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 Place Maubert. The Market-stead, and place of execution, for the Vniuersitie of Paris; Looke Maubert. La place des niais à la table. Th' vpper end; (among the auncient Romanes the best man euer sate in the middest; and at this day th' Italians hold the middle place most honourable.)  Pain de la place. Browne bread, houshold bread.  Bien de sa place part qui son ami y laisse: Pro. He leaues a place well that leaues a friend in it.  Ceux qui meurent laissent leur place à ceux qui demeurent: Prov. They that die possessors leaue all to their succeßors.

Placé: m. ée: f. Placed, seated, lodged, settled, fixed, planted.

Placer. To place; to seat, lodge, plant, settle, appoint a roome vnto.

Placet: m. A low stoole; also, a short Petition, or Ticket of request, without inscription, and beginning with these words, Plaise à tel, &c; (Therein differing from a Requeste, which is much longer, and beginnes thus, Supplie (naming the Petitioner, which the Placet doth not) and specifies in an inscription, the name, and title of him it is presented vnto.)

Placide: com. Calme, gentle, quiet, mild; peaceable, tractable.

Placidement. Gently, quietly, mildly, tractably.

Placitre. A faire large Court before a Church, or (great) house.

Placque: f. A flat Lingot, or barre of mettall; also, as Patart. Placque de marbre. A flat pauing peece of Marble.  Placque de plomb. See Plaque. Placqué: m. ée: f. Pargetted, or rough-cast; also, clapped, slat, or stucke on; laied flat vpon; whence;  Lettres à seel placqué. Whose seale hangs not by a labell, but is applied on the paper, or parchment it selfe.

Placquer. as Plaquer. Plafagourde: f. A made word, of some affinitie with our Gixie, Callet, Punke, &c.

Plage: f. A flat and plaine shore, or strand, by the sea-*side; also, a large arme of the sea without any Hauen; an open, and shallow Road; any flat or shallow, in or neere the sea; also, a Climate, Land, Region, Coast, or portion, of the world.

Plagiaire: m. One that steales, or takes free people out of one countrey, & sells them in another for slaues; a stealer, or suborner of mens children, or seruants, for the same, or the like, purpose; (in which sence we tearme him a Slockster;) also, a booke-stealer, or booke-theefe; one that fathers other mens workes vpon himselfe.

Plagiaire. Capitaine pl. That presses, carries, or steales away mens children, or seruants, with a purpose to sell them.

Plagie: f. Stealth, or subornation of mens children, and seruants, with an intent to sell them.

Plaict. as Plect.

Plaid: m. Suit, controuersie, altercation, debate, variance, brabbling, difference, contention, in law; also, a plea, or, a pleading; also, a Court of pleading; Looke Plait. Plaid de l'espée. High Jurisdiction, power or authoritie to punish by the sword. Plaids generaux, ou genereux. Sessions, Assises. Les francs plaids. Wherein the Magistrate, in an extraordinarie course, proceeds against an absent, & vnsummoned offendor, vpon the relation, or accusation of the Procureur fiscal (by the customes of Theroanne.) Simples plaids, ou querelles. Looke Simple. De petite chose peu de plaid: Prov. A sleight cause needeth but small arguing.  En cent livres de plaid n'y  pas vne maille d'amour: Prov. The more law the leße loue.

Plaidasserie: f. Wrangling, pettifogging; litigious, or paultrie pleading.

Plaidé: m. ée: f. Pleaded, argued, opened; also, impleaded before a Judge.

Plaide-gage. as Gage-plege. Plaider. To plead, argue, or open, a cause before a Judge; also, to sue, contend, goe to law, for, or against.  Iamais ne gaigne, qui plaide à son Seigneur: Pro. He neuer thriues, who 'gainst his Maister striues.

Plaidereau: m. A litigious, or contentious brangler; a continuall Suitor; one that will goe to Law for euerie trifle; one that is neuer out of Law.

Plaideresque: com. Lawyer-like.

Plaiderie: f. Pleading, arguing, practise; also, Suit in Law.

Plaideur: m. A Lawyer, Arguer, Pleader; also, as Plaidereau; whence;  À plaideur plaideur & demi: Prov. Said of a knaue well matcht with a worse then himselfe.  Homme plaideur menteur: Prov. A Pleader, a lyer.

Plaidoïer. as Plaidoyé. Plaidoirie: f. A plea, an argument; the pleading, or opening of a cause.

Plaidoyable: com. Pleadable, arguable.  Iours plaidoyables. Court-dayes, Hall-dayes.

Plaidoyé: m. A plea, pleading, argument.  Plaidoyé de Quaresme prenant. A bawdie, lasciuious, or wanton argument.

Plaidoyer: m. as Plaidoyé. Plaidoyer. To sue, turne Client, goe to Law.  Il plaidoye bien qui plaidoye sans partie: Prov. He pleads full well that pleads against none (or hath none to plead against) but himselfe.

Plaidoyeur: m. A Pleader; a Lawyer; also, a Suitor.  Eschars plaidoyeur est hardi perdeur: Prov. The sparing Client's willing to be foild.

Plaie. Looke Playe. Plaignant: m. ante: f. Plaining, bemoaning, complaining of; accusing, blaming, finding fault, with.

Plain: m. A plaine; a plaine peece of ground, without house, or tree vpon it.  Le Bois acquiert le plain. The Lord of a forrest may take in a neighbour-ground, which hath lyen vntilled, or vnused by the space of 30, or 20 yeares, if it be not diuided from the forrest by ditches, meeres, bounds, or other markes.

Plain: m. aine: f. Plaine, flat, euen, smooth, without wrinkles, without rubs; also, as Plaint. De plain. Presently, immediately, out of hand, without any further proceeding in Law. Il ne se tort pas qui va plain chemin: Prov. Looke Chemin.

Plaindre. To plaine, bewaile, bemoane, or make moane for; to blame, accuse, expostulate, find fault with, complaine of; to grudge, repine, or find himselfe aggrieued, at. Plaindre son argent. Ie n'y plainds point mon argent. I thinke my money well bestowed thereon. Plaindre sa despense. To spare his purse. Plaindre ses pas. To be a niggard of his steps. Plaindre sa peine. To saue labour, not to ouer-worke himselfe; or, to repine at the paines he takes.