Can I really not use the phrase "for thy" in a poem, in 2009? As in "on that account"? As in:
The dapper ditties, that I wont devise,
To feede youthes fancie, and the flocking fry,
Delighten much: what I the bett for thy?
Or
But if that any aske thy name,
Say thou wert base begot with blame :
For thy thereof thou takest shame.
No? Crap. It scans really well.
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3 comments:
thee? Wouldn't it work better grammatically in the first case?
I don't quite get the grammar in the second one. Thy getting? In which case, shouldn't it be "thine"?
Bardiac, I don't think it's "thy" in the pronomial sense. I think it's a weird construction (also "forthy") which really just means "therefore."
But it IS incredibly grammatically confusing--yet another reason that I can't use it.
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