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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1456, 1569-1570
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Lythe, Lith(e, n.1 [ME. (chiefly north. and north midl.) lith (Cursor M., Havelok, Manning), lithe (Lay Folks Catech., Aunturs of Arthur), lythe (Florence of Rome), ON. lýð-r (common) people, household folk. In ME. appar. only in verse, coupled in an allit. phr. with land (as also sometimes in ON.).] Subjects, vassals, dependants, collectively. Also plur. — 1456 Hay I. 148/29.
I am lyke to tyne up all, bathe wyf, barnis and menȝe, land, lythe and place a 1570 Nicolsoun in Misc. Spald. C. II. xxviii.
Quhat wantis thow lythis or landis braid Or gold or geir to the ending day
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