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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 |