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Il n'en peut plus. He hath shot his frie, spent his powder, done the worst or most he can.  Ainsi va qui mieux ne peut: Prov. He must doe thus who can no better doe.  Contre fortune nul ne peut: Pro. Looke Fortune. Qui mieux ne peut à sa vieille retourne: Pro. When all is done home's homelie.  Que quād il peut ne veut, quand il veut il ne peut: Prov. He that will not when he may, when he would he shall haue nay.  Tel fait le mieux qu'il peut qui ne fait chose qui vaille: Prov. Some though they doe their best doe nothing well.

Poux. The pulse; Looke Pouls. Pouy. (An Interiection of loathing;) fie.

Pouyr. Tout n'y sçauroit pouyr. All cannot goe into, all cannot be held or contained in, it: ¶Parisien. Pouzaranque. A certaine instrument wherewith water is drawne out of garden wells.

Poy. as Peu; Little; (an old word.)

Poyle: f. A stoue.

Poytois. as Putois. Poyvrade: f. A seasoning with, or sauce made of, Pepper.

Poyvre: m. Pepper.  Poyvre aquatique. Culerage, Arse-smart, water Pepper, or water Pepperwort; (an hearbe.)  Poyvre blanc. White Pepper; like the blacke in all things but colour, & commonneße (for there comes not much of it hither;) Th' East Indians vse it in stead of Salt; See Poyvre verd. Poyvre d'Espagne. as Poyvre d'Inde. Poyvre Ethiopic. The husked, or codded Pepper, called in shops Amomum, & vita longa. Poyvre Indic, ou d'Inde. Indian Pepper, Guinnie Pepper, Calecut Pepper; a little, flat, and yellowish seed.  Poyvre long. Long Pepper; a blackish, and Catkin-fashioned fruit, consisting of many graines close thrust together.  Poyvre de montaigne. Pepper of the Mount; the blacke, and hot-tasting berrie, or graine, of the shrub Mezereon, or Spurge-flax.  Poyvre verd. as Poyvre blanc; Some report that the ordinarie Pepper-berrie gathered while tis greene, &, vnripe, remaines euer white, and is that which we call white Pepper; yet Gerard seemes to allow it a peculiar plant.

Poyvre: m. ée: f. Peppered; seasoned with Pepper; also, tasting like Pepper.  Herbe poyvrée. Dittander, Dittanie, Pepperwort.

Poyvrer. To pepper; to season with Pepper.

Poyvrette. as Poivrette; Hearbe Gith; some also call so, the Guinnie Pepper plant.

Poyvrier: m. The Pepper plant.

Practic: m. ique: f. Practicall, practising.

Practicien: m. A practiser, or practicioner in Law; a a Pleader, Counsellor, Aduocate, Atturney, or Proctor, allowed.

Practique: f. Practise, experience; the forme, stile, course of pleading, or of proceeding, in the Law.

Practiqué: m. ée: f. Practised, experimented, exercised, vsed, put in vse; dealt with, medled in; also, frequented, much haunted; also (in Architecture) contriued.

Practiquer. To practise, exercise, vse, or put in vre; to deale with, or meddle in; to bestow, or imploy himselfe in; also, to frequent, or haunt much; and (in Archi-*
 * tecture) to contriue.  Practiquer argent sur. To raise, or make money of.

Pragmaticien. aunciently, as Practicien, at this day.

Pragmatique Sanction. Looke Sanction. Pragmatizer. To practise, argue, plead; solicite.

Praguerie: f. (The name of) a meeting at Clermont betweene Charles the seuenth, & his sonne the Dolphin, who, together with others his subiects, had rebelled against him; Hence, any such league, faction, or ioynt rebellion of subiects against their Soueraigne.

Prain. Full-bagd, full-bellied, great with young; (a word applied onely to some kind of beasts.)  A l'agneler verra on lesquelles sont prains: Prov. Looke Agneler. Prairier: m. ere: f. Of, or belonging to, a medow, or medow ground.  Sergent prairier. A medow-keeper; an Officer that lookes vnto medowes, and watches the hay growing in them.

Prairie: f. A medow, or medow ground.

Pranchette: f. A womans stirrup, or the plate she hath vnder her foot as she rides.

Prangeler. Cattell to chaw their cud in th' afternoone: ¶Norm. Praquerie. as Praguerie. Prat. as Pré; A medow.

Pratique. as Practique; also, a little lace: ¶Blesien. Prattique, & Prattiquer. See Practique, & Practiquer. Pré: m. A medow; a mead.  La faulx paye les prez: Pro. The Sithe giues meads their due.  Toutesfois fut le pré tondu: Prov. Yet was the medow mowen; Seeke Toutesfois. Preage: m. Medowage; or, a freedome to put cattell into other mens medowes; whence; Droict de preage; Looke under Droict. Prealable: com. Former, forerunning, before-going; first to be done, discussed, or thought of; which ought to proceed, or fore-goe the rest.  Au prealable. as Prealablement. Au prealable de. After the rate of.  Pour vn prealable. First and formost; for a beginning, or first worke, before ought else be done, or talked of.

Prealablement. First, formost, first and formost, formerly, before all things, ere ought else be discussed, or done.

Preallable, & Preallablement. as Prealable, & Prealablement. Preallegué: m. ée: f. Before alledged.

Preambule: m. A Preamble, Preface, Prologue.

Preau: m. A little medow; and (more particularly) a pleasant greene, greene close, or medow, lying neere a house, and seruing as well for a walke, as for other vses; also, a smooth greene seat vnder an arbor.

Preaux. The name of a certaine white, small, and sweet apple.

Prebende: f. A Prebendrie.

Prebender en vn tripot. To bandie at Tennis.

Prebstre. Looke Prestre. Precaire. par prec. as Precairement. Precairement. By intreatie, request, or desire; also, at another mans will and pleasure; or, onely for a while.

Precaution: f. A precaution; a foreseeing, bewaring, or prouiding for beforehand; also, a premonition, or warning; also, the preuenting of a disease before it come, or the curing of it at first comming.