"Wherefore art --- ...?"

Usage examples of thou.

I love thee, but I should be an untrue friend did I abet thee in thy lawlessness.

Yet I know that thou wilt abide here till some one else come, whether that be early or late.

I deem thou hast not come hither to abide her without some token or warrant of her.

Wilt thou abide here by Walter thyself alone, and let me bring the imp of Upmeads home to our house?

So that meseems thou mayest abide here in a life far better than wandering amongst uncouth folk, perilous and cruel.

I will abide thee on a good horse with all that we may need for the journey: and now I ask leave.

I will now go and skin that troll who went so nigh to slay thee, and break up the carcase, if thou wilt promise to abide about the door of the house, and have thy sword and the spear ready to hand, and to don thine helm and hauberk to boot.

So I will but bid thee be comforted and abide in thy love for the living and the dead.

Moreover, thou sayest it that the champions of the Dry Tree, who would think but little of an earl for a leader, are eager to follow me: and if thou still doubt what this may mean, abide, till in two days or three thou see me before the foeman.

I have heard tell of thee: thou art abiding the turn of the days up at the castle yonder, as others have done before thee.

For I spake with thee, it is nigh two years agone, when thou wert abiding the coming of our Lady in the castle yonder But now I see of thee that thou art brighter-faced, and mightier of aspect than aforetime, and it is in my mind that the Lady of Abundance must have loved thee and holpen thee, and blessed thee with some great blessing.

The wise merchant who led thee unto me is abiding thine homecoming that he may have of thee that which thou promisedst to him.

I made for thee, and one also for me, while I was abiding thee after the battle, and my love and my hope is woven into it.

Epicurus, atoms be the cause of all things and that life be nothing else but an accidentary confusion of things, and death nothing else, but a mere dispersion and so of all other things: what doest thou trouble thyself for?

Here, reader, it may be necessary to acquaint thee with some matters, which, if thou dost know already, thou art wiser than I take thee to be.