• West-minster, westminstre, westminstur, westmister, westmenster, westmenstre, westmester, westmunster, westmunstre, westmustre, westeminster, westeminstre, wesminster, waestminstre

witesonetid a gret parlement he nom At westmunstre noble inou þat muche folc to com. c1390 PPl.A(1) Vrn 5.129 My Wyf at Westmunstre Wollene cloþ made. c1400(a1376) PPl.A(1) Trin-C R.3.14 2.125 Fals let somoune alle þe segges abouten in shires

• weving(e, wevingge, weffinge

c1450(?c1408) Lydg. RS Frf 16 1162 Pallas ys goddesse, And of wevyng chef maistresse. c1450(a1425) MOTest. SeldSup 52 15701 Þe wyf to wefyng craft scho ȝode. (1466) Acc.Howard in RC 57 368 The same day my mastyr paid for wevenge

• wher-ever, wherere, vhereever

it be ffor brennynge or scaldyng of fyre. (1426) Reg.Chichele in Cant.Yk.S.42 Lamb 69 340 I bequethe to Beatrice my wyf all myn other goode unbequethe and all other goodes and catall quykke and dede wher ever they been, she

• wiven, wive, wivi, wife, wif(fe, wiffine, wifigen, wyne, wyueth, wyuep, wiwande, wivede, wifvede

is set, ther wol I wyue. a1400(c1250) Floris Eg 2862 318 ȝif þow þat maide forgete woldest, After oure reed wyf þow sholdest. c1400(c1378) PPl.B LdMisc 581 9.184 Whan ȝe haue wyued, bewar and worcheth in tyme, Nouȝt as Adam

• yẹnseien, ~x0021d~einsei(e, geinsei(e, geinsai, geineseine, gain(e)sai(e, ganesai

We kunne ne moun hyr doctryn geyn-sey. a1456(a1449) Lydg. BC Trin-C R.3.20 66 Who þat cane be souereyne, And his wyf teeche and chastyse, Þat she dare not a worde geyne-seyne stant vnder proteccion From Bycornes iurisdiccyoun. a1450 Yk.Pl. Add

• boldnesse, bowld-, bolthe-

wikkednes. (c1390) Chaucer CT.Ph. Manly-Rickert C.71 Al to soone may they lerne loore Of boldnesse, whan she woxen is a wyf. (1395) Wycl.37 Concl. Tit D.1 133 By what bowldnes dar any blinde prelate..deme blasfemely that such a man is

• brid(e, brude, bridde, bird

108 2131 Hauelok lay on his lift side, In his armes his brithe bride. a1325(c1280) SLeg.Pass. Pep 2344 2462 Þe wyf þat suche sones bar miȝte beo a goed brude. (a1393) Gower CA Frf 3 1.1788 This newe bryd..In armes

• costage, castage, coustage

in Flasdieck Origurk. 36 That thei shul pursue..at her owen costages..for the procedendo. c1410 Chaucer CT.Mch. Cmb Dd.4.24 E.1306 A wyf of heye lynage..shal be hauteyn and of gret costage. a1425(a1400) PConsc. Glb E.9 & Hrl 4196 1522 In worldis

• anger, angir, angur, angre, hanger

Chaucer CT.Sum. Manly-Rickert D.1981 Ye lye heere ful of anger and of ire..And chiden heere..Youre wyf. (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl. Manly-Rickert F.1553 Arueragus and Dorigene, his wyf, In souereyn blisse leden forth hir lyf; Neuere eft ne was ther angre hem

• gangen, gongen, gan~x0021d~en, ging

cam goynge a-þre ryght by my gate]. a1425(c1300) NHom.(1) Dom.infra Nativ. Cmb Gg.5.31 p.76 So com thar gangand ane old wyf. a1425 Cursor Glb E.9 28939 For gangand fote ay getes fode. c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy LdMisc 595 8206 Thei myght bothe

• glorious, glorieus, gloryis, gloriouser, -our, gloriọsest, gloriest

in þe eest moost worschippeful and myȝty. a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer. Add 36791 209/8 He be-come a good Cristen kyng and his wyf a glorious queene. a1500 Counsels Isidor Hrl 1706 372 Yf þou teche and doo yt, þou schalte be holden

• plesaunt(e, -ent, pleasaunt, pleisaunt

of þe peple, a plesaunt colour to þe sight. a1450(?c1421) Lydg. ST Arun 119 797 Herodes..By violence toke his brother wyf, For she was faire and plesaunt to his sight. ?a1425 MS Htrn.95 Htrn 95 110b/b Baþe him in a

• principal, prinsipal, principle, principille, prencipal

and costages resonable. (1424) EEWills 57/34 I wul my wyf haf half my mylche kye and myn heyr þe other half; And after my principal is taken, I wul my wyf haf my best ambeler. (a1443) Proc.Chanc. in Cal.PCEliz. 1.p.xxxix

• prudence, prudens, prwdens

that called was Sophie. (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mk. Manly-Rickert B.3086 My wyf..nys no thyng of swich pacience As was this Melibeus wyf, Prudence. a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC Benson-Robinson 5.744 Prudence, allas, oon of thyne eyen thre Me lakked alwey, er that I

• meting(e, metingue, matinge, metynt

scholde nime of þat watur. c1300 SLeg.Judas Hrl 2277 8 As þis Ruben bi his wyf aniȝt ileye hadde, Harde metinge [Corp-C: metingge] his wyf mette, whar of he sore adradde; Hire þoȝte heo hadde ibore a child. c1300 SLeg.Nich.

• last(e, larste, latst, least

last seyn was in the Iewerie. (c1390) Chaucer CT.NP. Manly-Rickert B.4015 This widwe..Syn thilke day that she was last a wyf, In pacience ladde a ful symple lyf. (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars. Manly-Rickert I.1011 Telle hym eek alle the synnes that

• lechour, lecchour, lec(c)hur, lec(c)hor, lecher, letchour, letcher, lehchour, lichour, -ur, -or, -ere, -ir

take mete. (a1387) Trev. Higd. StJ-C H.1 2.295 Also Abraham wedded Cethura to wyf..and of a lemman was i-made a wyf after þe deeþ of Sarra, anaunter leste þe olde man schulde be holde a lecchour. (a1387) Trev. Higd. StJ-C

• lift, lifte, li~x0021d~ft, lif, left(e, luft, luf, leoft, laft, lif~x00fe~e, litfe

581 4.62 Wronge was a wikked luft [vr. lift] and wrouȝte moche sorwe. a1450 7 Sages(3) Cmb Dd.1.17 1284 Hys wyf, that cursyd lyfte, Brewed the childys deth that nyght. As adv., in phr.: right and , on all sides,

• bihest(e, behese, biheaste, -haeste

yow moot tellen atte leste A tale or two, or breken his biheste. (c1395) Chaucer CT.Fkl. Manly-Rickert F.1541 But euery wyf be war of hir biheste. a1400 Cursor Trin-C R.3.8 2349 He leued..þis biheest [Vsp: hight; Frf: hote] myȝte be

• sib(be, sibe, sibbne

166/28 Þe man þat haþ do flescheliche wiþ þe sibwomman of his wyf, or woman wiþ þe sibman of hir housbonde, he lesith the ryght of his wyf, [etc.]. a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 Lamb 131 7466 To Saxoyne woldy sende, ffor