Complete Works of Edmund Spenser

by Edmund Spenser

  Heast, vii, 18, command.

  Heben, Int. 3; vii, 37, of ebony wood.

  Heft, xi, 39, raised on high.

  Henge, xi, 21, orbit; lit, hinge.

  Hew, i, 46, etc., form, countenance; iii, 11, color.

  Hight, ix, 14; x, 55, called, was called; intrusted.

  Hond, out of, xii, 3, at once.

  Horrid, vi, 25; vii, 31, rough, bristling.

  Hot, xi, 29, was called; see hight.

  Housling, xii, 37, sacramental.

  Hove, ii, 37, rose, stood on end.

  Humour, i, 36, moisture.

  Hurtle, iv, 16, 40; viii, 17, rush, clash together.

  Hurtlesse, vi, 31, harmless, gentle.

  Husher, iv, 13, usher.

  I

  Imbrew, vii, 47, imbrue, drench.

  Impe, Int. 3; ix, 6, etc., child, scion.

  Impeach, viii, 34, hinder.

  Imperceable, xi, 17, that cannot be pierced.

  Imply, vi, 6; xi, 23, infold.

  Importune, xi, 53, violent.

  Improvided, xii, 34, unforeseen.

  In, i, 33, inn, lodging.

  Incontinent, ix, 19, at once.

  Infected, x, 25, ingrained.

  Infest, xi, 6, make fierce or hostile.

  Influence, viii, 42, power of the stars.

  Intended, xi, 38, armed, stretched out.

  Intendiment, xii, 31, attention.

  Intent, i, 43; ix, 27, aim, purpose.

  Invent, vi, 15, discover.

  J

  Jealous, suspicious.

  Jolly, i, 1; ii, 11, fine, handsome.

  Jott, x, 26, speck, small piece.

  Journall, xi, 31, daily.

  Joy, vi, 17, to be cheerful.

  Joyaunce, iv, 37, gladness, merriment.

  K

  Keepe, i, 40, heed, care.

  Keeping, xi, 2, care, guard.

  Kend, xii, 1, known.

  Kest, xi, 31, cast.

  Kindly, iii, 28, etc., natural, according to nature.

  Kirtle, iv, 31, coat, tunic.

  Knee, ix, 34, projection (of rocks).

  Knife, vi, 38, sword.

  L

  Lad, i, 4, led.

  Launch, iii, 42; iv, 46, pierce.

  Lay-stall, v, 53, rubbish heap, dunghill.

  Lazar, iv, 3, leper.

  Leach, v, 17, 44; x, 23, surgeon, physician.

  Learne, vi, 25, teach.

  Leasing, vi, 48, falsehood, lying.

  Leke, v, 35, leaky.

  Leman, i, 6; vii, 14, lover, sweetheart, mistress.

  Let, viii, 13, hindrance.

  Lever, ix, 32, rather.

  Libbard, vi, 25, leopard.

  Liefe, iii, 28; ix, 17, dear one, darling.

  Lilled, v, 34, lolled.

  Lin, i, 24; v, 35, cease.

  List, ii, 22; vii, 35; x, 20; xi, 10, desired, pleased.

  Lively, ii, 24; vii, 20, living.

  Loft, i, 41, (doubtful) air, sky, or roof.

  Long, iv, 48, belong.

  Lore, i, 5, knowledge.

  Lorne, iv, 2, lost.

  Loute, i, 30; x, 44, bow, stoop.

  Lowre, ii, 22, frown, darken.

  Lumpish, i, 43, dull, heavy.

  Lustlesse, iv, 20, feeble, listless.

  Lynd, xi, 10, lined.

  M

  Mace, iv, 44, club.

  Make, vii, 7, 15, mate, companion.

  Mall, vii, 51, wooden hammer, or club.

  Many, xii, 9, troop, crowd.

  Mart, Int. 3, mass.

  Mated, ix, 12, overcome, confounded.

  Maw, i, 20, stomach.

  Maynly, vii, 12, violently.

  Mell, i, 30, meddle.

  Menage, vii, 37, manage.

  Ment, i, 5, joined, mingled.

  Mew, v, 20, prison, lit. cage for hawks.

  Mirksome, v, 28, dark, murky.

  Miscreant, v, 13; ix, 49, infidel, vile fellow.

  Misdeeming, ii, 3, misleading; iv, 2, misjudging.

  Misfeigning, iii, 40, pretending wrongfully.

  Misformed, i, 55; viii, 16, ill formed, or formed for evil.

  Misseeming, ix, 23; viii, 42, unseemly; vii, 50, deceit.

  Mister, ix, 23, sort of, manner of.

  Misweening, iv, 1, wrong thinking, wrong belief.

  Moe, mo, v, 50, etc., more.

  Mortality, x, 1, state of being mortal.

  Mortall, i, 15, deadly.

  Mote, iii, 29, etc., may, might.

  Mought, i, 42, might.

  Muchell, iv, 46; vi, 20, much, great.

  N

  Nathemore, viii, 13; ix, 25, none the more.

  Nephewes, v, 22, grandchildren, descendants.

  Ni’ll, ix, 15, will not.

  Nosethrill, xi, 22, nostril.

  Note, xii, 17, know not.

  N’ould, vi, 17, would not.

  Noyance, i, 23, annoyance.

  Noye, x, 24; xi, 45, hurt, harm.

  Noyes, Noyce, vi, 8, noise.

  Noyous, v, 45; xi, 50, harmful, unpleasant.

  O

  Offend, xii, 1, injure.

  Offspring, vi, 30, ancestors.

  Origane, ii, 40, wild marjoram.

  Ought, iv, 39, owned, possessed.

  Outrage, xi, 40, insult, abuse.

  Overcraw, ix, 50, insult, crow over.

  Oversight, vi, 1, want of prudence.

  Owch, ii, 13; x, 31, jewel or socket in which a jewel was set.

  P

  Paine, xii, 34, labor, treacherous skill; ii, 39, effort; iv, 15, take pains.

  Paire, vii, 41, impair, injure.

  Paled, v, 5, fenced off, inclosed with a pale.

  Palfrey, i, 4; iii, 40, a lady’s saddle horse, here Una’s ass.

  Paramour, i, 9, lover (not in a bad sense).

  Parbreake, i, 20, vomit.

  Pardale, vi, 26, leopard.

  Parted, iii, 22, departed.

  Pas, iv, 11, surpass; xi, 15, step, pace.

  Passing, x, 24, surpassing.

  Passion, ii, 26, 32, deep feeling, lit. suffering.

  Passionate, xii, 16, express feelingly.

  Payne, vi, 21, pains, labor.

  Paynim, iv, 41; vi, 38; xi, 7, pagan, heathen.

  Peece, x, 59, something constructed (Cleopolis).

  Penne, xi, 10, feather, quill.

  Perceable, i, 7, that can be pierced.

  Perdie, perdy, vi, 42, French par Dieu, a common oath.

  Pere, viii, 7; xii, 17, noble, prince.

  Persaunt, x, 47, piercing.

  Pight, ii, 42, etc., pitched, fixed, placed.

  Pine, ix, 35, wasting away; viii, 40, pined, wasted away through torment.

  Plate, vi, 43; vii, 2, solid armor, as distinguished from the coat of mail, or light chain armor.

  Pleasaunce, ii, 30, courtesies; iv, 38; vii, 4, delight, conversational pleasure.

  Point, (1) ix, 41, appoint;

  (2) ii, 12, not a whit;

  (3) i, 16; ii, 12, (armed) at all points.

  Pollicie, iv, 12, statecraft, cunning.

  Portesse, iv, 19, breviary, small prayer-book.

  Posterne, v, 52, small private gate behind.

  Pouldred, vii, 12, powdered.

  Pounces, xi, 19, a hawk’s claws.

  Poynant, vii, 19, sharp, piercing.

  Poyse, xi, 54, weight, force.

  Practicke, xii, 34, deceitful.

  Prancke, iv, 14, display gaudily.

  Praunce, vii, 11, strut proudly.

  Pray, ix, 30, ravage.

  Preace, iii, 3, crowd, throng.

  Presently, immediately.

  Price, ix, 37, pay the price of, atone for.

  Pricking, i, 1; iii, 33, riding, usually rapidly, i.e. spurring.

  Priefe, viii, 43, trial; ix, 17, proof; x, 24, proved excellence.

  Prime, ii, 40; etc., springtime.

  Privity, ix, 5, privacy.

  Prowesse, vii, 42, bravery.

  Prowest, iv, 41;
v, 14, bravest.

  Puissance, i, 3, etc., power.

  Purchas, iii, 16, lit. acquisition, cant term for theft, or robbery (Nares).

  Purfled, ii, 13, embroidered on the edge.

  Purposes, ii, 30, conversation.

  Purveyance, xii, 13, provision.

  Q

  Quaile, ix, 49, subdue, overpower.

  Quayd, viii, 14, subdued.

  Quell, xi, 24, disconcert, daunt.

  Quight, viii, 10, repay.

  Quit, quitt, vi, 6, 10, to free.

  Quite, viii, 26, 27; x, 37, repay, return.

  Quited, i, 30, return a salute.

  Quoth, i, 12, etc., said.

  R

  Raft, i, 24, struck away (from reave).

  Ragged, xii, 23, rough, rugged.

  Raile, vi, 43, flow.

  Ramping, iii, 5, etc., leaping, bounding, erect; ramp, v, 28.

  Rapt, iv, 9, carried away.

  Rare, ii, 32, thin-voiced.

  Raskall, vii, 35; xii, 9, vulgar, base.

  Raught, vi, 20, etc., reached.

  Ravine, v, 8, prey.

  Raw, x, 2, unpracticed, out of training.

  Read, i, 13; x, 17, advise.

  Reave, iii, 36; xi, 41, snatch away, rob.

  Recoyle, x, 17, retreat.

  Recreaunt, iv, 41, base, cowardly.

  Recure, v, 44, etc., refresh.

  Red, vii, 46, etc., declared.

  Redoubted, iv, 40, terrible.

  Redound, vi, 30; iii, 8, overflow.

  Redresse, v, 30, restore, revive, reunite.

  Reed, i, 21, notice, perceive.

  Reele, v, 35, roll.

  Reft, ix, 31; x, 65, snatched away.

  Refte, vi, 39; xii, 39, bereft.

  Renverst, iv, 41, turned upside down.

  Repaire, vi, 30, return home.

  Repining, ii, 17, failing (Percival), angry (Upton).

  Repriefe, ix, 29, reproof.

  Retrate, i, 13, retreat.

  Reverse, ix, 48, bring back.

  Revoke, vi, 28, call back.

  Ridde, i, 36, remove, dispatch.

  Rife, iv, 35; ix, 52, much, exceedingly.

  Riotise, iv, 20, riot.

  Rode, xii, 42, anchorage, harbor.

  Rove, Int. 3, shoot (an arrow with an elevation, not point blank).

  Round, vi, 7, dance.

  Rowel, vii, 37, ring of a bit.

  Ruffin, iv, 34, rough, disordered.

  Rusty, v, 32, rust-colored, bloodstained, filthy.

  Ruth, v, 9, pity, sorrow.

  S

  Sacred, viii, 35, accursed — of ashes used impiously to receive the blood of the slain (Upton).

  Sad, i, 2; v, 20; x, 7; xii, 5, grave, mournful; iii, 10, firm, steady; i, 36, heavy.

  Sallow, i, 9, a kind of willow.

  Salvage, iii, 5; vi, 11, etc., wild, woodland (adj.).

  Sam, x, 57, together, same.

  Say, iv, 31, serge cloth for cloaks (Halliwell).

  Scath, iv, 35; xii, 34, hurt, mischief.

  Scor’d, i, 2, carved.

  Scowre, ii, 20, run fast.

  Scryne, Int. 2, chest, or case for keeping books, etc.

  Sead, x, 51, seed, posterity.

  Sease, xi, 38, fasten; seised, xii, 17, gained, taken possession of.

  Seel, vii, 23, lit. sew up the eyes (of hawks), deprive of sight.

  Seely, silly, vi, 10; i, 30; ii, 21, simple, innocent.

  Seemly, ii, 30, polite.

  Scene, v, 16, proved, tested.

  Semblaunt, ii, 12, appearance.

  Sent, i, 43, perception, sense.

  Shadow, represent typically.

  Shamefast, x, 15, shy, modest.

  Shaume, xii, 13, a wind musical instrument.

  Shend, i, 53, shame.

  Shew, iii, 10, sign, track.

  Shroud, i, 6, 8, shelter.

  Single, vi, 12, weak; viii, 12, mere.

  Sith, vii, 22, etc., since; sitheng, iv, 51.

  Sits, i, 30, becomes, suits.

  Slight, vii, 30, device; viii, 23, skill.

  Snubbe, viii, 7, knob, snag.

  Solemnize, x, 4, rite, solemnizing.

  Sooth, iii, 29, truth.

  Souce, v, 8, beat.

  Soust, iii, 31, drenched.

  Sowne, i, 41, sound.

  Sperst, i, 39; iv, 48, dispersed.

  Spill, iii, 43, destroy.

  Stadle, vi, 14, staff.

  Stanneries, stannaries, tin mines or tin works.

  Starke, i, 44. stiff.

  Sted, stedd, viii, 17, etc., place.

  Sterne, i, 18; xi, 28, tail.

  Stew, xi, 44, warm place.

  Stole, i, 4, 45; xii, 22, long robe.

  Stound, vii, 12, stunned; vii, 25; viii, 12, 25, 38, moment.

  Stowre, ii, 7, etc., distress, peril battle.

  Stye, xi, 25, ascend, rise up.

  Subject, xi, 19, lying beneath.

  Sure, ix, 19, secure.

  Swarved, x, 14, swerved.

  Swelt, vii, 6, burned.

  Swinge, xi, 26, singe.

  Swowne, i, 41, heavy sleep; ix, 52, swoon; swound, v, 19.

  T

  Table, ix, 49, picture.

  Tackles, xii, 42, rigging.

  Talaunts, xi, 41, talons.

  Teade, xii, 37, torch.

  Teene, ix, 34; xii, 18, grief, trouble, hurt.

  Then, x, 10, than.

  Thewes, ix, 3; x, 4, manners.

  Tho, i, 18, etc., then.

  Thorough, i, 32; x, 1, through.

  Thrall, ii, 22; vii, 44; viii, 1, subject; v, 45, 51; viii, 32, 37, prisoner; vi, 6, one in distress.

  Three-square, vi, 41, triangular.

  Thrill, iii, 42; x, 19; xi, 20, pierce.

  Thrist, vi, 38, thirst.

  Throw, x, 41, throe, pang.

  Tide, ii, 29, time (duration).

  Timely, i, 21; iv, 4, keeping time.

  Tire, iv, 35, train, rank, company; viii, 40; x, 31, headdress, attire.

  Told, iv, 27, counted.

  Tort, xii, 4, wrong.

  Touch, iii, 2, touchstone.

  Toy, vi, 28, sport.

  Trace, viii, 31, walk.

  Traine, trayne, i, 18; viii, 17; xi, 37, tail; iii, 24; vi, 3, etc., deceit, wiles.

  Transmew, vii, 35, transmute.

  Treachour, iv, 41; ix, 32, traitor.

  Treen, ii, 39; vii, 26, tree-like, of trees.

  Trenchand, i, 17; xi, 24, sharp, trenchant.

  Trinall, xii, 39, threefold.

  Truncked, viii, 10, truncated, with the limbs cut off.

  Trusse, xi, 19, to secure a firm hold on.

  Turnament, v, 1, tournament, combat of knights in the lists.

  Tway, vii, 27, two, twain.

  Twyfold, v, 28, twofold.

  Twyne, vi, 14, twist.

  Tyne, ix, 15, anxiety, pain.

  U

  Unacquainted, v, 21, unaccustomed.

  Unbid, ix, 54, unprayed for.

  Uncouth, i, 15; xi, 20, strange.

  Undight, iii, 4, unfastened.

  Uneath, ix, 38, etc., with difficulty.

  Unkindly, i, 26, unnatural.

  Unlich, v, 28, unlike.

  Untill, xi, 41, unto.

  Unty, xi, 41, loosen.

  Unwary, xii, 25, unexpected.

  Unweeting, ii, 45, etc., unaware, not knowing.

  V

  Venery, vi, 22, hunting.

  Vere, xii, 1, veer, change the direction of.

  Vew, vi, 25, aspect, appearance.

  Vild, ix, 46, vile.

  Vine-prop, i, 8, supporting the vine.

  Visour, vii, 1, visor, the part of the helmet which protected the eyes.

  W

  Wade, i, 12, walk, go, pass.

  Wage, iv, 39, reward, pledge.

  Wanton, ii, 13, 14, wild, unrestrained.

  Ware, vii, 1, wary.

  Warray, v, 48, wage war against.

  Wastfull, i, 32, etc., barren,
wild.

  Wastnes, iii, 3, desert, wilderness.

  Wax, iv, 34, grow.

  Wayne, iv, 9, chariot.

  Wayting, x, 36, watching.

  Weare, i, 31, spend, pass.

  Weedes, Int. 1; ii, 21, clothes, x, 28, armor.

  Weene, i, 10; iii, 41, intend; x, 58, think.

  Weet, iii, 6, 11, to know; to weete, iii, 17, etc., to wit.

  Welke, i, 23, fade, grow dim.

  Welkin, iv, 9, sky.

  Well, ii, 43, well-being, health; i, 26, etc., quite, very; vii, 4, bubble up.

  Wex, xi, 1, grow; woxen, iv, 34.

  Whally, iv, 34, streaked (Warren).

  Whenas, ii, 32, etc., as soon as.

  Whereas, vi, 40, where.

  Whot, x, 26, hot.

  Whyleare, ix, 28, erewhile.

  Whylome, iv, 15, etc., formerly.

  Wight, ix, 23, 32, person, creature.

  Wimple, xii, 22, veil, lit. covering for the neck;

  wimpled, i, 4, folded, provided with a wimple.

  Wist, v, 27 knew.

  Wonne, vi, 39, fought; wonne, vi, 39, dwell.

  Wood, iv, 34; v, 20, mad, furious.

  Worshippe, i, 3, honor, respect.

  Wot, i, 13; wote, ii, 18; ix, 31, know.

  Woxen, see wax.

  Wreakes, viii, 43; xii, 16, anger, acts of vengeance.

  Wreck, xi, 21, destruction, mischief.

  Wrizled, viii, 47, wrinkled (Warren).

  Wyde, i, 34, distant.

  Y

  Yborne, vii, 10, born.

  Ycladd, i, 1; yclad, i, 7, 29; ii, 2; ycled, iv, 38, clad.

  Ydle, v, 8, airy, purposeless.

  Ydrad, i, 2, dreaded.

  Yede, xi, 5, go.

  Yfere, ix, 1, together.

  Ygoe, ii, 18, ago.

  Ylike, iv, 27, alike.

  Ymp, see impe.

  Yod, see yede.

  Younglings, x, 57, young of any animal.

  Youthly, vi, 34, youthful.

  Ypight, ix, 33, pitched, placed.

  Yrkesome, ii, 6, weary; iii, 4, painful.

  Yts, vii, 39, it is.

  Complaints

  Containing sundrie small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie

  Though Complaints was not published until 1591, a year after the first issue of the Faery Queen, the poems of which it is composed are more properly to be classed with the Shepherd’s Calendar. Most of them might have been printed, though perhaps not exactly as they now stand, before 1580; the others are best understood in company with these. The Calendar and Complaints, taken together, are the record of Spenser’s growth to maturity.