Worth

= betide.

“Thus saith the Lord God: Howl ye, wo worth the day!”—Ezekiel xxx. 2.


Wo worth the chase! wo worth the day

That costs thy life, my gallant grey.”


Sir Walter Scott.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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