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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
may .
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Examples
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And I haue shocked theim vp together, as well those of aunciente tyme, as of later yeres, the lewde, as well as the vertuous indifferentlie, that vsing them as present examples, and paternes of life, thou maiest with all thine endeuour folowe the vertuous and godlie, and with asmuche warenes eschewe the vicious and vngodly.
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Yea, that thou maiest further, my (reader) learne to discerne, how men haue in these daies amended the rude simplicitie of the first worlde, from Adam to the floud and many yeres after, when men liued skateryng on the earthe, without knowlege of Money, or what coigne ment, or Merchauntes trade: no maner of exchaunge, but one good tourne for another.
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For eyther thou must kill Candaules, and take mee to thy wyfe, and the kyngdome also, or els thou must dye thy selfe, that thou maiest vnderstande, how in all thynges not meete to be knowen, it is not necessarye to obeye Candaules.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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I am a woman and not a man, as thou maiest perceiue, but being departed a maid from my house, I am going to the Pope, to praye him to place me in mariage.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Botte thou maiest fynde fulle store of marckes yn Kente.
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Those people that fele not thy warres, thou maiest use as thy frendes.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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What thou maiest wish, what profit may come cleare,
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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Were it not that I hope thou maiest do me more service, I would strike thee now at one blow to the ground.
The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites Eva March Tappan 1892
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But thinke not at thy pleasure to go faster or softer: for the winde is not in thy power, and in steede of taking the shortest way to the Hauen, thou maiest happily suffer shipwracke.
A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier Robert Garnier 1591
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Yea, that thou maiest further, my (reader) learne to discerne, how men haue in these daies amended the rude simplicitie of the first worlde, from Adam to the floud and many yeres after, when men liued skateryng on the earthe, without knowlege of Money, or what coigne ment, or Merchauntes trade: no maner of exchaunge, but one good tourne for another.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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