wysshe

English

Verb

wysshe

1. Obsolete spelling of wish
   • 1534, Sir John Bourchier, edited by Lord Berners, The Boke of Duke Huon of Burdeaux:

     Than he sayd, 'I wysshe them here on this talbe.' he had no sooner made his wysshe but they were set on the table / wherof all such as were there had gret meruayle.

   • 1595, Thomas Pope Goodwine, Blanchardine and Eglantine:

     God gyue grace that this may be soone, and that he to whom we wolde wysshe moste good in this worlde, be cause of the reformacion of suche an obstynate wylle

   • 1844, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, edited by John Bruce, Correspondence of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leycester: During His Government of the Low Countries in the Years 1585 and 1586, page 161:

     I wysshe your lordship, ether by a letter unto my lord-tresowror or by somme other meanes, to make somme answer therunto.

Noun

wysshe (plural wysshes)

1. Obsolete spelling of wish
   • 1534, Sir John Bourchier, edited by Lord Berners, The Boke of Duke Huon of Burdeaux:

     Than he sayd, 'I wysshe them here on this talbe.' he had no sooner made his wysshe but they were set on the table / wherof all such as were there had gret meruayle.

   • 1755, Thomas Walker, Letter from Dr. Thomas Walker, of Queen's College, on Dr. Ducarel's promotion to the Commissariate of St. Katherine's:

     Long tyme mayest thou therefore enjoye this same benefyte, and maye God Almyghte take you into his gude kepynge. Wythe wysshes of al healthe and happynesse,

   • 1875, Works of the Camden Society, page 4:

     As Nero the Emperour wold to his mayster Seneca,“ the same wysshe I wold to my mayster I love soo well.