yͭ

See also: Appendix:Variations of "yt"

English

Conjunction

yͭ

(Early Modern) Alternative form of yt (“that”)
- c. 1531, Johan Frith, “An answere agenst [or vnto] Rastels dialoge”, in A Disputaciõ of Purgatorye Made by Johan Frith Which Is Deuided in to Thre Bokes:
  And yͭ as ye know plucketh. Raſtell by yͭ berde
  for he went a boute to prove yͤ cõtrarie in yͤ firſt chaptre
  yͭ the bodie hath neyther payne nor pleaſure. ⁊c̃.
- 1575, George Gascoigne, “Councell to Duglasse Diue Written vpon This Occasion. [...]”, in The Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire. […], printed at London: For Richard Smith, […], →OCLC; republished in William Carew Hazlitt, compiler, The Complete Poems of George Gascoigne […] In Two Volumes, volume I, [London]: Printed for the Roxburghe Library, 1869, →OCLC, page 370:
  The kight can weede the worme from corne and coſtly ſeedes,
  The kight cã kill the mowldiwarpe, in pleaſant meads yͭ breeds:
  Out of the ſtately ſtreetes the kight can clenſe the filth,
  As mẽ can clẽſe the worthleſſe weedes frõ fruteful fallow tilth; [...]
- 1616, epitaph of William Shakespeare’s grave (image); Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-on-Avon, England :
  Good frend for İesvs sake forbeare, to digg the dvst encloased heare. Bleste be yͤ man yͭ spares thes stones, and cvrst be he yͭ moves my bones.
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
  From yͤ hagg & hungry Goblin,
  yͭ into raggs would rend yee,
  & yͤ spirit yͭ stand’s by yͤ naked man,
  in yͤ booke of moones defend yee