or tone, indef. prons. (once literary: now vulgar).—The other; the one (THE = thet, the old neuter article); TONE AND TOTHER = both; TOTHER-EMMY = the others.
[12(?). Old English Homilies of the Twelfth Century, ‘St. Andrew,’ 2 S. 175. ÞAT ON is Seint peter and þAT OÐER is Seint andreu.]
1340. RICHARD ROLLE OF HAMPOLE, English Prose Treatises [E.E.T.S.], 29. Þou sulde doo bathe … þe TANE AND ÞE TOÞER.
1360. CHAUCER, The Romaunt of the Rose, 5559.
| For the TOON yeveth conysaunce, | |
| And the TOTHER ignoraunce. |
1380. WYCLIF, Bible, Luke xvi. 13. He schal hate oon, and loue the TOTHIR.
[?]. MS. Cantab., Ff. ii. 38. f. 74, ‘Syr Tryamoure.’
| The TOTHER day, on the same wyse, | |
| As the kynge fro the borde can ryse. |
1530. TYNDALE [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, i. 429. Tyndale sometimes, like his enemy More, uses the old form of 1180, ‘THE TONE, THE TOTHER.’]
1551. MORE, Worship of Images, ‘Utopia,’ Int. xci. Many other thinges touchyng the pestilent secte of Luther and Tyndale, by the TONE bygone in Saxony: and by the TOTHER laboured to be brought into England.
1565–7. GOLDING, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, ‘Pref.,’ sign. A7.
| And where the TONE gives place, | |
| There still the other presseth in his place. | |
| Ibid., ii. 9. | |
| So was Licaon made a Woolfe: and Ioue became a Bull: | |
| The TONE for vsing crueltie, the TOTHER for his trull. |
1573. TUSSER, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie, 145 [T. L. KINGTON-OLIPHANT, The New English, i. 583. The old THE TONE (here followed by THE TOTHER) is contracted into TONE].
d. 1586. SIR P. SYDNEY, Harington’s Ariosto, Notes, Bxi.
| As far from want, as far from vaine expence; | |
| TONE doth enforce, the other doth entice. |
1591. HARINGTON, Ariosto, i. 18.
| And that with force, with cunning, nor with paine, | |
| The TONE of them could make the other yield. |
1727. GAY, The Beggars’ Opera, ii. 2.
| Mac. How happy could I be with either | |
| Were T’OTHER dear charmer away! |
