subs. (old).—A rogue. Hence LURDENRY = roguery.
1513. DOUGLAS, Eneados, viii. Prol. l. q. Leis, LURDANRY, and lash.
1540. LYNDSAY, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis [E.E.T.S.], 1. 2. 174. Thou luiks evin lyke ane LURDEN.
1562–3. Jack Juggler [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, ii. 135]. Avoid, thou lousy LURDEN and precious stinking slave.
c. 1587. GREENE, Follie and Loue [GROSART (1881–6), iv. 206]. Instead of some braue gentleman, I strike some filthie LURDEN.
1606. Wily Beguiled [DODSLEY, Old Plays, 1874, ix. 288]. If I had been such a great, long, large, lob-cocked, loselled LURDAN, as Master Churms is … I should never have got Peg as long as I had lived.
