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While. WHILES. "Whils that I here stond." (The Merchants Second Tale,) Will. WOL. (or wul.) "And after wol I tell of our viage, And all the remenant of our pilgrimage." (The Canterbury Tales,)
" And thus he thoughte wol that every man, Wol helpe himself in love, if that he can." (lUd.) "Till we be fast, and than we %col hem shewe, Wei may that be a proverbe of a shrewe." (The Wif of Bathe's Prologue,) Wonder. WAUNDEB. "Of whom thou hast grete fere and wonder, And dwellinge with the god of thonder." ( The House of Fame.) Wore. WERED, "Of fustian he wered a gipon, Alle besmotred with his habergeon." (The Canterhury Tales,) "Upon his hede he icered of laurer grene, A gerlond fresshe and lusty for to sene." (The Knighte's Tale,) Wouldest. TFUST, "Where me be wo o mightie God ! thou woste," Wound. WOUNDE. (wownde.) " But cruil day, so welaway the stounde. For whiche hem thought fchei felin deth'is wounde." (Troilus and Creseide,) " And how Hipomedon in a litil stounde, Was dreint, and dedde, Parthenope of wound," (Ibid,)
