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ye1 you. Ye was in common use during the Middle Ages, but today is used mainly in religious and literary writings.
ye2 the. Ye is a misreading of an old spelling of "the" in which the letter for the "th" sound looked like a "y." When stores today put "ye" on their signs, they do so in order to look old-fashioned.