The Rowley Poems eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 278 pages of information about The Rowley Poems.

The Rowley Poems eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 278 pages of information about The Rowley Poems.

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.]

[Swanges, Ch. 210. Swings.]

Swarthe, AE. 265. [A swath, or swarth (so rarely, but cf. Twelfth Night, II. iii, where Maria calls Malvolio ’an affectioned ass, 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.]

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