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Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads ...

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Speik. s. fpeak.<br />

Speir. s. fpere, fpeare, fpeere,<br />

fpire. afk, inquire*,<br />

Speir. s. fpear.<br />

Spill, fpoil, defray, hill.<br />

Spillan, fpilland. s. /pitting.<br />

Spurging. froth that purges out.<br />

Squelfti. a blow, or bang.<br />

Stean. s. jione.<br />

Sterte. farted.<br />

Steven, voice, found.<br />

Stint. flop.<br />

Stound,ftonde. (Introd.) fpace,<br />

moment, hour, time.<br />

Stowre. flrong, robufi, fierce.<br />

S tower, ftowre. Jiir, diflurbance,<br />

fight.<br />

Stude, fluid, s. flood.<br />

SUmmere./. i o i.afumpter horfe<br />

Surceafe. ceafe.<br />

Sune. s. Jbon.<br />

Sweere, Iwire. neck.<br />

Syne. s. then, afterwards.<br />

T.<br />

Teene. forrow, grief.<br />

Thewes. manners. In p. 12.<br />

itfignifies limbs.<br />

Than. s. then.<br />

Thair, s. there,<br />

Thir. s. this, thefe.<br />

Tho. then.<br />

Thrall, captive.<br />

Thrall, captivity.<br />

Thralldome, ditto.<br />

Thrang. cl<strong>of</strong>e.<br />

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colour f<br />

A a 2 Wae.<br />

* So Chaucer, in his Rhyme <strong>of</strong> Sir Thopas,<br />

" He fought both north and fouth,<br />

'* And <strong>of</strong>t* he spired with his mouth/*<br />

i. e. ' inquired' : not * blowed', &c. as in Urrp's Gl<strong>of</strong>lary.<br />

f Taylor, in his Hift. <strong>of</strong> Gavel-kind, p- 49- s % " » Bright,<br />

** from the Britifh word Brith, which /Ignifies their wadde-co-<br />

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