ay me
English
Interjection
- (now archaic) Expressing grief, sorrow etc.
- c.1595, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, First Folio, 1623:
- Ay me, it is my husband.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: […] Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II. 8:
- Ay-me, to whom did I reserve, to discover that singular and loving affection, which in my soule I bare unto him?
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV:
- Ay me! they little know / How dearly I abide that boast so vain […].
- c.1595, William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, First Folio, 1623:
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