A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century, Zväzok 1

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Strana 7 - When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away ? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom — is to die.
Strana xv - Tamyse, for to haue sayled ouer the see into Zelande, and for lacke of wynde thei taryed atte Forlond, and wente to lande for to refreshe them; And one of theym named Sheffelde, a mercer, cam in-to an hows and axed for mete ; and specyally he axyd after eggys; And the goode wyf answerde, that she coude not speke no Frenshe. And the marchaunt was angry, for he also coude speke no Frenshe, but wolde haue hadde egges, and she vnderstode hym not. And thenne at laste a nother sayd that he wolde haue eyren...
Strana 26 - Noster, or (Our Father) sticking a pin in your sleeve, and you will dream of him, or her, you shall marry.
Strana 137 - A piece of ground was then chosen, and divided into three compartmentsi of which the middle one was called hell. It was the object of the couple condemned to this division to catch the others, who advanced from the two extremities ; in which case a change of situation took place, and hell was filled by the couple who were excluded by pre-occupation from the other places ; in this
Strana 140 - a kind of embroidered mantle which hung down from the middle to about the knees or lower, worn by knights on horseback
Strana 189 - The patient must lie upon his back on the bank of the river or brook of water, with a straight staff by his side between him and the water, and must have the following words repeated over him, viz. : Boneshave right, Boneshave straight. As the water runs by the stave Good for Boneshave.
Strana 188 - City and suburbs, tipt with silver, besides the great black-jacks, and bombards at the Court, which when the Frenchmen first saw, they reported, at their return into their country, that the Englishmen used to drink out of their boots...
Strana 231 - COCKLE BREAD Young wenches [Aubrey loquitur] have a wanton sport which they call moulding of Cockle-bread, viz., they get upon a table-board, and then gather up their knees and their coates with their hands as high as they can, and then they wabble to and fro, as if they were kneading of dowgh, and say these words, viz. : My dame is sick and gonne to bed, And I'le go mould my Cockle-bread.
Strana 47 - A large tub is filled with water, and two stools placed on each side of it. Over the whole is thrown a tarpaulin, or old sail: this is kept tight by two persons, who are to represent the king and queen of a foreign country, and are seated on the stools. The person intended to be ducked plays the Ambassador, and after repeating a ridiculous speech dictated to him, is led in great form up to the throne, and seated between the king and queen, who rising suddenly as soon as he is seated, he falls backwards...
Strana 358 - Skelton, i. 293. GLEEK. (1) A jest, or scoff. Also, to jest. To give the gleek, ie to pass a jest on one, to make a person ridiculous. See Cotgrave, in v.

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