As nouns the difference between ales and alew
is that ales is plural of lang=en while alew is a cry of despair.
ales
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Noun
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alew
English
Noun
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en noun)
(obsolete, rare) A cry of despair.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.6:
*:Yet did she not lament with loude alew , / As women wont, but with deepe sighes and singults few.