"Wottest" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the traitor, who bore him envy, came to him and said: "Thou wottest not, fellow, thou wottest not, how Amis hath robbed the treasure of the King, and therefore is fled away. Wherefore I require of thee thou swear me fealty and friendship and fellowship, and I will swear the same to thee on the holy Gospel." And so ...
— Old French Romances • William Morris
... sparrows. Now whenever any man cometh to thee complaining of his wife (and thou unknowing aught of the couple and of their circumstances), thou determinest that the male is the evil-doer and withal thou wottest not that women are often the worst of wrongers and that men are sorely wronged by them. And in the matter now in hand, the whole of the folk declare that the Kazi is a wrong-doer to his wife, and no one knoweth that thou art really the wronged and I the wronger. ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... That ever dreamed wight, in world as I went. A much man as me thought, and like to myself, Came and called me, by my kinde[20] name. 'What art thou,' quod I then, 'thou that my name knowest?' 'That thou wottest well,' quod he, 'and no wight better.' 'Wot I what thou art?' Thought said he then, 'I have sued[21] thee this seven years, see ye me no rather?' 'Art thou Thought?' quoth I then, 'thou couldest me wyssh[22] Where that Dowell dwelleth, and do me that to know.' 'Dowell, and Dobetter, ...
— Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete • George Gilfillan
... "O Wood-Sun thou wottest our battle and the way wherein we fare: That oft at the battle's beginning the helm and the hauberk we bear; Lest the shaft of the fleeing coward or the bow at adventure bent Should slay us ere the need be, ere our might be given and spent. Yet oft ere the fight is over, and Doom ...
— The House of the Wolfings - A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse • William Morris |
