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What is has in Elizabethan English?

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Shakespeare's language was English, and "has" is "has". An example is "Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look: he thinks too much: such men are dangerous." (Julius Caesar). Sometimes, though, Shakespeare uses the word "hath" instead (this is a holdover from Middle English, the language of Chaucer two hundred years earlier), and his choice of one or the other appears to be random. A good example is Banquo's line in Macbeth: "The earth hath bubbles as the water has."

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