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RegDwigнt
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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 a native speaker of Elizabethan English have phrased these sentences? Specifically, what verb forms would he have used if this scene were authentic?

Brian J. Fink
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