savorlyt, savourlyt (savorli)

[ I hope no tong mozt endure No sauerly sag he say of that syzt, So watz hit clene & cler & pure. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), i. 226. savorlyt, savourlyt (sa'vor-li), adv. [ savourly , saverly ; savorly , a.] With a pleasing relish; heartily; soundly. Thei wolde not a-wake the kynge Arthur so erly, ne his companye that slepten sauourly for the grete trauaile that the i hadde the day be-fore. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 415. And for a good appetite, we see the toiling servant feed savourly of one homely dish, when his surfeited master looks loathingly on his far-fetched and dearly-bought dainties. Rev. T. Adams , Works, II. 140.