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God-a-mercy en · INTJ
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(alt-of, obsolete, pronunciation-spelling) Eye dialect spelling of God have mercy, an exclamation of dismay or of relief.
Baſt[ard]. A foot of Honor better then I was,
But many a many foot of Land the worſe.
Well, now can I make any Ioane a Lady,
Good den Sir Richard, Godamercy fellow,
And if his name be George, Ile call him Peter;
For new made honor doth forget mens names: […]
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 2:Content thee, tis no matter, and Iacke Strawe godamercie,
Herein thou haſt done good ſeruice to thy country:
VVere all inhumaine ſlaues ſo ſerued as he,
England would be ciuill, and from all ſuch dealings free.
1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act I:
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