Thursday, August 10, 2023
Hurry Up
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess 152:
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Goo now faste, and hye the blyve!Definitions from the Oxford English Dictionary:
hye = hie, v.ยน: To hasten, speed, go quickly.Thanks to Eric Thomson for confirming my guess that the = thee and for drawing my attention to Michiko Ogura, "Verbs Used Reflexively in Old and Middle English: A Case of the Syntactic Continuity and Lexical Change," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 102.1 (2001) 23-36.
blyve = belive, adv. & adj.: With speed, with haste, quickly, eagerly.
