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 keepe an old coyle, a filthie stirre, a scuruie adoe with his tongue. Faire planche à. Looke Planche. Faire de son poing vn maillet. To make hard shift, or to be ignorant of the right vse of things; or, sottishly to put himselfe, or his vnto ouer-rude vses. Faire la poule. To play the coward. Faire pourquoy, & ne fera pourquoy; and there shall be no cause why. ¶Rab. Faire le precedent. To sit first, or to come first vnto a sitting. Faire le prestre Martin. To answer himselfe; to play both Priest, and Clarke. Faire le procez à. To indite, or arraigne. Faire le quant à moy. To be well conceited of himselfe; also, to seeme daintie, or stand on nice, and curious tearmes. Faire quartier neuf, ou faux quartier. A horses hoofe to riue, or cleaue from the top to the bottome. Faire quartier à part. See Quartier. Faire la queuë. To drag, or come behind the rest; also, to play the coward, or be in the rereward when blowes are a dealing. Faire quinaut. To pose, or driue to a Nonplus. Faire la quine à. Scoffingly to point at with the finger. Faire quinquenelle. To fall bankrupt; to breake. Faire race. To get children; also, to breed, or begin a race of horses, dogs, &c. Faire sa rafe. To get many purchases, to take many prises, and thereby feather his neast, or fatten his purse. Faire vne raffle. To sweepe, or snatch vp all that is before him; See Raffle. Faire rage. To be very briefe, or very busie; to worke wonders, to keepe a great coyle, a stinking stirre. Faire de son Raminagrobis. To counterfeit grauitie; See Raminagrobis. Faire le Regnard. To slinke away, to slip aside, when a danger approches, or any likelihood of being taken in the manner; also, to play the truant. Faire de renvois. Looke Renvoy. Faire sa reste à. To speake roundly vnto, handle rudely, deale roughly with. Faire le Roland. To swagger; Looke Roland. Faire la ronde. To walke, or goe the round. Faire la rouë. To turne, or wheele about; See Rouë. Faire à quelqu'un son roulet. To prompt, or appoint one what he shall speake. Faire le saut. To breake, or turne bankrupt; also, to leape, or be turned off a ladder; also, as Franchir le saut; in Franchir. Faire le saut de la carpe. To turne ouer topsie turuie. Faire scalle. To land, set foot on land; also, to ascend, mount, or goe vp vnto. Faire Séession. To breake, to fall bankrupt. Faire le senaud. To play the knaue; also, to miche it, or a rich man to make shew of pouertie. Faire la sentinelle. To stand Sentinell. Faire serment. To take his oath. Faire la serpente. To wriggle, writhe, wind in and out. Faire soleil. Il fait soleil. The Sunne shines; in which sence this Verbe is not so neerely ioyned to Lune; for they say not, Il fait Lune; but, Il fait cler de Lune. Faire stoques. Looke Stoques. Faire le sucré. To frig, to wriggle; to commit Diogenes his sinne. Faire la succrée. To mince it, or make it goodlie. Faire son temps. To lead his life, to passe his time, Il a fait son temps; he is growne old, or out of date. Faire tenir vne chose à. To send, or conuey a thing. Faire de la terre le fossé. To dispose of his owne at his owne pleasure; Looke Fossé. Faire teste à. To resist, or withstand. Faire tin; Looke Tin. Faire le tour du labyrinthe. To returne, after much turning, into the way he first tooke; or to deale with a perplexed, intricate, and endlesse businesse. Faire tout sous soy. (a child) to beray himselfe. Faire trembler le lard au charnier. To swagger extreamely, threaten horribly, to vse big, or bugs words; (Ironically.) ¶Rab. Faire vn trou à la nuict; Looke Trou. Faire la veille. To watch, keepe watch; listen, or looke about him while others are asleepe. Faire bon ventre. To loossen, or soften the bellie, to make soluble. Faire versure. To make shift in the world; or as in Versure. Faire visage de bois à. To shut the dore against; to exclude, or shut without dore. Faire le voiage de Baviere. To get, or trauell for, the Pox. Faire voile. To set sayle, to make out to sea. Faire voile en Levant. To sayle Eastward; to be stolne, or pilfered away. Faire voile à tout vent. Jnconstantly to follow all fashions, adhere to euerie faction, professe any religion thats in vse, authoritie, or sway. Faire les yeux. To winke, or twinkle with the eyes. Faire les doux yeux. To make it goodlie, counterfeit ciuilitie or modestie, seeme coy; also, to winke, or smile pretily with the eyes; also, to be betweene sleeping and waking, or seeme to sleepe and see nothing. Faire les doux yeux à. To play at boe-peepe; or to winke lasciuiously, to looke flatteringly, or pitifully, at one, thereby to get somewhat. Se faire; whence, Se faire tous les iours en meilleur poinct. To battle, or to grow fatter and fairer euerie day then other. Se faire honneur. To win, or gaine honour; to procure to himselfe great honour. Se faire tenir. To be lustie, play the gallant, take vpon him, doe whatsoeuer he list. S'en faire accroire. Looke Accroire. S'en faire fort. To depend, rely, build, or be bold, on; to make sure account, or full reckoning, of. Se laisser faire au clerc. To let the Clarke take his pleasure of her, or doe with her what he will. À que faire? To what purpose, to what end? Aussi ne feray ie. So will I not, or no more I will. Ce fais mon. So I doe indeed, or, so I doe, so I doe. Cela ne fait rien. It boots, or auailes, not; it makes no matter. Cela se faisoit au temps iadis. That was the old fashion; or, thats at this day cleane out of fashion. Ie n'ay que faire à luy. I haue no businesse, no trafficke, no commerce, with him. Ie n'en ay que faire. Jt touches, or concernes, not me; I weigh it not, I care not for it. Il fait bien son petit faict. Looke Faict. Il me fait mal de luy. I am sorrie for him. Il ne s'en fait que mocquer. He doth but mocke them. Les faisoit moult bon voir. They were very well