Edmund Spenser

The Irish have, from the Scythians, mantles and long glibs, which is a thick curied bush of hair hanging down over their eyes, and monstrously disguising them.

Gloom

[This weary day] . . . at last I see it gloom.

Glory

Spread his glory through all countries wide.

Glyn

He could not beat out the Irish, yet he did shut them up within those narrow corners and glyns under the mountain's foot.

Gnar

At them he gan to rear his bristles strong, And felly gnarre.

Gorge

Wherewith he gripped her gorge with so great pain.

And all the way, most like a brutish beast, e spewed up his gorge, that all did him detest.

Grail

Lying down upon the sandy grail.

Grain

The red roses flush up in her cheeks . . . Likce crimson dyed in grain.

Gramercy

Gramercy, Mammon, said the gentle knight.

Grapple

The iron hooks and grapples keen.

Gree

He is a shepherd great in gree.

Gride

That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride.

Groin

Bears that groined coatinually.

Guest

To cheer his guests, whom he had stayed that night.

Guise

As then the guise was for each gentle swain.

Gush

A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound.

Hair

And draweth new delights with hoary hairs.

Hale

All heedless of his dearest hale.

Halse

Each other kissed glad And lovely halst.

Handling

The heavens and your fair handling Have made you master of the field this day.

Handsome

For a thief it is so handsome as it may seem it was first invented for him.

Hap

Whether art it was or heedless hap.

Harbor

[A grove] fair harbour that them seems.

Haughty

To measure the most haughty mountain's height.

Equal unto this haughty enterprise.

Hault

Through support of countenance proud and hault.

Hazardize

Herself had run into that hazardize.

Headless

Witless headiness in judging or headless hardiness in condemning.

Headpiece

In his headpiece he felt a sore pain.

Hearken

[She] hearkened now and then Some little whispering and soft groaning sound.

Heaven

Unto the God of love, high heaven's King.

Heft

Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft.

Hem

All the skirt about Was hemmed with golden fringe.

Heresy

Doubts 'mongst divines, and difference of texts, From whence arise diversity of sects, And hateful heresies by God abhor'd.

Hew

Of whom he makes such havoc and such hew.

High

High time it is this war now ended were.

Hight

But the sad steel seized not where it was hight Upon the child, but somewhat short did fall.

Yet charge of them was to a porter hight.

Hoard

To hoard for those whom he did breed.

Hold

In vain he seeks, that having can not hold.

Hood

How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being understood?

However

However yet they me despise and spite.

Hunger

O sacred hunger of ambitious minds!

Hurtle

Now hurtling round, advantage for to take.

His harmful club he gan to hurtle high.

Hurtless

Gentle dame so hurtless and so true.

Husbandry

Husbandry supplieth all things necessary for food.

Hush

But all these strangers' presence every one did hush.

Idol

Do her adore with sacred reverence, As th' idol of her maker's great magnificence.

Imitate

A place picked out by choice of best alive The Nature's work by art can imitate.

Immix

Amongst her tears immixing prayers meek.

Impatience

With huge impatience he inly swelt More for great sorrow that he could not pass, Than for the burning torment which he felt.

Implacable

O! how I burn with implacable fire.

Important

He fiercely at him flew, And with important outrage him assailed.

Importune

And their importune fates all satisfied.

Imprison

He imprisoned was in chains remediless.

Imprison ment

His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint.

Inburning

Her inburning wrath she gan abate.

Incessant

Against the castle gate, . . . Which with incessant force and endless hate, They batter'd day and night and entrance did await.

Inconstancy

For unto knight there was no greater shame, Than lightness and inconstancie in love.

Industrious

Industrious to seek out the truth of all things.

Inert

Sluggish Idleness, the nurse of sin, Upon a slothful ass he chose to ride.

Infamous

False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn.

Influence

She said : “Ah, dearest lord! what evil star On you hath frown'd, and poured, his influence bad?”

Inform

For he would learn their business secretly, And then inform his master hastily.

Ingate

Which hath in charge the ingate of the year.

Inheritance

To you th' inheritance belongs by right Of brother's praise; to you eke 'longs his love.

Iniquity

Till the world from his perfection fell Into all filth and foul iniquity.

Ink

Deformed monsters, foul and black as ink.

Inn

Therefore with me ye may take up your inn For this same night.

Inquiry

He could no path nor track of foot descry, Nor by inquiry learn, nor guess by aim.

Inspire

And generous stout courage did inspire.

And when the wind amongst them did inspire, They wavèd like a penon wide dispread.

Intelligence

And dimmed with darkness their intelligence.

Intermeddle

Many other adventures are intermeddled.

Intimate

So both conspiring 'gan to intimate Each other's grief.

Invade

Which becomes a body, and doth then invade The state of life, out of the grisly shade.

Invent

And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent.

Invest

Can not find one this girdle to invest.

Inviolable

Their almighty Maker first ordained And bound them with inviolable bands.

Inviolate

There chaste Alceste lives inviolate.

Jar

When those renowned noble peers Greece Through stubborn pride among themselves did jar.

And yet his peace is but continual jar.

Jeer

But when he saw her toy and gibe and jeer.

Jess

Like a hawk, which feeling freed From bells and jesses which did let her flight.

Jolly

Full jolly knight he seemed, and fair did sit.

Journal

Whiles from their journal labors they did rest.

Joy

Such joy made Una, when her knight she found.

Joyous

They all as glad as birds of joyous prime.

Keep

Pan, thou god of shepherds all, Which of our tender lambkins takest keep.

Often he used of his keep A sacrifice to bring.

Ketch

To ketch him at a vantage in his snares.

Kind

How diversely Love doth his pageants play, And snows his power in variable kinds !

Kindly

An herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting.

Knightly

For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit.

Lace

For striving more, the more in laces strong Himself he tied.

Land

Herself upon the land she did prostrate.

Languorous

Whom late I left in languorous constraint.

Lard

[The oak] with his nuts larded many a swine.

Launce

Fortune all in equal launce doth sway.

Launch

Launch your hearts with lamentable wounds.

Lazar

Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay.

Lean

They delight rather to lean to their old customs.

Learned

The learnedlover lost no time.

Leave

An army strong she leaved.

Legerdemain

He of legierdemayne the mysteries did know.

Let

Yet neither spins nor cards, ne cares nor frets, But to her mother Nature all her care she lets.

Level

For all his mind on honor fixed is, To which he levels all his purposes.

Lever

For lever had I die than see his deadly face.

Lief

Death me liefer were than such despite.

He up arose, however lief or loth.

Light

To a fair semblance doth light faith annex.

From his head the heavy burgonet did light.

Lineage

Both the lineage and the certain sire From which I sprung, from me are hidden yet.

Livery

What livery is, we by common use in England know well enough, namely, that is, allowance of horse meat, as to keep horses at livery, the which word, I guess, is derived of livering or delivering forth their nightly food.

Loadstar

The pilot can no loadstar see.

Loathful

Above the reach of loathful, sinful lust.

Lock

When it locked none might through it pass.

Lodging

Fair bosom . . . the lodging of delight.

Long

The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against the tournament, which is not long.

Look

Looking each hour into death's mouth to fall.

Looking my love, I go from place to place.

Loose

Loose ladies in delight.

Lord

The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss.

Lore

Neither of them she found where she them lore.

If please ye, listen to my lore.

Lot

But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay.

Lout

He fair the knight saluted, louting low.

Love

Open the temple gates unto my love.

Loyalty

Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons his love still craved, To his one love his loyalty he saved.

Lurk

Like wild beasts, lurking in loathsome den.

Lust

For little lust had she to talk of aught.

Maim

My late maimed limbs lack wonted might.

Main

He 'gan advance, With huge force, and with importable main.

make

And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with made delights.

Malign

The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them.

Mantle

Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch.

My frail fancy fed with full delight. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.

Many

After him the rascal many ran.

Martyr

The lovely Amoret, whose gentle heart Thou martyrest with sorrow and with smart.

May

How may a man, said he, with idle speech, Be won to spoil the castle of his health!

Mazy

To range amid the mazy thicket.

Meed

A rosy garland was the victor's meed.

Memorize

They neglect to memorize their conquest.

Mere

Which meared her rule with Africa.

Methinks

In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause.

Mew

Forthcoming from her darksome mew.

Might

What so strong, But wanting rest, will also want of might?

Mire

He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire.

Mirror

And in her hand she held a mirror bright, Wherein her face she often viewèd fair.

O goddess, heavenly bright, Mirror of grace and majesty divine.

Miss

Amongst the angels, a whole legion Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss?

Mister

As for my name, it mistereth not to tell.

Mockery

The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries.

Moderate

To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive.

Moil

Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil.

Mollify

With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts.

Monoceros

Mighty monoceroses with immeasured tails.

Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height, Do make them music for their more delight.

Mortgage

Mortgaging their lives to covetise.

Mumm

With mumming and with masking all around.

Musical

To fetch home May with their musical.

Mystery

And that which is the noblest mystery Brings to reproach and common infamy.

Neat

Wherein the herds[men] were keeping of their neat.

Nest

A little cottage, like some poor man's nest.

Net

Her breast all naked as net ivory.

Nether

This darksome nether world her light Doth dim with horror and deformity.

Newly

And the refined mind doth newly fashion Into a fairer form.

Nill

Certes, said he, I nill thine offered grace.

Nip

And sharp remorse his heart did prick and nip.

Noursle

She noursled him till years he raught.

Noy

All that noyed his heavy spright.

Noyous

Watch the noyous night, and wait for joyous day.

Occasion

Whose manner was, all passengers to stay, And entertain with her occasions sly.

Odor

Meseemed I smelt a garden of sweet flowers, That dainty odors from them threw around.

Odorous

Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell.

One

One day when Phoebe fair, With all her band, was following the chase.

Oricalche

Costly oricalche from strange Phoenice.

Other

A distaff in her other hand she had.

Ought

The knight the which that castle ought.

Outlearn

Naught, according to his mind, He could outlearn.

Outrage

He wrought great outrages, wasting all the country.

Overawe

The king was present in person to overlook the magistrates, and overawe these subjects with the terror of his sword.

Overcome

This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been.

Overflow

The northern nations overflowed all Christendom.

Overhent

So forth he went and soon them overhent.

Overlay

As when a cloud his beams doth overlay.

Overrun

Those barbarous nations that overran the world.

None of them the feeble overran.

Despised and trodden down of all that overran.

Overtake

He had him overtaken in his flight.

Overthrow

Your sudden overthrow much rueth me.

Pageant

To see sad pageants of men's miseries.

Pall

His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold.

Paragon

Full many feats adventurous Performed, in paragon of proudest men.

Pass

And strive to pass . . . Their native music by her skillful art.

Passionate

Great pleasure, mixed with pitiful regard, The godly king and queen did passionate.

Past

Bows not past three quarters of a yard long.

Pasture

Toads and frogs his pasture poisonous.

Peer

He all his peers in beauty did surpass.

Penance

And bitter penance, with an iron whip.

Perdy

Ah, dame! perdy ye have not done me right.

Personable

Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind.

Personage

The damsel well did view his personage.

Pierce

And pierced to the skin, but bit no more.

Pillion

His [a soldier's] shank pillion without stirrups.

Pitiful

A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible.

Plague

She will plague the man that loves her most.

Plight

He plighted his right hand Unto another love, and to another land.

Point

[He] cared not for God or man a point.

Poll

Which polls and pills the poor in piteous wise.

Pond

Pleaseth you, pond your suppliant's plaint.

Portliness

Such pride is praise; such portliness is honor.

Possess

How . . . to possess the purpose they desired.

Postern

He by a privy postern took his flight.

Prank

In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank.

Prefix

And now he hath to her prefixt a day.

Prejudice

Naught might hinder his quick prejudize.

Price

With thine own blood to price his blood.

Prick

A gentle knight was pricking on the plain.

Pride

Lofty trees yclad with summer's pride.

Prime

Early and late it rung, at evening and at prime.

Primitia

The primitias of your parsonage.

Principle

Doubting sad end of principle unsound.

Privity

I will unto you, in privity, discover . . . my purpose.

Prize

His own prize, Whom formerly he had in battle won.

Procure

The famous Briton prince and faery knight, . . . Of the fair Alma greatly were procured To make there longer sojourn and abode.

Project

Before his feet herself she did project.

Proof

For whatsoever mother wit or art Could work, he put in proof.

Propitious

And now t' assuage the force of this new flame, And make thee [Love] more propitious in my need.

Proscribe

Robert Vere, Earl of Oxford, . . . was banished the realm, and proscribed.

Prove

Where she, captived long, great woes did prove.

Prow

The prowest knight that ever field did fight.

Puissant

Of puissant nations which the world possessed.

Pumy

A gentle stream, whose murmuring wave did play Amongst the pumy stones.

Purchase

That loves the thing he can not purchase.

Purfle

A goodly lady clad in scarlet red, Purfled with gold and pearl of rich assay.

Purport

For she her sex under that strange purport Did use to hide.

Purvey

Give no odds to your foes, but do purvey Yourself of sword before that bloody day.

Purveyance

The ill purveyance of his page.

Quaint

Every look was coy and wondrous quaint.

Qualify

In short space he has them qualified.

Quart

Camber did possess the western quart.

Quell

Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell.

Winter's wrath begins to quell.

Much did his words the gentle lady quell.

Quest

Upon an hard adventure yet in quest.

Quich

He could not move nor quich at all.

Quip

The more he laughs, and does her closely quip.

Rack

The landlords there shamefully rack their tenants.

Rag

Upon the proclamation, they all came in, both tag and rag.

Rail

Streams of tears from her fair eyes forth railing.

Ramp

Their bridles they would champ, And trampling the fine element would fiercely ramp.

Rancorous

So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire.

Ransack

Rich spoil of ransacked chastity.

Rapt

Waters rapt with whirling away.

Rash

Rashing off helms and riving plates asunder.

Rate

The one right feeble through the evil rate Of food which in her duress she had found.

Thus sat they all around in seemly rate.

Rath

Too rathe cut off by practice criminal.

Raw

And all his sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment.

Ray

And spoiling all her gears and goodly ray.

Read

But read how art thou named, and of what kin.

An armed corse did lie, In whose dead face he read great magnanimity.

Rear

And having her from Trompart lightly reared, Upon his courser set the lovely load.

Reason

I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.

Rebut

Who him, rencount'ring fierce, as hawk in flight, Perforce rebutted back.

Recomfort

Gan her recomfort from so sad affright.

Recure

When their powers, impaired through labor long, With due repast, they had recured well.

In western waves his weary wagon did recure.

Redound

For every dram of honey therein found, A pound of gall doth over it redound.

Reek

Few chimneys reeking you shall espy.

Reel

And Sisyphus an huge round stone did reel.

Refection

[His] feeble spirit inly felt refection.

Regality

[Passion] robs reason of her due regalitie.

Regard

A man of meanest regard amongst them, neither having wealth or power.

Relate

Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate.

Release

A sacred vow that none should aye release.

Relent

And oftentimes he would relent his pace.

Nor rested till she came without relent Unto the land of Amazons.

Remediless

Forced to forego the attempt remediless.

Remembrance

And on his breast a bloody cross he bore, The dear remembrance of his dying Lord.

Remercie

She him remercied as the patron of her life.

Render

Whose smallest minute lost, no riches render may.

Renverse

Whose shield he bears renverst.

Repine

But Lachesis thereat gan to repine.

Reseize

And then therein [in his kingdom] reseized was again.

Resemble

The other . . . He did resemble to his lady bright.

Resiant

In which her kingdom's throne is chiefly resiant.

Resign

He soon resigned his former suit.

Respect

But he it well did ward with wise respect.

Resplendent

With royal arras and resplendent gold.

Respondence

The angelical soft trembling voice made To the instruments divine respondence meet.

Restitution

A restitution of ancient rights unto the crown.

Retire

To Una back he cast him to retire.

Retrait

Whose fair retrait I in my shield do bear.

Return

Both fled attonce, ne ever back returned eye.

Reverse

And that old dame said many an idle verse, Out of her daughter's heart fond fancies to reverse.

And to his fresh remembrance did reverse The ugly view of his deformed crimes.

Revest

Her, nathless, . . . the enchanter Did thus revest and decked with due habiliments.

Revoke

The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality.

[She] still strove their sudden rages to revoke.

Richesse

The richesse of all heavenly grace.

Right

Led her to the Souldan's right.

Rigor

Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could stay.

Riotise

His life he led in lawless riotise.

Rise

There chanced to the prince's hand to rise An ancient book.

Road

Now strike your saile, ye jolly mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode [road].

Roar

Roaring bulls he would him make to tame.

Robust

Then 'gan the villain wax so fierce and strong, That nothing may sustain his furious force.

Rock

Sad Clotho held the rocke, the whiles the thread By grisly Lachesis was spun with pain, That cruel Atropos eftsoon undid.

Rosier

Crowned with a garland of sweet rosier.

Rosmarine

And greedly rosmarines with visages deforme.

Rouse

Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.

Rout

A rout of people there assembled were.

the endless routs of wretched thralls.

Rove

Fair Venus' son, that with thy cruel dart At that good knight so cunningly didst rove.

Rowel

The iron rowels into frothy foam he bit.

Ruffin

His ruffin rainment all was stained with blood.

Ruinate

On the other side they saw that perilous rock Threatening itself on them to ruinate.

Rumble

To rumble gently down with murmur soft.

Ruth

To stir up gentle ruth, Both for her noble blood, and for her tender youth.

With wretched miseries and woeful ruth.

Sacrilege

And the hid treasures in her sacred tomb With sacrilege to dig.

Sad

His hand, more sad than lump of lead.

Safe-conduct

He him by all the bonds of love besought To safe-conduct his love.

Sail

Like an eagle soaring To weather his broad sails.

Sake

Moved with wrath and shame and ladies' sake.

Sale

They shall have ready sale for them.

Salve

By this that stranger knight in presence came, And goodly salved them.

But Ebranck salved both their infamies With noble deeds.

Samite

In silken samite she was light arrayed.

Saw

[Love] rules the creatures by his powerful saw.

Say

He found a sword of better say.

His garment neither was of silk nor say.

Scale

Oft have I scaled the craggy oak.

Scan

Nor stayed till she the highest stage had scand.

Scarmage

Such cruel game my scarmoges disarms.

Scath

Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath.

Scorse

And recompensed them with a better scorse.

Scowl

She scowled and frowned with froward countenance.

Scrine

But laid them up in immortal scrine.

Scum

Some to remove the scum as it did rise.

Sdeign

But either sdeigns with other to partake.

See

Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see.

Seen

Well seen in every science that mote be.

Seigniory

O'Neal never had any seigniory over that country but what by encroachment he got upon the English.

Seize

For by no means the high bank he could seize.

As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak.

Selcouth

[She] wondered much at his so selcouth case.

Sell

He left his lofty steed with golden self.

Service

When he cometh to experience of service abroad . . . ne maketh a worthy soldier.

Shackle

His shackles empty left; himself escaped clean.

Shade

[The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade That part of Justice which is Equity.

Shadow

In secret shadow from the sunny ray, On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid.

The warlike elf much wondered at this tree, So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground.

Shallop

[She] thrust the shallop from the floating strand.

Shame

And with foul cowardice his carcass shame.

Sharply

They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish.

Sheath

The dead knight's sword out of his sheath he drew.

Shend

The famous name of knighthood foully shend.

She passed the rest as Cynthia doth shend The lesser stars.

Shield

They brought with them their usual weeds, fit to shield the cold to which they had been inured.

Shining

His sparkling blade about his head he blest.

Shoot

Well shot in years he seemed.

Shore

The fruitful shore of muddy Nile.

Short

Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence should be so short.

Shoulder

As they the earth would shoulder from her seat.

Shriek

On top whereof aye dwelt the ghostly owl, Shrieking his baleful note.

Shrill

Break we our pipes, that shrilledloud as lark.

Shrink

And on a broken reed he still did stay His feeble steps, which shrunk when hard thereon he lay.

Sib

[He] is no fairy birn, ne sib at all To elfs, but sprung of seed terrestrial.

Sicker

Sicker, Willye, thou warnest well.

Side

His blind eye that sided Paridell.

Siege

A stately siege of sovereign majesty, And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay.

Sight

They never saw a sight so fair.

Sign

Saint George of Merry England, the sign of victory.

Silly

The silly virgin strove him to withstand.

After long storms . . . With which my silly bark was tossed sore.

Simple

A simple husbandman in garments gray.

Sith

And humbly thanked him a thousand sithes.

Skill

That by his fellowship he color might Both his estate and love from skill of any wight.

Skippet

A little skippet floating did appear.

Slash

Hewing and slashing at their idle shades.

Sledge

With his heavy sledge he can it beat.

Slipper

O! trustless state of earthly things, and slipper hope Of mortal men.

Slug

To slug in sloth and sensual delight.

Sly

For my sly wiles and subtle craftiness, The litle of the kingdom I possess.

Smart

Counsel mitigates the greatest smart.

Smerk

So smerk, so smooth, his pricked ears.

Smolder

The smoldering dust did round about him smoke.

Smoldry

A flaming fire ymixt with smoldry smoke.

Snub

[A club] with ragged snubs and knotty grain.

Soft

A knight soft riding toward them.

Soldier

It were meet that any one, before he came to be a captain, should have been a soldier.

Sole

Hast wandered through the world now long a day, Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead.

Solemn

There reigned a solemn silence over all.

Solemnize

Though spoused, yet wanting wedlock's solemnize.

Somedeal

Thou lackest somedeal their delight.

Somewhile

Though, under color of shepherds, somewhile There crept in wolves, full of fraud and guile.

Sooth

The soothe of birds by beating of their wings.

Soothsay

God turn the same to good soothsay.

Sop

Garlands of roses and sops in wine.

Sorry

She entered, were he lief or sorry.

Sort

Which for my part I covet to perform, In sort as through the world I did proclaim.

Sound

So sound he slept that naught might him awake.

Souse

As a falcon fair That once hath failed or her souse full near.

Souvenance

Of his way he had no sovenance.

Space

And loved in forests wild to space.

Spang

With glittering spangs that did like stars appear.

Spare

If that no spare clothes he had to give.

Poured out their plenty without spite or spare.

Spill

Greater glory think [it] to save than spill.

Spirit

The mild air, with season moderate, Gently attempered, and disposed eo well, That still it breathed foorth sweet spirit.

Spoil

Outlaws, which, lurking in woods, used to break forth to rob and spoil.

Spouse

At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, That I that lady to my spouse had won.

Though spoused, yet wanting wedlock's solemnize.

She was found again, and spoused to Marinell.

Spray

And from the trees did lop the needless spray.

Sprent

All the ground with purple blood was sprent.

Spright

Wondrous great grief groweth in my spright.

Forth he called, out of deep darkness dread, Legions of sprights.

Staddle

His weak steps governing And aged limbs on cypress stadle stout.

Stain

That did all other beasts in beauty stain.

Stale

Still, as he went, he crafty stales did lay.

Stalk

The which with monstrous stalk behind him stepped.

Star-read

Which in star-read were wont have best insight.

Stark

Whose senses all were straight benumbed and stark.

His heart gan wax as stark as marble stone.

Start-up

A startuppe, or clownish shoe.

Stay

Him backward overthrew and down him stayed With their rude hands and grisly grapplement.

She would command the hasty sun to stay.

Stead

Fly, therefore, fly this fearful stead anon.

Perhaps my succour or advisement meet, Mote stead you much your purpose to subdue.

Steal

And in his hand a huge poleax did bear. Whose steale was iron-studded but not long.

They could insinuate and steal themselves under the same by their humble carriage and submission.

Stealth

The owner proveth the stealth to have been committed upon him by such an outlaw.

Steer

That with a staff his feeble steps did steer.

Stent

Yet n'ould she stent Her bitter railing and foul revilement.

Stew

As burning Aetna from his boiling stew Doth belch out flames.

Stomach

Stern was his look, and full of stomach vain.

Stomachous

With stern looks and stomachous disdain.

Stony

The stony dart of senseless cold.

Strait

He brought him through a darksome narrow strait To a broad gate all built of beaten gold.

Stream

It may so please that she at length will stream Some dew of grace into my withered heart.

Stress

Sad hersal of his heavy stress.

Strew

The snow which does the top of Pindus strew.

Strifeful

The ape was strifeful and ambitious.

Strike

And fiercely took his trenchant blade in hand, With which he stroke so furious and so fell.

Stud

Seest not this same hawthorn stud?

Sty

With bolder wing shall dare aloft to sty, To the last praises of this Faery Queene.

Subtile

More subtile web Arachne can not spin.

Succeed

As he saw him nigh succeed.

Success

Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success.

Sue

I was beloved of many a gentle knight, And sued and sought with all the service due.

Sufferance

But hasty heat tempering with sufferance wise.

In their beginning they are weak and wan, But soon, through sufferance, grow to fearful end.

Suit

Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone.

Sunshiny

Flashing beams of that sunshiny shield.

Supple

The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep.

Surbate

Lest they their fins should bruise, and surbate sore Their tender feet upon the stony ground.

Surcharge

Four charged two, and two surcharged one.

Surge

The surging waters like a mountain rise.

Surplusage

Take what thou please of all this surplusage.

Surquedry

Then pay you the price of your surquedry.

Swarm

Every place swarms with soldiers.

Swart

A nation strange, with visage swart.

Sway

As sparkles from the anvil rise, When heavy hammers on the wedge are swayed.

Swelt

Night she swelt for passing joy.

Swink

For which men swink and sweat incessantly.

Tawdry

And gird in your waist, For more fineness, with a tawdry lace.

Teamed

Let their teamed fishes softly swim.

Temper

With which the damned ghosts he governeth, And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth.

Temperance

He calmed his wrath with goodly temperance.

Temperature

In that proud port, which her so goodly graceth, Most goodly temperature you may descry.

Tender

For first, next after life, he tendered her good.

Terrestrial

Vain labors of terrestrial wit.

That

So wept Duessa until eventide, That shining lamps in Jove's high course were lit.

Thee

Well mote thee, as well can wish your thought.

Thew

To be upbrought in gentle thews and martial might.

Thewed

Yet would not seem so rude and thewed ill.

Thick

Through the thick they heard one rudely rush.

Thrift

The rest, . . . willing to fall to thrift, prove very good husbands.

Thrill

He pierced through his chafed chest With thrilling point of deadly iron brand.

The cruel word her tender heart so thrilled, That sudden cold did run through every vein.

Throw

Nor shield defend the thunder of his throws.

Thrust

As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade.

Tickle

He with secret joy therefore Did tickle inwardly in every vein.

So tickle is the state of earthy things.

Tide

And rest their weary limbs a tide.

Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride.

Timbered

His timbered bones all broken, rudely rumbled.

Tine

Coals of contention and hot vengeance tind.

Ne was there slave, ne was there medicine That mote recure their wounds; so inly they did tine.

Tiptoe

Upon his tiptoes stalketh stately by.

Tire

On her head she wore a tire of gold.

Tool

That angry fool . . . Whipping her horse, did with his smarting tool Oft whip her dainty self.

Toot

For birds in bushes tooting.

Tort

That had them long opprest with tort.

Totty

For yet his noule [head] was totty of the must.

Tourney

At tilt or tourney or like warlike game.

Well could he tourney, and in lists debate.

Touse

As a bear, whom angry curs have touzed.

Tower

On the other side an high rock towered still.

Toy

To fly about playing their wanton toys.

To dally thus with death is no fit toy.

Trace

How all the way the prince on footpace traced.

Not wont on foot with heavy arms to trace.

Trade

Hath tracted forth some salvage beastes trade.

There those five sisters had continual trade.

Accursed usury was all his trade.

Trail

When his brother saw the red blood trail.

Train

With cunning trains him to entrap un wares.

Trance

My soul was ravished quite as in a trance.

Trap

To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed.

Travel

They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises.

Treat

Bid him battle without further treat.

Treaty

He cast by treaty and by trains Her to persuade.

Trickle

Fast beside there trickled softly down A gentle stream.

Trim

With comely carriage of her countenance trim.

Trinal

In their trinal triplicities on high.

Triplicity

In their trinal triplicities on high.

Troublous

A tall ship tossed in troublous seas.

Truncheon

With his truncheon he so rudely struck.

Truss

Bearing a truss of trifles at his back.

Who trussing me as eagle doth his prey.

Trusty

His trusty sword he called to his aid.

Tunnel

And one great chimney, whose long tunnel thence The smoke forth threw.

Turmoil

It is her fatal misfortune . . . to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction.

Turribant

With hundred turrets like a turribant.

Twinkle

Suddenly, with twinkle of her eye, The damsel broke his misintended dart.

Tyran

Lordly love is such a tyran fell.

Ugly

The ugly view of his deformed crimes.

Umbrere

But only vented up her umbriere.

Unacquainted

And the unacquainted light began to fear.

Unbody

Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse.

Uncouth

To leave the good that I had in hand, In hope of better that was uncouth.

Uncrudded

Her breast like to a bowl of cream uncrudded.

Under

Three sons he dying left under age.

Undertide

He, coming home at undertime, there found The fairest creature that he ever saw.

Uneath

Who he was, uneath was to descry.

Unkempt

My rhymes be rugged and unkempt.

Unseason

Why do I send this rustic madrigal, That may thy tuneful ear unseason quite?

Unsoft

Great climbers fall unsoft.

Until

He roused himself full blithe, and hastened them until.

Unvalued

The golden apples of unvalued price.

Up

Those that were up themselves kept others low.

Upgather

Himself he close upgathered more and more.

Upright

All have their ears upright.

Usage

A gentle nymph was found, Hight Astery, excelling all the crew In courteous usage.

Use

Let later age that noble use envy.

They use to place him that shall be their captain on a stone.

Utter

As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch.

How bragly [proudly] it begins to bud, And utter his tender head.

Vade

They into dust shall vade.

Vary

Shall we vary our device at will, Even as new occasion appears?

Vaunt

And what so else his person most may vaunt.

Vermeil

In her cheeks the vermeill red did show Like roses in a bed of lilies shed.

Virtuous

Lifting up his virtuous staff on high, He smote the sea, which calméd was with speed.

Vital

Do the heavens afford him vital food?

Walk

He will make their cows and garrans to walk.

Ward

Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward.

The assieged castle's ward Their steadfast stands did mightily maintain.

It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords.

Whose gates he found fast shut, no living wight To ward the same.

Ware

The only good that grows of passed fear Is to be wise, and ware of like again.

Wareless

And wareless of the evil That by themselves unto themselves is wrought.

Warely

They bound him hand and foot with iron chains, And with continual watch did warely keep.

Warre

They say the world is much warre than it wont.

Waste

But his waste words returned to him in vain.

Thou barren ground, whom winter's wrath hath wasted, Art made a mirror to behold my plight.

Wasteful

In wilderness and wasteful desert strayed.

Wasteness

Through woods and wasteness wide him daily sought.

Watch

Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward.

Way

All keep the broad highway, and take delight With many rather for to go astray.

On a time as they together wayed.

Wayment

For what boots it to weep and wayment, When ill is chanced?

Wear

That wicked wight his days doth wear.

Weather

[An eagle] soaring through his wide empire of the air To weather his broad sails.

Web

Penelope, for her Ulysses' sake, Devised a web her wooers to deceive.

Weed

One rushing forth out of the thickest weed.

Weigh

All that she so dear did weigh.

Could not weigh of worthiness aright.

Welk

When ruddy Phbus 'gins to welk in west.

Now sad winter welked hath the day.

Welkin

The fair welkin foully overcast.

Well

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled.

Well-seen

Well-seen in arms and proved in many a fight.

Wellhead

At the wellhead the purest streams arise.

Welter

These wizards welter in wealth's waves.

Went

But here my weary team, nigh overspent, Shall breathe itself awhile after so long a went.

He knew the diverse went of mortal ways.

What

And gave him for to feed, Such homely what as serves the simple clown.

Whatso

Whatso the heaven in his wide vault contains.

Where

Finding the nymph asleep in secret where.

Whereas

At last they came whereas that lady bode.

Whether

One day in doubt I cast for to compare Whether in beauties' glory did exceed.

White

Driving their cattle continually with them, and feeding only upon their milk and white meats.

wick

But true it is, that when the oil is spent The light goes out, and wick is thrown away.

Wicker

Each one a little wicker basket had, Made of fine twigs, entrailéd curiously.

Wide

Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand.

Wight

He was so wimble and so wight.

Wimple

For she had laid her mournful stole aside, And widowlike sad wimple thrown away.

For with a veil, that wimpled everywhere, Her head and face was hid.

Win

Even in the porch he him did win.

Withhold

Withhold, O sovereign prince, your hasty hand From knitting league with him.

Woe

And looking up he waxed wondrous woe.

Womanhood

Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood.

Won

This land where I have woned thus long.

Wont

A yearly solemn feast she wont to make.

Wonted

Again his wonted weapon proved.

Workmanship

Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield.

Not any skilled in workmanship embossed.

Worship

Elfin, born of noble state, And muckle worship in his native land.

Of which great worth and worship may be won.

Wrath

Wrath is a fire, and jealousy a weed.

Wreak

Another's wrongs to wreak upon thyself.

Wreathe

And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe.

Wreck

Hard and obstinate As is a rock amidst the raging floods, 'Gainst which a ship, of succor desolate, Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods.

Writ

Then to his hands that writ he did betake, Which he disclosing read, thus as the paper spake.

Wull

Pour out to all that wull.

Ydrad

Yet nothing did he dread, but ever was ydrad.

Yede

[He] on foot was forced for to yeed.

Yell

Nor the night raven, that still deadly yells.

Yore

Which though he hath polluted oft and yore, Yet I to them for judgment just do fly.

Youngth

Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath.

Younker

That same younker soon was overthrown.

Ywis

A right good knight, and true of word ywis.