264 a, 2: bigg, a sort of coarser barley (_Hordeum
hexastichum_, not _H. vulgare_ or _distichum_).
=berl=, V, 224, 26: birl, dispense.
=bern=, =barn=, =bairn=, IV, 456, 7-9, 12; V, 247, 11: (A. S. bearn)
child.
=berne=, III, 295, 5: (A. S. beorn, fighting man, brave, etc.) man.
=berry=, brown berry comb, II, 224, 1: the material of this comb is
elsewhere said to be haw bayberry; all the passages describing it are
corrupt.
=beryde=, I, 326, 2: made a bere, noise.
=bescro=, III, 110, 26; V, 80, 49: beshrew, curse.
=bese=, I, 329, 58: shalt be.
=beside=, =besids=, III, 357, 38, 41, 43, 45-7: aside from, away from.
=beside=, in addition to, four and thirty stripes comen beside the
rood, II, 59, 29: referring to the scourging before the crucifixion.
=besom=, hid herself in the besom of the broom, I, 398, 9: besom seems
to be twigs (as _scopae_ is both twigs and broom). Wedgwood cites from
a Dutch dictionary of 1654, brem-bessen, broom-twigs, scopae spartiae.
=bespeak=: _pret._ bespa(c)ke, III, 420, 26, 30, 35; 430, 9; 431, 19,
23; bespoke, V, 149, 8-11; bespake him, I, 286, 52-5; III, 419 f., 6,
13, 22, 24: spake.
=bespeek=, IV, 498, 1, 3, 9: speak with.
=bespoke=, V, 149, 10, well-bespoke: well-spoken.
=bestand=, III, 105, 23: help, avail.
=bested=, =bestead=, circumstanced. ferre and frembde bested, III,
63, 138: in the position of one from a distance and a stranger. hard
bestead, III, 161, 36.
=bestial=, IV, 41, note *: all the animals of a farm.
=best man=, IV, 342, 4: principal servant.
=bet=, II, 151, =H= 4: booted.
=betaken=, II, 59, 38: made over.
=bete=, =beet=, III, 310, 68: better, second, relieve. See =beet=.
=beth=, =both=, III, 59, 53, 54; 79, 54: be, old plural.
=bether=, V, 283, 8: better.
=Bethine=, II, 4, 12, for rhyme: if meant for anything, Bethany is
meant, however inappropriate.
=betide=, II, 411 a, last line but two: nearest that ever fall to one,
an unlikely phrase. Motherwell reads whateer betide.
=betide=, I, 503 b, 4, what news do ye betide? i.e. what do you (does
your coming) signify? or, as at I, 205, =F= 10 (doth thee betide), what
news has befallen you, come to your knowledge?
=betide=, boots of the tangle (sea-weed) that nothing can betide, V,
259 a, 11: should read to the effect, That’s brought in by the tide.
=betook=, I, 126, 6: took (simply).
=bets=, _pl._, V, 257, 10: boots.
=bett=, II, 44, 14, _pret._ of bete, beet: kindled.
=better.= she stood, and better she stood (printed bitter), I, 492, 5;
they rode, and better they rode, I, 102, 10; 492, 10, 14; he rade and
better rade, II, 209, =D= 5: longer, farther still. better swam, V,
140, =e= 7. better be, I, 128, 13: still more.
=beuk=, book.
=bewch=, III, 91 b: bough.
=bewrailed=, V, 55, 38: berailed.
=bewray=, V, 86, 35: reveal.
=beyt=, V, 79, 25: beeth, be.
=bickering=, IV, 7, 34: (hail) pattering.
=bide=, =byde=, I, 430, 4, 5, 8, 9; II, 177, 14; 289, =A= 2; 313, 14;
III, 465, 30; V, 108, =B= 8: stay. _p. p._ bidden, IV, 262 f., 32,
33; 524, 9. bide (a doulfou day), II, 159, 23: await, look for. bide
anither bode, III, 268, 12; 270, 12: wait for another offer. I never
bade a better bode, III, 267, 15. your wedding to bide, III, 387, 11:
await. bide it whoso may, IV, 433, 21: await the result? (obscure
passage). bide frae me, V, 236, 16: stay away. In: she bade the bride
gae in, II, 195, 30, it is not likely that a rival would bid a bride;
interpret rather, she waited for the bride to go.
=bidene=, =bydene=, =bydeene=, I, 105 a, 20: immediately (or, all
together). I, 273, 34: successively, one after another. III, 65, 185:
together. III, 73, 350: simultaneously, or _en masse_.
=biek=, =beek=, IV, 77, 3: bask. See =beek=.
=bier=, III, 161, 32; V, 161, 1; 162, =D= 1: cry, lamentation.
=bierly=, =beerly= (bride), I, 467, 29; II, 75, 19; 132, 24; the same
as buirdly bride, II, 82, 51: portly, stately (large and well made).
See =buirdly=.
=big=, =bigg=, I, 15, 13; 17, 16; 108, 1; II, 330, 1; 331, 1; 332, 1:
build. _pret._ and _p. p._ biggit, bigget, IV, 202, =K= 5; 203, 13.
_pret._ bug, IV, 199, 17. _p. p._ buggin, bugn, IV, 445, 1; 446, 1.
build a stack for corn, I, 17, 12; 428, 11; V, 206 a, 8.
=bigane=, I, 334, 5: covered, wrought.
=biggeall=, beguile.
=bigging=, =biggin=, II, 115, 23, 24; 117, 10, 11; 123, 25, 26; 255,
11, 12; 257, 19, 20; IV, 128, 2-4: building, house, “properly of a
large size, as opposed to a cottage.”
=bigly= (Icelandic, byggiligr, habitable), commodious, pleasant to live
in, I, 68, 32; 107, 1, 3; II, 98, 30-32, 35, 36; 172 f., 40, 42, 45;
294, 4, 5; 370, 6; 417, 3; 419, 45: frequent epithet of bower. II, 358,
26, of a bier: handsomely wrought.
=bile=, _v._, V, 305 a, 6: boil.
=bill=, V, 15, 16, 18: a paper. bills, IV, 422, 45, 46: (the necessary
legal) papers. sworne into my bill, III, 411, 5: sworn in writing.
=bill=, I, 302, =B= 12; 303, 10; IV, 331 b, 2: bull.
=billaments=,I, 433, 17: habiliments, of head-gear.
=billie=, =billy=, comrade, brother; “a term expressive of affection
and familiarity:” I, 448, =A= 2, 4; III, 464, 2, 5, 6, 19; 467, 56;
489, 11; V, 128, 29. born billy, III, 495 b, 23, 24. See =bully=.
=Billie Blin=, =Bellie Blind=, I, 73, 35, 44; 86, 29; 466 f., 14, 23;
II, 464, 15, 16; 470, 60-63; 472, 31; V, 239, 39: see I, 67; V, 285 b.
=belly-blind=, II, 464, 15, 16: may mean here nothing more than an
innocent warlock or wizard.
=billy-pot=, I, 164, =L= 6: pot with a semicircular handle (bail)?
=binë=, be not: V, 238, 18.
=binge=, IV, 462, 30: bend.
=binkes=, I, 334, 9: benches.
=binna=, be not.
=bint=, V, 110, 12: bind, pay for.
=bird= (=burd=), I, 76, 50, 51; II, 314, 29, 30; =C= 10; 316, 12; IV,
422, 2, 5, 10: maid, lady. bird her lane, II, 313, 12, 19: maid by
herself, solitary. II, 272, 5: child, boy.
=birk.= he was standing on the birk, II, 165, 13, seems to be nonsense.
There is no birk to stand on unless the floor is birken, and nothing
could be more inept than a reference to that matter.
=birlin=, II, 28, 1: drinking. See =birl=.
=birl=, =berl=, II, 28, 1; 92, 17; 219, 6; IV, 154, 9; 166, 1; 234,
35; 385, 1: drink. II, 152, =J= 3; 299, 16; 368, 7: ply with drink.
birled in him, II, 144, 3, 4: poured into. Of dispensing both bread and
wine: II, 191, 34, 35; V, 224, 26. birled wi them, IV, 438, 8: should
apparently be birled them wi. _ptc._, birlin, II, 28, 1.
=birnande=, burning.
=birtled=, I, 273, 42: cut up.
=bisette=, I, 334, 8: devote (to the matter a space greater by two
miles).
=bit= (used with a noun instead of a diminutive), wee bit banes, I,
225, =L= 7: bits of.
=bit=, but. bit an(d), II, 30, 4; 132, 26: and also.
=bitaihte=, I, 244, 11: committed to.
=bitten=, V, 130, 13: taken in, cheated.
=bla=, III, 350, 53, 54: blow.
=blabring=, V, 247, 9: babbling. See =blobberin=.
=bla’d=, II, 21, 6: bla it, blow it.
=blaewort=, IV, 212, 6: corn bluebottle, round-leaved bell-flower,
bluebell of Scotland.
=blaise=, =blaisse=, IV, 503, 19; 505, 49: display, show forth, display
itself.
=blan=, =blane=, =blanne=, II, 53, 29; 140, 23; 265, 9; III, 309, 41;
405, 13; 406, 38; 466, 40: _pret._ of blin, stop, cease.
=blast=, V, 82, 39: puff, breathe hard.
=blate=, II, 260, 2; III, 160, 10; 163, 85: dumfoundered, abashed,
silly. spake blate, II, 470, 47, 50: bashfully, diffidently.
=blavers=, V, 213, 14: corn bluebottle (blaewort).
=blaw=, I, 15, =B= 2; 16 =C= 2: blow. _pret._ blow, III, 112, 65. _p.
p._ blawin, I, 17, =D= 1; blawn, I, 15, =B= 1; 16, =C= 1, 2. _pres. p._
blawn (blawing), II, 114, 20.
=blee=, I, 272, 13, 20, 24; 293, 1; II, 364, 26; 442, 1, 2: color,
complexion.
=bleed=, blood.
=bleed=, I, 441, 5, 7, _pret._ of bleed: bled.
=bleeze=, III, 457, =B= 4: blaze.
=blewe=, I, 326, 7: blew on a horn (see st. 10).
=blin=, blind.
=blin=, =blyn=, =blinne=, II, 138, 3; V, 14 f., 2, 20: (belin) cease,
stop. _pret._ blan. See =blan=.
=blind=, =blint=, II, 345, 26; 382, 6; IV, 265, _A b_ 8; 486, 10:
blinded.
=blink=, _n._, IV, 136, 17; 360, 15; 384, 3, 4; look, glance. IV, 390,
7, of the moon: gleam. IV, 389 b: (of time) moment.
=blink=, to look: II, 433, 6; IV, 127, 14; 351, 7; 353, 18; 416, 2; V,
53, 107; 54, 3; 154, =A= 11: glance, emit, throw a glance. III, 371,
27; IV, 256 f., 1, 10: shine, glitter. blinkin ee, IV, 194, (4,) 5;
201, 25; 203, 5; 211, 9: shining, twinkling. wha is this that blinks in
Willie’s ee? II, 189, 25: sends brightness into, whose brightness is
reflected from. nor ever did he blink his ee (at the gallows), IV, 12,
=B= 8: wink, shut, blench, his look was steadfast. cam blinkin on an
ee, II, 475, 17: winking as if blind, playing the blind.
=blint=, II, 17 b; IV, 515, 12: blinded. See =blind=.
=bliss=: bless.
=blobberin=, II, 256, 13: perhaps, blubbering, crying;
perhaps==blabring. V, 247, 9: babbling.
=block=, II, 216, 16: exchange. IV, 148, 54: bargain; lost the better
block, had the worse in a bargain or dealing.
=blood=, =blude=, II, 114, 16; 123, 13: man (disrespectfully), fellow.
=blow=, _pret._, blew.
=blowe=, II, 478, 8: blossom.
=blowe= (wynde), II, 478, 12: give vent to.
=blowe= (boste), III, 59, 59: give breath to, utter.
=blude=, =bluid=, blood. See =blood=.
=bluid is gude=, IV, 433, 21: good to dream of.
=bluntest=, III, 492, 25: stupidest.
=blutter=, III, 161, 43: dirty.
=blyue=, =belyfe=, =beliue=, III, 29, 144; 71, 300; 74, 371: quickly,
immediately.
=boad=, _n._, V, 243, 11: offer.
=boams=, fire-boams (not beams), IV, 96, =D= 3: bombs.
=board-floor=, II, 160, 5, 6: should probably be bower-floor, as in
159, 6, 9; 161, 6, 8.
=bocht=: bought.
=bocking=, III, 161, 33: vomiting, belching.
=boddom=, bottom.
=bode=, _n._, offer: III, 267, 15; 268, 12; 270, 12; 272, 14.
=bodë=, _p. p._, III, 67, 222: bidden, invited.
=bodes=, wild fowl bodes on hill, II, 410, 7: announces day. Cf. II,
230, 5, the wild fule boded day.
=bode-words=, III, 4, 19: messages.
=body=:faith, faikine, of my body, III, 180, 17; 199, 24; 216, 33; 296,
16; 472, 7; truth of my body, III, 180, =B=, 7; 181, 15, 16, 21; IV, 7,
31: either by my personal faith, or, by my body. faith in my body, III,
411, 6.
=body-clothes=; IV, 152, 7: clothes of my body.
=bold=, =bauld= (of fire), II, 116, 18; 117, 12; 119, 5, 6; 123, 18,
27: sharp, brisk.
=boldly= (understand), IV, 146, 19: freely, confidently, fully
(_verbiage_).
=bokin=, bodkin.
=bolts=, IV, 409, 1: rods, bars (to make a petticoat stand out).
=bon=, =bone=, =boune=, on the way, going. See =boun=.
=bone=, boon.
=bone=, sadle of the bone, V, 219, 13. See =bane=, =roelle-bone=.
=bonins=, by, V, 253 a, 4: in plenty (Gypsy cant).
=bonnetie=, V, 306, 2, 3: _dimin._ of bonnet.
=booting=, III, 159, 1: making of boot or booty.
=boot=, _v._, IV, 501, 26: matter. See =bote=.
=bord=, =borde=, =bowrd=, V, 78, 1; 80, 48, 49: jest, sport, amusement,
comic tale.
=bord=, II, 450, 80; 451, 84: should perhaps be _bore_, as in 445, 77.
Still, carried him out of the saddle by the impact of the spear which
bored him through is not unlikely, and we have, p. 454, 55, out of his
saddle bore him he did.
=borden=, _adj._, IV, 506, 73: of plank; borden tree, wooden plank.
=born alive=, ye were, IV, 521, 19; =A=, IV, 26, 16, has ‘That I love
best that’s born alive,’ i.e. of all that are born. The ye should be
y^t, that, and probably was so meant.
=borough-town=, =borrow’s toun=, =borrous-toun=, etc. See
=borrows-town=, =burrow-town=.
=borowe=, =borrow=, _n._ III, 59, 62-64, 66; 68, 237, 250: security.
III, 405, 9: sponsor, vindicator.
=borowe=, =borrow=, _v._, I, 309, =A= 3; II, 177, 27; III, 25, 50; 298,
69; 329, 6; IV, 33, 15-18, 20, 21: set free, deliver, ransom.
=borowehode=, III, 68, 239: securityship.
=borrows-town=, =borrous-toun=, IV, 229, 1; V, 117, =A= 6, 7; 126, 1:
borough-town, borough, corporate town. See =borough= (=burrow=)=-town=.
=boskyd=, III, 112, 60: busked, made ready. See =busk=.
=bot=, but. bot and: see =but and=.
=bot=, without. See =but=.
=bot=, II, 94, 3: behoved.
=bote=, =boote=, =boot=, II, 45, 30, 34; III, 27, 104; 94, 55; 187, 33:
help, use, advantage, (boot, _v._, IV, 501, 26: matter.)
=both=, =beth=, III, 59, 53, 54; 79, 54: be (old plural).
=bottle= (of hay), V, 114, 4: bundle.
=bottle.= be my bottle, V, 170, 1: hold my own, bear my full part, in
drinking? Corrupt?
=bottys=, butts.
=boud=, V, 176, 17: behoved, were obliged.
=bouerie=, II, 232, 1: diminutive of bower, chamber.
=bought===bucht, IV, 198, 1; 199, 17, 23: fold, pen.
=bouk=, =buik=, =buke=, II, 149, 14; IV, 127, 14; 484 a: trunk, body.
=boun=, =bowne=, =bune=, =bound=, =bownd=, =bowynd=, _v._, make ready,
go. buske yee, bowne yee, III, 91, 5; 431, 25: make ready. boun,
bound, I, 369, 44; IV, 183, 2; V, 256, 5: go. make ye boun, I, 75, 18:
go. must bound home, V, 9, 4. get up and bound your way, II, 405, 9:
go, come. bownd away, III, 161, 30; bowynd hym to ryde, III, 295, 1;
bounded for to ride, II, 118, 7: set out, went. bound him to his brand,
III, 160, 23: went, betook himself. was boon, boun, bound, II, 298, 5;
IV, 432, 2; V, 256 a, 4: going, on the way. how she is bune, II, 191,
30: going on. go boun away, IV, 224, 15, 16 (tautology): go, depart.
=boun=, =bon=, =bowne=, =bowen=, =bowyn=, =bun=, _adj._ (búinn, _p. p._
of Icelandic búa, to make ready): bound, ready. made him boun, III,
163, 76. to batell were not bowyn, III, 295, 4. make ye bowne, I, 75,
18, 22; III, 296, 28. bun to bed, bon to rest, II, 191, 26; V, 35, =B=
3. made him boun, bound, III, 163, 76; V, 81, 2: equipped himself. your
friends beene bowne, I, 210, 14: ready to come. ready boun (tautology),
IV, 432, 5. See =boun=, _v_.
=boun=, V, 300, 6: boon.
=bounties=, V, 231, 14: presents, in addition to wages.
=bountieth=, V, 9, 12: bounty, alms.
=bourde=, _v._, III, 179 b: jest.
=bourden=, III, 179 b: staff.
=bourn=, III, 470 a: brook.
=boustouslie=, =bousterously=, =boustresslie=, =boustrouslie=: I, 108,
13; IV, 446, 13; 447, 13; 465, 19, 35: boisterously, roughly.
=bout=, II, 27, 18: bolt.
=bouted=, I, 68, 4; 70, 4: bolted.
=bow=, bough.
=bow=, lintseed bow, I, 305, 14: the boll or pod containing the seeds
of flax.
=bow=, II, 28, 16: boll, a dry measure; of salt, two bushels; “for
wheat and beans, four Winchester bushels; for oats, etc., six bushels.”
Scottish, four firlots (see firlot). bow o bere, V, 264 a: boll of
barley.
=bower=, chamber: I, 65, =A= 1; 68, 25, 32; 73, 47; etc., etc. bouerie,
II, 232, 1: diminutive of the same.
=bower=, house, home: I, 56, 3; 79, 3; 80, 1; 107, 1; etc., etc. Often
indistinguishable from the above.
=bower-head=, II, 76, 11: top of the house. (Unless the reading should
be tower-head; cf. II, 74, =D= 5; 78, =I= 14, but we have an upmost ha,
highest room, II, 72, =C= 14.)
=bower-yett=, house-gate.
=bowie=, V, 306, 15: a kind of tub.
=bown=, V, 273, No 239, 4: bowed, bent.
=bowne=, =bownd=, =bowyn=. See =boun=.
=bowrd=, I, 264: comic tale. See =bord=.
=bows= (o London), I, 131, =H= 1: arches of a bridge? windings of the
river?
=box=, V, 19, 18: a compartment partitioned off in a drinking-room.
=boyt=, III, 109, 3: both.
=bra=, =braw=, I, 128, 19; V, 268, 25; 272, 3, 7, 11: brave, fine,
handsome. See =braw=.
=bracken=, =braken=, =brachan=, =breckin=, =breaken=, =breckan=,
=brecken=, =breachan=, IV, 257, =B= 7; 268, 21; 269, =d= 19, =f= 19;
272, 11, 3; 501, 28, 31, 37; V, 244, 16, 19, 20; 265 b, 19: fern, brake.
=brae=, =bra=, =bray=, hillside, hill: I, 324, 14; IV, 92, 1; 264, 15;
274, 8; 448 =a=, 3d st. braes o Yarrow, IV, 164 f., 1-9, =B= 3-5: the
equivalent word is sometimes, banks, pp. 168, 169, 170, 178; otherwise
houms, p. 168, but downs, p. 166 f., and the topography seems to
indicate hills. “Conjoined with a name, it denotes the upper part of a
country, as the Braes of Angus.” Jamieson.
=brae=, river-bank: III, 484 =a=, 32; burn-brae, IV, 275, =C b= 8.
Cholar foord brae-head, III, 482, 21?
=brae=, brow: III, 4, 17.
=braid=, IV, 399, 28: breadth. See =breed=. _Adj._, broad.
=braid= (broad) =letter=, II, 20, 3; 25, 3; 26, 3; 27, 3; 251, 2; 393,
4; IV, 118, =C= 1; 119, =D= 1; 120, 1; 373, 2; 382, 3: either a letter
on a broad sheet or a long letter. The king’s letter, II, 21, 3; 23,
=E= 3; 24, 3, is lang, and at 22, 3, is large. A braid letter has been
interpreted to be an open one, a patent, but in almost every case here
cited the letter is said to be sealed. The letter at II, 251, 2, is
private and confidential, written by a lady. Private folk write broad
letters, IV, 320, 1; 339, 13; 342, 17; 343, 7; a lady again, II, 382,
5; 395, 18; IV, 233, 20; 342, 6; 343, 2.
=brain=, II, 124, 39; 130, 28; 131, 20; 133, 9; 169, 25; 407, 10; III,
274, 33: mad.
=brake=, =break=, V, 166, 8; 306, 7: cause to break off, correct, cure.
=braken=, III, 299, 12, 14; 300, 25, 26: fern. See =bracken=.
=braken=, I, 350, 17: _p. p._ of break.
=bramly=, III, 9, 13: brambly, thorny.
=branded= (bull), III, 459, 7: of a reddish brown color.
=brank=, _n._, III, 440, 10: caper, prance, gallop.
=branken=, =branking=, III, 299, 4; 301, =D= 1: galloping.
=branks=, III, 480, 9: a sort of bridle; a halter with two pieces of
wood, instead of a leathern strap or a cord, over the nose, the whole
resembling a muzzle.
=brash=, sickness: II, 364, 20; IV, 483, 16.
=brast=, I, 370, 14, 18; V, 76, 26; 80, 45; 82, 40: burst, broke,
broken.
=brauches=, I, 271, 2: brooches. But perhaps _branches_, the clothes
embroidered with rings and sprigs.
=braw=, I, 491, 1, 2, etc.; II, 80, 3-7: comely. I, 127, 21; 467, 29;
II, 23, =E= 5: fine, handsome, finely dressed. I, 184, 11; V, 210, 11:
(of a meeting) pleasant. See =bra= and =braws=. braw wallie, IV, 296,
=F= 1: exclamation of admiration.
=brawn=, IV, 212, 5: calf of the leg.
=braws=, IV, 269, f, 19: fine things, finery.
=bray=, =brae=, hillside, hill.
=brayd on=, V, 198 b, after 52: move on, fall on.
=brayde=, =breyde=, at a brayde, III, 26, 91; of a, III, 32, 91: in a
moment, of a sudden.
=breachan.= See =bracken=.
=bread=, =breed=, =bred=, III, 339, 13, 16; 341, 42: breadth.
=bread=, broad.
=breaden=, I, 433, 9: braided (here, perhaps, woven).
=break=, =brake=, V, 166, 8; 306, 7: cause to break off, correct, cure.
=break=, till five minutes break, II, 325, 19, 20: expire.
=breaken.= See =bracken=.
=breast.= smoothd his breist and swam, II, 248, 9, 15: made it even,
level with the water. set her, his brest and swom, II, 459, 8; V, 137,
5, 9. bent his breast and swam, V, 138, =C= 3, 5; 141 b, 6, 9; 142 a,
4. lay on his brest and swumme, II, 247, 14.
=breast=, in a, IV, 11, 12, 13: in one voice (all at once, p. 13, 4).
in a breast, Scottish, sometimes=abreast, side by side.
=breast=, _v._, II, 299, 22, breast a steed: mount, by bringing the
breast to it.
=breast-mills=, II, 403, 15: mills operated by a breast-wheel.
=breastplate=, II, 380, 15; 383, 14; 385, 4, etc.; IV, 486, 6, etc.:
some part of a woman’s attire, said here to be of steel instead of
gold. Possibly a stomacher. “Curet, breastplate, or stomager.” Huloet,
1552. “Torace, also a placket, a stomacher, or brest plate for the
body.” Florio. At II, 381, 10, we have _bracelets_, which would be a
plausible emendation for _breastplate_, did not the latter occur quite
a dozen times.
=breast-wine=, II, 338, =T= 7: milk (Irish ballad).
=breathed=, II, 47, unto, 21, on, 22: does not seem to be the right
word. Possibly _breved_, gave information to (but the word is antique
for the text, and _on_ in 22 would not suit).
=brecham=, III, 480, 9: 492, 4; brechen, III, 491, 6: a straw collar
for a horse, also a pack-saddle made of straw, so more probably here,
carts not being used.
=brechan=, =brichan=, IV, 157, 7, 12, 14, 18, 19: (Gael. breacan) plaid.
=brechen.= See =brecham=.
=breckan=, =-en=, =-in=. See =bracken=.
=bred=, =brede=, V, 283, 8, 18: bread.
=bred=, =bread=, =breed=, III, 347, =c= 44, =g= 38: breadth.
=brede=, I, 242, 7: to have the whims attributed to breeding women?
(Not satisfactory, as not being sufficiently simple. Prof. Kittredge
has suggested to me gynnyst to wede, to go mad; which seems to me quite
worth considering. The rhyme with the same sound in a different sense,
is entirely allowable.)
=bree=, =brie=, I, 129, 14; 341, 3, 8, 17; 417, 13; III, 11, =K=; V,
191 f., 3, 18, 31: brow, eyebrow.
=bree=, =broth=. See =broo=.
=breed=, =bread=, =bred=, =braid=, III, 349, 38; IV, 503, 13, 16; 505,
45: breadth.
=breek-thigh=, III, 464, 15: thigh of his breeches.
=breeme=, III, 285, 19: fierce.
=breist.= See =breast=.
=bren=, =brene=, =brenne=, =brin=, II, 45, 24; 59, 32; III, 24, 29, 35;
361, =b=, =c=, 28: burn. _p. p._ brent, II, 44, 3, 14; 46, 47.
=brent= (brow), II, 191, 25; IV, 272, 2; 387, 1: high and straight.
Also, smooth, unwrinkled.
=brents=, I, 74, 76, 78: door-posts, or doors. (Icelandic brandar,
postes, Egilsson; ships’ beaks used as ornaments over the chief door of
dwellings, Vigfusson.)
=brest.= See =breast=.
=brest=, burst.
=brether=, brothers, brethren, I, 104, 10; III, 478, 15. bretheren,
III, 26, 74; 478, 14. brethern, bretherne, II, 73, 17; 160, 3, 9; III,
57, 27; 67, 217. brothren, III, 29, 148. brethen, III, 22, 4, 6; 23,
10; V, 135 b, 19.
=bretther o degs=, with a b. of d. ye’ll clear up my nags, IV, 312, 3
(the reading may be _bretlher_ ... _clean_): corrupt. “brathay an degs
would mean with old cloth and torn rags: brathay (obsolete) worn out
brats or clothes.” W. Forbes.
=breyde=, _n._, with a breyde, III, 110, 20: with a rush, in haste.
=breyde=, _v._, III, 110, 9: rushed, bounded.
=bride-steel=, =brid-stell=, =bride-stool=, =bride-styl=, IV, 181, 7,
8; 182, =F= 2, 3; 183, 2; V, 256 a, 4, 5: seat in church where the
bridegroom and bride sat before the beginning of the service.
=brie=, brow. See =bree=.
=brig=, =brigue=, I, 118, =D= 2; II, 24, 14; 177, 13, 15; 272, 13:
bridge.
=bright=, =bryghte=, I, 285, 25; 293, 2; 296, 51, 56; 327, 12, 21:
sheen, beautiful.
=brim=, II, 274, 3: sea. In, fa oure the brim, IV, 419, 16, 26, the
brim of a precipice may be meant.
=brin=, II, 146, 23; V, 223 a, No 68, =A= 22: burn.
=bring hame=, I, 76, 53; 367, 9; II, 97, 24; 425, 9, 10; V, 41, 17:
give birth to. brought King James hame, II, 345, 29: brought into the
world, (come hame, be born, see =hame=.)
=brirben=, II, 217, 2, 4. tabean brirben (printed by Herd birben) is
corrupt. A copy mentioned by Finlay had birchen; see IV, 471, 221.
=brither=, II, 163, 7, 11, 16; 164, 17; 165, 3; V, 123, 4; 299, 4:
brother.
=Brittaine=, =Litle=, I, 285, 24, 33, 37.
=brittled=, =bryttled=, =brittened=, I, 328, 51; III, 7, 7: cut up.
=broad= (=brode=) =arrow=, =brod arwe= (=aro=), III, 13, 9; 29,
153, 159; 106, 16; 307, 5; 341, 56; “catapulta.” Prompt. Parv. The
Catholicon explains catapulta to be “sagitta cum ferro bipenni, quam
sagittam barbatam vocant.” Way. Cotgrave: “Rallion. An arrow with a
forked, or barbed head; a broad arrow.” broode-headed arrowe, IV, 505,
56; 506, 64; broode-arrowe-head, 506, 59.
=broad letter.= See =braid letter=.
=broad-mouthd axe=, IV, 123, 14: broad axe.
=broad sow=, V, 91, 3: a sow that has a litter (brod=breed).
=brockit=, =brookit=, =bruckit=, I, 303, 8; 304, =E= 8, =F= 8; V, 213,
8: streaked or speckled in the face, streaked with dirt. See =broked=,
=bruchty=.
=brodinge=, II, 58, 14: shooting up, sprouting. (Old Eng. brodden.)
=brogues=, IV, 70, =G= 4; 72, =I= 7; 269 a, =d= 20; V, 265, No 227,
20; 301, No 200: coarse light shoes of horse-hide, worn especially by
Highlanders.
=broke=, =brook=, III, 69 f., 271, 274, 279; 310, 62: enjoy.
=broked cow=, III, 459, 7: a cow that has black spots or streaks mixed
with white in her face. See =brockit=.
=broken=, IV, 356, 12: bankrupt, ruined.
=broken men=, III, 473, 19, 24; IV, 41, note *: men under sentence of
outlawry, or who lived as vagabonds and public depredators, or were
separated from their clans in consequence of crimes. Jamieson.
=broo=, =brue=, =bree=, =brie=, II, 30, 11: brow.
=broo=, =brue=, =bree=, I, 160, =C= 2, =D= 3; 161, =E= 3; IV, 449, 2,
3: broth. I, 499, 4; V, 98, 9, 10: water in which something has been
boiled.
=brook=, =broke=, =bruik=, II, 189, 33, 34; 420, 7; III, 212, 8; IV,
435, 14: enjoy.
=broom-cow=, I, 394, 5: twig of broom.
=brose-cap=, II, 463, 25: pottage-, porridge-bowl.
=brot=, _p. p._, V, 296, 2, 3, etc.: brought.
=brothered=, IV, 373, 17: broidered? (He is to have a change of clothes
every month, and those embroidered?)
=brough=, V, 128, 29, 30: borough, town.
=brought hame.= See =bring hame=.
=broun=, =brown=, IV, 169, =F= 2; =G= 1 (browns, brouns, in the
MSS.). Might be thought a corruption of _brand_, but _brand_ occurs
in each case immediately after. _Brown_ for _brown blade_ would be
extraordinary.
=browen=, III, 9, 4: brewed, (_brown_ corrected from earlier MS.)
=browȝt=, =browt=, =browthe=, brought.
=brown ground=, IV, 27, 12: brown with heather.
=brown sword=, I, 70, 22; 294, 24; III, 71, 305. Brún as an epithet of
sword in Anglo-Saxon has been interpreted literally, as denoting that
the weapon was wholly or in part of bronze; also as gleaming, which
may at first seem forced. Gleaming is the meaning given to brown sword
by Mätzner, who cites three cases from romances. We have bright brown
sword, II, 139, 22; 241, 24; 266, 26, 27; and, blades both browne and
bright, III, 93, 36. The late Mr. Edward Bangs, remarking upon these
passages, suggests that the blades may have been artificially browned
with acid and then polished, as gun-barrels still are, and he refers to
P. Lacombe’s description of the magnificent sword of Charles V, Armes
et Armures, p. 221: “la lame est d’acier bruni presque noir.” We have
browne tempered blade, III, 35, 13, meaning, probably, a blade tempered
to that color.
=browt=, =browthe=, brought.
=browst=, V, 306, 12: brewage.
=bruchty=, =brucket=, =brockit=, I, 301 f., =A= 5, 9; V, 213 a, No 33,
5: spotted or streaked with dirt; of a sheep, streaked or speckled in
the face. See =brockit=.
=brue=, V, 209 a: broo, broth, soup.
=brue=, I, 334, 3: brow.
=bruik=, II, 422, 2; IV, 385, 27; V, 179, 12, 13: enjoy, possess. See
=brook=.
=brune=, III, 9, =H= 8: error for _brume_ (which is the reading in an
earlier MS.).
=brung=, _pret._, _p. p._ of bring, IV, 191, =B=, after 7; 466, 11.
=brunt=, IV, 211, 2; 392, 17; 468, 17: burnt.
=brusted=, =brusten=, II, 186, 15; IV, 2, 6: burst.
=bryde=, II, 442, 3; 478, 1: young woman.
=bryk=, III, 13, 13: breeches, hose.
=bryn=, I, 136, =R= 4: should probably be _brim_, as in =R=, =b=, =c=.
_brin_, brow, from the Icelandic, is unlikely.
=bryng= yow on your way, III, 99, 45: take, accompany.
=bryste=, I, 327, 12: burst.
=brytlyng=, =bryttlynge=, III, 307, 8; 308, 13: (breaking) cutting up.
See =brittled=.
=bucht=, =bught=, =bought=, _n._, IV, 193, 1, 2, 5; 194, 6, 9; 195 f.,
1, 3, 4; 198 f., 1, 3, 6; etc.: a small pen, usually put up in the
corner of the field, into which it was customary to drive the ewes when
they were to be milked. Jamieson.
=bucht=, =bught=, _v._, IV, 200, 1, 18; 201, 10; 205, 22: go into the
bucht, or pen. _pret._ buchted, IV, 201, 24: drove into the pen; _p.
p._, 201, 11: built a pen for (cf. 198, 8; 200, 19).
=buckle=, crisp, curl (of hair). Curling Buckle, IV, 357, =C= 6, 7: one
with hair crisped or curled.
=buckled up our lap=, II, 473, 17: fastened up apron or gown so as to
make a bag for carrying away meal.
=bucklings=, V, 183, 21: encounters?
=bud=, I, 72 f., 7, 62: behooved. See =buse=.
=bug=, IV, 199, 17, _pret._ of big: built.
=bugge=, I, 243, 1: buy.
=buggin=, =bugn=, _p. p._ of big, IV, 445 b, 1; 446 b, 1: built.
=buik=, =bouk=, IV, 485, 12, 14: body.
=buik=, =buke=, IV, 411, 2; V, 122, 9: book.
=buik=, II, 71, 10: _pret._ of bake (A. S. bóc).
=builded=, _pret._, III, 123, 4; sheltered, hid. (A. S. byldan, Scot,
bield.)
=buird=, V, 138, 11, 12, 14: board.
=buirdly=, =buirlie= (bride), II, 82, 51; 130, 8: portly, stately,
large and well made. buirdlie men, II, 315, =E= 6. See =bierly=.
=buke=, II, 165, 14: bouk, body. The verse is suspicious; more sense
could be had by reading Maist fair, etc., and making the line the
beginning of the speech of the fourth brother. See =bouk=, =buik=.
=buke=, =buik=, book.
=bukeld=, V, 276, 18. See =baucheld=.
=buld=, build, built.
=bull-baits=, I, 103, =E= 4: represents strokes, blows (cf. other
versions), and must have some such sense. Possibly a corruption of
buffets, though I see not how. A compounding of Old English _bollen_,
to strike, and of _beat_ would be unlikely. _Bull-baits_, for violent
assaults, no doubt seemed good enough to the reciter.
=bully=, =billy=, IV, 146 f., 5, 12, 18-21, etc.: brother, fellow,
mate. See =billie=.
=bullyship=, IV, 147, 29, 33: comradeship.
=bun=, II, 191, 26; IV, 45, 6: boun(d), ready to go.
=bun=, V, 267 a, 9: bound, tied up.
=bune= (how she is), II, 191, 30: going on, faring.
=burd=, =bird=, I, 69 f., 70, 72; 71, 57; II, 282, 6; III, 393, 14;
394, =K= 3; IV, 418, 2, 3, 5, etc.; 420, 2, 4, 5, etc.; 424, 1, 2, 4;
V, 228 f., 12, 22, 34, 35: damsel, maid, lady; V, 229, 32: perhaps
offspring.
=burd-alone=, he lay burd-alone, I, 298, 2: solitary, by himself; cf.
maid alone, II, 149, 2.
=Burd Alone=, II, 95, 1, 3, 4, 5: desolate, forlorn one; corruption of
Burd Helen, 96, =J= 2: cf. bird her lane.
=bure=, I, 108, 8: bore (_pret._).
=Burgesse= (=?=), IV, 503, 4; 504, 24: Bordeaux. Should probably be
Burdesse.
=burgh=, IV, 53, 15-17: town.
=burken=, II, 133, 8: birken, birchen.
=Burlow-beanie=, I, 287, 60, 65, 70, 74: =Billy Blin, which see (I, 67).
=burly=, I, 300, 4. See =beerly=.
=burn=, =bourn=, I, 438, =A= 3, 4; III, 440, 16; 460, 27: brook.
=burn-brae=, IV, 76, 1: hillside with a brook at the bottom.
=burnyssht=, III, 63, 136: shining, made bright.
=burrow-town=, =burrows-town=, IV, 288, =E= 3; 299, =d= 13: properly,
chartered town, corporate town; perhaps nothing more than a town of
some size, larger than a village. See =borrows-town=.
=bursen=, IV, 4 =b= 6: burst, bursen day, IV, 481, 20: overpoweringly
fatiguing.
=buse=, þe buse agayne, I, 328, 54: it behoves thee (other texts, thou
most). _pret._ (personal) bot, II, 94, 3; beet, III, 281, 2; bud, boud,
I, 73, 62; V, 176, 17.
=busk=, =buss= (Icel. búask, old reflexive of búa, make ready, from the
participle of which comes boun, so that busk and boun are of the same
origin and equivalent). =1.= make ready, buske you, III, 73, 340. busk
and boune, II, 24, 5; III, 434, 22. buske yee, bowne yee, III, 91, 5.
the[y] buske them bowne, he buskes him bowne, III, 285, 26, 38. they
busked and made them bowne, III, 284, 2. =2.= dress, deck. busk and
mak yow braw, II, 23, =E= 5. busk the bride, II, 104, 16, 18; 105, 10,
11; 106, 11. _p. p._ busket, III, 433, 3. weel-busked hat, IV, 199, 9:
decorated. buskit wi rings, V, 203 a. busk on you the flowers, II, 465,
3: put on as ornaments. buskit fire wi leaves, II, 411, 10: set about.
busk your ship roon (with feather beds), IV, 381, 8, cf. 10: wrap,
sheathe. =3.= betake oneself, go. I wol me buske ouer the salte see:
III, 59, 56. See =buskit=.
=buske=, III, 97, 12: bush.
=busker=, III, 252, 16: corrupt; _testament_ in other copies.
=buskit=, =-et=, III, 433, 3: dressed, buskit his bow in her hair, I,
131, 15: furnished, strung. See =busk=.
=buss=, I, 130, 16; II, 133, 8; III, 3, 6;5, =D= 7; 6, 6: bush.
=buss=, IV, 510, 4; 513 a, 1: busk, make ready, dress. See =busk=.
=busshement=, III, 71, 301: ambuscade.
=busting=, _n._, V, 301 =b=, 3: padding or the like used to improve the
figure.
=but=, _prep._, without: I, 16, 6; 420, 9, 10; 430, 3; III, 161, 30;
IV, 41 b; 326, 16; 329, =A=, =b= after 12.
=but=, III, 267, 20; 268, 17; 270, 16; 272, 20; 274, 33: towards the
outer apartment or kitchen, without, out. gae butt the house and bid
her come ben, V, 115, 6. he wood her butt, he wood her ben, I, 56 f.,
=C= 2, 14; cf. V, 219, 10. but it speaks, V, 306, 6: out speaks.
=but=, if ye be a maiden but, I, 72, 25: corrupt; read, binna maiden
yet?
=but and=, =bot and=, =but an=, =bat an===and also: I, 18, =F= 7; 69,
49; 72, 5; 345, =C= 8, 9, 10; 464, 8; 474, 36; IV, 418, 5; V, 246 b, 4,
6, 8.
=but nor hed=, II, 191, 27: but and had not.
=but than===but and, IV, 465, 23.
=by= (cf. also =be=), II, 56 a; 433, 2; III, 22, 2; 91, 2; IV, 420, 2,
4; 422, 2: about, concerning (as, by a knight I say my song). V, 272 b,
3, 7, 11; 277, 4; 278, 20 (spelled _bay_), 31: in comparison with, on
comparing (_by_ 272 b, 3^4, should perhaps be _but_; cf. 11^4). kend
thy freind by thy foe, III, 420, 18: in distinction from. by than,
III, 77, 435: by the time that. by weeke, spend forty pounds by weeke,
II, 442, 7: distributively, a week. So, by yere, III, 61, 92. he maun
do them by, V, 169, 12: do without. no far by, V, 123, 10: not far
off. called young Brichen by, I, 465, 5: called on, to. ca’d by Andrew
Lammie, IV, 302, 1: called by the name of.
=by and bye=, the keys hang at that lady by and bye, I, 471, 4: one
next to the other (?).
=by and by=, IV, 196 f., 1, 14: nigh.
=by and by=, I, 287 f., 60, 71, 75, 77; V, 122, 1; 123, 1: directly,
immediately.
=by=== aby, pay for, atone for: III, 97, 15.
=byckarte=, _pret._ of bicker, III, 307, 5: (fought) attacked (the
deer).
=byd=, must, am under necessity.
=byddys=, III, 308, 26: abides.
=byde=, III, 297, 37: wait. _p. p._ byddin, V, 202 a: staid. _pret._
byde, there was naething byde him wi, IV, 428, 11: nothing which did
remain.
=bydene.= See =bidene=.
=bye fell=, III, 440, 8: a rocky hill or piece of high land lying off
or aside of the way.
=bye-yett=, IV, 21, 10: side-gate (subsidiary, not principal).
=bygane=, gone by.
=byggande=, _ptc._, I, 327, 33: building.
=byrde=, I, 327, 22: woman (wife or maid). See =burd=.
=byre=, II, 182, 8; 184, 13; 188, 13; IV, 293, 9; 297, 9: cow-house.
=bystode=, hard bystode, III, 98, 33: hard pressed.
=bytecke=, commit to: I, 327, 29.
C
=ca=, =caw=, =call===drive, strike. ca a nail, I, 403, 13; III, 495, =B
b=, after 7. ca a pin, IV, 381, 9, 11. ca in the stake, II, 123, 14,
27. caw shoon on a steed, IV, 470, 18. ca up a gallows, II, 253, 8.
ca’d holes, V, 141 b, 8. ca hogs, II, 258, 32. ca the mare, IV, 17 f.,
5, 13. ca horse, IV, 109, 1. call sheep, II, 255, 17. caw ky, IV, 193,
13; 194, 17. ca the pleugh, V, 105, =A= 10. waft (emend from _wraft_)
was neer ca’d throw, I, 424 a, 12, 13; 425, 12, 13. ca’d the table wi
her foot, II, 313, 20. ca’d out the sheriff’s een, IV, 392, 19.
=ca’d by=, ca’d by Andrew Lammie, IV, 302, 1: called by the name of.
=caddie.= See =cadie=.
=cadger=, =cauger=, an itinerant huckster. corn-caugers, III, 479, 8
(== corn-buyers, 491, 6; corn-dealers, 492, 4).
=cadgily=, V, 115, 1: merrily.
=cadie=, =caddie=, IV, 351, 4, 5; 353, 6, 7, 9, 10, etc.: a young
fellow who does errands, or any inferior kind of work.
=caft=, IV, 330 a, appendix, 2: calved.
=cairdman=, II, 474, 9, 10: tinker, beggar.
=cald=, III, 455, 10: could.
=cale=, =call=, =calle=, V, 221, 20; 228, 19; 247, 1 (MS. calld); 248,
21; 257, 15: cold.
=call=, a call opon, V, 221, 14, 19: a call out, (simply) call.
=call=, _v._, III, 62, 113; 111, 38: address.
=calland=, II, 267, 9: lad.
=called their grandmother over=, IV, 70, =G= 2: corrupted from cast
their glamour oer her.
=caller=, =cauler=, IV, 484, after 23; 485, 19: (of air), fresh.
=cam=, _pret._ of come: III, 61, 91; 69, 259.
=came home=, =hame=, of child-birth, IV, 405, 54; 420, 5. See =bring
hame=.
=cammer=, II, 131, 6: (conjecture for _cannell_) cambric (Scottish
cammeraige, camroche).
=camovine=, IV, 212, 4; 213, 12: camomile.
=campioun=, II, 386, 18: champion.
=campy=, I, 304, 1: having the quality or make of a champion, or (name)
champion (like _kempy_).
=camric=, cambric.
=can=, II, 445, 62; 450, 67; III, 66, 210; 67, 227; 162, 55: knows.
=can=, _inf._, will never can steer ye, IV, 69, 15.
=can=, =cann=, an auxiliary of the present tense, can bee==is: II, 442,
14; 443, 30; 444, 51; 446, 93. Cf. do be (are), I, 184, 47. (may be,
II, 448, 33; 451, 100; might be, III, 452, 10, show a misunderstanding
of this.) auxiliary of the past tense,==did: II, 446, 81, 84; III, 65,
184; 67, 223; 298, 56. (Probably a corruption of gan.) cold, colde,
could, cowde,==did: I, 294, 23, 24; III, 298, 56, 59; 440, 10; IV,
3, 19; V, 278, 37. cold be, II, 443, 34; III, 413, 34: were, was.
cold see, III, 413, 32: saw, have seen. (An extension of the use of
can==gan.)
=cankerdly=, III, 160, 13; 267, 10: crossly.
=cankred=, III, 189, =A= 9: ill-humored, complaining, crabbed (Scottish
canker, to fret), with reference to the behavior in 6. But as John
shows no crooked temper to the palmers, possibly cankred is to be
taken literally as crooked (see =B= 10), having in mind Icel. kengr, a
crook of metal, English kink, etc.
=cannas=, =cannis=, =canies=, V, 239, 35; 276, 14, 15: =canvas=, coarse
cloth.
=cannel=, II, 147, 3, 4: candle.
=canny=, _adj._, IV, 303, 16; 304, 4: gentle. IV, 305, 25: cautious.
IV, 306, 17: clever, expert. V, 121 a: wily. IV, 132, =G= 4: canny
(Cannygate) seems to be for jingle, but may be a term of general
commendation.
=canny=, =cannie=, =cannilie=, _adv._, IV, 154, 4; 304, 14; 306, 29:
cautiously. IV, 133, 3, 4; 306, 18; 354, 2, 3: attentively. I, 245 f.,
11-14: carefully, expertly. I, 245, 8, 9: expertly, or gently. II, 161,
18: slowly, or softly.
=cantie=, =canty=, IV, 261, 3; 317, =F= 6; V, 115, 2: merry.
=cap=, =caup=, II, 344, 1: cup.
=cap=, =cape=, V, 230 a, 10, 11: catch, _pret._, _p. p._ caped, II,
317, =B b= 20; V, 219, 23; 271, 14: struck. See =kep=.
=cape=, V, 79, 32: cloak.
=capull-hyde=, III, 92, 7; 93, 44; 94, 48: horse-hide.
=care=, car, cart.
=care=, _v._, II, 370, 16: mind, object.
=care-bed=, II, 58, 4; 433, 3; 434, 28; 435, 47; 436 f., 58, 79 (of a
hopeless lover): almost, or quite, sick-bed; (of a mother) III, 3, 2;
so, bed of care, V, 227, 11. “care-bed lair, a disconsolate situation;
a sick-bed.” Jamieson.
=carefull=, III, 57, 28; 343, 18: full of care, sorrowful.
=carket=, =carknet=, I, 69, 56; 71, 46: necklace.
=carl=, =carle=, =carel=, =carril=, =cerl=, II, 466 f., 35, 36, 45, 46;
III, 189, =B= 10, 11; IV, 493 f., 7, 11, 30; V, 237, 6, 7; 238, 12, 13,
etc.: fellow, man of low condition, peasant.
=carlin=, =carline=, old woman, V, 26, 24; of a gentleman’s mother,
I, 71, 31; of a wealthy woman, II, 238, 1, 2, low-born woman, peasant
woman: II, 467, 40, 47; 469 f., 42, 51, 56-58; V, 26, 24.
=carlish=, churlish, uncivilized.
=carrlis=, careless.
=carnal=, II, 8, 1, 2, 4: (cornicula, corneille) crow.
=carp=, =carpe=, III, 127, play, 31; 310, 58: talk. In, harp and (or)
carp, I, 324, 5; 325, 5; 329, 2; IV, 18, 9, 10; 19, =B= 5, 6, 12; 20
f., =C= 7, =D= 7, 8; 21, =E= 8; 23, =A c= 22; 454 b; 455, 8, carp seems
to mean tell tales, probably sing or chant tales (ballads) to the harp.
See I, 329, 2, 3.
=carping=, III, 13, 1; IV, 21, 17: talk, tale.
=carry=, IV, 247, =C= 11; 253, 15: pass, allow to pass, make effective,
hold good.
=case=, =in case that=, I, 351, 38; II, 103, 1, 8; 171, 22; IV, 205,
17: against the chance that, lest.
=case=, =cassed=, V, 274, 4, 5: cause, caused.
=casey=, =cassie=, IV, 354, 4; V, 16, 2, 3, 5, 6: causeway.
=cast=, _n._, III, 68, 248: venture. (Possibly cost, outlay.)
=cast=: _pret._, coost, koost, cust, cuist, keist, kiest, kyst, kest.
_p. p._ casten, castin, coosten, custan, cuisten.
=cast=, III, 308, 17: project, intend. cast on sleepe, III, 401, 10:
thrown into a sleep, fallen asleep.
=cast=, _pret._, III, 344, 34: struck, (upcast, III, 349, 34.)
=casten=, =castin=, _p. p._ of cast, I, 245, 7; 463, 3; II, 115, 29; V,
300, 2; 306, 14.
=cat o clay=, III, 11, =L=: a roll of straw and clay wrought together,
used in building mud walls. Perhaps only a bit of clay.
=caterans=, V, 253 b, 1: robbers, Highland or Irish irregular soldiers.
(Gaelic ceatharnach, soldier.)
=cauger.= See =cadger=.
=caul=, =kell=, IV, 483, 20: a woman’s cap.
=cauler=, IV, 26, 6; 485, 19: cool, fresh. See =caller=.
=caup=, II, 472, 27: cup. See =cap=.
=cause=, in that cause to flee, II, 421, 34: exigency (such exigency
that you had to flee).
=caution=, III, 447 b; 451, note *: surety.
=cavil=, =kavil=, =kaivle=, =kevel= (Dutch kavel), I, 69, 46, 48: lot.
=caw=, =cawd=. See =ca’=.
=cawte=, III, 296, 26: wary.
=ceppet=, =kepit=, II, 410, 6; 407, 13: received, caught, when falling.
See =cap=, =cape=.
=cerl.= See =carl=.
=cerstyn=, III, 111, 44: Christian.
=certyl=, III, 14, 15: kirtle (man’s garment).
=césererá=, =sassaray=, II, 207, =A= 5; 209, =E= 5: intended for an
imitation of the sound of bells.
=chaffare=, III, 111, 33; 113, 68; V, 79, 21, 25: ware, merchandise.
=chaffe=, III, 34, 11: chuff, clown, loon, simpleton.
=chaft-blade=, III, 269, 9; V, 243, 12: jaw-bone.
=chafts=, III, 267, 16: chaps, jaws.
=chalmer=, =chamer=, =chaumer=, chamber.
=chamber thy words=, II, 435, 45: restrain, suppress, be chary of.
=changehouse=, IV, 153, =E= 3: tavern, ale-house.
=channerin=, II, 239, 11: fretting, petulant.
=chap=, knock, rap, tap: I, 107, 3, 4; 465, 11; 481, 29; II, 140, 15;
177, 14, 16; 272, 14; 313, 14; IV, 445 f., 3, 4; V, 228, 16; 306 b, 1:
of the striking of the hour, II, 371, 7.
=chaperine=, III, 514, 10, would make some sense as chapel, but the
form is unaccountable except as a popular diminutive.
=chare=, III, 250, =J= 7, 8: turn.
=charge=, IV, 457, 1, must be understood as _charge not_, forbid.
=charter= (simply): III, 358, 82. See next word.
=chartre of peace=, III, 27, 108: grant of pardon, paper condoning past
offences.
=chase=, III, 26, 74: follow up, hunt down, chase the wine, III, 169,
24: follow, keep up, like _follow strong drink_. (But a rhyme-end.)
=chaunler-chaftit=, I, 303, 6: having chafts (chops) like a chandler
(candlestick, lantern), lantern-jawed, with a long, thin face.
=chaunter=, I, 438, =B= 6: usually, tube of the bagpipe, which would
not be expected here. A book of chants would suit. Cf. Sir Hugh, III,
247, 20; 248, 14; 249, =H= 7, =I= 5, etc.
=chays=, hunting-ground.
=che=, I, 415 b: she.
=chear=, II, 193, 27: sounds expressing a state of feeling (here sad).
IV, 18, 19: referring to the evening’s entertainment, or, simply doing
and saying. See =chere=.
=chear well to=, III, 160, 11: have good cheer at.
=check=, tether’s check, V, 213, 10: spike of a tether.
=cheel=, IV, 69, 12: child, fellow.
=cheepe=, better cheepe, V, 15, 26: (price) cheaper.
=cheeped=, IV, 516, 15: chipped, broken.
=cheik=, II, 336, =P= 2, close to the cheik and chin: cheik is
door-post, chin often=gin, the contrivance for fastening, but gin would
not come in well here, and it is likely that chin is meaningless,
coming in because of its frequent association with cheek (kissed her
cheek and chin, etc.), see door-cheik.
=chelvellrye=, IV, 503, 1: corrupt. Read, _chevauchie_, excursion on
horseback? (would a progress ride, III, 343, 2.)
=chepe=, =cheepe=, _n._, bargain. better chepe, III, 69, 259: more
cheaply. gret chepe! III, 111, 34: great bargain!
=chepe=, _v._, III, 110, 26; 111, 33: cheapen, bargain for, or buy.
=chere=, =cheer=, =cheir=, =chier=, =chear=. carefull, sorry chere,
III, 57, 28; 68, 239: face, countenance. I, 109, 14; 117, 6; 330, =B=
7; II, 189, 37; III, 441, 37; IV, 20, 15: of state of mind, bearing, or
behavior. III, 66, 197; 67, 215; 75, 394; IV, 18, 19: entertainment,
merry-making. here is a symple chere, III, 59, 61. made gode chere,
III, 100, 67: repast.
=cherish=, _v._, I, 76, 19; IV, 96, =C= 11; 437, 25: cheer.
=cherry=, V, 264, 4: sherry.
=chess=, I, 86, 15: jess, strap; properly, leather strap for a hawk’s
leg (explained by R. Jamieson, hawk’s bell).
=chess=, IV, 457, =L= 8, dancin in a chess: chace? forest? Probably
corrupt, since =A= 10, =B= 10, I, 341, 343, have playing at the chess.
=chess=, =chiss= of farie, V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: corrupt; read, cheese o
Fyvie (see V, 305 f.).
=chest=, =kist=, IV, 342, 12: coffin.
=cheue=, _v._, III, 73, 349: end. See =chewys=.
=cheverons=, III, 374, 8: gloves.
=chewys=, I, 327, 20: endest, comest off. (French chevir.) See =cheue=.
=cheys=, III, 112, 48: choose.
=child=, =chiel=, =chil=, =cheel=, child, young fellow: I, 72, 8; 367,
3; IV, 69, 12; 432, 15; V, 278, 33. as an appellation, II, 85 f., 1, 2,
6, etc.; 128 f., 1, 5, 8, etc.; 264 f., 1, 7, etc.; V, 157, 1, 6, etc.
auld chiel, V, 125, 6, 8: devil, _pl._ chylderin, III, 13, 2, 3.
=childer=, III, 478, 24; IV, 99, 11: children.
=chill=, V, 287, 16: child.
=chimly=, II, 71, 9; IV, 481, 22; V, 122, 5: chimney.
=chin=, chappit at the chin, II, 140, 15, 24; stecked doors close to
the chin, II, 336, =P= 2: gin, that is, pin. See =gin=, =pin=.
=chine=, IV, 188, 18: chin.
=chip-hole=, I, 305, 3: a hole chipped or cracked, a chink.
=chiss=, =chess=, V, 165 f., 6, 9, 10: cheese. See V, 305 f.
=chive=, II, 362, 34=schive, slice.
=chiven=, play the, III, 145, 8: “run away precipitately,” Nares;
chiven, chivin=chub, or any shy fish. chivie=fearful.
=choice=, =choise=, II, 463, 17; 469, 34; 473, 12; V, 269, 15: choose.
=choised=, chosen.
=choose=, =chose=, I, 103, 7; 329, 2; IV, 211, notes, 6: choice.
=choosed=, _p. p._, III, 440, 23.
=chossen=, _p. p._, chosen.
=christendom=, =christendame=, =christendoun=, =-doom=, I, 341, 21;
344, 20; 346, 11; 350, 24; 369, 48; 370, 15, 19: christening (as in Old
English).
=christentie=, =cristendie=, I, 286, 46; II, 53, 41; V, 192, 22, 33;
194, 65: Christendom.
=chrystall=, II, 52, 17: rock-crystal, a variety of quartz.
=church-style=, IV, 412, 14: the gate of the enclosure round a church.
=churlish=, I, 102, 2: of vulgar derivation.
=chylderin.= See =child=.
=cirsned=, _p. p._, V, 224, 19: christened.
=clade=, =clead=, =cleed=, clad.
=claes=, =claise=, I, 488, 17; II, 90, 25; IV, 18, 16; 262, 22; V, 118,
6, 7, 14: clothes.
=claiding=, =cleadin=, etc., IV, 424, 12: clothing.
=claith=, II, 131, 8: garment.
=clam=, _pret._ of climb, II, 166, 35; V, 249, 4.
=clap=, in a clap, IV, 41 b: moment.
=clap=, II, 269, 25; IV, 278, 4; 303, 18; 403, 12; 414, 25, 14; V, 125,
4; 277, 7: pat, fondle, embrace.
=clappit at=, V, 173, 1: knocked at (with ellipsis of _the door_).
=clarry=, claret.
=clatter=, IV, 21, 14: to be loquacious.
=clead=, =cleed=, =cleid=, =clied=, I, 220, =B= 6; 224, =J= 6, 7; 225,
=L= 2, 4; 504 b, 2; IV, 451 a, 2; V, 211 b, 4: clothe. _pret._ cled,
IV, 492 a, 1. _p. p._ clead, IV, 456, 1.
=cleadin=, =cleeding=, =cleiding=, =clieden=, =cliding=, _n._, II, 92,
7; 108, 6; 183, 19; 273, 24; IV, 445, 12; 457, 2, 7; 515, 4: clothing.
one of thy cleeding, II, 271, 18: dresses.
=cleare=, III, 307, 5; IV, 166, =C= 7; 477, 21; 506, 22: bright.
=cleathe=, I, 222, =F= 11, 12; V, 128, 27, 28: clothe.
=clecked=, =clekit=, _pret._, _p. p._, I, 254 a; II, 261, 7: hatched.
=cleek=, _n._ and _v._, I, 494, 13; V, 106 =E= 4; 122, 5: hook.
=clef=, _pret._ of cleave, III, 13 f., 5, 15.
=cleffe=, III, 109, 6; 112, 52: cleave.
=cleiding=, =clieden=, clothing. See =cleadin=.
=clekit=, =clecked=, I, 254 a: hatched.
=cleugh=, =clough=, III, 22, 1; IV, 6, 13; 7, 26; V, 182, 1; 250, 12: a
hollow between steep banks, narrow glen or valley, high rocky bank.
=cleynt=, _pret._, V, 80, 43: clung.
=clied.= See =clead=.
=clift=, I, 137, =A= =c= 6: cliff.
=clifting=, IV, 179, 4: clift, cleft, fissure.
=cliitt=, III, 179, 5: read _clutt_, clouted, patched.
=cling=, V, 154, 15: shrink.
=clintin=, IV, 179, =B= 1: crevice, fissure,==clifting, =A= 4.
=cloathe=, III, 93, 43; 174, 24: garment.
=clock=, IV, 3, 20, 22: limper, hobbler (Fr. clocher, Picard cloquer).
=clocken-hen=, V, 92, 15, 16: sitting hen.
=clod=, got the clod that winna cling, V, 154, 15: the loaf of bread
(?) that will not shrink (but will rise?), referring to the impending
increase of her size.
=cloks=, II, 166, 36: beetles.
=Clootie=, I, 5, 18: a name for the Devil, from cloot, the half-hoof of
a cloven-footed beast.
=close=, =closs=, enclosure, yard, and, before a house, court-yard: I,
145, 15; 146, 10, 19, 21; 147, 14; 148, =G= 10; 149, =I= 7; V, 173, 1;
279, No 257, 11; 306 b, 2. castle-yard: IV, 84, 22; 86, =C= 10; 87, 7;
89, 10. lady standing in the close pinning her gown, III, 436, 3. close
parler, III, 431, 22: securely enclosed, or fastened? 23, you are in
close: one (not trustworthy) transcript has _to chose_, which would
make easier sense. Saint Evron’s closs, I, 146, 19, 21: cloister?
=closely=, III, 470 a: covertly, without attracting observation.
=closs.= See =close=.
=cloth and fee=, III, 433, 7: clothing and wage. holde with cloth and
fee, III, 61, 107: retained by presents of clothes and money.
=clot-=, =clout-lether=, V, 79, 27: mending-leather.
=cloudy=, II, 31, =N= 1, cloudy stone: (A. S. clúdig) rocky. (Read,
cloud and stone==reef and rock?)
=clout=, _n._, V, 116, 10: patch. See =clouts=.
=clout-leather=, =clouting-leather=, V, 77, 39; =b= 39; 83, 55: leather
for mending, patching.
=clouts=, II, 463, 24; 470, 54: pieces of cloth for bed-coverings, or
sheets (linsey clouts, canvas clouts). II, 470, 53: duds, clothes. See
=clout=.
=clouty=, I, 206, 35; 207, 33; V, 110, 2; 116, 4, 5: patched.
=clud=, IV, 174, 12, clud o night: cloud.
=clunkers=, =clunkerts=, I, 305, 13; V, 213, 9: clots of dirt.
=clutt=, III, 179, 5: clouted (given wrongly cliitt).
=clyffe=, III, 91 a (play): rive, sunder, be split.
=co=, V, 250, 17, 19: quo, quoth.
=coad=, II, 132, 27. See =cod=.
=coardie=, V, 244, 7: cowardice.
=coat-neuk=, II, 107, 3, 5: corner of his coat.
=coate-armor=, III, 284, 11, 13: surcoat or tabard, embroidered with
armorial bearings, worn over the armor as a personal distinction, and
for identification, the face being concealed.
=coble=, IV, 128, 7; 359, 2, 5, etc.: boat (yawl, flat-bottomed boat).
=cock=, II, 472, 20, 28; V, 269, 14: knots, or other arrangements, of
ribbon for the hair. (French coque.)
=cockward=, I, 285, 24, 26: old cock, fool (French coquard).
=cod=, =coad=, I, 68, 29; II, 132, 27; 270, 27: pillow.
=coffer=, trunk or box, for clothes and valuables: I, 69, 60; 71, 49;
II, 375 f., 23, 26, 29; IV, 258, 19. In a commonplace with mantle: I,
350, 16; III, 244, 11; IV, 385, 26; V, 175, 2; absurdly introduced in
the first two instances; ridiculously corrupted, I, 348 f., =F= 1, 3,
13; II, 475, 5.
=coft=, I, 356, 56; 394, 9; 397, =D= 8, 10, 12; III, 11, 6; V, 118, 9;
162, =C= 7; 163, 13: bought.
=cog=, =coug=, II, 30, 6; IV, 378 f., 2, 3, 20; 379 f., 2, 4, 17-19; V,
275, 2, 3, 9: boat, vessel.
=cog=, =cogie=, II, 273 a; IV, 199, 15; 200, 17; 206, 9; V, 273 a:
milk-pail.
=coif=, =quoif=, II, 280, =B= 3; III, 514 =b=, 3; 515 a, 1, 4: cap.
=coil= (of hay), II, 233, 7: cock.
=coilyear=, V, 70 =b=: collier, charcoal-burner.
=cold=, =could=, =coud=, understood. cold of wisdome, of curtesye, I,
271, 1, 3. cold of his curtesie, I, 286, 49; V, 132, 3. cold, could,
coud his curtesye, II, 433, 10; 435, 35; III, 75, 385; V, 132, 3.
=cold=, =could=, =coud=, did. See =can=.
=cole=, III, 74, 372; 76, 421: cowl, monk’s hood, also frock, which
last is intended here, for the king wears a broad hat and puts on a
green garment when he casts off his cowl.
=coled= (high coled). See =colld=.
=coll=, _v._ See =cow=.
=coll=, cold.
=collaine=, =collayne=, =collen=, swords of, III, 298, 50: of Cologne
steel. collaine, collen brand, I, 286, 42, 43, 45.
=colld=, =coled=, cut, shaped, fashioned. high-colld hose, I, 69, 52;
71, 42. high coled stockings, I, 72, 9: made to go to the knee or above
(perhaps in contradistinction to short hose, worn by common people).
high-coled shoon, I, 73, 64. laigh-colld shoon, I, 69, 52; 71, 42; 72,
9: low-cut shoes. high-colld hat, IV, 204, 12: hat peaked before and
behind.
=colleen=, II, 497 f., 4, 13, 16: (Ir. and Sc. Gaelic cailin,
diminutive of caile, simple country maid) girl.
=collen=, of Cologne. See =collaine=.
=com=, =come=, _pret._ of come, I, 244, 10, 13; 328, 46.
=comand=, V, 80, 56: commanded. (Read, comanded?)
=comd=, _pret._ of come, III, 430, 6; 467, 61. _p. p._, I, 324, 4; III,
464, 3, 7.
=come=, _pret._ cam, com, come, coom, comd. _pret. pl._ come. _ptc.
pres._ coomin. _p. p._ comen, commen, coom, comd.
=come=, _pret. pl._ of come, III, 216, 34.
=come by= (life), IV, 515, 7: get, obtain, gain.
=comen=, =commen=, _p. p._ of come, II, 52, 19; 54, 46; III, 35, 32.
=comentye=, =comyntie=, III, 361, =b=, =c= 58: commonalty.
=comfort=, _p. p._ of comfort, II, 370, 22.
=commant=, _p. p._ of command, III, 9, 1.
=commaunded theym agayne=, III, 77, 430: _come_ has perhaps dropped
out; later editions, them to come.
=compare=, made him no compare, V, 260, No 221, 1: made no comparison
(of others) with him.
=compass=, I, 346 f., 17, 25; 351, 32, 44: circle.
=compear=, =compeir=, III, 364 b; IV, 81 b; 164 a: appear.
=comt=, count.
=complete=, sang sae sweet and sae complete, V, 301, No 200:
excellently, skilfully.
=compted=, III, 77, 437: emendation for _commytted_ of 80 and 81, 437.
(85, 88, commended for.)
=comunye=, I, 285, 31: communing.
=comyn-bell=, III, 100, 73: town bell, a clerc the commun belle rong.
Robert of Gloucester, p. 541, Hearne.
=condescend upon=, IV, 41 b, note §: particularize.
=conduction=, III, 403 a: direction, charge.
=cone=, liftet up the cone, IV, 484, a, last stanza: apparently the
face-cloth, which may have been gathered into a conical form the better
to fit the face. J. Aiken.
=conferred=, III, 336, note †: made the subject of conference.
=conform=, IV, 63 b: conformably.
=confound=, II, 443, 38; 449, 44: be the destruction of.
=conquess=, V, 191 f., 9, 13, 23, 35: conquer.
=convay.= See =convoy=.
=convë=, V, 117, 13; 268, 27, 28: convoy, escort.
=convened=, III, 409 a, note: agreed.
=convenient=, IV, 78, 4: suitable.
=convention=, made a, III, 364 a: had a meeting.
=convey.= See =convoy=.
=convoy=, =convay=, _n._, I, 252, 16; IV, 37, 15; 38, 15; 267, 14:
escort. IV, 453, 6: of attendance upon the dead.
=convoy=, =convey=, _v._, II, 27, 4: convey. IV, 267, 3, 10; 269 f.,
=f= 2, 3, =g= 3; 317, 7; 318, 12; V, 119, 12: escort, accompany part of
the way homeward, or on a journey, see a friend off, a young woman home.
=coom=, _p. p._, V, 296 a: come.
=coomin=, _ptc._, V, 296 a: coming.
=coops=, IV, 461, 4: carts (tip-carts).
=coost=, =koost=, _pret._ of cast, I, 73, 59; 102, 18; IV, 477, 6; V,
173, 3, 4. I, 74, 70; 78, 48: threw things about. _p. p._ coosten, I,
77, 5; 324, =B= 6; 371, 3.
=coot=, =queet=, IV, 212, 5: ankle.
=cop=, =coppe=, I, 244, 9; III, 123, 6: head.
=coped=, overset. See =couped=.
=cor=, =Corehead=, =Corhead=, V, 192, 37; 195 f., 35 (MS., Carhead);
196, 52: (Gaelic coire, cauldron, dell) corrie, a hollow in a hill.
Jamieson. Penman’s Core, 193, 51, 55, 58, described as a hollow on the
top of a high ridge of hills, might possibly be Penman score (score,
a deep, narrow, ragged indentation on the side of a hill, South of
Scotland. Jamieson). poor man’s core, V, 196, 52, corruption.
=corbie=, I, 253, 1; 254, =b= 1, =c= 1; III, 473, 23: raven.
=cordain=, =cordan=, =cordevine=, II, 435, 50; IV, 312, 7; 317, =F= 3:
Cordovan leather.
=cordin=, shoon laced with cordin, IV, 435, 8: cording, cord (and not
with whangs of leather).
=cordiuant=, _adj._, V, 49, 23: of Spanish, Cordovan leather.