Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century

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_Þaȝ her sweng wyth lyttel at-slykeȝ_, Though their labour (blow) with little falls off (fails to accomplish much). 605 _chyche_, niggard. 608 _goteȝ_, streams; _charde_, past tense of _charre_, to turn, deviate.

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l. 617 _bourne abate_ = _burne abade_, man continued. 626 _by lyne_, by lineage descent.

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