For that is a tache of vncurtesye, But and ye seme ye be enbrasyde streite, 199 Or than ye sitte amende hit secrely, So couertly that no wyght hit espie.
Whan they had theyr bowes i-bent, Theyr takles fedred fre, Seven score of wyght yonge men Stode by Robyn’s kne.
And the quenes archers also; So dyd these thre wyght yemen; With them they thought to go.
Of two and fyfty wyghtyonge yemen, There abode not one, Saf a lytell page and a grome, To lede the somers with Lytel Johan.
Robyn toke a full grete home, And loude he gan blowe; Seven score of wyght yonge men Came redy on a rowe.
Seven score of wyght yemen, Came pryckynge on a rowe.
This than herde good Robyn Under his trystell-tre: ‘Make you redy, yewyght yonge men; That shotynge wyll I se.
Seven score of wyght yonge men Came redy on a rowe, 449.
Item, to sende worde howe we schall doo with the geere that wee toke out at the Wyght Freris, wether it schall be sent to you or nought.
The Archadis ruschit to the portis in feir, And euery wyght in handis hynt als tyte Ane hait fyre broynd, eftir the ald ryte, In lang ordour and rabill, that all the stretis Of schynand flambys lemys brycht and gletis.
In heven and yerth honoured be the name Of Jupyter, who of his godly goodnes Hath set this mater in so goodly frame, That every wyght shall have his desyre, doutles.
Up went her staffe, and out leapt Gyb at doors into the towne, And synce that tyme was never wyght cold set their eies upon it.
Armory of Byrdes, Imprynted at Londo by John Wyght dwell[~i]g Poules Church yarde at the sygne of the Rose.
We note also sometimes that the carelesse wyght of Fortune's giftes, hath (vnlooked for) his mouth and throte crammed full of promotion and worlde's delights.
Then spake Moche the mylner sune, Euer more wel hym betyde, 30 "Take xii of thi wyght zemen Well weppynd be thei side.
Robyn commaunded his wyght young men, 205 Under the grene wood tre, They shall lay in that same sorte, That the sheryf myght them se.
Whan they had theyr bowes ibent, Theyr takles fedred fre, 30 Seven score of wyght yonge men Stode by Robyns kne.
The kynges bowmen buske them blyve, 185 And the quenes archers also, So dyd these thre wyght yemen, Wyth them they thought to go.
Robyn toke a full grete horne, And loude he gan blowe; Seven score of wyght yonge men Came redy on a rowe.
Of fyfty two wyght yonge men[L77] There abode not one, Saf a lytell page, and a grome, To lede the somers with Johan.
This then herde good Robyn, Under his trystell tre: "Make you redy, ye wyght yonge men; That shotynge wyll I se.
Say me now, wyght yonge man, What is now thy name?
Communicated to Gutch by Mr. Payne Collier, and derived by him, with Robin Hood and the Peddlers, from a volume of MS.
May not ech Wyght now behold how that the euents of loue be diuers from other passions of the mind?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wyght" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
