Shal Quotes
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Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee, And nat to been
constreyned as a thral; And so doon men, if
I sooth seyen shal.
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More Shal Quotes
Therfore bihoveth hire a ful long spoon That shal ete with a feend.
Geoffrey Chaucer— The Squire's Tale, l. 594-95.
Love is a thyng as any spirit free. Wommen, of kynde, desiren libertee, And nat to been constreyned as a thral; And so doon men, if I sooth seyen shal.
Geoffrey Chaucer— The Franklin's Tale, l. 767-770.
Yblessed be god that I have wedded fyve! Welcome the sixte, whan that evere he shal.
Geoffrey Chaucer— 1387 Canterbury Tales,'The Wife of Bath's Prologue', l.44-5.
Therefore it behooveth hire a full long spoon That shal ete with a feend.
Geoffrey Chaucer— Geoffrey Chaucer, The Squire's Tale, line 602. Same idea in George Meriton, Praise of Yorkshire Ale. Dekker, Batchelars' Banquet, Works, I. 170. (Grosart's ed). Heywood, Proverbs, Part II, Chapter V. Kemp, Nine Days Wonder (1600). Marlowe, Jew of Malta, III, IV. Comedy of Errors, IV, III. 64. Tempest, II. 2
