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Yot Yote My fowls, which well enough,Chapman. You Ye go to Canterbury; God you speed.Chaucer. Good sir, I do in friendship counsel youShak. In vain you tell your parting loverPrior. Though you is properly a plural, it is in all ordinary discourse used also in addressing a single person, yet properly always with a plural verb. "Are you he that hangs the verses on the trees, wherein Rosalind is so admired ?" Shak. You and your are sometimes used indefinitely, like we, they, one, to express persons not specified. "The looks at a distance like a new-plowed land; but as you come near it, you see nothing but a long heap of heavy, disjointed clods." Addison. "Your medalist and critic are much nearer related than the world imagine." Addison. "It is always pleasant to be forced to do what you wish to do, but what, until pressed, you dare not attempt." Hook. You is often used reflexively for yourself of yourselves. "Your highness shall repose you at the tower." Shak. Youl Young For he so young and tender was of age.Chaucer. "Whom the gods love, die young," has been too long carelessly said; . . . whom the gods love, live young forever.Mrs. H. H. Jackson. While the fears of the people were young.De Foe. Come, come, elder brother, you are too young in this.Shak. Young [The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosedMilton. |
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