Archaic English from William Morris

The other day I read the entirety of one of Morris's pre-Tolkien fantasy novels, The Wood Beyond the World, and gathered a whole bundle of new-to-me archaic terms. They aren't obscure enough to have to stop and look up as you go along, and for most of my life I would have therefore just ignored them, but some of them were so quaint-looking that I bookmarked them all instead to look up the next day.

(William Morris is, of course, the painter, illustrator, wallpaper and textile/tapestry designer, and founder of the Arts & Crafts movement, whose wife Jane was the muse of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. There's some vague polyamory rumors about this floating around Tumblr, but the evidence seems conflicting and there are reports he was 'more interested in objects than women' or something like that, which would make a lot of sense of both his personal life and the nature of the romances, such as they are, in his fantasy writings.)

( wyte, foison, licorous, hansel, flake-hurdles, sithence, dight, whin, ling, wanhope, bawdekin, arras, bestead )