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a. 1366[?].  Chaucer, Rom. Rose, 472. Al to selde iwys Is ony pouere man wel fedde Or wel araied. Ibid. (c. 1374), Troylus, II. 680. And also blisful Venus wel arayed Sat in hire seuenthe hous of heuene þo.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden, VII. 359. I and þow be here allone, iliche wel i-horsed, and i-wepened, iliche wel arrayed.

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c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., IX. xxv. 2826. Wiþ a nobyll company Weil arayit and dantely.

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1470–85.  Malory, Arthur, I. x. 49. The two kynges were come ouer the see with thre honderd knyȝtes wel arayed both for the pees and for the werre.

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1605.  R. F., Dedekind’s Sch. Slovenrie (1904), 16.

        At length, when thou art well araide, let both thy hose hang downe
About thy heeles.

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1742.  Young, Nt. Th., II. 234. Ye well-array’d! Ye lilies of our land! Ye lilies male! who neither toil, nor spin.

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