yͭ

yͭ

1. (Early Modern) Alternative form of yt (“that”)
   • c. 1531, Johan Frith, “An answere agenst [or vnto] Rastels dialoge”, in A Disputaciõ of Purgatorye Made by Johan Frith Which Is Deuided in to Thre Bokes:

     And yͭ as ye know plucketh. Raſtell by yͭ berde
     for he went a boute to prove yͤ cõtrarie in yͤ firſt chaptre
     yͭ the bodie hath neyther payne nor pleaſure. ⁊c̃.

   • 1575, George Gascoigne, “Councell to Duglasse Diue Written vpon This Occasion. ”, in The Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire. , printed at London: For Richard Smith, , →OCLC; republished in William Carew Hazlitt, compiler, The Complete Poems of George Gascoigne In Two Volumes, volume I, : Printed for the Roxburghe Library, 1869, →OCLC, page 370:

     The kight can weede the worme from corne and coſtly ſeedes,
     The kight cã kill the mowldiwarpe, in pleaſant meads yͭ breeds:
     Out of the ſtately ſtreetes the kight can clenſe the filth,
     As mẽ can clẽſe the worthleſſe weedes frõ fruteful fallow tilth; [...]

   • 1616, epitaph of William Shakespeare’s grave (image); Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, England :

     Good frend for İesvs sake forbeare, to digg the dvst encloased heare. Bleste be yͤ man yͭ spares thes stones, and cvrst be he yͭ moves my bones.

   • c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):

     From yͤ hagg & hungry Goblin,
     yͭ into raggs would rend yee,
     & yͤ spirit yͭ stand’s by yͤ naked man,
     in yͤ booke of moones defend yee

• yͤ, yͧ