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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

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