An obsolete or archaic variant spelling of 'country'; a nation or geographic region.
Another spelling variant of country, reflecting the fluid orthography of Middle and Early Modern English before standardization in the 17th-18th centuries.
You'll encounter 'countrie' in Early Modern texts and it's a reminder that when Shakespeare wrote, there was no 'correct' spelling yet—writers and printers just spelled words the way they sounded or felt right to them.
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