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Wolsome, Le. 5. See _Walsome_.

Wraytes. See _Reytes_.

Wrynn, T. 117. _Declare_. C.

Wurche, ae. 500. _Work_. C.

Wychencref, ae. 420. _Witchcraft_.

Wyere, E. II. 79. _Grief, trouble_. C.

Wympled, G. 207. _Mantled, covered_. C.

Wynnynge, ae. 219. [The sense is 'which my father's hall had no winning,' i.e. 'which I could never get in my father's hall.' Sk. is almost certainly wrong here.]

Y.

Yan, ae. 72. _Than_.

Yaped, Ep. 30. _Laughable_. C.

Yatte, T. 9. _That_. C.

Yblente, ae. 40. _Blinded_. C.

Ybroched, G. 96. _Horned_. C.

[Ybrogten, ae. 919. _Brought_]

Ycorne, ae. 374. [Contracted for _ycorven_.]

Ycorven, T. 170. _To mould_. C.

[Ycrase, p. 287. 16. _Break_.]

Yceasedd, T. 132. _Broken_. C.

Yenne; _Then_.

Yer, E. II. 29. _Their_.

Yer, ae. 152. _Your_.

Ygrove, H. 2. 434. [? _Shaped_, for _y-graven_.]

Yinder, ae. 692. _Yonder_.

Yis; _This_.

Ylach'd, H. 2. 436. [? _Concealed_. B. has Lach, _catch_ or _s.n.a.t.c.h_; but this is hardly to the point.]

Ynhyme, Ent. 5. _Inter_. C.

Ynutile, ae. 198. _Useless_.

Yreaden, H. 2. 207. [_Ready_.]

Yroughte, H. 2. 318. for _Ywroughte_.

Ysped, M. 102. _Dispatched_. C.

Yspende, T. 179. _Consider_. C.

Ystorven, E. I. 53. _Dead_. C.

Ytfel, E. I. 18. _Itself_.

Ywreen, E. II. 30. _Covered_. C.

Ywrinde, M. 100. _Hid, covered_. C.

Yyne, ae. 540. _Thine_.

Z.

Zabalus, ae. 428. as _Sabalus_; the Devil.

APPENDIX;

CONTAINING SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON THE LANGUAGE OF THE POEMS ATTRIBUTED TO ROWLEY;

TENDING TO PROVE, THAT THEY WERE WRITTEN, NOT BY ANY ANCIENT AUTHOR, BUT ENTIRELY BY THOMAS CHATTERTON.

Tum levis haud ultra latebras jam quaerit imago, Sed sublime volans nocti se immiscuit atrae.

VIRGIL. ae. X.

APPENDIX, &c.

When these Poems were first printed, it was thought best to leave the question of their authenticity to the determination of the impartial Public. The Editor contented himself with intimating his opinion, [Pref. p. xii, xiii.] that the external evidence on both sides was so defective as to deserve but little attention, and that the final decision of the question must depend upon the internal evidence. To shew that this opinion was not thrown out in order to mislead the enquiries and judgements of the readers, I have here drawn together _some observations upon_ THE LANGUAGE[1] _of the poems attributed to Rowley_, which, I think, will be sufficient to prove, 1st, that they were not written in the XV Century; and 2dly, that they were written entirely by Thomas Chatterton.