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- Late 14th century: Þou seyest, riȝt as womes shende a tree, / Riȝt so a wyf destroyeþ hire housbounde — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath's Tale’, Canterbury Tales
- 1601, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, IV, ii, 112
- Alas sir be patient. What say you sir, I am shent for speaking to you.
- 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act III, Scene II, verses 122, 124-127
- Is this your gentle niece —
- this meek lady
- Here sitting like an angel newly-shent,
- Who veils its snowy wings and grows all pale, —
- Is she nothing ?