"lever" meaning in Middle English

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      "expansion": "German lieb",
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  "etymology_text": "Comparative of leve (“dear”) of Germanic origin (compare German lieb) or lief.",
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  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "adv",
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          "text": "For him was lever have at his bed's head\nTwenty bookes, clad in black or red,\n. . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie. —The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer"
        },
        {
          "english": "She would have wist how that it stood —Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, John Gower.",
          "text": "But lever than this worldés good"
        }
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        "Rather."
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          "extra": "living being",
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      },
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  "pos": "adv",
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          "text": "For him was lever have at his bed's head\nTwenty bookes, clad in black or red,\n. . . Than robes rich, or fithel, or gay sawtrie. —The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer"
        },
        {
          "english": "She would have wist how that it stood —Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, John Gower.",
          "text": "But lever than this worldés good"
        }
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        "Rather."
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