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Magnyfycence, 303: Go shake the, dogge, hay, syth ye wyll 
nedys ! 
Do way,—wey, away. OE. weg in reference to conduct. Mean- 
ing put away! have done! Compare do wey expressing re- 
proach, in V. 
York Plays, v, 60 Satan: Woman! do way! Mankind, 82, 
Mercy: Do wey! do wey this reuell, sers, do wey! Mankind, 
83, Now-a-Days: Do wey, goode Adam! do wey! Mankind, 
576: Do wey. I wyll no more so oft on the chyrche-style. 
Magnyfycence, 397, Fansy: Do away, I say! 
fy, fye, ffy, fie. Modern French fi! Apparently an OF. fi-fi, 
Latin fi, an imitation of a sound instinctively made upon notic- 
ing a disagreeable smell. Old Norse fy of similar origin. 
Danish fyskam (of like origin), fie! shame to you! In modern 
use fy expresses contempt or reproach, but the examples found 
in ME. are used to express anger. The word retains something 
of its old force in the Elizabethan literature. Compare 
Macbeth, V, i, 35, “ Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier and afeard!” 
Here Lady Macbeth expresses all the scorn which she made 
use of earlier in the play. 
Magnyfycence, 2020: Fye on this worlde full of Trechery! 
Magn., 1972: Fy, fy, that euer I sholde be brought in this snare! 
York Plays, xi, 67, Rex: Fy on pam! to pe devell of helle! 
York, xi, 217, Rex: Fy on the! ladde, oute of my lande! York, 
Xxix, 298, Cayphas: Why! fie on pe faitoure vn-trewe! York, 
xxix, 328, Miles: What! fye on the beggarr! York, xvii, 121, 
Herod: In the deuyl way, dogges, Fy! Towmeley, ix, 76, Im- 
perator: A, fy, and dewyls! whens cam he? Towneley, xiii, 
204, Mak: ffy on you! goyth hence out of my presence! 
hagh, ha. A natural exclamation found in Greek, Latin, most 
modern Romance, and all modern Germanic languages. Not 
recorded in OE., but current in OF. and in ME. from about the 
fourteenth century. OE. had, however, the ha, ha! of laughter. 
Towneley Plays, viii, 355, Miles: A, my lord! ... Pharao: 
hagh! Towmneley, ii, 33, Cayn: A ha! god gif the soro & care. 
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