Another sayd to vaspasian/ And a wolf shold sonner change his skyn and heer/ than thou sholdest cha[=u]ge thy lyf For the lenger thou lyvest the more thou coueytest And he answerd of thyse wordes we ought to laughe.
Galeren sayth in Alexandrye/ yf yre or wrath ouercome the whan thou sholdest gyue Iugement/ weye all thinge in y'e balance so that thy Iugement be not enclyned by loue ne by yeste/ ne fauour of persone torne not thy corage.
Sir John fforster, Jamye," shee sayd; "methinks thou sholdest better know him then I.
Thou art a madman, said the sheriffe, 205 Thou sholdest have had a knights fee: But seeing thy asking hath beene soe bad, Well granted it shale be.
And eek that thou no wepne hast in this place, Thou sholdest never out of this grove pace, That thou ne sholdest dyen of myn hond.
And nat only that god forbad avoutrie in dede, but eek he comanded that thou sholdest nat coveite thy neighebores wyf.
And therfore seyth Seint Augustin: 'if thou hast desdayn of thy servant, if he agilte or sinne, have thou thanne desdayn that thou thy-self sholdest do sinne.
But had I the in grene wode, Under my trystell tre, 70 Thou sholdest leve me a better wedde Than thy trewe lewte.
For if thou therfor wenest thy-self nat weleful, for thinges that tho semeden ioyful ben passed, ther nis nat why thou sholdest wene thy-self a wrecche; for thinges that semen now sorye passen also.
In the whiche thinges, yif ther be no beautee to ben desyred, why sholdest thou ben sory yif thou lese hem, or why sholdest thou reioysen thee to holden hem?
This and that seeth thi soule, And seith it in thin herte; And for thow sholdest ben y-war, I wisse thee the beste.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sholdest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
