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Brian J. Fink
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Why is the Elizabethan English incorrect in this quote?

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? Specifically, what verb forms would he have used if this scene were authentic? (Yeah, I used the subjunctive form were.)

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