Note 539 — INDEX TO THE NOTES.
Reading edition
unweeting; unwitting, unknowing. This spelling is found in Spenser’s Faerie Queene, both in the compounds and in the simple verb weet, a corruption of wit (A.S. witan, to know). Compare Par. Reg. i. 126, “unweeting, he fulfilled The purposed counsel.” Sams. Agon. 1680; Chaucer, Doctor’s Tale, “Virginius came to weet the judge’s will.”