GLOSSARY

Affiance

confidence, trust, faith in (somebody) [MED]

Apayed

satisfied, content or pleased [MED]

Attend

to wait for

Bandog

a dog kept tied up as a guard, or for its ferocity [CED]

Betimes

early

Barke

a boat

Blame

to rebuke or scold [MED]

Caitif

a captive. Also a mean, niggardly person [GTSW]

Cavellation

a quibble

Chuffe

a churlish miser [GTSW]

Clout

a piece of cloth or linen, a rag [GTSW]

Coat

a house or shack

Commonweale

public welfare, public property.

Cope

a semicircular sleeveless hooded vestment [CED]

Cosses

thighs

Dastards

cowards

Delay

to dilute [GTSW]

Detect

to reveal

Discover

to disclose, to reveal

Dissemble

to disguise, to mask, to feign, to assume a false appearance [CED]

Dolour

pain

Eke

in addition, likewise [CED]

Erst

once, formerly

Fain

(v.) to put on a false appearance, e.g. he fained much sorrow.

Fain

(adv.) willingly, e.g. I would fain speake.

Fardel

a bundle, a pack, a burden. [CED]

Fet

to fetch [CED]

Fuller

one whose occupation is to cleanse and thicken cloth.

Gan

to begin [CED]

Glimpse

to shine faintly, to glimmer [GTSW]

Gree

goodwill, favour, pleasure, satisfaction

Habiliment

an outfit, accoutrement, attire [GTSW]

Importunate

unreasonably solicitous or urgent; insupportable; troublesome

Incontinently

immediately [GTSW]

Krippin

(may be related to Crippe: a small bag, a pouch [MED])

Lawne

a cotton or linen fabric, finer than cambric

Masties

mastiffs

Maugre

in spite of [DAP]

Maurell

(may be related to Mawroll: the white-horehound [DAP])

Mow

a stack of corn [DAP]

Pannier

a basket

Pantofles/Pantofiles

slippers

Paps

breasts

Partlet

a neckerchief [GTSW]

Pismares/Pismires

ants

Pole

the upper part

Pottage

boiled vegetables, with or without meat [CED]

Precept

a command, a mandate

Presently

immediately [GTSW]

Preyes

booty, plunder [CED]

Pristine

pertaining to an early state or time

Privily

secretly

Privities: secrets

Proper

own, e.g. "My proper weapons": "My own weapons"

Puissance

strength, power

Puissant

strong, powerful [from the French "puissant"]

Sallet

a salad [DAP]

Sarce

a small hair sieve [DAP]

Shipping

"to take shipping" = "to embark" [CED]

Sive

a sieve [DAP]

Sop

a piece of bread soaked in the dripping under the meat [DAP]

Spice

a slight attack of any disorder [DAP]

Stint

to stop (something) [DAP]

Target

a light round buckler [GTSW] (Buckler: a small hand-held shield).

Travell

work, labour

Twyfold

twofold

Unbrast

removed or relaxed the braces of; loosened

Ungles

claws [from French "ongles"]

Unlaste

unlaced, unfastened. [GTSW]

Unneth

scarcely [DAP]

Utricide

a bag-killer. (from Latin "utris": bag).

Verge

a rod, wand, or staff, carried as an emblem of authority

Verjiuce

an acid liquid expressed from crab-apples, unripe grapes etc.

Weale publique, Commonweale

welfare, prosperity [GTSW]

Wot

to know. e.g. God wot: God knows

Sources:

[CED]: Chambers English Dictionary.

[DAP]: A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words from the 14th Century, by James Orchard Halliwell, London: John Russell Smith, 1881.

[GTSW]: A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words; by Walter W. Skeat, edited with additions by A. L. Mayhew; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1914.

[MED]: Middle English Dictionary, by Hans Kurath, University of Michigan Press / Oxford University Press, 1956.