Promptorium Parvulorum Sive Clericorum, Dictionarius Anglo-latinus Princeps: Auctore Fratre Galfrido Grammatico Dicto, Ex Ordine Fratrum Predicatorum, Northfolciensi, Circa A. D. M.CCCC.XL. Olim Ex Officina Pynsoniana Editum, Nunc Ab Integro, Commentariolis Subjectis, Ad Fiden Codicum Recensuit Albertus Waysumptibus Societatis camdenensis, 1843 - English language |
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according to Forby ancient Ang.-Sax ANGL Anglice appears appellation Archæol Arund beeste Bibelesworth Boke Brockett Brunne byrde byrdys called CAMD Cant CATH Catholicon Chaucer Chron clothe Coll COMM Compare corne COTG Cotgrave Craven curious denote derived dialect DICC dicitur drynke Ducange Elyot England explained Forby gives Forme of Cury French frute fyre fysche garment given gives the verb gloss Glossary Golden Legend Gower grete Harl hath haue herbe hereafter Hist HORM Horman says horse idem quod infra Jamieson Kennett KYLW Kyng Lansd Latin likewise low Latin lytylle Medulla mentioned mete Myst Norfolk oper lyke ORTUS owte PALSG Palsgrave gives Paston Letters Piers Ploughman rendered ROQUEF Roquefort seems sense signifies Sir John Sir Thomas Phillipps Skinner Sloane Stat Suffolk supra Tale term thynge tyme Vulg whan Wicliffite version word occurs wyll wythe þat
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Page 204 - Our Christian ancestors, understanding a spiritual affinity to grow between the parents and such as undertook for the child at baptisme, called each other by the name of God-sib, which is as much as to say, that they were all sib together, that is, of kin together through God. And the child, in like manner, called such his God-fathers or God-mothers.
Page 284 - He is like him that falleth'in the diche, and wol not arise. And this vice cometh of false hope, that thinketh that he shal live long, but that hope failleth ful oft. Than cometh Lachesse, that is, he that whan he beginneth any good werk, anon he wol forlete it and stint, as don they that have any wight to governe, and ne take of him no more kepe, anon as they find any contrary or any annoy. Thise ben the newe shepherdes, that let hir shepe wetingly go renne to the wolf, that is in the breres, and...
Page 136 - Ay clappeth as a mill, I you counsaille. Ne drede hem not, doth hem no reverence, For though thin husbond armed be in maille, The arwes of thy crabbed eloquence Shal perce his brest, and eke his aventaille...
Page 34 - ... of old we had breakefasts in the forenoone, beuerages, or nuntions after dinner, and thereto reare suppers generallie when it was time to go to rest. . . . Now these od repasts — thanked be God — are verie well left, and ech one in maner (except here and there some yoong hungrie stomach that cannot fast till dinner time) contenteth himselfe with dinner & supper onelie.
Page 208 - Membres, • that he myghte have hele. And Sethe wente. But the Aungelle wolde not late him come in, but seyd to him, that he myghte not have of the Oyle of Mercy. But he toke him three Greynes of the same Tree, that his Fadre eet the Appelle offe ; and bad him, als sone as his Fadre was ded, that he scholde putte theise three Greynes undre his Tonge, and grave him so: and he dide. And of theise three Greynes sprong a Tree as the Aungelle seyde, that it scholde, and bere a Fruyt, thorghe the whiche...
Page 195 - Or if you list to fleen as high in the aire, As doth an egle, whan him list to sore, This same stede shal...
Page 52 - MS. 5308, afford the best examples of ornaments of this description. See also the Privy Purse Expenses of the Princess Mary, edited by Sir F. Madden " ( Way's Notes to Promptorium Parvulorum, vol.
Page 318 - Lusseburghe," or other resembling the coin of the realm, as fully declared in the Stat. 25 Edw. III. c. 2, where the word is written " Lucynburgh." Compare Rolls of Parl. ii. 239, and Stat. of Realm, i. 320. These fallacious monies are named in the Vision of P. Ploughman, which was composed, as it is conjectured, about 1362. " As in lussheburwes is a luther alay, And yet loketh he lik a sterlyng. The merk of that monee is good, Ac the metal is feble.
Page 309 - IV. expressly permits the adoption of such distinctive dress by fraternities, and " les geniz de mestere," the trades of the cities of the realm, being ordained with good intent ; and to this prevalent usage Chaucer alludes where he describes five artificers of various callings, who joined the pilgrimage, clothed all " in o livere of a solempne and grete fraternite." Prol. v. 365. By the same Stat. lords, knights, and esquires were allowed, in time of war, to distinguish their retainers by similar...
Page 124 - He crowned thee with a crown of lead, He holpe the first to that degree ; He set thee the crown upon thy head, And made thee the lord of that countrey ; That time you promised my father dear, To him to be both true and just, And now you stand in a disweare, Oh ! Jesu Christ, who may men trust...