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comparative hyer, superlative hyest
Obsolete spelling of high quotations examples
On th' other side in all mens open vew Duessa placed is, and on a tree Sans-foy his[*] shield is hangd with bloody hew: Both those[*] the lawrell girlonds to the victor dew. 45 VI A shrilling trompet sownded from on hye, And unto battaill bad them selves addresse: Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye, And burning blades about their heads do blesse, The instruments of wrath and heavinesse: 50 With greedy force each other doth assayle, And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle; The yron walles to ward their blowes are weak and fraile.
1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921
The beauty and glory of it is yn two streetes, whereof the hye street goes from est to west, having a righte goodely crosse in the middle of it, making a quadrivium, and goeth from north to south."
1661, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 357
third-person singular simple present hyes, present participle hying or hyeing, simple past and past participle hyed
Obsolete spelling of hie quotations examples
NAVARRE. And now Navarre whilste that these broiles doe last, My opportunity may serve me fit, To steale from France, and hye me to my home.
1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris