Definition of "yede" []

• Simple past of go. (verb)
• To go. (Used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators.) (verb)

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• "And so upon a day Sir Tristram yede into the forest for to disport him, and then it happened that there he fell sleep; and there came a man that Sir Tristram aforehand had slain his brother, and when this man had found him he shot him through the shoulder with an arrow, and Sir Tristram leapt up and killed that man."
• "CEDRON, and above it, overthwart, lay a tree (that the cross was made of) that men yede over on."
• "And he yede and opened the tomb, and there flew out an adder right hideous to see; the which as swithe flew about the city and the country, and soon after the city sank down."