LOOTH. Lot was the son of Abraham's brother Amram. He accompanied his uncle to the land of Canaan and settled in Jordan near Sodom and Gomorrah. After the Lord destroyed the two cities, however, Lot lived in a cave with his two daughters. On two successive nights his daughters gave him wine and slept with him. They said to each other that in this way they would preserve their father's posterity. Each daughter subsequently bore Lot a son (Genesis 19:30-38).
In his denunciation of drunkenness, the Pardoner says that Lot lay with his two daughters, so drunk he was, PardT 485-487. R.A. Pratt suggests Trevet's Les Cronicles, fol. 5r, for the detail of Lot's drunkenness.
Looth, a variant of ME Loth, appears medially, PardT 485.