Citations:d'y'ask

English citations of d’y’ask

• 1734, Terence, translated by Thomas Cooke, Terence’s Comedys, Tranſlated into Engliſh, with Critical and explanatory Notes‎^[1], volume II, “The Eunuch”, act II, scene III, page 261:

  Gnat[ho]: Pſhaw, I know that : ⸺ but doſt thou ſee Nothing here that thou doſt not like ?
  Par[meno]: Yes, you.
  Gnat: That I believe : but Nothing elſe ?
  Par.: Why d’y’ aſk ?
  Gnat.: Becauſe thou’rt melancholly.
  Par.: Not I.