In archaic English, varlet also could mean an unprincipled person; a rogue.

Examples of subjunctive uses in archaic English:

In archaic English, "gill" is a noun meaning, 'a young woman; a sweetheart'.

There are also touches of archaic English, expressions like "laping through the squad," for "wading through the mud."

"How is it," he asked, "that you know my name and speak what must be to you archaic English?"

She didn't bother with archaic English when she said softly, "Is that so, now?

His reverting back to archaic English was a way of informally speaking for the group in this matter.

Original /*t/ (survives in modern German and archaic English)

Actually, uni- corns could express whole sentences in chords, but this was a separate mode that owed little to archaic English.

It also means "morning" in archaic English.