"opye" meaning in Middle English

See opye in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} opye
  1. opium Synonyms: opie
    Sense id: en-opye-enm-noun-J6ReDoZ2 Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "english": "And thus he fleeth as faste as ever he may.\nFor he had so given his jailer drink\nOf a spiced and sweetened drink made of a certain wine,\nWith narcotics and pure opium of Thebes,\nThat all that night, though men would shake him,\nThe jailer slept, he could not awake;\nAnd thus he flees as fast as ever he can.",
          "ref": "late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Knight's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1470-1475",
          "roman": "The gayler sleep, he mighte nat awake;",
          "text": "For he had yive his gayler drinke so\nOf a clarree, maad of a certeyn wyn,\nWith nercotikes and opie of Thebes fyn,\nThat al that night, thogh that men wolde him shake,",
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          "roman": "The gayler sleep, he mighte nat awake;",
          "text": "For he had yive his gayler drinke so\nOf a clarree, maad of a certeyn wyn,\nWith nercotikes and opie of Thebes fyn,\nThat al that night, thogh that men wolde him shake,",
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