1189. _a lymytoure._ See before, the note on l. 14615 of the Vision.
1178. _stumlen in tales._ An allusion to the idle and superstitious tales with which the monks filled their sermons, in place of simple and sound doctrine.
1309. _Water Brut._ Walter Brut (or Bright) was a native of Herefordshire, and was prosecuted by the Bishop of Hereford for heresy in 1393. A long account of his defence will be found in Foxe's Acts and Monuments.
1401. _Hildegare._ I suppose this refers to St. Hildegardis, a nun who flourished in the middle of the twelfth century, and who was celebrated among the Roman Catholics as a prophetess. Her prophecies are not uncommon in manuscripts, and they have been printed. Those which relate to the future corruptions in the monkish orders are given in Foxe's Acts and Monuments, book vi, and in other works.
[The figures in the following Glossary refer to the _page_ of the text. Words preceded by a +, occur only in the CREED. A.S. and A.N. distinguish the two different languages of which our own is composed, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman.]
a, prefixed to verbs of Anglo-Saxon origin, has sometimes a negative, sometimes an intensative power: before nouns and adjectives it represents _on_ and _at_, as, a-brood, a-fore (æt-foran), a-rowe (i. e. _on a row_), a-loft (i. e. _on high_), &c. In words of Anglo-Norman origin, it answers to the prepositions, _a_, _ab_, _ad_, of the original Latin words
abiggen (A.S.) 35, 127, abien, 58, abugge, 122, abye, 164, abyen, 393, _to make amends for_, _to atone for_. _pret. s._ aboughte, 168, 190, 231, 268. _part. past_, abought, 392
a-blende (A.S.) 377, a-blynden, _to blinde, dazzle_. _pret. s._ a-blente, 388
a-cale (A.S.) 393, _cold_. It occurs in the Romance of the Seven Sages (Weber, p. 59):
That night he sat wel sore _a-kale_, And his wif lai warme a-bedde.
accidie (A.N.) 99, _sloth, a fit of slothfulness_
acombren (A.N.) _to embarrass, bring into trouble_
acorse, acursen (A.S.) 375, _to curse._ acorsed, 375, _accursed_
acoupen (A.N.) 272, _to blame, accuse._ (for acoulpen)
afaiten, 291, affaiten 81, 119, (A.N.) _to tame_
a-feren (A.S.) 395, 435, _to frighten_, _drive away_. a-fered, 376, _afraid_, _terrified_
affraynen (A.S.) 347, _to ask_, _question_, _interrogate_