Chapter Weary-all Hill to Wellborn of W by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Well of English Undefiled. So Chaucer is called by Spenser.

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled,
On Fame’s eternal bead-roll worthy to be filed.
   —Spenser: Faërie Queene, iv. 2 (1596).

Welland, a river of England, which passes by Stamford, etc., and empties itself into the Wash. Drayton speaks of an ancient prophecy which brought to this river great reverence—

That she alone should drown all Holland, and should see
Her Stamford…as renowned for liberal arts…
As they in Cambridge are, or Oxford ever were.
   —Drayton: Polyolbion, xxiv. (1622).

(The “Holland” here referred to is not the Netherlands, but a district of Lincolnshire so called. See Holland, p. 496.)

Well-Beloved (The), Charles VI. of France, Le Bien-Aimé (1368, 1380–1422).

Louis XV. of France, Le Bien-Aimé (1710, 1715–1774).

Well-Founded Doctor (The), Ægidius de Colonna; also called “The Most Profound Doctor” (Doctor Fundatissimus et Theologorum Princeps); sometimes surnamed Romanus, because he was born in the Campagna di Roma, but more generally “Colonna,” from a town in the Campagna (1257–1316).

Wellborn (Francis, usually called Frank), nephew of sir Giles Overreach, and son of sir John Wellborn, who “bore the whole sway” of Northamptonshire, kept a large estate, and was highly honoured. Frank squandered away the property, and got greatly into debt, but induced lady Allworth to give him her countenance, out of gratitude and respect to his father. Sir Giles fancies that the rich dowager is about to marry his nephew, and, in order to bring about this desirable consummation, not only pays all his debts, but supplies him liberally with ready money. Being thus freed from debt, and having sown his wild oats, young Weliborn reforms, and lord Lovell gives him a “company.”—Massinger: A New Way to Pay Old Debts (1625).