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Eventually this diphthong appears as yu, with change of stressdew (from Anglo-Saxon deaw) like due (Chaucerian dü).
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On the other side a good word is a deaw from heaven to earth, that soakes into the roote and sends forth fruite from earth to heaven: it is a precious balme, that hath sweetenesse in the boxe, whence it comes, sweetnesse and vertue in the bodie, whereto it comes: it is a golden chaine, that linkes the toongs, and eares, and harts of writers and readers, each to other.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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Cap. When the Sun sets, the earth doth drizzle deaw
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4 Sweet slombring deaw, the which to sleepe them biddes.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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