wrecche
Middle English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]wrecche
- wretched
- Mid-1380s, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book IV, lines 270-273:
- O Troilus, what may men now thee calle
- But wrecche of wrecches, out of honour falle
- Into miserie, in which I wol biwayle
- Criseyde, allas! Til that the breeth me fayle?
- Mid-1380s, Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book IV, lines 270-273: