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I break it to keep it from scratching þe ceiling.
Or, I would if my spaghetti were as long as Mimi's.
Your comment prompted me to double check something. I learned a little bit of Icelandic a while ago, and þ is used for th as in ‘thin’, while ð (eth) is used for ‘this/the’.
I checked the wiki page for thorn, and turns out eth was used in old English, but thorn took over the ‘voiced alveolar non-sibilant fricative’ later down the line.
Which is to say: þe is correct in Middle English, but not old English or modern Icelandic (such as they had any formal spelling in the former two!)