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First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
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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 Cr. 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 Lanc. 72.
Thar was the garding with the flouris ourfret, Quich is in posy fore my lady set