shoulden
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editshoulden
- (obsolete) plural simple past of shall
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 18, verso:
- How ſhoulden ſhepheardes liue, if not ſo?
- 1614, John Davies of Hereford, An Eclogue between yong Willy the Singer of his native Pastorals, and old Wernocke his Friend:
- For thy we shoulden take keepe of our Race
- 1614, William Browne, The Shepheards Pipe. The First Eclogue:
- And told them whither that they shoulden go.