The Golden Asse
by Lucius Apuleius
Adlington's translation, 1566
GLOSSARY
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Affiance
- confidence, trust, faith in (somebody) [MED]
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Apayed
- satisfied, content or pleased [MED]
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Attend
- to wait for
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Bandog
- a dog kept tied up as a guard, or for its ferocity [CED]
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Betimes
- early
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Barke
- a boat
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Blame
- to rebuke or scold [MED]
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Caitif
- a captive. Also a mean, niggardly person [GTSW]
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Cavellation
- a quibble
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Chuffe
- a churlish miser [GTSW]
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Clout
- a piece of cloth or linen, a rag [GTSW]
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Coat
- a house or shack
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Commonweale
- public welfare, public property.
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Cope
- a semicircular sleeveless hooded vestment [CED]
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Cosses
- thighs
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Dastards
- cowards
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Delay
- to dilute [GTSW]
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Detect
- to reveal
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Discover
- to disclose, to reveal
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Dissemble
- to disguise, to mask, to feign, to assume a false appearance [CED]
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Dolour
- pain
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Eke
- in addition, likewise [CED]
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Erst
- once, formerly
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Fain
- (v.) to put on a false appearance, e.g. he fained much sorrow.
- (adv.) willingly, e.g. I would fain speake.
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Fardel
- a bundle, a pack, a burden. [CED]
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Fet
- to fetch [CED]
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Fuller
- one whose occupation is to cleanse and thicken cloth.
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Gan
- to begin [CED]
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Glimpse
- to shine faintly, to glimmer [GTSW]
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Gree
- goodwill, favour, pleasure, satisfaction
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Habiliment
- an outfit, accoutrement, attire [GTSW]
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Importunate
- unreasonably solicitous or urgent; insupportable; troublesome
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Incontinently
- immediately [GTSW]
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Krippin
- (may be related to Crippe: a small bag, a pouch [MED])
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Lawne
- a cotton or linen fabric, finer than cambric
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Masties
- mastiffs
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Maugre
- in spite of [DAP]
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Maurell
- (may be related to Mawroll: the white-horehound [DAP])
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Mow
- a stack of corn [DAP]
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Pannier
- a basket
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Pantofles/Pantofiles
- slippers
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Paps
- breasts
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Partlet
- a neckerchief [GTSW]
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Pismares/Pismires
- ants
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Pole
- the upper part
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Pottage
- boiled vegetables, with or without meat [CED]
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Precept
- a command, a mandate
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Presently
- immediately [GTSW]
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Preyes
- booty, plunder [CED]
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Pristine
- pertaining to an early state or time
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Privily
- secretly
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Privities
- secrets
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Proper
- own, e.g. "My proper weapons": "My own weapons"
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Puissance
- strength, power
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Puissant
- strong, powerful [from the French "puissant"]
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Sallet
- a salad [DAP]
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Sarce
- a small hair sieve [DAP]
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Shipping
- "to take shipping" = "to embark" [CED]
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Sive
- a sieve [DAP]
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Sop
- a piece of bread soaked in the dripping under the meat [DAP]
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Spice
- a slight attack of any disorder [DAP]
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Stint
- to stop (something) [DAP]
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Target
- a light round buckler [GTSW] (Buckler: a small hand-held shield).
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Travell
- work, labour
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Twyfold
- twofold
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Unbrast
- removed or relaxed the braces of; loosened
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Ungles
- claws [from French "ongles"]
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Unlaste
- unlaced, unfastened. [GTSW]
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Unneth
- scarcely [DAP]
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Utricide
- a bag-killer. (from Latin "utris": bag).
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Verge
- a rod, wand, or staff, carried as an emblem of authority
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Verjuice
- an acid liquid pressed from crab-apples, unripe grapes etc.
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Weale publique
- welfare, prosperity [GTSW]
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Wot
- to know. e.g. God wot: God knows
Sources
- [CED]
- Chambers English Dictionary.
- [DAP]
- A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words from the 14th Century,
by James Orchard Halliwell, London: John Russell Smith, 1881.
- [GTSW]
- A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words; by Walter W. Skeat, edited
with additions by A. L. Mayhew; Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1914.
- [MED]
- Middle English Dictionary, by Hans Kurath, University of Michigan
Press / Oxford University Press, 1956.