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giles earle middle English word - Dou (37) RE: middle English word - Dou 17 Jun 11

I've just found the following entry in OED (I hope the thorns and yoghs come out legibly):


†53.B.VI.53 do way (in Imperative). Obs. a.B.VI.53.a trans. To put away; to leave off, abandon, have done with.

   a 1300 Cursor M. 13049 (Cott.) Do wai fra þe yon wicked womman.    a 1325 Prose Psalter I[i]. 2 Do way my wickednes.    a 1541 Wyatt Poet. Wks. (1861) 4 Arise for shame, do way your sluggardy.    1578 Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 163 Idolatrie do way, do way.

b.B.VI.53.b absol. or intr. To leave off, let alone, cease.

   a 1300 Cursor M. 3667 (Cott.) 'Do wai, leue son,' rebecca said, 'þat malison on me be laid.'    c 1340 Ibid. 5976 (Trin.) Do wey þei seide hit is not so.    c 1475 Rauf Coilȝear 436 'Do way', said Schir Rolland, 'me think thow art not wise.'    1514 Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) p. xi, Do way, Coridon, for Gods love let be.

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