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 Bonne vie embellit, & attrait bonne fin: Pro. Good life imbellishes, and ends in bliße.  De meschante vie les bonnes loix sont venuës: Pro. Ill liues occasioned good Lawes.  Il n'est vie que de coquins; &, Il n'est vie que de coquins quand ils ont assemblé leurs bribes: Pro. Our countrey Fidlers haue a song which begins thus; Of all Occupations a beggar is the best, for when he is wearie, he may lay him downe and rest, &c.  Il n'est vie que d'estre bien aise: Pro. All happinesse, consists in quietneße, of life.  Il n'est vie que de faire bonne chere, mais la fin n'en vaut rien: Prov. (Whether you consider the stuffe it turnes into, or the end it brings one to.)  Ioyeuse, & riche vie pere, & mere oublie: Pro. Contentment and wealth gotten, makes father, and mother forgotten.  Meschante vie quiert le coing: Prov. Lewdneße affecteth corners.  Telle vie telle fin: Prov. Such as his dealing was his death.

Vie vie. (An Aduerbe of incouraging, or commaunding;) On, on apace, goe on, away, forward, make hast, march march, quickly, speed it my hearts.  Vie fouët & au vent. Auaunt, packe, be gone.

Viedaze: m. The member of an Asse; also, an old dunce, doult, blockhead, noddie, ninnyhammer.

Viedazer le nez à. To play with the nose of; to baffle, abuse, flowt, make a foole of; also, to trouble, vex, molest.

Vieil: m. eille: f. Old, aged, auncient, stale, decrepit, in yeares; Looke Vieux. La vieille guerre. See Guerre. Faict à la vieille mode. Made rudely, of a grosse forme, of a fashion thats quite out of fashion.  Vn vieil chien iamais ne iappe en vain: Pro. An old dog barketh (we say biteth) sure.  Vieil oiseau ne se prend a reths: Pro. The old birds care auoides the snare.  Depuis que la brebis est vieille le loup la mange bien: Prov. The sheepe is neuer too old for the Wolfe; how tough soeuer she be he eats her well.  Il n'est chasse que de vieux chiens: Pro. There is no hunter to the old dog; no searcher to experience.  Il n'est miracle que de vieux saincts: Pro. Wonders of old are most authenticall.  Il n'y a rien tel qu'un vieil pot à faire la bonne soupe: Pro. No pot makes so good pottage as the old one.  On n'aura ja bon asne vieil: Prov. An old Asse is good for nothing.  Oncques vieil singe ne fit belle mouë: Pro. Th' old Monkey neuer made well-fauored mowe.

Vieillard: m. An old, or aged, man.  Mieux vaut l'ombre d'un sage vieillard que les armes d'un ieune coquard: Pro. A wise old man may doe more with his shade, then can a young cokes with his glistering blade.

Vieille: f. An old, or aged woman; also, as Vielle in the later sence; or, as Poule de mer. Peau de vieille. The name of an Apple. Chascune vieille son dueil plaind: Pro. See Plaindre. La necessité fait trotter la vieille: Pro. Need addes new life, strength, quickneße, to old age. Qui mieux ne peut à sa vieille retourne: Prov. He that can haue no young, makes much of his old, stuffe; old serues the turne where young will not be had. Vieillement. Oldly, agedly, aunciently.

Vieillesse: f. Eld, or old age.  Ieunesse oiseuse vieillesse disetteuse: Prov. A lazie youth, a lowsie age.  Si ieunesse sçavoit, & vieillesse pouvoit, iamais povreté n'auroit: Prov. If youth were cunning, and age able, poorenesse would soone be but a fable.

Vieilli: m. ie: f. Become old, growne auncient, stept farre into yeares.

Vieillir. To wax old, become aged, grow in yeares.

Vieillissement. as Vieillement. Vieillot: m. otte: f. Elderlie, somewhat old.

Vieilly. as Vieilli. Vielle: f. A rude, or harsh-sounding Instrument of Musicke, vsually played on by base Fidlers, and blind men; also, the sea-Thrush, or particularly that kind thereof which hath a sky-coloured head, greenish backe, ruddie head, and purple finnes.  Ils accorderent tresbien leurs vielles ensemble. They iumbled their fidles passing well together; (but this phrase hath a further (filthie) sence.)  On ne fait pas à grands coups douce vielle: Prov. Not great, but apt, stroakes make sweet Musicke.

Vielleur: m. One that vsually playes on, or gets a rascallie liuing by playing on, a Vielle; and thence, any base, or beggarlie Fidler.

Vierge: f. A virgin, maid, maiden; also, the signe in the Zodiake tearmed Virgo. Vierge: com. Virgin, pure, cleere, prime, vnbroken, vntainted, vndefiled, vntouched.  Huile vierge. The first (and best) oyle that comes out of the presse, or from a stillitorie.  Miel vierge. Virgins honey; the honey which, of it selfe, and without any pressing distills from the combe.  Or vierge. Gold vnmelted, or vntryed; Gold that comes whole from it veine, or mine.  Parchemin vierge. Virgin Parchment; Parchment made of an abortiue skin.  Poix vierge. The first pitch that issues out of the Pitch-tree.  Terre vierge. Ground that is whole, or vnfoyled; good ground that was neuer plowed, or broken vp.

Viet-dase, & Vietz-daze. Looke Viedaze. Vieuté. as Vileté. Vieux. Old, aged, ancient, stale, decrepit, in yeares (Looke Vieil; to which it is also the Plurall.)  Vieux peché fait nouvelle honte: Prov. Old sinne begets new shame.  Vin vieux, ami vieux, or vieux, sont loüez en tous lieux: Pro. The praise of old wine, friends, and gold, is in all places often told.  C'est grande peine que d'estre vieux, mais il ne l'est pas qui veut: Pro. A noysome thing it is to be old, yet no man can be so that would.  En esperance d'avoir mieux, tant vit le loup qu'il devient vieux: Pro. The Wolfe so long hopes his estate to mend, that (without helpe) his life's growne neere an end.

Vif: m. vive: f. Quicke, liuing, aliue, in life; also, quick, liuelie, sparkling, spurting, light, nimble, full of life. Vive pasture. Looke Pasture. Donation entre vifs. A deed of Gift executed in the donors life time. Eau vive. Running water, spring water. Herbage vif. Looke Herbage. Pierre vive. Flint. Roche vive. An entire rock; a rocke, without mixture of earth, all stone.