Whan thayto thar master cam, Leytell John wold not spar; "Master, how haffe yow far yn Notynggam?
I told Kossoot that the pesky Abolishunests would ruin him, and thay did, and I've knowed for a long time that thay would run this country off the Dimokratic track and smash it all to flinders.
I tald him, that he suld have resolvit with zow upon all that, and that he suld avoyde, gif he culd, thay that were maist mistraistit.
The English then omits (Scots) 'I se na uthir Gentilman bot thay of my company.
Never ane of that towne came to speik to me, quhilk causis me think that thay ar his; and neuertheles he speikis gude, at the leist his sone.
Thay for this caus wald be in jelosy, gif at anis, without thair knawledge, I suld brek the play set up in the contrair in thair presence.
I wryte all thingis, howbeit thay be of lytill wecht, to the end that ze may tak the best of all to judge upon.
He sayis this far, yat his faultis wer publeist: bot yair is that committis faultis, that belevis thay will never be spokin of; and zit thay will speik of greit and small.
Forder, we declair it to be lesum to ony gentilman to produce ane horse and the lyk waidger, and thay salbe welcum.
Thay ar to run the first Thursday November nixtocum, thrie mett myleis of Cowper raise in Fyff.
For thaymay the avayll when al this thyng is wroght.
My bonys ar so stark, No wonder ifthay wark, For I am full old.
This is a nobull gyn, Thise nayles so thay ryn Thoro more and myn Thise bordis ichon.
Thise floodis so thay ryn, Therfor, moder, come in.
Thay schew quhat paines and travell thai had tackin to mittigat hir anger, but thai could find na thing but extremitie, unless he him self wald confes his offence, and put him in hir Grace's will.
But the Assemblie[994] did still reply, "That secreit conference wald thay nocht admit in those heidis that sould be concludit be generall voit.
But belyke, my Lord, ye lyttill regaird the estait whairin thay stand, when ye wald haif thame so flatterit, that the daingour thairfoir sould neither be knawin, neither yit declareit to the poore peopill.
Quhat thay had done since the last tyme thay had convenit?
The Devill commandit thame to keip the jountis upoun thame, quhill thay wer dry, and thane to mak ane powder of thame, to do ewill withall.
This might thay not have done, if they had ben empoveryshyd by their kyng, as the Comons of Fraunce.
And lordis fair thus couth thay counterfeit, Except ane thing: thay drank the watter cleir Instead of wyne; bot yit thay maid gude cheir.
With merthe and mynstralsye, wyth metez at hor wylle, Thay maden as mery as any men moghten With laghyng of ladies, with lotes of bordes (play upon words).
Besides these heavenly spirits, the Thay reckons a multitude of others under the name of phi.
Thus the life of the Thay seems regulated down to its smallest details by custom founded on his belief in the spirits.
In short, the Thay cannot take a single step without meeting a spirit on the path.
No lenger thanne after Deth thay soughte, But ech of hem so glad was of that sighte, For that the florens so faire were and brighte, That doun thai sette hem by the precious hord.
Doun ran of hem that stooden hir bisyde, down, stood, beside Unnethe aboute hir mighte thay abyde.
Thus sayth this olde man, And everich of these riotoures ran, every one Til thay come to the tre, and ther thay founde Of florins fyn of gold ycoyned rounde, coined Wel neygh a seven busshels, as hem thoughte.
The folk hir folwen wepyng in hir weye, follow her And fortune ay thay cursen as thay goon; curse But she fro wepyng kept hir eyen dreye, dry Ne in this tyme word ne spak sche noon.
For right as they hadde cast[192] his deth bifore, arranged Right so thay han him slayn, and that anoon.
And with that word[193] it happed him par cas by chance To take the botel ther the poysoun was, wherein And drank, and yaf his felaw drink also, gave For which anon thay stervede bothe two.
For sche is fairer, as thay demen alle, deem Than is Grisild, and more tendre of age.
So on a day, right in the morwe tyde, morning Unto a gardyne that was ther besyde, In which that thay hadde made here ordinaunce Of vitaile, and of other purvyaunce, victual They gon and pleyen hem al the longe day.
Right as thaywolde han torned over a style, turned Whan thai han goon nought fully half a myle, An old man and a pore with hem mette.
In spelling, children and forrenerz, and not thay aloon, ar puzzld between i and y.
Moorover, if we wer tu drop the e from simbolized tu prevent forrenerz pronownsing the apparent last silabl, thay woud be in dainger of maiking the ending riim with whot we hav spelt az fizzed and woud now spel az fizd.
And so was all the bachelary, When thay met togedyr.
Please to send them by the express then thay wont be lost.
And more we se of Goddis secre thinges, Than borel folk, although that thay ben kinges, We lyve in povert and in abstinence, And borel folk in riches and dispence.
This maketh that oure wyfes wol assaye Religious folk, for thay may bettre paye Of Venus payementes than may we: God woot!
Fra tyme that thay get thair vows, I stand for'd, Thay banische hir out of thair cumpanie: With Chastitie thay can mak na concord, Bot leids thair lyfis in Sensualitie.
Alas," thay sayn, "we fayne perfeccion, In clothes wide and lake oure libertie But all the synne mote on oure frendes be.
And yet agaynewarde shryked every nonne, The pange of love so strayneth hem to cry: "Now woo the tyme" quod thay "that we be boune!
Bott tyll women to mak it couth, That leris no latyn in thar youth, In inglis is it ordand here, So that thay may it lyghtly lere[849].
Sir Cherry; "I dare thaymy mother allowth me ath gweat a lithenth ath your'th.
I wanted to do sumthyng to help yu wen I seen him come in To Day fur I new jus howe yu felt but thay wasent no wours than thay always was, and he nose it!
I think than thay did for any but I think it mus be harrd for yu not bein' use to us.
I luv tew prokure a violet as soon as i can, each year; there is such a mild impediment in their butiful fases; thay put me in mind ov an orfan child, that has strayed oph into a dell and sot down tew cri.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
