Meaning of shrow | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“What Hawke can sit, in peace for carraine crow? What tongue can scape, the skolding of a shrow.”

“For Neptune ioyned with Pallas, and Iuno Dame that shrowe, Had enterprisde to bind his hands, & down the heauens him throwe.”

“Hortensio. Now go thy ways; thou hast tam’d a curst shrow. Lucentio. ’Tis a wonder, by your leave, she will be tam’d so.”

“Any Man of Wit and Sense like us, Charms all Women, as one Key unlocks all Doors at Court—Nay, I’ll say a bold word for my self, Turn me to the sharpest Shrow that ever Bit or Scratch’d, if I do not make her feed out of my hand like a tame Pidgeon, may I be condemn’d to lye with my Wife.”

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