At 00:01 14/11/2004, you wrote:
>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".
>
>--
>Michael Leuty
>Nottingham, UK
Thanks for the further enlightenment.
As it happens Lewtye returns a zero result on Google. My first I believe ;-)
Leuty on the other hand returns about 12,800 tonight.
Spes mea in Deo returns
http://www.cyberpsych.org/cgi-bin/bbs51/motto2.pl/noframes/read/177
Julian
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