Liver, "shall liver him" (R[271],c), deliver.
Longeth, "that longeth to thine office" (M[8],c), pertains to, is fit and appropriate for.
Lorel (IP[335],b), a generic term of reproach. "I play the lorell or the loyterer."—- Palsgrave, Lang. Fran. (1530), 659.
Losell, "like a loitering losell" (R[257],d), profligate, rake: etymologically, "one who is lost," "a son of perdition."
Loss, "poor we bear the loss" (R[231],d), see Respublica.
Louts, "we made them louts" (R[221],c), i.e. caused them to submit to our demands and disgorge. "To whome grete astates obeyde and lowttede."—Elegy on Henry (c. 1500), in Percy's Releg., 45.
Love, "Hasty love is soon hot, and soon cold" (WS[161],a); Heywood (Works, E.E.D.S., II. 6,d) has "hot love, soon cold."
Lowler (JE[354],d), a variant of Loller = Lollard. Originally applied (c. 1300) to a charitable fraternity, and subsequently to pretenders to austere piety and humility. Hence in reproach to certain "heretics," followers of Wyclif and similar purists.
Lungis (JE[357],c), in original Longes. As this play is, generally speaking, carefully printed the use of the capital seems to point to a proper name, and not to lunges = thrusts, stabs. Lungis is the apocryphal name of the centurion who pierced our Lord with a spear: L. longinus. The O.E.D. cites this as the origin of lungis = lout, loafer—a generic reproach. On the other hand, if lunge = a stab, it gives an instance of the use of the word some 200 years earlier than Dr. Murray's premier example: in either case the present illustration is useful and interesting.
Lurdan, Lurden (passim), a generic reproach and term of abuse; examples are numerous.