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 75 Afraid. AFERED. "Was in a biisli, that no man might him se, For sore afered of his deth was he." [Canterbury Tales.) Alas! ALA AS / (so pronounced.) But how shull ye doen in this wofull caasJ^ [Troilus dj Creseide.) •*"What shall I doon, my Pandarus Alas! Sens that there is no remedy in this caas,^* (Ibid.) Are. AAR. (so pronounced.) " That it n'ill as the moeble fare, Of whiche thei first delivered are.'' [Romaunt of the Rose.) Ask. AX. "You lovers axe I now this question, Who hath the werse, Arcite or Palamon? " (The Knight's Tale.) "Under the mone that may wane and waxe, And for my werk right nothing wol I axe.'' (The Doctour's Tale.) Asked. AXED. "If that he axed after Nicholas." (The Miller's Tale,) "And gan to bord ageyn and axed him in game, Sith thou art our fadir who is then our dame ? " (The Merchant's Second Tale. J Asking. AXING. " I you forgeve this trespas every del, And they him sware his axing fayr and wel." (The Canterbury Tales.)
 * ' Thus herte mine ! for Antenor alas/