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edited to make it even more blindingly obvious that this is not a "proofreading" question
phenry
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Why is the Elizabethan English incorrect in this Geico commercial?

I saw a Geico commerial with Elizabethan verb forms that bothered me because they were being misused:

Trick Number 1. Lookest over there!
Servant looks
Haha! Madest thou look!
So endest the trick!

How would native speakers of Elizabethan English have phrased these sentences?

Brian J. Fink
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