"To-broken ben the Statutes hie in heven;"
and also in the _Vision of Piers Ploughman_ (p. 156. ed.
Wright):
"The bagges and the bigirdles
He hath to-broke them all."
And Mr. Wright very properly remarks, that "_to_- prefixed in
composition to verbs of Anglo-Saxon origin, has the same force
as the German _zu_, giving to the word the idea of destruction
or deterioration."]
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