abbreviation of it is, formerly common in prose, now poetic or archaic; see also IT A. γ.
c. 1450. Mankind, 821, in Macro Plays, 30. Alas! tys pety yt schuld be þus.
a. 1566. R. Edwardes, Damon & Pithias (1744), 280. Tis a pestens queen.
1598–. [see IT A. γ].
