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ANGLO-SAXON AND OLD ENGLISH VOCABULARIES
BY THOMAS WRIGHT, ESQ., M. A., F. S. A., HON. M. R. S. L.
SECOND EDITION.
EDITED AND COLLATED BY RICHARD PAUL WÜLCKER.
VOLUME I: VOCABULARIES.
LONDON: TRÜBNER & Co., LUDGATE HILL. 1884.
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The original MS. is in the Gale Collection in Trinity College Lib∣rary and the Class mark is O. 5. 4.—The words in square brackets are in a later hand.
Page 560, 561. Add.:
Abdenago . . . interpretaten serviens tacens ance a stylle.
Ther was castrell in cambys And capuls in cullys, With blandamets in dorde.
Hir paytrelle was of a rialle fyne Hir cropur was of arafé, Hir bridulle was of golde fyne, On every side honge bellis thre.
Armure he toke that was rusty, And horsyd hym on an old rouncy.
The pearemaine, which to France long ere to us was knowne, Which careful frut'rers now have denizen'd our owne. Polyolb., Song xviii.
Tres sunt partes columne, talus, stilus, et epistilium; uasis est fundamentum, stilus est media pars, epistilium est superior pars.
Towellus of Eylyssham, Whygth as the sees fame, Sanappus of the same, Thus servyd thei ware.
Towellus of Eylyssham, Whygth as the sees fame, Sanappus of the same, Thus servyd thei ware.
Vor the mer was viniter, hii breke the viniterie, And alle othere in the toun, and that was lute maistrie; Hii caste awei the dosils; that win orn abrod so, That it was pité gret of so much harm ido.
Kam he nevere hom hand-bare, That he ne broucte bred and sowel.
For the wax, or other similar substance, a composition was substituted in the course of the fifteenth century, which eventually gave place to what is known as asses' skin.At countyng stuarde schalle ben, Tylle alle be brevet of wax so grene Wrytten into bokes, without let, That before in tabuls hase ben sett.
Hic primiplus, qui habet primam ber∣bam.Hic primipilus, qui fert pila ad prelia.
Primipilus berbam primam desingnat ha∣bentem, Ast primipilus qui fert ad prelia pila.
—rialle servys and fyne, In bollus birlutte thay the wyne.
An English gloss of the latter part of the fourteenth century (Reliq. Ant., vol. i., p. 8), explains the Latin rana by a paddoke, which agrees with the English provincial use of the word just alluded to.
"The devil take me, I love you so, that I could be content to abjure wine for ever, and drink nothing but almond-milk for your sake."—Shadwell, Epsom-Wells, 1673.
And Demephon was so reproved, That of the Goddes providence Was shape suche an evidence Ever afterward ayein the slowe, That Phillis in the same throwe Was shape into a nutte-tre, That alle men it mighte se, And after Phillis philliberde This tre was cleped in the yerd.
This jolly grout is jolly and stout, I pray you stout it still-a.
It is explained in the glossary as "the inner door between the entry or lobby, and the house or kitchen."Good wyff, open the hek, seys thou not what I bryng.
Gower, Conf. Amantis, vol. i., p. 324, ed. Pauli.Amonge the which, two there were Aboven all other noble and great, Dwellend tho within a strete So nigh to-gider, as it was sene, That there was nothing hem betwene, But wowe to wowe and walle to walle.
Whan he is falle in suche a dreme, Right as a ship ayein the streme He routeth with a slepy noise, And brustleth as a monkes froise, Whan it is throwe into the panne.
Ilke a fyngir has a name, als men thaire fyngers calle. The lest fyngir hat lityl-man, for hit is lest of alle; The next fynger hat leche-man, for quen a leche dos ogt, With that fynger he tastes all thyng how that hit is wrogt; Long-man hat the mydilmast, for longest fynger hit is; The ferthe men calls towcher, therwith men touches i-wis; The fifte fynger is the thowmbe, and hit has most mygt, And fastest haldes of alle the tother, forthi men calles hit rigt.
A Nominale in MS. Reg 17, C. XVII., fol. 39, ro, gives the following list, very similar to that in our text:
Hic pollex, Ae thowme.Hic index, Ae lic-pote.Hic medius, Ae lang-fynger.Hic medicus, Ae lecheHic auricularis, Ae lytyl-fynger.
Mr. Halliwell has printed a modern nurs∣ery rhyme, (Nursery Rhymes of England, fifth edition, p. 155), in which names very similar to these are still used, namely, thumbkin, foreman, longman, ringman, and littleman. In Norfolk the fingers are called popularly, Tom - thumbkin, Will∣wilkin, Long-gracious, Betty bodkin, Little∣tit.
Her baner whyt, withouten fable, With thre Sarezynes hedes off sable, That wer schapen noble and large Off balayn, both scheeld and targe.