The Rowley Poems Part 69

Smothe, Ch. 35. _Steam or vapours_. C.

Snett, T. 45. _Bent_. C.

[Sorgie, G. 17. _Surging_.]

Sothen, ae. 227. _Sooth_, q?

Souten, H. 1. 252. for _Sought_. pa. t. sing. q?

Sparre, H. 1. 26. _A wooden bar_.

Speckle, H. 2. 525. [? _Spied_, or perhaps _Reached_.]

Spencer, T. 11. _Dispenser_. C.

Spere, ae. 69. [_Spare, allow_.]

Spyryng, ae. 707. _Towering_.

Staie, H. 1. 198. [B. has Stay, _stop, let, hindrance_; so possibly C.

uses it as a paraphrase for _armour_; or some special piece of armour may be meant.]

Starks, T. 73. _Stalks_.

[Steeked, ae. 1188. Not in K. B. or Speght, but Sk. notes that C. has _steeked=stole_; so here the sense would be _stole upon_.]

Steeres, p. 25. 6. _Stairs_.

Stente, T. 134. _Stained_. C.

Steynced, ae. 189. [?_Stinted_, from B.'s stent (Saxon),_stint_.]

Storthe, p. 287. 10. [_Death_; cf. _Storven_.]

Storven, ae. 608. _Dead_. C.

Straughte, ae. 59. _Stretched_. C.

[Stre, H. 2. 712. _Straw_.]

Stret, ae. 158. _Stretch_. C.

Strev, ae. 358. _Strive_.

Stringe, G. 10. _Strong_. C.

Suffycyl, ae. 62. 981. [_Sufficient_.]

[Sw.a.n.ges, Ch. 210. _Swings_.]

Swarthe, ae. 265. [A _swath_, or _swarth_ (so rarely, but cf. _Twelfth Night_, II. iii, where Maria calls Malvolio 'an affectioned a.s.s, that cons state without book and utters it by great swarths') is as much hay as the mower can cut at one movement of the scythe. So, an unsubstantial thing compared with a _boddekin_.]

Swartheing, ae. 295 [_Darkling_, _darkening_.]

Swarthless. II. 2. 563. [_Dark-less_, i.e. _pallid_.]

Sweft-kervd, E. II. 20. _Short-liv'd_. C.

Swoltering, ae. 444. [?_Swallowing_.]

[Swote, E. I. 25. _Sweet_. C.]

Swotie, E. II. 9. _Sweet_. C.

Swythe, Swythen, Swythyn; _Quickly_. C.

Syke, E. II. 6. _Such, so_. C.

T.

Takelle. T. 72. _Arrow_. C.

[Talbot, H. 2. 89. _A kind of hunting dog_ (K.); _a dog with a turned-up tail_(B.).]

Teint, H. 1. 462. for _Tent_. [_Bandage_.]

Tende, T. 113. _Attend, or wait_. C.

Tene, ae 366. _Sorrow_.

Tentyflie, E. III. 48. _Carefully_. C.

Tere, ae 194. _Health_. C.

Thoughten, ae 172. 1136. for _Thought_, pa. t. sing. q?

[Thraslarkes, H. 2. 427. Presumably a kind of lark. K.B. and Speght give no help.]

Thyghte, p. 283. 104. [II. 2. 578. _Well-built_.]

Thyssen, E. II. 87. _These_, or _those_. q?

Tochelod, ae 205. [Perhaps a mistake for _Tochered_ = dowered. (Sk.)]

Tore, ae 1020. _Torch_. C.

Trechit, H. 2. 93. for _Treget_; Deceit.