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I noticed in the Gioia Diliberto article in the Smithsonian that "Patience" has a problem with her pronouns:
“Would ye with a blade at thy throat seek the [affiliation] of thine assassin?”
and
"About me ye would know much. Yesterday is dead. Let thy mind rest as to the past."
'Ye' is plural, 'thy/thine' is singular - nobody who really spoke 17th century English would use them to describe the same subject in these sentences!
Best,
Mark Bellis
reply: If the reader doesn't trust Mr. Bellis, see here and here.
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