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APPENDIX.

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GLOSSARY.

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A.

Accited, 43, summoned.

Adonis flower, 333, Adonis autumnalis.

Anademe, 46, 82, head-band, fillet.

And, 206, also. "Doth make and a gingling sally." "There should have been and a dozen."

B.

Bases, 78, skirts, like kilts, hanging from waist to knee.

Baven, 222, brushwood for lighting a quick fire.

Bene bowse, 255, (cant for) good drink.

Bird-bolts, 203, arrows with flat ends, to kill birds by the blow, with

out piercing them.

Boln, 380, swollen.

Bombards, 189, large drinking cans.

Bouge, 189, allowance of meat or drink to attendants at the Court. Braggat, 259, an old West-of-England drink of sweet wort, spiced and sugared.

Brawl, 221, French branle, a French dance, changing from slow to quick time, in which hands were joined, and there was what Massinger called

"An apish imitation

Of what you really perform in battle."

C.

Cant, 390, outer angle of a building.

Chandrie, 169, place where candles were kept.

Cheveron, 37, rafter, stripe; cheveroned, 78, striped.

Climate, 41, zone or region.

Cly the jark, 255, (cant for) be whipped.
Core, 101, chosen.

Corn-flag, 333, Gladiolus.

Cortine, 79, curtain.

Crown-imperial, 333, Fritillaria Imperialis.

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D.

Daphne's hair, 333, Daffany, Daphne Mezereum.
Degrees, 243, steps.

Doppers, 247, Anabaptists, or Dippers.

Errors, 42, wanderings.

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F.

Flower-gentle, 333, Amaranthus of any cultivated kind, hypochon driacus, caudatus, or tricolor.

G.

Goldy-locks, 333, Ranunculus auricomus. The name is also given to Polytrichium commune, and to Trollius Europæus.

Goulands, 333, or gowlans. Buttercups of the three common kinds (Ranunculus acris, bulbosus, and repens). Also Chrysanthemum segetum and Trollius Europæus.

Grices, 380, steps.

Gyre, 410, circle.

H.

Harman beckage, 255, (slang for) constabulary. Harman beck, a

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K.

Kibes, 189, chilblains.

King-cups, 333, buttercups of the three common species. Also Caltha palustris.

King's spear, 333, Asphodelus lutens.

L.

Lady smock, 333, Cardamine pratensis.

Lavolta, 370, a kind of waltz in which, from time to time, the gentleman helped the lady to spring high.

Libkins, 255, (cant for) lodgings.

M.

Make, 70, mate.

Marchpane, 202, a cake made of sugar and almond.

Mawkin, 222, or Malkin, a rag mop for cleaning flues, or other rough work.

Mazarded, 168, knocked on the head, had brains knocked out.
Mazer, 421, a large bowl.

Meadows' Queen, 333, Spiræa ulmaria, called Queen of the Meadows because "in what meadow soever it grows, it is more perspicuous than any of the rest."

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Pagles, 333, oxlips or cowslips, a name in some parts of England limited to oxlips, in others to the double cowslip.

Paul's, lies made in, 243. The middle aisle of old St. Paul's was used as a place of meeting for the hire of men, for business or

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