Obs. [Cf. G. sommerszeit.] = next.
a. 1000. Phœnix, 209 (Gr.). On sumeres tid sunne hatost ofer sceadu scineð.
a. 1250. Owl & Night., 489. Sumerestyde is al wlonk.
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 2127. Hyt was yn þe somerys tyde, whan þe hete ys al yn pryde.
a. 1352. Minot, Poems (ed. Hall), x. 7. Þai sailed furth in þe Swin in a somers tyde.
c. 1465. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903), 1. Erly in a sommeristide.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, VI. xi. 57. The byssy beis in schene symmeris tyde.
