Citations:wroken

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Middle English citations of wroken

  • c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, [], (please specify |book=I to V), [London]: [] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes [], 1542, →OCLC:
    The noyse up roos, whan it was first aspyed,
    Thorugh al the toun, and generally was spoken,
    That Calkas traytor fled was, and allyed
    With hem of Grece; and casten to ben wroken
    On him that falsly hadde his feith so broken; []
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