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(
MS: c.1335
)(wife’s lover speaking:) Mes qui m’enseignast la medicine Par quei ele (=spying old crone) fust asourdee, Je l’en donasse grant soudee […] Quar […] si a tro clere l’oreyle
iii 154.82
v.refl.
to turn a deaf ear, refuse to listen:
(
s.xii1; MS: 1155-60
)
A la mei lerme ne te assurdisses (Latin: obsurdescas)68.XXXVIII.14
p.p. as a.
deaf, refusing to listen:
(
s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2
)
Kar nus eimes tuz asurdiz Quant n’amum oir les Deu diz
143ra37
(
MS: s.xiv1
) Par qe ma dame aillors se humilie Si qe devers moy est tut assurdie
257.20
assurdir (s.xii1)