Citations:shend

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English citations of shend and shende

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  • Late 14th century: Þou seyest, riȝt as womes shende a tree, / Riȝt so a wyf destroyeþ hire housbounde — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
  • 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, IV, ii, 112
    Alas sir be patient. What say you sir, I am shent for speaking to you.
  • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act III, Scene II, verses 122, 124-127
    Is this your gentle niece — […]
    this meek lady
    Here sitting like an angel newly-shent,
    Who veils its snowy wings and grows all pale, —
    Is she nothing ?