408. Wont. Are wont, or accustomed; now used only in the participle. The form here is the past tense of the obsolete won, or wone, to dwell. The present is found in Milton, P. L. vii. 457: "As from his lair the wild beast, where he wons In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den." Cf. Spenser, Virgil's Gnat: "Of Poets Prince, whether we woon beside Faire Xanthus sprincled with Chimaeras blood, Or in the woods of Astery abide;" and Colin Clouts Come Home Againe: "I weened sure he was out God alone, And only woond in fields and forests here." See also iv. 278 and 298 below.
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