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Webster 1913 Edition

obs.

imp.

Went. See

All as he bade fulfilled was indeed
This ilke servant anon right out

yede

Chaucer.

☞ Spenser and some later writers mistook this for a present of the defective imperfect yode. It is, however, only a variant of yode. See

, and cf.

[He] on foot was forced for to

yeed

Spenser

yede

(obsolete) simple past tense of go
(obsolete or literary humour) To go (used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators).
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iii:
  The whiles on foot was forced for to yeed, / With that blacke Palmer, his most trusty guide [...].