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This woman being serued, and reuerenced with great honour, waxed werie of to muche reste and quiet, and began to be inamoured of a Gentleman her neighbour, whom in a litle tyme she knewe so well to vse by lookes, and other wanton toies, as he did easely perceiue it, notwithstanding for the honour of her husband, he would not seme to knowe it, but a farre of.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

* Inwið þe wanes ha muhe werie scapeloris hwen mantel  {120} ham heuegeð. ute {;} gan i {} mantlet þe heauet i {} hudeket. * louh lokunge habben.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

The one doth reioyce the werie and tedious minde, many times inuolued with ordinarie cares, the other prescribeth a directe pathe to treade the tracte of this present life.

The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

Mid almesse. mid fasten ⁊ mid ibeden werie we us wid senne.

Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts Joseph Hall

Allexr Elder, in Earlseat, vold be werie often beattin.

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

On the other parte excellent Capitaines have used sundrie waies to werie the enemie.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

But by and by, you shall know these things better, if this reasoning make you not werie, conferring what so ever partes of the auncient orders hath ben, to the maners nowe presente.

Machiavelli, Volume I Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498

They werie not physicians or anatomists; because they had the power of curing diseases and healing wounds without medicine or art.

Sermons Samuel Horsley 1812

Such wis the condition oi otner countries while the people of England werie reposing in security under the protection of their civil institutions; institutions which had received the sanction, of ages, and were guarded by the religious veneration of the people.

The debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States : with an appendix containing important state papers and public documents, and all the laws of a public nature; with a copious index; compiled from authentic materials 1789

Her evidence shows that there were several Covens in the district: 'The last tyme that owr Coven met, we, and an vther Coven, wer dauncing at the Hill of Earlseat, and befor that we ves beyond the Meikle-burne; and the vther Coven being at the Downie-hillis, we went besyd them. — [She and four others] with the Divell, wer onlie at the making of it [a charm], bot all the multitude of all owr Coevens got notice of it, at the next meitting ... all my owin Coeven gott notice of it werie schortlie.'

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913