Our son and daughter shall in Tyrus reign.
Lord Cerimon, we do our longing stay,
To hear the rest untold.-Sir, lead's the way.
[Exeunt.
Enter Gower.
Gower.

In Antiochus, and his daughter, you have heard
Of monstrous just the due and just reward:
In Pericles, his queen, and daughter, seen,
Although assail'd with fortune fierce and keen,
Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast,
Led on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last.
In Helicanus may you well descry

A figure of truth, of faith, and loyalty:
In reverend Cerimon there well appears,
The worth that learned charity aye wears.
For wicked Cleon and his wife, when fame
Had spread their cursed deed, the honour'd name
Of Pericles, to rage the city turn;
That him and his they in his palace burn.
The gods for murder seemed so content
To punish them, although not done, but meant.
So on your patience evermore attending,
New joy wait on you! Here our play has ending.

suffer.

Abysm, abyss, from the French abysme, now abime.

Accite, to call or summons, Aconitum, wolfsbane.j Adam, the name of an outlaw, noted for his skill in archery. Much Ado. Adam Cupid, an allusion to the same person. Addrest, ready, prepared. Advertising, attentive. Aery, or Aiery, a nest. Affect the letter, to practise alliteration.

Affects, affections or passions. Afeered,a law-term for confirmed. Affined, joined by affinity. Affront, sometimes, to face or confront. Affy, to betroth in marriage. Aglet-baby, a diminutive be ing, not exceeding in size the tag of a point; from aiguillettes.

Agnize, acknowledge, confoss, avow. Aiery, See Aery. Airy fame, verbal eulogium. Alder-liefest, preferred to all things; from leve or lefe, dear, and alder, of all. A'life, at life.

Amazonian chin, a chin without a beard. Ames-ace, the lowest chanco of the dice."

Amort, sunk, dispirited. Ancient, an ensign, or standard-bearer. Angle, a fishing-rod. Antres, caves and dens. Appeach, to impeach. Apple-John, species of apple that will keep for two years; in French deux

of doubtful meaning; perhaps from baccalare, arrogant. Bale,bane, ruin, misfortune. Baldrick, a belt

Balked, either bathed, or

piled up. Bandog, 1. e. band-dog, a

village dog, or mastiff. Bandy, a metaphor from tennis-playing, to ex. change smartly. Banning, cursing. Bans, curses. Barbason, the name of a dæmon.

Barbe, a kind of veil. Barber-monger, one who consorts with barbers, a low fellow. Barm, yeast. Barnacles, a kind of shellfish, growing on the bottom of ships. Barne, a child. Barrfull, full of impedi

ments.

fetters annexed to it, by which mutinous sailors were anciently linked together: derived from Bilboa, which was famous for the manufacture of instruments of steel. Bill, articles of accusation. Bill, the old weapon of English infantry, stiil used by the watchmen in some towns. Bin, is.

Bird-bolt, a short thick ar.

row without a point, used to kill rooks, and shot from a cross-bow. Bisson, blind. Black cornered night, night which is as obscure as a dark corner. Blacks, mourning made of stuffs of different colours dyed black.

Blank, 1. e. of the eye, the white or the white mark at which arrows are discharged.

Blank and level, mark and

aim, terms of gunnery. Blaze, i. e. of youth, the spring of early life. Blench, to start off, to fly off. Blent, blended, mixed together.

used as a term of con-
tempt.

Brack, to salt.
Braid, crafty or deceitful.
Brain's for, tears.
Brake, an instrument of ter

ture, or a thicket or furze bush. Brands, a part of the and

irons, on which the wood for the fire was supported. Brasier, a manufacturer in

brass, or a reservoir for charcoal. Brave, to make fine; bra

very was the old term for elegance of dress. Bravely, splendidly or gal lantly.

Bravery, finery.
Brawl, a kind of dance.
Braying, an epithet applied
to the sound of the trum-
pet, harsh, grating.
Break, to begin.
Break up, to carve.
Break with, to break the
matter to.

Breast, voice.
Breath, speech, K. John, Ti

moa. Exercise, Treilus and Cres. A slight exercise of arms, ibid. Breathing-courtsy, compliment.

verbal

or slow-worm. Block, the thing on which a hat is formed. Blurted or blurt, an expression of contempt. Bobbed, fooled out of, cheat. ed.

Bodge, to botch, or to budge.
Boilier, a box to hold salve
or simples.
Bolds, emboldens.

Beck, a salutation madewith
the head; in the North, it
means curtsying.
Becomed, becoming.
Behests, commands.
Behowl, to howl at.
Beldame, ancient mother.
Be-lee'd, becalmed.
Belongings, endowments.
Be-mete, bemeasure.
Bemoiled, bedraggled, be.
mired.
Besmirch, to foul or dirty.
Bestraught, distracted.
Beteem, to give or bestow, or
to permit, deign, or suffer.

grimed. Bolting-hutch, a wooden re. ceptacle into which the

meal is bolted. Bombard, a barrel. Bona robas, ladies of plea

sure.

Bores, stabs, or wounds. Borne in kand, deceived, imposed upon. Bosky, woody; bosky acres are fields divided by hedge-rows; from boscus and bosquet.

Bots, worms in the stomach of a horse. A bots light upon, an imprecation.

or mired. Breeching, liable to school discipline. Bribe-buck, a buck sent for

a bribe.

Bridal, a nuptial feast.
Brief, a short account,

contract hastily perform ed.-Now-born brief, is the breve originale of the feudal times. Bring, attend or accompany. Bring out, bring forth. Brize, the gad, or horse-By. Broach, to put on the spit,

to transfix. Brock, the badger. Brogues, a kind of shoes. Broken, communicated. Broken mouth, a mouth that has lost part of its teeth Broker, a matchmaker, a procuress. Brooch, a trinket with a pin fixed to it. Brooched, adorned. Brought, attended. Brow, i. e. of youth, the height of youth.

ber, originally applied to larks. Bezonian, a term of reproach; from bisognoso, a needy person. Bias check, swelling out like the bias of a bowl. Bid the base, to challenge in

a contest.

Biggin, a kind of cap, worn

now only by children. Bilberry, the whurtle-berry. Bilbo, a Spanish blade,

flexible and elastic; the best of which are made at Bilboa Bilboes, a bar of iron, with

ed, glossy spider. Boulted, sifted or refined. Bourn, boundary, or rivulet dividing land. Bow, yoke. Bowlins or bowlines, ropes by which the sails of a ship are governed when the wind is unfavourable. Bowling, or the smoothness of a bowling-green. Bowstrings, i. e. hold or cut, at all events. Brace, the armour for the arm: warlike brace, state of defence. Bruch, a kind of hound; or

axe affixed to a stick. Brownist, a follower of Brown, a scetarian. Bruising irons, an allusion to the ancient mace. Bruit, noise, or report. Brush, L. e. of time, decxy by time. Buckle, to bend, or yield to pressure.

Bug, bugbear.
Bugle, bunting-horn.
Bulk, body.
Bumbard, a large vessel for
holding drink.
Bung, a cut-purse.
Bunting, the name of a bird.

Calling, appellation. Camelot, a place where king

Arthur is supposed to have kept his court. Canaries, the name of a brisk, light dance. Canker, the canker-rose, dog-rose, or hip. Canstick, candlestick. Cantle, a corner, or piece of any thing. Cantons, used for cantos. Canvas-climber, one who elimbs the mast to furl the canvas, a ship-boy. Capped, saluted by taking off the cap

Capable impressure, hollow

mark.

Capocchia, & sot, or dull, heavy gull, from the Italian capocchio. Capricious, lascivious. Captious, for capacious. Carack, a vessel of great bulk.

Caracts, characters. Cartonado, a piece of meat cut crossways for the gridiron. Card, sea-chart. Carded, mixed. Carieres, i. e. to pass the ca

rieres, a military phrase. Means that the common bounds of good behaviour were overpassed. Carkanet, a kind of necklace or chain. Carl, clown, husbandman. Carlot, a peasant or churl; from carl. Carnal, sanguinary. Carouses, drinks. Carpet knight, a term of re. proach, spoken of one knighted in time of peace, and on a carpet, on some festive occasion.

Carriage, import. Cuse, skin, outside. Case of lives, a set of lives, or pair of any thing. Cased lion, a lion irritated by confinement. Casques, helmet. Cassock, a horseman's loose coat.

Cautelous, artful, or insidi

ous.

Cauterizing, burning, or

blistering.

Cearment, the wrapping of an embalmed body. Cease, decease, die. Censer, brasiere. Certes, certainly. Cess, measure, tax, or subsidy.

Chaliced, L. e. flowers, with cups from calix. Challenge, law-term, right of refusing a jury.

man.

the

Chamber, London was anciently called the king's chamber.

Chamber, a piece of ord

Dance.

Cockle-hat, cockle-shell hat, such as pilgrims wore. Codding, amorous. Codpiece, a piece of dress, Cofin, ancient term for the raised crust of a pie. Cog, to falsify the dice, to lie. substi-Cogging, lying.

Chamberers, men of intrigue.

Changeling, a child

tuted for one stolen. Channel, kennel. Chantry, little chapel in a cathedral. Character, hand-writing. Characts, characters. Charactery, the matter of

which characters are made.

Chares, task-work.
Charge-house, free-school.
Chariest, from chary, the
most cautious.
Chariness, caution.
Charneco, a kind of sweet
wine.

Chases, a term in tennis.
Chaudron, entrails.
Cheater, for escheatour, an

office in the Exchequer. Check, command, control. Cheer, countenance. Cherry-pit, pitching cherry. stones into a little hole. Cheveril, kid-skin, soft lea

ther.

Chewet, or chuet, a pie, a noisy, chattering bird, or a fat pudding. Chide, resound, reecho. Child, sometimes applied to knights and heroes. Childing, pregnant. Choppine, a high shoe or clog. Chopping, jabbering, talking glibly. Chough, a bird of the jackdaw kind. Christom, or chrisom, a christened child. Chrystals, eyes. Chuck, chicken, a term of endearment.

Chuffs, rich, avaricious peo. ple.

Circummured, walled round. Circumstance, circumlocution.

Coigne of vintage, convenient corner. Coignes, corners. Coil, bustle, stir. Collection, consequence or corollary. Collied, black, smutted with coal, discoloured. Collier, a term of reproach, from the impositions of coal-dealers.

Comart, a bargain. Combrinate, betrothed. Comforting, abetting. Commend, commit. Committed, lain with. Commodity, self-interest. Commonty, a comedy. Companies, companions. Compassed, round. Composture, composition. Concupy a cant word from eoncupiscence.

Conduct, conductor.
Coney-catched, deceived,
cheated.

Conject, conjecture.
Consent, used sometimes for

baffled, destroyed.
Convive, to feast.
Copatain kat, a hat with a
conical crown.
Copped, rising to a top or
head.

Coragio, an exclamation of
encouragement.
Corky, dry, or withered.
Corollary, surplus, one more
than enough.
Corrigible, corrected.
Costard, a head.
Coster-monger, a dealer in
costers, or costards, a kind
of apples.
Cote, to overtake.

Clapped the clout, hit the Couch, to lie with.

white mark. Claw, to flatter.

who

·Countercheck, an old term in the game of chess. Counterfeit, sometimes used for a portrait. Counterpoints,

counter

panes. County, ancient term for a nobleman. Courser's-hair, alluding to the notion that the hair of a horse, dropt into a corrupted water, will turn to an animal. Courses, the mainsail and foresail.

Court cupboard, sideboard. Cowed, restrained, or made cowardly.

Cower, to sink by bending the banis

Cowlstaff, a staff for carry. ing a large tub or basket with two handles. Coyed, condescended reluctantly.

Coystril, a coward cock, a paltry fellow. Cozier, a tailor, from cousu; or a cobbler, or sowter. Crack, a child. Crack of doom, dissolution of nature. Cranking, crankling, ap

plied to the rush of a river. Cranks, windings. Crare, a small trading vessel. Crash, to be merry over. Craren, a degenerate, dispi

rited cock. Cowardly, to make cowardly. Credent, creditable, pro bable. Cressets, a light set upon a beacon, from croissette. Crisp, curling, winding; or for crypt, vaulted. Crone, old worn-out woman. Cross-gartered, an article of puritanical dress. Crow-keeper, a scare-crow. Crownet, last purpose. Cruel, worsted. Lear, applied to garters. Crush, to drink. Crusado, a Portuguese coin. Cry, a pack or troop. Cub drawn, 1. e. bear, one whose dugs are drawn dry. Cuisses, armour for the thighs, cuisses, Fr. Cunning, knowing, skilful, in a good meaning. Curb, to bend and truckle, from courber. Curled, ostentatiously dressed.

Curious, scrupulous
Currents, occurrences.
Curst, shrewd, mischievous.
Curtail dog,
which

one

misses the game. Curtle-axe, a cutlass, broadsword.

Customer, a common wo-
man. Oth. c. or one
who visits such.
Cut, horse.
Cut and long tail, a phrase
from dogs, poor or rich.
Cuttle, a knife used by
sharpers.

Daff, or Doff, to put off.
Damn, condemn.
Dank, wet, rotten.
Darkling, in the dark.
Darraiga, range, put in
order.

Dauberry, counterfeit, dis-
guise.
Dealt, fought by proxy.
Dear, sometimes means im-
mediate, consequential
Deara, direful, lone, soli-

tary. Debushed, debauched.

bably part of a proverb. Dungy, of dung, earthy. Dupped, did up, put up, opened. Durance, some lasting kind

of stuff

Eager, sour, harsh.
Eanlings, lambs just dropt.
Ear, to plough.
Easy, slight, inconsiderable.
Eche, eke out.

Depart and part, often sy- Ecstasy, alienation of mind. nonymous. Edward shovel-boards, Edward VIth's shillings, used at shuffle-board. Efects, affects, affections, Mea. for Mea. Actions, Hum.

roots.

Derogate, degraded, Descunt, a term in music, or to harangue upon. Deserved, deserving. Despatched, bereft Detected, suspected, or charged.

Determined, sometimes, for
concluded.
Dibble, an instrument in
gardening.
Dickon, Richard.
Diffused, wild, irregular,ex-
travagant.

Digression, transgression.
Dildos, the burthen of a
Bong.
Directitude,

discreditude,

or discredit Disable, undervalue. Disappointed, unappointed,

unprepared.

Discandy, to melt

sweets, to dissolve.

Discourse, reason.

the

Dishabited, dislodged. Dismes, Fr. tenths. Dianatured, wanting natural affection. Dispark, to throw down the hedges.

Disperge, to sprinkle. Dispose, to make terms. Disputable, disputatious. Dispute, talk over, reason

upon, account for. Disseat, displace. Distained, unstained. Distute, to corrupt. Distemperature, perturbation.

Diverted, turned out of the course of nature.

Division, phrase in music, the parts of it. Doff. See Daf

Dole, alms, or distribution. Don, to do on, put on. Dout, do out, extinguish. Dowl, a feather. Down-gyved, hanging down like the loose cincture which confines the fetters

round the ankle. Draught, the jakes.

Eftest, or Deftest, readiest. Eld, old person or persons, Mer. Wiv. Decrepitude, Mea, for Mea. Element, initiation, previous practice. Elf, done by elves or fairies. Emballing, being distinguished by the ball, the emblem of royalty. Embare, expose, display to

impedi

view. Embarquements, ments, hinderances. Embossed, enclosed; when a deer is run hard, and foams at the mouth, he is said to be embossed. Swollen, puffy. Empericutick, of an empirical kind, quackish. Empery, dominion, sovereign command. Emulous, often used in a bad sense for envious. Enactures, laws. Encare, hide. End, still an end, generally, Enfeof, to invest with pos

Bession.

Engaged, delivered as a hos

Even, to make even, or represent plain. Even Christian, fellowChris

tian.

Evils, jakes. Examined, doubted. Excellent differences, distinguished excellencies, Excrement, the beard. Execute, sometimes for to use, or employ. Executors, executioners. Exempt, independent, not

under the control of Exercise, exhortation, leeture.

Exhale, breathe your last.
Exhibition, allowance.
Erigent, end.
Exorcism, in Shakespeare,
generally means the rais-
ing of spirits.
Expect, expectation.
Expedience, expedition.
Expedient, often for expe-
ditions.
Expediently, expeditiously.
Expostulate, inquire or dis-

cuss

Exsuflicate, bubble-like. Extacy, a degree of mad

ness.

Extend, to seize.
Extent, violence.
Extern, outward.
Extremity, calamity.
Eyas-musket, a troublesome
puppy, infant Liliputian.
Eyas and musket, are young
hawks.

Eyases, young nestlings.
Eye, a shade.
Eyliads, eyes; from wil
lades, Fr.
Eyne, eyes.

Face-royal, a face not to be
meddled with.
Facinorous, wicked.
Factious, active.
Faculty, exercise of power.
Fadge, to suit or fit.
Fadings, a dance.
Fain, fond.
Fair, sometimes for fair-
ness, beauty,
Faitors, traitors, rascals.
Fall, often used as an active

verb: At fall, at an ebb. Falsing, a thing that's falsi. fied, or false. Falsely, illegally, Illegiti

mately. Mea. for Mea. Familiar, a demon. Fancies and Goodnights, little poems so called. Fancy, often used for love. Fang, to seize, or gripe. Fantastical, of fancy, imagination. Fantasticoes, affected, foolish fellows. Fap, beaten, or drunk. Far, extensively.

Fineless, unbounded, end less. Fire-drake, a serpent, a will-o'-the-wisp, a fire.

work. Fire-new, just off the irons, quite new.

Firk, to chastise. First house, chief branch of the family. Firstlings, fret produce. Fit o' the face, grimace. Fits o' the season, its disorders.

Firure, position. Flap-dragon, an infiamma ble substance swallowed by topers Flap-jack, a kind of pas cako.

Flaw, a sudden gust of wind Flecked, spotted, dappled, streaked. Fleet, for float. Fleshment, performance. A young soldier fleshes bis sword when he first draw. blood with it. Fiewed, deep-mouthed, sp plied to hounds. Flibbertigibbet, a fend Flickering, Buttering, undulation, the motion of flame.

Espials, spies.

Essential, real, existent.

Fashions, the farcens, or

farey.

Favour, often for counte

nance.

Fear, sometimes to affright.
Fear, danger.
Feat, to form, to model.

Foreslow, to be dilatory. Forgetive, from forge, inventive, imaginative, Forked plague, an allusion to the cuckold's horns. Formal capacity, not dear. ranged, or out of form. Former, sometimes for fore most Forspoken,

contradicted,

spoken against

Gaberdine, the coarse frock of a peasant, or a loose cloak. Gad, a sharp pointed instrument: Done upon the Gad, suddenly, capriciously. Galliard, an ancient dance. Galliasses, a kind of ships so called. Gallimaufry, a confused

heap of things together. Gallow, to scare, or frighten. Gallow-glasses, foot soldiers among the Irish. Garboils, commotions. Garish, gaudy, showy. Gasted, frighted.

Gard, a bauble, or trifle. Gear, a colloquial expres.

sion, for things or matters. Geck, a fool.

Gennets, or jennets, Spanish horses.

German, a-kin. Germins, sceds which have begun to germinate or sprout.

Gest, a stage, or journey. Gib, a name for a cat. Giglots, wanton wenches. Gimmal, a ring. Gimmal bit, a bit of which the parts played one with another.

Ging, an old word for gang. Gird, a sarcasm, or gibe: To gird, to be sarcastical Glaire, a sword.

Glared, gazed upon, looked fiercely.

Glek, to joke or scoff.
Glib, to lib, or geld.

Glooming, gloomy,

sat on the ground, in the Immediacy, proximity withold theatres. Guerdon, reward. Guerdoned, rewarded. Gules, a term in heraldry, red.

Gust, to taste.
Gyre, to catch, to shackle.
Gyves, shackles.

Haggard, a kind of hawk.
Halcyon, a bird, otherwise

called the kingfisher. Hallidom, sentence at the day of judgment. Handsaw, corrupted from Hernshaw. Hangers, that part of the girdle or belt by which the sword was suspended. Hardiment, hardiness, bravery, stoutness. Harlocks, the name of a plant, probably the burdock.

Harlots, sometimes applied to cheats of the male sex. Harlotry, vulgar, filthy. Harness, armour. Harrow, to conquer, to subdue. Harry, to hurt, to use roughly. Hatch, to cut, or engrave. Haring, estate or fortune. Haught, haughty. Hay, a term in fencing. Hearted throne, the heart in which thou wast throned. Hebenon, henbane. Hefted, heaved, agitated. Hefts, heavings.

en.

out intervention. Imp out, to supply the deficiency, a phrase from falconry. Impair, unsuitable to the dignity.

Impain, to engage; the modern word is to commit one's self.

Imperious, sometimes used for imperial. Imperseverant, ill perseve

rent, or perseverant. Impress, a device, or motto. Incarnardine, stained of a flesh colour, or red. Inclips, embraces. Incony, fine, or pretty, a

term of endearment. Indent, to bargain, or arti

Hell, a cant name for a dun-Intrenchant, that which
geon in a prison.
Henchman, page of honour.
Hent, to seize or take pos.
session, to take hold of.
Herb of grace, rue.
Hermits, beadsmen.
Hest, for behest, command.
Hight, called.
Hilding, or hilderling, a low

wretch.

Hoar, hoary, mouldy.
Hob-nob, let it happen or

not.

Hold, 1. e. rumour, to be

lieve it.

Hold taking, bear handling. Hoodman-blind, blindman's

buff. Horologe, clock. Hoxes, to hox, or hough, to cut the hamstring.

Glut, to swallow.

God'ild you, God yield you, or reward you. God's sonties, the abbreviation of an ancient oath. Gongarian, for Hungarian, used as a term of reproach. Good den, good evening. Good-jer, from gougere, what the pox! Gorbellied, fat and corpu. lent.

Gospelled, of precise or pu. ritan virtue.

Goss, furze.

Gossomer, the white exhalations which fly about in

summer.

Gougeers, the French dis temper.

Gourd, an instrument of gaming. Gouts, drops. Fr. Gramercy, grand merci, great thanks. Fr. Grise, or Grize, a step. Groundlings, the lower sort of people who stood or

upon the water, without sails or rudder. Humming, overwhelming. Hunt-counter,

blunderer,

worthless fellow, probably bailiff. Hunts-up, a morning bunting tune

Hurly, noise.
Hurtle, to dash, or push vio-
lently.
Hyen, hyena.

Jauncing, jaunting.
Jay, a bad woman.
Ice-brook, i. e. temper, tem-
pered by being plunged
into an ice-brook.
Jesses, straps of leather tied
about the foot of a hawk
to hold her in band.
Jet, to strut, to walk proud-
ly.
Ignomy, ignominy.
Jig, a ludicrous dialogue in

Intrinse, intricate, or intrinsecate, ravelled. Inward, sometimes for an intimate. Journal, daily. Irk, to make uneasy. Irregulous, lawless, licen

tious.

Iteration, citation, or repe

Limed, ensnared, as with bird-lime.

Limits, estimates, or outlines, rough sketches. Lined, delineated. Link, a torch, used to make old hats black. Linstock, the staff to which the match is fixed, when ordnance is fired. List, the bound or limit. Lither, flexible, or yielding. Loach, a very small fish, ex

ceedingly prolific. Lob, an epithet implying dulness and inactivity. Lock, a particular lock of hair, called a love-lock. Lockram, a kind of linen. Lode-star, leading star, the pole-star.

Loggats, a game played with bowl and pins. Longing, for longed, wished, or desired. Longly, longingly.

Kernes, light-armed sol-
diers See Gallow-glasses.
Key-cold, as cold as iron, a
key of which is used to
stop small bleedings.
Kicksy-wicksy, a ludicrous
name for a wife.
Kiln-hole, the place into
which coals are put un-
der a stove.
Kirtle, a sort of garment.
Knap, to break short.
Knotts, figures into which
part of a garden was dis-
posed.

Laced mutton, cant name
for a courtesan.
Lackeying, floating back-
wards and forwards.
Laq, the fag-end.
Lakin, ladykin, or little
lady.

Lances, lance-men.
Land-damn, probably, to
banish from the land.
Land rakers, wanderers on
foot.

Lapsed in time, having suffered time to slip. Latch, to lay hold of. Lated, belated, benighted. sa-Latten, lathy, thin. Larolt, a dance.

wind.

Loon, a base fellow.

Looped, full of apertures.
Lop, the branches.
Lordings, the diminutive of

lord. Lover, sometimes used for mistress.

Lown, a sorry fellow.
Lowted, treated with con-
tempt.

Lozel, a worthless fellow,
Lunes, lunacy, frenzy.
Larch, to purloin, to de-
prive.
Lush, a dark full colour.
Lustic, cheerful, pleasant.
Dutch.
Lym, or lyme, a
hound.

blood