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subordinate positions. His chance of error is renewed explanation. When his attention is strongly engagea at every attempt; an oblique view of the passage a slight misapprehension of a phrase, a casual inattention to the parties connected, is sufficient to make him not only fail, but fail ridiculously; and when he succeeds best, he produces perhaps but one reading of many probable, and he that suggests another will always be able to dispute his claims.

It is an unhappy state, in which danger is hid under pleasure. The allurements of emendation are scarcely resistible. Conjecture has all the joy and all the pride of invention, and he that has once started a happy change, is too much delighted to consider what objections may rise against it.

let it disdain alike to turn aside to the name of Theo bald and of Pope. Let him read on through brightness and obscurity, through integrity and corruption; let him preserve his comprehension of the dialogue, and his interest in the fable. And when the pleasures of novelty have ceased, let him attempt exactness, and read the commentators.

Particular passages are cleared by notes, but the general effect of the work is weakened. The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book which he has too diligently studied.

Parts are not to be examined till the whole has been surveyed; there is a kind of intellectual remoteness necessary for the comprehension of any great work in its full design and in its true propor tions; a close approach shews the smaller niceties, but the beauty of the whole is discerned no longer.

Yet conjectural criticism has been of great use in the learned world; nor is it my intention to depreciate a study, that has exercised so many mighty minds, from the revival of learning to our own age, from the Bishop of Aleria to English Bentley. The critics on ancient authors have, in the exercise of their sagacity, many assistances, which the editor of It is not very grateful to consider how little the Shakspeare is condemned to want. They are em- succession of editors has added to this author's power ployed upon grammatical and settled languages, of pleasing. He was read, admired, studied, and whose construction contribute so much to perspi- imitated, while he was yet deformed with all the cuity, that Homer has fewer passages unintelligible improprieties which ignorance and neglect could acthan Chaucer. The words have not only a known cumulate upon him; while the reading was yet not regimen, but invariable quantities, which direct and rectified, nor his allusions understood; yet then did confine the choice. There are commonly more manu- Dryden pronounce, ".that Shakspeare was the man, scripts than one; and they do not often conspire in who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the same mistakes Yet Scaliger could confess to the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the Salmasius how little satisfaction his emendations images of nature were still present to him, and he gave him. Illudunt nobis conjecturæ nostræ, quarum drew them not laboriously, but luckily when he denos pudet, posteaquam in meliores codices incidimus. scribes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it And Lipsius could complain, that critics were making too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted learnfaults, by trying to remove them, Ut olim vitiis, ita ing, give him the greater commendation; he was nanunc remediis laboratur. And indeed, when mere turally learned; he needed not the spectacles of conjecture is to be used, the emendations of Scaliger books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found and Lipsius, notwithstanding their wonderful saga-her there. I cannot say he is every where alike; city and erudition, are often vague and disputable, were he so, I should do him injury to compare him like mine or Theobald's. with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat

Perhaps I may not be more censured for doing and insipid; his comic wit degenerating into wrong, than for doing little; for raising in the pub-clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he lic expectations, which at last I have not answered. is always great, when some great occasion is pre The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that sented to him; no man can say, he ever had a fit of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as those who know not what to demand, or those who high above the rest of poets, demand by design what they think impossible to be done. I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own; yet I have endeavoured to perform my task with no slight solicitude. Not a single pas sage in the whole work has appeared to me corrupt, which I have not attempted to restore; or obscure, which I have not endeavoured to illustrate. In many I have failed like others; and from many, after all my efforts, I have retreated, and confessed the repulse. I have not passed over, with affected superiority, what is equally difficult to the reader and to myself, but where I could not instruct him, have owned my ignorance. I might easily have accumulated a mass of seeming learning upon easy scenes; but it ought not to be imputed to negligence, that where nothing was necessary, nothing has been done, or that, where others have said enough, I have said no more. Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him, that is yet unacquainted with the owers of Shakspeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negli gence of all his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or

'Quantum lenta solent inter viburna capressi.'"

It is to be lamented, that such a writer should want a commentary; that his language should be [come obsolete, or his sentiments obscure. But it is vain to carry wishes beyond the condition of human things; that which must happen to all, has happened to Shakspeare, by accident and time; and more than has been suffered by any other writer since the use of types, has been suffered by him through his own negligence of fame, or perhaps by that superiority of mind, which despised its own performances, when it compared them with its powers, and judged those works unworthy to be preserved, which the critics of following ages were to contend for the fame of restoring and explaining.

Among these candidates of inferior fame, I am now to stand the judgment of the public: and wish that I could confidently produce my commentary as equal to the encouragement which I have had the honour of receiving. Every work of this kind is by its nature deficient, and I should feel little solicitude about the sentence, were it to be pronounced only by the skilful and the learned.

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Astringer, a falconer.

Ates, instigation from Ate, the!
mischievous goddess that in-
cites bloodshed.
Atomies, minute particles dis-
cernible in a stream of sun-
shine that breaks into a dark-
ened room, atoms.
A tone, to reconcile.
Attasked, reprehended, cor-
rected.

Attended, waited for.
Attent, attentive.
Attorney, deputation.
Attorneyship, the discretional
agency of another.
Attornied, supplied by substi-
tution of embassies.
Attributive, that which attri-
butes or gives.
Avaunt, contemptuous dismis-
sion.

Averring, confirming.
Audacious, spirited, animated.
Audrey, a corruption of Ethel
dreda.

Augurs, auguries or prognosti-
cations.
Aukward, adverse.
Authentic, an epithet applied
to the learned.
Awful, reverend, worshipful.
Awless, not producing awe.

Baccare, stand back, give
place.

Bale, misery, calamity.
Baleful, baneful.

Balked, bathed or piled up.
Balm, the oil of consecration.
Band, bond.

Bandog, village dog or mastiff.
Bank, to sail along the banks.
Banning, cursing.

Banquet, a slight refection, a
desert.
Bans, curses
Bar, barrier.
Barbed, caparisoned in a war-
like manner.
Barful, full of impediments.
Barm, yeast.

Barn, or bairn, a child.
Barnacle, a kind of shell-fish.
Base, dishonoured.

Base, a rustic game, called pri-
son-base.

Bases, a kind of dress used by
knights on horseback.
Basilisks, a species of cannon.
Basta, Spanish, 'tis enough.
Bastard, raisin wine.
Bat, a club, or staff.
Bate, strife, contention.
Bate, to flutter as a hawk.
Batlet, an instrument used by
washers of clothes.
Batten, to grow fat.
Battle, army.
Bavin, brushwood.
Bawcock, a jolly cock.
Bay, the space between the
main beams of a roof.
Bay-window, bow window, one
in a recess.
Beak, the forecastle, or the
boltsprit.

Beard, to oppose in a hostile
manner, to set at defiance.

f great bur Bearing, carriage, demeanour. Bearing-cloth, a mantle used at christenings. Beat, in falconry, to flutter. Beating, hammering, dwelling

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Benumbed, inflexible, immoveable.

Beshrew, ill befall.
Best, bravest.
Bestowed, left, stowed, or
lodged.

Bestraught, distraught or distracted.

Beteem, to give, to pour out,
to permit, or suffer.
Bewray, betray, discover.
Bezonian, a term of reproach.
Bid, to invite, to pray.
Biding, place, abiding.
Bigging, a kind of cap.
Bilberry, the whortleberry.
Bilbo, a Spanish blade of pecu-
liar excellence.
Bilboes, a species of fetters.
Bill, a
weapon carried by
watchmen, a label, or adver-
tisement, articles of accusa-
tion.

Bird-bolt, a species of arrow.
Bisson, blind.

Blank, the white mark at
which an arrow is shot.
Blast, burst.
Blear, to deceive.
Blench, to start off.
Blent, blended, mixed.
Blind-worm, the slow-worm.
Blistered, puffed out like blis-

ters.

Blood, ancestry, high spirits,
true metal, passions, natural
propensities.
Blood-boltered, daubed with
blood.

Blown, puffed or swollen.
Blows, swells.

Blunt, stupid, insensible.
Board, to accost, to address.
Bobb, to trick, to make a fool
of.

Bodged, boggled, made bungling work.

Bodkin, a small dagger.
Bold, confident, to embolden.
Boldness, confidence.
Bolted, sifted, refined.
Bolting-hutch, the receptacle
in which the meal is bolted.
Bombard, or bumbard, a bar-
rel.

Bombast, stuffing of clothes.
Bona-robas, strumpets.
Bond, bounden duty.
Bony, or bonny, handsome,
goodlooking.

Book, paper of conditions.
Boot, profit, advantage, some-
thing over and above.
Bore, demeaned.

Bore, the caliber of a gun, the
capacity of the barrel.
Bores, stabs, or wounds.
Bosky, woody.

Bosom, wish, heart's desire. Bots, worms in the stomach of a horse.

Bourn, boundary, rivulet.
Bow, yoke.

Brace, armour for the arm,
state of defence.
Brach, a species of hound.
Braid, crafty or deceitful.
Brake, a thicket, furze-bush.
Brave, to make fine or splen-
did.

Bravery, showy dress.
Brawl, a kind of dance.

Breath, breathing, voice.
Breathe, to utter.

Breathed, inured by constant practice.

Breathing, complimentary.
Breeched, sheathed.
Breeching, liable to school-boy
punishment.

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

or enumeration.

Bring, to attend or accompany Brize, the gad, or horse-fly. Broached, spitted, transfixed. Brock, a badger.

Broke, to deal with a pander. Broken, toothless. Broker, a matchmaker, a procuress or pimp. Brooch, an ornamental buckle. Brooched, adorned as with a brooch.

Brotherhoods, confraternities.
or corporations.
Brow, height.

Brownist, the name of a sect.
Bruit, noise, report.
Bruited, reported with cla-

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Bush, the sign of a public-
house.

Busky woody. See Bosky.
But, only, unless, except.
Butt-shaft, an arrow to shoot
at butts with.

Buxom, obedient, under good
command.

By, according to, by means of. By'rlakin, by our ladykin or little lady.

Caddis, a narrow worsted gal-
loon.

Cade, a barrel.
Cadent, falling,
Cage, a prison.
Cain-coloured, yellow.
Caitiff, a prisoner, a slave, a
Scoundrel.

Calculate, to foretell or pro-
phesy.

Caliver, a species of musket.
Call, to visit.

Callet, a lewd woman.
Calling, appellation.
Calm, qualm.

Canary, a sprightly nimble
dance.

Candle-waisters, those who sit
up all night to drink.
Canker, the dog rose.
Canstick, candlestick.
Cantel, or Cantle, a corner or
piece of any thing.
Cantons, cantos.
Canvas, to sift.
Canvas-climber, a sailor who
climbs to adjust the sails.
Cap, the top, the principal.
Cap, to salute by taking off the
сар.

Capable, perceptible, intelli-
gent, quick of apprehension,
ample, capacious.
Capitulate, to make head.
Capon, metaphor for a letter.
Capricious, lascivions.
Captions, capacious, or reci-
pient.
Carack, a ship of great bulk.
Carbonadoed, scotched like
meat for the gridiron.
Card, perhaps a sea-chart.
Care, to make provision, to
take care.

Breach, of the sea, breaking of Care, inclination.

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Case, Contemptuously for skin, Clinquant, glittering, shining.
outside garb.
Case, to strip naked.
Casques, helmets.

Cassock, a horseman's great

coat.

Cast, to empty, as a pond, to
dismiss or reject.
Cast, cast up, reckoned.
Castilian, an opprobrious term.
Castiliano vulgo, a cant term
of contempt..
Cataian, some kind of sharper.
Catling, a small lute-string
made of catgut.
Cavaleroes, airy, gay fellows.
Caviare, a delicacy made of
the roe of sturgeon.
Cautelous, insidious, cautious.
Cease, decease, die, to stop.
Censure, judgment, opinion.
Censure, to judge.
Censured, sentenced, esti-

mated.

Centuries, companies of an
hundred men each.
Ceremonies, honorary orna-
ments, tokens of respect.
Ceremonious, superstitious.
Certes, certainly, in truth.
Cess, measure.
Chace, a term at tennis.
Chair, throne..

Chamber, ancient name for
London.

Chamber, a species of great

Chamberers, men of intrigue.
Champian, an open country.
Chance, fortune.

Changeling, a child changed.
Channel, a kennel.
Character, description, nand.
writing.
Character, to write, to infix
strongly.
Charactery, the matter with
which letters are made.
Chares, task-work.

Charge, to put to expense..
Charge, commission, employ-

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Closely, secretly, privately.
Clout, the white mark at which
archers take aim.

Clown, a licensed jester in fa-
milies.

Clubs, a popular cry on a
street-quarrel.
Clutched, grasped.
Coach-fellow, one who draws
with a confederate.
Coasting, conciliatory, invit-
ing.

Cobloaf, a crusty, uneven loaf.
Cock, cock-boat.
Cockle, a weed.
Cockled, inshelled like a
cockle.
Cock-shut-time, twilight.
Codling, anciently an imma-
ture apple.

Coffin, the cavity of a raised
pie.

Cog, to falsify, to lie, defraud.
Cognizance, badge or token.
Coigne, corner,
Coil, bustle, stir.
Cold, naked.
Collect, to assemble by obser-

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Comforting, aiding.
Commence, to give a begin-
ning.

Commended, committed.
Commission, authority, power.
Commodity, interest, profit.
Commonty, a comedy.
Compact, made up of
Companion, fellow.
Company, companion.

Consent, to agree.

Consent, conspiracy, will, as-
sent, united voice.
Consigned, sealed.
Consist, to stand upon.
Consort, con pany.
Consort, to keep company with.
Constancy, consistency, stabi-
lity.

Constant, firm, determined. Constantly, certainly, without fluctuation.

Contemptible, contemptuous. Continent, the thing which

contains.

Continents, banks of rivers. Continuate, Eninterrupted. Contraction, marriage contract.

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Curious, scrupulous.

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Contrive, to spend and wear Currents, occurrences.

Curled, ostentatiously dressed.

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Convive, to feast.

Cope, to encounter, to engage. Cope, covering.

Copped, rising to a cop, or head.

Copy, theme.

Cursed, under the influence of a malediction.

Curst, petulant,

crabbed,

shrewdish, or mischievous,
severe, harsh, vehemently
angry.

Curstness, ill-humour.
Curtail, a cur of little value.
Curtal, a docked horse.
Curtle-ax, or cutlace, a broad
sword.

Custard coffin, the crust of a
custard or pie.
Customer, a common woman.
Cut, a horse.

Cyprus, a transparent stuff. Daff or doff, to do off, to put aside.

Dally, to play or trifle.
Damn, condemn.

Danger, reach or control.
Dank, wet, rotten.

Coragio, an exclamation of en - Danskers, natives of Denmark.

couragement Corinthian, a wencher

Corky, dry, withered, husky.
Corners, hy-places.

Corollary, surplus.
Coronet, a crown.
Corrigible, corrected.
Costard, the head.

Coster-monger, meanly, mer

cenary.

Cote, to overtake.

Dare, to challenge or incite. Dark-house, a house made

gloomy by discontent. Darkling, in the dark.

Darraign, to arrange, put in order.

Daub, to disguise.

Daubery, falsehood and impo sition.

Day-bed, a couch.
Day-light, broad-day.

Coted, quoted, observed, or Day woman, dairy maid.

regarded. Cotsale, Cotswood in

tershire.

Covered, hollow.

Dear, best, important, dire. Glouces-Dearn, lonely solitary.

Count, to make account, to reckon upon.

Count Confect, a specious nobleman.

Comparative, a dealer in com- Countenance, false appearance,

parisons.

Compare, comparison.
Compassed, round.
Compassionate, plaintive.

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Complements, accomplish

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gain, consistency, concor-
dancy.

Composture, composition,com-
post.
Comptible, submissive.
Con, to know.

Conceit, fanciful conception,
thought.

Concent, connected harmony
in general.

Conclusion, determination, re-
solution.

Conclusions, experiments.
Concupy, concupiscence.
Condition, temper, character,
qualities, vocations or incli-
nations.
Condolement, sorrow.
Conduct, conductor.
Coney-catched, deceived,
cheated.
Coney-catcher, a cheat, or
sharper.
Confession, profession.
Conject, conjecture.
Conjecture, suspicion.
Confound, to destroy, to ex-
pend, to consume.
Confounded, worn or wasted

hypocrisy.

Counterfeit, a likeness, a portrait.

Counterpoints, counterpanes.
County, count, earl.
Cower, to sink by bending the
hams.

Cowl-staff, a staff for carrying
a large tub.
Coy, to soothe or stroke.
Coyed, condescended unwil-
lingly.

Coystril, a coward cock, a
mean or drunken fellow.
Cozier, & tailor or botcher.
Crab, a wild apple.
Crack, dissolution,

Death tokens, spots appearing
on those infected by the
plague.

Deboshed, debauched.
Decay, misfortunes.
Deceivable, deceptious.
Deck, to cover, a pack.
Decline, to run through from
first to last.
Declined, the fallen.
Deem, opinion, surmise.
Defeat, destruction.
Defeatures, features, changing
features for the worse.
Defence, art of fencing.
Defend, to forbid.
Defensible, furnishing the
means of defence.
Defiance, refusal.
Deformed, deforming.
Deftly, dexterously, with
adroitness.

Defy, to refuse, to disdain
Degrees, steps.

Crack, a boy or child, a boy- Delay, to let slip
child.

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Gentle, acole, high-minded, be- | Haught, haughty,

longing to gentry.

Gentry, complaisance
German, akin.

Germins, seeds begun to sprout.
Gest, a stage or journey.
Gib, a cat.

Gifts, endowments.
Giglot, a wanton wench.

Gilder, a coin valued at 1s. 6d. or A.

Gilt, gilding, golden money.
Ginmal, a ring or engine.
Ging, a gang.

Gird, a sarcasm or gibe, emotion.

Gleek, to joke or scoff, to beguile. Glimmering, faintly illuminated by the stars. Glaze, to expound, to comment

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Haughty, high, elevated.
Haunt, company.

Hay, a term in the fencingschool.

Head, the source, the fountain.
Head, body of forces.
Hear, the most valuable or
precious part.
Heat, heated.

Heat, violence of resentment.
Heavy, slow.

Hebenon, benbane.
Hefted, heaved.
Hefts, heavings.
Hell, an obscure dungeon in a
prison.

Helmed, steered through.
Hence, henceforth.
Henchman, a page of honour.
Hent, seized, or taken posses-
sion of.

Hereby, as it may happen.
Hermits, beadsmen.
Hest, behest, command.
High-fantastical, fantastical to
the height.
High-repented, repented to the

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Graves, or greaves, armour for Hungry, steril, unprolific.

the legs.

Greasily, grossly.

Greek, a bawd, or pander. Green, unripe,not fully formed. Greenly, awkwardly, unskil fully.

Greets, pleases.

Grief, pain, grievances.
Griefs, grievances, wrongs.
Grievances, sorrows, sorrowful

affections.

Grieve, to lament for.
Grise, a step.
Grossly, palpably.
Groundlings, the frequenters
of the pit in the playhouse.
Growing, accruing.
Guard, defence

Guard, to fringe or lace.
Guarded, ornamented.

Guards, badges of dignity.

Guerdon, reward.

Guerdoned, rewarded.

Guiled, treacherous.
Guinea-hen, a prostitute.
Gules, red, a term in heraldry.
Gulf, the swallow, the throat.
Gun-stones, cannon-balls.
Gurxet, a fish resembling a
piper.

Gust, taste, rashness.
Gyve, to catch, to shackle.
Gyves, shackles.

Hack, to become cheap and vul

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Hunt-counter, base tyke,worthless dog.

Hunts-up, the name of a tune, a morning song. Hurly, noise. Hurtling, merry with impetuosity.

Husbandry, thrift, frugality. Huswife, a jilt.

Inclining, compliant.
Inclip, to embrace.
Include, to shut up, conclude.
Inclusive, enclosed.
Incony, or kony, fine, delicate.
Incorrect, ill-regulated.
Increase, produce.
Indent, to bargain and article.
Index, something preparatory.
Indifferent, sometimes for díf-
ferent, impartial.
Indite, to convict.
Induction, entrance, beginning,
preparations.
Indurance, delay, procrastina-
tion.

Infinite, extent or power. Ingaged, sometimes for unengaged.

Ingraft, rooted, settled,
Inhabitable, not habitable.
Inherit, to possess.
Inhibit, to forbid.
Inhooped, enclosed, confined.
Inkhorn-mate, a book-mate,
Inkle, a kind of tape, crewell,
or worsted.
Inland, civilized, not rustic.
Insane, that which makes in-

sane.

Insconce, to fortify.
insculped, engraven.
Inseparate, inseparable.
Instance, example, proof.
Instances, motives.
Insuit, solicitation.
Intend, to pretend.
Intending, regarding.
Intendment, intention or dis-
position.
Intenible, incapable of retain-
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Intention, eagerness of desire.
Intentively, with full attention.
Interessed, interested.
Intergatories, interrogatories.
Intermission, pause, interven-
ing time.
Intrenchant, that which cannot
be cut.
Intrinse, intrinsicate.
Invention, imagination.
Inwardness, intimacy, confi-
dence

Iron, clad in armour.
Irregulous, lawless, licentious.
Issues, consequences, conclu
sions.
Iteration, citation, recitation.
Jack, a term of contempt.
Jack-a-lent, a puppet thrown at
in Lent

Jack guardant, a jack in office. Jaded, treated with contempt, worthless.

Ice-brook, a brook of icy quali- Jar, the noise made by the pen

ties in Spain.

I' fecks, in faith.
Ignomy, ignominy.

-inhabited, ill-lodged. Ill-nurtured, ill-educated. Images, children, representa tives.

Imaginary, produced by the power of imagination. Imbare, to lay open or display

to view.

Immanity, barbarity, savage-
ness.
Immediacy, close connexion.
Imp, to supply.
Imp, progeny.
Impair, unsuitable.
Impartial, sometimes used for
partial.
Impawned,wagered and staked.
Impeach, to bring into question.
Impeachment, reproach or im-
putation, hindrance.
Imperious, imperial.
Imperseverant, perseverant.
Impeticos, to impetticoat or
impocket.

Importance, importunacy.
Importance, the thing imported.
Importing, implying, denoting.
Impose, injunction, command.
Impositions, commands.
Impossible, incredible, or in-
conceivable.

Impress, to compel to serve. Impress, a device or motto. Impugn, oppose, controvert. Incapable, unintelligent. Incarnardine, to stain of a red colour.

Incensed, incited, suggested.

dulum of a clock. Jauncing, jaunting.

Jesses. straps of leather by
which the hawk is held on the
fist.

Jest, to play a part in a mask.
Jet, to strut.

Jovial, belonging to Jove.
Journal, daily.
Jump, to agree with, to put
into agitation.
Jump, hazard, to venture at
Jump, just.

Justicer, justice, judge.
Jut, to encroach.
Jutty, to project.
Juvenal, a young man.

Kam, awry, crooked.
Keech, a solid lump or mass.
Keel, to cool.
Keep, to restrain, to dwell, to

reside.

Keisar, Cæsar.

Kernes, light-armed Irish foot.
Key, the key for tuning, a tun
ing hammer.
Kicksy-wicksy, a wife.
Kiln hole, a place into which
coals are put under a stove.
Kind, nature, species.
Kindless, unnatural
Kindly, naturally.
Kindly, kindred.
Kinged, ruled by.
Kinsman, near relative.
Kirtle, part of a woman's dress.
Knave, servant.
Knife, a sword or dagger,
Knots, figures planted in box.
Know, to acknowledge.

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manor.

Legerity lightness,nimbleness.
Leges, alleges.
Leiger, resident.

Leman, lover, mistress.
Lenten, short and spare.
L'envoy, moral, or conclusion
of a poem.
Let, to hinder.
Let be, to desist.
Lethe, death.

Lewd, ignorant, idle, wicked.
Lewdly, wickedly.

Libbard, or lubbar, a leopard. Liberal, licentious or gross in language.

Liberty, libertinism. License, an appearance oflicentio isness.

Lie, to reside, to be imprisoned. Liefe st, dearest. Lieger, an ambassador at a foreign court.

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Limits,estinates, calculations.
Line, genealogy.
Lined, delineated.

Link, a torch of pitch.

Linstock, the staff to which the match is fixed when ordi

nance is fired. List, the bound or limit. Lither, flexible, yielding. Little, miniature. Livelihood, appearance of life. Livery, a law phrase belonging to the feudal tenures. living, estate, property. Living, speaking, manifest, actual.

Loach, a small fish.

Lob, looby, a term of contempt. Lockram, some kind of cheap

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