"waift" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Then it is by name\nProteus , that hath ordayn'd my sonne to die ;\nFor that a waift , the which by fortune came\nUpon your seas , he claym'd as propertie",
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