What is greet?

Famous quotes containing the word greet:

    If I should meet thee
    After long years,
    How should I greet thee?
    With silence and tears.
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    As a long-parted mother with her child
    Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting,
    So weeping, smiling, greet I thee, my earth.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Povert is hateful good, and, as I gesse,
    A ful greet bringer out of bisiness;
    Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)