The plays and poems of William Shakespeare

with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators: comprehending a life of the poet, and an enlarged history of the stage

Quia mitri misero cerebrum excutiunt Tua dicta, soror : lapides loqueris.
STEEVENS. 5 — be SHENT,] To shend, is to reprove harshly, to treat with rough
language. So, in The Coxcomb of Beaumont and Fletcher: " — — We shall be
shent ...