161.3 ‘lyveray,’ purveyance.
He sporned the dore with his fote;
It went open wel and fyne;
And there he made large lyveray,
Bothe of ale and of wyne.
162.
‘Sith ye wol nat dyne,’ sayde Litell John,
‘I shall gyve you to drinke;
And though ye lyve an hundred wynter,
On Lytel Johnn ye shall thinke.’