"Hy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... error of the scribe, but a variation of dialect, and therefore, standing in no need of correction into hydigfatu ("NOTES and QUERIES," No. 13.). Hig, hi and hy, are perfectly identical, and nothing is more usual in A.S. than the omission of the final g after i; consequently, highy, didig, therefore higdihydig. Mr. Singer's reading of cassidilia for culidilia, I ...
— Notes & Queries 1850.02.09 • Various
... guest And partner in corruption makes this waye, And with no tarde pace. Where shall I hyde mee! Whether shall I fly to Palestra back And with this sadd relation kill her quite That's scarce recovered! rather, you hy powers, Then to prolonge our ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen |
