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Woo't thou Abbott (§ 241): Thou is often omitted after would'st, or perhaps merged, in the form ‘woo't,’ as ‘wilt thou’ becomes wilta. Sometimes thou is inserted [as here]. See IV, xv, 76.—Franz (§ 20 a): The sporadic forms wot, wo't, woo't for wilt, and wooll for will, correspond to the Middle English wolt and wol; in the following list [containing the present passage] the l is suppressed, as in the present English would.
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1907.
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