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Voulenteux. as Volenteux. Vouloir: m. A will, mind, fancie, affection, humor; wish, desire; meaning, purpose, intent.

Vouloir. To will; couet, wish, desire; meane, mind, purpose, intend. En vouloir. whence; À qui en voulez vous? What ayles you? who hurts you? or, whom doe you stomacke? who haue you a quarell to? with whom doe you meane to brabble? Sometimes also the contrarie; as, l'heur vous en veut; fortune fauours you; (but in this sence it is not often vsed.) Dieu le vueille. God grant, God send it, or I pray God it fall out so. Ie le veux bien. With all my heart; I am well content, or pleased withall. Il ne nous donne qui ne veut. No man is constrained to giue vs; any man may chuse whether he will giue vs or no; The like is; Il y va veoir qui veut; He that will, he that hath a mind to it, any one, may goe and see it. Si les dez ne vous veulent. If the dice runne not to your mind, on your side; or as you would haue them. Que veut le Roy ce veut la Loy: Prov. The Law makes good her Princes expositions. Qui quand il peut ne veut, quand il veut il ne peut: Prov. Looke Pouvoir. Qui tard veut ne veut: Prov. A delay imports a deniall; and he that driues one off with words, doth meane to let him haue nought but words.

Voulrie: f. Th' authoritie which a father and mother haue ouer their child; also, the house, or dwelling of a father.

Voulsure: f. as Voulceure. Voulte: f. A vault, or arch; also, a vaulted, or embowed roofe.

Voulté: m. ée: f. Vaulted, arched; bowed, or bending on all sides downeward; also, crooke-backed, or hulch-backed.

Voulter. To vault, arch, bow; crooke, or bend (on all sides) downeward.

Voulteur: m. A maker of vaults, or of arches.

Voultis: m. The seeling of a roome.

Voulture: f. A vaulting, or arching.

Voulu. Willed, wished; coueted, fancied, desired, affected; meant, intended, purposed.

Vous. You.

Voussé: m. ée: f. Vaulted, arched.

Vousure: f. as Voulture. Voute. as Voulte. Voutoyé: m. ée: f. Vaulted, arched, bowed.

Voutrer. Looke Veautrer. Vouture: f. as Voulture. Voyable: com. Visible, perceiuable, seeable, subiect vnto the view.

Voyage: m. A voyage, iourney, peregrination; also, (among Diers) a heating, or copper-full, of liquor.

Voyagement: m. A voyaging, trauelling, iourneying.

Voyager. To trauell, iourney, goe a voyage. Voyager en Cornoüaille. To be a cuckold; or to haue his head horne-graffed at home while his feet are plodding abroad.

Voyagere: f. A trauelling, or way-faring woman.

Voyageur: m. A traueller, a way-faring man.

Voyant. Viewing, seeing, perceiuing, beholding.

Voy-cy. Looke, see, behold, here.

Voye: f. A way, path; street, causey; properly such a one as is about 16 foot broad; also, a meane, manner, fashion; order, course, rule, method; also, the carriage or por-*

*tage of a thing; also, a load, or cart-full of; and, in the plurall (Voyes) the view, or footing of a Stag; whence; Courir vn cerf sur les voyes; Dogs to hunt, or pursue a Stag, with noses to ground. Par voye. as à clere-voyes; or so farre set asunder that one may easily looke betweene them. Par voye de faict. Looke Faict. Tout d'une voye. All at once; or, all vnder one. Accueillir sa voye vers. To trauell, wend, or goe, towards. Mettre en voye. To set packing, going, or agate; to put forward, or into the way. Il ne va pas du tout à honte qui de demye voye retourne: Prov. Himselfe with shame he will not staine to goe, that hath turn'd back againe; be that hath once a course abandond hath not the face againe to stand on't.

Voyelle: f. A vowell.

Voyer: m. A Surueyer, or Ouerseer of highwayes, (and punisher of the offences committed therein;) also, the Surueyor of the publicke workes, and buildings belonging to a towne, who, in some places, likewise appoints meeres and bounds vnto bordering lands; and orders the lights, gutters, and sinkes of neighbouring houses; and limits vnto those that build in a street, their ground and scope of iuttying; and lookes that the streets, and highwayes be not straitned, or incombered by stalls, seats, stayres, shoring of houses, &c; and lastly, Scauinger-like, giues order that they be made cleane: Also, a Gentleman that hath some Jurisdiction (though not altogether so much as the Iusticier) within his territorie; whence; Gros voyer. as Moyen Iusticier; &, Simple voyer. as Le bas Iusticier. Le grand Voyer de France. The great Surueyor of France; is but a meane Officer, how great soeuer this title, or the person that holds it, be.

Voyerie: f. Jurisdiction; whence, Grande Voyerie; as La moyenne Iustice; (vnder Iustice;) &, Simple voyerie; Base, or low Jurisdiction. Voyes d'un cerf. Looke Voye. Voy-là. See, looke, behold, there.

Voyrement. Surely, verily, indeed, forsooth.

Voyrie. as Voyerie. Voyture, & Voyturier. as Voiture, & Voiturier. Vpe: f. The bird called a Whoope, or dunghill Cocke.

Vrac. Hareng vrac. A Herring well seasoned, and seasonably imbarrelled.

Vranopetes. Goers to heauen: ¶Rab. Vraque. The pipe, or passage whereby a wombe-infants vrine is carried from it.

Vraques. The name of certaine ropes, or tackling, which belong vnto sayles.

Vray: m. A truth; whence; À vray dire perd on le ieu: Prov. The fairest gamester alwayes looseth most: he that to Truth himselfe a prentise ties, will speed worse then the knaue that vseth lyes. Beau service fait amis vray dire ennemis: Prov. Faire seruice friends, true plaineneße foes, procures. Tout vray n'est pas bon à dire: Prov. All that is true is not to be told.

Vray: m. vraye: f. True, vnfained, sooth, iust, right; sure, certaine, vndoubted; vnfoisted, vnmingled, naturall, of it selfe. Ce sont les pires bourdes que les vrayes: Prov. The truest are the worst (because the bitterest) ieasts.

Vraybis; & Vraybot. for Vrayement.