Begonne, part. pa. of beginne, v. Sax. begun, 11341. Behalve, n. Sax. half, fide or part, T. iv. 945. Bebefie, n. Sax. promife, 4461, 2. Bebete, v. Sax. to promife, 1856. Bebere, part. pa. Sax. coloured, T. iii. 216. Sec Hewe. Behighte, part. pa. promised, 11100. Bebove, n. Sax. behoof, advantage, R. 1090. T. i. 532. Beknowe, v. Sax. to confefs, 1558, 5306. Bel amy, Fr. good friend, 12252. Beleve, n. Sax. belief; his beleve, 3456, his creed. Belle, v. Sax. to roar, F. iii. 713. Belle chere, Fr. good cheer, 13339. Belle chofe, Fr. 6029, 6092. Belle Ifaade, F. iii. 707, the fair lfaude, the mistress of Triftan; he is called Ifoude, L. W. 254. Belmarie, pr. n. See n. on ver. 57. Belous, n. Sax. bellows, P. 174. Bemes, n. pl. Sax. trumpets, 15404; R. 7605. Ben, inf. m. Sax. to be, 141, 167. pr. t. pl. are, 764, 820, 945. part. pa. been, 361, 465. Benched, part. pa. furnished with benches, L.W. 204. Benigne, adj. Fr. kind, 8973. Benime, v. Sax, to take away, P. 200. R. 1509. Bent, n. Sax. the bending or declivity of a hill, 1983. Berained, part. pa. Sax. rained upon, T. iv. 1172. Berde, n. Sax. beard; to make any one's berde, to cheat him. See n. on ver. 4094. Bere, n. Sax. a bear, 2060. Bere, v. Sax. to bear, to carry; to bere in or on hand, to accuse falfely, 5040, 5975; to perfuade falfely, 5814,5962-to bere the beile, T. iii. 199, to carry the prize. Bere, n. Sax. a bier, 2902-a pillowbear, Du. 254. Bering, n. Sax. behaviour, P. 181. Berme, n. Sax. yeft, 16281. Bernard, pr. n. L.W. 16, St. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux in the 12th century. Our Author alludes to a proverbial faying concerning him, Bernardus ipfe non vidit omnia. See Hoffman in v. Bernard, pr. n. 436, a physician of Montpelier in the 13th century. See the authors mentioned in n. on ver. 433. Berne, n. Sax. a barn, 3258. Befont, n. Fr. a piece of gold, fo called because first coined at Byzantium, now Conftantinople, Sk. R. 1106. Befeke, v. Sax. to befeech, 920. Beset, befette, part. pa. Sax. placed, employed, 3299, 7534. Befey, part. pa. of besee, v. Sax. befeen; evil befey, 8841, ill-befeen, of a bad appearance; richely befey, 8860, of a rich appearance. Befbet, part. pa. Sax, fhut up, R. 4488; T. iii. 603. Befbrewe, v. Sax. to curie, 6426, 7. Befide, prep. Sax. by the fide of, 5597, 6002. Befmotred, part. pa. Sax. fmutted, 76. Beftadde, beftad, part. pa. Sax. fituated, 5069; it is fometimes ufed in an ill fenfe for diftreffed, R. 1227. Befte, n. Fr. a beast, 1978. Befte, adj. fup. Sax. beft, 1808, 11843. Befy, adj. Sax. bufy, 2855. Bet, bette, adv. comp. for better, 7533, 13362. Bete,v. Sax. to prepare, make ready; to bete fires, 2255, 2294, to make fires-to mend, to heal; to bete nettes, 3925, to mend ncts; to bete forwe, T. i. 666, to heal forrow. Bete, v. Fr. to beat, 4206. Beteche, v. as betake. See the n. on ver. 13852. Betoke, pa. t. of betake, recommended, 16009. Betraised, part. pa. Fr. betrayed; thei have betraised, thee, P. L. 55. Betwix, betwixen, prep. Sax. between, 2134. Bewrey, bewrie, v. Sax. to difcover, 5193,9747; T. ii. 537. Beye, v. Sax. to buy, 16762. See Abeye. Bialacoil, pr. n. Fr. Bel-accueil, courteous reception, R. 2984, & al. The fame perfon is afterwards called Faire Welcoming, R. 5856. Bibbed, part. pa. Lat. drunk, 4160. Bible, n. Fr. any great book, 16325; F. iii. 244. Bilde, v. as bede, 3641. Bie, v. Sax. to fuffer, 5749. See Abeye. Bigine, pr. n. Fr. Beguine, a nun of a certain order, R. 6861, 7368. See Du Cange in v. Beghina. Biker, n. Sax. a quarrel, L. W. 2650. Bilder, n. Sax. a builder; the bilder oke, A. F. 176, the oak ufed in building. Bill, n. a letter, 9811. Dimene, v. Sax. to bemoan, R. 2667. Bint, for bindeth, C. M. V. 47, 8. -hire chere was fimple, as birde in bour, i. e. as bride in chamberfimple fut comme une efponfee, orig. Bifmare, n. Sax. abufive speech, 3963; and bold, and abiding, bifmares to fuffer, P. P. 108, b. Bit, for biddeth, 187, 10605. Bitore, n. Fr. a bittern, 6554. Bitrent, part. pa. twifted, carried round, T. iii. 1237, iv. 870; perhaps from the Sax. betɲyman,circumdare. Birvopen, part. pa. of bewepe, drowned in tears, T. iv. 916. Blancmanger, n. Fr. 389, feems to have been a very different difh in the time of Chaucer from that which is now called by the fame name. There is a receipt for making it in mf. Harl. n. 4016: one of the ingredients is the brawne of a capon teafed fimali. Blandife, v. Fr. to flatter, P. 178. Blanche fevere, T. i. 917. See Cotgrave in v. Fievres blanches; the agues wherewith maidens that have the greenficknefs are troubled; and hence il a les fierores blanches, either he is in love or fick of wantornefs; C. N. 41, I am fo fhaken with the fevers white. Ble, n. Sax. colour, Magd. 391. Blee, pr. n. 16024, 16952, a foreft in Kent. Ur. Bleine, n. Sax. a puftule, R. 553. Blend, v. Sax. to blind, to deceive, T. ii. 1496. part. pa. 9987, 16545. Blent, pa. t. of blench, v. Sax. fhrinked, ftarted afide, 1080; and fo perhaps it fhould be understood in ver. 3751, and T. iii. 1352. Blered, part. pa. Sax. in its literal fenfe is ufed to deferibe a particular diforder of the eye, attended with forenefs and dimnefs of fight, and fo perhaps it is to be understood in ver. 16198; but more commonly, in Chaucer, a man's eye is faid to be blered, metaphorically, when he is anyway impofed upon, 17201; R. 3912. See alfo ver. 3863. Bleve, v. Sax. to ftay, T. iv. 1357. Bliffe, v. Sax. to blefs, 8428. Blive, belive, adv. Sax. quickly, 5973, 7102. v. to bloffom, 9336. Blofmy, adj. full of bloffoms, 9337. Bob-up-and-doron, pr. n. of a town in the road to Canterbury, 16951: it is not marked in the common maps. Bobance, n. Fr. boafting, 6151. Boche, n. Fr. boffe, a fwelling, a wen or boil, B.. iii. pr. 4. Bole, boden, part. pa. of bede, v. Sax, bidden, commanded, 6612. Bode, pa. t. of bide, v. Sax. remained, T. v. 29. an omen, A. F. 343 Bodekin, n. Sax. a dagger, 3958. Enece, pr. n. 6750, 15248, Boethius. His moft popular work, De Confolatione Philofophiæ, was tranflated |