whitsontide: whitsuntide; also interpreted pentecost (Jewish festival celebrated on the fiftieth day after the Passover Feast)
wist - knew, or known well, understand
wit, (n.) Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
"Who knew the wit of the Lord? or who was his counselor?"—Wyclif (Rom. xi. 34).
wit, wettest, wot, wotteth (v.) : knew, know well
wiliness : trickery, deceit, craftiness, cunning;
"That we henceforth be no more children wavering and carried with every wind of doctrine, by the wiliness of men and craftiness, whereby they lay a wait for us to deceive us." Ephesians chap. iv.
wottest, wettest : to know sharply.
woe (n.) (interj.) Used to express sorrow or dismay. Grief; sorrow; misery; disaster, heavy calamity. A curse; a malediction.
Note: Woe is used in denunciation, and in exclamations of sorrow. "Woe is me! for I am undone."—Isa. vi. 5.