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Playful Poems by Unknown
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Worth no more than a pomegranate seed.
{94i} Cockers, rustic half-boots.
{151g} Coft, bought. German, kaufte.
{82b} Copen, buy. Dutch, koopen.
{94j} Cordiwin, or cordewane, Cordovan leather.
{89} Coueyn, coveyne convening or conspiring of two or more to
defraud.
{94f} Crank, lively. A boat was "crank" when frail, lightly and
easily tossed on the waves, and liable to upset. Prof. Skeat thinks
that the image of the tossed boat suggested lively movement.
{151c} Creeshie flannen, greasy flannel.
{151e} Cummock, a short staff with a crooked head.
{151f} Cutty, short; so cutty pipe, short pipe.

{85a} Darrain, decide. To "arraign" was to summon ad rationes to
the pleadings. To darraign was derationare, to bring them to a
decision.
{86b} Defy, digest. As in the Vision of Piers Plowman
"wyn of Ossye
Of Ruyn and of Rochel, the rost to defye."
Latin, defio = deficio, to make one's self to be removed from
something, or something to be removed from one's self. To defy in
the sense of challenging is a word of different origin, diffidere,
to separate from fides, faith, trust, allegiance to another.
{91d} Degest, orderly. To "digest" is to separate and arrange in an
orderly manner.
{150e} Dirl, vibrate, echo.
{147b} Drouthy, droughty, thirsty.
{151a} Duddies, clothes.

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