Can I use YE to give the decree an archaic flavour?

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Should anyone act otherwise by cowering back from the battlefields or becoming clandestine collaborators with the enemies, we shall execute them promptly without clemency. Ye, ministers and generals, all with a loyal heart, act in unison to vent the indignation both divine and human. I have high expectation of this. This is your Sovereign's edict.

Can I use YE to give the decree an archaic flavour?

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Verily, yea, tis both right and proper such declarations of thoust, my most Royal of Royal highnesses, useth such applications and accoutrements to embellish and refine your most wondrous words.

Your most humble servant,

Joe(well, not so humble)Nation

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Joe has the flavor.

I wouldn't put a comma between "Ye" and "ministers".

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Ye, ministers and generals, all with a loyal heart, act in unison to vent the indignation both divine and human. I have high expectation of this. This is your Sovereign's edict.

"Ye" isn't a separate category. "Ye" is being used for "you".

I'd pluralize "expectations".

Also, figure out exactly what your Sovereign is asking of his minions.

They are loyal...they are to act together to complain for themselves and for the gods...?

This doesn't seem logical to me.

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Your sentence is:

Ye, ministers and generals, all with a loyal heart, act in unison to vent the indignation both divine and human

I's suggest:

Thus, ministers and generals. with a loyal heart, act in unison to vent the indignation, both divine and human.

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...and of course, there is no period after ministers and generals . . .

I see that sentence as an ORDER to act.

Thus, the suggested "thus".

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