yͭ

A form of yt

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Meanings

conjunction
  1. EarlyModernalternativeAlternative form of yt (“that”).

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

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

    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

    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; [...]

    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, [London]: Printed for the Roxburghe Library, 1869, →OCLC, page 370

    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.

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

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Chicago

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