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Mete, meat.
Miche, much.

Minish, to diminish.

Misprision, contempt..
Mokell, much.

Mo, moo, more,

Mowe, may.

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Nakeres, nacara, (Du Cange) a kind of brazen drum

used in the cavalry.

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Rammashe, collected; from ramasser (Fr.) to collect,

Rede-schank, a field-fare.

Renning, running.

Repreved, reproved.

Rere-suppers, late-suppers.

Royalme, royamme, (Fr.) realm, kingdom.

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Scute, a French gold coin, the same with their escuts,

or ecus d'or, or gold crown-piece, of the value of
3s. 4d.

Seemliche, seemly, beautiful, most beautiful.
Selden, seldom.

Semblable, similar.
Semblably, in like manner.
Semblant, appearance.
Servage, slavery, bondage.
Settle, a seat.

Seyn, to say.

Sheet, shut.

Shend, shenden, to hurt, wrong, violate.
Shrive, shriven, to confess to a priest.

Sic, so, such.

Sicker, sure.

Sith, syth, syn, sithen, sithin, sithence, since.

Slee, to stay.

Soth, truth.

Sparbyl, to scatter.

Sparbyled, scattered.

Sparthe, an axe, or halbert, securis Danica (Du Cange), Sperkeland, scattered.

Spilt, lost.

Spouse-breach, matrimonial infidelity.

Straitness, strictness.

Talys, tallies, taxes.

Tamys, the Thames.

Targe, a shield; to shield.

T.

Tene, grief, sorrow; to make sorry.

Tentifly, attentively.

There, used sometimes for where,

Thilk, that those.

Tho, they, those, the, then.

Toforne, before.

Toke, to take.

Tome, empty.

To sooner, for the sooner.
Trow, to know, supposed.
Trowed, knew supposed.

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Wist, knew.

Wisten, to know.

Wit, wyte, wytene, to know, or understand.

Withold, witheld, to detain, detained.

Woll, will.

Wood, wrath.

Worthly, worthy.

Wost, knowest.

Wot, wote, to know, knew.

Wyrche, from werke, to work, or fret.

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