ARchimage — The chief, or greatest of Magicians or Enchanters.

Atween — between.

Bale — Sorrow, Trouble, Misfortune.

Benempt — named.

Blazon — Painting, Displaying.

Carol — to sing Songs of Joy.

Certes — certainly.

Eath — easy.

Eftsoons — immediately, often, afterwards.

Gear or Geer — Furniture, Equipage, Dress.

Glaive — Sword. (Fr.)

Han — have.

Hight — is named, called.

Idless — Idleness.

Imp — Child, or Offspring; from the Saxon Impan, to graft or plant.

Kest — for cast.

Lad — for led.

Lea — a Piece of Land, or Meadow.

Libbard — Leopard.

Lig — to lie.

Losel — a loose idle Fellow.

Louting — Bowing, Bending.

Mell — mingle.

Moe — more.

Moil — to labour.

Muchel or Mochel — much, great.

Nathless — nevertheless.

Ne — nor.

Needments — Necessaries.

Noursling — a Nurse, or what is nursed.

Noyance — Harm.

Perdie — (Fr. par Dieu) an old Oath.

Prick'd thro' the Forest — rode thro' the Forest.

Sear — dry, burnt-up.

Sheen — bright, shining.

Sicker — sure, surely.

Soot — Sweet, or sweetly.

Sooth — true, or truth.

Stound — Misfortune, Pang.

​Sweltry — Sultry, consuming with Heat.

Swink — to labour.

Transmew'd — transform'd.

Vild — vile.

Unkempt — (Lat. incompius) unadorn'd.

Whilom — ere-while, formerly.

Wis, for Wist — to know, think, understand.

Ween — to think, be of Opinion.

Weet — to know; to weet, to wit.

Wonne — (a Noun) Dwelling.

N.B. The Letter Y is frequently placed in the Beginning of a Word, by Spenser, to lengthen it a Syllable.

Yborn — born.

Yblent, or blent — blended, mingled.

Yclad — clad.

Ycleped — called, named.

Yfere — together.

Ymolten — melted.

Yode — (Preter Tense of Yede) went