George Chapman

Abode

High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes.

Accite

Our heralds now accited all that were Endamaged by the Elians.

Affair

And with his best affair Obeyed the pleasure of the Sun.

Affected

His affected Hercules.

Amel

Enlightened all with stars, And richly ameled.

Apply

And he applied each place so fast.

Appose

The nymph herself did then appose, For food and beverage, to him all best meat.

Arrive

And made the sea-trod ship arrive them.

Author

Such an overthrow . . . I have authored.

Blore

A most tempestuous blore.

Braving

With so proud a strain Of threats and bravings.

Brood

Flocks of the airy brood, (Cranes, geese or long-necked swans).

Carriage

Nine days employed in carriage.

Cheat

Their purest cheat, Thrice bolted, kneaded, and subdued in paste.

Close

The doors of plank were; their close exquisite.

Contributory

Bonfires of contributory wood.

Countermine

'Tis hard for man to countermine with God.

Cunning

A carpenter's desert Stands more in cunning than in power.

Dare

Childish, unworthy dares Are not enought to part our powers.

Date

Through his life's whole date.

Dædal

Our bodies decked in our dædalian arms.

Dead

Heaven's stern decree, With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me.

Deathful

The deathless gods and deathful earth.

Deviceful

A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread.

Difference

Thou mayest difference gods from men.

discolored

That ever wore discolored arms.

Dishonest

I will no longer dishonest my house.

Dislive

Telemachus dislived Amphimedon.

Disperple

Odorous water was Disperpled lightly on my head and neck.

Display

And from his seat took pleasure to display The city so adorned with towers.

Engrail

A caldron new engrailed with twenty hues.

Ensphere

His ample shoulders in a cloud ensphered.

Excruciate

And here my heart long time excruciate.

Fellowless

Whose well-built walls are rare and fellowless.

Fetch

Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle.

Fiber

Yet had no fibers in him, nor no force.

Forefeel

As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds.

Gigot

The rest in giggots cut, they spit.

Girdlestead

Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead.

Glory

In glory of thy fortunes.

Grave

His shield grave and great.

Guest

And tell me, best of princes, who he was That guested here so late.

Hatch

Shall win this sword, silvered and hatched.

Heavy

The heavy [sorrowing] nobles all in council were.

Height

All would in his power hold, all make his subjects.

Helpless

Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of my plagues.

Horror

Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves.

Human

Sprung of humans that inhabit earth.

Humorous

All founts wells, all deeps humorous.

Hyperthetical

Hyperthetical or superlative . . . expression.

Illustrate

Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky.

Important

Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important.

Impose

Cakes of salt and barley [she] did impose Within a wicker basket.

Incense

Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral.

Inclose

They went to coach and their horse inclose.

Income

I would then make in and steep My income in their blood.

Incur

Lest you incur me much more damage in my fame than you have done me pleasure in preserving my life.

Inexpiate

To rest inexpiate were much too rude a part.

Inflame

We should have made retreat By light of the inflamed fleet.

Intoxicate

Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; I am well enough.

Irrision

This being spoken scepticè, or by way of irrision.

Junket

Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets.

Knighthood

The knighthood nowadays are nothing like the knighthood of old time.

Legacy

He came and told his legacy.

Lucern

My lucerns, too, or dogs inured to hunt Beasts of most rapine.

Mankind

Be not too mankind against your wife.

Mast

Oak mast, and beech, . . . they eat.

Meat

His shield well lined, his horses meated well.

Mere

Then entered they the mere, main sea.

Merely

Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked.

Nippitate

'T will make a cup of wine taste nippitate.

Nock

He took his arrow by the nock.

Object

He, advancing close Up to the lake, past all the rest, arose In glorious object.

Observance

Salads and flesh, such as their haste could get, Served with observance.

Ostent

We asked of God that some ostent might clear Our cloudy business, who gave us sign.

Outray

And now they outray to your fleet.

Pax

Kiss the pax, and be quiet like your neighbors.

Pinch

He [the hound] pinched and pulled her down.

Plump

To visit islands and the plumps of men.

Poll

Who, as he polled off his dart's head, so sure he had decreed That all the counsels of their war he would poll off like it.

Ported

We took the sevenfold-ported Thebes.

Preyful

The preyful brood of savage beasts.

Proin

The sprigs that did about it grow He proined from the leafy arms.

Propose

That being proposed brimfull of wine, one scarce could lift it up.

Quitture

To cleanse the quitture from thy wound.

Rabid

The rabid flight Of winds that ruin ships.

Rap

And through the Greeks and Ilians they rapt The whirring chariot.

Rapture

That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture.

Rare

Rude mechanicals that rare and late Work in the market place.

Rase

Till Troy were by their brave hands rased, They would not turn home.

Reave

If the wooers reave By privy stratagem my life at home.

Receipt

Thy kind receipt of me.

Reddition

The reddition or application of the comparison.

Reduce

And to his brother's house reduced his wife.

Rein

He mounts and reins his horse.

Remember

My friends remembered me of home.

Renown

For joy to hear me so renown his son.

Repose

But these thy fortunes let us straight repose In this divine cave's bosom.

Within a thicket I reposed.

Respective

With respective shame, rose, took us by the hands.

Respectless

Rather than again Endure, respectless, their so moving cies.

Revoluble

Us, then, to whom the thrice three year Hath filled his revoluble orb since our arrival here, I blame not.

Rub

Flight shall leave no Greek a rub.

Ruffle

I ruffled up falen leaves in heap.

Scourge

Up to coach then goes The observed maid, takes both the scourge and reins.

Seel

Cold death, with a violent fate, his sable eyes did seel.

Settle

God settled then the huge whale-bearing lake.

Sewer

Then the sewer Poured water from a great and golden ewer, That from their hands to a silver caldron ran.

Sherd

The thigh . . . which all in sherds it drove.

Shot

Here no shots are where all shares be.

Shot-clog

Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies.

Shroud

The shroud to which he won His fair-eyed oxen.

Smoke

I alone Smoked his true person, talked with him.

Solicit

Hath any ill solicited thine ears?

Sooty

Sootied with noisome smoke.

Sort

A boy, a child, and we a sort of us, Vowed against his voyage.

That he may sort out a worthy spouse.

Sound

The brasswork here, how rich it is in beams, And how, besides, it makes the whole house sound.

Spice

She 'll receive thee, but will spice thy bread With flowery poisons.

Stale

But seeing the arrow's stale without, and that the head did go No further than it might be seen.

Stock

And stand betwixt them made, when, severally, All told their stock.

Stoolball

Nausicaa With other virgins did at stoolball play.

Stoop

Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears Are stooped by death; and many left alive.

Strenuous

And spirit-stirring wine, that strenuous makes.

Strip

When first they stripped the Malean promontory.

Stupidity

A stupidity Past admiration strikes me, joined with fear.

Submit

The bristled throat Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.

Sure

Which put in good sure leather sacks.

Taint

This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath.

Take

For now Troy's broad-wayed town He shall take in.

Tapish

As a hound that, having roused a hart, Although he tappish ne'er so soft.

Tend

Being to descend A ladder much in height, I did not tend My way well down.

Thankless

To shepherd thankless, but by thieves that love the night allowed.

Thrall

He still in thrall Of all-subdoing sleep.

Tire

Thus made she her remove, And left wrath tiring on her son.

Tomb

I tombed my brother that I might be blessed.

Treble

He outrageously (When I accused him) trebled his reply.

Troopmeal

So, troopmeal, Troy pursued a while, laying on with swords and darts.

Twire-pipe

You looked like Twire-pipe, the taborer.

Undergroan

Earth undergroaned their high-raised feet.

Unheired

To leave him utterly unheired.

Ure

Let us be sure of this, to put the best in ure That lies in us.

Vail

My house is as 'twere the cave where the young outlaw hoards the stolen vails of his occupation.

Virtue

Built too strong For force or virtue ever to expugn.

Virtuous

Old Priam's son, amongst them all, was chiefly virtuous.

Vulgar

These vile vulgars are extremely proud.

Walker

Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown.

Wave

Build a ship to save thee from the flood, I 'll furnish thee with fresh wave, bread, and wine.

Weed

He on his bed sat, the soft weeds he wore Put off.

Wench

That they may send again My most sweet wench, and gifts to boot.

Wicker

Then quick did dress His half milk up for cheese, and in a press Of wicker pressed it.

Wreath

Conquest doth grant He dear wreath to the Grecian combatant.

Yote

My fowls, which well enough, I, as before, found feeding at their trough Their yoted wheat.