wold

nummi, ylätasanko puhekieltä An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
c. 1605, (w), (w), Act III, Scene 4,http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/play_view.php?WorkID=kinglear&Scope=entire&pleasewait=1&msg=pl

Saint Withold footed thrice the ’old;

He met the nightmare, and her nine fold;

“(..) I came with my cousin, Frank Osbaldistone, there, and I must show him the way back again to the Hall, or he’ll lose himself in the wolds.”

And therefore did he take a trusty band

To traverse Acarnania forest wide,

In war well-seasoned, and with labours tanned,

Till he did greet white Achelous’ tide,

And from his farther bank Ætolia’s wolds espied.

The wind that beats the mountain, blows

More softly round the open wold,

Blossomed the opening spring, and the notes of the robin and bluebird

Sounded sweet upon wold and in wood, yet Gabriel came not.

Take counsel, sever from my lot your lot,

Dwell in your pleasant places, hoard your gold;

Lest you with me should shiver on the wold,

Athirst and hungering on a barren spot.

Before yon field of trembling gold

Is garnered into dusty sheaves,

Or ere the autumn’s scarlet leaves

Flutter as birds adown the wold,