Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 285 pages of information about Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I.

Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 285 pages of information about Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I.

Paine, xii, 34, labor, treacherous skill; ii, 39, effort;
  iv, 15, take pains. 
Paire, vii, 41, impair, injure. 
Paled, v, 5, fenced off, inclosed with a pale
Palfrey, i, 4; iii, 40, a lady’s saddle horse, here Una’s ass. 
Paramour, i, 9, lover (not in a bad sense). 
Parbreake, i, 20, vomit. 
Pardale, vi, 26, leopard. 
Parted, iii, 22, departed. 
Pas, iv, 11, surpass; xi, 15, step, pace. 
Passing, x, 24, surpassing. 
Passion, ii, 26, 32, deep feeling, lit. suffering. 
Passionate, xii, 16, express feelingly. 
Payne, vi, 21, pains, labor. 
Paynim, iv, 41; vi, 38; xi, 7, pagan, heathen. 
Peece, x, 59, something constructed (Cleopolis). 
Penne, xi, 10, feather, quill. 
Perceable, i, 7, that can be pierced. 
Perdie, perdy, vi, 42, French par Dieu, a common oath. 
Pere, viii, 7; xii, 17, noble, prince. 
Persaunt, x, 47, piercing. 
Pight, ii, 42, etc., pitched, fixed, placed. 
Pine, ix, 35, wasting away; viii, 40, pined, wasted away through torment. 
Plate, vi, 43; vii, 2, solid armor, as distinguished from the coat of mail,
  or light chain armor. 
Pleasaunce, ii, 30, courtesies; iv, 38; vii, 4, delight, conversational
  pleasure. 
Point, (1) ix, 41, appoint;
  (2) ii, 12, not a whit;
  (3) i, 16; ii, 12, (armed) at all points. 
Pollicie, iv, 12, statecraft, cunning. 
Portesse, iv, 19, breviary, small prayer-book. 
Posterne, v, 52, small private gate behind. 
Pouldred, vii, 12, powdered. 
Pounces, xi, 19, a hawk’s claws. 
Poynant, vii, 19, sharp, piercing. 
Poyse, xi, 54, weight, force. 
Practicke, xii, 34, deceitful. 
Prancke, iv, 14, display gaudily. 
Praunce, vii, 11, strut proudly. 
Pray, ix, 30, ravage. 
Preace, iii, 3, crowd, throng. 
Presently, immediately. 
Price, ix, 37, pay the price of, atone for. 
Pricking, i, 1; iii, 33, riding, usually rapidly, i.e. spurring. 
Priefe, viii, 43, trial; ix, 17, proof; x, 24, proved excellence. 
Prime, ii, 40; etc., springtime. 
Privity, ix, 5, privacy. 
Prowesse, vii, 42, bravery. 
Prowest, iv, 41; v, 14, bravest. 
Puissance, i, 3, etc., power. 
Purchas, iii, 16, lit. acquisition, cant term for theft, or robbery
  (Nares). 
Purfled, ii, 13, embroidered on the edge. 
Purposes, ii, 30, conversation. 
Purveyance, xii, 13, provision.

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Quaile, ix, 49, subdue, overpower. 
Quayd, viii, 14, subdued. 
Quell, xi, 24, disconcert, daunt. 
Quight, viii, 10, repay. 
Quit, quitt, vi, 6, 10, to free. 
Quite, viii, 26, 27; x, 37, repay, return. 
Quited, i, 30, return a salute. 
Quoth, i, 12, etc., said.

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