Word: lye
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rancour and malice." The Puritans were the worst enemies of the game; one Stubbes in his "Anatomie of Abuses in the Realme of England" mentions "foote ball playing and other devilishe pastimes" which were played on Sunday. Among his words on foot ball are these: "For dooth not everyone lye in waight for his adversarie seeking to overthrowe him and picke him on his nose, though it be on hard stones, or ditch or dale, or valley or hill, or whatever place soever it be he careth not, so he has him downe, and he that can serve the most...