Shent

'I could stay all day with him', laughs Favilla, 'if I feared not to be shent' (152-3).

Alas, alas, my name is shent! All men may me now dyspyse And seyn: "Olde cokwold, thi bow is bent Newly now after the Frensche gyse!" (12, 49-56) Joseph prompts "all olde men" to take in the full horror of his situation and, motivated by that sight, to resolve never to marry a young woman.

O heart, lose not thy nature; let not ever The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom; Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none; My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites, How in my words so ever she be shent.

Shaofeng Rut [dagger], Maoxing Shent [double dagger] and Xifeng Xue #

learn Though that I for my prymer shal be shent for my not learning lessons; scolded And shal be beten thries in an houre, I wol it konne Oure Lady for to honoure!

Lo this I speak for our defence, lest of others we should be shent: But worthy audience, we you pray, take things as they be meant; Whose upright judgment we do crave with heedful ear and eye To hear the cause and see th' effect of this new tragical comedy.

To hys part them selues sorewhat bent Now they fere they shall be shent Soche gostlye sedes had they sowne.

Alas, alas, my name is shent! All men may me now dyspyse And seyn, `Olde cokwold, pi bowe is bent Newly now aftyr pe Frensche gyse.' (12.49-56)

"Alas alas, my name is shent!/ All men may me now dyspyse." He