6. credit: belief

6. colourable: feigned

8. counterpoynt: counterstroke; trick

1. thilke: E.K.

5. bloncket liueryes: E.K.

6. ycladd: E.K.

9. Yougthes . . . where: E.K.

10. buskets: E.K.

12. Kirke: E.K.

13. Eglantine: wild rose

15. queme: E.K.

17. Younkers: young men, fashionable youths

18. tway: two

19. lenger: longer

20. outgoe: go forth

22. yode: E.K.

22. Tabrere: tabor player, drummer

25. iouysaunce: E.K.

28. musicall: musical performance

30. attone: at one with

34. Maybush: a hawthorn branch

36. swinck: E.K.

38. fondnesse: folly

38. inly: E.K.

41. sparely: frugally

42. lustihede: vigor; lustfulness

49. fallen: befalls

50. peece: portion

51. muse: wonder

55. of spight: from spite

56. somedele: somewhat

57. I (as I am): E.K.

58. fonly: foolishly

61. nas: E.K.

68. other moe: many more

69. Tho with them: E.K.

69. wends: departs

78. Enaunter: E.K.

80. wont countenaunce: customary appearance

82. souenance: E.K.

82. foresay: renounce

84. spard: spared or saved; put aside

88. trust: estate, property entrusted by bequest

90. misgouernaunce: mismanagement

91. miscreaunce: E.K.

92. cheuisaunce: enterprise

106. fee in sufferaunce: payment

109. ywis: indeed, certainly

110. forgoe: do without; renounce

112. serued: sufficed

117. tract: duration

121. Some gan: E.K.

121. gape for: desire eagerly

121. gouernaunce: temporal power; mode of living

125. ligge: lie, recline

126. somewhile: at some time

130. sourse: E.K.

133. outragious: excessive

137. Wanting: lacking

145. warke: E.K.

147. encheason: E.K.

157. beare of: ward or shake off; withstand

158. nought seemeth: E.K.

159. witen: E.K.

160. her: E.K.

163. conteck: E.K.

164. I list . . . make: ‘I desire to make no agreement’

168. han: E.K.

175. too very: extremely

177. Gate: E.K.

177. her: his

177. dame: mother

178. Yode: E.K.

180. But for: but because

181. wit to beware: 'good sense to be careful'

182. Shee set: E.K.

184. fauour: grace; attractiveness

185. Uellet: velvet

187. The bloosmes of lust: E.K.

188. ranckly: luxuriantly, vigorously; rank (with lust)

189. and with: E.K.

191. Orphane: E.K.

196. the braunche: E.K.

200. traines: snares

204. lusty head: lustiness, vigor

205. For euen so: E.K.

206. hauty: lofty, stately

206. weld: wield

208. A thrilling throbbe: E.K.

210. made . . . breache: 'broke upon her anew'

212. lineaments: distinctive features

213. solein: sad; lonely

219. maister of collusion: E.K.

220. confusion: destruction

227. schooled: instructed

232. For such: E.K.

232. dispraised: spoken ill of

234. sperred . . . fast: fastened quickly or securely

239. trusse: bundle

240. babes: E.K.; doll

240. glasses: mirrors

243. clout: cloth, rag

244. great cold: E.K.

249. constraint: distress

250. lengd: longed

251. clinck: E.K.

257. stounds: E.K.

259. heauinesse: sadness

262. ycond: learned

262. lere: E.K.

263. medled: E.K.

264. lack: short

265. But: unless

266. donne: dun, dark

267. brent: burned

277. nought . . . deare: ‘nothing he considered too expensive’.

279. starke: extremely

281. descried . . . trayne: ‘identified by what trailed behind him’

282. glee: E.K.

284. After his chere: according to his cheerful mood; following his kind reception

284. can: did

285. lesings: lies

286. knack: trick; knick-knack, trinket

288. saue: except

294. doubtfull: apprehensive

304. such end: E.K.

304. perdie . . . remayne: ‘surely awaits them all’.

305. fayne: E.K.

306. beside thy wit: mistaken

312. But and: however

315. dismount: E.K.

316. nye: E.K.

5. redoundeth: is superfluous

58. bewraieth: reveals

59. smacke: trace, tinge

69. Men of the Lay: laymen

94. denomination: name

96. imagination: fiction

110. Catastrophe: denouement, conclusion of a tragedy.

115. credit: credence, belief

148. trumperies: deceits

164. toyes: trifles

171. grosenesse: stupidity