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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