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<h2> CHAPTER XL. How after that Sir Tristram, Sir Palomides, and Sir Dinadan had been long in prison they were delivered. </h2>
<p>NOW leave we off this tale, and speak we of sir Dinas that had within the
castle a paramour, and she loved another knight better than him. And so
when sir Dinas went out a-hunting she slipped down by a towel, and took
with her two brachets, and so she yede to the knight that she loved, and
he her again. And when sir Dinas came home and missed his paramour and his
brachets, then was he the more wrother for his brachets than for the lady.
So then he rode after the knight that had his paramour, and bade him turn
and joust. So sir Dinas smote him down, that with the fall he brake his
leg and his arm. And then his lady and paramour cried sir Dinas mercy, and
said she would love him better than ever she did. Nay, said sir Dinas, I
shall never trust them that once betrayed me, and therefore, as ye have
begun, so end, for I will never meddle with you. And so sir Dinas
departed, and took his brachets with him, and so rode to his castle.</p>
<p>Now will we turn unto sir Launcelot, that was right heavy that he could
never hear no tidings of sir Tristram, for all this while he was in prison
with sir Darras, Palomides, and Dinadan. Then Dame Bragwaine took her
leave to go into Cornwall, and sir Launcelot, sir Kay, and sir Gaheris
rode to seek sir Tristram in the country of Surluse.</p>
<p>Now speaketh this tale of sir Tristram and of his two fellows, for every
day sir Palomides brawled and said language against sir Tristram. I
marvel, said sir Dinadan, of thee, sir Palomides, an thou haddest sir
Tristram here thou wouldst do him no harm; for an a wolf and a sheep were
together in a prison the wolf would suffer the sheep to be in peace. And
wit thou well, said sir Dinadan, this same is sir Tristram at a word, and
now must thou do thy best with him, and let see now if ye can skift it
with your hands. Then was sir Palomides abashed and said little. Sir
Palomides, then said sir Tristram, I have heard much of your maugre
against me, but I will not meddle with you as at this time by my will,
because I dread the lord of this place that hath us in governance; for an
I dread him not more than I do thee, soon it should be skift: so they
peaced themself. Right so came in a damosel and said: Knights, be of good
cheer, for ye are sure of your lives, and that I heard say my lord, Sir
Darras. Then were they glad all three, for daily they weened they should
have died.</p>
<p>Then soon after this Sir Tristram fell sick that he weened to have died;
then Sir Dinadan wept, and so did Sir Palomides under them both making
great sorrow. So a damosel came in to them and found them mourning. Then
she went unto Sir Darras, and told him how that mighty knight that bare
the black shield was likely to die. That shall not be, said Sir Darras,
for God defend when knights come to me for succour that I should suffer
them to die within my prison. Therefore, said Sir Darras to the damosel,
fetch that knight and his fellows afore me. And then anon Sir Darras saw
Sir Tristram brought afore him. He said: Sir knight, me repenteth of thy
sickness for thou art called a full noble knight, and so it seemeth by
thee; and wit ye well it shall never be said that Sir Darras shall destroy
such a noble knight as thou art in prison, howbeit that thou hast slain
three of my sons whereby I was greatly aggrieved. But now shalt thou go
and thy fellows, and your harness and horses have been fair and clean
kept, and ye shall go where it liketh you, upon this covenant, that thou,
knight, wilt promise me to be good friend to my sons two that be now
alive, and also that thou tell me thy name. Sir, said he, as for me my
name is Sir Tristram de Liones, and in Cornwall was I born, and nephew I
am unto King Mark. And as for the death of your sons I might not do
withal, for an they had been the next kin that I have I might have done
none otherwise. And if I had slain them by treason or treachery I had been
worthy to have died. All this I consider, said Sir Darras, that all that
ye did was by force of knighthood, and that was the cause I would not put
you to death. But sith ye be Sir Tristram, the good knight, I pray you
heartily to be my good friend and to my sons. Sir, said Sir Tristram, I
promise you by the faith of my body, ever while I live I will do you
service, for ye have done to us but as a natural knight ought to do. Then
Sir Tristram reposed him there till that he was amended of his sickness;
and when he was big and strong they took their leave, and every knight
took their horses, and so departed and rode together till they came to a
cross way. Now fellows, said Sir Tristram, here will we depart in sundry
ways. And because Sir Dinadan had the first adventure of him I will begin.</p>
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<h2> CHAPTER XLI. How Sir Dinadan rescued a lady from Sir Breuse Saunce Pite, and how Sir Tristram received a shield of Morgan le Fay. </h2>
<p>SO as Sir Dinadan rode by a well he found a lady making great dole. What
aileth you? said Sir Dinadan. Sir knight, said the lady, I am the
wofullest lady of the world, for within these five days here came a knight
called Sir Breuse Saunce Pite, and he slew mine own brother, and ever
since he hath kept me at his own will, and of all men in the world I hate
him most; and therefore I require you of knighthood to avenge me, for he
will not tarry, but be here anon. Let him come, said Sir Dinadan, and
because of honour of all women I will do my part. With this came Sir
Breuse, and when he saw a knight with his lady he was wood wroth. And then
he said: Sir knight, keep thee from me. So they hurtled together as
thunder, and either smote other passing sore, but Sir Dinadan put him
through the shoulder a grievous wound, and or ever Sir Dinadan might turn
him Sir Breuse was gone and fled. Then the lady prayed him to bring her to
a castle there beside but four mile thence; and so Sir Dinadan brought her
there, and she was welcome, for the lord of that castle was her uncle; and
so Sir Dinadan rode his way upon his adventure.</p>
<p>Now turn we this tale unto Sir Tristram, that by adventure he came to a
castle to ask lodging, wherein was Queen Morgan le Fay; and so when Sir
Tristram was let into that castle he had good cheer all that night. And
upon the morn when he would have departed the queen said: Wit ye well ye
shall not depart lightly, for ye are here as a prisoner. Jesu defend! said
Sir Tristram, for I was but late a prisoner. Fair knight, said the queen,
ye shall abide with me till that I wit what ye are and from whence ye
come. And ever the queen would set Sir Tristram on her own side, and her
paramour on the other side. And ever Queen Morgan would behold Sir
Tristram, and thereat the knight was jealous, and was in will suddenly to
have run upon Sir Tristram with a sword, but he left it for shame. Then
the queen said to Sir Tristram: Tell me thy name, and I shall suffer you
to depart when ye will. Upon that covenant I tell you my name is Sir
Tristram de Liones. Ah, said Morgan le Fay, an I had wist that, thou
shouldst not have departed so soon as thou shalt. But sithen I have made a
promise I will hold it, with that thou wilt promise me to bear upon thee a
shield that I shall deliver thee, unto the castle of the Hard Rock, where
King Arthur had cried a great tournament, and there I pray you that ye
will be, and to do for me as much deeds of arms as ye may do. For at the
Castle of Maidens, Sir Tristram, ye did marvellous deeds of arms as ever I
heard knight do. Madam, said Sir Tristram, let me see the shield that I
shall bear. Then the shield was brought forth, and the field was goldish,
with a king and a queen therein painted, and a knight standing above them,
[one foot] upon the king's head, and the other upon the queen's. Madam,
said Sir Tristram, this is a fair shield and a mighty; but what signifieth
this king and this queen, and the knight standing upon both their heads? I
shall tell you, said Morgan le Fay, it signifieth King Arthur and Queen
Guenever, and a knight who holdeth them both in bondage and in servage.
Who is that knight? said Sir Tristram. That shall ye not wit as at this
time, said the queen. But as the French book saith, Queen Morgan loved Sir
Launcelot best, and ever she desired him, and he would never love her nor
do nothing at her request, and therefore she held many knights together
for to have taken him by strength. And because she deemed that Sir
Launcelot loved Queen Guenever paramour, and she him again, therefore
Queen Morgan le Fay ordained that shield to put Sir Launcelot to a rebuke,
to that intent that King Arthur might understand the love between them.
Then Sir Tristram took that shield and promised her to bear it at the
tournament at the Castle of the Hard Rock. But Sir Tristram knew not that
that shield was ordained against Sir Launcelot, but afterward he knew it.</p>
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<h2> CHAPTER XLII. How Sir Tristram took with him the shield, and also how he slew the paramour of Morgan le Fay. </h2>
<p>SO then Sir Tristram took his leave of the queen, and took the shield with
him. Then came the knight that held Queen Morgan le Fay, his name was Sir
Hemison, and he made him ready to follow Sir Tristram. Fair friend, said
Morgan, ride not after that knight, for ye shall not win no worship of
him. Fie on him, coward, said Sir Hemison, for I wist never good knight
come out of Cornwall but if it were Sir Tristram de Liones. What an that
be he? said she. Nay, nay, said he, he is with La Beale Isoud, and this is
but a daffish knight. Alas, my fair friend, ye shall find him the best
knight that ever ye met withal, for I know him better than ye do. For your
sake, said Sir Hemison, I shall slay him. Ah, fair friend, said the queen,
me repenteth that ye will follow that knight, for I fear me sore of your
again coming. With this this knight rode his way wood wroth, and he rode
after Sir Tristram as fast as he had been chased with knights. When Sir
Tristram heard a knight come after him so fast he returned about, and saw
a knight coming against him. And when he came nigh to Sir Tristram he
cried on high: Sir knight, keep thee from me. Then they rushed together as
it had been thunder, and Sir Hemison brised his spear upon Sir Tristram,
but his harness was so good that he might not hurt him. And Sir Tristram
smote him harder, and bare him through the body, and he fell over his
horse's croup. Then Sir Tristram turned to have done more with his sword,
but he saw so much blood go from him that him seemed he was likely to die,
and so he departed from him and came to a fair manor to an old knight, and
there Sir Tristram lodged.</p>
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<h2> CHAPTER XLIII. How Morgan le Fay buried her paramour, and how Sir Tristram praised Sir Launcelot and his kin. </h2>
<p>NOW leave to speak of Sir Tristram, and speak we of the knight that was
wounded to the death. Then his varlet alighted, and took off his helm, and
then he asked his lord whether there were any life in him. There is in me
life said the knight, but it is but little; and therefore leap thou up
behind me when thou hast holpen me up, and hold me fast that I fall not,
and bring me to Queen Morgan le Fay; for deep draughts of death draw to my
heart that I may not live, for I would fain speak with her or I died: for
else my soul will be in great peril an I die. For[thwith] with great pain
his varlet brought him to the castle, and there Sir Hemison fell down
dead. When Morgan le Fay saw him dead she made great sorrow out of reason;
and then she let despoil him unto his shirt, and so she let him put into a
tomb. And about the tomb she let write: Here lieth Sir Hemison, slain by
the hands of Sir Tristram de Liones.</p>
<p>Now turn we unto Sir Tristram, that asked the knight his host if he saw
late any knights adventurous. Sir, he said, the last night here lodged
with me Ector de Maris and a damosel with him, and that damosel told me
that he was one of the best knights of the world. That is not so, said Sir
Tristram, for I know four better knights of his own blood, and the first
is Sir Launcelot du Lake, call him the best knight, and Sir Bors de Ganis,
Sir Bleoberis, Sir Blamore de Ganis, and Sir Gaheris. Nay, said his host,
Sir Gawaine is a better knight than he. That is not so, said Sir Tristram,
for I have met with them both, and I felt Sir Gaheris for the better
knight, and Sir Lamorak I call him as good as any of them except Sir
Launcelot. Why name ye not Sir Tristram? said his host, for I account him
as good as any of them. I know not Sir Tristram, said Tristram. Thus they
talked and bourded as long as them list, and then went to rest. And on the
morn Sir Tristram departed, and took his leave of his host, and rode
toward the Roche Dure, and none adventure had Sir Tristram but that; and
so he rested not till he came to the castle, where he saw five hundred
tents.</p>
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<h2> CHAPTER XLIV. How Sir Tristram at a tournament bare the shield that Morgan le Fay delivered to him. </h2>
<p>THEN the King of Scots and the King of Ireland held against King Arthur's
knights, and there began a great medley. So came in Sir Tristram and did
marvellous deeds of arms, for there he smote down many knights. And ever
he was afore King Arthur with that shield. And when King Arthur saw that
shield he marvelled greatly in what intent it was made; but Queen Guenever
deemed as it was, wherefore she was heavy. Then was there a damosel of
Queen Morgan in a chamber by King Arthur, and when she heard King Arthur
speak of that shield, then she spake openly unto King Arthur. Sir King,
wit ye well this shield was ordained for you, to warn you of your shame
and dishonour, and that longeth to you and your queen. And then anon that
damosel picked her away privily, that no man wist where she was become.
Then was King Arthur sad and wroth, and asked from whence came that
damosel. There was not one that knew her nor wist where she was become.
Then Queen Guenever called to her Sir Ector de Maris, and there she made
her complaint to him, and said: I wot well this shield was made by Morgan
le Fay in despite of me and of Sir Launcelot, wherefore I dread me sore
lest I should be destroyed. And ever the king beheld Sir Tristram, that
did so marvellous deeds of arms that he wondered sore what knight he might
be, and well he wist it was not Sir Launcelot. And it was told him that
Sir Tristram was in Petit Britain with Isoud la Blanche Mains, for he
deemed, an he had been in the realm of Logris, Sir Launcelot or some of
his fellows that were in the quest of Sir Tristram that they should have
found him or that time. So King Arthur had marvel what knight he might be.
And ever Sir Arthur's eye was on that shield. All that espied the queen,
and that made her sore afeard.</p>
<p>Then ever Sir Tristram smote down knights wonderly to behold, what upon
the right hand and upon the left hand, that unnethe no knight might
withstand him. And the King of Scots and the King of Ireland began to
withdraw them. When Arthur espied that, he thought that that knight with
the strange shield should not escape him. Then he called unto him Sir
Uwaine le Blanche Mains, and bade him arm him and make him ready. So anon
King Arthur and Sir Uwaine dressed them before Sir Tristram, and required
him to tell them where he had that shield. Sir, he said, I had it of Queen
Morgan le Fay, sister unto King Arthur.</p>
<p>So here endeth this history of this book, for it is the first book of Sir
Tristram de Liones and the second book of Sir Tristram followeth.</p>
<p>GLOSSARY<br/>
<br/>
Abashed, abased, lowered,<br/>
Abate, depress, calm,<br/>
Abought, paid for,<br/>
Abraid, started,<br/>
Accompted, counted,<br/>
Accorded, agreed,<br/>
Accordment, agreement,<br/>
Acquit, repay,<br/>
Actually, actively,<br/>
Adoubted, afraid,<br/>
Advision, vision,<br/>
Afeard, afraid,<br/>
Afterdeal, disadvantage,<br/>
Againsay, retract,<br/>
Aknown, known,<br/>
Aligement, alleviation,<br/>
Allegeance, alleviation,<br/>
Allow, approve,<br/>
Almeries, chests,<br/>
Alther, gen. pl., of all,<br/>
Amounted, mounted,<br/>
Anealed, anointed,<br/>
Anguishly, in pain,<br/>
Anon, at once,<br/>
Apair, weaken,<br/>
Apparelled, fitted up,<br/>
Appeach, impeach,<br/>
Appealed, challenged, accused,<br/>
Appertices, displays,<br/>
Araged, enraged, ; confused,<br/>
Araised, raised,<br/>
Arase, obliterate,<br/>
Areared, reared,<br/>
Armyvestal, martial,<br/>
Array, plight, state of affairs,<br/>
Arrayed, situated,<br/>
Arson, saddle-bow,<br/>
Askance, casually,<br/>
Assoiled, absolved,<br/>
Assotted, infatuated,<br/>
Assummon, summon,<br/>
Astonied, amazed, stunned,<br/>
At, of, by,<br/>
At-after, after,<br/>
Attaint, overcome,<br/>
Aumbries, chests,<br/>
Avail (at), at an advantage,<br/>
Avaled, lowered,<br/>
Avaunt, boast,<br/>
Aventred, couched,<br/>
Avised, be advised, take thought,<br/>
Avision, vision,<br/>
Avoid, quit,<br/>
Avoided, got clear off,<br/>
Avow, vow,<br/>
Await of (in), in watch for,<br/>
Awayward, away,<br/>
Awke, sideways,<br/>
<br/>
Bachelors, probationers for knighthood<br/>
Bain, bath,<br/>
Barbican, gate-tower,<br/>
Barget, little ship,<br/>
Battle, division of an army,<br/>
Bawdy, dirty,<br/>
Beams, trumpets,<br/>
Be-closed, enclosed,<br/>
Become, pp., befallen, gone to,<br/>
Bedashed, splashed,<br/>
Behests, promises,<br/>
Behight, promised,<br/>
Beholden (beholding) to, obliged to,<br/>
Behote, promised,<br/>
Benome, deprived, taken away,<br/>
Besants, gold coins,<br/>
Beseek, beseech,<br/>
Beseen, appointed, arrayed,<br/>
Beskift, shove off,<br/>
Bested, beset,<br/>
Betaken, entrusted,<br/>
Betaught, entrusted, recommended,<br/>
Betid, happened,<br/>
Betook, committed, entrusted,<br/>
Bevered, quivered,<br/>
Board, sb., deck,<br/>
Bobaunce, boasting, pride,<br/>
Boishe, bush, branch of a tree,<br/>
<br/>
Boistous, rough,<br/>
Bole, trunk of a tree,<br/>
Boot, remedy,<br/>
Borrow out, redeem,<br/>
Borrows, pledges,<br/>
Bote, remedy,<br/>
Bound, ready,<br/>
Bourded, jested,<br/>
Bourder, jester,<br/>
Braced, embraced,<br/>
Brachet, little hound,<br/>
Braide, quick movement,<br/>
Brast, burst, break,<br/>
Breaths, breathing holes,<br/>
Brief, shorten,<br/>
Brim, fierce, furious,<br/>
Brised, broke,<br/>
Broached, pierced,<br/>
Broaches, spits,<br/>
Bur, hand-guard of a spear,<br/>
Burble, bubble,<br/>
Burbling, bubbling,<br/>
Burgenetts, buds, blossoms,<br/>
Bushment, ambush,<br/>
By and by, immediately,<br/>
Bywaryed, expended, bestowed,<br/>
<br/>
Canel bone, collar bone,<br/>
Cankered, inveterate,<br/>
Cantel, slice, strip,<br/>
Careful, sorrowful, full of troubles,<br/>
Cast (of bread), loaves baked at the same time,<br/>
Cast, ref: v., propose,<br/>
Cedle, schedule, note,<br/>
Cere, wax over, embalm,; cerel,<br/>
Certes, certainly,<br/>
Chafe, heat, decompose,; chafed, heated,<br/>
Chaflet, platform, scaffold,<br/>
Champaign, open country,<br/>
Chariot (Fr charette), cart,<br/>
Cheer, countenance, entertainment,<br/>
Chierte, dearness,<br/>
Chrism, anointing oil,<br/>
Clatter, talk confusedly,<br/>
Cleight, clutched,<br/>
Cleped, called,<br/>
Clipping, embracing,<br/>
Cog, small boat,<br/>
Cognisance, badge, mark of distinction,<br/>
Coif, head-piece,<br/>
Comfort, strengthen, help,<br/>
Cominal, common,<br/>
Complished, complete,<br/>
Con, know, be able, ; con thanlt, be grateful,<br/>
Conserve, preserve,<br/>
Conversant, abiding in,<br/>
Cording, agreement,<br/>
Coronal, circlet,<br/>
Cost, side,<br/>
Costed, kept up with,<br/>
Couched, lay,<br/>
Courage, encourage,<br/>
Courtelage, courtyard,<br/>
Covert, sheltered,<br/>
Covetise, covetousness,<br/>
Covin, deceit,<br/>
Cream, oil,<br/>
Credence, faith,<br/>
Croup, crupper,<br/>
Curteist, most courteous,<br/>
<br/>
Daffish, foolish,<br/>
Danger (in), under obligation to, in the power of,<br/>
Dawed, v tr., revived, intr. dawned,<br/>
Deadly, mortal, human,<br/>
Deal, part, portion,<br/>
Debate, quarrel, strife,<br/>
Debonair, courteous,<br/>
Deceivable, deceitful,<br/>
Defaded, faded,<br/>
Default, fault,<br/>
Defend, forbid,; defended,; forbidden,<br/>
Defoiled, trodden down, fouled, deflowered,<br/>
Degree (win the), rank, superiority,<br/>
Delibered, determined,<br/>
Deliverly, adroitly,<br/>
Departed, divided,<br/>
Departition, departure,<br/>
Dere, harm,<br/>
Descrive, describe,<br/>
Despoiled, stripped,<br/>
Detrenched, cut to pieces,<br/>
Devised, looked carefully at,<br/>
Devoir, duty, service,<br/>
Did off, doffed,<br/>
Dight, prepared,<br/>
Dindled, trembled,<br/>
Disadventure, misfortune,<br/>
Discover, reveal,<br/>
Disherited, disinherited,<br/>
Disparpled, scattered,<br/>
Dispenses, expenses,<br/>
Disperplyd, scattered,<br/>
Dispoiled, stripped,<br/>
Distained, sullied, dishonoured,<br/>
Disworship, shame,<br/>
Dole, gift of alms,<br/>
Dole, sorrow,<br/>
Domineth, dominates, rules,<br/>
Don, gift,<br/>
Doted, foolish,<br/>
<br/>
Doubted, redoubtable,<br/>
Draughts, privities, secret interviews, recesses,<br/>
Drenched, drowned,<br/>
Dress, make ready,<br/>
Dressed up, raised,<br/>
Dretched, troubled in sleep,<br/>
Dretching, being troubled in sleep,<br/>
Dromounds, war vessels,<br/>
Dure, endure, last,; dured,; during,<br/>
Duresse, bondage, hardship,<br/>
Dwined, dwindled,<br/>
<br/>
Eased, entertained,<br/>
Eft, after, again,<br/>
Eftures, passages,<br/>
Embattled, ranged for battle,<br/>
Embushed, concealed in the woods,<br/>
Eme, uncle,<br/>
Empoison, poison,<br/>
Emprised, undertook,<br/>
Enbraid,<br/>
Enchafe, heat,; enchafed, heated,<br/>
Enchieve, achieve,<br/>
Endlong, alongside of,<br/>
Enewed, painted,<br/>
Enforce, constrain,<br/>
Engine, device,<br/>
Enow, enough,<br/>
Enquest, enterprise,<br/>
Ensured, assured,<br/>
Entermete, intermeddle,<br/>
Errant, wandering,<br/>
Estates, ranks,<br/>
Even hand, at an equality,<br/>
Evenlong, along,<br/>
Everych, each, every one,<br/>
<br/>
Faiter, vagabond,<br/>
Fare, sb., ado, commotion,<br/>
Faren, pp., treated,<br/>
Faute, lack,; fauted, lacked,<br/>
Fealty, oath of fidelity,<br/>
Fear, frighten,<br/>
Feute, trace, track,<br/>
Feuter, set in rest, couch,<br/>
Feutred, set in socket,<br/>
Fiaunce, affiance, promise,<br/>
Flang, flung,; rushed,<br/>
Flatling, prostrate,<br/>
Fleet, float,<br/>
Flemed, put to flight,<br/>
Flittered, fluttered,<br/>
Foiled, defeated, shamed,<br/>
Foined, thrust,<br/>
Foining, thrusting,<br/>
Foins, thrusts,<br/>
<br/>
Foot-hot, hastily,<br/>
For-bled, spent with bleeding,<br/>
Force (no), no concern,<br/>
Fordeal, advantage,<br/>
Fordo, destroy,; fordid,<br/>
Forecast, preconcerted plot,<br/>
For-fared, worsted,<br/>
Forfend, forbid,<br/>
Forfoughten, weary with fighting,<br/>
Forhewn, hewn to pieces,<br/>
Forjousted, tired with jousting,<br/>
Forthinketh, repents,<br/>
Fortuned, happened,<br/>
Forward, vanguard,<br/>
Forwowmded, sorely wounded,<br/>
Free, noble,<br/>
Freshed,<br/>
Froward, away from,<br/>
<br/>
Gad, wedge or spike of iron,<br/>
Gainest, readiest,<br/>
Gar, cause,<br/>
Gart, compelled,<br/>
Gentily, like a gentleman,<br/>
Gerfalcon, a fine hawk,<br/>
Germane, closely allied,<br/>
Gest, deed, story,<br/>
Gisarm, halberd, battle-axe,<br/>
Glaive, sword,<br/>
Glasting, barking,<br/>
Glatisant, barking, yelping,<br/>
Gobbets, lumps,<br/>
Graithed, made ready,<br/>
Gree, degree, superiority,<br/>
Greed, pp., pleased, content,<br/>
Grescs, steps,<br/>
Grimly, ugly,<br/>
Grovelling, on his face,<br/>
Guerdonless, without reward,<br/>
Guise, fashion,<br/>
<br/>
Habergeon, hauberk with leggings attached,<br/>
Hair, a hair-shirt,<br/>
Hale and how, a sailor's cry,<br/>
Halp, helped,<br/>
Halsed, embraced,<br/>
Halsing, embracing,<br/>
Handfast, betrothed,<br/>
Handsel, earnest-money,<br/>
Hangers, testicles,<br/>
Harbingers, messengers sent to prepare lodgings,<br/>
Harness, armour,<br/>
Hart of greese, fat deer,<br/>
Hauberk, coat of mail,<br/>
Haut, high, noble,<br/>
Hauteyn, haughty,<br/>
Heavy, sad,<br/>
Hete, command,<br/>
Hide, skin,<br/>
Hied, hurried,<br/>
High (on), aloud,<br/>
Higher hand, the uppermost,<br/>
Hight, called,<br/>
Hilled, covered, concealed,<br/>
Holden, held,<br/>
Holp, helped,<br/>
Holts, woods,<br/>
Hough-bone, back part of kneejoint,<br/>
Houselled, to be given the Eucharist,<br/>
Hoved, hovered, waited about,<br/>
Hurled, dashed, staggered,; hurling,<br/>
Hurtle, dash,<br/>
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Incontinent, forthwith,<br/>
Ind, dark blue,<br/>
Infellowship, join in fellowship,<br/>
In like, alike,<br/>
Intermit, interpose,<br/>
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Japer, jester,<br/>
Japes, jests,<br/>
Jesseraunt, a short cuirass,<br/>
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Keep, sb., care,<br/>
Keep, s., care, reck,<br/>
Kemps, champions,<br/>
Kind, nature,<br/>
Kindly, natural,<br/>
Knights parters, marshals,<br/>
Know, acknowledge,<br/>
Knowledging, acknowledgment, confession,<br/>
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Lain, conceal,<br/>
Langering, sauntering,<br/>
Lapped, took in her lap,<br/>
Large, generous,<br/>
Largeness, liberality,<br/>
Laton, latten, brass,<br/>
Laund, waste plain,<br/>
Layne, conceal,<br/>
Lazar-cot, leper-house,<br/>
Learn, teach,<br/>
Lears, cheeks,<br/>
Leaved, leafy,<br/>
Lecher, fornicator,<br/>
Leech, physician,<br/>
Leman, lover,<br/>
Let, caused to,<br/>
Let, hinder,<br/>
Lewdest, most ignorant,<br/>
Licours lecherous,<br/>
Lief, dear,<br/>
Liefer, more gladly,<br/>
Lieve, believe,<br/>
Limb-meal, limb from limb,<br/>
List, desire, pleasure,<br/>
Lithe, joint,<br/>
Longing unto, belonging to,<br/>
Long on (upon), because of,<br/>
Loos, praise,<br/>
Lotless, without a share,<br/>
Loveday, day for. settling disputes,<br/>
Loving, praising,<br/>
Lunes, leashes, strings,<br/>
Lusk, lubber,<br/>
Lusts, inclinations,<br/>
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Maims, wounds,<br/>
Makeless, matchless,<br/>
Makers, authors, poets,<br/>
Mas,ease, discomfort,<br/>
Mal engine, evil design,<br/>
Mal-fortune, ill-luck, mishap,<br/>
Marches, borders,<br/>
Mass-penny, offering at mass for the dead,<br/>
Matche old, machicolated, with holes for defence,<br/>
Maugre, sb., despite,<br/>
Measle, disease,<br/>
Medled, mingled,<br/>
Medley, melee, general encounter,<br/>
Meiny, retinue,<br/>
Mickle, much,<br/>
Minever, ermine,<br/>
Mischieved, hurt,<br/>
Mischievous, painful,<br/>
Miscorr fort, discomfort,<br/>
Miscreature, unbeliever,<br/>
Missay, revile,; missaid,<br/>
Mo, more,<br/>
More and less, rich and poor,<br/>
Motes, notes on a horn,<br/>
Mount~ lance, amount of, extent,<br/>
Much, great,<br/>
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Naked, unarmed,<br/>
Namely, especially,<br/>
Ne, nor,<br/>
Near-hand, nearly,; near,<br/>
Needly, needs, on your own compulsion,<br/>
Nesh, soft, tender,<br/>
Nigh-hand, nearly,<br/>
Nill, will not,<br/>
Nilt, will not,<br/>
Nis, ne is, is not,<br/>
Nist, ne wist, knew not,<br/>
Noblesse, nobleness,<br/>
Nobley, nobility, splendour,<br/>
Noised, reported,<br/>
Nold, would not,<br/>
Noseling, on his nose,<br/>
Not for then, nevertheless,<br/>
Notoyrly, notoriously,<br/>
Noyous, hurtful,<br/>
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Obeissance, obedience,<br/>
Or, before,<br/>
Orgule, haughtiness,<br/>
Orgulist, haughtiest,<br/>
Orgulite, pride, arrogance,<br/>
Orgulous, proud,<br/>
Other, or,<br/>
Ouches, jewels,<br/>
Ought, owned,<br/>
Outcept, except,<br/>
Outher, or,<br/>
Out-taken, except,<br/>
Over-evening, last night,<br/>
Overget, overtake,<br/>
Overhylled, covered,<br/>
Over-led, domineered over,<br/>
Overlong, the length of,<br/>
Overslip, pass,<br/>
Overthwart, adj., cross,<br/>
Overthwart, sb., mischance,<br/>
Overthwart and endlong, by the breadth and length,<br/>
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Painture, painting,<br/>
Paitrelles, breastplate of a horse,<br/>
Paltocks, short coats,<br/>
Parage, descent,<br/>
Pareil, like,<br/>
Passing, surpassingly,<br/>
Paynim, pagan,<br/>
Pensel, pennon,<br/>
Perclos, partition,<br/>
Perdy, par Dieu,<br/>
Perigot, falcon,<br/>
Perish, destroy,<br/>
Peron, tombstone,<br/>
Pight, pitched,<br/>
Pike, steal away,<br/>
Piked, stole,<br/>
Pillers, plunderers,<br/>
Pilling, plundering,<br/>
Pleasaunce, pleasure,<br/>
Plenour, complete,<br/>
Plump, sb., cluster,<br/>
Pointling, aiming,<br/>
Pont, bridge,<br/>
Port, gate,<br/>
Posseded, possessed,<br/>
Potestate, governor,<br/>
Precessours, predecessors,<br/>
Press, throng,<br/>
Pretendeth, belongs to,<br/>
Pricker, hard rider,<br/>
Pricking, spurring,<br/>
Prime, A.M.,<br/>
Prise, capture,<br/>
Puissance, power,<br/>
Purfle, trimming,<br/>
Purfled, embroidered,<br/>
Purvey, provide,<br/>
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Quarrels, arrowheads,<br/>
Questing, barking,<br/>
Quick, alive,<br/>
Quit, repaid,; acquitted, behaved,<br/>
Raced (rased), tore,<br/>
Rack (of bulls), herd,<br/>
Raines, a town in Brittany famous for its cloth,<br/>
Ramping, raging,<br/>
Range, rank, station,<br/>
Ransacked, searched,<br/>
Rashed, fell headlong,<br/>
Rashing, rushing,<br/>
Rasing, rushing,<br/>
Rasure,<br/>
Raundon, impetuosity,<br/>
Rear, raise,<br/>
Rechate, note of recall,<br/>
Recomforted, comforted, cheered,<br/>
Recounter, rencontre, encounter,<br/>
Recover, rescue,<br/>
Rede, advise, ; sb., counsel,<br/>
Redounded, glanced back,<br/>
Religion, religious order,<br/>
Reneye, deny,<br/>
Report, refer,<br/>
Resemblaunt; semblance,<br/>
Retrayed, drew back,<br/>
Rightwise, rightly,<br/>
Rivage, shore,<br/>
Romed, roared,<br/>
Roted, practised,<br/>
Rove, cleft,<br/>
Rownsepyk, a branch,<br/>
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Sacring, consecrating,<br/>
Sad, serious,<br/>
Sadly, heartily, earnestly,<br/>
Salle, room,<br/>
Samite, silk stuff with gold or silver<br/>
threads,<br/>
Sangreal, Holy Grail,<br/>
Sarps, girdles,<br/>
Saw, proverb,<br/>
Scathes, harms, hurts,<br/>
icripture, writing,<br/>
Search, probe wounds,<br/>
Selar, canopy,<br/>
Semblable, like,<br/>
Semblant, semblance,<br/>
Sendal, fine cloth,<br/>
Sennight, week,<br/>
Servage, slavery,<br/>
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Sewer, officer who set on dishes and tasted them,<br/>
Shaft-mon, handbreadth,<br/>
Shaw, thicket,<br/>
Sheef, thrust,<br/>
Sheer-Thursday, Thursday in Holy Week,<br/>
Shend, harm,<br/>
Shenship, disgrace,<br/>
Shent, undone, blamed,<br/>
Shour, attack,<br/>
Shrew, rascal,<br/>
Shrewd, knavish,<br/>
Sib, akin to,<br/>
Sideling, sideways,<br/>
Siege, seat,<br/>
Signified, likened,<br/>
Siker, sure,<br/>
Sikerness, assurance,<br/>
Sith, since,<br/>
Sithen, afterwards, since,<br/>
Skift, changed,<br/>
Slade, valley,<br/>
Slake, glen,<br/>
Soil (to go to), hunting term for taking the water,<br/>
Sonds, messages,<br/>
Sort, company,<br/>
Sperd, bolted,<br/>
Spere, ask, inquire,<br/>
Spered, asked,<br/>
Sperhawk, sparrowhawk,<br/>
Sprent, sprinkled,<br/>
Stale, station,<br/>
Stark, thoroughly,<br/>
Stead, place,<br/>
Stert, started, rose quickly,<br/>
Steven, appointment,; steven ser. appointment made,<br/>
Steven, voice,<br/>
Stigh, path,<br/>
Stilly, silently,<br/>
Stint, fixed revenue,<br/>
Stonied, astonished,; became confused,<br/>
Stour, battle,<br/>
Strain, race, descent,<br/>
Strait, narrow,<br/>
Straked, blew a horn,<br/>
Sue, pursue,<br/>
Sued, pursued,<br/>
Surcingles, saddle girths,<br/>
Swang, swung,<br/>
Sweven, dream,<br/>
Swough, sound of wind,<br/>
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Talent, desire,<br/>
Tallages, taxes,<br/>
Tallies, taxes,<br/>
Tamed, crushed,<br/>
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Tatches, qualities,<br/>
Tene, sorrow,<br/>
Term, period of time,<br/>
Thilk, that same,<br/>
Tho, then,<br/>
Thrang, pushed,<br/>
Thrulled, pushed,<br/>
Till, to,<br/>
To-brast, burst,<br/>
To-fore, before,<br/>
To-morn, to-morrow,<br/>
Took, gave,<br/>
To-rove, broke up,<br/>
To-shivered, broken to pieces,<br/>
Traced, advanced and retreated,<br/>
Trains, devices, wiles,<br/>
Trasing, pressing forward,<br/>
Travers (met at), came across,<br/>
Traverse, slantwise,<br/>
Traversed, moved sideways,<br/>
Tray, grief,<br/>
Treatise, treaty,<br/>
Tree, timber,<br/>
Trenchant, cutting, sharp,<br/>
Tres:, hunting term,<br/>
Truage, tribute,<br/>
Trussed, packed,<br/>
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Ubblie, wafer, Host,<br/>
Umbecast, cast about,<br/>
Umberere, the part of the helmet which shaded the eyes,<br/>
Umbre, shade,<br/>
Unavised, thoughtlessly,<br/>
Uncouth, strange,<br/>
Underne, - A.M.,<br/>
Ungoodly, rudely,<br/>
Unhappy, unlucky,<br/>
Unhilled, uncovered,<br/>
Unr the, scarcely,<br/>
Unsicker, unstable,<br/>
Unwimpled, uncovered,<br/>
Unwrast, untwisted, unbound,<br/>
Upright, flat on the back,<br/>
Up-so-down, upside down,<br/>
Ure, usage,<br/>
Utas, octave of a festival,<br/>
Utterance, uttermost,<br/>
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Varlet, servant,<br/>
Venery, hunting,<br/>
Ven ails, breathing holes,<br/>
Villain, man of low birth,<br/>
Visors, the perforated parts of helmets,<br/>
Voided, slipped away from,<br/>
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Wagging, shaking,<br/>
Waited, watched,<br/>
Waits, watches,<br/>
Wallop, gallop,<br/>
Wanhope, despair,<br/>
Wap, ripple,<br/>
Ware, aware,<br/>
Warison, reward,<br/>
Warn, forbid, refuse,<br/>
Weeds, garments,<br/>
Weltered, rolled about,<br/>
Wend, thought,<br/>
Wer-wolf, a man turned into a wolf by magic,<br/>
Where, whereas,<br/>
Wide-where, over wide space,<br/>
Wield, possess, have power over,<br/>
Wield himself, come to himself,<br/>
Wight, brave, strong,<br/>
Wightly, swiftly,<br/>
Wildsome, desolate,<br/>
Wimpled, with the head covered,<br/>
Win, make way,<br/>
Wite, v., blame,<br/>
Within-forth, on the inside,<br/>
Without-forth, on the outside,<br/>
Wittiest, cleverest,<br/>
Wittily, cleverly,<br/>
Witting, knowledge,<br/>
Wold or nold, would or would not,<br/>
Wonder, adj., wondrous,<br/>
Wonder, adv., wondrously,<br/>
Wonderly, wonderfully,<br/>
Wood, mad,<br/>
Woodness, madness,<br/>
Wood shaw, thicket of the wood,<br/>
Worship, honour,<br/>
Worshipped, cause to be honoured,<br/>
Worts, roots,<br/>
Wot, know,<br/>
Wrack, destruction,<br/>
Wroken, wreaked,<br/>
Wrothe, twisted,<br/>
Yede, ran,<br/>
Yelden, yielded,<br/>
Yerde, stick, stem,<br/>
Yode, went,<br/>
Yolden, yielded,<br/>
Y-wis, certainly,<br/></p>
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