Obs. [f. LOVE sb. + DRU(E)RY. Cf. love-amour, LOVE sb. 16.] a. Love, love-making, courtship: = DRUERY 1. b. A love-token or keepsake: = DRUERY 2.
a. c. 1300. Havelok, 195. Til þat she were tuelf winter hold, And of speche were bold; And þat she couþe of courteysye, Gon, and speken of luue-drurye.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 184. Of bataille and of chiualry And of ladyes loue drury Anon I wol yow telle.
b. 13[?]. K. Alis., 7610. Y wol sende hire love-drewry.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, V. x. 48. A Sidoun steid … quham Dido … gaif hym in luif drowry [L. pignus amoris].
1550. Lyndesay, Sqr. Meldrum, 1003. And he gaif hir ane lufe drowrie, Ane Ring set with ane riche Rubie.
