read,reade,red,v., II, 52 f.,6,34; III, 104,2,4; 105,25: advise. read my rede, II, 186,1: corrupted from riddle my riddle, 187,2,8. Seeriddle.readilie,readylye, II, 23,E7; 444,43: (without difficulty or hesitation) certainly.ready, V,75,6,7;81,10: direct. readye, II, 58,16: indubitable, certain.reaf,reif, III, 458 b: plunder.reak, smoke. Seereek.reaming, a suit o claise were o the apple reamin, IV, 176,15: reaming==creaming, foaming, which of course gives little or no meaning. Apples were sometimes used to scent clothes.rean,rin, run.reap, V,165f.,6,9:==ripe, search, rummage; see V,306,9.reapen,p. p.of reap, II, 9,26.rear, rare.reas, praise. Seeroos.reas,ryse, III, 307,5: rouse.reast,reest, V,256b,4: roost.reaths.Seeraiths.reave, IV, 26,1: rob.reave,rave,rive,pret.of rive, I, 442,6; IV, 416,18.reavel(l)d, II, 140,19,20: ravelled, disordered (of hair).reaver,rever,riever, IV, 85,2: robber.recher,compar., V,283,10,20: richer.reck,v., II, 340 b, 2d line: rock (perhaps miswritten).recones, IV, 496 b: reckonings.record, sma, III, 319,22: note.red,redd,rede,n., II, 182,4; III, 112,58: counsel. I, 22,B1; 227 a,5: talk, tale. Seeread.red,redd,rede,reid,v., I, 329,58; II, 59,20; 62 a,15; 182,4,6,9,10; 272,6; IV, 495,2; V,191,8: advise.red, III, 163,80: to rid, clear out. of hair, comb (seeredding-kaim). red the question, II, 253,18: clear up, settle.red lan(d), I, 16,C11; IV, 274,6; V,206a,5: cleared, ploughed.red river comb, II, 216,19,21: corrupted, as are other versions in this passage.redding-kaim,reeding-comb, III, 452,8; IV, 515,7: comb (for disentangling).rede.Seered.rede,p. p., III, 298,53: read, divined, discerned.rede,pret.of ride, III, 63, 134 (reden, they rode); IV, 182,F5. Seeread.redly, III, 67,223: quickly.reeding-comb.Seeredding-kaim.reef, I, 333,5: roof.reef-tree, I, 299,5: roof-tree, beam in the angle of a roof.reek,reak,reik,n., II, 191,24; 193,21; 195,33; III, 433,C6-8,D12; 434,15; 435,14; IV, 514,16,20: smoke.reek,v., I, 304,E3; II, 30,L2; V,152,E b1: rake, range, move, turn. Seerake.reekit, V,108,B7: smoked, smoky.reel, reel went round, V,155,C2: revel, riot (of merry-makers)?reem, II, 335,N7: room.reest,reast, IV, 189,3,4: roost.reet, I, 367,7; V,213,8: root.reeve, V,69b: bailiff, steward.pl.reues.refell, I, 110,22: repel.refer, message, II, 286,C10: report, announce.regulate, III, 509,1,7: corruption of, riddle it.reid,v., V,200a, after50: advise.reif,reiff, III, 365 b; 471, note ‡; V,198b, after52: robbery.reign, II, 8,1: for rhyme; range ? or rein, as 9, b1.reik, smoke. Seereek.reill, reel.reiver,rever,riever, III, 472,6; 473,22: robber. Seereaver.rejoyfull, IV, 173,7: rejoicing.remeid, II, 367,42; 371,13; IV, 405,49; 428,7: remedy.remorse, III, 209,10; 231,94: compassion.remoued, II, 58,4: agitated.renisht, renisht them to ride of twoe good renisht steeds, II, 52,8; 53,42(42emended from, on tow good renish, in conformity with8): should have some such meaning as accoutred, but a derivation is not to be made out. Qy. [ha]renisht, harnessed?renown, spake wi renown, IV, 348,11: force of authority (of prestige), or, with the air of a person of repute.repair, II, 163,18: resort to? fix upon? (probably nonsense for rhyme).require, II, 427,6: ask for. (Other texts, inquire.)reset, IV, 281 a: harboring.respect, in respect, III, 364 b: considering.rest,pret.of rest, IV, 424,12.restore, IV, 425,8: restore, because the morning-gift would revert to the father and be at his disposition, no son having been born.retour, IV, 91, note †: return.returned, III, 356,33: turned away.reuelle, I, 328,51,52: festivity.rever, III, 458 b; IV, 472,11: robber. Seereaver.reues, III, 68,254: bailiffs. Seereeve.rewe, be rewe, II, 479,15: in a row, one after another, each of the whole class. Seerawe.rewth, III, 28,136: pity.ribless kiln, I, 18,F11: the ribs of a kiln for drying grain are the cross-beams, on which were laid the “stickles,†or short pieces of wood, to support a layer of straw (or hair-cloth, or bricks) on which the grain was placed. It would of course be impossible to dry grain on a ribless kiln.rid,ried, red.riddle, II, 184,5,8,11,18; 186,1; 187,2,8; 196, e1,7: resolve. riddle my riddle, 187,2,8: resolve my dilemma. read my rede, 186,1, is probably corrupted from riddle my riddle; cf. 187,2,8.ried, ride.rien, V,161,9;162,B6: riven.riever,reiver,rever, IV, 84,8; 195,C3: robber. Seereaver.rig,rigg,riggin, ridge.rig,rigg, of land, I, 19,9; II, 152,11; V,164,16; rig-length, III, 273,23: a measure of land 600 feet by 15, containing 9000 square feet. Donaldson.riggin, III, 459,5: ridge.right, III, 356,19: right off, directly.rigland, land under the plough, and so in rigs, ridges. rigland shire, II, 132,32: a shire of such land (?).rin,rine,rean, V,221,15: run.ring,plural, II, 285,16f.: misprint in Scott?ring(dancing), II, 104,23; so, take me to the middel o the ring, V,273,12.ring, knocked at the, with the, ring, II, 187,12; 201,2; 459,10; III, 106,4; 250,11. rappit wi a, II, 462,10. rapped on the, V,293b,10. pulled at a, II, 490,D b9. tinkled at the, II, 196 b,4; 251,4; 266,7; 267,9; 393,11; 475,K6: the hammer of a doorknocker. But, perhaps, in the case of tinkling, the ring may have been gently drawn up and down or struck against the projecting bow or rod of a door-handle (often wound with a spiral), an operation which, when vigorously performed, is described as risping or rasping.ring(game), to ride at the ring, III, 448,A3: to attempt, while at full gallop, to carry off, on the point of a rod, a ring suspended on a cross-beam resting on two upright posts. Jamieson.ring and the ba, IV, 257,4; 354,A b1,2: a game in which a ring was thrown up, and a ball was to be thrown through before the ring fell. Dr. W. Gregor. The rantin lassie plays at this, IV, 354.ringle-tree, V,112,B b11: probably the huge block of wood used for scutching flax and mangling clothes. An old game-keeper tells me that he has heard the word and so understands it. When not in use for beating flax, the beetle and tree-block were used by the women to mangle their clothes after washing. W. Walker.ripe,reap,rype, III, 160,16; 163,83,84; V,306,9: search, rummage, clear or clean out, rifle.rise, III, 332,2: branch.rise==raise: III, 513 b,4.pret.rose, 514 a,5. Seeryse.rise,pret.of rise, III, 369,17.rise, did on anchor rise so high, III, 344,34: said of a ship in full sail; no apparent sense. (ride inB c,g, 347,34; upon an anchor rose so high in h, 349,34.)rispen, fine rispen kame, II, 225,J2: keen, sharp, risping, rasping? or,p. p., filed? (This passage is variously corrupted in different versions.)ritted, II, 295,B b4,22: stuck, stabbed.rive,rave,reave,pret.of rive, tear, V,256,13.p. p.II, 465,4,6,8.rive up, I, 303,7: plough up, tear up.riued, I, 284,9: arrived, travelled.river, III, 364 b: robber. Seereaver.river-comb, red, II, 216,A19: is river a corruption ofivory? InB2,4, it is a tabean brirben kame.H1, brown berry comb.J2, fine rispen kame: fine-filed (?). All seem to be badly corrupted.rook,roke, IV, 84,14; 85,4; 86,6; 87,4; V,254a,4: distaff.rocked,rocket,roked, II, 191,24; 195,33: smoked.rod, III, 8,21: a bier was extemporized by taking rods from bushes for spakes, spokes, or bars.roddins, II, 408,19,20; 409 f.,21,23: berries of mountain ash. (But the berries are said to grow on yonder thorn, 409,21.)rode, rood.roelle-bone, I, 326;6. royal bone, I, 466 f.,10,33; royal ben, I, 478 f.,12,46: interpreted variously,without satisfaction. Seerewel-boon, Professor Skeat’s note to Chaucer’s Sir Thopas, v. 2068. Hertzberg suggests Reval bone, mammoth tooth, fossil ivory, imported into western Europe via Reval, Chaucer Nachlese, in Jahrbuch für Rom. und Engl. Litteratur, VIII, 164 f.; and Prof. Skeat (with a different derivation), ivory of the walrus, citing Godefroy, “rochal, ivoire de morse.â€roke, III, 298,51: reek, vapor.roke, V,254a,4: rock, distaff. Seerock.roked,rocket,rocked, II, 191,24; 193,21; 195,33; V,224,19: smoked.rom, V,304b,2: room.rood, III, 93,28: rod (a measure).rood, four and thirty stripes comen beside the rood, II, 59,29: referring to the scourging of Jesus (?).room ye roun, II, 89,29: move round so as to make room.roome, III, 36,44: companye (the reading inb).roos,rous,reas,v., IV, 69,21; 378,2; 379,2; 384,2; V,275,2: to praise, laud, boast.roose,n., IV, 503,19: rose.roosing,rosin,rousing,n., IV, 378,1; 379,1; 383,1; V,275,1: praising, boasting, bragging.root, I, 304,F5: the end of a rafter, resting on a wall. ring of an auld tree-root, I, 304,F4: hoops are sometimes made of tree-roots, which are very tough; the point here is the size of the fingers which such a ring would fit.root of his sword, III, 268,11: a blunder; see note, III, 275.rose-garlonde, III, 75,398: a “garland†appears to have been attached to the yerdes (397), and every shot outside of the garland was accounted a failure. The garland as the limit of allowable shots is mentioned at 93,31. This must have been an extemporized ring of twigs in the latter case, and was so, perhaps, in the other, for it is likely that the term would become conventional, and mean, as Mr C. J. Longman suggests, nothing more than a disk with circular rings, such as survive to this day in archery targets.rosin, V,275,11: boasting. Seeroosing.rosses, roses.rottens,rottons, I, 466,8; V,124,6: rats.roudes, II, 284,4: haggard (subst., an old wrinkled woman).roun,rown,round, III, 199,28; 356,19: whisper.rounin(g),n., V,256,10: whispering.round, so it went round, IV, 146,7: so much it came to (?).round tables, II, 343,1: a game.roundlie, I, 104,6: at a good pace.rous,roos,reas, IV, 379,2; V,275,2: boast of.rousing,n., boasting. Seeroosing.rout,n., III, 160,22: blow.rout,n., IV, 113,3; 114,D1: row, brawl, disturbance.rout,v., II, 318 a; IV, 378,5; 380,11: roar. IV, 6,15; V,250,14: bellow.route,rowte,rowght, III, 23,22; 26,88; 180,9; 207,33: company, band, crowd. In III, 297,33: perhaps mêlée, affray.routh, I, 298,1: plenty.row, rough.row,rowe, I, 71,61; 80,33; 441,6,8; II, 443,35; 448,39; IV, 267,9; 269 b,9: roll.pret.andp. p.rowed, rowd, rowit, rowt, I, 441,7,9; IV, 274,15; V,106,D7: rolled, wound.rowan,rowon,rown, tree, II, 504,18: mountain-ash.rowe, on a, III, 67,229; 117,24: in a line, file.row-footed, III, 473,25: rough-footed.rowght, III, 297,33: company. ryall in rowghte, kingly among men. Seeroute.rowght, wrought.rown, I, 312,17,22: rowan, mountain-ash. Seerowan.rown,roun,round, III, 356,19: whisper.rowt,pret., V,106,D7: rolled. Seerow.rowte.Seeroute.rowynde, III, 297,33: round.royal bone,royal ben. Seeroelle-bone.royaltye, III, 411,5: splendid display, or the like.rub-chadler,rub-chandler, I, 285 f.,31,43: rubbish-barrel. See I, 279.rudd,n., I, 272,13,20,24: (redness) complexion, face.rudd,v., IV, 28,34: redden.rudely, III, 162,49: sturdily.rue, III, 220,6: cause to rue.rugge, I, 243,2: back.rule, III, 98,32: going on, taking on, noisy bewailing.run, IV, 289,F6: issue, outcome (said to be slang).run, red runs i the rain, II, 304,4: gives no sense, and so of Scott’s reading at this place, the red sun’s on the rain. It will be observed that the day has not dawned.run a reel, II, 108,17: gone through, danced.rung, I, 202,A12; III, 161,43; IV, 444,20: staff, pike-staff.rung(of the noise of a cannon),n., IV, 52,14: ring; appears to have been altered, for rhyme, from ring, which is in two other copies.rusty, V,151,E6: surly.rybybe, I, 328,49: a stringed instrument.ryght, straight, directly, ryÈth, V,283,14: aright.rynde, be rynde and rent, III, 297,42: flayed., (rynde should perhaps beriven.)rype,v.Seeripe.ryse, III, 22,2; 23,20: rouse. Seerise.rysse, I, 328,39: probably rising ground, elevation (compare mountayne, playne, delle, hill, in38,40-42: not twig, brushwood).rysyt, I, 242,11: riseth (oldimperat. pl.), rise.Ss,se, as sign of the future tense. I’se, III, 488,19; IV, 428,18. thou’s,’se, IV, 3,31; 12,C6. he’s, hee’se, II, 442,16; IV, 146,6. we’s, I, 467,29; IV, 181,D14. ye’se, IV, 22,18; 109,7. yow’s, IV, 504,36. they’s, IV, 486,32. itt’s, II, 443,22. heart’s, IV,181,17. Jocky Ha’s, III, 487,6. thy dinner’s, III, 489,41. (Thesbeing the initial letter of sal, it would be better to write I s’, etc.)sattached to the verb, be’s, III, 160,9. We even find shals, I, 481,28.-s (-is), of the genitive, omitted, III, 97 f.,8,23,28; 111,39. moder son, III, 98,24,27, as in A. S.’s, II, 375,19: of his.-s (-se), termination of the2d pers. sing, of the pres. indic.thou was, I, 222,E11; seese þou, I, 328,38-42; þou commes,44. thou’s welcome, III, 488,24. shals thou, I, 481,28. istow, 175 f.,D4,10,16. See I, 130,5; 327,20; 328 f.,56,58; 341,13; 411,4; 413,3; II, 54,57; 148 f.,12,20; 218,8,10,16; III, 97,11,15; 99,62; 110,23. Etc., etc.-s,-es,-ys, termination ofpres. indic. plur. cods that sleeps, cheeks gars, bairns has, lies men, raches rynnys, fowles synges, I, 68,29; 115,C3; 130,F11; 327,16; 329,59; 342,40; 345,39; II, 32,P4. So, is, was, I, 68,27; 69,43; 255,3-5; 342,30; 344,28; II, 71,13,14. Etc.saa,pret., saw.sabelline, I, 221,D8,9: sable.sackless,sakeless,saikless, II, 145,22,23; 153,19,21; III, 437,27; IV, 373,9: innocent.sad, III, 67,215; 357,40: steadfast, firm, stanch.saep,v., III, 269,D3: soap.saerd,p. p., IV, 494,33: served.safe, II, 160,4,6,7: save.safeguard, V,66,11: riding-skirt.safer, V,283,21: saffron.safly, IV, 18,10: softly.saft(of sleep), III, 489,11: lightly.saikless.Seesackless.sain, I, 351,36,48: cross, bless.p. p.sained, I, 354,26. ill sained,pret., I, 350,25. well saint,p. p., III, 488,37.saint, III, 488,37: blest. Seesain.saint,v., disappear. Seesainted.St Mary knot(t), III, 465,26,27: a triple knot (see 462, note *).sainted,saunted, I, 331,C8; 333 b,8: disappeared.saipy-sapples, I, 303,D5(the right reading): soap-suds in which clothes have been washed (probably meaning thestrangof V,213,5).sair, sore. I, 100,9: lamentable.sair,sare,saer,sere, I, 301,2; II, 71,15; 105,9; 408,1,2; IV, 248,10; V,105,B3,11;239,34: serve.sairly, IV, 358,19: rhyme word;muchis all the meaning.sait, set.sakeless.Seesackless.sale, V,228,19: sold.sall, shall,pret.sould.sally rod, III, 252,12: sallow, willow.salten,adj., IV, 452,6; 475,6: salt.salued, III, 61,102: greeted.Saluter, III, 250,3: corrupted from Sir Hugh (see other versions of the ballad).same, alle in same, III 91 a: all, together. vppon the same, III, 361, b33: again, after the same fashion (?).san,sane,sayn,syne, V,214f.,4,9;221,24;242a,7;257,14: since.sanchoþis, of his bryk, III, 13,3: apparently the fork of the breeches, but the etymology is to me inexplicable.sang,pret.of sing, to singe, II, 155,37,38.sanna, shall not.sarbit, II, 132,33,34: exclamation of sorrow.sare, serve. Seesair. sare a man a wear, I, 301,2: serve, supply, a man (of) with his wear, clothing.sark, I, 15,8,17; 16,B8,18,C6,18, etc.; 387 f.,A5,8,9;B5,6,7: shirt, shift.sarsenent, IV, 312,8: sarcenet.sassaray, II, 209,E5: imitation of the sound of church-bells. Seecéserará.sat,saut, I, 310,4: salt.sate, sit a gude sate, a silly sate, IV, 469,8: occupy, be in, a good, pitiable, position.sathe, I, 333, appendix1, wrongly written (or read) for sagh (or something equivalent), saw. (th in this piece very frequent for gh.)saugh, III, 459,15; IV, 95,2: willow.saun faile, V,297b: assuredly.saunted,sainted, I, 331,C8; 335 b,8: disappeared.saut,sat, IV, 258,26: salt.saute, III, 327 b: assault, attack.sauyour, see (saw) my sauyour, III, 97,7: attended mass, or, took the sacrament.saving tree, III, 398,D4: corruption of savin tree.saw,v., I, 427,13,15; 428,11: sow.sawe,p. p.of see, III, 59,60.sawe, speech.sawten,v.,3 pl., III, 100,63: assault, attack.sawtrye, I, 328,49: psaltery, a stringed instrument.say, II, 87,30: try.say,saye,pret.of see, III, 111,34; 309,44; V,79,35;80,47.sayn,san,sane,syne, V,239,34;254,9,11,13,22;257,15: since, then.sayne, I, 70,19,strong participle ofsay. In, I yow sayne, III, 297,46, an auxiliary,doorcan, must be omitted, or else we must readsaye, as in32,34,62,65.scad, I, 102,12: reflection (of the color of). In other texts, shade, shadow, I, 490,21; 491,20; 492,12.scaith,skaith,scath,n., III, 162,52,66: hurt.scaith,skaith,v., III,5,D8; 6,17: hurt.scale, I, 429,11: a drinking-vessel. (Icelandic skál, Danish skaal, a bowl for drinking.)scale, III, 403 a: scatter, disperse. III, 393,6: expel, drive away. scaling wide, III, 301,D2: scattering, covering a good deal of ground.scales, V,211,25,31-34: discs worn as ornaments on the head.scanct, I, 336 a, last line but one: shone, gleamed.scarson, II, 434,29: scarcely up to.scart, I, 301,5,6; 303,D2: scratch, scrape.scath,scaith,n., I, 284,18: harm.scathe, awayte me scathe, III, 66,202;wayteme skathe, wait me scath, III, 83,202; 86,202: lie in wait, seek an opportunity to do me harm.scathe away, I, 348 f.,5,8: expel, get rid of? Seeskaith, I, 397,14.scaur, Braidscaur, III, 5,D2,6: a bare and broken place on a steep hill; also, cliff, precipice. Broadspear, 6,2,5, is probably a corruption.Scere-thorsday, I, 243,1: Maundy Thursday, Thursday before Easter. (Icelandic SkÃri-þorsdagr.)schane,pret., shone.scharpper,compar., V,283,6,16: sharper. V,283,8: emend tostrenger.schele,scheel, II, 164,2; 335,N5; IV, 328,A b, after7: school. Seeschule.schet,schette,pret.of schote, shoot, III, 13 f.,13,15.schill. Seeshill.scho, II, 146,19; IV, 418,2: she.schon,shon,shone, V,79,27: shoes. Seesheen.schootehis horsse away, froo, III, 297,32,33: discarded, sent off.schrewde(arrow), III, 13,6: accursed, pernicious, baneful.schule,scheel,squeel, II, 175,16; IV, 327 f.,2,5; 329,D d7: school.schunte besides,beside, III, 361,b, c38,41: turn aside from.schylde,imperat., V,283,14: shield, protect.sckill, I, 295,28: reason, judgment. Seeskill.sclasps, twa lang sclasps between his eyes, IV, 489,25: clasps. Span would answer were it not that there are but three sclasps between the shoulders. (InL18, of the same ballad, II, 394, there are three women’s spang (span) between his brows.) If sclasps were taken in the sense of fathom, the space between the arms extended, this would suit the shoulders well enough, but the absurd disproportion in relation to the eyes would remain. Probably yard or ell has dropped out in254. (yards three inL18.)sclavin, I, 190 a: pilgrim’s cloak.scob(b),scope,scoup, II, 313,26; 316,10: gag.scop, III, 138,9: (scalp) pate, head.scope,scoup,scob, II, 312,29; V,229,33: gag.score.Seecor.scorn,skorne, II, 105,20; III, 113,77: shame, humiliation, mortification. give the, this, a, scorn, III, 111,12; 360,23; 362,35; 363,D14; 367,49; IV, 201,23; 224,24,25; 254,25; 357,B6,10; 358,16; 465,35,36: put to shame, subject to humiliation (especially, by showing a preference as to marriage, or by slighting a woman). So, playd you the scorn, IV, 483,25; get the scorn, II, 367,47; IV, 221,16; 222,18,19; 227,16,17; 228,19; 230,24.scort, I, 334,4: short.scoup,n., V,229,33: gag. Seescob,scope.scoup,v., II, 70,15: move hastily from one place to another, fly.scouth, III, 161,42: room, range.scray, III, 116,4, as to form suggestsscrag, scrog; but the meaning required is, branches,branchage, or even spray.scread, II, 425,A6: shred, bit, piece.screeded(orscrieded),pret., II, 212,13: rent.screeking,screehing, II, 485,17: screeching.screfë,screffë,shryvë, III, 111 ff.,27,33,38-42, etc.: sheriff.screighed, IV, 174,20: shrieked.scrieded.Seescreeded.scrime, IV, 10,2; serime, 15,d2: seem to be corrupt; possibly, crime; pursuing the crime for pursuing the criminal.scrodeley, V,79,14: shrewdly, rudely, ungraciously.scroggs,scrogs, III, 3,12; 5,C3; 7,E, F11; 9,G10,H13; 10,I5; IV, 496,8: stunted bushes, or perhaps trees; underwood. “Scroggs, blackthorn.†Halliwell, from a MS. scrogg-bush, V,10,4(high enough here to hang the pair on).scroggy,scroggie, IV, 174,10; 273,14: covered with stunted bushes; “abounding in underwood,†Halliwell.scug, to scug his deadly sin, II, 283,22: shade, screen. (Icel. skyggja, overshadow; Dan. skygge, Swed. skugga, shade.) expiate, W. Scott.scuttle-dishes, II, 467,43: the larger dishes, in which things are served, in distinction from those out of which things are eaten (T. Davidson); platters.se, sign of the future tense. Sees.se,pret.of see. Seesee.sea-ground, I, 448,11: bottom of the sea.sea-maw, II, 363,7; 365,5; IV, 482 b,6: gull.seal, IV, 409,5: (A. S. sǽl) happiness, blessing. gude seal that it sae spread, II, 420,1: (happiness result from its spreading?) quod faustum sit!seale, III, 412,24: sail.sear,sair, IV, 456 f.,15,19: sore.sear, V,223,8: sure.sear, serve. Seesair.search her, IV, 446,2: look her up, see about her, overhaul (should, perhaps, beseek, visit).seat, V,274b,1: sight.seck, I, 15,15: sack.Second person of pret. indic.without termination, thou made, thou did, thou came, etc., I, 221,C9; 222,E10-17; 434,27; II, 148 f.,12,14,20; 218,16. So, thou will, schall, thou’ll, well thow, I, 130,4; 221,C10,11; III, 110,24; 112,48.securly, III, 98,34: surely.see(videre),pret.say, saye, sey, se, see, seed.pret.se, see, I, 283,1; 295,27; II, 46,40; 245,27; III, 24,47; 27,99; 97,19.p. p.se, III, 27,102.see, save and se(e), II, 44,6,15; 52 f.,10,18,44; III, 65,177; IV, 198,G4; 455,4: protect (tueri).see, well mot ye fare and see, III, 266,3: as here used,see wellwould have to mean, see prosperity; but apparently there is a confusion ofwell may you fareandGod see you, protect you (as in, save and see). InB3, p. 268,weel may ye savemight mean, may God save you, butfar better, in the next line, isnot in concatenation, and we shall be obliged to understandweelas good fortune. The passage must be corrupted. well may you sit and see, lady, well may you sit and say, II, 290,15: (corrupted) nonsense.see, sigh and see, IV, 193,14: apparently a doublet of sigh, asneofneighandnigh,heofhigh.see,n., V,283,5,15: sea.seed,pret.of see, IV, 151,6.seek,seke, I, 75,46; II, 146,18,20; 171,16; III, 68,255; V,256b,14: search. I, 202,16; 204,11; V,211,19,23: ask. socht, II, 30,8: asked for.partic. seek and, seeking.seek in, V,180,13,15: ask admission.seeke to,unto, III, 444,5: resort to.seel o downs, IV, 218,12: chelidonium, celandine, mallow-wort.seely, happy. seely court, I, 315,12; 507 f.,2,12: fairy court (as I, 346,16; elfin court, 351,30).seen, I, 504,7: sun.seen, I, 183,9,15; II, 166,20; 257,30; IV, 135,25: soon. seener, IV, 262,31.seen==syne, afterwards.seene, I seene, V,53,105:ellipsis ofhave.seep, II, 148,10: ooze, leak.seeth, III, 281,7: sooth.seke, III, 68,255; 100,76: search. Seeseek.seke, to, III, 110,14: at a loss.seker, III, 67,215: firm, resolute.sekirlye, I, 327,18: certainly, truly.seld, IV, 2,2: sold.selerer, III, 61,91,93; 67,233: the monk who has charge of the provisioning of a convent.selke, V,283,21: silk.selkie,silkie, II, 494 a: seal.selle, I, 326,6: saddle.semblant,semblaunce,semblaunte,semblaunt, III, 57,22; 79,22; 82,22; 85,22: mein, look.sembled, III, 160,15: met. (b, asembled.)sen, sent.sen, II, 32,Q2; 110,2; 272,10,12: since.send,sene, II, 360,10; 365 f., (10),17,18: a thing sent. II, 109,15: the messengers sent to fetch the bride.send,pret., I, 204,D3: sent.sendered, IV, 229,12,16: sundered, parted.senes, IV, 315,2; 316,25: sends, messages. Seesend.sent, III, 75,384: sendeth.sent, sent I me, III, 76,414: assent.sentence past, IV, 514,6: order given.sere, serve. Seesair.serre, II, 59,29: sair, sore? (MS. serrett).serundad,surunded, V,262, No 225,A3;263,4: surrounded.servit, II, 371,5: (serviette) table-napkin.seruyd him of bred and cloth, I, 241,1:forwould make an easier reading thanof, which will have to be understood, on terms of (receiving food and clothing).set, V,80,57: sitteth.set, II, 168,1; 282,7; 463,19,25; III, 216,29; IV, 135,20; 204,9; 331,18: sit, become, suit. set a petticoat, IV, 331,18: became (looked well in) the petticoat. Seebecome.set,p. p., III, 37,61: fixed, determined. Seeset for, below.sether brest (and swom), II, 459,8: brought her breast to a level with the water. (Elsewhere, smoothed.)set, set a mill, I, 134,O,8: to stop the machinery by turning off the water from the wheel.set, set the monke to-fore the brest, III, 67,223: assailed, shot at.set(sete, and wronglysat) a dynt on, vppon, of, III, 309,42,45,46: inflicted a blow, stroke.set by, IV, 11,15,20: lay aside, cease, let be.set for, IV, 229,12,16: set upon, bent upon.set them up in temper wood, IV, 222,20: corrupt. See note, 231,D20.sete,n., III, 63,133: suit, dress.sett, III, 340,31: take aim.settle by, IV, 219,13: set you aside (?).settled, gun, III, 341,44: levelled, adjusted.sevent, II, 75,7: seventh.several, III, 224,13: variously.sey,pret.of see, V,80,41.seyn,syen,syne, then, afterwards.seyte, neys seyte, V,80,39: pretty sight!sez I, V,304, b,4: say(s) I.sha,shaw, V,267,10: show.shack,shake, IV, 325,9; 326,7: shake straw so that the corn may fall out (?).shade,shadow,scad, I, 101,13; 490,21; 491,20; 492,12: reflection (of the color of). We have, shaddoowesgreene, in one copy of Adam Bell, see III, 32,48.shaft their arrows on the wa, IV, 3,16: so in both copies, unintelligible; corrected by Scott to sharp.shaftmont,shathmont, I, 330 f.,A2,B2,C2; 332,E2: the measure from the top of the extended thumb to the extremity of the palm, six inches. (A. S. “ix. scæfta munda.†Lex. Ath.)shake. Seeshack.shals thou, I, 481,28. Seesas sign of the future tense.shambo, II, 376,26: shamoy, chamois.shame, the, II, 70,15; III, 464,11; 466 f.,44,52,58: euphemism for the Devil. shame a ma, III, 490,15,27,29: devil a bit.shamefu reel, II, 110,28: the first reel that is danced with the bride, her maiden, and two young men; called the Shame Spring or Reel, because the bride chooses the tune. Buchan.shames death, II, 60,41; III, 330,14: death of shame, shameful death.shamly, III, 80,337: shamefully.shane,pret.of sheen, shine, IV, 469 a,11.shank, IV, 37,A6,B8: the projecting point of a hill, joining it with the plain.
read,reade,red,v., II, 52 f.,6,34; III, 104,2,4; 105,25: advise. read my rede, II, 186,1: corrupted from riddle my riddle, 187,2,8. Seeriddle.
readilie,readylye, II, 23,E7; 444,43: (without difficulty or hesitation) certainly.
ready, V,75,6,7;81,10: direct. readye, II, 58,16: indubitable, certain.
reaf,reif, III, 458 b: plunder.
reak, smoke. Seereek.
reaming, a suit o claise were o the apple reamin, IV, 176,15: reaming==creaming, foaming, which of course gives little or no meaning. Apples were sometimes used to scent clothes.
rean,rin, run.
reap, V,165f.,6,9:==ripe, search, rummage; see V,306,9.
reapen,p. p.of reap, II, 9,26.
rear, rare.
reas, praise. Seeroos.
reas,ryse, III, 307,5: rouse.
reast,reest, V,256b,4: roost.
reaths.Seeraiths.
reave, IV, 26,1: rob.
reave,rave,rive,pret.of rive, I, 442,6; IV, 416,18.
reavel(l)d, II, 140,19,20: ravelled, disordered (of hair).
reaver,rever,riever, IV, 85,2: robber.
recher,compar., V,283,10,20: richer.
reck,v., II, 340 b, 2d line: rock (perhaps miswritten).
recones, IV, 496 b: reckonings.
record, sma, III, 319,22: note.
red,redd,rede,n., II, 182,4; III, 112,58: counsel. I, 22,B1; 227 a,5: talk, tale. Seeread.
red,redd,rede,reid,v., I, 329,58; II, 59,20; 62 a,15; 182,4,6,9,10; 272,6; IV, 495,2; V,191,8: advise.
red, III, 163,80: to rid, clear out. of hair, comb (seeredding-kaim). red the question, II, 253,18: clear up, settle.
red lan(d), I, 16,C11; IV, 274,6; V,206a,5: cleared, ploughed.
red river comb, II, 216,19,21: corrupted, as are other versions in this passage.
redding-kaim,reeding-comb, III, 452,8; IV, 515,7: comb (for disentangling).
rede.Seered.
rede,p. p., III, 298,53: read, divined, discerned.
rede,pret.of ride, III, 63, 134 (reden, they rode); IV, 182,F5. Seeread.
redly, III, 67,223: quickly.
reeding-comb.Seeredding-kaim.
reef, I, 333,5: roof.
reef-tree, I, 299,5: roof-tree, beam in the angle of a roof.
reek,reak,reik,n., II, 191,24; 193,21; 195,33; III, 433,C6-8,D12; 434,15; 435,14; IV, 514,16,20: smoke.
reek,v., I, 304,E3; II, 30,L2; V,152,E b1: rake, range, move, turn. Seerake.
reekit, V,108,B7: smoked, smoky.
reel, reel went round, V,155,C2: revel, riot (of merry-makers)?
reem, II, 335,N7: room.
reest,reast, IV, 189,3,4: roost.
reet, I, 367,7; V,213,8: root.
reeve, V,69b: bailiff, steward.pl.reues.
refell, I, 110,22: repel.
refer, message, II, 286,C10: report, announce.
regulate, III, 509,1,7: corruption of, riddle it.
reid,v., V,200a, after50: advise.
reif,reiff, III, 365 b; 471, note ‡; V,198b, after52: robbery.
reign, II, 8,1: for rhyme; range ? or rein, as 9, b1.
reik, smoke. Seereek.
reill, reel.
reiver,rever,riever, III, 472,6; 473,22: robber. Seereaver.
rejoyfull, IV, 173,7: rejoicing.
remeid, II, 367,42; 371,13; IV, 405,49; 428,7: remedy.
remorse, III, 209,10; 231,94: compassion.
remoued, II, 58,4: agitated.
renisht, renisht them to ride of twoe good renisht steeds, II, 52,8; 53,42(42emended from, on tow good renish, in conformity with8): should have some such meaning as accoutred, but a derivation is not to be made out. Qy. [ha]renisht, harnessed?
renown, spake wi renown, IV, 348,11: force of authority (of prestige), or, with the air of a person of repute.
repair, II, 163,18: resort to? fix upon? (probably nonsense for rhyme).
require, II, 427,6: ask for. (Other texts, inquire.)
reset, IV, 281 a: harboring.
respect, in respect, III, 364 b: considering.
rest,pret.of rest, IV, 424,12.
restore, IV, 425,8: restore, because the morning-gift would revert to the father and be at his disposition, no son having been born.
retour, IV, 91, note †: return.
returned, III, 356,33: turned away.
reuelle, I, 328,51,52: festivity.
rever, III, 458 b; IV, 472,11: robber. Seereaver.
reues, III, 68,254: bailiffs. Seereeve.
rewe, be rewe, II, 479,15: in a row, one after another, each of the whole class. Seerawe.
rewth, III, 28,136: pity.
ribless kiln, I, 18,F11: the ribs of a kiln for drying grain are the cross-beams, on which were laid the “stickles,†or short pieces of wood, to support a layer of straw (or hair-cloth, or bricks) on which the grain was placed. It would of course be impossible to dry grain on a ribless kiln.
rid,ried, red.
riddle, II, 184,5,8,11,18; 186,1; 187,2,8; 196, e1,7: resolve. riddle my riddle, 187,2,8: resolve my dilemma. read my rede, 186,1, is probably corrupted from riddle my riddle; cf. 187,2,8.
ried, ride.
rien, V,161,9;162,B6: riven.
riever,reiver,rever, IV, 84,8; 195,C3: robber. Seereaver.
rig,rigg,riggin, ridge.
rig,rigg, of land, I, 19,9; II, 152,11; V,164,16; rig-length, III, 273,23: a measure of land 600 feet by 15, containing 9000 square feet. Donaldson.
riggin, III, 459,5: ridge.
right, III, 356,19: right off, directly.
rigland, land under the plough, and so in rigs, ridges. rigland shire, II, 132,32: a shire of such land (?).
rin,rine,rean, V,221,15: run.
ring,plural, II, 285,16f.: misprint in Scott?
ring(dancing), II, 104,23; so, take me to the middel o the ring, V,273,12.
ring, knocked at the, with the, ring, II, 187,12; 201,2; 459,10; III, 106,4; 250,11. rappit wi a, II, 462,10. rapped on the, V,293b,10. pulled at a, II, 490,D b9. tinkled at the, II, 196 b,4; 251,4; 266,7; 267,9; 393,11; 475,K6: the hammer of a doorknocker. But, perhaps, in the case of tinkling, the ring may have been gently drawn up and down or struck against the projecting bow or rod of a door-handle (often wound with a spiral), an operation which, when vigorously performed, is described as risping or rasping.
ring(game), to ride at the ring, III, 448,A3: to attempt, while at full gallop, to carry off, on the point of a rod, a ring suspended on a cross-beam resting on two upright posts. Jamieson.
ring and the ba, IV, 257,4; 354,A b1,2: a game in which a ring was thrown up, and a ball was to be thrown through before the ring fell. Dr. W. Gregor. The rantin lassie plays at this, IV, 354.
ringle-tree, V,112,B b11: probably the huge block of wood used for scutching flax and mangling clothes. An old game-keeper tells me that he has heard the word and so understands it. When not in use for beating flax, the beetle and tree-block were used by the women to mangle their clothes after washing. W. Walker.
ripe,reap,rype, III, 160,16; 163,83,84; V,306,9: search, rummage, clear or clean out, rifle.
rise, III, 332,2: branch.
rise==raise: III, 513 b,4.pret.rose, 514 a,5. Seeryse.
rise,pret.of rise, III, 369,17.
rise, did on anchor rise so high, III, 344,34: said of a ship in full sail; no apparent sense. (ride inB c,g, 347,34; upon an anchor rose so high in h, 349,34.)
rispen, fine rispen kame, II, 225,J2: keen, sharp, risping, rasping? or,p. p., filed? (This passage is variously corrupted in different versions.)
ritted, II, 295,B b4,22: stuck, stabbed.
rive,rave,reave,pret.of rive, tear, V,256,13.p. p.II, 465,4,6,8.
rive up, I, 303,7: plough up, tear up.
riued, I, 284,9: arrived, travelled.
river, III, 364 b: robber. Seereaver.
river-comb, red, II, 216,A19: is river a corruption ofivory? InB2,4, it is a tabean brirben kame.H1, brown berry comb.J2, fine rispen kame: fine-filed (?). All seem to be badly corrupted.
rook,roke, IV, 84,14; 85,4; 86,6; 87,4; V,254a,4: distaff.
rocked,rocket,roked, II, 191,24; 195,33: smoked.
rod, III, 8,21: a bier was extemporized by taking rods from bushes for spakes, spokes, or bars.
roddins, II, 408,19,20; 409 f.,21,23: berries of mountain ash. (But the berries are said to grow on yonder thorn, 409,21.)
rode, rood.
roelle-bone, I, 326;6. royal bone, I, 466 f.,10,33; royal ben, I, 478 f.,12,46: interpreted variously,without satisfaction. Seerewel-boon, Professor Skeat’s note to Chaucer’s Sir Thopas, v. 2068. Hertzberg suggests Reval bone, mammoth tooth, fossil ivory, imported into western Europe via Reval, Chaucer Nachlese, in Jahrbuch für Rom. und Engl. Litteratur, VIII, 164 f.; and Prof. Skeat (with a different derivation), ivory of the walrus, citing Godefroy, “rochal, ivoire de morse.â€
roke, III, 298,51: reek, vapor.
roke, V,254a,4: rock, distaff. Seerock.
roked,rocket,rocked, II, 191,24; 193,21; 195,33; V,224,19: smoked.
rom, V,304b,2: room.
rood, III, 93,28: rod (a measure).
rood, four and thirty stripes comen beside the rood, II, 59,29: referring to the scourging of Jesus (?).
room ye roun, II, 89,29: move round so as to make room.
roome, III, 36,44: companye (the reading inb).
roos,rous,reas,v., IV, 69,21; 378,2; 379,2; 384,2; V,275,2: to praise, laud, boast.
roose,n., IV, 503,19: rose.
roosing,rosin,rousing,n., IV, 378,1; 379,1; 383,1; V,275,1: praising, boasting, bragging.
root, I, 304,F5: the end of a rafter, resting on a wall. ring of an auld tree-root, I, 304,F4: hoops are sometimes made of tree-roots, which are very tough; the point here is the size of the fingers which such a ring would fit.
root of his sword, III, 268,11: a blunder; see note, III, 275.
rose-garlonde, III, 75,398: a “garland†appears to have been attached to the yerdes (397), and every shot outside of the garland was accounted a failure. The garland as the limit of allowable shots is mentioned at 93,31. This must have been an extemporized ring of twigs in the latter case, and was so, perhaps, in the other, for it is likely that the term would become conventional, and mean, as Mr C. J. Longman suggests, nothing more than a disk with circular rings, such as survive to this day in archery targets.
rosin, V,275,11: boasting. Seeroosing.
rosses, roses.
rottens,rottons, I, 466,8; V,124,6: rats.
roudes, II, 284,4: haggard (subst., an old wrinkled woman).
roun,rown,round, III, 199,28; 356,19: whisper.
rounin(g),n., V,256,10: whispering.
round, so it went round, IV, 146,7: so much it came to (?).
round tables, II, 343,1: a game.
roundlie, I, 104,6: at a good pace.
rous,roos,reas, IV, 379,2; V,275,2: boast of.
rousing,n., boasting. Seeroosing.
rout,n., III, 160,22: blow.
rout,n., IV, 113,3; 114,D1: row, brawl, disturbance.
rout,v., II, 318 a; IV, 378,5; 380,11: roar. IV, 6,15; V,250,14: bellow.
route,rowte,rowght, III, 23,22; 26,88; 180,9; 207,33: company, band, crowd. In III, 297,33: perhaps mêlée, affray.
routh, I, 298,1: plenty.
row, rough.
row,rowe, I, 71,61; 80,33; 441,6,8; II, 443,35; 448,39; IV, 267,9; 269 b,9: roll.pret.andp. p.rowed, rowd, rowit, rowt, I, 441,7,9; IV, 274,15; V,106,D7: rolled, wound.
rowan,rowon,rown, tree, II, 504,18: mountain-ash.
rowe, on a, III, 67,229; 117,24: in a line, file.
row-footed, III, 473,25: rough-footed.
rowght, III, 297,33: company. ryall in rowghte, kingly among men. Seeroute.
rowght, wrought.
rown, I, 312,17,22: rowan, mountain-ash. Seerowan.
rown,roun,round, III, 356,19: whisper.
rowt,pret., V,106,D7: rolled. Seerow.
rowte.Seeroute.
rowynde, III, 297,33: round.
royal bone,royal ben. Seeroelle-bone.
royaltye, III, 411,5: splendid display, or the like.
rub-chadler,rub-chandler, I, 285 f.,31,43: rubbish-barrel. See I, 279.
rudd,n., I, 272,13,20,24: (redness) complexion, face.
rudd,v., IV, 28,34: redden.
rudely, III, 162,49: sturdily.
rue, III, 220,6: cause to rue.
rugge, I, 243,2: back.
rule, III, 98,32: going on, taking on, noisy bewailing.
run, IV, 289,F6: issue, outcome (said to be slang).
run, red runs i the rain, II, 304,4: gives no sense, and so of Scott’s reading at this place, the red sun’s on the rain. It will be observed that the day has not dawned.
run a reel, II, 108,17: gone through, danced.
rung, I, 202,A12; III, 161,43; IV, 444,20: staff, pike-staff.
rung(of the noise of a cannon),n., IV, 52,14: ring; appears to have been altered, for rhyme, from ring, which is in two other copies.
rusty, V,151,E6: surly.
rybybe, I, 328,49: a stringed instrument.
ryght, straight, directly, ryÈth, V,283,14: aright.
rynde, be rynde and rent, III, 297,42: flayed., (rynde should perhaps beriven.)
rype,v.Seeripe.
ryse, III, 22,2; 23,20: rouse. Seerise.
rysse, I, 328,39: probably rising ground, elevation (compare mountayne, playne, delle, hill, in38,40-42: not twig, brushwood).
rysyt, I, 242,11: riseth (oldimperat. pl.), rise.
s,se, as sign of the future tense. I’se, III, 488,19; IV, 428,18. thou’s,’se, IV, 3,31; 12,C6. he’s, hee’se, II, 442,16; IV, 146,6. we’s, I, 467,29; IV, 181,D14. ye’se, IV, 22,18; 109,7. yow’s, IV, 504,36. they’s, IV, 486,32. itt’s, II, 443,22. heart’s, IV,181,17. Jocky Ha’s, III, 487,6. thy dinner’s, III, 489,41. (Thesbeing the initial letter of sal, it would be better to write I s’, etc.)sattached to the verb, be’s, III, 160,9. We even find shals, I, 481,28.
-s (-is), of the genitive, omitted, III, 97 f.,8,23,28; 111,39. moder son, III, 98,24,27, as in A. S.
’s, II, 375,19: of his.
-s (-se), termination of the2d pers. sing, of the pres. indic.thou was, I, 222,E11; seese þou, I, 328,38-42; þou commes,44. thou’s welcome, III, 488,24. shals thou, I, 481,28. istow, 175 f.,D4,10,16. See I, 130,5; 327,20; 328 f.,56,58; 341,13; 411,4; 413,3; II, 54,57; 148 f.,12,20; 218,8,10,16; III, 97,11,15; 99,62; 110,23. Etc., etc.
-s,-es,-ys, termination ofpres. indic. plur. cods that sleeps, cheeks gars, bairns has, lies men, raches rynnys, fowles synges, I, 68,29; 115,C3; 130,F11; 327,16; 329,59; 342,40; 345,39; II, 32,P4. So, is, was, I, 68,27; 69,43; 255,3-5; 342,30; 344,28; II, 71,13,14. Etc.
saa,pret., saw.
sabelline, I, 221,D8,9: sable.
sackless,sakeless,saikless, II, 145,22,23; 153,19,21; III, 437,27; IV, 373,9: innocent.
sad, III, 67,215; 357,40: steadfast, firm, stanch.
saep,v., III, 269,D3: soap.
saerd,p. p., IV, 494,33: served.
safe, II, 160,4,6,7: save.
safeguard, V,66,11: riding-skirt.
safer, V,283,21: saffron.
safly, IV, 18,10: softly.
saft(of sleep), III, 489,11: lightly.
saikless.Seesackless.
sain, I, 351,36,48: cross, bless.p. p.sained, I, 354,26. ill sained,pret., I, 350,25. well saint,p. p., III, 488,37.
saint, III, 488,37: blest. Seesain.
saint,v., disappear. Seesainted.
St Mary knot(t), III, 465,26,27: a triple knot (see 462, note *).
sainted,saunted, I, 331,C8; 333 b,8: disappeared.
saipy-sapples, I, 303,D5(the right reading): soap-suds in which clothes have been washed (probably meaning thestrangof V,213,5).
sair, sore. I, 100,9: lamentable.
sair,sare,saer,sere, I, 301,2; II, 71,15; 105,9; 408,1,2; IV, 248,10; V,105,B3,11;239,34: serve.
sairly, IV, 358,19: rhyme word;muchis all the meaning.
sait, set.
sakeless.Seesackless.
sale, V,228,19: sold.
sall, shall,pret.sould.
sally rod, III, 252,12: sallow, willow.
salten,adj., IV, 452,6; 475,6: salt.
salued, III, 61,102: greeted.
Saluter, III, 250,3: corrupted from Sir Hugh (see other versions of the ballad).
same, alle in same, III 91 a: all, together. vppon the same, III, 361, b33: again, after the same fashion (?).
san,sane,sayn,syne, V,214f.,4,9;221,24;242a,7;257,14: since.
sanchoþis, of his bryk, III, 13,3: apparently the fork of the breeches, but the etymology is to me inexplicable.
sang,pret.of sing, to singe, II, 155,37,38.
sanna, shall not.
sarbit, II, 132,33,34: exclamation of sorrow.
sare, serve. Seesair. sare a man a wear, I, 301,2: serve, supply, a man (of) with his wear, clothing.
sark, I, 15,8,17; 16,B8,18,C6,18, etc.; 387 f.,A5,8,9;B5,6,7: shirt, shift.
sarsenent, IV, 312,8: sarcenet.
sassaray, II, 209,E5: imitation of the sound of church-bells. Seecéserará.
sat,saut, I, 310,4: salt.
sate, sit a gude sate, a silly sate, IV, 469,8: occupy, be in, a good, pitiable, position.
sathe, I, 333, appendix1, wrongly written (or read) for sagh (or something equivalent), saw. (th in this piece very frequent for gh.)
saugh, III, 459,15; IV, 95,2: willow.
saun faile, V,297b: assuredly.
saunted,sainted, I, 331,C8; 335 b,8: disappeared.
saut,sat, IV, 258,26: salt.
saute, III, 327 b: assault, attack.
sauyour, see (saw) my sauyour, III, 97,7: attended mass, or, took the sacrament.
saving tree, III, 398,D4: corruption of savin tree.
saw,v., I, 427,13,15; 428,11: sow.
sawe,p. p.of see, III, 59,60.
sawe, speech.
sawten,v.,3 pl., III, 100,63: assault, attack.
sawtrye, I, 328,49: psaltery, a stringed instrument.
say, II, 87,30: try.
say,saye,pret.of see, III, 111,34; 309,44; V,79,35;80,47.
sayn,san,sane,syne, V,239,34;254,9,11,13,22;257,15: since, then.
sayne, I, 70,19,strong participle ofsay. In, I yow sayne, III, 297,46, an auxiliary,doorcan, must be omitted, or else we must readsaye, as in32,34,62,65.
scad, I, 102,12: reflection (of the color of). In other texts, shade, shadow, I, 490,21; 491,20; 492,12.
scaith,skaith,scath,n., III, 162,52,66: hurt.
scaith,skaith,v., III,5,D8; 6,17: hurt.
scale, I, 429,11: a drinking-vessel. (Icelandic skál, Danish skaal, a bowl for drinking.)
scale, III, 403 a: scatter, disperse. III, 393,6: expel, drive away. scaling wide, III, 301,D2: scattering, covering a good deal of ground.
scales, V,211,25,31-34: discs worn as ornaments on the head.
scanct, I, 336 a, last line but one: shone, gleamed.
scarson, II, 434,29: scarcely up to.
scart, I, 301,5,6; 303,D2: scratch, scrape.
scath,scaith,n., I, 284,18: harm.
scathe, awayte me scathe, III, 66,202;wayteme skathe, wait me scath, III, 83,202; 86,202: lie in wait, seek an opportunity to do me harm.
scathe away, I, 348 f.,5,8: expel, get rid of? Seeskaith, I, 397,14.
scaur, Braidscaur, III, 5,D2,6: a bare and broken place on a steep hill; also, cliff, precipice. Broadspear, 6,2,5, is probably a corruption.
Scere-thorsday, I, 243,1: Maundy Thursday, Thursday before Easter. (Icelandic SkÃri-þorsdagr.)
schane,pret., shone.
scharpper,compar., V,283,6,16: sharper. V,283,8: emend tostrenger.
schele,scheel, II, 164,2; 335,N5; IV, 328,A b, after7: school. Seeschule.
schet,schette,pret.of schote, shoot, III, 13 f.,13,15.
schill. Seeshill.
scho, II, 146,19; IV, 418,2: she.
schon,shon,shone, V,79,27: shoes. Seesheen.
schootehis horsse away, froo, III, 297,32,33: discarded, sent off.
schrewde(arrow), III, 13,6: accursed, pernicious, baneful.
schule,scheel,squeel, II, 175,16; IV, 327 f.,2,5; 329,D d7: school.
schunte besides,beside, III, 361,b, c38,41: turn aside from.
schylde,imperat., V,283,14: shield, protect.
sckill, I, 295,28: reason, judgment. Seeskill.
sclasps, twa lang sclasps between his eyes, IV, 489,25: clasps. Span would answer were it not that there are but three sclasps between the shoulders. (InL18, of the same ballad, II, 394, there are three women’s spang (span) between his brows.) If sclasps were taken in the sense of fathom, the space between the arms extended, this would suit the shoulders well enough, but the absurd disproportion in relation to the eyes would remain. Probably yard or ell has dropped out in254. (yards three inL18.)
sclavin, I, 190 a: pilgrim’s cloak.
scob(b),scope,scoup, II, 313,26; 316,10: gag.
scop, III, 138,9: (scalp) pate, head.
scope,scoup,scob, II, 312,29; V,229,33: gag.
score.Seecor.
scorn,skorne, II, 105,20; III, 113,77: shame, humiliation, mortification. give the, this, a, scorn, III, 111,12; 360,23; 362,35; 363,D14; 367,49; IV, 201,23; 224,24,25; 254,25; 357,B6,10; 358,16; 465,35,36: put to shame, subject to humiliation (especially, by showing a preference as to marriage, or by slighting a woman). So, playd you the scorn, IV, 483,25; get the scorn, II, 367,47; IV, 221,16; 222,18,19; 227,16,17; 228,19; 230,24.
scort, I, 334,4: short.
scoup,n., V,229,33: gag. Seescob,scope.
scoup,v., II, 70,15: move hastily from one place to another, fly.
scouth, III, 161,42: room, range.
scray, III, 116,4, as to form suggestsscrag, scrog; but the meaning required is, branches,branchage, or even spray.
scread, II, 425,A6: shred, bit, piece.
screeded(orscrieded),pret., II, 212,13: rent.
screeking,screehing, II, 485,17: screeching.
screfë,screffë,shryvë, III, 111 ff.,27,33,38-42, etc.: sheriff.
screighed, IV, 174,20: shrieked.
scrieded.Seescreeded.
scrime, IV, 10,2; serime, 15,d2: seem to be corrupt; possibly, crime; pursuing the crime for pursuing the criminal.
scrodeley, V,79,14: shrewdly, rudely, ungraciously.
scroggs,scrogs, III, 3,12; 5,C3; 7,E, F11; 9,G10,H13; 10,I5; IV, 496,8: stunted bushes, or perhaps trees; underwood. “Scroggs, blackthorn.†Halliwell, from a MS. scrogg-bush, V,10,4(high enough here to hang the pair on).
scroggy,scroggie, IV, 174,10; 273,14: covered with stunted bushes; “abounding in underwood,†Halliwell.
scug, to scug his deadly sin, II, 283,22: shade, screen. (Icel. skyggja, overshadow; Dan. skygge, Swed. skugga, shade.) expiate, W. Scott.
scuttle-dishes, II, 467,43: the larger dishes, in which things are served, in distinction from those out of which things are eaten (T. Davidson); platters.
se, sign of the future tense. Sees.
se,pret.of see. Seesee.
sea-ground, I, 448,11: bottom of the sea.
sea-maw, II, 363,7; 365,5; IV, 482 b,6: gull.
seal, IV, 409,5: (A. S. sǽl) happiness, blessing. gude seal that it sae spread, II, 420,1: (happiness result from its spreading?) quod faustum sit!
seale, III, 412,24: sail.
sear,sair, IV, 456 f.,15,19: sore.
sear, V,223,8: sure.
sear, serve. Seesair.
search her, IV, 446,2: look her up, see about her, overhaul (should, perhaps, beseek, visit).
seat, V,274b,1: sight.
seck, I, 15,15: sack.
Second person of pret. indic.without termination, thou made, thou did, thou came, etc., I, 221,C9; 222,E10-17; 434,27; II, 148 f.,12,14,20; 218,16. So, thou will, schall, thou’ll, well thow, I, 130,4; 221,C10,11; III, 110,24; 112,48.
securly, III, 98,34: surely.
see(videre),pret.say, saye, sey, se, see, seed.pret.se, see, I, 283,1; 295,27; II, 46,40; 245,27; III, 24,47; 27,99; 97,19.p. p.se, III, 27,102.
see, save and se(e), II, 44,6,15; 52 f.,10,18,44; III, 65,177; IV, 198,G4; 455,4: protect (tueri).
see, well mot ye fare and see, III, 266,3: as here used,see wellwould have to mean, see prosperity; but apparently there is a confusion ofwell may you fareandGod see you, protect you (as in, save and see). InB3, p. 268,weel may ye savemight mean, may God save you, butfar better, in the next line, isnot in concatenation, and we shall be obliged to understandweelas good fortune. The passage must be corrupted. well may you sit and see, lady, well may you sit and say, II, 290,15: (corrupted) nonsense.
see, sigh and see, IV, 193,14: apparently a doublet of sigh, asneofneighandnigh,heofhigh.
see,n., V,283,5,15: sea.
seed,pret.of see, IV, 151,6.
seek,seke, I, 75,46; II, 146,18,20; 171,16; III, 68,255; V,256b,14: search. I, 202,16; 204,11; V,211,19,23: ask. socht, II, 30,8: asked for.partic. seek and, seeking.
seek in, V,180,13,15: ask admission.
seeke to,unto, III, 444,5: resort to.
seel o downs, IV, 218,12: chelidonium, celandine, mallow-wort.
seely, happy. seely court, I, 315,12; 507 f.,2,12: fairy court (as I, 346,16; elfin court, 351,30).
seen, I, 504,7: sun.
seen, I, 183,9,15; II, 166,20; 257,30; IV, 135,25: soon. seener, IV, 262,31.
seen==syne, afterwards.
seene, I seene, V,53,105:ellipsis ofhave.
seep, II, 148,10: ooze, leak.
seeth, III, 281,7: sooth.
seke, III, 68,255; 100,76: search. Seeseek.
seke, to, III, 110,14: at a loss.
seker, III, 67,215: firm, resolute.
sekirlye, I, 327,18: certainly, truly.
seld, IV, 2,2: sold.
selerer, III, 61,91,93; 67,233: the monk who has charge of the provisioning of a convent.
selke, V,283,21: silk.
selkie,silkie, II, 494 a: seal.
selle, I, 326,6: saddle.
semblant,semblaunce,semblaunte,semblaunt, III, 57,22; 79,22; 82,22; 85,22: mein, look.
sembled, III, 160,15: met. (b, asembled.)
sen, sent.
sen, II, 32,Q2; 110,2; 272,10,12: since.
send,sene, II, 360,10; 365 f., (10),17,18: a thing sent. II, 109,15: the messengers sent to fetch the bride.
send,pret., I, 204,D3: sent.
sendered, IV, 229,12,16: sundered, parted.
senes, IV, 315,2; 316,25: sends, messages. Seesend.
sent, III, 75,384: sendeth.
sent, sent I me, III, 76,414: assent.
sentence past, IV, 514,6: order given.
sere, serve. Seesair.
serre, II, 59,29: sair, sore? (MS. serrett).
serundad,surunded, V,262, No 225,A3;263,4: surrounded.
servit, II, 371,5: (serviette) table-napkin.
seruyd him of bred and cloth, I, 241,1:forwould make an easier reading thanof, which will have to be understood, on terms of (receiving food and clothing).
set, V,80,57: sitteth.
set, II, 168,1; 282,7; 463,19,25; III, 216,29; IV, 135,20; 204,9; 331,18: sit, become, suit. set a petticoat, IV, 331,18: became (looked well in) the petticoat. Seebecome.
set,p. p., III, 37,61: fixed, determined. Seeset for, below.
sether brest (and swom), II, 459,8: brought her breast to a level with the water. (Elsewhere, smoothed.)
set, set a mill, I, 134,O,8: to stop the machinery by turning off the water from the wheel.
set, set the monke to-fore the brest, III, 67,223: assailed, shot at.
set(sete, and wronglysat) a dynt on, vppon, of, III, 309,42,45,46: inflicted a blow, stroke.
set by, IV, 11,15,20: lay aside, cease, let be.
set for, IV, 229,12,16: set upon, bent upon.
set them up in temper wood, IV, 222,20: corrupt. See note, 231,D20.
sete,n., III, 63,133: suit, dress.
sett, III, 340,31: take aim.
settle by, IV, 219,13: set you aside (?).
settled, gun, III, 341,44: levelled, adjusted.
sevent, II, 75,7: seventh.
several, III, 224,13: variously.
sey,pret.of see, V,80,41.
seyn,syen,syne, then, afterwards.
seyte, neys seyte, V,80,39: pretty sight!
sez I, V,304, b,4: say(s) I.
sha,shaw, V,267,10: show.
shack,shake, IV, 325,9; 326,7: shake straw so that the corn may fall out (?).
shade,shadow,scad, I, 101,13; 490,21; 491,20; 492,12: reflection (of the color of). We have, shaddoowesgreene, in one copy of Adam Bell, see III, 32,48.
shaft their arrows on the wa, IV, 3,16: so in both copies, unintelligible; corrected by Scott to sharp.
shaftmont,shathmont, I, 330 f.,A2,B2,C2; 332,E2: the measure from the top of the extended thumb to the extremity of the palm, six inches. (A. S. “ix. scæfta munda.†Lex. Ath.)
shake. Seeshack.
shals thou, I, 481,28. Seesas sign of the future tense.
shambo, II, 376,26: shamoy, chamois.
shame, the, II, 70,15; III, 464,11; 466 f.,44,52,58: euphemism for the Devil. shame a ma, III, 490,15,27,29: devil a bit.
shamefu reel, II, 110,28: the first reel that is danced with the bride, her maiden, and two young men; called the Shame Spring or Reel, because the bride chooses the tune. Buchan.
shames death, II, 60,41; III, 330,14: death of shame, shameful death.
shamly, III, 80,337: shamefully.
shane,pret.of sheen, shine, IV, 469 a,11.
shank, IV, 37,A6,B8: the projecting point of a hill, joining it with the plain.