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 La mauvaise garde paist souvent le loup: Prov. Ill watch doth fatten the Wolfe; or, the sleepie shepheard fattens the hungrie wolfe.

Gardé: m. ée: f. Warded, garded, kept; preserued, saued; shielded, defended, protected, maintained; watched, heeded, marked, obserued, regarded, looked vnto.

Garde-bras. A Vambrace; Armour for an arme.

Garde-corps: m. A Yeoman of the Gard; an Halberdier, or Sergeant, that gards, or attends on, the person of a Prince, Commaunder, or publicke Officer.

Garde-fol: m. as Garde-serre. Garde-fols; &, Garde-foux. Rayles, stayes, or sleight walls on th'outsides of a bridge, high walke, Terrace, or open Gallerie.

Garde-fort. as in Garde-fols. Garde-main. A strong gloue for a Mason, or Stone-cutter to worke with.

Gardemaneur. A creditor, or any other placed by order of Law in a debtors house; the which he may keepe vntill he be satisfied, or haue securitie for satisfaction.

Gardemanger. An Ambrie, Gardemanger, cupboord to keepe meat in.

Garde-nappe: f. A wreath, ring, or circlet of wicker, &c; set vnder a dish at meale times, to saue the Table-*cloth from soyling.

Garde-notes. Notaire garde-notes. Looke Notaire. Garde-poing: m. A Vamplate.

Garde-porte: f. A peece of Tapistrie hung before an open dore; a dore-peece.

Garder. To keepe; ward, gard; saue, preserue; shield; protect, maintaine, defend; watch, heed, marke, obserue, regard, or looke vnto. Se garder de. To refraine, forbeare, abstaine from; to hold off, beare backe, restraine himselfe. Garder le change. A hound to keepe vnto his first game without chaunging; to runne, or hunt, his owne. Garder vne fille à graine; To let a maid runne to seed; to keepe her long without a husband; See Graine. Garder la lune des loups. Foolishly to care for that which cannot doe amisse. Dieu gard la Lune des loups. See Loup. Dieu gard de mal qui voit bien & ne oit goutte. For my part I conceiue no iot of it; or, care not for it if I conceiued it; or, will not beleeue it though I know it to be so. Il la luy garda bonne. He owed him a good turne; or, (the contrarie) he bore him a grudge for it, a long time after. Sainct Anthoine te gardera. Thou art, or wilt proue, but a Hog, or a Sow. À qui est l'asne si le garde. Let him that owes the Asse looke to him; (a Prouerb applyable vnto any thing thats in danger of straying.) Bon chasteau garde qui sçait son corps garder: Prov. A good fort saues he that can saue his bodie. De qui ie me fie dieu me garde: Pro. (For, in trust is Treason, say we.) Il ne se garde pas bien qui ne se garde tousiours: Prov. He lookes not, that still lookes not, to himselfe; or, he gards not well, himselfe, that alwayes gards not. Qui garde son disner, il a mieux à souper: Pro. He that keepes his dinner hath the more to sup withall; youth preserued breeds an able old-age. Qui n'a qu'un oeil bien le garde: Prov. He that hath but one eye had need make much of it, had best looke well to it.  Tel se cuide bien garder qui se frappe sur le nez: Prov. Looke Frapper. Garderobbe: f. A Wardrobe; also, a house of Office; also, a cloth, or cloake worne, or cast ouer a garment,to keepe it from dust, raine, &c; also, the hearbe Sothernwood.

Garde-serre. The rest of the locke of a Harguebuse.

Gardeur: m. A Keeper, Warder, Warden, Gardien, Ouerseer,looker vnto.  Gardeur de bestiail. A Pastor, Heardsman, Neatheard.  Mieux vaut bon gardeur que bon gaigneur: Prov. (A degree beyond the Latine, Non minor est virtus quam qu[e,]rere parta tueri.) Gardien: m. A Warden, Keeper, Gardien; a Sequestree; one vnto whose keeping a thing is committed.   Gardien de biens. A Sequestree, or keeper of the goods of an indebted, or condemned person, seised by order of Law.  Gardien d'un enfant mineur. A Gardien; one that hath the wardship, or tuition of a child vnder age.

Gardien: m. enne: f. Keeping, warding, garding; obseruing, ouerseeing, looking vnto.  Garde gardienne. See Garde. Pere gardien. The chiefe Ouerseer, Controller, or Visitor of a Frierie.  De pere gardien filz garde-rien: Prov. A retchlesse sonne of a wretched father.

Gardin. as Iardin; a Garden. ¶Pic. Gardon: m. A certaine fresh-water fish that resembles the Cheuin; onely his head is lesse, and bodie broader; Some hold it to be the fresh-water Mullet; others (more probably, though Gesner say otherwise) the Roche, or a kind thereof.  Plus sain qu'un gardon. More liuelie, and healthfull then a Gardon (then which, there is not any fish more healthfull, nor more liuelie.)  Ils iettent  les gardons pour tirer des brochets. They reiect small, to obtaine great, matters.

Gardouche. A Store-house, or Garner.

Gardoüer: m. A little Pond, or Stue, to keepe fish in.

Gare. Intonation de gare & serre. The sounding of Drumme, or Trumpet, whereby souldiors are warned to stand close, and looke vnto themselues.  Gare le heurt. (The voice of them that driue horned-beasts) warre hornes.  Sans dire gare. On the suddaine, at vnawares; before any word sent, or warning giuen.

Garé. Terre garée. Old fallow ground.

Garence. as Garance; Madder. Garenciere: f. A Field, or Plot of ground, sowed with Madder; a Madder-yard, or Madder-ground.

Garendie. as Garentie; Warrantie. Garene. as Carine; and, as Garenne. Garené. as Garenné. Garrenne: f. A Warren of Connies, &c; also, a (certaine, or limitted) fishing in a riuer.

Garenné: m. ée: f. Warrenned; made into a Warren; inclosed; priuiledged, restrained from common vse; made priuat, or belonging to a priuat person, as a warren &c.

Garrenneux: m. euse: f. Haunting, or louing, or liuing in, Warrens.

Garennier: m. A Warrenner.

Garent: m. A Warranter, Protector, Defendor; securer, vndertaker for; a seller with warrantie; a Vouchee; also, Warrantie.