Wene, m. Sar. guess, fuppofition; withouten wene, not by fuppofition, certainly Wene, v. Sax. to think, to fuppofe Wente, went, pa. t. of wende; went at borde, lived as a boarder Went, n. a way, a paffage, turn in walking; in bed Went, for want Wep, pa. t. of wepe, v. Sax. wept Were, for weren, ind. m. pa. t. pl. of am, v. Sax. it is fometimes ufed for had, according to the Fr. cuftom, with reflected verbs, thife riotoureswere fet hem in a tavern for to drinke-s'étoient mis, sétoient affis Were, fubj. m. pa. t. fing. e. g. as it were; if on of hem were; whether he were; were it; it were a game Were, v. Sax. to wear, to defend Were, n. Sax. for catching fish Werne, v. as Warne Werre, n. Fr. war Werrie, Fr. to make war against Werfe, comp. d. of ill, adv. Sax. worfe Werfe, comp. d. of bad, adj. Sax. worse Weth, pa. t. of wash, v. Sax. wafhed Weftren, inf. m. v. Sax. to tend toward the weft Wete, adj. Sax. wet Wete, v. Sax. to wet Wete, v. Sax. to know Wether, n. Sax. the weather-a caftrated ram Weting, n. Sax. knowledge Weve, v. Sax. to weave Weve, v. Sax. to put off, to prevent. See Weive Wex, pa. t. of waxe or wexe, v. Sax. waxed, grew Wexing, part. pr. increasing Weyeden, pa. t. pl. weighed. See Waye What, pron. interrog. Sav. is often ufed by itself as a fort of interjection; what! What, pron. indef. fomething, a little; what for love and for diftrefs, partly for love and partly for diarefs; wete ye what? do ye know fomething? ne elles what? nor any thing elfe-What, when joined to a . fubft. (either expreffed or underflood) is a mere adj. answering to qualis, Lat. quel, Fr. what they weren, what men they were; what fo, what that, whatsoever Wheder, conj. Sax. whether Whelm, v. Sax. to fink, to deprefs Whennes, adv. Sax, whence and Ther-Wherfore, wherin, wherthrough, wherwith, when used interrogatively, wherot, wherwith Whether, adj. Sar. which of two Whette, part. pa. of whet, v. Sax. fharpened Whiche, pron. rel. Sax. who, whom, adj. what, what fort of While, n. Sax. time; in this mene while, in the Whilom, adv. Sax, once, on a time Who, pron. rel. Sax. it is generally expreffed by that Whos, gen ca.fing, Who, pron. indef. For wel thou woft the name as yet of her where as who fayth feems to be equivalent to as one fhould fay: the fame phrafe is fometimes ufed to introduce a fuller explanation of a paffage, as we might ufe-that is to fay-who fo, who that, whofoever Wide-where, adv. Sax. widely, far and near Wifhood, n. Sax. the ftate of a wife Wifles, adj. Sax. unmarried Wifly, adj. Sax. becoming a wife Wight, n. Sax. a perfon, male or female, a fmall fpace of time, weight, a witch; wytch cleped yght mare Wight, adj. Sax. active, fwift; of hem that ben deliver and wight, Conf. Am. 177, b. Wightes, n. pl. witches Wike, n. for weke Wiket, n. Fr. a wicket Wikke, adj. Sar. wicked William St. Amour, a doctor of the Sorbonne in the 13th century, who took a principal part in the dispute between the university of Paris and the Dominican friars Willy, adj. Sax. favourable Wiln, for willen, pl. n. of wille, v. Sax. Wimple, n. Fr. a covering for the neck; it is dif tinguished from a veil, which covered the head alfo Wering a vaile inftede of wimple, As nonnes don in hir abbey. Windas, n. Fr. guindal, an engine to raise ftones, &c. Winde, v. Sax. to turn round Winde, as Wende, to go Wher, in compofition, fignifies which. See Here Winne, v. Sax, to gain, to attain VOL. I. Z z Wirry, v. fax. to worry Wone, v. San. to dwell Wis, adv. Sax, certainly. See Y-wis Wife, n. Sax. manner Willy, adv. Sax. certainly Woneden, pa. t. pl. dwelled Woned, part. pa, wont, accustomed Woning, n. Sax. a dwelling Wiffe, v. Sax. to teach, to direct; fo God me wiffe, Wonne, part pa. of winne, v. Sax. won, conquer. fo may God direct me Wifte, pa. t. of wiste, v. Sax. knew Wite, Sax. to know, to blame, to impute to wite it the ale of Southwark, impute it to the ale of Southwark; or blame the ale of Southwark for it Wite, n. Sax, blame With, prep. Sax. is used in the fenfe of by; was with the leon frette, was devoured by the lion; in with his thought, in with hire bofom, within his thought, within her bofom; with mefchance, with mefchance and with mifaventure,with forwe and with mefchance; with forwe, are phrases of the fame import as God yeve him mefchance, God yeve me forwe: they are all to be confidered as parenthetical curfes, ufed with more or lefs ferioufnefs; and fo are the following phrafes, with evil prefe, with harde grace, with fory grace Withholde, v. Sax. to stop Withholden, withhold, part. pa. retained, detained Withfaye, withfeye, v. to contradict, to deny Witte, n. Sax. understanding, capacity-to my witte; in my judgment Wittes, n. pl. Sax. the fenfes of man Wivere, n. Sax, a ferpent Wlatfom, adj. Sax. loathfome Wo, n. Sax. wo, forrow-wo were us; wher me were wo, are expreffions derived from the Saxon language, in which us and me were equivalent to nobis and mibi, without the addition of the prep. to Wo, adj. Sax. forrowful Wo-begon, far gone in wo. See begon ed, begotten Wont, part. pa. of wone, accustomed Woodnefs, n. madness Worldes, gen. ca. of world, n. Sax. is ufed in the fenfe of the adj. worldly; every worldes fore; my worldes blis Wort, n. Sax. a cabbage, new beer in a state ef fermentation Worth, v. Sax. to be, to go, wo worthe unhap py be, or wo be to! to climb, to mount Woft, for woteft, knoweft Wote, wot, v. Sax. to know, wot, pa. £. knew Wraie, . Sax. to betray, difcover Wrathen, inf. m. v. Sax. to make angry Wrawness, n. peevishness Wreche, n. Sax. revenge Wrenches, pl. Sax. frauds, ftratagems Wreft, v. Sax. to twift; the nightingale with fo great might hire voice began out wref-s turn forcibly Wrethen, part. pa. of writhe-wrethen in fere, twifted together; in Urry's edit. it is printed ---within in fere Wring, v. Sax. to iqueeze fo as to express mod Wode, wood, adj. Sax. mad, violent; for wode, Writhe, v. Sax. to twift, to turn aside, like any thing mad Wode, v. Sax. to grow mad Wol, v. auxil. Sex. to will; it is used sometimes by itself, the inf. v. being understood, as fhe to water wolde, i, e. would diffolve into water, and to the wood he wol, i. e. will go, ful many a man hath he begiled er this, and wol. i. e. will beguile Wolde, pa. t. would, wolden, pa. t. fubj. m. wolde God God wolde! o that God were willing ne wolde God! God forbid! Wold, part. pa willed, been willing [man The yerde is bet that bowen wol and winde Y, at the beginning of many words, cfpecial verbs and participles, is merely a corruption of the Saxon ge, which has remained uncorrupted in the other collateral branches of the Gartic language; what the power of it may have been originally, it is impossible, perhaps, now to determine: in Chaucer it does not appear to have any effect upon the fenfe of a word, fo that there feems to be no neceffity for inferting in a gloffary such words as ybleffed, ygranted, &c. which differ not in fignification from bisfied, granted, &c. Some, however, of this fort ara inferted, which may ferve at leaft to fhew more clearly the extent of this practice in Chaucer's time. Several other words are shortly explained under this letter, of which a more full explanation may be found under their respective second letters Ya, adv. Sax, yea; it is ufed emphatically with both ; ya bothe yonge and olde; ye both faire and good Yaf, pa. t. of yave, v. Sax. gave Yalte, for yeite; yalte him, yieldeth himfelf Yate, n. Sax. a gate Yave, pa. t. of yeve, gave Y-be, part. pa. been Y-beried, part. pa. buried Y-bete, v. a. to beat, ftamp, imprint Y-blent, part. pa. of blenche, fhrunk, ftarted afide Y-blint, part. pa. blinded Y-bore, part. pa. of bere, born, carried Y-brent, part. pa. of brenne, burned Y-chaped, part. pa. furnished with chapes, from chappe, Fr. See Corven Y-clouted, part. pa. wrapped in clouts or rags Y-deled, part. pa. diftributed Y-dight, part. pa. adorned Y-do, part. pa. done, finished Y-drawe, part, pa. drawn Ye, ado. Sax. as Ya; ye wis, yea certainly Yefte, n. Six. a gift; yeftes, pl. Yelde, v. Sax. to yield, to give, to pay; God yelde you! God reward you! Yelleden, pa. t. pl. of yelle, v. Sax. Yeman, n. Sax. a fervant of middling rank; a bailiff-Yemen, pl. Yemanrie, z. the rank of yeoman Yerde, n Sax. a rod or staff, fod, earth Yere, for yeres, n. pl. Sax. years Yerne, adj Sax. brifk, eager Yerne, adv. brifkly, eagerly, early, foon, immediately Yerne, v. to defire, to feck eagerly Yeten, part. pa. gotten Yeve, v. Sax. to give Yeven, yeve, part. pa. given Y-feined, part. pr. lordes heftes may not hen y-feined, the commands of fovereigns may not be executed with a feigned pretended zeal, they must be executed ftrictly and fully Y-fette, part. pa. fetched Y-freten, part. pa. devoured Y-geten, part. pa. gotten Y-glued, part. pa. glewed, faftened with glew Y-go, part. pr. gone Y-leffed, part. pa. relieved. See Liffed lime Y-logged, part. p. lodged Y-masked, part. p. mashed or meshed; mafche, Ynough, ynow, adv. Sax. enough Yolden, part. p. of yelde, given, yielded, repaid Yonghede, n. Sax youth Yore, adv. Sax. of a long time, a little before; yore agon, long ago; in olde times yore, of time yore Yove, pi. t. of yeve, gave Youre, pron. poff. Sax. is ufed for youres Youres, pron. poff. Sax. ufed generally when the noun to which it belongs is underfood or placed before it; he was an old felaw of youres, he was an old companion of yours, i. e. of or among your companions Youthhede, n. Sux. youth Yoxe, v. Sax. to hiccough Y-piked, part. pa. picked, fpruce Y-queint, part. pa. quenched Y-reight, pa. t. reached Y-reken, feems to be put fer the old part. pr. y-rekend, reeking Yren, n. Sax. iron Y-rent, part. pa. torn Y-ronne, y-ronnen, part. pr. run Y-fateled, part. p. fettled, eflablished Y-ferved, part. pa. treated Y-fette, part. p. fet, placed, appointed Y-hove, part. pa. pufhed forwards Y-fope, pr. n. So the name of the fabulift was commonly written, notwithstanding the dif tinction pointed out by the following technical verfe: Yfopus eft herba, fed fopus dat bona verba In this and many other paffages which are quoted from Efop, by writers of the middle ages, it is not eafy to fay what author they mean the Greek collections of fables which are now current under the name of fop were unknown, I apprehead, in this part of the world at the time that Melibee was written: Phædrus too had disappeared: Avienus indeed was very generally read. He is quoted as fop by John of Salisbury, Polycrat. 1. vii. Ut jopo, vel Avieno, credus. But the name of Atop was chiefly appropriated to * the anonymous author of fixty fables in elegiac metre, which are printed in Nevelet's collection under the title of Anonymi Fabula The man goes home and gives two of them to fpica. I have feen an edition of them in e. t. iii. p. 311. The vanity of human wife is there expofed with more pleasantry than in the ftory juft cited, but, as it often happets, with much lefs decency Y-fowe, part. pa. fown Y-fpreint, part. pa. fprinkled Y-flicked, part. pa. flicked, thrust Y-ftorven part. pa. dead Y-take, part. pa. taken Y-teyed, part. pa. tied Several improbable conjectures, which have been made with refpect to the real name and age of this writer, may be feen in the Menagiana, vol. i. p. 172, and in Fabric. Bibl. Lat. vol. i. p. 376, ed. Patav. In the edition of these fables in 1503 the commentator (of no great authority I confefs) mentions an opinion of fome people that Galicrus Angelicus fecit bunc librum fub nomine Ffopi. I fuppofe the perfon meant was Gualterus Anglicus, who had been tutor to William II. King of Sicily, and was Archbithop of Palerino about the year 1170. I cannot believe that they were much older than his time, and in the beginning of the next century they feem to be mentioned Under the name of fopus among the books commonly read in fchools, by Eberhardus Bethunienfis in his Labyvinibus, tract iii de Verfificatione, v. 11. See Leyfer, Hist. Poet. Med. vi. p. 826. About the middle of the fame century (the 13th) Vincent of Beauvais, in his Speculum Histor. 1. ii. c. 2. gives an account of lop, and a large fpecimen of his fables, quas Romulus quidam de Graeco in Latinum transtulit,et ad alium fuum Tyberinum dirigit; they are all, as I remember, in the printed Romulus--Soon after the invention of printing, a larger collection of the tables of Biop was made and published in Germany; it is divided into fix books, to which is prefixed a life of fop e Graeco Latina per Rimicium fa&ta. The three first are composed of the fixty elegiac fables of the metrical fo pus, with a few trifling variations, and to each of them is labjoined a fable on the fame fubject in profe from Ro Y-vanished, part. pa. Z Zeuxis, pr. n. a Grecian painter mulus: book iv. contains the remaining fables of Rome |