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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Go, v. Also: goe, gone. Pres. t. gois, goys, goith, goth. Pres. p. goande. P.p. gone, gon, goyn. [ME. go, gone; adopted from Eng. poetry in place of Sc. Ga, sometimes for rhyme, and not used in prose before the middle of the 16th c.] intr. To go in various senses.Some of the examples in early texts may have been substituted for ga, etc., by the later scribes or printers.(a) c1450-2 Howlat 86.
I will go to that gud a1500 Henr. Orph. 398.
Flatlyngis he fell and mycht no forther go c1475 Wall. xi. 1234.
This is the fyrst [point], or that we forthyr go c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 137.
Scho bad hir archearis kene Go me arrest 1513 Doug. ii. vii. 133.
Pelyas slawly mycht onethis go Ib. vi. x. 40.
To … go in karalyng Ib. ix. ii. 42.
Go to, ȝyng gallandis 1535 Stewart 39533.
This wyne and aill syne haif tha maid till go Abundantlie vnto this King Sweno c1550 Rolland Ct. Venus ii. 153.
He tuik his anter, and inwart can he go 1584 Sat. P. xlv. 406.
Goe, tak the first seye of hir yoursell 1587-99 Hume iii. 219.
Go, billie, turne our gude about, Now time is to go hame(b) a1500 Henr. Bludy Serk 71.
Ellis in begging evir to gone a1500 Bk. Chess 398.
He set a navyne to the se to gone [: anone] Ib. 450.
This worthy victor wald no ferther gone a1500 Lanc. 978.
Fourty thousand armyt men haith he … Commandit to the batell for to gon 1501 Doug. Pal. Hon. iii. 10.
Now breiflie to my purpois for till gone 1535 Stewart 57648.
Quhen tha war reddie in the feild to gone 15.. Clar. iii. 300.
On hors ascendit he anone, And diverse lordis maid with him to gone(c) a1500 Bk. Chess 19.
Sum gois to dyse thair lewdness for to schaw a1500 Lanc. 789.
The clariounis blew and furth goth al onon Ib. 3232.
Don goith his sper c1500-c1512 Dunb. iv. 17.
Onto the ded gois all estatis Ib. xxi. 43.
Fra euerylk e gois luke demure 1513 Doug. ii. x. 65.
Quhy gois thou mad? Ib. iii. ii. 142.
So that cornys and fruitis gois to wraik Ib. v. xi. 97.
Quhat pays goys scho now? a1568 Bann. MS. 134 a/13.
My heid gois to, and all is bair 1561 Q. Kennedy Oratioune 18.
Ane thristie manne … goande by ane tauerne c1650 Spalding I. 213.
The Lord Aboyne … gois aboord in his awin schip(c) a1500 Henr. Orph. 393.
Pluto com anon And vnto hell agayn with hir is gone a1500 Gol. & Gaw. 36.
All thair vittalis war gone a1500 Bk. Chess 86.
The wysmen … That couth nocht reid the dremys that war gone c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 2.
Quhen gon to bed war Vesper and Lucyne Id. xxx. 36.
In it haif I in pulpet gon and preichit 1513 Doug. iii. v. 107.
Quhat wyndis thi cowrs has hyddyr gone? Ib. xi. xv. 146.
The spreyt of lyfe … dovn to the gostis is goyn [: grone] 1535 Stewart 35459.
Malcolme als departit was and gone 1549 Compl. 72/1.
O ignorant … peple, gone by the pathvaye of verteouse knaulage 1567 G. Ball. 33.
God will … thé returne, thocht thow to graue wer gone 1660 Melrose Reg. Rec. I. 300.
In summer gone a yeire