Citations:shend

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 ?