Crossword-Solution: MISDO 5 letters, 37 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The Poets write that great Achilles’ spear Could heal the wound it made: the moral is, What mighty men misdo, they can amend.

Hay and grass and the spear of Achilles--of which tradition the moral is, What mighty men misdo, they can amend-- these are the fresh and original types on which our little poet is compelled to fall back for support and illustration to a scene so full of terrible suggestion and pathetic possibility.

The following may be considered a first principle: ‘If one misdo, let all bear it; let all share the same lot’; and for carrying this out, a complete organisation existed.

And if thy children be rebel and will not bow them low, If any of them misdo, neither curse them nor blow;[108] But take a smart rod and beat them in a row, Till they cry mercy and their guilt well know.

Gower, like Chaucer, rhymes the word _do_ (_misdo_, _undo_, &c.), and occasionally _to_ in _therto_, with words that have _ǭ_ derived from _ā_, not only _so_, _also_, _two_, _wo_, but also _tho_, adv.