Strictly speaking it should rhyme with 'day' according to the new pronunciation (what I learned at school). But William Dunbar seems to have rhymed it with 'dee' in accordance with the old pronunciation (what my father learned at school0, and what's good enough for Dunbar should be good enough for the likes of us.
The stait of man dois change and vary,
Now sound, now seik, now blith, now sary,
Now dansand mery, now like to dee;
Timor mortis conturbat me.
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