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my cost; I can speake of what I haue paid for. Il veut avoir drap & argent ensemble. He wil haue both my cloath and his owne coine; (applyable to an vnreasonable chapman, hard bargainer, sore dealer.) Le terme vaut l'argent. The Terme is worth the money; (a phrase most vsed by those whom the benefit of a little time makes to neglect the paiments, or punishments whereto they be subiect.) Argent ard gent: Prov. Mony burnes many; (viz. the loue thereof enflames their hearts.) Argent contant porte medicine: Prov. Ready money is a readie medicine. Argent faict guerre: Prov. viz. It moues men to begin, and enables them to follow, it. Argent faict perdre, & pendre gent: Prov. Looke Perdre, or Pendre. Argent faict rage, & amour mariage: Prov. Coyne moues men vnto rage, loue vnto mariage. Argent faict tout: Prov. All (earthly) things are commanded, and compassed, by it. Argent frais, & nouveau ruine le Iouvenceau: Pro. Th' aboundant, or free vse of money ruines youth. l'Argent quand l'orge: Prov. One for another: when we haue their ware let them haue their money. Argent receu le bras rompu: Prov. Looke Bras. C'est argent qu'argent vaut: Prov. Nothing but money is money-worth. En argent soit le capital de celuy là qui le veut mal: Prov. (Belike, because the keeping of it is both sinfull, and casuall.) Quand argent faut tout faut: Prov. He that wants money wants all things. Qui a argent a des chapeaux: Prov. Most men salute the monyed man; or, he that hath money hath most things. Qui n'a argent en bourse ait du moins du mel en bouche: Prov. He that cannot pay let him pray. Amour faict beaucoup, mais argent faict tout: Pro. Loue is potent, but money omnipotent. Bon marché tire l'argent hors de la bourse: Prov. Good cheape commodities are notable picke-purses. Desolation paroist tost en argent avancé, &c: Looke Desolation. Femme, argent, & vin, ont leur bien, & leur venin: Prov. Money, wine, and women, haue good and bad things in them. Mieux vaut avoir ami en voye qu'or n'argent en courroye: Prov. A friend on the way is better than a penie in the purse. Nul n'a trop pour soy de sens, d'argent, de foy: Prov. Looke Foy. Quelque sçavoir que soit on l'hommes, s'il n'a de l'argent, on s'en mocque: Prov. The skilfullest, wanting money, are but scorned. Qui combat avec les armes d'argent est asseure de vaincre: Prov. He that doth fight with siluer armes is sure to ouercome.

Argentangine: f. The siluer Squinzie; a disease wherwith many besides Demosthenes (to whom it was first obiected) haue beene troubled.

Argenté: m. ée: f. Siluered ouer; couered with, or enchaced in, siluer. Astre Argenté. The Moone.

Argenter. To siluer ouer; to gild, or couer with siluer, tinne, or lead; also, to enchace or inclose, in siluer.

Argenterie: f. The Mastership of the Wardrobe; also, a banke of exchaunge; also, a siluer myne; also, any stuffe, plate, or Iewels of siluer; as (in churches) cups,

chalices, crosses, &c; siluer stuffe; also, a vestrie, presse, or chest, wherein siluer stuffe, or plate is kept; also, a cupboord of siluer plate.

Argenteux: m. euse: f. Siluerie; of siluer; full of money, or siluer; that hath store of siluer.

Argentier: m. A Steward, Purse-bearer, or other Officer, that layeth out money for his Master, or hath the charge of his Masters money; also, a Banker, one that lendeth, or exchangeth, money for gaine; also a Cup-bearer. Argentier du Roy. The Master of the Wardrobe; Or Gentleman of the Robes; an Officer that keepes, and giues an account of all the Robes, garments, and clothes made for the kings owne wearing, for his Wardrobe, or chamber, or to be giuen away.

Agentiere: f. The place wherein mettalls are tried, before coyne be made of them.

Argentin: m. ine: f. Argentine, siluerie, of siluer, siluerlike. Chardon argentin, Argentine, Siluer-Thistle, Oat-Thistle, Gumme-Thistle, Cotton-Thistle, the wilde white Thistle.

Argentine: f. Wild Tansie, Siluer weed.

Argerite. The (Siluer-coloured) foame of tried lead.

Argilier: m. The Ponticke Acatia; (a Thornie shrub.) Argiliere: f. A clay-pit; or, a plot wherein Potters clay is gotten.

Argille: f. Potters clay; fat mould; a fattie, or clammie earth, whereof pots, &c, may be made.

Argillette: f. Fine clay, or mould.

Argilleux: m. euse: f. Clayish; full of a fat mould, or clay; made of a clammie, or fat clay; clammie, or fat, as Potters clay.

Arglantier: m. An Eglantine tree, or plant.

Argolet: m. A light horseman.

Argot: m. The Spurre of a Cocke; the deaw-clawe of a dog, &c; the heele, or talon of a hog.

Argoté: m. ée: f. Hauing spurres; armed, or furnished, as a Cocke, with spurres; also, brabled, contended, contested, wrangled.

Argoter. To spurre; to fight with spurres; also, to brable, contest, wrangle, contend with.

Argoteur: m. A wrangler, brabler, cauiller, contentious person.

Argoteure. as Ergoture. Argoteuse: f. A scould; a wrangling, or cauilling housewife.

Argoüil: m. A ring of yron.

Argousin. The Lieutenant of a Gallie.

Argu. la teste pleine d'argu. Full of anger, perplexitie, displeasure; fraught with fretfull proclamations. Tu ne me parles que d'argu. Thy words are nought but cauils, thou doest nothing but brable with me.

Argué: m. ée: f. Argued, pleaded, reasoned; reproued, rebuked, chidden.

Arguër. To argue, plead, reason; dispute; discusse, or examine by argument; also, to chide, reproue, reprehend, rebuke; also, to incense, vrge, or prouoke vnto anger.

Argueur: m. An arguer, or pleader.

Arguillonneux: m. euse: f. Litigious, contentious; full of subtile cauilling.

Argument: m. An argument; reason, or proofe; a subiect to write, reason, or speake, of; also, the summe of a written matter; the summarie, or substance of a Booke, or Chapter; also, a coniecture,