? Figures placed after words denote the pages in which they occur.

• ablins, perhaps.
• aboon, abune, above.
• abugge, aby, pay for.
• adrenche, drown.
• ae, one; first ae, first.
• agynneth, begin.
• ahint, behind.
• airns, irons.
• airt, quarter of the compass, direction.
• alacing, saying alas.
• alane, mine, alone by myself.
• alast, latterly.
• alles, all.
• allinge, altogether.
• alow, 245, below.
• al so, at once.
• amense, amends.
• American leather, 244?
• anew, enough.
• an honde, 283, in hand.
• anis, once.
• aplyht, 273, a particle of confirmation, indeed, on my word, &c.
• aquelleden, killed.
• arewe, 269, rue, feel aggrieved by.
• assoygne, 271, delay: (lines 66, 67, should probably be transposed.)
• asteir, astir, moved, (his anger.)
• avow, 261, consent, undertake.
• avowerie, protection, support.
• awin, own.
• awsome, frightful.
• ayeyn, against: 278, v. 103, a word seems to have dropped out. The sense is, there is no resisting the stars. Wright reads stare.
• ayont, beyond, on one side of.

• bangisters, violent and lawless people, those that have the upper hand, victors.
• basnet, helmet.
• batts, beating.
• beet, 90, help.
• ben, in.
• bent, coarse grass;
• open country, covered with the same.
• benty, covered with the coarse grass called bent;
• benty-line, 13?
• beseen, weil, 132, well appointed.
• bide, 273, pray to.
• bigged, built.
• biheveded, beheaded.
• billie, comrade.
• birk, birch.
• birst, (burst) fray.
• blan, stopped.
• blink, 49, glanced.
• blive, quickly.
• bobaunce, vanity, presumption.
• bode, bid.
• borrow, rescue.
• bot and, and also.
• bote, 274, amends;
• bote, no, not better off.
• boun, ready, gone.
• brae, hill-side.
• braid, 245, qy. corrupt?
• brain, gang, go mad.
• brank, 124, prance, caper.
• branks, a rude sort of bridle of rope and wood, used by country people.
• braw, bra', brave, fine.
• brayd on, 32, move on (rapidly).
• breast, 249, voice.
• breasting, springing forward.
• brecham, collar of a working horse.
• brede, o, ant o leynthe, in breadth and in length, far and wide.
• breek, breeches;
• 70, breek-thigh, the side pocket of the breeches.
• brie, brow.
• broked cow, a cow that has black spots mixed with white in her face.
• broken men, outlawed men.
• browhead, forehead.
• brugge, bridge.
• brusten, burst.
• bryd, bird.
• bryttled, cut up.
• bueth, be.
• bufft coat, leather coat.
• bund, bound.
• burel, sackcloth.
• burn, brook.
• busk, make ready.
• buss, bush.
• bussing, 137, covering (stolen from the packs).
• but, out;
• 236, but the floor, across the floor out of the room, or to the outer part of the house.
• by (sometimes) besides.
• byhet, promised.
• byres, byris, barns, cowhouses.
• bysoht, prepared for.
• bytake, committed.
• bythenche, bethink.

• ca', call.
• ca', 90, drive.
• carle, churl, fellow.
• carpit, talked, told stories.
• ca's, calves.
• cauler, cool.
• cess, tax, black-mail.
• cheventeyn, chieftain.
• chot, wot, know,
• chulle, shall.
• claes, clothes.
• clanked, gave a smart stroke.
• cleugh, a rugged ascent.
• closs, 191, area before the house, (close.)
• coll, cool.
• coman, command.
• con, 269, began.
• conquess, conquer.
• continaunce, countenance.
• corbie, crow.
• corn-caugers, corn-carriers, or dealers.
• cost, 135, loss, risk.
• could, 102, began.
• coune, began.
• courtrie, band of courtiers.
• couthe, knew.
• cowte, colt.
• coynte, quaint, cunning.
• crabit, crabbed.
• cracking, boasting.
• crooks, the windings of a river, the space of ground closed in on one side by these windings.
• crouse, brisk, bold.
• cumber, to red the, quell the tumult.
• cunnes, kinds.
• curch, kerchief, coif.
• cure, 214, care, pains.
• curtel, 281, shirt, gown.
• custan, cast.

• dae, doe.
• dandoo, 245, apparently should be dun doe.
• dane, done, taken.
• dang, beat.
• daw, dawn.
• de, (Fr.) God.
• dede, dealt.
• dee, die.
• deid, death.
• deme, adjudge.
• destaunce, disturbance.
• ding down, beat down.
• dints, blows.
• doddeth, 272, lop.
• dool, grief.
• dought, could, was able.
• dour, hard.
• douse, quiet, mild.
• doussÉ-pers, (Fr. douze pairs) gallant knights.
• douteth, feareth.
• dow, can, are able;
• downa, cannot.
• down-come of Robin Hood, 242, as quick as R. H. would knock one down? or pay down?
• dreigh, (tedious, long) high.
• dreynte, drowned.
• drie, bear, endure.
• drifts, 100, droves.
• drivand, driving.
• drue, dry.
• drunkily, merrily.
• drury, treasure.
• dub, pool, pond.
• duere, dear.
• dule, sorrow.
• dunt, dint, stroke.
• dyhte, 282, dispose of.

• e'en, 93, even, put in comparison.
• een, eyes.
• elshin, shoemaker's awl.
• ene, 270, even.
• enew, enough.
• er, before.
• ettled, designed.
• everuche, every;
• everuchon, every one.

• falla, fellow.
• fand, found.
• fang, catch.
• fankit, entangled, obstructed;
• here, so fixed that it could not be drawn.
• fared, went.
• fasten, 276, plight.
• fay, faith.
• fear't, frightened.
• fecht, fight.
• fee, income, property, wages.
• feid, feud.
• feir, 222, sound, unhurt.
• feiries, comrades.
• fell, high pasture land.
• fend, defence.
• feren, comrades.
• ferly, wonder.
• fet, foot.
• fie, predestined.
• fiend, 9, i. e. the devil a thing.
• fit, foot.
• flain, arrows.
• flatlies, flat.
• fley, fright.
• flinders, fragments.
• flo, flay.
• fon, 274, foes.
• fonge, take up.
• forbode, over God's, (on God's prohibition), God forbid.
• forehammer, the large hammer which strikes before the small one, sledge-hammer.
• foreward, covenant.
• forfaulted, forfeited.
• forfend, forbid.
• forfoughen (i. e. forfoughten) tired out.
• forst, frost.
• fot-lome, foot-lame.
• fou, full (of drink).
• four-half, on, in quarters.
• foursithe, four times.
• fow, 219, full?
• frae hand, forthwith.
• freits, omens.
• frith, wood.
• furs, furrows.
• fyn, end.

• gar, make, let.
• garste, 282, (should probably be gast) frighten away.
• gaun, going.
• gavelocks, (javelins) iron crows.
• gear, goods, property;
• 16, spoil.
• ged, went.
• geir, same as gear.
• genzie, engine of war.
• gifted, 31, given away.
• gilt, gold.
• gin, if.
• gin, trick.
• gleed, red-hot coal, a glowing bar of iron.
• gloamin', twilight.
• gomen, 282, game, mockery.
• goud, gold.
• goule, (Fr.) throat.
• graith, armor.
• graith, make ready;
• graithed, armed.
• grat, wept.
• green, yearn, long.
• greeting, weeping.
• gripet, seized.
• grom, groom, man.
• grome, 279, sorrow.
• gryming, sprinkling.
• guided, 172, treated.
• gynne, trap.

• had, haud, hold.
• haif, have.
• hail, 133, (vigorous, and so) boisterous?
• halewen, saints.
• halt, 276, 282, profits?
• halve, side.
• haly, holy.
• happers, hoppers.
• hardilyche, boldly.
• harpit, harped.
• harried, plundered.
• hastifliche, hastily.
• haud, hold, keep.
• he, 282, they.
• head, 117, assemblage.
• heckle, a hatchel, flax-comb.
• hem, them.
• hende, hendy, gentle.
• hente, caught.
• herry, harry, spoil.
• he's, he shall.
• het, head.
• het, hot.
• heugh, a ragged steep, sometimes, a glen with steep overhanging sides.
• heved, head.
• hi, they.
• hie, high.
• hirst, a barren hill.
• hold, 276, faithful.
• hope, houp, a sloping hollow between two hills.
• hostage house, 233, inn.
• how, pull.
• howm, a plain on a river side.
• hue, they;
• huem, them;
• huere, their.
• hulles, hills.

• ibore, born.
• ich, I.
• ichulle, I shall.
• ilka, every.
• intill, in.
• is, his.
• I'se, I will.

• jack, a short coat plated with small pieces of iron.
• jeopardy, 223, adventure.
• jimp, slender.
• jugge, 271, condemn.

• keekit, peeped.
• kend, known.
• kettrin, cateran, thieving.
• keverest, 273, recoverest.
• kilted, tucked.
• kinnen, rabbits.
• kirns, churns.
• Kirsty, Christy.
• knapscap, head-piece.
• know, knoll.
• knulled, 272, pushed, beaten (with the knuckles).
• kunnes, kinds.
• kyne-yerde, king's wand or sceptre.
• kyneriche, kingdom.

• laht, caught.
• laigh, low.
• langsome, tedious.
• lap, wrap up.
• lave, rest.
• law, low.
• lawing, scot, reckoning.
• lay, lea.
• layne, conceal.
• leal, leel, loyal, true, chaste.
• lear, lore.
• leautÉ, loyalty.
• lede, people.
• lee, waste, lonely.
• lee-lang, live-long.
• lee, shelter, peace;
• set at little lee, 101, left little peace? "left scarcely any means of shelter." Jamieson.
• leeze me on, 90, I take pleasure or comfort in.
• lerrum, (Fr.) leave.
• les, lying.
• let, 278, ceased.
• leugh, laughed.
• levedy, lady.
• libbe, live.
• lidder, lazy.
• lidder fat, fat from laziness;
• (qu. same as leeper fat?)
• lightly, make light of, treat with contempt.
• limmer, rascal, scoundrelly.
• Lincome, Lincoln;
• Lincum twine, Lincoln manufacture.
• ling, heath.
• loan, a piece of ground near a farm house where the cows are milked.
• loot, let.
• lordswyk, traitor to his lord.
• lore, loren, lost.
• loup, leap, waterfall.
• louped, loupen, leapt.
• lourd, liefer, rather.
• low, flame.
• lowne, loon.
• luid, loved.
• lyan, lain.
• lyart, hoary.
• lyke-wake, watching of a dead body.
• lyves man, 271, living man.

• ma, shame a, 93, devil a bit.
• mae, more.
• maill, rent.
• mane, moan.
• maries, maids.
• marrows, equals.
• maun, must.
• may, maid.
• me, they (Fr. on).
• mear, mare.
• mene, moan.
• mergh, marrow.
• mest, most.
• minnie, mother.
• mirk, dark.
• modi, bold.
• mot, may.
• mounde, 270, might?
• mowe, may.
• mowes, jests.
• mudie, bold.
• muss, moss.

• naggs, notches.
• nede, 280, he had not.
• neist, next.
• nes, was not.
• neuk, 224, corner?
• nicher, nicker, neigh.
• nie, neigh.
• niest, next.
• nogs, stakes.
• noisome, 139, annoying, vexatious.
• nolden, would not.
• nome, name.
• nome, nomen, took.
• nones, no.
• notour, 267, notorious.
• noud, nout, nought, not.
• nowt, cattle.
• nule, will not.
• nythe, 275, wickedness.

• oht, oath.
• onde, 275, malice, envy.
• other, or.
• ou, you.
• ouir, our.
• our, oure, over.
• outspeckle, laughing-stock.
• ower-word, burden.
• owsen, oxen.

• palliones, tents.
• paw, neer play'd, 84, did not stir hand or foot.
• peel, 106, the stronghold, where the cattle were kept.
• pellettes, balls.
• peruenke, periwinkle.
• pestelets, pistols, fire-arms.
• pleugh, plough.
• plumet, 75, pommel.
• poer, power.
• pouraille, common people.
• pris, 276, praise.
• prude, pride.
• prye, pray.
• pure, poor.
• putfalle, pitfall.
• pyne, pain.

• questry, jury.
• quey, young cow.
• quhavir, whoever.
• quhilk, which.

• rack, a shallow ford, extending to a considerable breadth before it narrows into a full stream. Jamieson.
• rad, 27, afraid.
• rae, roe.
• raid, foray, predatory incursion, fight.
• rank'd, 25, i. e. looked finely, formed in ranks.
• ranshackled, ransacked.
• rantin', gay, jovial.
• rathere, 274, sooner, beforehand.
• raxed, stretched.
• ray, 102, path or track.
• reaving, robbing.
• redd, rede, advise, advice.
• reek, smoke.
• reif, bailiff.
• reif, robbery;
• reiver, robber.
• reil, reel.
• remuy, remove.
• res, 276, (Ang. Sax. raes,) incursions, exploits?
• retheres hude, bullock's hide.
• rig, 119, ridge.
• rigging, ridge, top.
• rin, run.
• rok, distaff.
• roof-tree, the beam which forms the angle of the roof.
• rouncyn, horse.
• routing, bellowing.
• row, roll.
• row-footed, 63, rough-footed?
• rudds, reddens.
• rude, rood.
• Rumary, 249?
• rybaus, ribalds, villains.

• saft, 65, light.
• saht, 276, at one, reconciled.
• sark, shirt, shift.
• saugh, willow.
• sawe, speech.
• schaw, wood.
• scroggs, stunted trees.
• see, protect.
• see, 277, seat, throne.
• seen, soon.
• seld, sold.
• selkethe, strange.
• serime, 248, corrupt: qy. betime?
• seth the, after.
• served, 25, behaved to.
• shame a ma, 93, devil a bit.
• sheen, shoes.
• sheil, shepherd's hut.
• shome, shame.
• shonde, disgrace.
• shonkes, shanks.
• sic, sicken, such.
• skaithd, injured.
• skeigh, sky.
• slack, a shallow dell, morass.
• slae, 119, sloe.
• sleuth-dog, blood-hound.
• slogan, the gathering word peculiar to a family or clan, a war-cry.
• sloken, slake.
• slough-hounds, blood-hounds.
• slowen, slew.
• smoldereth, smothereth.
• snear, snort.
• so, as.
• solas, amusement.
• sonde, godes, God's sending.
• sote, soot.
• soth, soht, truth.
• Soudron, Southerner, English.
• sould, suld, should.
• sowie, sow (Lat. vinea, pluteus), a shed or pent-house under cover of which the walls of a besieged town were assailed.
• soy, silk.
• spaits, floods, torrents.
• spauld, shoulder.
• spene, 272, cost.
• spier, ask.
• spin, run.
• splent, armor.
• springald, a military engine for discharging heavy missiles at the walls of a beleaguered town.
• spuilye, spulzie, despoil.
• star, see ayeyn.
• starkest, strongest.
• staun, stolen.
• steads, places.
• stear, stir.
• stont, stands.
• stots, bullocks.
• stounde, time.
• stour, turmoil, affray.
• straught, stretched.
• streynthe, strength.
• strick, strict.
• strinkled, sprinkled.
• Strivelyn, Sterling.
• stude, place.
• sturt, 138, trouble, disturbance.
• suereth, swear.
• sugge, say.
• suithe, very.
• sunne, sin.
• sweynes, 272, swains, men in general below t he rank of knights.
• swithe, very.
• swither, doubt, consternation.
• swyers, squires.
• swykedom, treachery.
• swythe, very.
• syke, ditch.
• syne, then.

• tackles, arrows.
• tald, told.
• targats, 49, tassels.
• te, to.
• temed, 276, tamed.
• thae, these.
• thah, though.
• the, thrive.
• then, than.
• thenche, think.
• theynes, thanes.
• thir, these;
• thir's, these are.
• this, these.
• tho, then.
• thole, bear, endure.
• thonkes, his, 283, willingly, gladly, by his good will.
• thrawin, 219, distorted, wrinkled.
• thunche, 273, seem.
• til, to;
• til't, to it.
• tint, lost.
• to-drawe, to-drowe, drawn.
• to-dryven, 270, break to pieces.
• token, 277, gave to.
• tome, tame.
• toom, empty.
• tour, 192, course or road.
• tow, 158, throw.
• tprot, interjection of contempt.
• trayne, stratagem.
• tree, staff.
• trepan'd, 180, foully dealt with.
• trew, trust.
• tryst, meeting.
• tu-brugge, draw-bridge.
• tul, to.
• twa-fald, 15, two-fold, i. e. with his body hanging down both sides.
• twa-some, couple.
• twined, parted.

• uch, each.
• unkensome, not to be recognized.
• unthought lang, hold, keep from growing weary.
• upgive, 34, acknowledge.

• villiche, vilely.
• vor, for.
• Vrenshe, French.
• vyhte, fighting.
• vyltÉ, disgrace.

• wad, would.
• wad, 225, wager, forfeit.
• Waleis, Wallace.
• wally fa', 262, ill luck befall.
• wan, pale, dark, black.
• wan, reached.
• wap, tie round.
• waran, guaranty.
• ware, 111, lay out, use.
• ware, 272, (Ang. S. were, capitis Æstimatio) ransom, life-money.
• wark, work.
• warrand, protection.
• wat, know.
• wat, wet.
• waur, worse.
• way, to the, 262, away?
• wear, guard.
• webbes, weavers.
• wed, 247, qy. corrupt?
• weht, what.
• weel-fared, well-favored.
• weil, 92, eddy.
• weir, war.
• wel the felle, 273, will fall from thy head?
• wende, weened.
• wes, was.
• wesleyn, western.
• wether, whither.
• weylaway, well-a-day!
• whang, thong.
• whidderan, whizzing.
• whet, what.
• whew, whistle.
• whosÉ, any one whatever.
• wicker, 119, switch.
• widdifu, one who deserves to fill a widdie or halter, gallows bird, ruffian.
• wight, strong, quick;
• wightmen (Ang. Sax. wigman) fighting men, brave fellows;
• waled wightmen, 220, picked warriors.
• win, get.
• winna, will not.
• winsomely, handsomely.
• wit, knowledge.
• wod, waded.
• wombe, belly.
• won, 120, misprint for win?
• wons, dwells.
• wood, mad.
• worries, strangles.
• Wudspurs, Madspur, Hotspur.
• wyht, wight.
• wysloker, more wisely.
• wyte, know.
• wyte, 282, wait, watch (?)

• y, in.
• yate, gate.
• ybate, 280?
• y-be, been.
• y-brend, burnt.
• y-caht, caught.
• y-core, chosen.
• y-cud, known.
• y-demed, judged.
• y-dyht, 278, arranged.
• yeate, gate.
• yef, if.
• yeme, govern.
• yere, to, 276, this year.
• yestreen, yesterday.
• yett, gate.
• y-herde, heard.
• y-knawe, recognize.
• y-laht, caught, taken.
• y-nemned, named.
• yongeth, goeth.
• y-suore, sworn.
• y-tuht, drawn.
• yynge, young.

• zour, &c., your, &c.

Page iv: added "Book VIII." to the Table of Contents.

Page 87 and note on page 88: changed "169" to "129" (129. The land-sergeant (mentioned also in Hobbie Noble) ...)

Page 93 (note to line 70): changed "ross" to "across" ( ... chains drawn across the chest of a war-horse ...)

Page 129 (note to line 66): changed "East-gath" to "East-gate" (The family of Emerson of East-gate, a fief, ...)

Page 139 (note to line 24): added missing closing quotation mark (All bravely fought that day."—S.)

Page 148: changed "opprobious" to "opprobrious" ( ... gave Car some very opprobrious language ...)

Page 189: added missing closing quotation mark ( ... the accused party was soon restored to society.")

Page 214 (line 34): added missing closing quotation mark ("And ye shall pardoned be:")

Page 253 (line 54): changed "Jonne[a] rounde" to "Jonne [a]rounde" (And so besett poore Jonne [a]rounde,)

Page 260 (first line of chorus): changed "Re" to "Be" (Be content, be content,)

Page 260 suspected typo "fortunately" should perhaps be read "unfortunately" ( ... the circumstances which have given rise to it were fortunately too common ...)