Mind you, we don't pronounce words the same now as we did in the 16th century. The spelling in those days gave better clues to how we said things and including an 'e' suggestes a long i. But as you are not likely to meet many 16th century Englishmen these days, you could probably take your pick.

Anyway - who are you calling 'scurvy'? Remember it was our Royal Navy's use of anti-scorbutics that defeated scurvy (and got our sailors called 'limeys') when sailors of less fortunate nations were spitting teeth with monotonous regularity.