Jane Eyre vocabulary

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Ah well I wot that a new broom sweeps clean, and a new garment makes thee leave off the old though it be fitter, and new wine causes thee to forsake the old, though it be better

John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)

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'As by lot, Got wot,'

William Shakespeare. Hamlet.

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This was thine oath, and mine also certain;

I wot it well, thou dar'st it not withsayn*, *deny

Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems

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Wost* thou not well the olde clerke's saw, *2nd person singular form

That who shall give a lover any law?

Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems