Definition of "weren"

But sike fancies weren foolerie,And broughten this Oake to this miserye.

1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […]; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890,

Therein an hundred raunges weren pight,And hundred fornaces all burning bright;

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie

For of the falsé MoabitesForth with the strength of AmonitesOf that they weren first misget,

1889, John Gower, edited by Henry Morley, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins: Being the Confessio Amantis