Ye Olde English....typcial expressions?

Question

I need a couple of expressions that sound as if they come from about the 1500s (though anything will do!!). The expressions I am looking for are those that a religious person would say, such as " God bless his soul" or "in the year of our Lord [year goes here]". Any old English expressions that can be slipped in!
Thanks!

Answer 1

These expressions appear in the Bible (King James Version):

1) Grace be with thee.
2) All the saints salute you.

Answer 2

Hmm...something I saw in Pirates of the Caribbean was, "May God have mercy on your soul." Also, btw, for some reason the "ye" in "Ye Olde English" is pronounced like, "thee." I can't remember why, but it had something to do with representing the th with a y. Um...gosh, I'll have to think about that one.

Answer 3

WONDER by my troth, what thou, and I
Did, till we lov'd? were we not wean'd till then?
But suck'd on countrey pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den?
T'was so; But this, all pleasures fancies bee. 5
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desir'd, and got, t'was but a dreame of thee.

And now good morrow to our waking soules,
Which watch not one another out of feare;
For love, all love of other sights controules, 10
And makes one little roome, an every where.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,
Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have showne,
Let us possesse one world, each hath one, and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares, 15
And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest,
Where can we finde two better hemispheares
Without sharpe North, without declining West?
What ever dyes, was not mixt equally;
If our two loves be one, or, thou and I 20
Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.


"The Good Morrow" by John Donne.

Answer 4

Welsh expression: You poor uneducated soul

Answer 5

Wend hither, thou crusty botch of nature!

(Especially fitting when a knave speketh to thee, and thou willest not to listen.)