ow'st
English
Verb
ow'st
- Alternative form of owest.
- Alternative form of ownest.
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 18”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC, signature C, verso:
- And euery faire from faire ſome-time declines, \ By chance, or natures changing courſe vntrim'd: \ But thy eternall Sommer ſhall not fade, \ Nor looſe poſſeſſion of that faire thou ow'ſt, \ Nor ſhall death brag thou wandr'ſt in his ſhade, \ When in eternall lines to time thou grow'ſt,