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B.

Barate, barbarity?
Baynes, baths, or bagnios.
Be, sometimes used for been.
Bedeman, confessor.
Behight, foretold.

Beir, a shrill noise.

Bemers, Bohemians.

Ben, are, be, been, have been.

Beryn, to bear.

Besmyt, to taint, corrupt.
Besy, busy.

Besynes, business.

Bitake, to deliver, delivered.

Blinne, to cease, stop.

Boon, a bone.

Brenning, burning.

Brente, burnt.

Bronde, a brand.

Bush, to lie in ambush.
Bushment, an ambuscade.
But, but if, unless, except.

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Cleuchis, cloughs, deep valleys, or ravines in the hills. Commyxion, commixture.

Comprize, to undertake.

Con, conne, to know.

Conning, cunning, knowledge.

Contact, conflict.

Contrary, directed towards.

Costlew, costly.

Could, knew.

Covenable, convenient.

Covetyse, covetousness.

Craft, art.

Curtarse, courteous.

D.

Dagging, slitting, cutting into slips.

Delices, (Fr.) delights.

Depart, to divide.

Despoil, to take off, or divest."

Dicts, sayings.

Diffenses, prohibitions.

Distraught, to distract, torture; distracted, &c.

Do, sometimes for done.

Done, to do.

Donet, introduction.

Doom, judgment, reason.
Dou, dove,

Doubt, fear; to fear.

Doubted, feared.

Doubty, doubtful.

Dure, to last, extend.
Dured, lasted, extended.
Duresse, durance.

Eft, oft.

Egal, (Fr.) equal.

E.

Either, or, either.

Elle, else.

Else, either.

Encheson, chance.

Enpight, infixed; inherent ; from pike, (Sax.) to pitch.
Enseign, or ensign; ensigned, to teach; taught.
Enseignments, instructions.

Entendement, thought, destiny.
Everyche, each.

Extraught, extracted.
Eyen, eyes.

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For, because.

For the nonce, on purpose, by design.

Forlet; deserted.

Foryet, to forget.

Freres, (Fr.) friars.

Fro, from.

Frotynge, rubbing? from frotter (Fr.) to rub?

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Goilk, the cuckoo.

Gon, gone, goo, goon, to go.
Gridelstede, girdle's place; the waist.
Grome, child, offspring.

Guarish, to cure; from guerir? (Fr.)
Gurged, gorged,

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Herie, to master; i. e. to treat as a master or superior.

Hests, commands.

Hete, to ordain, order, command.

Highte, called, or is called.

Hogy, to raise, exalt.

Hostel, house.

Hose, hollow.

Housel, (part.) houseld, to administer the Lord's

How so be it, notwithstanding.

Hungerand, hungry.

supper.

Hutch, originally a coffer, or a recess in a barn, to con

tain corn thrashed, but not winnowed.

I.

Indigne, unworthy..

Into, sometimes used for unto.

J.

Jubarde, to endanger, put in jeopardy.
Jubardy, jeopardy.

Kembed, combed.

K.

Ketylde, tickled, stimulated.

Kind, nature.

Kine, cows.

Kinreden, kindred.

Knave, a male, a servant, a lacquey. Kunnen, to know, knew.

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