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l'envoy, lenvoy, n.
See envoy n.1 1.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas viii. xxv. (1494) E iij b/1 Make a Lenuoy that men all may it rede. [The ‘Lenuoye’ follows.] 1570Barclay's Ship of Fooles 2 b, The Lenuoy of Alexander Barclay Translatour. [Also in other passages; but ed. 1509 has always The Enuoy or Thenuoy.] 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iii. i. 81 Pag. Is not lenuoy a salue? Ar. No, Page, it is an epilogue. a1625Beaum. & Fl. Wit without M. ii. iv, After these, a Lenvoy to the Citty for their sinnes? 1636Massinger Bashf. Lover iv. i, Do I know my self? I kept that for the Lenvoy. a1656Ussher Annals vi. (1658) 276 Of 10 thousand talents brought forth, there were 130 left all paid, with this lenuoy over and above of Curtius [Latin: a Curtio etiam hoc adjecto epiphonemate], So that, saith he, that army..brought yet more honour and glory, then spoil and riches out of Asia.
Hence † lenvoy v. trans., to give (a person) his lenvoy; to say farewell to him.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden 134 Wee shall lenuoy him, and trumpe and poope him well enough if..he will needes fall a Comedizing it. |