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clippings from the late middle ages

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Hawes, The Pastime of Pleasure, ll. 328-29

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Hawes, The Pastime of Pleasure, ll. 5474-77.

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‘I haue XII oxen’, ll. 1-4

4. Sawyste thow not ] Did you not see

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‘I must go walk þe woed so wyld’, ll. 16-18

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Hawes, The Pastime of Pleasure, l. 3525

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Rowll’s Cursing, ll. 190-200

191. rumpillis ] (more) tails

193. glowrane evne ] glowering eyes

194. bowgillis ] bugles

196. spowand ] spewing

197. tegir tungis ] tiger tongues

198. attour ] across

200. attry ] venomous

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Lichtoun’s Dreme, ll. 9-10

9. pers ] break through

9. eith ] easy

10. mingit and maid with ] ie. made out of

10. mussill teith ] mussel teeth

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Lichtoun’s Dreme, 39-42

39. Be we ] as we

39. in hye ] quickly

40. ware weill ware ] were well aware

40. Enoch and Elye ] Enoch and Elijah

41. ȝule evin ] Christmas Eve

41. schaw ]  wood

42. Rostand ] roasting

42. snaw ] snow

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Douglas, Eneados, XII Prol 169-72

169. fenystaris ] windows

170. Aragne ] i.e. a spider

wevand ] weaving

171. sle ] intricate

172. myghe ] midge

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Lydgate, The Daunce of Death, 585-87 (a newborn confronts Death)

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Douglas, Eneados IV. ii. 65-68

65. voyd ] empty

scho hir laid adorn ] she laid herself down

66. sown ] sound

68. Thocht ] Though

wait ] knows

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Skelton, Magnyfycence, 1039-40

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Henryson, Fables, 1442-43 (a mouse explains herself)

prouokit ] compelled

sic ] such

leird ] taught

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(a remedy for partial blindness)

At even ] in the evening

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‘Farewell this world’, 8-12

8. cheyre feire ] cherry fair

9. algate ] indeed

12. onavised ] without warning

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Caxton's Aesop (a wolf that had been unduly afraid)

as I ranne before the ] as I ran away from you

a playe ] a joke

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The Thre Prestis of Peblis, 5

richt soft ] very quietly

vnfutesair ] 'unfootsore', ie. without their feet being sore