"If Orpheus had so play'd, not to be understood,

"Well might those men have thought the harper had been

wood;

"Who might have sit him down, the trees and rocks among, "And been a verier block than those to whom he song." Poly-olbion, song 21.

SINK. "They sonken into hell."

Vis. of P. Ploughman, pass. 15, fol. 72, pag. 2. "And all my herte is so through sonke."

Gower, lib. 6, fol. 128, pag. 1, col. 1.

"And wolde God that all these rockes blacke
"Were sonken in to hell for his sake."

Frankelyns Tale, fol. 52, pag. 2, col. 2.

"His eyen drouped hole sonken in his heed."

Test. of Creseyde, fol. 202, pag. 2, col. 1. "The trees hath leaues, the bowes done spread, new changed

is the yere,

banks appere."

"The water brookes are cleane sonke downe, the pleasant Songes and Sonets by the Earle of Surrey, &c. fol. 62, p. 2. (1587.)

"Our ship is almost sonke and lost."

Songes &c. by the Earle of Surrey, &c. fol. 91, pag. 2. SLIDE. "The sword slod downe by the hawberke behinde "his backe." Hist. of Prince Arthur first part, chap. 14. "His sword slode down and kerued asunder his horse necke." Hist. of P. Arthur, 2d. part, chap. 59. "In hys goynge oute of his shyp, and taking the land, hys "one fotę slode, and that other stacke faste in the sande."

Fabian, fol. 139, pag. 2, col. 1.

SLING. "This Pandarus came leapyng in at ones

"And sayd thus, who hath ben wel ybete
"To day with swerdes and slong stones.”

Troylus, boke 2, fol. 168, pag. 1, col. 1.

SPIN. "O fatall sustren, whiche or any clothe
"Me shapen was, my destyne me sponne,
"So helpeth to thys werke that is begonne."

Troylus, boke 3, fol. 176, pag. 2, col. 1.

"Or I was borne, my desteny was sponne

"By Parcas systerne."

Blacke Knyght, fol. 300, pag. 1, col. 1.

"Thende is in hym or that it be begonne,
"Men sayne the wolle whan it is wel sponne,
"Doth that the clothe is stronge and profitable."

Ballade to K. Henry 4, fol. 350, pag. 1, col. 1.
"If that thy wicked wife had sponne the threade,
"And were the weauer of thy wo."

Songes and sonets by the earle of Surrey, &c. fol. 93, p. 2. SPRING. "Out of the flint spronge the floud that folke and "beastes dronke:"

Vision of Pierce Ploughman, pass. 15, fol. 72, pag. 2. “And thus is mankind or manhode of matrimony sprong.” Vision of P. Ploughman, pass. 17, fol. 90, pag. 1.

"Tho might he great merueile see

"Of euery toth in his degree

"Sprong up a knight with spere and shelde."

Gower, lib. 5, fol. 103, pag. 2, col. 2.

"Anone there sprong up floure and gras.”

Gower, lib. 5, fol. 106, pag. 1, col. 1.

"Thou shalt eke consider al the causes from whence they Tale of Chaucer, fol. 76, pag. 2, col. 2.

"be sprong.

"Out of his graue spronge a fayre lyly.”

Myracles of our Lady, pag. 22. (1530.)

“From these three sonnes that Noah left,

"And others of their bloud,

"Haue spronge all nacions on the earth."

Genesis, chap. 10, fol. 19.

"Happy it was that these heretiques spronge up in his dayes." Gardner's Declaration, &c. fol. 25, pag.

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"With our new religion new logicke is spong furth of late." Dr. Martin of priestes unlauful mariages, chap. 5, p. 52. "Where loue his pleasant traines hath sowen

"Her beautie hath the fruites opprest,

"Ere that the buddes were' sprong and blowen."

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Fol. 3, pag. 2:

"Of lingring doubts such hope is sprong."

Songes &c. by the earle of Surrey, &c. fol. 18, pag. 1. "Wherupon newe war sprong betwene them and us.” Epitome of the Title, &c. (1547.)

"From whence all knightly deeds and brave atchievements Poly-olbion, Song 3.

"sprong." STICK.

"Thei have anone the coffre stoke."

Gower, lib. 8, fol. 180, pag. 1, col. 2.

"This coffer in to his chamber is brought
"Whiche that thei finde faste stoke."

Gower, lib. 8, fol, 180, pag. 2, col. 1.

"In the midest thereof was an anuile of steele, and therein "STOOKE a faire sworde naked by the point."

Hist. of Prince Arthur, 1st part, chap. 3.

"There to abyde stocked in pryson."

Lydgate, Lyfe of our Lady, boke 2, p. 35. (1531.)

STING. "As thoughe he stongen were to the herte."

Knyghtes Tale, fol. 2, pag. 1, col. 1.

"If cowe or calfe, shepe or oxe swel

"That any worme hath eaten or hem stonge
"Take water of this wel."

Pardoners prol. fol. 65, pag. 2, col. 1.

"I suffered to beten and bound, to be spateled and despysed, "to be nayled to the crosse, crowned with thornes, stongen to "the herte with a spere."

Diues and Pauper, 8th comm. cap. 14.

"The fende which appered in the lyknes of an adder to "Eue and stange her full euyl.”

Diues and Pauper, 10th comm. cap. 3.

"With serpents full of yre

"Stong oft with deadly payne."

Songes, c. by the earle of Surrey, &c. fol. 84, pag. 1.

"Who so euer was stong or venemyd with the poyson of "the serpentes, if he lokyd upon the serpent of brasse might ❝ be helyd." Declaracion of Christe, by Johan Hoper, cap. 7. "The people were stong with serpentes."

Declaracion, c. cap. 7.

STINK. "Badde wedes whiche somtime stonken."

Testament of Loue, boke 1, fol, 313, pag. 1, col. 2.

STRIKE. "Thou shalt strike a stroke the most dolorous that euer man stroke."

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Hist. of Prince Arthur, 1st part, chap. 33.

"Drew out his sword and strok him such a buffet on the helmet." Hist. of Prince Arthur, 1st part, chap, 111.

"They lashed together with their swords, and somtime they "stroke and somtime they foined."

Hist. of Prince Arthur, 3d part, chap. 13.

"And when this man might not preuayle

"Jacob to ouerthrow,

"He Jacob stroke under the thigh."

Genesis, chap. xxxii. fol. 82, pag. 1.

"Frets call you these (quoth she) Ile fume with them: "And with that word she stroke me on the head."

Taming of a Shrew, pag. 216.

"Myselfe am strooke in yeeres I must confesse."

Taming of a Shrew, pag. 217.

"Ile haue an action of battery against him, if there be any “law in Illyria: though I stroke him first, yet it's no matter " for that." Twelfe Night, pag. 270.

"With endless grief perplext her stubborn breast she strake."

Poly-olbion, song 7.

SWIM. "Sweare then how thou escap❜dst.

"Swom ashore (man) like a ducke."

Tempest, pag. 10.

"You never swoм the Hellespont."

Two Gent. of Verona, act 1, sce. 1.

"Put myself to mercy of the ocean, and swom to land."

"Fish under water

B. and Fletcher, Knyght of Malta.

Wept out their eyes of pearle, and swoom blind after."

Camdens Remains, pag. 338.

SWING. "The fiery Tibalt, with his sword prepar❜d "Which, as he breath'd defiance to my eares, "He swong about his head, and cut the windes." Romeo and Juliet, pag. 54. "Some put hem to the ploughe, pleden full selde "In settynge and sowynge swonken full harde."

SWINK.

Vision of Pierce Ploughman, fol. 1, pag. 1.

Thei had that thei han beswonke.”

Gower, lib. 1, fol. 22, pag. 2, col. 2.

"Aleyn waxe wery in the dawning

"For he had swonken all the long nyght."

Reeues Tale, fol. 17, pag. 1, cot. 2. "Hast thou had fleen all nyght, or art thou dronke, "Or hast thou al nyght with some queen iswonke.” Munciples prol. fol. 91, pag. 1, col. 2.

WILL.

"And saide, if that he might acheue
"His purpos, it shall well be yolde,
"Be so that thei hym helpe woled.”

WIND.

Gower, lib. 7, fol. 169, pag. 1, col. 2.

"And with the clothes of hir loue
"She hilled all hir bedde aboute.
"And he, whiche nothyng had in doute,

"Hir wimple wonde aboute his cheke."

Gower, lib. 5, fol. 121, pag. 2, col. I. "Loue bounde hym in cradel and wonde in cloutes ful poure." Diues and Pauper, 10th comm. cap. 3.

WIT. "For God it wote, he satte ful ofte and songe "When that his shoe ful bitterly him wronge."

WRING.

Wife of Bathes prol. fol. 36, pag. 1, col. 2.

"Hunger in hast tho hent wastour by the maw
"And wrong him so bi the wombe, that his eies watred.”
Vision of Pierce Ploughman, pass. 7, fol. 33, pag. 2.

"For whiche he wept and wronge his honde,
And in the bedde the blody knyfe he fonde."

Man of Lawes Tale, fol. 21, pag. 2, col. 1. "So hard him wrong of sharpe desyre the payne

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Troylus, boke 3, föl, 210, pag. 2, col. 2.