wylere

Middle English

Adverb

wylere

1. whilere: a while ago; a time before; formerly, previously
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Tale of the Chanons Yeman”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio lxvii, recto, column 2:

     [B]y god ye be to blame / Helpeth me nowe, as I dyd you wylere

     [B]y God, you are to blame; / Help me now, as I did you a while ago.