Decrewed (IV. vi. 18): decreased, waned. O.Fr. décreu, p.p. of décreistre, Mod. Fr. décroître.

Defeasance (1..xii. 12): defeat, overthrow. M.E. defesaunce.

Defeature (Iv. vi. 17): defeat.

Deflore (Hymne, 39): deflower, violate, desecrate.

Delaye (Apr. 171): moisten. Fr. délayer.

Descant (Ep. 81): song; treble sung or played to a ground bass. Discoloured (1. xi. 31 et pass.): variously coloured.

Disentrayle (IV. vi. 16): draw forth from the entrails.

Doubted (Oct. 41): redoubted, feared.

Dreriment (Ep. 11 et pass.): sorrow. Spenserian invention, dreary

+ment.

Earne (1. i. 3): yearn.

Eath (Iv. vi. 40): easy.

Eft (Hymne, 114 et pass.): afterwards.

Embosse (1. xi. 20): plunge, fix. Spenserian usage.

Embost (III. xii. 17): tired out. A hunting term.

Emboyled (1. xi. 28): boiled (both literally and metaphorically).
Spenserian: em+boiled.

Empight (Hymne, 49): fixed in, implanted in. See pight.
Enchace (1. xii. 23): to set, as a jewel. Fr. enchâsser.

Enfouldred (1. xi. 40): hurled like a thunderbolt. O.Fr. fouldre,
Fr. foudre.

Engorged (1. xi. 40): crammed. Fr. engorger; en+gorge, the throat. Enraced (Hymne, 114; VI. x. 25): implanted.

Epiphonematicos (Oct. 301): by way of envoy. Term of rhetoric : ἐπιφωνηματικῶς.

Fewter (IV. vi. 10): to lay (spear) in rest. Fr. feutre, the felt lining of the spear-rest.

Fit (C. C. 69): a stave of song. Often spelt fytte.

Fit (Iv. vi. 30): painful experience.

Flitting (1. xi. 13): unstable. Translates Lat. leves (aurae).

Fon (Oct. 91): fond, foolish.

Forthy (II. ix. 49): therefore.

Gests (11. ix. 53): actions, exploits. O.Fr. gestes, Lat. gesta. Archaic in Spenser's time.

Goolds (C. C. 339): golds, marigolds.

Grayne, dyde in (Ep. 228): scarlet dye; kermes. Med. Lat. grana, berry, the insects of which the dye is made being thought to be berries.

Gride (IV. vi. 1): pierce, wound.

Grosse (1. xi. 20): clumsy, rude.

Gust (vII. vii. 39): taste. Ital. gusto.

Heben (1. Int. 3; IV. vi. 6): ebony. Lat. hebenus.

Hippodames (II. ix. 50): In III. xi. 40 this word stands for hippocamps, the mythical sea-horses of Neptune; confused by Spenser (perhaps intentionally) with hippotame, hippopotamus. Hooved (C. C. 666): swelled. Northern; apparently a derivative of heave.

Hot (1. xi. 29): was named. Parallel form of hight; O.E. hatan. Housling (1. xii. 37): purifying (by ceremonial lustration). O.E. húslian, to administer communion.

Impe (1. Int. 3 et pass.): offspring. O.E.impa. Cf. modern use of scion. Intendiment (III. xii. 5): meaning.

Libbard (VII. vii. 29): leopard.

Liefe (C. C. 16) dear. O.E. leof.

Limbeck (VII. vii. 31)

alembic.

Make (Am. lxx. 11; Ep. 87): mate.
Minished (1. xi. 43): diminished.

Misconceipt (IV. vi. 2): misunderstanding.

Misleeke (v. vi. 49): mislike, dislike.

Mote (passim): may, can; might. O.E. mót, pres. tense of móste; Mod.Eng. must. Spenser uses it for both pres. and past tenses. Mott (C. C. 365): probably a false past tense for met, measured ; O.E. metan.

Net (III. xii. 20): pure, clean. Fr. net.

No'te (III. vi. 40): ne mote: may not, cannot.

Noule (vII. vii. 39): head. O.E. hnoll.

Noyous (1. xi. 50): vexatious, troublesome.

Oaker (R. T. 205): ochre.

Paravaunt (C. C. 941 ; VI. X. 15): before the rest, pre-eminently. O.Fr. Pawnce (Apr. 142): pansy.

Pearling (Ep. 155): forming or looking like pearls.

Peize (v. ii. 46): weigh. O.Fr. peiser; a parallel form to poise.

Pight (1. xi. 25, et pass.): fixed. O.E. pizt, p.p. of picchen.

Pill (vi. x. 5): pillage, plunder. O.E. pilian Fr. piller.

Poyse (v. ii. 34) weight. O.Fr. pois, Mod.Fr. poids.

Preace, put in (Oct. 70): exercise, put in practice; Spenserian usage (N.E.D.). Prepare (Herford).

Pride (1. xii. 22): display.

Prime (vII. vii. 43): spring, the first season.

Principals (E. K. p. 22, 27): the first two primaries of a hawk's

wing.

Raught (p. 5, 2): reached.

Ray (v. ii. 50): array.

Recure (E. K. p. 20, 22, et pass.): cure.

Rivage (Iv. vi. 20): river-bank.

Rudded (Ep. 173): made red.

Ruddock (Ep. 82): redbreast.

Fr.

Scorse (II. ix. 55): exchange. Southern dialect.

Scryne (1. Int. 2; II. ix. 56): chest for keeping books. Lat. scrinium. Sdeignfull (v. vi. 33): disdainful. From, or by analogy from, Ital. sdegno, disdain, +full.

Seare (1. xi. 13): ? adjective formed (by Spenser) from verb sear, to wither; or a noun of similar formation, sulphur being the adj.? Sell (IV. vi. 13): saddle.

Somd (E. K. p. 22, 22): summed, fledged. Falconer's term. Sownd (1. xii. 5): ? to make resound? Or is there in Spenser's mind some suggestion of Lat. sumere?

Stead (III. xii. 2): place. O.E. stede. In this absolute use, somewhat

archaic.

Steane (VII. vii. 42): stone jar. O.E. stæne. Cf. Ger. stein.

Sterne (1. xi. 18): tail. Still used of hounds.

Stockes (Oct. 282): hose.

Stound (1) (passim): time.

Dialectal and archaic.

(2) (Oct. 49; IV. vi. 37): pang, short pain. Chiefly Northern, and used very vaguely.

(3) (IV. vi. 12): swoon. O.E. stund. Stoures (Hymne, 73; vII. vii. 28): troubles. Stye (1. xi. 25): ascend, mount up. Surquedrye (v. ii. 30): arrogance.

M.E.

O.E. stizan.

O.Fr. surcuidrie; common in

Lat. taeda.

Sythe (C. C. 23) time. O.E. sið.
Tead (Ep. 27 ; I. xii. 37): torch.
Tenor (Oct. 50; Ep. 9): character, quality. O.Fr. and Mod.Eng.
tenor of a document.

Thewed (Hymne, 136): endowed (with qualities). Perhaps from O.E. péaw, habit. (Or, perhaps, from Chaucerian thee, O.E. péon, to grow, thrive ?)

Tho (passim): then.

Thrillant (1. xi. 20): penetrating. Thrilling (O.E. þyrlian), with archaic Northern participal termination -ant.

Tickle (vII. viii. 1): insecure.

uncertain.

M.E. tykel: cf. Northern, kittle,

To-fore (VII. vii. 30): before, formerly.

Tort (1. xii. 4)

injury, wrong. Fr. tort. Legal.

Toure (Ep. 68): to ascend, rise aloft. (?)

Trac'd and traversed (IV. vi. 18): a literary formula for the actions of fighting, probably from Malory. Meaning uncertain; perhaps, to follow up the adversary as he retires, and to step sidewise. Troad (vI. x. 5): track. O.E. trod.

Vade (v. ii. 40): to fade. Southern form, or by contamination with Lat. vadere, to go.

Ventayle (IV. vi. 19)

O.Fr. a

lower movable part of a helmet, later used for all the hinged parts which covered the face. breathing-place: or, a fan (from its action on the hinges). Whyleare (Iv. vi. 36; VII. viii. 1) : a while before, a little time ago. Wimpled (1. i. 4): arranged in folds like a wimple. Spenserian. Wonne (IV. vi. 5): dwell. O.E. wunian.

Wroken (v. ii. 47): Yroke (Iv. vi. 23): M.E. past tense from wreak.
Ydrad (1. i. 2): dreaded.

Yede (1. xi. 5) to go. Archaic past tense here used as present.
Yelded (1. xi. 37): Reduplication of yell.

Yode (VII. vii. 35): archaic form parallel to yede: O.E. éode.
Spenser may have thought of it as the past tense of yede.

Yold (vII. vii. 30): yielded. A false formation ad hoc.

Ysame (VII. vii. 32): mixed together. M.E. adv. samed, together; probably taken to be a past part.

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