"Say that thou ___ forsake me ...": Shak.

Usage examples of didst.

Didst thoo not tak what thoo called the oath of abjuration agen the King five years agone?

Oh, didst thou think, Atene, that thou couldst hide the truth from the all-seeing Hesea of the Mountain?

It was on that very spot when thou didst lie dead at my feet, Kallikrates.

And then a great fury filled me, and made me mad, and I seized the javelin that thou didst bear, and stabbed thee, so that there, at my very feet, in the place of Life, thou didst groan and go down into death.

Didst thou not tell me that thy soul shook with remorse when thou wert compelled to place even a crumb of cake before the Lares that watch over yon impluvium?

Didst think I was so lustsome for you that my brain was too muddled to understand all the implications of what you offer?

Nay, feign not surprise like some coy maiden, Zaac Tepal, for by thine own lips have the binding words been said, and thou art surely mine, White Strength, my lover and my lord, since the night when thou didst first pledge me in the betrothal cup, and when according to ancient usage among the Acans thou didst light the marriage lamp upon my balcony.

Full much I marvel, lord, and fain would know Wherefore and why unhanged didst let him go?

And yet, O Fanatic, thou didst anathematize the Duellist as the Man of blood: what is the Assassin?

Your puissant knights did hurtle to the attack, did brast their spears on the oafish defenders who didst flee in panic, did thus free the prisoners.

Why didst thou leave the trodden paths of men Too soon, and with weak hands though mighty heart Dare the unpastured dragon in his den?

JOHN MILTON Paradise Lost Why didst thou leave the trodden paths of men Too soon, and with weak hands though mighty heart Dare the unpastured dragon in his den?

Who didst make and knowest whereof we are made, Oh bear in mind our dust and nothingness, Our wordless tearless dumbness of distress: Bear Thou in mind the burden Thou hast laid Upon us, and our feebleness unstayed Except Thou stay us: for the long long race Which stretches far and far before our face Thou knowest,--remember Thou whereof we are made.

Zululand, and among the white people of Natal, did not thine heart turn to the land thy mother told thee of, thy native place, where thou didst see the light, and play when thou wast little, the land where thy place was?

And only when thou didst refuse, and that with such force that I knew thou couldst not be persuaded, did I seize thee.