God-a-mercy

alternative Godamercy

1. obsoletepronunciation spellingEye dialect spelling of God have mercy, an exclamation of dismay or of relief.

   Content thee, tis no matter, and Iacke Strawe godamercie, Herein thou haſt done good ſeruice to thy country: VVere all inhumaine ſlaues ſo ſerued as he, England would be ciuill, and from all ſuch dealings free.

   1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I

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   Baſt[ard]. A foot of Honor better then I was, But many a many foot of Land the worſe. Well, now can I make any Ioane a Lady, Good den Sir Richard, Godamercy fellow, And if his name be George, Ile call him Peter; For new made honor doth forget mens names: […]

   c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 2