Also 3–5, north. dial. 8–9 lang, 4–5 lange, 5–6 longe. [Aphetic f. ME. ilong, OE. ʓelang ALONG a.1] Phr. Long of († long on): attributable to, owing to, on account of, because of, ‘along of.’ Now arch. and dial.
c. 1200. Ormin, 13377. All Crisstene follkess hald Iss lang o Cristess hellpe.
c. 1275. Lay., 15886. Sai waren [= whereon] hit his lang þat þe wal falleþ.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 6030. Al þis wrak on me es lang [Fairf. lange, Trin. longe].
c. 1330. Spec. Gy Warw., 750. Here ȝe muwen se þe wrong And knowe, wher-on hit is long [v.r. alange].
c. 1350. St. Mary Magd., 464, in Horstm., Altengl. Leg. (1881), 86. All my los es lang on þe.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 4606. Slik lust is lang on þe leuir & likand spices.
c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, i. 50. Neuer we shall faylle you but if it be longe of you.
1494. Fabyan, Chron., VII. 535. Whether it were of the Englysshmen longe or of the Portyngaleys, moche harme was done to the Spaynyardys.
1549. Coverdale, Erasm. Par. 1 John, 44. All is long of the darkenes of the hate of his brother, that hath so blynded his eyes.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus., II. (1882), 33. Who is it long of, can you tell?
1591. Florio, 2nd Fruites, 51. I wot not what it is long of, but I haue no stomack.
1602. 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass., Prol. (Arb.), 3. Its all long on you, I could not get my part a night or two before.
1651. Baxter, Saints’ Rest, I. v. § 2. 61. That the very Damned live, is to be ascribed to him; That they live in misery, is long of themselves.
1705. J. Blair, in Perry, Hist. Coll. Am. Col. Ch., I. 148. I do again assure you it shall not be long of me if our differences be long lived.
1749. Chesterfield, Lett., 24 Nov. (1892), I. 377. I have told the French Minister, as how, that if that affair be not soon concluded, your Lordship would think it all long of him.
1881. Swinburne, Mary Stuart, III. i. 113. That all these Have fallen out profitless, ’tis long of you.
