myrie

Others are so notoriously sottish, that being over head and ears in the myrie puddle of gross ignorance, yet they will by no means see or acknowledge it.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

+M+ to medelus, ne to myrie, but as mesure wole it meeue.

Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

"Yea sewer," said a myry fellawe (for such as be myrie will make myrye jests) -- "even as good right as a pertre to yield peres, and praty pygys to eat them."'

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 460 Volume 18, New Series, October 23, 1852 Various 1841

I had fell downe in any dirty or myrie place, when he should have pulled me out either with ropes, or lifted me up by the taile, he would never helpe me, but lay me on from top to toe with a mighty staffe, till he had left no haire on all my body, no not so much as on mine eares, whereby I was compelled by force of blowes to stand up.

The Golden Asse 1566

And if by adversity I had fell downe in any dirty or myrie place, when he should have pulled me out either with ropes, or lifted me up by the taile, he would never helpe me, but lay me on from top to toe with a mighty staffe, till he had left no haire on all my body, no not so much as on mine eares, whereby I was compelled by force of blowes to stand up.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius