kydst
English edit
Etymology edit
See kydde, imperative of kythe (“to show”). Apparently a misunderstanding by Spenser.
Verb edit
kydst
- (obsolete, nonce word) knows (second-person singular)
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Ægloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:
- But, ah! unwise and witlesse Colin Cloute, / That kydst the hidden kindes of many a weede, / Yet kydst not ene to cure thy fore heart-roote, / Whose ranckling wound as yet does rifely bleede.