10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WIGHTLY»
Discover the use of
wightly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
wightly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Middle English Dictionary
.So wightly bat no-man might win To liucr noght at was barin. a!450 Spaldyng
Katereynbe curteys p. 546: Vs qwich of his vertues, qwere pou art wyffe, bat
wysthly wro3gth al, with qwom bou art went. .Heel bou vs hent now. al500(a!400)
Ipom.
Hans Kurath, Robert E. Lewis, Sherman McAllister Kuhn, 2000
2
The Shepheardes Calender
Her was her, while it was daye-light, But now her is a most wretched Wight: For
day, that was, is wightly past, And now at earst the dirke night doth hast. Hob.
Diggon, areede who has thee so dight? Never I wist thee in so poore a plight.
Where ...
3
The Alliterative Revival
For example, the 'narrator' of Alisaunder of Macedoine begins with this
misleadingly precise description of his 'audience': Yee bat lengen in londe,
lordes and oober, Beurnes or bachelers bat boldely thinken Wheber in werre or
in wo wightly ...
Thorlac Turville-Petre, 1977
4
Le Morte Darthur : The Winchester Manuscript
Then Sir Gawain and all the ladies vanished; and anon the King called upon his
knights, squires, and yeomen, and charged them wightly to fetch his noble lords
and wise bishops unto him. And when they were come, the King told them of his ...
Thomas Malory, Helen Cooper, 1998
5
The Shepheards Calendar
Her was her, while it was daye-light, But now her is a most wretched wight : For
day, that was, is wightly past, And now at earst the dirke night doth hast. Hob.
Diggon, areede who has thee so dight? Never I wist thee in so poore a plight.
Where ...
6
The Oxford Anthology of Tudor Drama
525 Have do fast, and make no pausation But wightly make a declaration To all
people that help would have. Coll Hic interim proclamationemfaciet. Master
Branditch Now, if there be either man or woman That needeth help of a physician
.
7
The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser
Her was her, while it was day-light, But nowe her is a most wretched wight : For
day, that was, is wightly 1 past, 5 And now at earst2 the dirke3 night doth hast.
HoB. Diggon, areede 4 who has thee so dight 5 ; Never I wist6 thee in so poore a
...
Edmund Spenser, George Stillman Hillard, Philip Masterman, 1839
8
Will's Visions of Piers Plowman, Do-well, Do-better, and Do-best
I seide 'grant mercy, madame', and mekely hir grette, And wente wightly [my w]ey
wij?oute moore lettyng, And [er] I com to clergie [koude I] neuere stynte. [I] grette
pe goode man as [pe goode wif] me tau3te, And afterwardes [his] wif [I] ...
William Langland, George Kane, Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson, 1988
9
Middle English Dictionary
(Dub) 2830: Wete bou wele it is not worth, & were ye [read: pe; Ashm: ware pe]
be tyme. c!540(?a!400) Destr.Troy 6750: He foght vp- on fote with bo felle grekes,
Wore hym full wightly. Ibid. 6995: He were hym full wightly, wondit full mony. Ibid.
10
Pennsylvania State Reports
In 1866 he said he had given him the Wightly tract which he and John had
bought because John had helped him to build his barn. It may be from the
concluding sentence of Mr. Knepshell's testimony that the fact that John had
helped to buy ...
Pennsylvania. Supreme Court, 1877
