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Contractions: 

T'was, T'is, is't, e'en, o'er, ne'er, twere. 

Don't use modern contractions, say both words instead. 

Don't use "ain't" It wasn't developed yet. 

Don't use modern Americanisms, such as Yeah, Sure, Nope, Uh-huh, 
Y'know, Okay. 

Never use sh for st sounds. Americans tend to tush a t followed 
by a y or i sound into a ch sound so Got you becomes Gotcha. 

The next hurdles is Thee/Thou versus You: English at one time 
had it's formal and informal modes. The formal, used to one's 
social superiors and strangers to whom one wished to be polite 
was 'You'. The informal, used to one's intimates of social 
inferiors was 'thou'. 

"How are you?" can appropriately be said to your parents, your 
employer, any noble person, and person you are flattering and 
horses, because they are noble creatures. 

Whereas, "How art thou?" would be appropriately said to your 
spouse, your close friends, your children, your servants, any 
person you are insulting, inanimate objects and Gods. 

If you think about this list, you can see that nobody ever, 
calls the Queen thou; and she doesn't have to call anyone you 
--- unless she talks to her horse. 

Don't make the mistake of assuming that thee and thou are only 
two different forms of the same word, they aren't. Thou is a 
subject of sentences, as in "What hast thou done?" and thee 
is the object of sentances, as in "I shall tell thee a secret." 

And what about all those antique verb forms -- those ost, est and 
eth words? Well here are some examples: 

I do             Thou Dost 
You do.          He/She/It doth (or does)  

I love           Thou Lovest 
You love.        He/She/It Loveth  
I have loved     Thou hast loved 
You have loved.  He/She/It hath loved  


As you can see, the antique verbs are used with the second person 
intimate, the third person -- never with the first person. 

Here's the possessive form: 
Thy is a possessive used before a constant, "Thy rod, thy staff" 
Thine is the possessive used before words beginning with a vowel, 
"Thine eyes." 

The same rules as above apply to my and mine. 

The possesive for You doesn't change it is "Your."