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A32749	The works of our ancient, learned, & excellent English poet, Jeffrey Chaucer as they have lately been compar'd with the best manuscripts, and several things added, never before in print : to which is adjoyn'd The story of the siege of Thebes, by John Lidgate ... : together with The life of Chaucer, shewing his countrey, parentage, education, marriage, children, revenues, service, reward, friends, books, death : also a table, wherein the old and obscure words in Chaucer are explained, and such words ... that either are, by nature or derivation, Arabick, Greek, Latine, Italian, French, Dutch, or Saxon, mark'd with particular notes for the better understanding of their original.; Works. 1687	Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400.; Speght, Thomas, fl. 1600.; Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? Siege of Thebes.	1687 (1687)	Wing C3736; ESTC R3920	1,295,535	731

you find of the Cooks Tale add this What thorow himself his felaw y● fought Vnto a mischief both they were brought The tone ydamned to prison perpetually The tother to deth for he couth not of clergy And therefore yong men learne while ye may That with many divers thoughts beth pricked all the day Remembre you what mischief cometh of misgovernaunce Thus mowe ye learn worschip and come to substaunce Think how grace and governaunce hath brought aboune Many a poore man'ys Son chefe state of the Town Euer rule thee after the best man of name And God may grace thee to come to y● same Immediately after these words at the end of the Squires Tale Apollo whirleth up his chare so hie Vntill the God Mercurius house he flie Let this be added But I here now maken a knotte To the time it come next to my lotte For here ben felawes behind an hepe truly That wolden talk full besily And have here sport as well as I And the day passeth certainly So on this mattere I may no lenger dwell But stint my clack and let the other tell Therefore oft taketh now good hede Who shall next tell and late him spede FINIS 1 This Leland had Commission from King Hen. Eighth to search all Libraries in England for matters of Antiquity He died in the days of Edw. Sixth 2 In the 1. Book and 5th Sect. 3 About the 2d or 3d Year of Edw. Third 1 Vintner quasi Wineturner that is a Merchant of the Vi●●ry which sold by whole sale 1 This Q. Isabel being sent into France with her young Son Edw. by the K. of England her Husband to conferr about matters with her Brother the French King would by no means return having conceived a great Hatred against the Spensers and also against the King for suffering himself to be misled by their naughty Counsel but by all means stirred the People to Rebellion and in the end came over her self with almost three thousand Strangers besides Englishmen 2 Henault a Province lying between France and Flanders 1 This Coniecture is of small force for the Merchants of the Staple had not any Arms granted to them as I have been informed before the time of Henry the Sixth or much thereabout Canterbury Colledge in Oxford founded by Simon Islip Archbishop of Canterbury was suppressed in the Reign of K. Hen. 8. and joyned unto Christs-Church 2 Nicholas de Lynna studiorum praecipuas partes in Mathesi collocavit quae quatuor disciplinarum orbem complectitur videlicet Arithmeticam Geometriam Musicam Astrologiam Bale 3 John Gower a Knight as Bale writeth studied not only the common Laws of the Land but all other kind of good Literature He lieth buried in St. Mary Overies in Southwark in a stately Tomb erected in the Wall with his Image lying over him in a Habit of greenish Damask down to his Feet a Collar of Esses Gold about his Neck and on his Head a Chaplet of Roses the Ornaments of Knighthood Under his Head he hath the likeness of three Books which he compiled the first Speculum Meditantis in French the second Vox Clamantis in Latin the third Confessio Amantis in English 4 John Plantagenet sirnamed Gaunt of Gaunt in Flanders where he was born was the fourth Son of King Edward the Third He was Duke of Lancaster Earl of Lincoln Darby and Leicester King of Castile and Lyons and Steward of England He was also Earl of Richmond and Duke of Aquitain He had three Wives Blanch Constance and Katharine He lieth buried in the Quire of Pauls 1 Thomas Chaucer was born about the 38 or 39th Year of Edw. 3. 2 Written Ann. Domini 1391. Rich. secund 14. 1 This John Burghershe was of the same Line of Barrholomew Burghershe one of the first Knights of the Garter at the Institution thereof by Edward 3. and of Henry Burghershe Bishop of Lincoln and Chancellor and Treasurer of England 2 Ewelme olim Chauceri Delapolorum nunc Regiae aedes Dum enim Johannes Lincolniae Comes Gulielmo Delapolo è filio Johanne nepos res novas contra Henricum septimum moliretur proscriptus omnibus honoribus his possessionibus excidit quae in patrimonium Regium transcriptae fuerunt G. C. 3 Dunnington Castle standeth in a Park in Barkshire not far from Newberry where to this day standeth an old Oak called Chaucer's Oak 4 Wallingford in Barkshire Castrum admirandae amplitudinis magnificentiae duplici murorum ambitu duplici item vallo circundatum in medio moli in magnam altitudinem aeditae arx imponitur in cujus acclivi per gradus ascensu fons est immensae profunditatis Incolae constructum à Danis credunt alii à Romanis G. Camben 5 Knaresborow in Yorkshire Castrum rupi asperrimae impositum quod Serlonem de Burgo patruum Eustacii Vescii condidisse ferunt nunc patrimonii Lancastrensis censetur G. Camden 6 This Jane of Navarr Widow to John of Mounford Duke of Britain was married to Henry the Fourth about the fourth Year of his Reign 7 The Pooles Advancement grew first by Merchandise and Sir Richard Poole Kt. was Father to William de la Pool Merchant of Hull who for that he frankly and freely did lend to King Ed. 3. a great Sum of Mony at Mortaign in France when he was greatly distressed was honoured with the Girdle Military made Banneret and endued with 1000 Marks by the Year and his Successors after were advanced to be Dukes of Suffolk as in Master Stow's Annals appeareth William de la Pole was first secretly married to the Countess of Henault by whom he had a Daughter and after being divorced from her was publickly married to Chaucer's Daughter Countess of Salisbury who proved this Daughter being married to one Barentine a Bastard The which Barentine afterward for a Rior made against the Countess was condemned and lost an hundred Pounds by the Year J. Stow. In the 28. of K. Hen. 6. 1450. this William de la Pole was banished the Realm for five Years to pacifie the hard opinion which the Commons had conceived against him In his Journey to his Banishment he was taken and beheaded and his Body cast up at Dover Sands and buried in the Charter-house at Hull J. St. This Sir Rich. Dangle a Knt. of Poictu came over with the Duke of Lancaster who for his Valiancy and tryed Truth to the King of England was made Knight of the Garter 1 Some say he did but translate it and that it was made by Sir Otes de Grantsome Knight in French of my Lady of York Daughter to the King of Spain representing Venus and my Lord of Huntingdon sometime Duke of Excester This Lady was younger Sister to Gaunt's second Wife This Lord of Huntingdon was called John Holland half Brother to Richard the Second He married Elizabeth the Daughter of John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster Out of the Records in the Tower a Thomas Occleve vel Ockelese vir tam bonis literis quam generis prosapia clarus exquisua quadam Anglici sermonis eloquentia post Chaucerum cujus suerat discipulus patriam ornavit linguam Johannis Wiclevi ipsius Berengarii in religione doctrinam sequebatur Tractatus hos fecit Planctum proprium Dialogum and amicum De quadam Imperatrice De arte moriendi De coelesti Hierusalem De quodam Jonatha De Regimine Principis * John Lidgate Monk of Bury an excellent Poet He travelled France and Italy to learn the Languages and Sciences * That is Geffrey Vinesause of whom read in the Recital of Authors This William Caxton of London Mercer brought Printing out of Germany into England about the latter end of the Reign of Henry the Sixth and practised the same in the Abbey of St. Peter at Westminster It was first found in Germany at Mogunce by one John Cuthembergus a Knight and brought to Rome by Conradus an Almaigne as some Authors say

jam monte potitus Ridet anhelantem dura ad fastigia turbam His Country THis famous and learned Poet Geffrey Chaucer Esq was supposed by Leland to have been an Oxfordshire or Barkshire Man born for so reporteth John Bale in his Catalogue of English Writers Quibusdam argumentis adducebatur Lelandus ut crederet c. Some Reasons did move Leland to think That Oxfordshire or Barkshire was his Native Country But as it is evident by his own Words in the Testament of Love he was born in the City of London for thus he writeth there Also in the City of London that is to me so dear and sweet in which I was foorth growen and more kindly Love have I to that Place than to any other in yerth as every kindly Creature hath full Appetite to that Place of his kindly Engendure and to wilne Rest and Peace in that stede to abide thilke Peace should thus there have been broken which of all wise Men is commended and desired In the Records of the Guild-Hall in London we find that there was one Richard Chaucer Vintner of London in the twenty third Year of Edward 3d. who might well be Chaucer's Father Also there was a Nun of St. Hellens in London named Elizabeth Chaucer in the first Year of Rich. 2d as it is in Record which seemeth either to have been his Sister or of his Kindred and by likelihood a Londoner born Moreover in the eighth year of the same King Geffrey Chaucer was Controller of the Custom-House in London as after out of the Records shall appear Other Dealings he had in the City as we may plainly see in the Testament of Love all which may move us to think That he was born in London His Parentage FOR his Parentage and Place of Birth although Bale termeth him Galfridus Chaucer nobili loco natus summae spei juvenis yet in the Opinion of some Heralds otherwise than his Vertues and Learning commended him he descended not of any great House which they gather by his Arms De argento rubeo colore partita per longitudiuem scuti cum benda ex transverso eisdem coloribus sed transmutatis depicta sub hac forma But this is but a simple Conjecture for honourable Houses and of great Antiquity have borne as mean Arms as Chaucer and yet his Arms are not so mean either for Colour Charge or Particion as some would make them And indeed both in respect of the Name which is French as also by other Conjectures it may be gathered That his Progenitors were Strangers But wheras some are of Opinion that the first coming of the Chaucers into England was when Qu. Isabel Wife to Edw. 2. and her Son Prince Edw. returned out of Henault into England at which time also almost 3000 Strangers came over with them as by Chronicles appeareth or some two Years after when Philip Daughter to the Earl of Henault came over to be married to Prince Edward I can by no means consent with them but rather must think That their Name and Family was of far more ancient Antiquity although by time decayed as many more had been of much greater Estate For in the days of Edw. 1. there was one John Chaucer as appeared by the Records of the Tower where it is said That the King did hear the Complaint of John Chaucer in the damage of 1000 l. There was also in the time of Hen. 3. and Edw. 1. Elias Chaucesir of whom the Records in the Exchequer have thus Edwardus Dei Gratia c. liberate de Thesauro nostro Elias Chaucesir decem solid c. with which Characters Geffrey Chaucer is written in the Records of Edw. 3. and Rich. 2. This Name was at the first a Name of Office or Occupation which afterward came to be the Name of a Family as Smith Baker Skinner and others have done In the time of King John likewise there was one named le Chaucer as appeareth by the Records of the Tower But what need I to stand upon the Antiquity or Gentry of Chaucer when the Roll of Battle Abbey affirmeth Chaucer to have come in with the Conquerour Moreover it is more likely that the Parents of Geffrey Chaucer were mere English and himself an English-man born for else how could he have come to that Perfection in our Language as to be called The first Illuminer of the English Tongue had not both he and his Parents before him been born and bred among us But what their Names were or what Issue they had otherwise than by Conjecture before given we cannot declare Now whether they were Merchants as some will have it for that in Places where they have dwelled the Arms of the Merchants of the Staple have been seen in the glass Windows or whether they were of other Calling it is not much necessary to search but wealthy no doubt they were and of good account in the Commonwealth who brought up their Son in such sort that both he was thought fit for the Court at home and to be employed for matters of State in foreign Countries His Education HIS bringing up as Leland saith was in the University of Oxford as also in Cambridge as appeareth by his own Words in his Book entituled The Court of Love and in Oxford by all likelihood in Canterbury or in Merton Colledge with John Wickliffe whose Opinions in Religion he much affected where besides his private Study he did with great diligence frequent the publick Schools and Disputations Hinc acutus Dialecticus hinc dulcis Rhetor hinc lepidus Poeta hinc gravis Philosophus ac sanctus Theologus evasit Mathematicus insuper ingeniosus erat à Johanne Sombo c. Hereupon saith Leland he became a witty Logician a sweet Rhetorician a pleasant Poet a grave Philosopher and a holy Divine Moreover he was a very skilful Mathematician instructed therein by John Some and Nicholas Lynne Friars Carmelites of Lynne and men very skilful in the Mathematicks whom he in his Book called The Astrolaby doth greatly commend and calleth them Reverend Clerks By his Travel also in France and Flanders where he spent much time in his young Years but more in the latter end of the Reign of King Rich. 2. he attained to great Perfection in all kind of Learning for so do Bale and Leland also report Circa postremos Richardi secundi annos in Galliis floruit magnamque illic ex assidua in literis exercitatione gloriam sibi comparavit Domum reversus forum Londinense Collegia Leguleiorum qui ibidem patria jura interpretantur frequentavit c. About the latter end of King Richard the Second's Days he flourished in France and got himself great Commendation there by his diligent Exercise in Learning After his Return home he frequented the Court at London and the Colledges of the Lawyers which there interpret the Laws of the Land and among them he had a familiar Friend

's and Petrarch who had done the same for the Italian Tongue Alanus for the French and Johannes Mena for the Spanish neither was Chaucer inferiour to any of them in the performance hereof and England in this respect is much beholden to him as Leland well noteth Anglia Chaucerum veneratur nostra poetam Cui veneres debet patria lingua suas Our England honoureth Chaucer Poet as principal To whom her Country Tongue doth owe her Beauties all Besides those Books of his which we have in print he wrote divers others as De Vulcani veru De Leone eius dignitate Comoedias Tragoedias Facetias Jocos Jack Vpland against Friars Now Printed And His A. B. C. Now Printed Others I have seen without any Authors Name in the hands of Mr. Stow that painful Antiquary which for the Invention I would verily judge to be Chaucer's were it not that Words and Phrases carry not every where Chaucer's Antiquity Mr. William Thynn in his first printed Book of Chaucer's Works with one Column on a side had a Tale called the Pilgrims Tale which was more odious to the Clergy than the Speech of the Plowman The Tale began thus In Lincolneshire fast by a fenne Standeth a religious house who doth it kenne The Argument of which Tale as also the occasion thereof and the cause why it was left out of Chaucer's Works shall hereafter be shewed if God permit in Mr. Thynn's Comment upon Chaucer and the Tale it self published if possibly it can be found Now concerning those Books which we have in print The Canterbury Tales for the most part were of his own Invention yet some of them translated and penned in King Richard the Second's Days and after the Insurrection of Jack Straw which was in the fourth Year of the same King for in the Tale of the Nuns Priest he maketh mention thereof The Romaunt of the Rose was translated out of French Troilus and Creseid called Trophe in the Lumbard Tongue was translated out of Latin as in the Preface to the second Book of Troilus and Creseid he confesseth in these Words To every Lover I me excuse That of no sentement I this endite But out of Latin in my Tongue it write Mary Magdalen translated out of St. Origen The Ballad Fly from the Prease made by Chaucer on his Death-bed The Letter of Cupid is none of Chaucer's doing but was compiled by Thomas Occleve of the Office of the privy Seal sometime Chaucer's Scholar The which Occleve for the Love he bare to his Master caused his Picture to be truly drawn in his Book De Regimine Principis dedicated to Henry the Fifth the which I have seen and according to which this in the beginning of this Book was done by Mr. Spede who hath annexed thereto all such Coats of Arms as any way concern the Chaucers as he found them travelling for that Purpose at Ewelm and at Wickham Occleve in that Book where he setteth down Chaucer's Picture addeth these Verses Although his life be queint the resemblaunce Of him that hath in me so fresh livelines That to put other men in remembraunce Of his person I have here the likenes Do make to the end in soothfastnes That they that of him have lost thought and mind By this peinture may again him find His Death GEffrey Chaucer departed out of this World the 25th of October in the Year of our Lord 1400 after he had lived about 72 Years Thus writeth Bale out of Leland Chaucerus ad canos devenit sensitque senectutem morbum esse dum causas suas Londini curaret c. Chaucer lived till he was an old Man and found old Age to be grievous and whilst he followed his Causes at London he died and was buried at Westminster The old Verses which were written on his Grave at the first were these Galfridus Chaucer vates fama poesis Maternae hac sacra sum tumulatus humo But since Mr. Nicholas Brigham did at his own Cost and Charges erect a fair marble Monument for him with his Picture resembling that done by Occleve and these Verses Qui fuit Anglorum vates ter maximus olint Gaufredus Chaucer conditur hoc tumulo Annum si quaeras domini si tempora vitae Ecce notae subsunt quae tibi cuncta notant Anno Domini 1400 die mensis Octob. 25. About the Ledge of which Tomb were these Verses now clean worn out Si rogites quis eram forsan te fama docebit Quod si fama negat mundi quia gloria transit Haec monumenta lege Now it shall not be amiss to these Epitaphs to add the Judgements and Reports of some learned men of this worthy and famous Poet. And first of all Thomas Occleve who lived in his Days writeth thus of him in his Book De Regimine Principis But welaway so is mine hert woe That the honour of English Tongue is deed Of which I wont was counsail have and reed O Master dere and Fadre reuerent My Master Chaucer floure of Eloquence Mirror of fructuous entendement O universal Fadre of Science Alas that thou thine excellent prudence In thy bed mortal mightest not bequeath What eyld Death Alas why would she thee sle O Death that didest not harme singler in slaughter of him But all the land it smerteth But nathelesse yet hast thou no power his Name sle His hie vertue afterteth Vnslain fro thee which ay us lifely herteth With Books of his ornat enditing That is to all this land enlumining The same Author again in the same Book My dear Maister God his soule quite And Fader Chaucer faine would have me taught But I was young and leered lite or nought Alas my worthy Maister honorable This Lands very treasure and richesse Death by thy death hath harme irreparable Vnto us done her vengeable duresse Dispoiled hath this lond of the sweetnesse Of Rhetorige for unto Tullius Was never man so like among us Also who was heire in Philosophy To Aristotle in our Tongue but thou The steppes of Virgil in Poese Thou suedest eken men know well inough That combre World that thee my Maister slough Would I slaine were Death was too hastife To renne on thee and reve thee thy life She might have tarried her vengeance a while To that some man had egal to thee be Nay let be that she knew wele that this I le May never man forth bring like unto thee And her Office needs do must she God had her so I trust all for the best O Maister Maister God thy Soul rest Dan John Lidgate likewise in his Prologue of Bocchas of the Fall of Princes by him translated saith thus in his Commendation My Maister Chaucer with his fresh Comedies Is dead alas chief Poet of Britaine That whilome made full pitous Tragedies The faule also of Princes he did complaine As he that was of making soveraine Whom all this land should of right preferre Sith of our Language he was

wend And Christs people vntruly carry God for his pitie it amend They liuen contrary to Christs life In high pride against meekenesse Against suffraunce they vsen strife And anger ayenst sobernesse Against wisdome wilfulnesse To Christs tales little tend Against measure outrageousnesse But when God wol it may amend Lordly life ayenst lowlinesse And demin al without mercie And couetise ayenst largesse Against treweth trecherie And against almesse enuie Against Christ they comprehend For chastitie they maintaine lecherie God for his grace this amend Against pennaunce they vse delights Against suffraunce strong defence Ayenst God they vsen euil rights Ayenst pitie punishments Open euil ayenst continence Her wicked winning they worse dispend Sobernesse they sette into dispence But God for his goodnesse it amend Why claimen they wholly his powere And wranglen ayenst al his hests His liuing folow they nothing here But liuen worse than witlesse beests Of fish and flesh they louen feests As lords they ben brode ykend Of Gods poore they haten gests God for his mercy this amend With Diues such shal haue her dome That saine that they be Christes friendes And do nothing as they should done All such been falser than ben fiends On the people they ley such bendes As God is in earth they han offend Succour fro such Christ now send vs. And for his mercy this amend A token of Antichrist they be His careckes ben now wide iknow Receiued to preach shall no man be Without token of him I trow Ech christen priest to preachen owe From God aboue they ben send Gods word to al folke for to show Sinful man for to amend Christ sent the poore for to preach The royall rich he did not so Now dare no poore the people teach For Antichrist is ouer all her foe Among the people he mote go He hath bidden all such suspend Some hath he hent and thinketh yet mo But al this God may wel amend All they that han the world forsake And liuen lowly as God bad Into her prison shullen be take Betin and bounden and forth lad Hereof I rede no man be drad Christ said his should be shend Ech man ought hereof be glad For God ful wel it woll amend They take on hem royall powere And say they haue swerds two One curse to hel one slee men here For at his taking Christ had no mo Yet Peter had one of tho But Christ to Peter smite gan defend And into the sheath bad put it tho And all such mischeues God amend Christ bad Peter keepe his sheepe And with his sword forbade him smite * Swerd is no toole with sheepe to keepe But to shepheards that sheepe woll bite Me thinketh such shepheards ben to wite Ayen her sheepe with swerde that contend They driue her sheepe with great despite But all this God may well amend So successours to Peter be they noght Whom Christ made cheefe pasture A swerd no shepheard vsen ought But he would flea as a butchoure For who so were Peters successoure Should bere his shepe til his back bend And shaddow hem from euery shoure And al this God may wel amend Successours to Peter ben these In that that Peter Christ forsooke That had leuer the loue of God lese Than a shepheard had to lese his hooke He culleth the sheepe as doth the Cooke Of hem seeken they woll to rend And falsely glose the Gospell booke God for his mercy them amend After Christ had take Peter the kay Christ said he must die for man That Peter to Christ gan withsay Christ bad him go behind Sathan Such counsailours many of these men han For worlds wele God to offend Peters successours they ben for than But al such God may wele amend For Sathan is to say no more But he that contrary to Christ is In this they learne Peters lore They sewen him when he did misse They follow Peter forsooth in this In all that Christ would Peter reprehend But not in that that longeth to heuen blisse God for his mercy hem amend Some of the Apostles they sewen in case Of ought that I can vnderstond Him that betrayed Christ Iudas That bare the purse in euery lond And al that he might set on hond He hidde and stale and mispend His rule these traitours han in hond Almightie God hem all amend And at the last his lord gan tray Cursedly through his false couetise So would these traine him for money And they wisten in what wise They be seker of the selfe ensise From all soothnesse they ben friend And couetise chaungen with queintise Almighty God all such amend Were Christ on earth here eftsoone These would damne him to die All his hestes they han fordone And saine his sawes ben heresie And ayenst his commaundements they crie And damne all his to be brend For it liketh not hem such losengerie God almighty hem amend These han more might in England here Than hath the King and all his lawe They han purchased hem such powere To taken hem whom list not knawe And say that heresie is her sawe And so to prison wol hem send It was not so by elder dawe God for his mercy it amend The kings law wol no man deme Angerliche without answere But if any man these misqueme He shall be baighteth as a bere And yet wel worse they wol him tere And in prison woll him pende In giues and in other gere When God woll it may amend The king taxeth not his men But by assent of the comminalte But these ech yeare woll raunsome hem Maisterfully more than doth he Her seales by yeare better be Than is the kings in extend Her officers han greater fee. But this mischeefe God amend For who so woll pruve a testament That is not all worth tenne pound He shall pay for the parchement The third of the money all round Thus the people is raunsound They say such part to hem should apend There as they gripen it goeth to ground God for his mercy it amend For a simple fornication Twenty shillings he shall pay And then haue an absolution And al the yere vsen it forth he may Thus they letten hem go astray They recke not though the soule be brend These keepen euill Peters kay And all such shepheards God amend Wonder is that the parliament And all the lords of this lond Here to taken so little entent To helpe the people out of her hond For they ben harder in their bond Worse beat and bitter brend Than to the king is vnderstond God him helpe this to amend What Bishops what religions Lordshippes and possessions More than Lordes it semeth me That maketh hem lese charite They mowe not to God attende In earth they haue so high degre God for his mercie it amende The Emperour yafe the Pope somtime So high lordeship him about That at last the silly kime The proude Pope put him out So of this Realme is in dout But lordes beware and them

diligence in doing a message mendicants l. Beggars mees b. Meddows mew secret mest b. most mete deal yield methe a kind of sweet drink metten dream melite power megre f. b. lean * Minoresse the right reading is moueresse as we have now printed it that is a stirrer of debate for so it is in the French Verses in the oldest written Copies Sembla byen estre moueresse ministralcie any instrument of Musick or Musick it self miscreants f. Infidels misqueame b. displease missat b. became not mistaken misused misfill miscarried mirror f. a glass mistere f. occupation manner fashion service strange thing also need mineth l. threatneth mistihede darkness mystery mitches f. manchets misericorde l. compassion minge b. mingle mine b. to entend also to dig misbode wrong minotaure g. a monster half a bull and half a man * Moses and King Salomon Out of Josephus and Petrus Comestor magister historiarum qui claruit Anno 1260. moyson f. ripeness monest l. admonish mouch b. to take up all mourdant i. the tongue of a buckle mokell mikell b. much mortresse a meat made of boiled hens crummed bread yolks of eggs and saffron all boiled together mokell d. stature making bigness modefie l. moderate mountaunce quantity mollock b. earth dung mowen posse be able mormall a canker moniours f. coiners moeble f. housholdstuff mow mon b. might mosell mouth snout mowlen b. wax mould moten d. must do moile a dish made of marrow and grated bread morter f. a lampe mote d. must go molles kistrels momblishnes d. talk mue moved muet f. silent muckre b. hoard up musard f. lingerer mynting labouring N. Nadir a. the point opposite to Zenith or the point under the Horizon right under our feet nakoners i. crotalum cimbals nas was not nart art not nad had not nale b. the ale-house narcotise d. stupefactive making senseless nat wilne not desire nam am not name d. took nere were not nede nedes b. business neighen neigh b. touch to draw near nest b. next neuen neuin b. name named nerfe i. sinew gristle nedely of necessity nesh b. tender nere untill were it not nempt b. named name tell nede needed nerthes herdmen nedes cost of necessity neders adders nice nise b. foolish nicete folly curiosity niterall saltpeter nigh b. almost nighen draw near nist knew not nil will not nigon nigeon f. dolt niggard nigges b. niggards nigh near to draw near nightspell b. a prayer against the night mare nightertale by night nimphes g. maidens of the sea nowell signifieth Deus nobiscum and is taken for Christmas 20. or 30. days next before nortelri nurture nore f. comfort nourishing note a Saint called Neotes nones b. condition purpose nori i. nurse nost knowest nome taken nummed nowth now note business O. Obay abide obseruaunce l. honour obstacles l. let ts occision l. murther occisier l. murderer octogami g. eight times married odible l. hateful offitorie l. a song or lesson in the time of offring oftsithes b. sundry times of plat then edge of ease then grief offrend f. d. offring onde halitus b. breath also fury on hie apace oned united onis once on knew d. one knee on presse adowne openheed bare-headed orde l. point ordainor d. governour oratorie l. a Temple a Chappel orisons f. d. Prayers * Ordall Ordalia is a tryal of chastity and other things by going over hot burning cultures of iron bare-footed as did Emma and Gunegond the Wife of Henry the fifteenth Emperour of Romans as writeth Cra●tius in his Chronicles of Almaine This Ordall was used among the Saxons and since the Conquest among the Normans but in the time of King John it was taken away by the Court of Rome And afterward in England by the authority of Henry the third ordred b. having taken orders of priesthood Orders fower The four orders of Friars were these 1 Friars Minors or gray friers Franciscans 2 Friars preachers or blackfriars Dominicanes 3 Friars Carmelites or white friars 4 Friars Augustines * Orfrayes Aurifrisium frisled cloth of gold made and used in England both before and since the Conquest worn both by the Clergy and the Kings themselves as may appear out of Matthew Paris where he speaketh of the Ornaments sent by the Abbots of England to the Pope And also by a Record in the Tower where the King commandeth the Templers to deliver such Jewels garments and ornaments as they had of the Kings in keeping Among the which he nameth Dalmaticum velatum de Orefreis that is a Damask garment garded with Orfrayes orisont g. the part of the firmament to us seen orientall bright beautiful orientall i. bright orpiment the herb Orpin orloge f. g. a diall ouch b. a boss or button of gold also a wedge of gold ouerfret spred ouerthrowing hast outraie depart run outrance destruction out take except owhere any where ownding f. garding like waves owndy f. waving owles b. hooks pinsars P. * Palmers A Pilgrim and a Palmer did differ thus The Pilgrim had some dwelling place the Palmer had none the Pilgrim travelled to some certain place the Palmer to all and not to any one the Pilgrim might go at his own charge the Palmer must profess wilful poverty the Pilgrim might give over his profession the Palmer must be constant until he had obtained the Palm that is victory over his ghostly enemies and life by death * Pasiphae wife of Minos king of Creet who having kept company with a bull but rather as Festus saith with a man called Taurus brought forth Minotaurus who was half a man and half a bull palladium g. the image of Pallas in Troy pale f. a spangle also a robe of state palastere g. a combate paie b. robe paine mane f. white bread paling cutting in pains pace b. appease Palathi Palathia in Anatolia papelard f. hypocrite pankers f. toyls to take deer parage f. parentage patere b. prate partner by parts pan b. brain panter f. a pitfall pad b. a bundel parfay f. verily paynem b. heathenish paramors f. lovers pleasures pardieux f. verily paplardi f. hypocrisie paraments Robes of state or the place where they are kept par for pauade pugio a dagger or baslard penon f. a long streamer perse f. sky colour pennes fele many pence pensell d. a peece perionet a young pear tree perry f. precious stones bravery with precious stones pekois a pickaxe perturben f. disturb perriwrigh embroidered with pearl permagall equal peregrine f. strange peri d. a pear tree perpendicular l. down right * Peruise f. A bar and here it is understood of the conference called the Peruis amongst the young Counsellors Pleaders Attorneys or Students of the Law such as at this day might resemble the course in the houses of Court or Chancery called mootes and bolts wherein the form of pleading and arguing a case is exercised For so doth Fortescue in his 51. chapter of his Book commending those laws prove when he saith that after the