Obs. Also 2–3 cweme, 5 wheme. [App. subst. use of next.] Pleasure, satisfaction. Chiefly in phr. to queme, so as to please or satisfy; also, to take to queme, to accept.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 23. Ne þu ne miʓt beon wel iscrifen god almihti to cweme.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 1064 (Gött.). Godd toke to queme his sacrefis.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. Wace (Rolls), 2018. Of alle scheo was most til his queme.
a. 1400. Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS., 624/444. I was cros to monnes quemus.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., vii. 62. Thou shall … serue to wheme God with all thi hart.
