"yiff" meaning in Middle English

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          "english": "If there was lack, you would cry and complain,\nRemember that, and do not me disdain.",
          "ref": "c. 1438, John Lydgate, edited by Henry Bergen, Fall of Princes, page 384, line 2020:",
          "text": "Yiff ther was lak, thou woldest crie & pleyne.\nRemembre theron, and at me nat disdeyne",
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          "english": "And if that trust with princes will not tarry,\nLittle marvel though the people vary […]",
          "ref": "c. 1438, John Lydgate, edited by Henry Bergen, Fall of Princes, page 339, line 384:",
          "text": "And yiff that trust with pryncis wil nat tarie,\nLitil merueile thouh the peeple varie[…]",
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          "english": "So young and lusty with her eyes glad,\nthat if that god that heaven and earth made,\nwould have a love for beauty and goodness,\nand womanhood and truth and seemliness",
          "ref": "1385-1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, Legend of Good Women, page 154, line 1039:",
          "text": "So yonge so lusty with hire eyen glade\nThat yiff that god that hevene and erthe made\nWolde haue a love For beaute and goodnesse\nAnd womanhede and trouthe and semelynesse",
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          "english": "God willing, a monk you'll not be,\nAnother order to you give I shall,\nA knight you'll become of the highest degree,\nJust as your brethren are named rightly royal.",
          "ref": "1393, Jean d’Arras, Roman de Melusine, page 154, line 2571:",
          "text": "So god be pleased, monke shall ye noght be,\nAnother ordre to you yiff I shall,\nA knyght will you mak of full hye degre\nAs your brethren ben named ryght roiall.",
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        },
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          "english": "So young and lusty with her eyes glad,\nthat if that god that heaven and earth made,\nwould have a love for beauty and goodness,\nand womanhood and truth and seemliness",
          "ref": "1385-1386, Geoffrey Chaucer, Legend of Good Women, page 154, line 1039:",
          "text": "So yonge so lusty with hire eyen glade\nThat yiff that god that hevene and erthe made\nWolde haue a love For beaute and goodnesse\nAnd womanhede and trouthe and semelynesse",
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          "text": "So god be pleased, monke shall ye noght be,\nAnother ordre to you yiff I shall,\nA knyght will you mak of full hye degre\nAs your brethren ben named ryght roiall.",
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