thee-and-thouing

Updated: May 6, 2025

It will be observed that Coddington, with his "thou desireths," is not quite so well up in the grammar of his thee-and-thouing as my Lord Coke. Indeed, it is rather pleasant to see that in his alarm about "the enemy," in 1673, he backslides into the second person plural.

James Russell Lowell - Among My Books: First Series