Table showing decline of thou usage over time in works of Shakespeare. T/Y = thou/you proportions.
      N of all words N of you N of thou Work, Author Date Written Proportion of T to Y
      26114 181 175 I King Henry VI - Shakespeare 1589-92 97%
      30317 195 204 II King Henry VI - Shakespeare 1589-92 105%
      18272 303 134 The Comedy of Errors - Shakespeare 1592-93 44%
      35554 382 210 King Richard III - Shakespeare 1592-93 55%
      24915 509 118 The Taming of the Shrew - Shakespeare 1593-94 23%
      24539 232 173 Titus Andronicus - Shakespeare 1593-94 75%
      25958 340 93 Love's Labour's Lost - Shakespeare 1594-95 27%
      29169 291 277 Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare 1594-95 95%
      20605 322 142 The Two Gentlemen of Verona - Shakespeare 1594-95 44%
      26930 162 177 King Richard II - Shakespeare 1595-96 109%
      19475 275 116 A Midsummer Night's Dream - Shakespeare 1595-96 42%
      24644 225 176 King John - Shakespeare 1596-97 78%
      25018 441 103 The Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare 1596-97 23%
      29300 320 254 I King Henry IV - Shakespeare 1597-98 79%
      31308 498 165 II King Henry IV - Shakespeare 1597-98 33%
      29232 188 220 III King Henry IV - Shakespeare 1597-98? 117%
      25244 492 86 Much Ado About Nothing - Shakespeare 1598-99 17%
      31544 371 105 King Henry V - Shakespeare 1598-99 28%
      25674 520 142 As You Like It - Shakespeare 1599-1600 27%
      23651 390 116 Julius Caesar - Shakespeare 1599-1600 30%
      36439 549 103 Hamlet - Shakespeare 1600-01 19%
      26491 534 61 The Merry Wives of Windsor - Shakespeare 1600-01 11%
      31239 434 147 Troilus and Cressida - Shakespeare 1601-02 34%
      24061 444 131 Twelfth Night - Shakespeare 1601-02 30%
      27458 484 95 All's Well that Ends Well - Shakespeare 1602-03 20%
      26149 523 111 Measure for Measure - Shakespeare 1604-05 21%
      31678 483 142 Othello - Shakespeare 1604-05 29%
      31505 459 220 King Lear - Shakespeare 1605-06 48%
      20850 203 90 Macbeth - Shakespeare 1605-06 44%
      30857 356 180 Antony and Cleopatra - Shakespeare 1606-07 51%
      33343 630 97 Coriolanus - Shakespeare 1607-08 15%
      22383 275 195 Timon of Athens - Shakespeare 1607-08 71%
      22281 348 97 Pericles - Shakespeare 1608-09 28%
      32951 408 165 Cymbeline - Shakespeare 1609-10 40%
      29424 448 127 The Winter's Tale - Shakespeare 1610-11 28%
      19862 212 184 The Tempest - Shakespeare 1611-12 87%
      29598 417 25 King Henry VIII - Shakespeare 1612-13 6%

      N of all words N of you N of thou Work, Author Date Written Proportion of T to Y
      17697 111 235 Sonnets - Shakespeare 1593-1600 212%
      15018 10 96 Rape of Lucrece - Shakespeare 1593-94 960%
      99098 18 286 Canterbury Tales - Chaucer (Middle English) 1387-1400 1589%