A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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Quotation dates: 1450-1500
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Posy, Pocy, n. ? Also Posik(e. [e.m.E. posey, posie, posy, (1) a short inscription (1533), (2) a nosegay (a 1569), syncopated form of Poesie, which occurs also, as (1), in Lydgate.] a. ? A short inscription, here that on Christ's cross. b. A bunch of flowers, a nosegay or bouquet. —c1450 Craft of Deyng (S.T.S.) 98.
And the pocy of the cros schawis the mercy of Crist, for he hange tharone, inclynand the hed to the heryng [etc.] … and al his body to the rademyng of synaris a1500 Lancelot of the Laik 72.
Thar was the garding with the flouris ourfret, Quich is in posy fore my lady set
