Obs. That does good, virtuous.

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a. 900.  Ælfred, Blooms, I. in Cockayne, Shrine (1864), 169. Ic þe halsie, ðu arfæsta, wel wilende & wel wyrcende drihten.

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c. 1460.  Towneley Myst., iii. 120. Thon was alway well wirkand, to me trew as stele.

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