weldy

Middle English

Adjective

weldy

1. nimble
   • c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book II, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio clxxvi, verso, column 1, lines 412–413:

     So freſhe, ſo yonge, ſo weldy ſemed he / It was an heuen upon him for to ſe

     So fresh, so young, so nimble seemed he / It was a heaven upon him for to see