Citations:'tshall

English citations of 'tshall

• 1694, Titus Maccius Plautus, Platutus’s Comedies, Amphistryon, Epidicus, and Rudens^[1], page 100:

  As I’m a living Soul, if I once lay hands on him, ’tſhall ne’r be ſaid that a pitiful Slave abus’d his Maſter without Puniſhment.

• 1773, John Byrom, Miscellaneous Poems^[2], page 146:

  Do ? ſays he, gravely—what I did before ;
  What I have done theſe thirty Years, and more ̊;
  Carry, as I am like to do, my Pack,
  Glad to maintain my Belly by my Back ;
  If that but hold, I care not ; for my Part,
  Come as come will, ’tſhall never break my Heart ;
  I don’t ſee Folks that fight about their Thrones,
  Whoe’er gets better, when the Battle’s fought,
  Thy Pay nor mine will be advanc’d a Groat—
  — But to the Purpoſe—now we are met here,
  I’ll join, it t’will, for one full Mug of Beer.

• 1908, William Stanley Braithwaite, The Book of Elizabethan Verse^[3], page 386:

  ’Tshall be a dewdrop, and therein
  Of Cupids I will have a twin
  Which struggling, with their wings shall break
  The bubble, out of which shall leak
  So sweet a liquor, as shall move
  Each thing that smells, to be in love.