wer't

And wer't not I, fresh, sound, should charge a man 100

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman

_ If thou wer't as naked as thou wer't born, thou should'st not stay to put on a Smock.

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

I wish thou wer't good to ate, young man: I could manage most of thee. '

Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

Why, now, this pewter had run brimming again, wer't not thou St. Vitus 'imp -- away, thou ague!

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

_ That's true, and, wer't my kingdom, must be granted.

The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

_ Thou shalt not say thou wer't condemned unheard;

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 John Dryden 1665

_ Boast! why thou do'st nothing but boast; and I dare swear, wer't thou as innocent from the Sin of the Grape, as thou art from the Apple, thou might'st yet claim that right in _Eden_ which our first Parents lost by too much loving.

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

_ No, tho my Fortune should depend on thee; nay, all my hope of future happiness -- by Heaven, I scorn to marry thee, unless thou couldst convince me thou wer't honest -- a Whore!

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664

Adr. Oh that thou wer't not, poore distressed soule.

A Comedy of Errors (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

I was a poore Groome of thy Stable (King) 2741: When thou wer't King: who trauelling towards Yorke,

Richard II (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623