evil, IX 83. [OE. _yfel_, adj.]
#Yuel#, _n._ evil, wrong, VIII _introd._, _a_ 220; #Euel(l)#, IV _a_ 76,
IX 338, XV _g_ 28. [OE. _yfel_, n.]
#Yvsed#. _See_ Vse.
#Yweddede#, _pp._ (lawfully) married, VIII _b_ 68. [OE. _weddian_, to
betroth.] _See_ Wedmen.
#Ywent#; #Ywerd#. _See_ Wende; Were, _v._^2
#Ywyte#, _pres. subj. pl._ understand, III _introd._ [OE. _ge-_ +
_witan_.] _See_ Wite(n).
#Ywon#, _adj._ accustomed, II 317. [OE. _ge-wuna_.]
#Ywon#, _pp._ _See_ Wynne(n).
#Ywoned#, _pp._ accustomed, III 55, XIII _b_ 37. [OE. _ge-wunian_.]
#Yworth#, #Aworthe#, _v._ to be, go on as before, in _late God yworth_,
_late þow G. aworthe_, meddle not with God, it is God's affair, VIII _a_
76, 220. [OE. _geweorþan_.] _See_ Worþe, _v._
#Y-yeue#; #Y-yolde#. _See_ Ȝeue; Ȝelde(n).
#Yzede#; #Yzeȝ#; #Yzent#. _See_ Seie; Y-se; Sende.
#Zayde#, #Zayþ#, #Zede#, #Zigge#. _See_ Sei(e).
#Zelue#, #Zeluer#, #Zen#, #Zente#, #Zome#, #Zuo#. _See_ Self, Seluer,
Syn(e), Sende, Som(e), Swa.
INDEX OF NAMES.
For the personifications in VIII, generic names (as _Bayarde_), and
names of peoples (as _Brytouns_), see also the Glossary.
_Abell_, Abel, XVI 306.
_Abirdene_, Aberdeen, XIV _a_ 1.
_Abiron_, Abiram, XVI 309.
_Adam(e)_, Adam, V 348, XIV _introd._, XVI 37, 45, &c., XVII 30.
_Adrian_, XII _b_ 2 (note), 34, 56, 68, 78, 208; _Adrianes_, gen. 219.
_Aȝone_, Azo, I 46, 105, 110, 122.
_Aiax_; _Oelius Aiax_, Oïleus Ajax, VII 155 (see 178 note).
_Alceone_, Halcyone, XII _a_ 3, 132; _Alceoun_, XII _a_ 195, 197 (note).
_Alisandre_, King Alexander the Great, IX 166, 223, 232.
_Alysoun_, Alison, XV _c_ 12, 40.
_Amazoine_, Amazonia, land of the Amazons, IX 190, 206.
_Ambrose_, St. Ambrose, XI _b_ 126.
_Anaball_, a dependent of Satan, XVI 113 (note).
_Antecrist_, Antichrist, IX 210, 221; _Anticristis_, gen. XI _b_ 55.
_Arabye_, Arabia, IX 38; _Fenyx of Arraby_, VI 70 (note).
_Archedefell_, (corrupt. of) Ahithophel (Achitophel), XVI 308.
_Arestotill_, Aristotle, IV _b_ 18; _Arystotill_, IV _b_ 33.
_Armonye_, Armenia, XVII 466.
_Arþur_, King Arthur, V 229; _Arþureȝ_, gen. V 34, 261; _kyngeȝ
hous Arthor_, V 207 (note).
_Astrotte_, Ashtoreth (Astarte), XVI 113.
_Atthenes_, Athens, VII 67.
_Aucerre_, Auxerre, *III 3 (MS. Aucerne).
_Aue_, I 48, 50, 106, 126, 138, 209, 216.
_Austyn_, St. Augustine of Hippo, XI _b_ 87, 94, 142; _Saynt Austyne_,
IV _b_ 70.
_Austin_; _Sauynt Austin_, St. Augustine of Canterbury, III _introd._;
_Saynt Austines_, St. Augustine's (monastery), III _introd._
_Bacharie_, _-ye_, Bactria, IX 137, 236.
_Banocburn_, Bannockburn, XIV _a_ heading; _þe Bannokburn_, XIV _a_ 2.
_Baptist_, St. John the Baptist, XI _b_ 28; _Ion Baptist_, XI _b_ 24,
34; _Iohan<nes> Baptista_, XVI 73; _Baptista_, XVI 361.
_Bardus_, XII _b_ 20, 50, 63, 73, 80, 87, 94, 134, 155, 194; see XII _b_
2 note.
_Barsabe_, Bathsheba, V 351.
_Bathe_, Bath, XIII _a_ 51.
_Bele-Berit_, Baal-Berith, XVI 115.
_Belliall_, Belial, XVI 139; _Belial_ XVI 115.
_Belsabub_, Beelzebub, XVI 97, 109, 137, 169, 198, 205, 345.
_Berwik_, Berwick, XIV _a_ 1, 35.
_Betannye_, Bethania, XVI 162.
_Bethleem_, Bethlehem, IX 25.
_Beuo_, (in Latin) I 59; _Beu<u>ne_, I 55 (note); _Beuolyne_, diminutive
for rime, I 62.
_Boece_, Boëthius, Introduction xxi.
_Boniface, Saint_, St. Boniface of Ferentia, III 38 (note).
_Brytayn_, Little Britain, Brittany, II 13; _Bretaine_, II 597.
_Brytayn_, (Great) Britain, XIII _a_ 1, 6.
_Brig_, Bruges, XIV _a_ 22 (note); see _Burghes_.
_Brunne wake_, Bourn (in Kesteven, Lincs.), I _introd._ _Wake_ is the
name of the family, part of whose estates lay about Bourn.
_Brunyng_, Bruno, afterwards St. Leo IX, I 246 (note).
_Bukcestre, Seynt_, sister of St. Magnus, I 35 (note).
_Burghes_, Bruges, XIV _a_ 25; see _Brig_.
_Cayme_, Cain, XVI 306.
_Calabre_, Calabria; see glossary.
_Calais_, XIV _b_ heading, 59, 91, 95; _Calays_, XIV _b_ 1 (as adj.),
42, 53.
_Caldilhe_, ? Korea, the land where the lamb-gourd grows, IX 138.
_Cam(e)_, Ham, XVII 142, 528.
_Canterberi_, Canterbury, III _introd._
_Caspye_, Caspia, lands about the Caspian Sea, IX 161, 216; _See of
Caspye_, Caspian Sea, IX 175, 178.
_Cassandra_, VII 179.
_Cathaye_, Cathay, China, IX 136 (note).
_Caton_, Dionysius Cato, traditional name of the author of _Disticha de
moribus ad filium_; gen. _Catones_, VIII _a_ 309.
_Cecile, Seynt_, St. Cecilia, Introduction xxi.
_Ceïx_, Ceÿx, XII _a_ 2.
_Chaucer_, XII _introd._
_Cherdhol_, ? Cheddar, XIII _a_ 14 (note).
_Chestre_, Chester, XIII _a_ 54.
_Chymerie_, Cimmeria, land of fabulous Cimmerii who dwelt in perpetual
darkness (form perhaps due to assoc. with OFr. _chimere_, chimæra), XII
_a_ 61.
_Cipre, Ile of_, Cyprus, IX 40.
_Clyron_, alleged name of 'strait passage' leading out of land of the
enclosed Jews, IX 205.
_Colbek_, Kölbigk (in Anhalt, Saxony), I 32 (note).
_Colchestre_, Colchester, XIV _d_ 2.
_Cornehulle_, Cornhill, VIII _b_ 1 (note).
_Cornelius_, Cornelius Nepos, VII 70 (note).
_Cornwal, Iohan_, a 'Master of Grammar', XIII _b_ 28.
_Crab, Iohne_, a Flemish engineer, X 110; _Crabbis_, gen. *X 15 (MSS.
Craggis, Crabys).
_Crist(e)_, Christ, IV _a_ 1, 39, &c.; _Cryst(e)_, I 185, IV _a_ 16,
&c.; _Kryst(e)_, V 52, VI 98, 209; _Cristes_, gen. VIII _b_ 63;
_Cristis_, XI _b_ 7, 38, &c.; _Crystes_, VI 23, VIII _a_ 214; _Crystys_,
I 83; _bi Crist_, &c., VIII _a_ 22, 24, 280, _b_ 93.
_Cusis_, alleged name of Ethiopia, IX 17; see _Saba_, and cf. Cush,
Genesis x. 6-8.
_Dalyda_, Delilah, V 350.
_Dares_, Dares Phrygius, reputed author of the _De Excidio Troiae_, VII
60, 64.
_Datan_, Dathan, XVI 309 (note).
_Dauid_, David, XVI 127, 187, 369, 373; _Dauyth_, V 350.
_Dawe_, Daw (as typical peasant's name), VIII _a_ 325.
_Dedalion_, Dædalion, XII _a_ 7.
_Dee, þe ryuer_, the R. Dee, XIII _a_ 54, 62.
_Dites_, Dictys Cretensis, reputed author of the _De Bello Troiano_, VII
61; _Dytes_, VII 60.
_Dondé_, Dundee, XIV _a_ 24.
_Edyght, Seynt_, St. Edith of Wilton, I 240 (note), 245.
_Edward_, King Edward the Confessor, I 27.
_Edward_, King Edward III, XIV _b_ heading, 36, 56; _King Edward_, XIV
_a_ 4; _E. þe þridde_, XIV _c_ 58; _Sir Edward_, XIV _a_ 9, 16, _b_ 4,
44, 60, 62; _þe third Edwardes tyme_, I _introd._
_Edward, Prince_, the Black Prince, XIV _c_ 107; see also 59, 62.
_Emanuel_, XV _i_ 17.
_Emlak_ (for _*Euilak_), Havilah IX 27 (note).
_Englond_, England, XI _a_ 29, 33; _Engelond_, XIII _a_ 55, 58, _b_ 20,
33, 46, 48, 54, 63; _Ingland_, I 26, XIV _b_ 84; _Inglond_, II 26.
_Erceldoun_, Thomas of Erceldoun, Introduction xxxiii.
_Ethiope_, Ethiopia, IX 1, 12, 16, 21, 23 (note), 26.
_Eua_, Eve, XVI 45; _Eue_, XIV _introd._, XVI 357, XVII 30.
_Felyp, Dane_, Dom Philip de Burton, prior of Sempringham (? 1303-1332),
I _introd._
_Fraunce_, France, XIII _b_ 48, XIV _c_ 44, 46, 54; _Fraunse_, XI _a_
25; _France_, XIV _b_ 32, 70.
_Gawayn_, V 5, 58, 81, 88, 137, 146, 171, 182, 192, 197, 202, 212, 224,
231, 297; _Sir Gawayn(e)_, V 50, 167, 328; _Wowayn_, V 121 (note).
_Genesis_, (personification of) the Book of Genesis, VIII _a_ 228.
_Geretrude, Sent_, St. Gertrude, XV _i_ 7 (note).
_Gerlew_, Gerlevus, I 40, 56; see _Grysly_.
_Germain, Saint_, St. Germanus of Auxerre, III 3 (note); _Germayn_, III
6.
_Gydo_, Guido de Columna, compiler of the _Historia Troiana_, VII 54,
76.
_Gill_; see glossary.
_Goth and Magoth_, Gog and Magog, IX 163-4 (note).
_Gregori, Saint_, St. Gregory the Great (Pope 590-604), III 38 (note);
_Gregory_, XI _b_ 20 (note), 94; _Seynt Gregoryes_, gen. XI _b_ 52.
_Grese_, Greece, VII 90; _Grice_, VII 40.
_Gryngolet_, Gawayn's horse, V 92.
_Grysly_, error for _Gerlew_, I 65 (note).
_Ȝork_, York, XI _a_ 34, XIII _b_ 58, XIV _d_ 1.
_Hector_, *V 34 (MS. Hestor).
_Hely_, Elias, XVI 87.
_Henri, Duk_, Henry, first Duke of Lancaster, XIV _c_ 65.
_Henry, þe Emperoure_, Henry II of Germany, I 172 (note), 218.
_Herodis, Dame_, Eurydice, II 52; _Dam(e) Heurodis_, II 63, 322, 406,
594.
_Hobbe_, XIV _d_ 6, see notes and glossary.
_Homer_, VII 38.
_Iacke_, _Iak_, see glossary.
_Iame, Seynt_, St. James; _bi Seynt Iame_, VIII _a_ 57.
_Iaphet_, Japheth, XVII 142, 528.
_Ierom, Seynt_, St. Jerome, XI _a_ 17.
_Ieromye_, Jeremiah, XI _b_ 29.
_Iesu_, IV _a_ 74, &c., VI 93, XIV _b_ 30, XV _f_ 1, 7, XVI 349;
_Iesus_, XV _g_ 19, XVI 1, 121, &c.; _Iesu Crist(e)_, &c., IV _b_ 30, VI
98, XI _a_ 23, &c.; _Iesus Crist_, XI _b_ 77.
_Ingland_, &c., see _Englond_.
_Innocent, Pope_, Innocent III, author of _De Miseria Conditionis
Humanae_, Introduction xxi.
_Iob_, Job, XVI 285.
_Iohn(e)_, _Ion_, &c., see the accompanying names.
_Iohn_: _Sir Iohn (of France)_, son of Philip VI and afterwards King
John of France, XIV _b_ 32, 70, 92.
_Iohnes_: _Saint Iohnes toune_, Perth, XIV _a_ 7 (note).
_Iohon Schep_, 'John Pastor', pseudonym of John Ball, XIV _d_ 1.
_Ion_, St. John the Evangelist, VI 23, XV _i_ 5; _Iones Gospel_, XI _b_
269.
_Ion þe Amoner_, St. John the Almoner, III 16 (note).
_Iordanne, flume_, the R. Jordan, XVI 76.
_Irla(u)nde_, Ireland, XV _d_ 1, 3, 7.
_Ithecus_, Icelos (according to Ovid), XII _a_ 118 (note).
_Iudas_, Judas Iscariot, XV _g_ 2, 3, 8, 12, 14, 27, XVI 147, 165, 308.
_Iudas_, St. Jude, Judas brother of James, III _introd._
_Iuno_, the goddess Juno, XII _a_ 40, 44, 102; _King Iuno_, as ancestor
of Orpheo's mother, II 30 (note).
_Iurselem_, Jerusalem, XV _g_ 3, 17.
_Iustinian_, Justinian, XII _b_ 191 (note).
_Kasi, Sent_, XV _i_ 11 (note).
_Kendale_, Thomas of Kendal, Introduction xxxiii.
_Kent_, III _introd._
_Kesteuene_, Kesteven, southern division of Lincs., I _introd._
_Kytte_, VIII _b_ 2 (note).
_Laȝar_, Lazarus, XVI 162, 171.
_Leoun, þe pope_, St. Leo IX, I 249.
_Lethes, the rivere_, the River Lethe (Oblivion), XII _a_ 85. Properly
gen. sg. (Ovid, _Metamorphoses_, Bk. xi 603, rivus aquae Lethes).
_Londen(e)_, London, VIII _b_ 46; _London_, VIII _b_ 4.
_Lucifer_, XVII 16; as dependent of Satan, XVI 119, 197.
_Luke_, St. Luke, XV _i_ 5.
_Lukes_, Lucca, VIII _a_ 94 (note).
_Macedoyne_, Macedonia, IX 41.
_Magdaleyne_, St. Mary Magdalen, XI _b_ 56; _Magdeleyne_, XI _b_ 59, 68;
_Maudeleyne_, Introduction xxi.
_Magne, Seynt_, St. Magnus, I 34 (note), 90; _Seynt Magnes_, gen. I 37.
_Magoth_, see _Goth_.
_Mahounde_, Mahomet; as a dependent of Satan, XVI 343.
_Malton_, Malton, Yorks., site of a house of the Gilbertine order, I
_introd._
_Marie_, Mary, XVI 231, 250; _Mary(e)_, VI 65, XV _i_ 3; gen. VI 23
(note), also in _Seynte Marie prest_, XVI _d_ 1 (note); _Mary-ȝet_, X
163, 177. _Mary_ (as oath), V 72, XVII 209, 220, 226.
_Mark_, St. Mark, XV _i_ 5.
_Mathew_, St. Matthew (in his Gospel), VI 137 (note), XV _i_ 5; _Matheus
Gospel_, XI _a_ 35; _Mathew with mannes face_, VIII _a_ 234 (note).
_Maundevyll, Iohn_, IX 307 (see IX _introd._).
_Medé_, Media, land of the Medes, IX 30.
_Melane_, Milan, III 4.
_Merswynde_, I 42, 52; _Merswyne_, I 62 (see I 55 note); _Merswyndam_
(accus., in Latin), I 60.
_Michel_, Michael; _Dan Michelis_ (gen.) _of Northgate_, III _introd._
_Mighill_, St. Michael the Archangel, XVI 339, 389. Forms with _ȝ_,
_gh_, &c., appear only to be used of the archangel.
_Mynerua_, the goddess Minerva (or Athene), *VII 177 (MS. Mynera); taken
as a male divinity, XIII _a_ 3.
_Moyses_, Moses, XVI 85, 86.
_Moretane_, Mauretania (modern Morocco and part of Algeria), IX 3.
_Morpheüs_, son of the God of Sleep, XII _a_ 113, 131.
_Neptalym_, Naphtali, XVI 51 (see 49 note).
_Nicholl Nedy_, 'Nicholas Needy', allit. nickname used mockingly, XVII
405.
_Noe_, Noah, XVII 65, 106, 110, 118, &c.; _Noy_, XVII 532.
_Oelius_, see _Aiax_.
_Origenes_, Origen, to whom was falsely attributed a _De Maria
Magdalena_, Introduction xxi.
_Orphewe, Sir_, Orpheus, II 24; _(Sir) Orfeo_, II 25, 97, 120, 182, 314,
379, 518, 524, 543, 558, 603; as name of a lay, 601; _King Orfeo_, II
175, 553, 576, 593; _Orpheo_, II 33, 42.
_Ouyde_, Ovid, VII 48.
_Panthasas_, Phantasos (according to Ovid), XII _a_ 123.
_Pectoun_, the Peak of Derbyshire, XIII _a_ 7 (note).
_Pencrych, Richard_, XIII _b_ 29, 30.
_Pentexoire, Yle of_, IX 261 (note).
_Peres_, Piers (Peter), VIII _a_ 106, 180, 191, &c.; _Pieres_, VIII _a_
35, 38, 111, &c.; _Piers_, VIII _a_ 9, 225; _Pieres_, gen. VIII _a_ 72;
_Pieres þe plowman_, VIII _a_ 147, 152; _Peres plouȝman_, as type of
honest labourer, XIV _d_ 5 (see 14 note).
_Perkyn_, diminutive of prec. (applied to same character), VIII _a_ 25,
59, 99, 102, 105; _Perkyn þe plouman_, VIII _a_ 3.
_Persie_, Persia, IX 181.
_Peter_, St. Peter, XI _b_ 285, XV _g_ 29, 32; _bi Seynt Peter of Rome_,
VIII _a_ 3; _Peter!_, XVII 367.
_Philip, Sir_, Philip (de Valois) VI of France, XIV _b_ 32 (note), 47,
69, 92; _Philip þe Valas_, XIV _b_ 51.
_Pilatus_, Pilate, XV _g_ 18, 30.
_Pimbilmere_, Lake Bala in Wales, XIII _a_ 63.
_Pluto, King_, as ancestor of Orpheo's father, II 29 (note).
_Poul_, St. Paul, XI _b_ 80, 82; _Saynt Poule_, VI 97; _bi Seynt Poule_,
VIII _a_ 25, 270.
_Prestre Iohn_, Prester John, fabled Christian Emperor of the far East,
IX 260 (note).
_Richard, þe secunde Kyng_, King Richard II, XIII _b_ 32; _Kyng
Richarde_, XIV _e_ 2.
_Roberd_, _Robert_, surnamed _Mannyng, of Brunne_, I _introd._ (q.v.).
_Robert_; _Danȝ Robert of Malton_, I _introd._
_Robert_, priest of _Colbek_, I 45; _Syre Robert_, I 201.
_Robert Renne-about_, 'Robert the Vagabond', as type of itinerant
preacher, VIII _a_ 142 (note).
_Rome_, I 172, 232, 250, III 4, VIII _a_ 3, IX 285, XII _b_ 3, 84, 189.
_Saba_, a city of Ethiopia, IX 23; cf. _Cusis_, and Psalm lxxii. 10;
Isaiah lx. 6.
_Salamon_, Solomon, V 349, XVI 281; _Salomon_, XI _b_ 91 (note).
_Salesbury_, Salisbury, XIII _a_ 10; _Salisbury_, XI _b_ 2, 183;
_Salisbury vss(e)_, XI _b_ 189, 196, 228, 308.
_Samson_, V 349.
_Satan_, XVI 117, 199; _Sattan_, XVI 125, 133, 145, &c.; _Sir Sattanne_,
XVI 169; _Sathanas_, gen. XI _b_ 311.
_Saturne_, Saturn, VIII _a_ 321 (note).
_Sem_, Shem, XVII 142, 528; see 320 note.
_Symeon_, Simeon, XVI 60, 61.
_Symon_, St. Simon (Zelotes), III _introd._
_Symondes sone_, son of Simon Magus, practiser of simony, VIII _b_ 83.
_Sympryngham(e)_, Sempringham, Lincs., I _introd._
_Sythye_, Scythia, IX 166.
_Sixille_, Sixhill, Lincs., I _introd._
_Stafford_, XVII 200 (note); see glossary, s.v. _Blew_.
_Steward, Schir Valter the gude_, Walter the Steward of Scotland, X 36
(note); _Schir Valter Steward_, X 170.
_Stonhenge_, Stonehenge, XIII _a_ 9.
_Striflin_, Stirling, XIV _a_ 13.
_Telamon_, Telamon (properly Telamonius Ajax), VII 178 (note); _Kyng
Telamon_, VII 150.
_Teodryght_, Theodric, I 241.
_Tolous_, Toulouse (for rime's sake substituted for Toul), I 246 (note).
_Traciens_ (Thracians), Thrace; identified with Winchester, II 47, 50.
_Trocinie_, 'Trachinia tellus', the land about the city of Trachis, XII
_a_ 2.
_Troy_, VII 27, 63.
_Valas_, Valois; see _Philip_.
_Valter_, see _Steward_.
_Vber_, alleged local name of the mountains of Caspia, IX 162.
_Viene, Sir Iohn de_, Jean de Vienne, XIV _b_ 82 (note).
_Virgille_, Vergil, VII 49.
_Wake_, see _Brunne_.
_Wales_, XIII _a_ 58, _b_ 7.
_Wat Wynk_, allit. nickname used mockingly, XVII 382. _Wat_ is an
abbreviation of Walter.
_Wybessyne_, I 42, 52.
_Williem_, William; a typical man's name, XI _b_ 177.
_Wynburney_, Wimborne (in Dorset), XIII _a_ 50.
_Winchester_, II 49, 478; _Wynchestre_, XIII _a_ 41.
_Wowayn_, see _Gawayn_.
_Ynde_, India, vaguely applied to central, southern, and eastern Asia,
IX 26, 27, 43, 49, 50, 97, 157 (note), 260 (note): _high Ynde_, IX 27,
137; _Ynde þe lesse_, IX 29; _(Ynde) þe more_, IX 28.
_Yris_, Iris, messenger of Juno, XII _a_ 46, 51, 98.
_Ysaias_, Isaiah, XVI 50; _Isaiah_, *XVI 49 (MS. Isaac).
_Zabulon_, Zebulun, XVI 52 (see 49 note).
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#Biwyled#--bewiȝelien changed to biwi[gh]elien (Madden)
#Blew#--biew changed to blew (Sisam)
#Face#--59 changed to sg. (s.v. Hert)
#Grekes#--Grǣci changed to Græcī
#Herkne#--O.Fr. changed to OFris.
#Makyng#(_ē_) changed to #Makyng(e)#
#Rusche#--r(e)usssr changed to r(e)usser (Godefroy
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#Trew(e)#--(gē-)trēowe changed to (ge-)trēowe
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& Prose_ by Kenneth Sisam, available at PG #43736. The CORRIGENDA to
Sisam's _Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose_ from the end of this
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