Beoð swiðe swikele.
Laȝam. l. 15848.
Hoe beth of swikele kunne
Ther mide the witherwinne.
The sawe of Seint Bede, MS. Digb. 86.
He was suikel, fals, ant fel.
Chron. of Engl. 791.
Swilen, v. S. [swilian, Ps. vi. 6] to wash, 919. It occurs also in Rob. of Brunne’s Handling Sinne, l. 5828. Still provincial.
[Swilk], adj. S. such, 1118, 1625, 2123, 2684, 2783. Suilk, 644.
[Swinge], v. S. to beat, chastise (used passively), 214. Swngen, part. pa. beaten, 226. Laȝam. l. 21070. So in Syr Bevys, C. ii. All at ones on him they swonge. In the North the verb retains the same meaning; v. Brockett.