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Middle English
Noun
male engyne (uncountable)
- deceit, trickery
1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum quintum”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XVIII, by
William Caxton], published
31 July 1485,
→OCLC, leaf 367, recto; republished as H
Oskar Sommer, editor,
Le Morte Darthur , London:
David Nutt,
,
1889,
→OCLC,
page 733, lines
15–16:
for I dar ſaye / for good loue ſhe bad vs to dyner / and not for no male engyne /- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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