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What does “sayd” (etc.) mean in old book clipping? [closed]
Quotation from A history of the cries of London ancient (p24, 25).
Noisy parties of wits and Paul's men crossed to Bankside to see Romeo and Juliet, or Hamlet the Dane, or else 'The most excellent ...
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What did James V mean by “afferandly”?
In this letter from 1536, King James V of Scotland wrote in 1536:
Veilbelouit frend, we grete yow. Forsamekill as we ar of pourpas
to pas to Kelso, and to vesy owr Bordouris for ordoneng of ...
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Have the words 'horsemanshipp' & 'warr' been used so in writing, in the early 16th Century?
I was looking for origin of the word carousel, and I found the following,
One of the purposes of the Royalle Carouselle, as it was called in a
patent application of 1673, was to give "sufficient ...
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Was the “Ye Olde Shoppe” ever used or is it just an ancient-looking construct of modern times?
Surely, if I were the owner of a shop selling archery goods and wanted to portray my shop as some kind of old-fashioned, high-quality traditional outlet, I might be tempted to call it “Ye Olde Archery ...
