_norice_, a nurse, and _norie_, a foster-child. There is also a
substantive _nore_ in Chaucer, meaning comfort. _Norne_ is to
entreat, ask (see _Alliterative Poems_ Glossary), and may have
something to do with this expression, but it is hardly so probable
as the above.
Noute = black cattle, p. 27;
connected with _neat_, as in neat-cattle, neat-herd.
Nulleth = negatives, p. 33.
Nurice = nurse, p. 19.

Of = off, p. 23.
Ones, at ones = at once, p. 18.

Paen = trouble, p. 2.
Paert = part, p. 10.
Peple = people, pp. 20, 29.
Phason = pheasant (?), p. 13.
Pover = poor, p. 3.
Punct = stop, p. 34.

Qu.
At p. 18 the author gives his reasons for making use of the guttural
_qu_ in the place of the labial _w_. The following are the words in
which it is thus used:--
Quha = who, pp. 2, 3, 34.
Quhae = who, pp. 1, 10;
quhae’s = whose, p. 2.
Quhaer = where, p. 2.
Quhar = where, p. 29.
Quharein = wherein, p. 14.