Chiefly poet. A love-song.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 6. And sum has langing of lufe lays to herken.
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, XVI. xiii. A woondrous bird … That in plaine speech sung louelaies loud and shrill.
1830. Tennyson, Dualisms, Poems 145. Two bees … Hum a lovelay to the westwind at noontide.
1856. R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. 258. These love-lays he interspersed with riddles and rhyming proverbs.
