['The old and obscure words of Chaucer, explaned', from The Workes of our Antient and lerned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, newly Printed, ed. by Thomas Speght (London: George Bishop, 1598), sig. Aaaa1^r-Bbbb1^v.]

Yalt, goeth.
yapes, iests.
yare, ready.
yate, a gate.
yaue, regarded.
ybet, made.
ycoruen, cut.
ycrased, broken.
yeden, went.
yede, went.
yedding, (iurgandi) brawling: some say, gadding vp and downe.
yelpe, prate, talke.
yerde, rod or plague.
yerne, earnestly, quickly.
yerne, to deserue, to desire.
yerne, shrill.
yerning, profit.
yetten, lay vp.
yexing, sobbing.
yfere, togither.
yfrounsed, frowning.
yhed, on high.
yle, (inanis) emptie.
ymeint, mingled.
ynde, blacke.
yode, went.
yold, yeelded.
yolden, yeelded.
yerd, gouernment.
yore, long agoe.
youe, gaue.
Ypocras, the workes of Hippocrates.
yren, displeasure.
yreken, raked.
ysain, seene.
ythe, thriue.
yfter this, euen as.

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