Pretend, to portend, ii. 315.
Pretty, petty, little, iii. 750.

Prevent, to anticipate, i. 578, ii. 315, iii. 423, 454.
Pricket, a deer so called, i. 103.

Prick-song, music pricked, or noted down, i. 178.
Priest of the town, i. 687.

Prig, a cheat, a thief, iii. 228.

Prime, the spring, iii. 774.

Primero, an old game at cards, i. 679, ii. 688.

Prince of cats, i. 216.

Principality, a celestial, i. 15.

Principals, the strongest rafters in a building, il. 203.

Princox, a coxcomb, i. 170.

Print, in, precisely, to the letter, i. 12.

Prison base, or prison bars, a game, i. 42.

Prize, to rate, ii. 464.

Prize, privilege, ii. 411.

Probal, probable, iii. 671.

Proceeding, advancement, iii. 430.

Process, citation, iii. 530.

Prodigious, monstrous, portentous, i. 300, iii. 420.

Proface, welcome, i. 620.

Profane use of the sacred names, act for preventing, i. 562.

Prognostication, almanac, iii. 241.

Project, to shape, iii. 581.

Projection, forecast, preparation, ii. 79.

Prolixious, coy, delaying, ii. 609.

Prompture, suggestion, ii. 609.

Prone, ardent, ii. 595, iii. 745.

Proof, armour, iii. 473.

Proper, peculiar, personal, iii. 140, 179.
Proper-false, handsome-false, ii. 246.

Propertied, circumscribed, appropriated, ii. 268, 462.
Properties, a theatrical term, i. 347, 677.

Proposing, discoursing, i. 713.

Quillets, quodlibets, quibbles, iii. 387.

Quilt, a flock bed, i. 550.

Quintain, a military exercise, a pastime, ii. 171.

Quips, sudden, angry gibes, scoffs, i. 29.

Quit, to requite, ii. 635, iii. 565.

Quittance, requital, to make requital, i. 574, ii. 296, 467.
Quiver, smart, nimble, i. 601.

Quote, to look into, to scan, iii. 347, 621, 746.

R, the dog's letter, i. 217.

Rabato, or rebato, an ornament for the neck, a kind of ruff,

i. 720.

Rabbit-sucker, a sucking rabbit, i. 534.

Race, nature, iii. 14.

Rack, to stretch, to extend, i. 726.

Rack, drifting vapour, or scud, ii. 411, iii. 50, 765.

Racked, harassed by exactions, ii. 347.

Rag, a term of contempt, ii. 492.

Ragged, rough, rugged, base, i. 574, 618, ii. 142.

Ragged, beggared, iii. 747.

Rake up, to cover up, iii. 105.

Rampallian, a low, creeping, mean wretch, i. 582.

Rank, chorus, rhyme, ii. 149.

Rank, brimming, full, iii. 722, 778.

Rankness, riotousness, i. 325, iii. 435.
Raps, transports, ii. 719.

Rapture, a fit, iii. 145.

Rarely, curiously, ii. 728.

Rascal, a lean deer, ii. 155, 317, iii. 129.

Rates, counts for, is equivalent to, iii. 562.

Rather, hasty, quick, i. 65.

Rats rhymed to death by charms, ii. 173, 332.
Raught, reft, reached, grasped, ii. 857, 409.
Ravin, to devour greedily, ii. 595, iii. 489.
Ravined, ravenous, iii. 501.
Rayed, chafed, excoriated, i. 254.
Razed, slashed, opened, iii. 366.
Razes, roots, i. 521.

Read, to tread, i. 547, ii. 697.

Rearmice, bats, i. 354.

Rearward, rearguard, iii. 773.

Reason, to discourse, i. 411.

Reasonable swiftness, speed of thought, ii. 71.

Rebate, to blunt, i. 51, 598.

Rebato, a kind of ruff, an ornament for the neck, i. 720.

Rebeck, a sort of fiddle, i. 205.

Receipt, receptacle, iii. 481.

Recheat, a note on the horn, i. 699.

Reck, to regard, iii. 339.

Record, to chant, i. 37, ii. 208.

Recorder, a musical instrument resembling a flute, iii. 401.

Recover the wind of me, a hunting expression, iii. 367.

Recure, to recover, ii. 549.

Rede, counsel, advice, iii. 339.

Red-lattice, the denotement of an ale-house, i. 586, 026.

Red-lattice phrases, ale-house phraseology, i. 654.

Reduce, to restore, to bring back to a former state, ii. 575.

Reechy, discoloured by smoke, i. 719.

Refelled, refuted, ii. 631.

Regard, reflection, observation, iii. 741, 752.

Regiment, directorship, rule, iii. 558.

Reguerdon, recompence, ii. 307, 312.

Relume, to relight, iii. 701.

Remarkable, profoundly striking, iii. 577.

Remember thy courtesy, discontinue ceremony, i. 83.
Remembered, reminded, iii. 778.

Remembrance, memorial, iii. 680.

Remonstrance, exhibition, manifestation, ii. 634.*

Remorse, pity, tenderness of feeling, i. 31, 319, ii. 373, 631,
iii. 681.

Remorseless, relentless, pitiless, iii. 743.
Remotion, removal, ii. 492, iii. 78.

Removed, remote, private, i. 293, 343, ii. 152, 595, iii. 247.
Removes, stages, journeys, ii. 51.

Render, to describe, to represent, ii. 162.
Reneges, denies, renounces, iii. 75, 530.

In the text the suggestion of Malone to read demonstrance was too
hastily adopted. The right word is unquestionably "remonstrance.'

Rich eyes, ii. 49, 159.

Rid, to destroy, ii. 447, iii. 14.

Riddles, fustian, ii. 279.

Rides the wild mare, plays at see-saw, i. 593.

Riggish, wanton, iii. 543.

Right, direct, immediate, i. 325.

Rigol, a circle, i. 612, iii. 756.

Rim, a part of the intestines, ii. 101.

Rivage, the shore or bank, ii. 81.

Rivality, participation, copartnership, iii. 556.

Rivals, associates, partners, iii. 329.
Rivo, a drinking exclamation, i. 529.
Rond, a roadstead, a haven, i. 16.

Roaring Devil, ii. 119.

Robin, hey, jolly Robin, a song, i. 281.

Robin Goodfellow, i. 382.

Rolled, coiled, iii. 609.

Romage, commotion, turmoil, iii 332.

Rondure, a round or belt, iii. 763.

Ronyon, a scurvy old woman, a witch, i. 676, iii. 474.

Rood, the cross, the image on the cross, i. 597.

Rook, to squat down, to roost, ii. 449.

Ropery, rope-tricks, ribaldry, i. 181, 238.

Rosemary for remembrance, iii. 403.

Rother, red cattle, ii. 488.

Rough-hew, to plan, or fashion in the rough, iii. 392.

Round, plain spoken, i. 120, iii. 361.

Round, roundel, roundelay, a dance, i. 104, 354.

Rounded, insinuated, i. 298.

Rounding, whispering, insinuating, iii. 202.

Roundure, a circle, i. 294.

Rouse, a carouse, a deep draught, iii. 398.

Royal, a coin so called, i. 532.

Royal merchants, i. 440.

Roynish, scurvy, ii. 138.

Ruddock, the redbreast, ii. 748.

Rudesby, blusterer, swaggerer, i. 250.

Rue, herb-grace, iii. 382.

Ruff, the top of the boot turned over, ii. 29.

Ruffian, roisterer, swash-buckler, iii. 650.

Ruin, rubbish, i. 412.

Sanded, of a sandy colour, i. 385.

Satire, a satirist, iii. 775.

Saucy, prurient, ii 44.

'Say, assay, taste, evidence, iii. 112.

'Sayed, assayed, ii. 183, iii. 112.

Scaled, dispersed, iii. 315.

Scamble, to seize, to scramble, to rifle, i. 319, ii. 64.

Scamels, or sea-mells, sea-birds, iii. 27.

Scapes, lapses, slips, iii. 221, 745.

Scarfed bark, vessel decorated with flags, i. 407.

Scathe, to damage, i. 170.

Scogan, Henry and John, i. 627.

Sconce, a fortification, ii. 88.

Sconce, the head, i. 118, 122, iii. 161, 387.

Scone stone, iii. 518.

Score, to mark, to brand, i. 117, iii. 689.

Scorn it with the heels, a manner of scornful rejection,

i. 401, 721.

Scotch, to wound, to notch, iii. 493.

Scrimers, fencers, iii. 384.

Scroyles, scabby rogues, i. 296.
Scrubbed, stunted, i. 434.

Sculls, shoals, iii. 315.

'Scuse, excuse, i. 430, iii. 687.

Scut, a tail, i. 681.

Scylla and Charybdis, i. 440.

Seals on deeds, i. 485.

Sear, to stigmatize, to close up, ii. 712, iii. 208.

Season, preservative, iii. 498.

Secret, separated, devoted, iii. 425, 607.

Secure, careless, to make over-confident, i. 487, 659, 658, 665,

ii. 296, iii. 96, 279, 344.

Secure, to assure, ii. 475.

Securely, carelessly, over-confidently, i. 462, iii. 304.

Security, carelessness, over-confidence, i. 469, iii. 431, 498.

See, to, to the sight, iii. 766.

Seel, in falconry, to sew up the eyes, iii. 494, 564.

Seen, versed, practised, skilled, i. 238.

Seldom comes the better, a proverbial saying, ii. 534.

Sense, to the, to the quick, iii. 698.

Septentrion, the north, ii. 409.

Sequester, a separation, iii. 683.

Sere, tickled o' the, easily moved to mirth, iii. 353.

Sergeant, anciently one of the king's guard, iii. 472.

Serpigo, leprosy, ii. 611.

Servant, a follower, an admirer, i. 43.

Sessa, be quiet, i. 227, iii. 92.

Set, a term in music, i. 7.

Set a match, to plan a robbery, i. 513.

Set up his rest, to stake all, i. 150, 203.

Setebos, a demon, iii. 48.

Seven ages of man, ii. 172.

Several, private, i. 63, iii. 781.

Several, manifold, ii. 10.

Shale, a case, a shell, ii. 99.

Shards, broken fragments, iii. 390.

Shards, scaly wings of a beetle, iii. 494, 553.

Shaven Hercules, the, i. 719.

Sheaf, iii. 839.

Sheen, brightness, splendour, i. 349, iii. 363.

Sheep, pronounced ship, i. 4.

Sheer, pure, unmixed, i. 229, 488.

Shent, undone, ruined, reproved, i. 648, iii. 179, 283.

Shovel-boards, broad shillings used in the game of shove-
groat, i. 642.

Shrewd, shrewish, mischievous, i. 84, 234, 237, 325, 349, 366,
657, 703, ii. 169, 602, iii. 571.

Shrift, auricular confession, i. 161, 178, 181, 182, 201,
ii. 546, 623.

Shrive, to bring to confession and absolve, i. 125.
Shriving-time, time of shrift or confession, iii. 392.
Shut-up, finished, concluded, iii. 482.

Shylock, derivation of the name, i. 437.

Silly, simple, rustic, ii. 756.

Silly cheat, petty theft, iii. 227.

Similitudes, inapposite, i. 563.

Simular, counterfeit, deceitful, ii. 761, iii. 85.
Single, simple, feeble, i. 578. iii. 476.

Sink-a-pace, cinque-pace, a dance, i. 104, 704.

Sinklo, the actor, i. 229.

Sir, a title of certain churchmen, ii. 345.

Sır, applied to nobility and royalty, iii. 204, 245.

Sir Bevis of Hamptoun, ii. 699.

Sir Dagonet in Arthur's Show, i. 628.

Sir reverence, an apology for any unseemly saying, i. 130.

Sir, the, the gallant, the courtier, iii. 664.

Siren's song of allurement, i. 149.

Sirs, an old form of addressing women, iii. 577.

Sithence, since, ii. 12.

Sit out, refuse to play, a card-table phrase, i. 53.

Sit thee down, sorrow, i. 56.

Sizes, allowances, iii. 80.

Skainsmates, reckless fellows, i. 181.

Skill, cunning, design, reason, iii. 209, 231.
Skills not, is of no importance, ii. 364.

Skimble-skamble, jumbled, deranged, i. 538.
Skinker, drawer of liquor, i. 527.
Skirr, to scour, ii. 104, iii. 511.
Slander, to abuse, iii. 340.

Slanderous, ignominious, branded, iii. 748.

Slavish wipe, the brand of slaves, iii. 743.

Sleave, unwrought silk, iii. 484.

Sledded, sledged, iii. 330.

Sleeve, worn as a favour by tilters and warriors, iii. 323.

Sleided, untwisted, ii. 208, iii. 785.

Slipper, slippery, iii. 665.

Slips, counterfeit pieces of money, i. 179, iii. 283.

Sliver, to slit or slice, iii. 97, 385.

Slop, loose knee-breeches, i. 179.

Smirched, sullied, soiled, i. 719, 725, ii. 85, 136.

Smoke, to discover, ii. 34, 38.

Smoothed, fawned on, ii. 488.

Smug, spruce, smart, i. 415, 538, iii. 104.

Sneap, a sarcasm, a set-down, i. 583.

Sneap, to nip or check, iii. 198, 741.

Sneck-up, go hang! ii. 247.

Snipe, a fool, a blockhead, iii. 660.

Snuff, take it in, to take it in dudgeon, i. 84, 377.
Snuffs, tiffs, iii. 84.

So, as, ii. 41, 197, 465, 470, 473, iii. 535, 538.
So like you he is the worse, a proverb, iii. 213.
Softly, slowly, iii. 377.

Solemn, grave, public, accustomed, i. 251.
Solidares, a coin, ii. 477.

Something-nothing, neither here nor there, iii. 678.

Sometimes, formerly, i. 396, 491.
Sonnet, Sonnets or Sonneteer, i. 709.
Sonties, corruption of sanctities, i. 401.
Soon at, about, i. 116.

Sooth, sweetness, softness, truth, i. 473.
Sorrow, sit thee down, i. 56.
Sorry, dismal, sorrowful, i. 143.
Sort, lot, iii. 275.

Sort, to suit, to fit, iii. 266, 747.

Sort, gang, crew, company, i. 480, ii. 355.

Sort, rank, degree, quality, i. 696.

Sot, a fool, i. 125, ii. 761.

Sowle, to lug, to drag, iii. 171.

Speak by the card, to speak precisely, or according to the book

of manners, iii. 388.

Speak to, to aspire or lay claim to, iii. 651.

Speculation, view, espial, iii. 293.

Speculative instruments, organs of vision.
Sped, done, settled, i. 186.
Speed, fortune, iii. 219.
Sperr, to shut up, iii. 263.

Spill, to spoil, to come to harm, iii. 710.

Spirits in magic or witchcraft, iii. 47.

Spleen, flash, i. 297, 343, 380.

Spot, stain, iii. 774.

Sprag, quick, ready, sprightly, i. 673.

Spring, shoot, sprig, iii. 728, 738, 747.

Sprited, haunted, ii. 726.

Squandered, dispersed, i. 398.

Square, equitable, ii. 503.

Square, a quarrel, to quarrel, i. 349, iii. 540, 563.
Square, a stomacher, iii. 232.

Squash, an immature peascod, i. 861, iii. 202.

Squire, a rule, i. 92, 522, iii. 234.

Staggers, a kind of apoplexy in horses, i. 250.

Staggers, perplexities, incertitudes, ii. 23, 762.

Stain, tinct, mark, eclipse, ii. 8, iii. 556.

Stale, insipid, out of date, i. 121.

Stalking-horse of fowlers, i. 742.

Stand on, stands me upon, it is incumbent on me, i. 178,
467, iii. 392, 540.

Stands, or Standings, in the sport of deer-shooting, i. 600.
Stannyel, a kind of hawk, ii. 253.

Star Chamber, court of, i. 686.

Stark, rigid, stiff, ii. 748.

Starve, to perish, ii. 716.

State, a chair or throne, i. 533, iii. 495.

Statuas, statues, ii. 548, iii. 430, 441.

Statue, picture, image, i. 35.

Statute, security, or obligation, iii. 780.

Statute-caps, caps worn by citizens, i. 104.

Stay, a check or obstacle, i. 297.

Steel, to harden like steel, iii. 725.

Stelled, fixed, iii. 753.

Stern, rigid, unyielding, ii. 39.

Sternage, steerage, course, ii. 81.

Sticking-place, abiding place, iii. 481.

Stickler, an arbitrator in combats, iii. 318.

Stigmatical, branded with deformity, i. 135, ii. 389, 417.

Still, always, ever, i. 395, 545, 698, ii. 42, 91, 98, iii. 435.

Still an end, constantly, perpetually, i. 33.

Still music, soft, subdued music, i. 370, ii. 92, 168.
Stinted, stopped, i. 166.

Stith, an anvil, iii. 362.

Stithy, the smith's work-shop, iii. 362.

Stoccado, or stoccata, a term of fencing, i. 186, 659.
Stomach, haughtiness, ii. 683.

Stone-bow, a cross-bow for propelling stones, ii. 279.

Stone of destiny at Scone, iii. 518.

Tribulation of Tower-hill, ii. 695.

Tribunal plebs, tribunis plebis, iii. 620.
Trick, peculiarity, i. 286, ii. 7.
Tricked, blazoned, iii. 355.
Trifle, a phantom, iii. 43.
Trigon, i. 593.

Triplex, triple time in music, ii. 272.

Triumphs and Masques, i. 44.
Trol-my-dames, a game, iii. 254.
Tropically, figuratively, iii. 364.
Troth-plight, betrothed, ii. 73, iii. 251.
Troth-plight, or betrothing, ii. 281.
Trow, to believe, iii. 68.

True, honest, i. 523, ii. 495, iii. 729.
True-men, honest men, i. 523.

Trundle tail, a species of dog, iii. 92.
Tucket, a flourish on a trumpet, i. 434.

Tun-dish, a funnel, ii. 616.

Turk, to turn, proverbially, to apostatize, i. 721, iii. 366.
Turk Gregory, Pope Gregory the Seventh, i. 558.

Turlygood, a name assumed by Bedlam beggars, the derivation
uncertain, iii. 119.

Turn him going, ii. 146, iii. 443.

Turn his girdle, i. 732.

Turquoise, its imaginary properties, i. 439.

Twiggen-bottle, wicker bottle, iii. 669.

Twire, to twinkle or twitter, iii. 764.

Type of sovereignty, the crown, ii. 409.

Tyring, attiring, i. 122.

UMBERED, shadowed, ii. 92.

Unaneled, without receiving extreme unction, iii. 344.

Unavoided, unavoidable, ii. 318, 562.

Unbated, unblunted, iii. 385, 395.

Up and down, exactly, i. 13, 705, iii. 634.
Upon, by, i. 353, 726.

Upon the hip, at advantage, i. 437.

Upspring-reel, a boisterous dance, iii. 398.
Uptrimmed, adorned, i. 302.

Urchins, hedgehogs, iii. 13, 610, 733.
Usances, usury, i. 399.

Use, interest, i. 706, ii. 592, 679, iii. 761.
Use, in, in trust, i. 441.

Use, in, possession, iii. 535.

Utis, old, rare fun, i. 589.

Utterance, to extremity, ii. 731, iii. 491.
Uttered, expelled, or put away, i. 737.

Uttered, put forth, i. 59.

VAIL, to lower, to sink, iii. 156, 725.

Vail your stomachs, abase your pride, i. 273, 574.
Valiant, martial, iii. 354.

Vantage, opportunity, ii. 714.

Vantbrace, armour for the arm, iii. 275.
Vapians passing the equinoctial, ii. 278.
Varlet, a servant, a footman, iii. 264.

Varlet, a male harlot, iii. 308.

Vast, boundless expanse, ii. 202, iii. 198, 337

Vaunt, the foregoing, the van, iii. 263.

Velure, velvet, i. 250.

Venew, or Veney, a touch or hit in fencing, i. 103, 644.

Ventages, holes of a flageolet or flute, iii. 367.

Very, mere, true, i. 25, ii. 63.

Vice, to screw, iii. 205.

Vice, a character or buffoon of the Moralities, i. 534, 628,

ii. 269, 540, iii. 372.

Vie, to challenge, a card-table term, iii. 581.

Viliaco, rascal, scoundrel, ii. 383.

Villain, bond-man, slave, 1. 116, iii. 752.

Vinewed, decayed, mouldy, iii. 277.

Viol-de-gamboys, a base viol, ii. 277.

Virginal jacks, the keys of a virginal, iii. 779.

Virginalling, tapping or fingering, as in playing the virginal,

iii. 252.

Virginals, a stringed instrument played with keys, iii. 252.

Virtue, valour, essential goodness, iii. 112, 338.

Virtuous, accomplished, ii. 136.

Virtuous, healthy, beneficial, i. 366, 614.

Visages, masks, iii. 648.

Vizament, advisement, i. 640.

Voluble, fickle, inconstant, iii. 665.

Vulgar, familiar, common, i. 296, ii. 257, iii. 334.

Vulgarly, publicly, ii. 631.

WAFTS, waves, signs, ii. 462, iii. 342.

Waged, rewarded, iii. 184.

Wake, a watch festival, iii. 398.

Walk, a district in a forest, i. 681.

Walks, bounds, iii. 416.

Wannion, vengeance, ii. 191.

Want, to be without, to miss, i. 351, iii. 742.

Wappened, withered, wizened, ii. 489.

Ward, guard, i. 658, iii. 16.

Wardens, a species of pear, iii. 227.

Warder, a rod or wand, i. 496.

Wards, court of, i. 150.

Wards, of the sovereign, ii. 54.

Ware, bed of, ii. 257, 689.

Warn, to summon, iii. 452.

Wassail, a drinking bout, iii. 398.

Wassel candle, a candle used at festivals, i. 577.

Wat, an old name for a hare, iii. 729.

Watch, a watch-light, ii. 569.

Watch, to tame by deprivation of sleep, i. 683, ii. 728, 736,

iii. 289, 449, 675.

Watchman, ancient, 1. 743.

Water-galls, secondary rainbows, iii. 754.

Water-rugs, a species of dog, iii. 492.

Waters, for all, plays any character, ii. 268.

Waterwork, distemper, i. 584, 626.

Wax, to grow, i. 84.

Wax, waxen tablets, ii. 462.

Wax images, use of in witchcraft, i. 43, iii. 517.
Waxen, or Yexen, to hiccough, i. 350.