Citations:lilly low

English citations of lilly low

Noun: "(obsolete, UK, Scotland, dialect) Alternative spelling of lilly-low"

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• 1849, James Orchard Halliwell, “Riddle-rhymes” (chapter 5), in Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales:  […], London: John Russell Smith, page 146:

  Lilly low, lilly low, set up on an end,
  See little baby go out at town end.

• 1912, John Malham-Dembleby, “In T' Burnin O T' Greean”, in Original Tales and Ballads in the Yorkshire Dialect  […], Walter Scott Publishing Co., page 85:

  O lilly low,
  Mi heart is cowd ;
  O lilly low,
  An E am owd !
  
  Bud lilly low
  If nah ta blaze
  To mei't sal show
  For breeter days.