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English
Pronoun
yͧ
- (Early Modern, obsolete) Abbreviation of thou.
1562, [Johann Wigand; unknown, transl.], De Neutralibus et Mediis. Grossly Inglyshed, Iacke of Both Sydes. A Godly and a Necessary Catholike Admonicion, Touching Those That Be Neutres, Holding vpon No Certayne Religion nor Doctryne, , London: Richard Harrison, signature L.v., recto:But yͧ craftily crepeſt into yͤ enemies boſom to make thẽ thy frẽds ⁊ receaueſt ſom of their pꝛocedings either in doctrine oꝛ in obſeruaunces, whiche geueth them iuſt cauſe to be in hope, yͭ thou wilt ſubſcribe to al their pedlary, ⁊ they maintein al their erroꝛs the moꝛe ſtoutely, bicauſe they haue won thee to be an ayder, either wͭ al thy hart oꝛ in coũtenance at leaſt.
1573, “An exposition vppon the v. vi. vii. chapters of Mathew, which three chapters are the keye and the dore of the scripture, and the restoring agayne of Moses law corrupte by the Scribes and Pharises. And the exposition is the restoring agayne of Christes lawe corrupte by the Papistes.”, in The Whole Workes of W Tyndall, Iohn Frith, and Doct Barnes, Three Worthy Martyrs, and Principall Teachers of This Churche of England, Collected and Compiled in One Tome Togither, Beyng Before Scattered, ⁊ Now in Print Here Exhibited to the Church. , London: Iohn Daye, , fifth chapter, page 206, column 1:Why ſhould ſhe thẽ be lothſome to thee, becauſe of a little ſuffering, that yͧ ſhouldest lust after an other, that ſhould defile thy ſoule […]
1580, Theod[ore] Beza, French transl., L. Tomson, English transl., “The First Epistle of Paul to Timotheus”, in The Newe Testament of Our Lord Iesus Christ, , London: Christopher Barker, , chapter I, verse 3, folio 320, recto:As I beſought thee to abide ſtill in Epheſus, whẽ I departed into Macedonia, ſo do, that yͧ mayeſt warne ſome, that they teach none other doctrine, […]
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 80, column 2:By heauen (fond wretch) yͧ knowſt not what thou ſpeak'ſt,
Or elſe thou art ſuborn'd againſt his honor
In hatefull practiſe: […]
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