Talk:forwaked

RFV discussion: October–December 2023

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forwaked

Only in Chaucer and some bullshit William of Palerne poem P. Sovjunk (talk) 20:56, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

Agreed, looks to be ME. Also in the Wakefield plays:

15th c., “Alia eorundem [Shepherds' Play II]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 124:

I wote so forwakyd / is none in this shyre: / I wold slepe if I takyd / les to my hyere

(please add an English translation of this quotation)

Winthrop23 (talk) 18:40, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

• RFV failed. Feel free to add Middle English Denazz (talk) 22:51, 30 December 2023 (UTC)