r alone he woll go."
(Book of St. Alban's, ed. 1496, sig. d., i.)

1476 totes = looks, toots.
Sho went up wightly by a walle syde.
To the toppe of a toure and tot ouer the water.--T.B. l. 862.

1623 A verb [? lalede = cried] seems wanting after lorde.

1702 fnasted, breathed.
These balfull bestes were, as the boke tellus,
Full flaumond of fyre with fnastyng of logh.--T.B. l. 168.

1710 a strothe rande = a rugged path. Cf. the phrases tene greue, l. 1707;
ro3e greue, l. 1898.

1719 Thenne wat3 hit lif vpon list, etc.
Should we not read:
Thenne wat3 hit list vpon lif, etc.
i.e., Then was there joy in life, etc.

1729 bi lag = be-lagh(?) = below (?).

1780 lyf = lef(?), beloved (one).

1869 Ho hat3 kyst ţe kny3t so to3t.
She has kissed the knight so courteous.
Sir F. Madden explains to3t, promptly. To3t seems to be the same as
the Northumbrian taght in the following extract from the "Morte
Arthure":
"There come in at the fyrste course, before the kyng seluene,
Bare hevedys that ware bryghte, burnyste with sylver,
Alle with taghte mene and towne in togers fulle ryche."--(p. 15.)
The word towne (well-behaved) still exists in wan-ton, the
original meaning of which was ill-mannered, ill-bred.

1909 bray hounde3 = braţ hounde3, i.e. fierce hounds.

1995 He hat3 nere ţat he so3t = He wat3 nere ţat he so3t = He was near to
that which he sought.

2160 gedere3 ţe rake = takes the path or way.

2167 Ţe skwe3 of ţe scowtes skayued hym ţo3t.
The shadows of the hills appeared wild (desolate) to him. Sir F.
Madden reads skayned, of which he gives no explanation.
Skayued = skayfed, seems to be the N. Prov. English scafe, wild.
Scotch schaivie, wild, mad. O.N. skeifr. Sw. skef, awry, distorted.

2204 ronge = clattered.

2211 Drede dot3 me no lote =
No noise shall cause me to dread (fear).

Martha Finley (1828 - 1909) was a teacher and author of numerous works, the most well known being the 28 volume Elsie Dinsmore series which was published over a span of 38 years. The daughter of Presbyterian minister Dr. James Brown Finley and his wife and cousin Maria Theresa Brown Finley, she was born on April 26th, 1828 in Chillicothe, Ohio. Finley wrote many of her books under the psodonym Martha Farquharson. She died in 1909 in Elkton, Maryland, where she moved in 1876.

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