566 of my purveiaunce by my foresightedness
569 bobaunce boast
570 purveiaunce provision
573 sterte escape
574 is al ydo everything is over
575 bar him on honde maintained
576 dame mother soutiltee trick
577 mette dreamed
578 upright on my back
583 loore teaching
587 beere bier
588 I wept continually and put on a sorrowful expression
589 mooten must usage customary
591 purveyed of provided with make spouse
592 smal little undertake warrant
593 amorwe next morning
594 With by maden sorwe mourned
595 oon of tho one of them
598 clene shapely
599 unto his hoold into his possession
600 winter years
602 hadde… a coltes tooth had youthful desires
603 Gat-tothed gap-toothed bicam suited
604 preente print (n.)
605 lusty lively
606 wel bigoon in good spirits
608 quoniam ‘what-for’ (vagina) (n.)
609 Venerien a child of Venus
610 Marcien dominated by the influence of Mars
611 lust appetite for pleasure likerousnesse lasciviousness
612 sturdy rebellious hardinesse boldness
613 ascendent dominant sign of the zodiac (n.)
615 inclinacioun natural disposition (as influenced by the planets at birth)
616 By vertu of in consequence of
618 chambre of Venus ‘love-chamber’ (vagina)
619 Martes of Mars (n.)
622 by no discrecioun in moderation
624 Al were he whether he was
625 I did not care, provided that he pleased me
628 joly gallant hende handsome
629 solempnitee festivity
630 fee property
632 repented me ful sore I repented bitterly
633 suffre tolerate list pleasure
634 list ear
635 rente tore
636 of the strook from the blow wex became
637 leonesse lioness
638 jangleresse nagger
640 althogh he hadde it sworn although he had sworn the contrary
642 And tell me about old Roman stories
645 Only because he saw her with uncovered head
648 someres game Midsummer revels (n.)
649 witing knowledge
653 roule aboute gad about
655 salwes willows
656 priketh spurs falwes fallow land
657 halwes saints’ shrines
658 galwes gallows
659 hawe hawthorn berry
663 mo more
664 wood al outrely extremely angry
665 I would not put up with him under any circumstances
670 disport amusement
672 lough laughed ful faste very heartily
673 clerk scholar
681 o one
683 vacacioun spare time
688 inpossible impossibility
691 neverthemo at all
695 write written
696 mark race redresse make amends for
697 children of Mercurye those born under the influence of the planet Mercury
698 wirking behaviour contrarius opposed
699 science knowledge
700 riot debauchery dispence expenditure
702 Each one loses influence in the sign of the zodiac where the other gains it most (n.)
704 exaltat in the position of greatest influence (n.)
708 Venus werkes sexual activity
709 sit (= sitteth) sits writ (= writeth) writes
711 to purpos to the point
716 wrecchednesse misery
719 expres explicitly
721 Tho then heres hair
722 lemman mistress kitte cut
727 Nothing not at all
730 sely poor as as if
731 wipte wiped
732 stinte ceases
734 shrewednesse maliciousness
736 liking pleasure
742 legende story
743 ouche jewelled ornament (n.)
744 prively secretly
746 sory grace misfortune
750 even evening
752 likerous amorous
754 maner kind of
756 algates continually han sorwe come to grief
761 herte despitus recalcitrant spirit
762 leeve dear
763 Yif give
765 Of latter date from more recent times
767 And let her lover pleasure her all night
768 upright on its back
772 bithinke imagine
775 habitacioun dwelling
777 using accustomed
778 hye high
781 that that which
783 cast of takes off
784 but unless
786 wene imagine
787 pine distress
788 fine cease
790 plight plucked
794 wood furious
795 fest fist
798 He was afraid and wanted to run away
799 out of my swough I braide I recovered consciousness
806 to wite to be blamed
807 biseke beseech
808 eftsoones a second time
809 wreke avenged
811 care sorrow
812 fille acorded came to an agreement
813 bridel bridle
814 governaunce management
816 anon-right tho right away
818 maistrye skilfulness soverainetee supremacy
820 Do as it pleases you, for the rest of your life
821 estaat social standing
822 debaat strife
824 Inde India
829 logh laughed
830 so have I joye or blis on my hope of bliss
832 gale make an outcry
834 entremette him everemo constantly interfere
836 matere (piece of) business
837 Why do you talk about preambling
838 paas (go at) walking-speed (n.)
839 lettest hinder disport amusement
840 woltow so will you do so
844 bishrewe curse
846 But if I if I do not
848 morne grieve
852 fare as behave like
856 here listen
858 which that whom
859 faierye fairy creatures
860 joly beautiful
861 mede meadow
866 limitours friars who begged within territorial limits (see n. to GP 209)
867 serchen scour
868 sonne-beem sunbeam
869 boures bedrooms
870 burghes towns
871 Villages, barns, cattle-sheds, dairies
873 For where an elf used to walk
875 At noon-time and morning
876 thinges prayers
877 in his limitacioun on his begging rounds
878 saufly safely
880 incubus demon which has sex with women in their sleep (n.)
881 but only
883 lusty bacheler lively young knight
884 river hawking
887 maugree hir hed in spite of all she could do
888 rafte ravished
889 oppressioun rape
890 pursuite petition
891 dampned condemned
895 of grace for mercy
898 spille put to death
901 One day when she saw an appropriate moment
902 yet still array situation
903 suretee assurance
906 Be war be wary iren iron (of an axe-blade)
907 anon immediately
909 seche seek lere learn
910 suffisant satisfactory
911 And I will have some security (bail) before you go
912 Thy body for to yelden that you will deli
ver yourself in person
913 siketh sighs
915 chees him for to wende chose to depart
917 purveye provide
918 wendeth forth his weye sets out
920 finde grace have good fortune
922 coost region
924 acording in-feere agreeing with each other
926 jolynesse gallantry
927 riche array finery lust pleasure
928 widwe widowed
929 esed soothed
931 He gooth ful ny the sothe he gets very near to the truth
933 bisinesse attentiveness
934 ylimed snared (as birds are trapped with bird-lime)
936 as us lest as it pleases us
937 repreve… of reprove for
938 nothing nice not at all foolish
940 If anyone rubs us on a sore spot
941 kike kick for because
942 Assay make trial
944 wol be holden want to be considered as
946 secree discreet
948 biwreye disclose
949 rake-stele rake-handle
950 Pardee by God hele conceal
951 wol ye heere do you want to hear
952 smale trivial
956 sotilly cleverly
957 So that… nobody knew of it
960 disfigure disfigurement
961 for al this world to winne even to gain the whole world
962 vileinye wickedness
964 for for fear of
965 dide would die
966 conseil secret
967 swal so soore swelled so painfully
968 That necessarily some word would have to slip from her
970 maris marsh
972 bitore bittern (a marsh-bird, which makes a booming sound in the breeding-season) bombleth booms
974 Biwrey betray soun sound
975 namo nobody else
977 hool healed
979 abide wait
980 out it moot it must come out
982 leere learn about
983 specially in particular
984 come therby come by it
986 goost spirit
987 sojourne stay
989 it happed him he chanced
990 care sorrow under by, beside
993 drow ful yerne went eagerly
996 niste did not know
998 Save except that wif woman
999 wight creature devise imagine
1000 Again… gan rise stood up to meet
1001 heerforth in this direction lith lies
1003 Paraventure perhaps
1004 muchel thing many things
1005 leeve dear
1006 but if that unless
1008 If you could give me guidance, I would repay you handsomely
1009 Plight me thy trouthe pledge me your faith
1010 requere ask of
1014 me… avaunte boast
1015 stonde therby make it good
1017 Lat let
1018 Who wears a head-cloth or a hairnet
1019 seye nay of contradict
1021 rowned whispered pistel message
1024 holde kept hight promised
1028 justise judge
1030 bode ordered
1036 that so that
1037 generally universally, without exception
1038 sovereintee mastery
1040 maistrye dominance
1041 mooste greatest
1045 han to have
1046 stirte jumped
1049 departe breaks up right justice
1056 kept saved
1057 fey faith
1059 biheste promise
1060 as chees choose
1061 good property
1062 shrewe curse
1064 nolde would not wish oore ore
1065 grave buried lith lies
1066 But if thy wif I were anything other than to be your wife
1067 dampnacioun ruin
1068 nacioun family
1069 disparaged disgraced by a misalliance
1071 nedes moste of necessity had to
1074 do no cure take no pains
1075 array splendour
1079 nas but hevinesse was nothing but gloom
1080 prively privately on morwe next morning
1081 as like
1085 walweth thrashes about
1086 everemo all the time
1090 daungerous hard to please
1093 unright wrong
1094 fare behave
1095 hadde who had
1100 loothly ugly
1101 kinde family
1102 winde twist
1103 So wolde God would to God (that) breste break
1105 no wonder is it is not surprising
1108 bere yow behave
1109 for since gentilesse nobility
1110 richesse wealth
1114 Privately and in public, and always strives the most
1117 wol wishes
1119 heritage inheritance
1120 parage lineage
1121 for nothing not at all
1124 degree condition
1126 sentence maxim
1127 rim rhyme, verse
1129 Prowesse excellence
1132 maime destroy
1136 fine cease
1137 To carry out the excellent practice of nobility
1138 vileinye shameful action
1141 shette shut thenne thence
1142 lie blaze brenne burn
1143 As as if
1144 It will still maintain its natural function
1145 Up peril of my lif as I live
1147 Is not linked to wealth
1148 doon hir operacioun perform their function
1149 Alwey in all circumstances in his kinde according to its nature
1152 wol han pris of wants to be esteemed for
1153 boren born
1158 vileins base cherl serf
1159 renomee renown
1161 straunge external
1163 verray true
1164 It was in no way bequeathed to us with our rank
1169 expres explicitly drede doubt
1172 rude uncultivated
1176 weive shun
1177 theras whereas repreve reproach
1179 wilful voluntary chees chose
1183 honeste honourable
1185 halt him paid of considers himself satisfied with
1186 al hadde he nat even if he did not have
1188 might power
1189 noght hath has nothing
1190 knave commoner
1192 mirily appositely
1196 bringere out of release from bisinesse anxiety
1197 amendere increaser sapience wisdom
1199 alenge wretched
1200 chalenge dispute
1203 spectacle lens, eye-glass
1205 sin that I noght yow greve since I do you no harm
1207 of elde for old age
1208 auctoritee written authority
1209 gentils nobles
1212 auctours authors
1214 cokewold cuckold
1215 also mote I thee as I may prosper
1216 wardeins guardians
1217 delit pleasure
1224 take youre aventure accept the risk repair flocking of people
1227 wheither which of the two
1228 aviseth him reflects soore siketh sighs deeply
1231 governaunce control
1232 plesaunce pleasure
1234 do no fors do not care
1235 suffiseth satisfies
1236 gete of yow maistrye won mastery over you
1237 as me lest as it pleases me
1239 wrothe angry
1242 sterven wood die insane
1243 also as
1245 but I be if I am not sene see
1249 Cast up lift up curtin curtain
1252 hente took
1254 a-rewe in a row
1260 overbide outlive
1261 shorte shorten
1263 of dispence in expenditure
1264 pestilence plague
1265 limitour see n. to GP 209
1266 maner louring cheere kind of scowling expression
1267 Somnour see n. to GP 623
1270 yeve give
1272 scole-matere questions for scholastic debate
1273 muche thing many a thing
1275 game fun
1276 lete auctoritees leave learned quotations
1277 scoles of clergye schools of higher learning (i.e. the universities)
1279 game joke
1282 ivel apaid displeased
1283 rennere runner
1284 mandementz writs
1285 ybet beaten
1286 hende polite
1291 Whatso him list whatever pleases him
1292 quiten pay back grot bit
1297 And I shall tell him what he does, you bet
1300 leeve dear
1303 dide execucioun executed sentences
1305 wicchecraft witchcraft bawderye pimping
1306 diffamacioun defamation, slander avoutrye adultery
1307 chirche reves church robberies
1308 lakke of sacramentz failure to receive the sacraments
1311 singen squeal hent caught
1312 titheres tithe-payers yshent punished
1313 persone parson pleine make a complaint
1314 No pecuniary penalty could elude him
1316 pitously pitifully
1317 er before hook curved end of a bishop’s staff
1320 doon… correccioun inflict punishment
1322 boy rascal
1323 espiaille body of spies
1324 wher that him mighte availle where his profit might lie
1325 spare have mercy on
1326 techen… to direct to
1327 theigh though
1328 harlotrye wickedness
1329 correccioun authority
1331 shullen shall terme of alle hir lives all their lives long
1332 stives brothels
1333 cure control
1334 Peace, bad luck to you
1336 gale protests
1339 baudes pimps
1340 lure see n. to WB 415
1341 secree secrets
1342 come of newe recently created
1343 approwours agents
1345 wan acquired
1346 lewed man layman
1347 somne summon Cristes curs excommunication