White payne or bread, [14/204].
how to carve, [167/6].
Whole-footed fowls, skin of, is wholesome, [165/19].
Whot, [52/757], ? white, not “hot,” as in side note: cf. blaundrelle, [50/714].
Widgeon, [165/1].
Wife, is to honour her husband, [185/267];
takes her husband’s rank, [74/1092].
On the first of June, 1582, John Wolfe paid the Stationers’ Company 8d. for a licence “to imprinte two ballades,” of which the latter was “a settinge forth of the variety of mens mindes, esteaminge rather welth with a wanton wife, then vertue in a modeste mayde.” Collier’s Extracts, ii. 165. For variety in this entry, Mr Collier proposes to read vanity. See also the ballad,
Faine would I have a vertuous wife