What is "wente"

Usage examples of "wente".

And with that word, the arwes in the caas Of the goddesse clateren faste and rynge, And forth she wente, and made a vanysshynge, For which this Emelye astoned was, And seyde, "What amounteth this, allas!

This knyght, thurgh Sathanas temptaciouns, All softely is to the bed ygo, And kitte the throte of Hermengyld atwo, And leyde the blody knyf by dame Custance, And wente his wey, ther God yeve hym meschance!

Ther cam a privee theef men clepeth Deeth, That in this contree al the peple sleeth, And with his spere he smoot his herte atwo, And wente his wey withouten wordes mo.

Lo her Adromacha, Ectores wyf, That day that Ector sholde lese his lyf She dremed on the same nyght biforn How that the lyf of Ector sholde be lorn, If thilke day he wente into bataille.

Almost an hour it is, I undertake, Since I you bade our supper for to make, When that these worthy men wente with me Into my study, where my bookes be.

But er that he hadde half his cours yseyled, Noot I nat why, ne what myschaunce it eyled, But casuelly the shippes botme rente, And ship and men under the water wente In sighte of othere shippes it bisyde, That with hem seyled at the same tyde.

Jolif and glad they wente unto hir reste, And casten hem ful erly for to saille, But herkneth, to that o man fil a greet mervaille.

Nathelees it happed, er they thennes wente, By cause that he was hir neighebour, And was a man of worship and honour, And hadde yknowen hym of tyme yoore, They fille in speche, and forthe moore and moore Unto this purpos drough Aurelius.

And therupon the wyn was fet anon, We dronken, and to reste wente echon Withouten any lenger taryynge.

But by the cause that they shoulde rise Early a-morrow for to see that fight, Unto their reste wente they at night.