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I now venture to quote some remarkable words from Cotgrave's well-known Dictionary, and from the Old French Dictionary by Godefroy.
It served also, as Cotgrave notes, to enforce an affirmation, as in Ouy dea , dis je; Yes, forsooth, say I.
It is a note of expostulation, as Cotgrave truly says; and it indicates despair rather than hope.
But as this interpretation was not at all obvious, or was forgotten, the familiarity of many Englishmen with the Span. Dios and the Ital. Dio may really have suggested a new interpretation in the eighteenth century; indeed, even Cotgrave seems to have had such a notion.
We notice that Cotgrave writes it with a circumflex over the a , as if it were a contracted form.