Note 195 — III
Reading edition
Thus Wallis (Gramm. Ling. Anglic., 1654): Singulari numero siquis alium compellet, vel dedignantis illud esse solet, vel familiariter blandientis. [For a good discussion of the old use of ‘thou’, see the Hares, Guesses at Truth, 1847, pp. 169-90. Even at the present day a Wessex matron has been known to resent the too familiar address of an inferior with the words, “Who bist thou a-theein’ of”? (The Spectator, 1904, Sept. 3, p. 319).]