French, oyez (hear ye).
“Fame with her loudʹst O yes!
Cries, ‘This is he.ʹ”
Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.