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pardy

help with synonyms  synonyms: pardy, perdie, pardee, parde, pardie, perdy ???
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Definition:
indeed, literally "by God""
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Ther been ful goode Wyves many oon
Why artow angry, wit my tale now
I haue a Wyf pardee, as wel as thow (the p with the + is a ligature for "par")

Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Prologue, p 94
Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales
(pardee is used 50 times in Canterbury Tales)
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HAMLET Ah, ha! — Come, some music! Come, the recorders! — For if the king like not the comedy, Why then, belike he likes it not, perdy.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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