laye - What does it mean?

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* {{quote-book|year=c. 1380|author=Geoffrey Chaucer|title=Troilus and Criseyde|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=The sterne wind so loude gan to route That no wight other noyse mighte here; And they that layen at the dore with-oute, 745 Ful sykerly they slepten alle y-fere; And Pandarus, with a ful sobre chere, Goth to the dore anon with-outen lette, Ther-as they laye , and softely it shette. }}

* {{quote-book|year=1597|author=King James I|title=Daemonologie.|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=Ye must first remember to laye the ground, that I tould you before: which is, that it is no power inherent in the circles, or in the holines of the names of God blasphemouslie vsed: nor in whatsoeuer rites or ceremonies at that time vsed, that either can raise any infernall spirit, or yet limitat him perforce within or without these circles. }}

* {{quote-book|year=1775|author=Various|title=Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=He was a wight of grisly fronte, And muckle berd ther was upon 't, His lockes farre down did laye : Ful wel he setten on his hors, Thatte fony felaws called Mors, For len it was and grai. }}

* {{quote-book|year=1806|author=Walter Scott|title=Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)|chapter=|edition= citation

|passage=Aftir that, my seid lord retournyng to the campe, wold in nowise bee lodged in the same, but where he laye the furst nyght. }}