For, now, it is knownen to be
But the bloud of a ducke,
That long did sucke
The thrifte, from every degre."
"The Fantassie of Idolatrie," Foxe's Acts and Monuments, vol. v. p. 406. (Cattley's edition.)
"Pride is it, to vaunt princely robes, not princely virtues. Pride is it to lowte men of lower sort or pore lasers, as is some men's guise."—The Third Booke of Nobilitye; writte in Latine by Laurence Humfrey, late Englished, 1563.
"Among serving men also, above all other, what wicked and detestable oaths are there heard! If there be any of that sort which fear God, and love his word, and therefore abstain from vain oaths, how doth his company lout him! Look what an ass is among a sort of apes, even the very same is he among his fellows."—The Invective against Swearing, p. 361.; Works of Thomas Becon (Parker Society).
Samson was accounted of the Philistines for a fool, but he would rather die than suffer that opprobry unrevenged (Judic. xvi.).
"David was lowted of Michol Saul's daughter, but she was made therefore barren all her life."—2 Reg. vi.
And same page, a little above:
"He that calleth his brother fool, that is to say, contemn him, mock him, or, as men call it now-a-days, lowting of a man, committeth such murder as is worthy hell-fire and eternal damnation."—A Declaration of the Ten Commandments, ch. ix. p. 373.; Early Writings of Bishop Hooper (Parker Society).
"Renowned Talbot doth expect my ayde,
And I am lowted by a traitor villaine
And cannot help the noble Cheualier."
The First Part of Henry VI., Actus Quartus,
Scena Prima (First Folio Shakspeare).