wert

verb

1. (archaic, form-of, indicative, past, second-person, singular)second-person singular simple past indicative of be

   “Why wert thou there?”

   “1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, To A Skylark, (first two lines of ode), "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, ..."”

2. (archaic, form-of, past, second-person, singular, subjunctive)second-person singular simple past subjunctive of be

   “If thou wert mine, I would be in heaven!”

   “If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, ...”

   “I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.”