lies

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In this last sense, Shakespeare has King Henry IV ask "Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee ... Than in the perfumed chambers of the great?"

From The Guardian • Jul. 1, 2014

Hamlet: Thou dost lie in't, to be in't and say it is thine: 'tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2013

He has a way of making all visitors, even the low liest, feel as if they are doing him a personal favor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus those railroad workers of the United Transportation Union who had not yet ratified an agreement reached on their behalf on Aug. 2 will not get their raises until Nov. 12 at the ear liest.

From Time Magazine Archive

Maiden of dreams and aromatic sleep, Thou liest.

From Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius