hur fpylle, III, 36, for fear she should make away

herfelf.

Spyr. See Sper.

Stabull, establish.

with

Stad, Stadde, beftad, befted, circumftance'd.

Stak, fuck, pul'd to.

Stall, I, 30, place, pasfage, entrance, inclosure.

Stalworth, I, 65, 146, ftrong, ftout, lufty; " & ftalworth knight als ftele." R. of Brunne.

Stark, Strong.

Staf, ftate.

Sted. See Stad.

Stedd, III, 18, Stede, place, or country.

Stekyth, fticketh.

Stepul, Steeple.

Stere, fteer, govern, manage.

Sterin, I, 135.

Sterve, ftarve, dye.

Sterye, fleer.

Stevene, II, 148, Stevyn, III, 15, voice, found, fpeech.

Stighteld, I, 136, ftrengthen'd, recover'd?

Stirt, ftarted.

Stoken, I, 30, fuck, faften'd.

Stokkes, III, 49, stocks.

Stonayd, aftonifh'd.

Stor, I, 55, Store, loud, blustering.

Store, III, 124, ftir: 172, ftark.

Stour, Stoure, Stowr, Stowre, difficulty, embarassment, jeopardy, danger, extremity, disorder, tumult, battle, fkirmish, and the like.

Stownde, I, 1, Space of time, more or less.

Strath, ftraight.

Stre, ftraw.

Strekk, III, 49, ftretching, passing: rtpeccan, S.
Stroye, deftroy.

Strynde, III, 91, ftrain, race, descent. Thus Wyntown

(I, 237):

"He is na man, of fwilk a kynd

Cummyn, bot of the dewylis ftrynd."

Stude, II, 305, fleeds, horfees.

Sture, fleer.

Sturn, ftern.

Sty, I, 26, 83, place, house, building; a word common in Scotland, and ftil preferve'd with ourselves in hog-fty: Stize, S.

Styk, I, 128, ftitch. Styke, II, 44, ftick'd, wounded: frican, S.

Stynte, fint, ftop, stay.

Stythe, II, 170, strong: frið, S.

Suere, Swere, Swyre, neck.

Suert, II, 120.

Sugerneth, fojourneth.

Suggeth, Jay.

Suithe, Suythe, Swith, quick, Speedyly, very.

Sumwet, II, 119, fomewhat.

Suykedom, treachery, treafon.

Swa, Jo.

Sware, III, 5, Hys doghtur fwete and fware. The fignification of the word fware, as it occurs in this passage, has never, it is believe'd, been explain'd; if, in fact, it occur anywhere else. Sware, III, 19, neck, is a different word.

Swart, black.

Swayne, I, 65, fome kind of inferior fervant.

Sweme, III, 33, a swiming, or qualm. See the next word.
Swevenyng, Swevyn, dream.

Swier, Squire.

Swilk, fuch.

Swogh, fwoon.

Swyke, I, 29, fike, hole, ditch.

Syclatowne, III, 8, is, by Chaucer, call'd chekelatoun, but feems, rather, in the judicious Tyrwhitts opinion, to be merely a corruption of the French Ciclaton; which, he fays, originally fignify'd a circular robe of ftate. Some MSS. however, he allows, read Ciclaton, and Spenser, he obferves, writes Shecklaton.

Syde. "And yode ayen the thrydde fyde," i. e. went again the third time. See Sythe.

Sye, Sygh, faw.

Sygh, Syght. See Sythe.

Sygned, asfign'd.

Syke, Syken, fick, figh.

Sykyrlyke, certainly, furely.

Symplyté, I, 179, fimplicity, or fimpleness ?

Syrrys, III, 9, 19, 29, firs.

Sytole, II, 75, a citole; a kind of dulcimer, according

to fir John Hawkins. Sytolys, I, 199.

Sytolphe.

Syte, III, 69,

Sythe, fide; afterward; fince.

Syttand, fiting.

Ta, take, betake.

Taffetra, II, 178.

Talme, III, 33.

Talvace, I, 132, call'd, likewife, pavais, or pavache, a large fhield, or rather, as Grofe ads, portable mantle, capable of covering a man from hand to foot.

Tan, Tane, take. Tane, takeën. Tase, takes.

Tane, one.

Teem, II, 276, fons, isfue, offpring.

Telde, told.

Telde, I, 86, lodge?

Teme, teem'd.

Teen, Tene, Teon, II, 106, Teone, forrow, pasfion, anger, il-wil. Tene, flay. Teon, II, 128, take, or betake.

Tent, I, 41, heed, 141, attend, pay attention.

Tha, I, 43, thefe.

Thartyll, thereto.

Thawghte, Thawghth, taught.

Thay, I, 199, day.

The, thee. The, Thee, thrive.

Thede, II, 43, did.

Thede, III, 11, 65, land, nation, country, kingdom:

þeod, S.

Theder, thither.

Theer, II, 48, deer.

Thenche, think.

Theode, II, 197, faith, belief, religion.

Thepartyth, departeth.

Therforne, therefor.

Thethin, thence.

Thewe, virtue, good manners. Doctor Percy, who knew "Thewes" to mean “manners," and, accordingly, fo explains it in the Glossary to the 3d volume of his Reliques, ads, immediately, “ In p. 12, it fignifies LIMBS;" a deci five proof of the forgery, or interpolation, of the balląd refer'd to. Shakspeare was fingular in this mistake, They, though.

Thilke, this, this fame,
Thir, thefe.

་

Tho, then; do (I, 204; not " For thole, fuffer," as Mister Ellis thinks); to (II, 226); those. Tho, for do recurs in Lybeaus, V. 160, 309, 532, 835, 1076, 1510. Thogh, II, 27, doth.

Thoghte, I, 192, thought. In mister Ellises edition, the text has " Hym pogte," the comment, “In posté, Fr. in power;" than which nothing can be more ridiculous.

Thoghty, II, 8, Thoughty, 178, doughty. Thoghtyer, doughtyer.

Thole, fuffer, undergo; Tholed.
Thonor, thunder.

Thoo, then; thofe.

Thore, there.

Thores, II, 76, doors.

Thorh-reche, II, 145.

Thorst, Thorste, II, 49, 72, durft.

Thoune, I, 196, down.

Thowghter, daughter.

Thra, I, 150, III, 47, Thro, II, 200, eager, fierce, defirous.

Thral, Thrall, flave, captive, base wretch. Thralhede, ftate of flavery or captivity.

Thraw, Thro, Throo, Throw, fhort Space of time, trice.

Thriswald, threshold.

Throo, Throwe, III, 87, 187, trouble'd, afflicted, forrowful?

Throteboll, I, 84,

Thrydd, Thrydde, third,

Thrynge, throng.

Thuncketh, thinketh.

Thus-gate, thus-wife, this-way.

Thwang, thong.