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Obsolete form of aby. quotations examples
But patience perforce he muſt abie, / What fortune and his fate on him will lay, / Fond is the feare, that findes no remedie;
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 543
With cunning wordes tempted by chaſtity? / Thou ſhalt abie for both your treacheries.
c. 1592, attributed to Thomas Kyd, “The Tragedy of Soliman and Preseda.”, in The Origin of the English Drama, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, published 1773, page 275
For if thou doſt intend / Neuer ſo little ſhew of loue to her, / Thou ſhalt abie it.
1600, VVilliam Shakeſpeare [i.e. William Shakespeare], A Midſommer nights dreame. […], […] Iames Roberts, page 47