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Elizabethan Terms
Contemporary | Elizabethan |
---|---|
Advice | Counsel |
Beg | Pray |
Boy | Sirrah |
Come here | Come hither |
Curse | Plague |
Desire | Will |
Does | Doth |
Enemy | Foe |
Farewll | Adieu |
Here | Hither |
I think | Methinks |
Informed | Privy |
Listen | Hark; Hark now |
Maybe | Perchance |
Misery | Woe |
Never | Ne'r |
News | Tidings |
Order | Decree |
Sad | Heavy |
Soon | Anon |
There | Thither |
Truly | Verily |
Wait a minute | Soft |
You are | Thou art |
Your | Thy |