weepe

English

Verb

weepe (third-person singular simple present weepes, present participle weeping, simple past and past participle weeped or wepte or wept)

1. Obsolete spelling of weep.
   • 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5‎:

     But all the rest, as borne of salvage brood, And having beene with acorns alwaies fed, 590 Can no whit savour this celestiall food, But with base thoughts are into blindnesse led, And kept from looking on the lightsome day: For whome I waile and weepe all that I may.

   • 1592, Philippe de Mornay, A Discourse of Life and Death‎:

     Then fall they to cry, to weepe, and to torment themselues, as little children that haue lost their play-game, which notwithstanding is nothing worth.

   • 1679, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes‎:

     Would thy Melancholy have a cure? thou shalt laugh at Democritus himselfe, and but reading one piece of this Comick variety, finde thy exalted fancie in Elizium; And when thou art sick of this cure, (for the excesse of delight may too much dilate thy soule,) thou shalt meete almost in every leafe a soft purling passion or spring of sorrow so powerfully wrought high by the teares of innocence, and wronged Lovers, it shall persuade thy eyes to weepe into the streame, and yet smile when they contribute to their owne ruines.

   • 1851, Various, Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851‎:

     The Springe neglectes his course to keepe, The Ayre continual stormes do weepe, The pretty Birdes disdaine to singe, The Maides to smile, the woods to springe, The Mountaines droppe, the valleys morne Till Jack and Tom do safe returne.

   • 1890, Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton, The Wits and Beaux of Society‎:

     'A good play,' he condescends to say, 'I find it, and the actors most good in it; and pretty to hear Knipp sing in the play very properly "All night I weepe," and sung it admirably.

Anagrams

• pee-ew, pewee

Middle English

Verb

weepe

1. (Late Middle English) alternative form of wepen (“to weep”)