On Saturday 13 Nov 2004 00:35, Julian Bradley wrote:
> Any idea where Lewti came from?
I'm not sure, but...
In Benjamin Britten's work Noye's Fludde, where the libretto is taken
from a mediaeval miracle play performed at Chester, Noye has just sent
a raven from the ark:
Ah, Lorde, wherever this raven be,
Somewhere is drye, well I see;
But yet a dove, by me lewtye!
After I will sende.
A footnote states that "lewtye" means faith.
There was a coat of arms registered in the name of Leuty in 1532, and
the motto was "Spes mea in Deo", "my hope (is) in God".
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Michael Leuty
Nottingham, UK
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