A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1499-1500
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Play, v.2 [? Erroneous for Pay v. in an intr. use otherwise unrecorded in Sc.: cf. ME. (Wyclif) and late ME. (c 1460, thereafter appar. obs.) to pay to (a person) = to be satisfactory or pleasing to.] — a1500 Prestis of Peblis 1080.
My lyking and my eis To him alway will neither play nor pleis
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