th'art

'"Then thaa'd better use thi een for what th'art paid for, an' look at them pieces i'stead o 'lookin' at lasses 'faces. "

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

Mrs. Mason tucked in the small figure -- lingered a little -- said, "Laura, th'art not coald -- nor sick?"

Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II Humphry Ward 1885

Great th'art (Naso!) as man, nor like thee many in greatness

The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

O heart! th'art not the sole who loveth him, * So bide with him while I desertion dree:

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

With these Compliments, th'art a _Baud_, th'art a _Whore_:

Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. 5 of 6 Thomas D'Urfey 1688

Not pleas'd with this, th'art witty, and dost jeer.

Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Henry Vaughan 1658

Dull age, Oh I would spare thee, but th'art worse,

Waltoniana Inedited Remains in Verse and Prose of Izaak Walton Izaak Walton 1638

Still my sweet love with bitter lucke th'art sawcing:

The Affectionate Shepherd Richard Barnfield 1600

Come, th'art familiarly acquainted there, I grope that.

A Select Collection of Old Plays 1780

Then as there was no art in the world till by experience found out: so if Poesie be now an Art, & of al antiquitie hath bene among the Greeks and Latines, & yet were none, vntill by studious persons fashioned and reduced into a method of rules & precepts, then no doubt may there be the like with vs. And if th'art of Poesie be but a skill appertaining to vtterance, why may not the same be with vs as wel as with them, our language being no lesse copious pithie and significatiue then theirs, our conceipts the same, and our wits no lesse apt to deuise and imitate then theirs were?

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham