Frankelyns. Same as franklin.

Frankendal. Frankenthal, in Rhenish Bavaria.

Fumum et opes strepitumque Romæ. The smoke, and wealth, and noise of Rome.

Furies. Three sisters (Alecto, Megæra, and Tisiphone) who took vengeance for human crime.

Fyke. Fussing about trifles.

Gab. Mouth.

Gallienus. Son of Valerian, and co-emperor of Rome, 253.
Gang. Go.

Gargarus. In poetical geography, the highest peak of Ida.

Gibraltar. A strongly fortified rock at the southern extremity of Spain. Gie. Give.

Gloster. (As used in the Bard) Gilbert de Clare.

Gloster (or Gloucester). Son-in-law of King Edward.

Graces (Charites). Aglaia, Euphrosyne, and Thalia; they were the bestowers of grace and beauty.

Grannie. Grandmother.

Great Gorgon. Supposed to dwell in darkness and keep watch over

Guddres (Geldern). A town of Rhenish Prussia.
Guid. Good.

Guinevere. The wife of King Arthur.

Gurney. One of the king's keepers.
Gynglen. Jingling.

Gypoun. A short cloak.

Hae. Have.

Hald. An abiding-place.

Hale. Whole.

Halwes. Saints.

Hame. Home.

Hamely. Homely.

Hampden (John). An English statesman, first called into prominence by his resistance to a forced loan of Charles I.

Han as the termination of the Infinitive persisted even so late as the time of Shakespeare.

Happer. Hopper.

Harn. Yarn.

Harneised wel. With suitable hangings.

Harrington (James). Author of a political allegory called the Oceana.

1611-1677.

Hath in the Ram. A way of denoting the latter part of April.

Heapet. Heaped.

Hebrus. A river of Thrace, represented by the poets as being swift of current.

Helen. The most beautiful woman of Greece, whose abduction by Paris

caused the Trojan war.

Helicon. A mountain in Boeotia, sacred to Apollo and the Muses.

Hem. Them (N. they, Gen. here, D. hem).

Hente. To seize, or get.

Her. Here.

Heracleidan. Descendants of Hercules.

Hercules (Herakleos). Used as a symbol of strength.

Herè. Juno.

Herrin. Herring.

Hesperean. Like that of Hesperus, who was noted for manly beauty. Hesperus. The evening star.

Heywood (Eliza). An inferior novelist. 1695-1756.

Hic labor, hoc opus est. This is the labor, this the [trying] work. Hippolytus would leave Diana. Hippolytus was saved from death and protected by Diana.

Hippotades. Eolus, god of the winds (Homer, Od. X.).

Hire that turns the wheel. Fortune.

Hit. It (h discarded about end of fifteenth century).
Hodden-grey. Country home-spun.

Hoel. A famous Welsh prince and bard.

Homer. The earliest and greatest of Greek poets.

Hooker (Richard). A learned bishop and author. 1533-1600.

Hostiler. Ostler.

Hotch'd. Fidgeted.

Houlets. Owls.

Housie. House.

Hunder. Hundred.

Hurdies. Hips.

Hyacinth. A beautiful youth, beloved by Apollo, and accidentally killed

by him.

Hymen. God of marriage.

Ida. A mountain in Troas.
Idalia. A name for Venus.

Ilion. A name for Troy.

Ilk. Each.

Ilka. Every.

Indian mount. The Himalayas.

Ingle. Fireside.

In memoriam. In memory of Arthur Henry Hallam.

In principio. In the beginning (the first word of a phrase used in church services).

Ionian Hills. Mountains of Greece.

Iphigeneia, or Iphigenia. Daughter of Agamemnon, offered as a sacrifice to propitiate Diana.

Iris. Goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods.

Islands of the Blest. Same as Fortunate Fields.

Istambol (Istamboul, Stamboul). Turkish name for Constantinople.

Jo. Friend, or sweetheart.

Johnson (Samuel). The learned Doctor.

Julius. Julius Cæsar, commonly supposed to have built the oldest part

of the Tower of London.

Juno. Queen of heaven and wife of Jupiter.

Kalendeeres. Metonomy for days.

Kan. Can (in the sense of "knowing how; " German, können).

Ken. To know.

Kend. Past tense of ken.

Kennin. A little bit.

Key-stane. Key-stone.

Killingworth Castle. Celebrated for the entertainment given to Queen

Elizabeth by the Earl of Leicester.

Kirk. Church (German, kirche).

Knight. A London bankrupt, who fled to Paris, where he continued to

live in regal style.

Kotzebue (A. F. F.). A German melodramatist. 1761-1819.

Kowthe. Known.

Laas. Snare.

Lades. Loads.

Laith. Loth.

Lane. Lone.

Lang. Long.

Langden. London.

Lap. Past tense of leap.

Largesse. Liberal.

Lave. Leave.

Lea'e. Leave.

Leed. Left.

Leet. Let.

Lene tormentum. Gentle irritant.

Lesbian shore. The remains of Orpheus were carried by the waves to

the shores of Lesbos.

Leste. Pleasure.

Lete. Lose, or forsake.

Lettow. Lithuania.

Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre. The one who overcame the conqueror of the world.

Longeth. Belongs. Many words through the time of Shakespeare and

the King James translation of the Bible, exist in the same sense with and without the prefix; e.g., havior and behavior, came and became, gan and began, scape and escape, present and represent. Longinus. A Greek critic of the time of Aurelian, and author of a treatise on the Sublime.

Looth. Loth.

Lorraine. Brother-in-law of King Henry IV. of France.

Lorraine. Claude Gelée, a French landscape-painter. 1600-1682. Lotos-Eaters. Homer tells about the Lotophagi, whose food of the lotus deprived mortals of all desire for anything but revery.

Lovedays. Days during which the exercise of enmities was forbidden. Lowing. Flaming.

Lug. Ear.

Lycidas. John King, a college friend of Milton.

Lydian measures. Lydia was celebrated for the softness and voluptuousness of its music.

Lyes. Armenia.

Lymytour. A "begging friar."

Maca's son. Mercury, as described by Homer in his Iliad.

Maenad. A priestess of Bacchus.

Maeonides. Homer.

Mævius. An inferior poet at the time of Augustus.

Magdeburg. A fortified town of Prussia.

Magestee. Majesty.

Mahomet (Mohammed, Mohamed, Muhammed). The founder of the religion known by his name.

Marathon. Town in Attica, memorable for the defeat of the Persians by the Greeks.

Marrybones. Marrowbones.

Marvel (Marvell, Andrew). An English satirical writer. 1620-1678.
Matrevis. One of the king's keepers.

Maun. Most.

Mayenne. Commander of the Catholic League against the Huguenots. Mazeppa. A Polish adventurer, punished in the manner described, by the king of Poland.

Meander. A river in Phrygia, celebrated for its winding course. Medusa's head. Medusa was the mortal one of the three Gorgons; she was slain by Perseus, and her head had the power of changing objects into stone.

Melder. Grain sent to the mill for grinding.

Melrose Abbey. The ruins of the finest abbey in Scotland.