be-plagued

Updated: May 9, 2025

Sack appears to have been a general name for white wine, especially the sweeter kinds. "I care not how lone in this world I may be, So long as the Master remembereth me." Helen Monro. "So sure as our sweet Lady, Saint Mary, worketh miracles at Walsingham, never was poor woman so be-plagued as I, with an ill, ne'er-do-well, good-for-nought, thankless hussy, picked up out of the mire in the gutter!

Emily Sarah Holt - For the Master's Sake: A Story of the Days of Queen Mary