Note 51 — DISSERTATION II.
Reading edition
I have once met with the word in Chaucer's Plowman's Tale 2014.
"The other side ben pore and pale, And peple yput out of prese, And semin caitiffs sore a cale, And er in one without encrease; Iclepid Lollers and Londlese; Who toteth on 'hem thei ben untall; They ben arayid all for pece, But falshed foule mote it befall."