eft

vesilisko A newt, especially the European (vern) ((taxlink), syn. (taxlink)).
1596, (w), The Faerie Queene, V.10:

Only these marishes and myrie bogs, / In which the fearefull ewftes do build their bowres, / Yeeld me an hostry mongst the croking frogs ….

Were I unbounden, all so may I the, / I woulde never eft come in the snare.

And eft he entride in to Cafarnaum, aftir eiyte daies.

Than syr bedwere retorned ageyn & took the swerde in hys hande / and than hym thought synne and shame to throwe awaye that nobyl swerde / and so efte he hydde the swerde and retorned ageyn and tolde to the kyng that he had ben at the water and done his commaundemente

And when they were all gone, / And the dim moon doth eft withhold the light,(nb..)