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woe adj.: sorry Tp. V. i. 139 “I am woe for't,” 2H6 III. ii. 73, Ant. IV. xii. [xiv.] 133 “woe are we,” Sonn. lxxi. 8 “If thinking on me then should make you woe.” ∥ ‘I am woe’ was developed from the old ‘Woe is me’; Chaucer blends the old and the new in ‘me is as wo For him as ever I was for any man’.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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