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- verb Obsolete form of
shouldst .
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Examples
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What, dost thou start? why, so I meant thou shou'dst.
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And when thou shou'dst inform, thou fly'st the Sight.
The Lady's Looking-Glass, To Dress Herself by: or The Art of Charming 1697
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What pity 'tis that thou shou'dst serve this Party?
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Is't possible thou shou'dst have perceiv'd it already?
Sir Patient Fancy 1678
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_ I know not what my Stars have decreed, but I shall be glad if they have ordain'd me to fight with _Daring_: -- by thy concern thou shou'dst be he?
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664
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I writ it out now, because I had a mind thou shou'dst see't; for I can hide nothing from thee.
The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664
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_ Thou shou'dst have told him I was confin'd to my Chamber upon my
The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I Aphra Behn 1664
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