What is "pittie"

Usage examples of "pittie".

So passed we, till this young man vs met,And being moou'd with pittie of my plight,Spake, as was meet, for ease of my regret:Whereof befell, what now is in your sight.

Where all that night they of their loues did treat,And hard aduentures twixt themselues alone,That each the other gan with passion great,And griefull pittie priuately bemone.

OF louers sad calamities of old,Full many piteous stories doe remaine,But none more piteous euer was ytold,Then that of Amorets hart-binding chaine,And this of Florimels vnworthie paine:The deare compassion of whose bitter fitMy softened heart so sorely doth constraine,That I with teares full oft doe pittie it,And oftentimes doe wish it neuer had bene writ.