What does how now mean?

how now

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.91 in modern English

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"How now ſir Iohn, what are you brawling here? Doth this become your place, your time, and buſineſſe?"
"How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!"
""How now, you scullions and cullions: bring hither a pair of cow's hooves to out face this contumelious caitiff.""

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