Crossword-Solution: WEENS 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

LXI Him he defies to fight, approaching nigh, And weens to make him stoop his haughty crest: The other knight, whose worth I rate as high, His warlike prowess puts to present test; Cuts short his haughty threats and angry cry, And spurs, and lays his levelled lance in rest.

LXX "The king, mean time, who would the quest pursue, And by more certain proof than combat, try If the accuser's tale be false or true, And she deserve, or merit not, to die, Arrests some ladies of her retinue, That, as he weens, the fact can verify.

XCII With burning heart, and visage red with shame, He thinks the knight's disgrace is all his own, Because by deeds like his with whom he came, He weens the mob expects to see him known.

LXIV But Valour, who so oft befriends her own, Makes him find grace in Norandino's eyes; Who, while alarmed, he hurries there, o'erthrown So many men, such heaps of dead espies, While he views wounds, which Hector's hand alone He weens could deal, -- to him all testifies That he had put an undeserved shame Upon a cavalier of mighty name.

While we were hand-fasting him, I felt his body to be feeble and emaciated; but yet I know him to be so puffed up with spiritual pride that I believe he weens every one of his actions justified before God, and, instead of having stings of conscience for these, he takes great merit to himself in having effected them.