moity

English

Noun

moity (plural moities)

1. Obsolete spelling of moiety.
   • c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

     Nor night, nor day, no rest: It is but weaknesse
     To beare the matter thus: meere weaknesse, if
     The cause were not in being: part o'th cause,
     She, th' Adultresse: for the harlot-King
     Is quite beyond mine Arme, out of the blanke
     And leuell of my braine: plot-proofe: but shee,
     I can hooke to me: say that she were gone,
     Giuen to the fire, a moity of my rest
     Might come to me againe. Whose there?