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Think women still to strive with men,
To sin, and never for to saint:
There is no heaven, by holy then,
When time with age shall them attaint.
Were kisses all the joys in bed,
One woman would another wed.

But soft; enough,-too much I fear, Lest that my niistress hear my song; She 'll not stick to round me i' th' ear, To teach my tongue to be so long: Yet will she blush, here be it said, To hear her secrets so bewray'd.

XVIII.

Live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
And all the craggy mountains yields.

There will we sit upon the rocks,
And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, by whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

There will I make thee a bed of roses,
With a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers and a kirtle
Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Then live with me, and be my love.

LOVE'S ANSWER.

If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

XIX.
As it fell upon a day,

In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade

Which a grove of myrtles made,

Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring:

Everything did banish moan,
Save the nightingale alone:
She, poor bird, as all forlorn,
Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn,
And there sung the dolefull'st ditty
That to hear it was great pity:
Fie, fie, fie, now would she cry,
Teru, Teru, by and by:
That to hear her so complain,
Scarce I could from tears refrain;
For her griefs so lively shown,
Made me think upon mine own.
Ah thought I, thou mourn'st in vain;
None take pity on thy pain:

Senseless trees, they cannot hear thee;
Ruthless bears, they will not cheer thee.
King Pandion, he is dead;

All thy friends are lapp'd in lead;
All thy fellow-birds do sing,
Careless of thy sorrowing.
Even so, poor bird, like thee,
None alive will pity me.
Whilst as fickle fortune smil'd,
Thou and I were both beguil'd.
Every one that flatters thee
Is no friend in misery.

Words are easy like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find.
Every man will be thy friend,

Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend;
But if store of crowns be scant,
No man will supply thy want.
If that one be prodigal,
Bountiful they will him call:
And with such-like flattering
'Pity but he were a king.'
If he be addict to vice,
Quickly him they will entice;
If to women he be bent,

They have him at commandement ;
But if fortune once do frown,
Then farewell his great renown:
They that fawn'd on him before,
Use his company no more.
He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need;
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep:
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.

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ABATE, to blunt, 418

Abated, subdued, depressed, 623

Advised, assured, aware, persuaded, 33, 90, 242, 294
Affect, to love, 98

Abhominable, antiquated spelling of abominable, Affect the letter, to use alliteration, 103

107

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Affection, affectation, imagination, 107, 217
Affectioned, affected, 204

Affeer, to assess, or confirm, 515

Affined, bound, 459, 467

Affray, to frighten, 452

Affront, to confront, to encounter, 546
Affy, betroth, 396

Affy, to confide, 674

Against the hair, against the grain, 563
Agate-ring, 279.

Aglet-baby, a diminutive figure carved on a jewel,

167, 296

Agnize, to acknowledge, 463

Agood, in good earnest, 28

Aim, to guess, to surmise, 22, 461

Aim! cry aim! to encourage, 29
Aim, to give, to direct, 29, 71

Ache (a noun), pronounced ache, and forming a Ajax, a jakes, III

riddle with the letter H, 88, 666

Aches (a noun), pronounced akes, 4

Acknown, known, 471

Acquaintance, amity, 738

Across, to break, a tilt-yard technical, 92, 184

Acture, action, 746

Adamant, loadstone, 117

Adam, old, a serjeant, 74
Addiction, inclination, 466

Additions, qualities, titles, characteristics, 186, 540,
563

Address, to prepare, to make ready, 42, 99, 125, 135,
162, 307

Admittance, vogue, fashion, 36

Advice, consideration, representation, 143, 318

Albany, an ancient name for Scotland, 482
Alder-liefest, all-dearest, dearest of all, 289
A'life, as life, 228

All at once, a trite phrase, 390

Allons! let us go, 106, 107

Allow, to approve, 491

Allowed, licensed, 110

Allowing, allowed, lawful, 217
All-thing, every way, 510

Alms-drink, a portion of liquor drunk to relieve a
companion, 658

Althea's dream, 298

Amazing, confounding, appalling, 47, 256
Ames-ace, both aces, 186
Amiss, a fault, 744

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Aroint begone! avaunt! 505

A-row, one after another, successively, 76
Arrive, to arrive at, 634

Articulate, to enter into articles, 614

Articulated, circumstantially drawn out, 289
Artificial, ingenious, 121

Artist, a scholar, 565

Aspersion, sprinkling, II

Assinego, an ass, 567

Assured, affianced, 72, 242

Astonished, thunderstruck, 738

At friend, on terms of friendship, 234

Atomies, mites, 443

Atomies, atoms, 156, 319

Atone, to reconcile, 255, 587

Attasked, taxed, charged, 487

Attorney, advocate, pleader, 709
Aunts, wenches, 226

Awful, authorised, lawful, 305

Awful men, men of worth and authority, 25
Awkward, distorted, contrary, 319, 364

BACCARE, stand back, 169

Baffled, treated with ignominy, 255
Baldrick, a belt, 80

Balked, ridged, heaped up, 273.

Balk logic, to dispute, to wrangle, 165
Ballow, a pole or staff, 500

Ban, to curse, 709

Banbury cheese, a thin cheese, 31
Band, a bond, 74

Ban-dog, perhaps a dog chained or banded, 357

Banquet, a dessert, 179

Barbason, a fiend, 37, 300

Barbed, caparisoned, 394

Bare the beard, to shave the beard, 61
Barm, yeast, 116

Barns, bairns, 88

Base-court, lower court, 265

Bases, an embroidered mantle, hanging from the
waist to the knee, worn by knights on horse-
back; also the housings of a horse; also the
hose, 694

Basilisks, huge pieces of ordnance, 278
Basta, enough, 166

Bastard, a sweet wine, 279

Bat, staff or club, 745

Bate, to blunt, 96

Batlet, a bat to beat linen with, 150

Batten, to feed, 551

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Bawcock, beau coq, fine fellow, 209, 217

Bay-window, bow-window, 212

Becoming, self-restrained, 225
Bed-fellow, intimate friend, 317
Beetles, overhangs, 540

Beg a fool, to ask in wardship, 68
Begetter, one who gets or procures, 729
Beguiled, masked, disguised, 727
Behave, to control, 528

Belike, to favour, to approve, 516

Be-inete, to beat with a yard measure, 176
Bemoiled, bedraggled, 173.

Be naught a while, a mischief on you! 145
Bench hole, forica, 666

Benefit, a beneficiary, 352
Benumbed, stiff, inflexible, 569

Bergomask, a dance, 127

Bermoothes, the Bermudas, 3

Beshrew, to curse, to imprecate sorrow or evil on a

person, 108, 134

Besmirch, to soil, to befoul, 328, 539

Bessy, o'er the bourn, 494

Best, best one, an epithet of endearment, 652
Bestowed, secreted, stowed, 68

Bestraught, distracted, 164

Beteem, to allow, to suffer, 115, 538

Better penny, a proverbial phrase, 30
Bevel, crooked, 741

Bewray, to betray, to discover, 346, 375

Bezonian, a term of contempt, 312

Bias, a swelling out, 578

Bid, to invite, 133

Bid forth, invited out, 133

Biggin, a coif, 308

Bilberry, the whortleberry, 47

Bilbo, 31, 42

Bilboes, instruments of torture, fetters, 559
Bills, halberds, battle-axes, 87, 499

Bisson, blind, 546

Biting the thumb, a contemptuous action, 440
Blacks, mourning habiliments, 217
Blank, a mark in gunnery, 220

Blench, to flinch, to start off, 61, 218, 562
Blend, blended, 746

Bless the mark, 28, 132, 459
Blind-worm, slow-worm, 118, 513
Block, a hat-mould, 79

Blood in, with the blood up, 103

Blood-boltered, clotted with blood, 514

Blow, to swell, 666

Blue caps, the Scotch, 281
Blunt, dull, insensible, 391
Board, to accost, 200

Bob, to rap, to hit, 116, 151, 417
Bobbed, tricked, 478

Bodged, bungled, 377

Bodkin, a stiletto, a dagger, 547

Bodykins, God's, an oath, 546
Bolds, emboldens, 501
Bolted, sifted, 229
Boltered, clotted, 514
Bolters, sieves, 285

Bolting-hutch, the bin into which meal is boulted,

281

Bombard, or bumbard, a barrel, a capacious vessel,
sometimes of leather, for holding drink, 281,
458

Bombast, a sort of wadding used to fill out dresses,
113

Bona-robas, women of pleasure, 302

Bone-ache, the Neapolitan, 569, 572

Boot, help, advantage, 255, 348
Bordered, restrained, 496

Borne in hand, encouraged by delusive promises, go
Borrowed, assumed, 747

Bead's-man, one whose duty is to offer up prayers Bosky, woody, 288
for another, 15, 353,

Bear a brain, to remember well, 442

Bear hard, to rein in from mistrust or fear, 635, 641
Bearing-cloth, an infant's mantle in which it is
carried to the font, 225

Bear in hand, to jencourage, to buoy up, 91, 174,

294, 510

Beaver, the lower part of a helmet, sometimes used

for the helmet itself, 288

Beck, a bow, 523

Bosom multiplied, many-stomached, 172
Bots, worms in the stomach of a horse, 173, 276
Bottled, bloated, 398

Bottom, to wind round, or upon, 23
Bought and sold, entrapped, betrayed, made a
victim, 347, 567
Bourn, boundary, 498, 547
Bow, yeke, 155
Bowed, bent, 426
Brach, a hound bitch, 163

Become, to adapt, to render fit, to adorn, 26, 154, Braid, false, deceitful, 193

348, 744

Braved, bedizened, ornamented, 152, 176
Bravery, finery, ostentation, 50, 152, 647
Braving, blustering, hectoring, 677
Break up, to carve, 102, 133

Break with him, to open the subject to him, 17, 637
Breast, voice, 204

Breath, a breathing, a combat for exercise, 578
Breathe in watering, to take breath while drinking,

279

Breeched, sheathed, mired, 509

Breed-bate, an exciter of quarrels, 33
Brewer's horse, 285

Brew good ale, a proverb, 24
Bribe-buck, 47

Brize, the gad, or horsefly, 565, 662

Broken music, the music of stringed instruments,
147, 571

Broker, a pander, a procuress, a cheat, 242,
745

Brooched, adorned, decorated, 669
Brooded, watchful, 245

Broom-groves, II

Brown-bastard, a sweet wine, 279

Brown-bill, a battle-axe, 499

Brownist, a follower of Brown, a sectary, 208
Bruit, report, 340, 390, 519, 538, 584
Buckle, to bend, 294

Buff, the dress of a sergeant, 73

Bug, a bugbear, a goblin, 551, 559, 603
Bulk, the breast, 542

Bully-rook, a jolly dog, 32

Bung, a cutpurse, 300

Burgonet, a helmet, 653

Burst, broken, 173, 304

Busky, bosky, woody, 288

Buxom, lusty, sprightly, buoyant, 323

Buz, buz-an interjection of impatience, 545
Buzzard, a beetle, 170

By day and night, at all times, 353, 420

By these ten bones, a common adjuration, 357
By 'rlakin, by our ladykin, or little lady, 10, 119

CADDIS, worsted galloon, 228, 279

Cade, a barrel, 357

Cadent, falling, 487

Cake is dough, hopes are frustrated, 165, 179

Cality, construe me, 328

Caliver, a hand-gun, 304

Call, a bird-call, 246

Callet, a strumpet, 222, 356, 476

Calm, a mispronunciation of qualm, 299

Canary, a dance with castanets, 328

Candle-wasters, Bacchanals, revellers, 91

Canker, the dog-rose, 82, 734

Canstick, a candlestick, 283

Cantle, a slice, a corner, 283, 662

Cantons, cantos, 203

Canvas, to toss, 337

Can you hit it ?-a song, or dance, 102

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Changeling, a child changed by fairies or gipsies,
116, 117

Channel, kennel, 380

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472

Charining, magical, fascinating, 587, 676
Charneco, a sort of wine, 360

Chases, a term of tennis, 316
Chaudron, entrails, 530

'Cheater, an Escheater, 32, 744

Cheater, a gamester, a cozener, 299
Check, to fly from, or shy at, 556
Cheer, fare, 549

Cheer, visage, aspect, 121, 138, 718
Cherry-pit, a game, 209

Cheveril, a soft leather, 426, 447
Chewet, a noisy chattering bird, 289
Chide, to rebuke, to re-sound, 320

Chide with, to quarrel with, 476, 603, 740
Child, a female infant, 228

Childing, teeming, 117

Children that have no names, illegitimate children,
651

Chop-logic, a nickname; also, to exchange logic,

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Circumstance, circumlocution, 129

'Cite, to incite, 154, 378

Cittern, a musical instrument, 112

Civil, sour, bitter, 83, 209

Clack-dish, a beggar's dish, 58
Clamour, to refrain or silence, 228
Claw, to flatter, 81

Capable-impressible, susceptible, 4, 156, 242, 243, Clean, utterly, completely, 263

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Clean kam, rigmarole, 621

Cleave the pin, to split the wooden pin in a target,

29, 102

Clerkly, scholarly, 18, 45

Cling, to shrivel, to shrink, 518

Clip, to embrace, 234

Close, to wheedle, to fawn, to flatter, 65
Close, wanton, 531

Cloth-of-gold of tissue, cloth of gold on a ground of
tissue, 655

Cloud in the face, a dark spot in the forehead of a
horse, 660

Clout, the white mark in a target, 102

Clouted brogues, nailed shoes, 600
Coast, to advance, 713

Coat, coat of arms, 746

Cock and pye, a popular adjuration, 294
Cockle-hat, a pilgrim's hat, 554

Cockney, a spooney, a cook, 490

Cock-shut, twilight, 416

Coffin, the crust of a raised pie, 176, 688

Cog, to load dice, to cheat, to defraud, 324

Cognizance, a badge, 341

Coil, trouble, turmoil, 17, 122
Colbrand the giant, 238

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Colours, artifices, 340

Colt, to gull, 277

Combinate, contracted, 57

Combination, contract, 215

Come off, to pay, 44

Comforting, encouraging, abetting, 222

Courts, a term in tennis, 316
Cousin, a kinsman, 443
Covent, a convent, 62
Cover, to prepare the table, 151
Cower, to bend or sink, 700

Cowl-staff, a pole used to carry a bucket, 40
Coystril, a mean groom, or peasant, 200
Cozier, a botcher of clothes or shoes, 204

Commend, to commit, to submit, to resign, 197, 222, Crack, a manikin, 611

667

Commission, warrant, authority, 217

Commodity, advantage, self-interest, 244

Common, public, 100

Common liar, rumour, 650

Compact, made up, compounded, 71

Companion, a low fellow, 75, 476, 590, 629
Company, companion, 161

Comparative, ready in comparisons, or similes, 273
Compassed, arched, 709

Competitor, coadjutor, confederate, auxiliary, 21,

212

Compliments, point-de-vice manners, 97, 318
Comply, to fraternise, to play the courtier, 545, 560
Compose, accord, agree, 655

Composure, composture, composition, 533, 570, 652
Compt, in, in trust, to be accounted for, 507
Comptible, susceptible, sensitive, 202

Con, to know, to allow, to award, 194, 202
Conceit, imagination, 448

Conceited, conceptive, apprehensive, 725
Conclusions, experiments, 552, 588
Concolinel, 100

Condition, nature, disposition, 131, 147, 194, 638
Conduct, a conductor, a guide, 210, 449, 718
Coney-catch, to cheat, 178

Coney-catcher, a sharper, a trickster, 31

Confess and be hanged, a cant phrase, 474
Conger and fennel, 300

Consent, agreement, unison, 310
Consigned, sealed, 517

Consort, fellowship, fraternity, 25, 68

Consort, a band of musicians, 39

Conspectuity, vision, perception, 615
Constancy, consistency, 125, 640
Contain, to hold, to retain, 144

Contemptible, mocking, contemptuous, 84
Content, acquiescence, 707

Content, continent, self-restrained, 645
Continent, capacious, 554
Continuate, uninterrupted, 473
Contraction, marriage-contract, 552

Convent, to agree, to be convenient, 215
Convent, to summon, to cite, 64, 435
Convert, to turn, 529

Convertite, a penitent, a convert, 250
Convicted, vanquished, 245

Convince, to conquer, 112, 507, 516, 587
Convive, to feast together, 579
Cooling-card, 350

Copatain-hat, a high-crowned hat, 178
Cope, to encounter, 142
Copy, theme, 76

Coranto, a dance, 186

Corinth, a cant name for a bordello, 524
Corinthian, a wencher, 285

Cornuto, a cuckold, 41

Corollary, an overplus, 11

Corporal of the field, an aide-de-camp, 101
Costard, the head, 98

Coted, came alongside, 544
Cot-quean, a molly-coddle, 455
Couching, crouching, 641

Counsel, in counsel, secret, in secret, 21, 31, 191
Countenance, to receive, to entertain, 145, 174
Counter-caster, a disparaging term for merchant,

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Crants, crowns, garlands, 558

Crare, a small vessel of burden, 600
Credent, credible, plausible, 62, 217
Credit, information, 212

Crescive, increasing, growing, 314
Crewel, worsted, 501
Critic, a cynic, 581

Critical, cynical, censorious, 740
Crooked, bowed or crouched, 640

Cross, a coin stamped with a cross, 98, 150, 523
Cross, to pass across the path of a spectre, 537
Crush a cup of wine, an invitation to a carouse, 44
Cry, a pack, a troop or company, 549, 623
Cry aim, to encourage, 240

Cry Havoc a signal for indiscriminate slaughter,
241, 621

Cry in the top of question, to crow over or chal-
lenge, 545

Cry on, to announce, to assert, 213, 417, 478
Crystal-button, 279

Cue, a stage term for the last words of a speech, 119
Cuisses, armour for the thighs, 287

Cunning, knowing, skilful, 60, 166, 535

Curb, to bow or truckle, 552

Curiosity, finical refiement, 532

Curious, scrupulous, over punctilious, 177, 659
Curious-good, fastidiously precise, 725

Curious-knotted, abounding in intricate figures, 97

Curled, an epithet of gentility, 461

Cursed, under the influence of a malediction, 582
Curst, cross-grained, sour, intractable, malicious,

102, 122, 208, 225, 488
Curtall-dog, a halting-dog, 34
Curtle-ax, a cutlass, 149, 327

Customer, a loose woman, 198, 474

Cut and long tail, good and bad, 41

Cyprus, or Cypress, a stuff like crape, 208

DAFF, or doff, to put off, 92, 445

Damn, to condemn, 644, 650
Damnable, damnably, 224

Danger, power, 141

Dangerous, biting, mischievous, 96, 221, 637

Dank, wet, rotten, 118, 276

Danskers, Danes, 542

Dare larks, to, 431

Darkling, in the dark, 118

Darraign, boldly prepared, 380

Daubery, juggling, 43

Day-woman, dairy-woman, 98

Dealt on lieutenantry, fought by proxy, 663

Dear, choice, rare, momentous, extreme, 99, 148,
255, 462, 463, 573, 681

Death's-man, executioner, 723

Death-tokens, plague-spots forewarning death, 662
Debitor-and-creditor, the title of some old treatises
on book-keeping, 669
Deceptious, deceiving, 581

Decked, sprinkled, 2

Deck of cards, a pack of cards, 390

Defeat, to disfigure the countenance, 463

Defeatures, ill-looks, defacement, 69, 77

Defend, to forbid, 81, 91, 288, 463

Deftly, smartly, featly, 514
Defunctive, mortuary, 750
Defy, to contemn or spurn, 748
Defy, to renounce, 276
Delighted, delighting, 463

Demerits, good or ill deserts, 461, 610
Demit, to depress or cast down, 530
Demi-wolves, a species of dog, 511
Denay, to deny, 356

Denier, a French coin, 397

Denunciation, annunciation, 50
Depart, to part with, 99, 242

Depart, to separate, 522

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