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Hye vs Hym - What's the difference?

hye | hym |

As an adjective hye

is .

As a verb hye

is .

As a pronoun hym is

.

hye

English

Adjective

(er)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation
    • , passage=On th' other side in all mens open vew Duessa placed is, and on a tree Sans-foy his[*] shield is hangd with bloody hew: Both those[*] the lawrell girlonds to the victor dew. 45 VI A shrilling trompet sownded from on hye , And unto battaill bad them selves addresse: Their shining shieldes about their wrestes they tye, And burning blades about their heads do blesse, The instruments of wrath and heavinesse: 50 With greedy force each other doth assayle, And strike so fiercely, that they do impresse Deepe dinted furrowes in the battred mayle; The yron walles to ward their blowes are weak and fraile. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1661, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 357, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The beauty and glory of it is yn two streetes, whereof the hye street goes from est to west, having a righte goodely crosse in the middle of it, making a quadrivium, and goeth from north to south." }}

    Verb

    (hy)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=Massacre at Paris, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=NAVARRE. And now Navarre whilste that these broiles doe last, My opportunity may serve me fit, To steale from France, and hye me to my home. }}

    hym

    English

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • * {{quote-book, year=c. 1500, author=Anonymous, title=A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=This yere the kyng toke the Ile of Cipre; and the prynce of the same ile he lete folowe hym in sylver cheynes. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=c. 1660, author=Unknown, title=A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III, chapter=The Distracted Emperor, edition= citation
    • , passage=If in thys p[ro]myst throng of future ill There may be found a way to anye good Of brave Orlando'' the great palladyne, My constant industry shall tyer the day And outwatche night but I will fynde it for hym'''; And yf to doe '''hym good-- ''Enter La Fue . }} English third person pronouns ----