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Garden-house, summer-house, i. 345
Garland, to lurch of the, a phrase de-
noting victory, iv. 642

Garlick, a jig so called, iv. 695
Gartering, cross, a fashion, ii. 680
Gaskins, large breeches, ii. 652
Gaudy, joyous, vi. 209

Gear, matter, purpose, affair, ii. 270;
iv. 47. 481

Geck, a fool, ii. 722; vi. 536

General, the mass of the people, v. 523
Generosity, high birth, good blood,
rank, iv. 607

Generous, or general, v. 376
Gentleman, the devil a, v. 681
German clock, ii. 122
Germins, seeds, v. 434
Gest, a resting place, iii. 16
Gests, deeds, acts, vi. 219
Ghasted, frighted, v. 649

Gib-cat, melancholy of, iii. 327; v.560
Giglot, wanton, iii. 717; vi. 302
Gillian of Brentford, i. 232
Gilliflowers or gillyvors, iii. 71

Gilt, money, gilding, gloss, iii. 557.612;
iv. 613

Gimmal, double, geminal, iii. 608. 656
Ging, a gang, i. 234

Gird, reproof, taunt, iii. 689; iv. 609

VOL. VI.

Girdle, breaking of the, iii. 388
Girdle, to turn the, ii. 72
Give aim, to direct, i. 159; v. 87
Glar'd or glaz'd, v. 309

Gleek, a gird, a scoff, ii. 216; iii. 630.
696; v. 187

Globe Theatre, called "this wooden O,"
iii. 541

Gloze, to explain, flatter, delude, i.

349; iii. 469. 547

God ild you, God yield you, or reward
you, ii. 400. 428; v. 570

Going to the world, a matrimonial
phrase, ii. 29. 425. 543

Good, to weep a, to cry bitterly, in good
earnest, i. 150

Good den, good even or good day, iii.
131; iv. 632

Good life, a song of, ii. 665

Good year, what the, an exclamation,
i. 187; ii. 19; v. 722

Goose, the Winchester, the venereal
disease, iv. 595

Gorbellied, corpulent, iii. 348

Gossips, sponsors, old women, i. 130
Goujeers, morbus Gallicus, i. 187; ii.
19; v. 722

Gourd and fullam, false dice, i. 182
Gouts, drops, v. 405

Grace, beauty, iii. 100

Grand-jurors, great swearers, iii. 348
Grass and grace, ii. 610

Greek, a foolish, ii. 704
Greek, a merry, iv. 487

Green eyes admired, i. 151; v. 173
Green frize, coarse woollen cloth, a
table covered with, iii. 568
Green-sleeves, a tune, i. 190
Green-sour, or green sward, i. 74
Gregory, Turk, iii. 412
Gripe, a griffin, vi. 544

Grise, a step, ii. 686; v. 262; vi. 28
Grissel, or Grizelda, patient, ii. 479
Ground, a term in music, iv. 208
Growing, accruing, i. 395
Guard, the court of, vi. 43. 54

Guarded, ornamented, usually with lace,
ii. 17. 287; iii. 178

Guards, the ornaments of dress, ii. 470;

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Guiana, the riches and beauty of, i. 182
Guidon, a standard, iii. 608
Guile, or title, i. 257

Gummed velvet, the fretting and

wearing of, iii. 345
Gust, to taste, iii. 24

Hacket, Marian, of Wincot, ii. 449
Haggard of the rock, a wild hawk, ii.

40. 684; vi. 71

Hair, false, the wearing of, v. 266
Haled, hauled, ii. 518

Half-face, on coins, iii. 128

Halidom, holiness, goodness, i. 143
Handsaw, and hawk, v. 521

Hangman, the little, a name given to
Cupid, ii. 43

Haply, and happily, i. 325; ii. 453
Happy man be his dole, or share, i. 223;
ii. 457; iii. 348

Hard, to bear, a phrase, v. 308. 320
Hare, the melancholy of a, iii. 327
Harlotry, a term of abuse, iii. 375; v.
178; vi. 104

Harness, armour, v. 222
Harpy, or Harper, v. 432

Harrow, to overthrow, to destroy, v. 475
Harry, to harass, to harrow, vi. 186
Hatch, to take the, a phrase, iii. 197
Haught, proud, haughty, iii. 289
Havock, destruction, v. 340
Headborough, a constable, ii. 444
Hefts, heavings, iii. 33

Henry VII., the prophecy regarding
his succession, iv. 189

Henry, Prince, the committal of, iii. 518
Hent, or hint, to take, i. 21. 34; iii.
68; v. 552

Herb of grace, rue, v. 575

Hesperides, the garden of the, vi. 389
Hest, behest, command, i. 26; iii. 351
Hey Robin, jolly Robin, a ballad, or
tune, ii. 708

Hide fox and all after, a game, ii. 33;
v. 54

High-men and low-men, false dice,
i. 182

High-tides, high-days, iii. 156
Hight, called, named, ii. 98
Hild, held, vi. 565

Hilding, low base wretch, ii. 471. 587 ;
iii. 429. 607; vi. 293

Hint, or hent, i. 21. 34; v. 552
Hip, to catch upon the, ii. 277
Hit together, to agree together, v. 628
Hob-nob, hap or ne hap, as it may
chance, ii. 699

Hobby-horse is forgot, ii. 117; iii. 25;
v. 540

Ho! ho! ho! ii. 231

Hodge-pudding, or hogs-pudding, i. 255
Hold, or cut bow-strings, a colloquial
phrase, ii. 198

Holding, the burden of a song, vi. 179
Holidom, or halidame, į. 143; ii. 523
Holp, helped, iv. 708. 716; vi. 374
Hoodman blind, or blind man's bough,
v. 556

Horn carried by Bedlam beggars, v. 686
Horologe, a clock, vi. 51
Hot-house, a bawdy-house, i. 282
Hour, Humphrey, iv. 322
Hox, to ham-string, iii. 24
Hugger-mugger, secretly, v. 572
Hull, to drive to and fro on the water,

ii. 657; iv. 409

Humour of forty fancies, ii. 488
Humphrey Hour, iv. 322
Hundred merry Tales, ii. 24
Hunt-counter, to run upon a wrong
scent, iii. 437

Hunts up, a morning song, v. 167
Hurly-burly, uproar, v. 385
Hurtle, to dash against, v. 325
Husband, a husbandman, iii. 520
Husbandry, thrift, v. 404

Hysterica passio, the mother, v. 661

I and Ay confused, iii. 275; v. 156
Ignomy, ignominy, i. 299; iii. 416; iv.
594; v. 61

Ill-sorted, ill accompanied, iii. 463
Illustrous, dull, dim, vi. 281
Imaginary, imaginative, iii. 541
Imbare, to expose, lay open, iii. 549
Imp, to piece out, to amend, iii. 248
Impair, unworthy, unbecoming, iv. 564
Impartial, taking no part, i. 343
Impeachment, imputation, or impedi-
ment, i. 9

Imperial, imperious, v. 15. 591
Imperseverant, imperceiving, not per-
ceiving, vi. 328

Impleached, interwoven, vi. 665
Importable, insupportable, ii. 27
Importance, importunity, urgency, ii.
723; iii. 134

Importance, carrying away, iii. 105;
vi. 270

Important, importunate, ii. 22. 149.
591; v. 702

Impose, imposition, i. 144

In, to harvest, to gather in a crop of
corn, iv. 716

Incapable, unconscious, v. 584
Incessantly, or instantly, v. 71
Incision, cutting, ii. 389

Inclip, to embrace, vi. 177
Incony Jew, ii. 120

Index, introduction, commencement, iv.
270; v. 555; vi. 45

India, metal of, gold, ii. 676
Indian, or Indian beauty, ii. 309
Indies, the new map with the, ii. 690
Indifferent, not different, ii. 496
Indigest, undigested, iv. 210
Induction, introduction, commence-

ment, opening, iii. 369
Indurance, durance, imprisonment,
confinement, iv. 448

Inexorable, or inexecrable, ii. 326
Informal, insane, out of their senses,
irregular, i. 345

Ingenious, ingenuous, ii. 103; v. 238
Ingenuous, ingenious, ii. 163
Inhabitable, uninhabitable, iii. 221
Inhibit, to prohibit, ii. 537; v. 427
Iniquity, the Vice in old Moralities, i.
284; iv. 278

Inkhorn-mate, a pedant, iii. 688
Inkle, a kind of tape or worsted, ii.
120; iii. 76; vi. 456
Inland bred, well-bred, ii. 383
Inn, dwelling, habitation, iii. 386
Innocent, natural fool, ii. 604; v. 684
Insconce, to fortify, to hide, i. 377
Inset, to set, iii. 434

In-shell'd, or en-shield, hidden, i. 298
Instance, example, motive, ii. 385. 593
Intend, to pretend, iv. 292. 298; v.

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ignis fatuus, i. 71

Jacks, or keys, of virginals, vi. 646
Jape, a jest, iii. 76

Jaques, St., of Compostella, ii. 582
Jar, or tick, of clocks or watches, iii.
16. 306

Jay, a prostitute, a common wench, i.
215; vi. 312

522

Jeffes, Humphrey, an actor, iv. 158
Jephthah, the ballad of, v.
Jerk, a stripe, a blow, iv. 33
Jesses, or straps, for hawks, vi. 72
Jet, to strut, to swagger, ii. 676; iv.
274; v. 25; vi. 307. 401
Jew, incony, ii. 120

Jew's eye, or Jewess' eye, ii. 292
Jig, what it was in old theatres, v. 525
Jig-makers, writers of jigs, v. 539
John a-dreams, v. 527

Jovial, like Jove, vi. 341

Judas, and his proverbially red beard,
ii. 402; iii. 30

Judas, a kind of torch, ii. 171
Jump, to agree with, ii. 300; iv. 275
Jump, exactly, precisely, v. 475. 608;

vi. 59

Jump, to risk, iv. 658; vi. 197. 359
Justice and Iniquity, i. 284
Justicer, justice, v. 684. 698; vi. 367

Intenible, incapable of holding, ii. 549

Kam, clean, merely awry, iv. 664
Keech, lump of fat, iii. 359; iv. 365
Keel, to cool, or to skim, ii. 180
Kemp, Will, the actor, v. 187. 537.539
Kendal green, iii. 359

Kenilworth, or Killingworth, iv. 83
Kerns, Irish foot soldiers, iii. 245; iv.
54.93; v. 386. 460
Kicky-wicky, ii. 570
Killed, or quelled, v. 717
Kind, natural, vi. 569

Kind, family, kindred, i. 108

King and the Beggar, a ballad, ii. 105

Kirtle and half-kirtle, iii. 468
Kissing after dancing, iv. 386
Kites of Cressid's kind, iii. 560
Knap, to snap, to break, ii. 303
Knock it, applied to music, iv. 386
Knolling, or tolling, iii. 430
Knot-grass, ii. 228

Knotted garden, ii. 100

Laced mutton, a dressed courtezan, a

gay strumpet, i. 92
Lack, to want, iv. 338

Lady, lady, various songs to the tune of,
ii. 667; v. 141

Lakin, by'r, by our little lady, ii. 212
Lamback, to beat, belabour, i. 58; iii.37
Lapwing, allusions to the, i. 278. 400
Larding the plain, or loading it, iii. 617
Larks, the daring of, iv. 426
Latch, to catch, v. 447; vi. 640
Latch'd, licked or letch'd, ii. 219
Lattice, red, at alehouses, iii. 454
Lattin, a mixed metal, i. 174
Lavolta, a dance, iii. 586; iv. 557
Lauds, songs of praise, v. 584
Lay, to waylay, v. 252
Leaguer, a camp, ii. 588
Leasing, lying, ii. 654; iv. 703
Least, lest, or blest, i. 51

Leather-coats, russet apples, iii. 522
Leer, complexion, skin, ii. 410; v. 61
Leese, to lose, vi. 593
Leet, the court-leet, ii. 451
Leets and Law-days, vi. 67

Leg, to make a, to bow, iii. 275; v. 228
Leman, lover, sweetheart, mistress, i.
235; ii. 665

Lenity, or bounty, iv. 656

Lenten, spare, starved, ii. 652; v. 519
Lenvoy, or Envoy, of poems, ii. 118
Let, hindrance, v. 130

Let, to stop, to hinder, to impede, i.

126; iii. 16; v. 497

Lethe, death, v: 338

Level, in the, in the direct aim, iii.
52; iv. 372

Lewd, lustful, wicked, ignorant, ii. 77 ;
iii. 222; iv. 33. 241

Lie, to lie in prison, iv. 229
Liefest, dearest, iv. 49

Liegers, ambassadors, i. 304; vi. 276
Lift, lifted, vi. 342
Lifter, a thief, iv. 488

Liggins, by God's, an oath, iii. 522
Lightly, commonly, usually, iv. 278
Light o' Love, a tune, i. 97; ii. 52
Like me, to liken me to, to compare

me with, iii. 715

Like who more bold, a phrase, i. 242
Liking, well, lusty, in good condition,
iii. 384

Limbo Patrum, the, iv. 460; v. 46
Limbs of Limehouse, iv. 460
Lime, bird-lime, i. 135

Lime put into sack and other wine to
improve it, i. 180

Limited, regular, restricted, v. 275
Lincolnshire bagpipe, iii. 327

Line, to strengthen, to support, to
assist, iii. 548

Line-grove, or lime-grove, i. 73
List, boundary, limit, i. 265; ii. 685;
vi. 90

Lither, yielding, pliant, iii. 717
Livelihood, liveliness, ii. 534; iv. 290
Liver, the seat of love, ii. 137
Loach, fleas bred by, iii. 342
Lob of spirits, ii. 199

Lock, the, wearing of a, ii. 50
Lockram, cheap linen, iv. 636
Loggats, a game like skittles, v. 588
London, the King's chamber, iv. 275
Longly, longingly, ii. 458

Loofed, luffed, a sea-term, vi. 198
Look upon, to look on, iv. 589
Loose of an arrow, the moment of its
discharge, ii. 174

Lord's sake, in for the, i. 329
Losel, an abandoned fellow, iii. 45

Louted, treated like a lout, iii. 709
Lover, a person loving, or loved, ii.
330; iii. 497; iv. 703; v. 342
Loves, of all, for love's sake, by all

means, i. 199. 367; ii. 212
Lubber and lubberly, ii. 704
Luce, a pike, i. 170

Luck, to turn, a phrase, iii. 96
Lullaby of a baby, iii. 60

Lunes, mad freaks, insane conduct, i.
231; iii. 40; iv. 521

Lush, lushious, juicy, i. 36; ii. 206
Lust, pleasure, desire, iv. 559; vi. 40-
Lusted, desired, iv. 295
Lustick, gay, joyous, ii. 561

Lym, a bloodhound, v. 686

Maculate, spotted, ii. 105

Made man, a lucky man, iii. 61

Mail'd up, wrapped up, inclosed, iv. 42
Main, chief, principal, v. 714
Makeless, unmated, without a make, or
mate, vi. 594
Makes, does, iv. 332

Malkin, a wench, iv. 636; vi. 447
Mall, Mistress, her picture, ii. 649
Mammering, muttering, vi. 64
Manage, applied to horses, ii. 166
Mandragora, mandrake, vi. 74. 149
Mandrake's groan, fatal, iv. 66
Mankind, masculine, iii. 44; iv. 679
Manningtree ox, roasted, iii. 366
Many, the mob, iv. 655

Marchpane, a kind of cake, v. 120
Marian, Maid, Robin Hood's mistress,

iii. 387

Marish, marsh, iii. 651

Marring and marrying, i. 170
Masking, or marching, iii. 411

Master or Mistress printed only with
a capital M., iv. 18
Mastiff, or mastic, iv. 496

Match, to set a, to appoint a meeting,
to make a match, iii. 328
Mate, to destroy, confound, astonish,
i. 324; iv. 52; v. 451; vi. 512
Mate, or make, v. 700; vi. 594
Maugre, in spite of, ii. 687
Maund, a basket, vi. 660

Meacock, a coward, ii. 479

Meal'd, mingled, mixed, i. 324
Measure, a slow dance, ii. 157; iii. 635
Meazels, lepers, iv. 655

Meddle, to mingle, to mix, i. 16
Meeds, merits, deserts, iv. 136. 194;
v. 220. 599

Meet with, to counteract, i. 70
Meiny, retinue, followers, v. 660
Mell, to meddle, i. 324; ii. 605
Mercatantè, a merchant, ii. 502
Merchant, a term of contempt, iii. 676
Mere, absolute, i. 15; vi. 371. 445;
v. 141

Mered, sole, mere, vi. 203
Merry Greek, a, iv. 487

Mess, four of any thing, iii. 24; iv. 131
Message, or messenger, ii. 117
Messenger, post, iv. 179

Metal, or mettle, v. 308

Metal, or nettle, of India, ii. 676
Mete-yard, a yard measure, ii. 508
Micher, truant, iii. 364
Miching mallecho, v. 540
Middle earth, the globe, i. 252
Mile-end, the musters at, ii. 606
Mill-stones, eyes dropping, iv. 251
Mind, to intend, iv. 176
Minim's rest, in music, i. 180
Mirable, admirable, iv. 565
Mirror of Knighthood, the, iii. 325
Mirth, or wrath, i. 387

Miser, a miserable person, iii. 730
Miss, to do without, i. 27
Miss, amiss, vi. 486

Missive, a letter, or a messenger, iii.
186; vi. 157

Mister and Master, i. 328

Mistful, tearful, misty, iii. 618; vi. 401
Mistress or Jack, at bowls, iv. 552
Mobled, hastily dressed, v. 525
Mock-water, or mark-water, i. 206
Modern, common, ordinary, ii. 385.
560; v. 159; vi. 244. 623
Module, a model, ii. 602; iii. 206
Moiety, a portion, a share, iii. 41.372;
v. 617; vi. 527. 611
Mome, a blockhead, i. 384
Momentany, or momentary, ii. 191
Monarcho, or Monarch, ii. 126. 536
Monmouth caps, iii. 621

Month's mind, strong inclination, i. 98
Moor-ditch, the melancholy of, iii. 327

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