Meaning of wishe | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of wish.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“Next all good men ought to wishe and desire that those which put⟳ their hande to (this is to say⟳ trauaile for) the reformation of maners, should do it with such good argumentes, that there shoulde remayne, or be left, but euen a very litle to be corrected and amended.”

“CHARLES. Prince of Navarre my honourable brother, Prince Condy, and my good Lord Admirall, wishe this union and religious league, Knit⟳ in these hands, thus joyn'd in nuptiall rites, May not desolve, till death desolve our lives, And that the native sparkes of princely love⟳, That kindled first this motion in our hearts, May still be feweld in our progenye.”

“It also appears, by a letter from the Duke of Norfolk to Cecil, that the English borderers were unskilful in fire-arms, or, as he says, "our countrymen be not so commyng with shots as I woolde wishe."”

“In the third recess on the left hand is "T.C. I leve in hope⟳, and I gave q credit to mi frinde, in time did stande me most in hande, so wolde I never doe againe, excepte I hade him suer in bande, and to al men wishe I so, unles ye sussteine the leike lose⟳ as I do.”

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