Rue
,to grieve for something done, to repent, is the Anglo-Saxon reow, contrition; German, reue. Rue (1 syl.).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.