Anturs of Arthur, st. 6; in Three Met. Romances, ed. Robson, p. 3.
The editor prints it as lefe sale, and explains it by 'leafy hall,' but it is a compound word; the adjective would be lefy or leuy. In this case the arbour was 'built' of box and barberry.
'All his devocioun and holynesse
At the taverne is, as for the most dele,
To Bacus syne, and to the leef-sele
His youthe hym haleth,' &c.
Hoccleve, De Regim. Principum, p. 22.
Again, in Allit. Poems, ed. Morris, iii. 448, the arbour formed by Jonah's gourd is called a lefsel.
4066. Lydgate has 'through thinne and thikke'; Siege of Troy, fol. Cc. 6, back.
4078. geen, goon; so in MS. E., which again has neen, none, 4185. The usual Northern form is gan (= gaan), as in Hl.; Hn. Ln. have gane. But we also find gayn, as in Wallace, iv. 102; Bruce, ii. 80.