There's more and more; I'll geld it, ere it go.

The barb horses being all stallions (for the Moors consider it a crime to geld so noble an animal), the fiercest and most terrific battles ensue on a stud breaking loose from their pickets.

See ante, p. 77, note 4. See ante, ii. 344, where Johnson says:'A judge may be a farmer, but he is not to geld his own pigs.

He fell back on a simple expedient; in many places there had been a provision as old at least as Doomsday, which enacted that the money weighed out for town-geld should if needful be tested by re-melting.

Shall's geld him Captain? Cap.

O how ranke he lookes, sweete Captaine let's geld him, and send his dowsets for a dish to the Burdello. 4 SOUL.

Again, there are, I think, more than twenty redundant verbs which are treated by Crombie,and, with one or two exceptions, by Lowth and Murray also,as if they were always regular: namely, betide, blend, bless, burn, dive, dream, dress, geld, kneel, lean, leap, learn, mean, mulct, pass, pen, plead, prove, reave, smell, spell, stave, stay, sweep, wake, whet, wont.

The thirty are these: "bake, bend, build, burn, climb, creep, dream, fold, freight, geld, heat, heave, help, lay, leap, lift, light, melt, owe, quit, rent, rot, seethe, spell, split, strive, wash, weave, wet, work."

Geld, gelded or gelt, gelding, gelded or gelt.

The following twenty-nine are omitted by this author, as if they were always regular; belay, bet, betide, blend, bless, curse, dive, dress, geld, lean, leap, learn, mulet, pass, pen, plead, prove, rap, reave, roast, seethe, smell, spoil, stave, stay, wake, wed, whet, wont.

Anne Chalmers Bromfield, Ellen Bromfield Geld & Hope Bromfield Stevens (C); 31Jul56; R175081.

GELD, ELLEN BROMFIELD.

GELD, ELLEN BROMFIELD.

GELD, ELLEN BROMFIELD. Aunt Flora.

Hope Bromfield Stevens, Ellen Bromfield Geld & Anne C. Bromfield (C); 1Feb61; R270469.

Alfhild Huebsch (A); 26May61; R276435. GELD, ELLEN BROMFIELD.

Anne Chalmers Bromfield, Ellen Bromfield Geld & Hope Bromfield Stevens (C); 26Jun56; R172819.

GELD, ELLEN BROMFIELD.

Ellen Bromfield Geld, Anne Chalmers Bromfield & Hope Bromfield Stevens (C); 3Dec58; R225713. That which never returns.

Ellen Bromfield Geld, Anne Chalmers Bromfield & Hope Bromfield Stevens (C); 3Dec58; R225711.

GELD, ELLEN BROMFIELD.

Ellen Bromfield Geld, Anne Chalmers Bromfield, Hope Bromfield Stevens (C); 16May60; R257100. BRONSON, WILFRID S. Poliwiggle's progress.

Hope Bromfield Stevens, Ellen Bromfield Geld & Anne C. Bromfield (C); 1Feb61; R270469.

Alfhild Huebsch (A); 26May61; R276435. GELD, ELLEN BROMFIELD.

In his charter to the citizens of London he promises general freedom from feudal taxes and impositions, from dane-geld and from the fine for the murder of a Norman; and the Charter of Liberties issued by Henry II in 1154 confirms their "liberties and free customs to all men in the kingdom."