rede, 195, 201, a fellowship, or company; few or many ; a christian nation; an army of 60,000 knights; probablely from fela, many, or felap, fellow, and ɲad or ɲade, an inroad on horfeback. Feld, folded. Fell, a mountain. Felle, skin: fell, S. Feltred, felter'd, hairy, fhagy, Felwet, velvet. Felyoles, III, 180, Femyn, venom. Fen; fowyll fen, II, 64, mud, mire, filth: Fenn, S. Fend, defend. Fendes, fiends, devils. Fenell, fennel, Feorlych, ferly, wonderful. Fer, Fere, fear; fire. Fer, Feor, far. How fer fchall all this good? (I, 186) i. e. How far fhal it go? and not " Fare-to whom fhall it go?" Ferd, Ferde, fare'd, hapen'd: feoɲ, S. Fere, In fere, in company, together, as companions: Fere, II, 97, healthy, found; cure, heal; wife, companion. Feren, Feres, companions, friends, fellows. Fendes fere, II, 58, companion of devils. Withouten fere, III, 216, without equal. Ferly fayne, wonderously glad, or joyful. Ferly fare, Strange chance. Feft, I, 84, fasten'd. Fete, Fett, fetch'd; Fette, fetch. Fewté, fealty. Feyre, fair. Feyrhade, Feyrneffe, fairness, beauty, Feytes, III, 155. Fith, fight. Flankys, Tafte my flankys, III, 6, feel my flanks, fides, or loins. Flaugh, Flawe, Fleigh, flew, fled. Fleon, flee. Fleoten, float, or fail. Fleted, Fletten, floated. Flette, flood, fleet. Flites, fcolds. Flyt, fcolding, fcandal, or il words. Flyte, I, 44, chide: Flitan, S. Flo, flay, flea. Flogh, flay'd. Flome, II, 10, river. Floranfe, Florences, florin, florins, or francs, ancient coin of France. Floryfseth, flourish'd. Flottered, hover'd, fwum, floated: flotter, F. Flufte, flush'd, or push'd. Fode, food. Fode, Foode. So fals a fode, 1, 68, fo falfe a man (Iwain); My doughter, fayreft fode o lyve, 95; My child, my oune fode, II, 147; Mony a freoly foode, 163, many a free man; Freely was that fode, 225 (Emareës fon); That fode to longe with no foly, III, 160; freely fed, gentlely nurture'd, wel-bred (fub. child, youth, or person, spokeën of); foedan, S. to feed; a frequent epithet in thefe and all other old metrical romanceës. It is, even, use'd by Wyntown, the Scotifh rimeing historian (Speaking of queen Mald): "Syne Saxon and the Scottis blude Togyddyr is in yhon frely fwde." The phrafe Fayr food occurs, allfo, in The Coventry corpus-christi-plays of Vespa. D. VIII, fo. 84, b), as does that of Fayereft food in The Chester Whitsunplays, (Har. MSS. 2013, fo. 44). It feems to answer to the old French phrase la belle née, which occurs in the Fabliau du fot chevalier. Folde, III, 15. Fonde, II, 97, meet with, receive. Fonge, take: Fengan, S. Forbode, injunction, prohibition: forbod, S. Force, mak na force, I, 33, take no heed, have no care. Forfare, lofe, forfeit, ruin, deftroy. Forfard, II, 63, loft, &c. Forfarn, lofe, throw away: foɲfaɲan, S. Forkarf, cave'd through. Forleofe, to lofe entirely: fopleoɲan, S. Forlete, II, 100, to give over; to quit: foplætan, S. Forlore, loft: Foplopen, S. Formaft, foremost. Forne, for. Forord, fur'd. Forows, furrows. For-tethe, fore-teeth. Forther fete, fore-feet. Forthy, therefor, for this, for that: fopði, S. Forward, I, 82, promise, covenant, condition, agres ment: forepeard, S. Foryaf, forgave. Forref, forgive. Foryelde, reward, recompenfe, make amends. Founde, I, 63, 90; III, 13, endeavour, attempt. Fous, II, 13. Fowre, III, 55 Fraifted, I, 136. Frayned, afk'd, demanded, enquire'd. Fredde, II, 115, free'd. Frek, man: Fɲec, S. Fremede, ftranger: fremed, S. Fristele, I, 59. Frith, I, 7, Fryght, wood, foreft. Frythes, woods, forefts. Froted, II, rub'd, or scrub’d. Fu, ful. Fun, Funden, found. Fundling, foundling. Furryth, fur'd. Fufoun, foifon, plenty. Fylde, field. Fyle, I, 203, II, 46, vile, foul. Fyle ataynte traytour! Vile attainted traitour! Aventurus fyle, II, 52. Thus Lawrence Minot: "Philip the Valas was a file, He fled, and durft noght tak his dole." It is here ufe'd for coward. Fyne, III, 48, finish'd, accomplish'd: finé, F. Gabbest, II, 306, fayeft. Gabuls, cables. Galowe-tre, gallows: genlz, S. Game, Gamin, pleasure, Sport: zamen, S. Garnarde, a wine of Granada. Garfon, youth or young man, knight or foldier; in the plural Garfoun: garçon, garçons, F. These words, in Engleifh, are allmoft peculiar to the romance of Le bone Florence of Rome. Garye. See the note on Emare, V. 1032. Gafe, goes. Gate, way. Gatys, ways. Thus in Syr Bevys : "He ranne faft on his gate, Tyl he cam to the castel-yate." Gateward, porter. Gayne-come, comeing-again, return; or, posfiblely, meeting, from gean cyme, S. Gedering, gathering. Gedyrd, gather'd. Ger, Gar, caufe, make. Gert, caufe'd, made. Gertte, girt, girded. Gent, Gente, neat, pretty. F. Ger, Gere, geer, apparel, necesfarys. Geft, a romance. Gestours, minstrels. Geftes, I, 188, guests. Get, her of yet, II, 271, goat, goats hair. Geth, goeth. Gethe, III, 68. Glede, II, 27, a bright fire, a burning coat, blaze, flame, or fpark. Glemed, III, 72, gleam'd, glitter'd, fhone. See Leo. mede. Gleynge, melody, minftrelfy. Glod, I, 185. Glode, III, 72, glid, glideëd. Glyfte up, III, 70. Gode, III, 109, good, alms. Godelé, godly: zodlec, S. 'Godneday, good-day. Gome, II, 47, man; Gomen, Gomes, men. Goo, go. |