may't in English

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          "ref": "1699, Desiderius Erasmus, Twenty‐two Select Colloquies out of Erasmus Roterodamus, page 261",
          "text": "How long may’t be, ſince we Four were in Penſion together at Paris ?",
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"may't" meaning in English

Contraction