1807. jolitee, joyfulness—said of course ironically.
1808. Can ... thank, acknowledges an obligation, owes thanks.
1814. a servant, i. e. a lover. This sense of servant, as a term of gallantry, is common in our dramatists.
1815, 1818. Cf. the Teseide, v. 92.
1837. looth or leef, displeasing or pleasing.
1838. pypen in an ivy leef is an expression like 'blow the buck's-horn' in A. 3387, meaning to console oneself with any frivolous
employment; it occurs again in Troilus, v. 1433. Cf. the expression 'to go and whistle.' Cf. 'farwel the gardiner; he may pipe with an yue-leafe; his fruite is failed'; Test. of Love, bk. iii; ed. 1561, fol. 316. Boys still blow against a leaf, and produce a squeak. Lydgate uses similar expressions:—
'But let his brother blowe in an horn,
Where that him list, or pipe in a reede.'
Destruction of Thebes, part ii.