by Chaucer certainly before 1381, [fee L. W. 425,] and probably much earlier : the reflections on predeftination in T. iv. 966-1078, (of which there is no trace in the Filoftrato) are almost entirely taken from Bo. v. pr. 3. Several other paffages of the fame work, which ourAuthor has copied, have been pointed out in the notes on ver. 743, 2923. Boifte, n. Fr. a box, 12241. Boiftous, adj. Sax. boisterous, rough, 17160. Bokeler, n. Fr. a buckler, 112. Bokeling, part. pr. Fr. buckling, 2505. Bolas, n. bullace, a fort of plumb or floe, R. 1377. Bone, n. Sax. a boon, petition, 2671; he bade hem all a bone, 9492, he made a request to them all. Boras, n. Fr. borax, 632, 16258. Bord, n. Fr. a border; the side of a ship, 3585; over bord, 5342. Borde, n. Sax. a table, 52. Bordel, n. Fr. a brothel-bordel-women, P. 261, whores. Bordellers, n. pl. keepers of bawdyhoufes, R. 7084. Borel, n. Fr. bureau, coarse cloth of a brown colour. See Du Cange in v. Burellus. In ver. 5938 it feems to fignify clothing in general. Borel,adj. made of plain coarse ftuff, 11028-borel folk, 7454,6; borel men, 13961, laymen. So in P. P. 50, burel clerks is probably put for lay clerks. Borte, n. Sax. a pledge; hath laid to borwe, 1924, hath pledged; have here my feith to borwe, 11546, have here my faith for a pledge; Seint John to borave, 10910, St. John being my fecurity. Bofard, n. Fr. a buzzard, a fpecies of hawk unfit for fporting, R. 4033. Boffe, n. Fr. a protuberance, 3266. Beft, n. Sax. pride, boafting, 14105. Boft, adv. aloud; he cracked boff, 3999; he spake thife wordes boft, P. L. 275. Bote, n. Sax. remedy, help, profit, 426, 13396. Bote, v. Sax. to help, P. 184. Bote, pa. t. of bite, v. Sax. bit, 14519; his fwerd best bote, P. L. 243. Boteles, adj. Sax, bootlefs, remedilefs, T. i. 783. Bothe, adj. Sax. two together; our bothe labour, T. i. 973, the labour of us two together; reftrum amborum labor. In T. iv. 168, ed. Ca. reads, your bother love, which might lead one to fufpect that bother was the ancient genitive cafe of bothe, as aller was of alle. See the Effay, &c. 1. 27. Bothe, conj. is generally ufed to copulate two members of a fentence, but fometimes more. See ver. 992; And rent adoun bothe wall, and sparre, and rafter and ver. 2300; To whom both heven, and erthe, and fee, is fene. So the Greeks fometimes ufed Apepolepov. Od. O. 78. Αμφότερον κνδος τε και αγλαίη, και ονειας. Botbum, n. Fr. bouton, a bud, particularly of a rofe, R. 1721, et al. Bougeron, n. Fr. a Sodomite, R. 7072. Boughton-under-blee, pr. n. of a town in Kent, 16024. Bouke, n. Sax. the body, 2748. Boulte, v. Sax. to fift, to feparate the flour of wheat from the bran, 15246. Boun, adj. Sax. ready, 11807; and bade hem all to be borvne, P. P. 10, b. Bountee, n. Fr. goodness, 8033, 10163. Bourde, n. Fr. a jest, 17030. Bourde, v. Fr. to jest, 12712. Bourdon, n. Fr. a staff, R. 3401, 4092. Boure, n. Sax. a house, a chamber, 3367, 13672. Bracer, n. Fr. armour for the arm, III. Bradwardin, pr. n. 15248, Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1349. His book De Caufa Dei, to which our Author alludes, is in print. See Tanner in v. Bradorvardinus. Braide, n. Sax. a start, L. W. 1164; at a braide, R. 1336. Tantoft. orig. Braide, v. Sax. to awake, to start, 4283, 6381. See Abraide. Out of his wit he braide, 11339, 14456, he ran out of his fenfes; in ver. 5257 it fignifies to take off. See alfo F. iii. 588. Braket, n. Brit. bragod, a fweet drink made of the wort of ale, honey, and spice, 3261: it is ftill in ufe in Wales. Richards in v. Braged. Brafil, n. a wood used in dying to give a red colour, 15465.-This paffage of Chaucer is a decifive proof that the Brazil-wood was long known by that name before the discovery of the country fo called in America. See Huetiana, p. 268. In the inventory of the effects of Henry V. Rot. Parl. 2 H. VI. m. 20, is the following article, 11 Graundes peces du Bracile, pris vis. viii d. Bratt, n. Sax. a coarse mantle, 16349. Brede, n. Sax. breadth, 1972; in brede, T. i. 531, abroad; in F. iii. 132 it seems to be put for bride. Breme, adj. Sax. furious, 1701; full scharply and full brim, P. L. 244. Brenne, v. Sax. to burn, 2333-Brent, pa. t. & part. burnt, 2427, 2959. Brenningly, adv. Sax. hotly, 1566. Brefte, v. Sax. to burst, 1982, 11071. Bret-ful, adj. 689. In the n. on this ver. I fhould have obferved that the fame word occurs in the fame fenfe in ver. 2166, and in F. iii. 1033: the fenfe is much more clear than the etymology. Bribe, n. Fr. properly what is given to a beggar; what is given to an extortioner or cheat, 6960. Briben, inf. m. Fr. to beg, 4415, or perhaps to steal. See Rot. Parl. 22 E. IV. n. 30, have stolen and bribed fignetts, (cygnets.) And fo in P. P. 115, b. a bribour feems to fignify a thief, as bribors, pilors, and pikeharneis, are claffed together; and still more plainly in Lydg. Tra. 152; Who faveth a thefe whan the rope is knet With fome falfe turne the bribour will him quite. See alfo Ancient Scottish Poems, p. 171, ft. vii. l. 3. Briboures, 6949. Upon fecond thoughts I believe that I was wrong in adopting this word from mf. C. I, and that we fhould rather read, with other mff.; Certain he knew of briberies mo. See the n. on ver. 2469. Bridale, n. Sax. a marriagefeaft, 4373 Briddes, n. pl. Sax. birds, 10925. Brige, n. Fr. contention, M. 304. Brike, n. Sax. breach, ruin, 14700. Brimme, adj. R. 1836; T. iv. 184, as breme. Brocage, n. a treaty by a broker or agent,3375; R. 6971. Broche. See Account of Chaucer's Works, &c. vol. xiv. p. 13. Broided, part. pa. Fr. braided, woven, 1051. Broften, part. pa. of brefie, 3827. Brotel, adj. Sax. brittle, 9155; M. 286. Brotherbed, n. Sax. brotherly affection, 12972. Brouded, part. pa. Fr. brodé embroidered, 14387. Bronken, inf. m. Sax. to brook, enjoy, ufe, 10182, 15306. Buckes borne, a buck's horn, 3387; to blow the buckes borne is put for any ufelefs employment. Buffette, n. Fr. a blow, P. 161. Bugle-born, n. a drinking veffel made of horn, 11565. Gloff. Ur. derives it from bacula cornu; the gloff. to Anc. Scott. Po. explains borgle to mean a buffalo. I have been told that in fome parts of the north a bull is now called a boogle. -Bumble,v. Sax. to make a humming noife; ín ver. 6554 it is ufed to defcribe the noife made by a bittern. Burdoun, n. Fr. bourdon, a humming noife, the bafs in mulick, 675, 4163. Buriels, n. pl. Sax. buryingplaces, 15654. Burnel the affe, 15318. See the note. The story suppofes that the priest's fon, when he was to be ordained, directed his fervant to call him at cockcrowing, and that the cock whofe leg he had formerly broken having overheard this, purpofely refrained from crowing at his ufual time, by which artifice the young man was fufered to fleep till the ordina tion was over. |