Tho

Certainly most have the Spanish pox, or, as some call it, the French, tho it be common to all nations.

1481, William Caxton, The History Reynard the Foxː Tho went I near and found Master Reynard, that had left that he first read and sang, and began to play his old play.

Tho to a hill his faynting flocke he ledde.

Tho, her avizing of the vertues rare / Which thereof spoken were, she gan againe / Her to bethink of that mote to her selfe pertaine.

1642, Henry More, Song Soulː Tho I gan closely on his person look.

The English are told as children that maize is food for pigs, and tho Americans eat maizebread with pleasure and have recently done so to a huge extent in order to make possible exports of wheat to Europe, the English persist in their unfounded prejudice against it.

I wonder now when I will find time to read it but it is a treasure anyway tho heavy in my knapsack, […]