weetlessadj.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 35 Syker, thous but a laesie loord, and rekes much of thy swinck, That with fond termes, and weetlesse words to blere myne eyes doest thinke. [ E. K. Glosse, Weetlesse, not vnderstoode.]

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd2^v But the false Archer, which that arrow shot So slyly, that she did not feele the wound, Did smyle full smoothly at her weetlesse wofull stound.

1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. viii. 47 And now all weetlesse of the wretched stormes In which his loue was lost, he slept full fast. View more context for this quotation

1747 J. Upton New Canto Spenser's F.Q. xix. 13 Nathless the Soul, from her true heavenly Way, Caught by some Semblance fair, too weetless wends astray. [Footn., Weetless, thoughtless, careless, unknowing: too thoughtless goes astray.].

1751 M. Mendez Seasons xxx, in G. Pearch Coll. Poems (1768) II. 246 Or how the way-ward mother to chastise When from her vetchy nest the weetless vagrant hies.

1767 W. J. Mickle Concubine i. xx Bashfully the weetlesse Boy did look.

1802 J. Leyden Cout of Keeldar xxxviii 'Twas here for Mangerton's brave lord A bloody feast was set, Who weetless, at the festal board, The bull's broad frontlet met.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. x. 31 And I was with him, weetless of ascent, But as a man, that weets him come, ere thinking.

1829 G. Darley Wedding Wake in A. Cunningham Anniversary 73 Look how the weetless, reckless air Moves its dead tresses now!

a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 256 Mother dear, thy happy heart is weetless of my dolour.