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going before, Deo favente--Goddes armes two, 6415, 12588; Goddes bones, 12629, 12906; vulgar oaths. -A Goddes kichel, 7329. See the note. A' Goddes half, 5532. See Halfe.

Gode, good, n. Sax. wealth, goods, 7534, 5. Gode-les, adj. without money or goods, 13220. Godelybede, n. Sax. goodness, R. 4604; T. iii. 1736. Godeness, n. Sax. at godeness, R. 1453, at advantage; and fo we fhould read in R. 3462, where the editt. have at gode mes, the orig. has en bon point. Godfib, n. Sax. a goffip, a godfather, P. 251. Gofisk, adj. foolish, T. iii. 585, from the Fr. goffe, dull, ftupid.

Gold, n. a flower commonly called a turnfol, 1931; Gower fays that Leucothea was changed

Into a floure was named golde,

Whiche ftont governed of the fonne. Conf. Am. 121, b: Gold-beren, adj. Sax. of a golden hewe or colour, 2502 Goldsmithrie, n. Sax. goldsmiths' work, 2500. Golet, n. Fr. the throat or gullet, R. 7096. Goliardeis. See the n. on ver. 562.

Gomme, n. Fr. gum, L. W. 121.

Gon, inf. m. Sax. to go, 2512; fo mote I gon, 3116, 11089, fo may I fare well; fo mote I ride or go, 7524, fo may I farewell! riding or walking, i. e. in all my proceedings. See Go.-Gon, pr. t. pl. 771, 2604, 2965-part. pa. gone, 4437, 5137.

Gonfanon, n. Fr. a banner or standard, R. 1201, 2018.
Gong, n. Sax. a littlehouse, a jakes, P. 248.
Gonne, n. a gun, L. W. 637; F. iii. 553.

Gonnen, gonne, pa. t. pl. of ginne, 11230, 15985.
Gore, n. See the n. on ver. 3237; fince which it has
been fuggested to me by a learned person whom I
have not the honour to know, that gore is a com-
mon name for a flip of cloth or linen, which is in-

gore

ferted in order to widen a garment in any particu-
lar place. Goor of a cloth, lacinia, Prompt. Parv.
See alfo the gloffary to Kennet's Paroch. Antiq. in
v, Gore. This fenfe will fuit very well with the con-
text of ver. 3237, but hardly, I think, with that of
ver. 13719, unless we fuppofe that
is there put
for fhirt, because shirts have ufually gores in them;
the expreffion would certainly be very awkward,
and unlike Chaucer's general manner, but in this
place (The Rime of Sire Thopas) he maybe fuppofed
to have taken it purposely from one of thofe old ro`
mances which are the objects of his ridicule. See the
n. on ver. 13845.

Gofe, for goes, C. D. 1286, goeth..
Gofpellere,in. Sax. evangélift, R. 6887.

Goffomer, n. a thin cobweb-like fubftance which flies about in the air, 10573.

Goft, n. Sax. fpirit, mind, 5679.

Goth, imp m. 2d perf. pl. go ye, 2560, 14200.
Governaille, ne Fr. government, steerage, 9068.
Goune-cloth,7829, 7834, cloth enough to make a gown.
Gourd, n. a veffel to carry liquor, perhaps fo called
from its shape, 17031, 40.

Gower, pr. n. T. v. 1855, an eminent English poet, to whom Chaucer directs his Troilus and Creseide. Some circumstances relating to him are touched upon in the Elay, c. n. 55, the Difcourfe, &c. § 14, 15. n. 15, 16, and in the notes.

Grace, n. Fr. favour, 3071; fory grace, 6328; harde grace, 16133; misfortune, T. i. 713;

So full of forowe am I, fothe to fayne,
That certainly no more harde grace
May fit on me, for why? there is no space.
So Hercules, ap. Eurip. Hg. M. 1250;.
Γεμω κακών δη, κ' εκετ ̓ ἐσθ' όπη τέθη.

The criticism of Longinus, fect. xl. is perhaps

equally applicable to both paffages.-With harde grace, 7810, is to be understood as spoken in a parenthesis of the cherl, misfortune attend him! See With. Save your grace, M. 253, l. 7, with your favour, fauve votre grace.

Gracious, adj. Fr. agreeable, 3693; graceful, 8489.
Grame, n. Sax. grief, 16871; anger, T. iii. 1030————
Felle it to gode or grame, P. L. 327.
Grammere, n. Fr. grammar, 13466.
Grand mercie, Fr. great thanks, 8964.
Grane, n. Fr. a grain, a single feed, T. ii. 1028.
Grange, n. Fr. a farmhouse, 3668.

Grapinel, n. Fr. a graplingiron, L. W. 640.

Gratche, R. 7368, is perhaps the fame with graithe, if not mistaken for it. Gloff. Ur. See Greithe. The orig. has fa aourne comme beguyne.

Graunfon, pr. n. C. M. V. ver. ult. See An account of the Works of Chaucer, &c. vol. xiv. p. 12.

Grave, v. Sax. to carve, to engrave, T. ii. 47; T. iii. 1468.

Grave, (graven) part. pa. buried, 6647, 11288. Gre, n. Fr. pleasure, fatisfaction, from gratus, Lat. to receive in gre, 4679, 9027, to take kindly; the gre, 2735, the prize. See the note-From gradus, Lat. it fignifies a step or degree, 9249.

Grede, n. Sax. a greedy perfon, R. 6002. Grede, v. barb. Lat. to cry, C. N. 135. Grein, n. Fr. grein de Paris, R. 1369, de Paradis, orig. grains of Paradise, a sort of spice: the fame are meant in ver. 3690-grain of Portingale, 15465, a fort of scarlet dye called kermes or vermilion. Greithe, v. Sax. to prepare, make ready, 4307, 14512. Grenebed, n. Sax. childishness, 4583.

Grefe, n. Fr. greafe, 135, 6069.

Grete, for grede, v, R. 4116.

Grette, på. of grete,v. Sax. greeted, faluted, 5471,8828. Greves, n. pl. Sax. groves, 1497; R. 3019.

Grille, adj. R. 73, Fr. horrible, grymm, gryl, and her, ryble; borridus, Prompt. Parv.

Grint, for grindeth, 5971.

Grinte, pa..t. of grind, v. Sax. ground; grint with his teeth, 7743, gnafhed with his teeth. Grinting, n. grinding, għashing, P. 156.

Gris, n. Fr. a fpecies of fur. See the n. on ver. 194. ' Grify, adj. Sax. dreadful, 1973, 6318.

Groche, v Sax. to grutch, to murmur, 3861, 6025. Groff, adj. Sax. flat on the ground, 951, 13605; R. 2561.

Groine, n. Fr. the fnowt of a fwine, P. 150-a hanging lip, T. i. 350.

Groine, v. to hang the lip in difcontent, R. 7099.
Grone, y. Fr. to groan, to grunt, 7411.

Gront, pa to 14627, groaned.

Grope, v. Sáx. to fearch, to examine by feeling, 7399,

7723.

Grot, ne a coin worth fourpence, 6874, 7546.

Grounden, part. pa. of grind, 16243

Greyzing, f. 2462, difcontent. See Groine.

Guerdon, n. Fr. reward, recompenfe, 7460, 8759.
Guerdon, v. to reward, P. 165.

Guerdonles, adj. without reward, B. K. 400.

Guido, pr. n. L. W. 1462; Guido de Columpnis, F. iü. 381; Guido dalle Colonne, of Messina in Sicily, a lawyer and a poet, died about 1290. Quadrio, vol.

ii.

p. 160. His Hiftory of the Trojan war, to which our Author refers, was written in Latin, and finished in 1287. See the n. on ver. 15147. I have there intimated my fufpicion that he tranflated it, for the most part, from a French romance of Benoit de Sainte More. However that may have been

Guido's work is certainly the original from which the later writers of the middle ages have generally taken their accounts of Trojan affairs. It was tranflated into Italian in 1324 by Filippo Ceffi, a Florentine, [Quadrio, vol. vi. p. 475.] A French tranflation is alfo extant, in which it is faid to be "tran"flatée, en Francois, premierement du commande"ment du Maire de la cité de Beauvais, en nom et

en honneur de Karles le Roy de France, l'an mil. 66 ccc. quatre vingtz," [mf. Reg. 16 F. ix.] This is probably the French tranflation mentioned by Lydgate in the Prologue to his Boke of Troye, which is a mere paraphrafe in verfe of Guido's hiftory, with fome digreffions and additions of his own.Lydgate's work was finished (as he tells us himself at the end) in 1420.

H.

Habergeon, n. Fr. a diminitive of hauberg, a coat of mail, 76, 13790.

Habilitee, n. Fr. ability, C. L. 1044.

Habitacles, n. pl. Fr. places of habitation, F. iii. 104. Habite, v. Fr. to dwell, R. 660.

Habundant, part. pr. Fr. abundant, 7935.

Hackenaie, n. Fr. an ambling horfe or pad, R. 1137. Hacking, n. Fr. cutting in pieces, F. iii. 213.

Hadden, pa. t. pl. of have, 375, 762.

Haf, pa. t. of beve, v. Sax. heaved, raised, 2430.
Haie, bay, n. Fr. a hedge, R. 54, 3007.

Haile, n. Sax. health, welfare, 4087.

Hailes, pr. n. of an abbey in Gloucefterfhire. See the

n. on ver. 12587.

Haire, n. Fr. a haircloth, 15601; R. 438.

Hakeney, n. Fr. 16027, as backenaic.

Haketon, n. Fr. a short cassock without fleeves, 13789. Halden, for bolden, part. pa. of hold, 4206.

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