repenteth; ‘me r.’ I am sorry, I regret.
require, entreat, demand.
required, entreated.
resemblaunt, semblance, appearance.
retrayed, drew back.
returned, turned.
rewarded, awarded.
right, just.
rights, necessities; points.
rightwise, rightly.
rivage, side of a stream.
rived, tore asunder.
romed, bellowed.
roted, practised, skilled.
rout, company.
rove, split, tore.
rownsepyk, a tree beginning to decay at the top from age.
royalty, splendour.
sacring, taking of the sacrament.
sadly, heavily.
samite, a rich silk stuff, often interwoven with gold or silver threads.
Sangreal, Holy Grail.
sarpys, girdles.
saunce, sans, without.
scathe, injure, harm.
scathes, injuries.
scattering, dispersal.
scripture, writing.
seemly, noble.
selar, canopy.
self-ward, self.
semblable, comparable, equal.
semblant, semblance.
sendal, sendel, a kind of rich, thin silken stuff.
sennight, seven nights, a week.
servage, bondage.
set, beset; appoint.
seued, followed.
sewe, follow.
sewer-chief, chief of the serving-men.
shaftmon, ‘a measure from the top of the extended thumb to the other end of the extended palm,’ about six inches.
shaw, thicket.
shende, put to shame.
shenship, disgrace, ruin, shame.
shent, discomfited, destroyed, hurt.
Sher-Thursday, Thursday before Easter.
short, shorten.
shorted, shortened,
shoure, attack.
shove, pushed, thrust, drove along.
shrew, wicked person.
shrewd, wicked, malicious.
shriven, confessed; do penance.
sib, akin.
sidelong, sideways.
siege, seat, place.
sikerness, security.
skift, chance.
slade, valley.
slake, ravine.
slake, slaken, diminish.
smite, strike.
so, if.
solemnity, festivity.
sometime, once.
sondes, messages.
sooth, truth.
sort, company.
spere, inquire, find out.
spered, inquired.
sperhawk, sparrowhawk.
speryd, sperd, fastened.
spicery, spices.
sprang, spread.
sprent, sprinkled.
springing, dawn.
spronge, communicated.
stablished, established, fixed.
stale, state, station, position.
stalk, stalking-horse.
stark, gross, absolute; severe, thoroughly.
start, sterte, started, sprang.
stede, place.
stered, moved, stirred.
steven, appointed meeting; opportunity.
steven, voice, sound.
stiffly, boldly.
stigh, path.
stilly, quietly.
stint, cease; ceasing; make to cease.
stinted, caused to cease.
stoned, battered, crushed.
stonied, became stunned.
stour, battle.
stout, strong.
straight, close, strict, closely confined.
strake, to give a quick blow.
strain, race.
strait, strict, straightened, at close quarters.
straitiy, strictly, strongly.
strength, strengthen.
string, bow-string.
stuff, to store with all necessaries.
stuff, victual, garrison.
stuffed, victualled.
subtil, clever, deft.
sufferance, will, allowance.
sum, number.
suppose, propose.
surcingles, saddle-girths.
sure, secure.
swallow, whirlpool.
swang out, drew out sharply.
sweven, dream.
sworn brother, close companion.
swough, sough, sound, noise.
syker, secure, sure.
syne, since.
syth, since.
sythen, since.
take, betake, go, give.
tale, reckoning.
talent, desire.
tallies, taxes.
tamed, battered, crushed.
tare, tore.
tatches, defects, qualities, dispositions.
taught, directed.
teach, direct.
