Brewer's: O Yes'! O Yes! O Yes!

French, oyez (hear ye).

Fame with her londst O yes! Cries. `This is he.'

Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, iv. 5.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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