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[EELIQUI^ ANTIQUE. SCEAPS FEOM ANCIENT 

 MANUSCEIPTS. . . . Edited by THOMAS WEIGHT 



.... AND JAMES OECHAED HALLIWELL 



Vol. I. London . . . 1841.] 



By G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton. 



(p. 133) NAMES OF THE HAEE. 



The following very curious composition is taken from a 

 collection of English and Anglo-Norman poems written in the 

 reign of Edward L, and preserved in MS. Bigby 86, Bodleian 

 Library, 4to, vellum, fol. 168 : — 



Les noms de un levre en Engleis. 



The mon that the hare i-met, 

 Ne shal him nevere be the bet, 

 Bote if he lei doun on londe 

 That he bereth in his honde, 

 Be hit staf, be it bouwe, 

 And blesce him with his helbowe ; 

 And mid wel goed devosioun 

 He shal saien on oreisoun 

 In the worshipe of the hare, 

 Thenne mai he wel fare. 



The hare, the scotart, 

 The bigge, the bouchart, 

 The scotewine, the skikart, 

 The turpin, the tirart. 

 The wei-betere, the ballart, 

 The go-bi-dich, the soillart. 

 The wimount, the babbart. 

 The stele-awai, the momelart. 

 The evele i-met, the babbart, 

 The scot, the deubert. 

 The gras-bitere, the goibert, 

 The late-at-hom, the swikebert, 

 The frendlese, the wodecat. 

 The brodlokere, the bromkat. 



