v. Obs. Also 6 yead, 6–7 yeed(e, 7 yed. [A pseudo-archaism of 16th cent. poets and their imitators; yede, pa. t. of GO (see YODE) used erron. as an infin.] intr. To go, proceed.
1563. Sackville, Induct. Mirr. Mag., xxx. Yeding forth, anone An horrible lothly lake we might discerne.
a. 1578. Drant, Præsul, et Sylva (MS. Verse).
| Yeares yead away, and facies fair deflowr, | |
| Ceasar, and such had never shind so long | |
| Their breths, and bruts had ended in one howr, | |
| Ne had they flowne by voyces fitt and strong. |
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Sept., 145. They wander at wil, and stray at pleasure, And to theyr foldes yead at their owne leasure. Ibid. (1590), F. Q., I. xi. 5. Then bad the knight his Lady yede aloofe.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 116. Downeuet … (perhaps so called) of downe yeeding, as hauing a steep hill.
1614. Gorges, Lucan, V. 174. Yet she, poore soule, was sore adread Into the horrid cell to yed.
1633. Fisher, Fuimus Troes, III. ix. Vnneath thilke borrells May well ne yede, ne stand.
1768. Downman, Land of Muses, xii.
| Early the morn we will forth yede yfere, | |
| And in a gondelay to yonder shore, | |
| Across the intervening ferry steer, | |
| There on the many delices to pore. |
