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Thusgat(is, adv. Also: thusgate(s, -gait(s, -gaittis, thisgait. [ME þus-gat, -gates (both Cursor M.), þus-gate (Havelok), þus-gatis (c1400); Thus adv. and Gate n.¹ 5.] = Thus adv. 1 a, b, c.(1) 1375 Barb. i 275.
Thus-gat levyt thai & in sic thrillage 1375 Barb. iii 267.
Thusgat thaim confort the king ?1438 Alex. ii 2425.
Thusgate of me hapned is a1487 Gud Wyf & D. 66.
Men will presoyme … that scho dois it for paramour, And thus-gat faid sall hir honour(b) ?1438 Alex. ii 1609.
Thusgait on baith the halfis remouit The oistis(c) 1375 Barb. xix 613 (C).
Thusgatis spekand, thai held thar way ?1438 Alex. ii 2662.
Gif thare wrath be … Mak him ȝour freind … Thusgates suld gud men treatit be(d) ?1438 Alex. i 75.
Thir knichtis … Raid weill as furreouris that nicht With leggis armit [etc.] … And thusgaittis all the nicht thay raid(e) a1500 Henr. Fab. 697.
Bot to the tod this [Bann. thus] gait the volf couth mele(2) c1400 Troy-bk. ii 2576.
Of Pryamis sonnis I ame one, And am thusgatis throw Pirrus tone a1500 K. Hart 395.
Dame Plesance sad sall we thus gate be lost 1513 Doug. x i 34.
Than war the tyme to rug and reif thus gait(3) a1400 Leg. S. i 430.
And blissit it and syne it lade In his slefe, and thusgat sade [etc.] a1500 Henr. Orph. 133.
And to his harp thusgate he maid his mone. ‘O dulfull harpe [etc.]’ 1513 Doug. ii xi 16.
Anchises … Lyft eyn and handis to hevyn, and thusgatis said: ‘O thou almychty Jupiter [etc.]’ 1560 Rolland Seven S. 8333.
Dioclesiane thus gaits his taill began