Elizabethan English

[deckardcanine]

In days of Queen Elizabeth I,
The language rather differed from today’s.
A lot of people now are not well-versed
In using it in quite authentic ways.
The suffix “-eth,” equivalent to “-s,”
Does not belong on every single verb.
A man might say, “Thou dost”—but not to Bess;
At best, such talk would send him to the curb,
For tho the KJV says “Thou” to God,
It mostly was considered too informal.
And using “thee” as subject would be odd,
For only as an object was it normal.
You may not be Shakespearean, but now
I hope you have a better grasp of how.