"And kynd defensis can Troianis prouide,

"Threw stanis doun, and SHOTYS here and thare,
"At euery part or opin fenister."

Douglas, booke 9, pag. 296.

"The archer SHETYNGE in this bowe is Cryste." Diues and Pauper, 8th comm. chap. 15.

"Eke Hanniball when fortune him OUTSHIT

"Clene from his reigne, and from all his entent."
Songes, c. by the earle of Surrey, &c. fol. 20, pag. 1.
""Tis one of those odd tricks which sorow SHOOTS
"Out of the minde."

Antony and Cleopatra, pag. 358.

"I shall heare abide the hourely SHOT

"Of angry eyes."

"Another soul into my body SHOT."

Cymbeline, p. 370.

B. and Fletcher, act 1.

The French used formerly this same word in the same general meaning....." Les autres Nes qui nerent mie cele par guenchies, furent entrees en "boche d'Auie; et ce est la, ou li Braz Sain Iorge "CHIET en la grant mer.”

Ville Hardhuin, Edit. 1601, pag. 18.

I have already said, that it is common to all the verbs whose characteristic letter is I or y, to form the past tense in this manner; and our ancestors wrote it ad libitum, either with o, or a broad, or ou, or oo, or u, or I short.

That a SHOT....from a gun or bow, or other machine, means....something cast or thrown forth, needs neither instance nor explanation to persuade you. But a SHOT window may require both.

"And forth he goth, ielous and amerous,

"Tyl he came to the carpenters hous,

"A lytel after the cockes had ycrowe,

"And dressed him by a SHOт wyndowe."

Myller's Tale, fol 13, pag. 1, col. 1.

"Quharby the day was dawing wele I knew;
"Bad bete the fyre, and candyll alicht,

"Syne blissit me, and in my wedis dicht;

"Ane SCHOт Wyndo unschet any litel on char."

Douglas, prol. to booke 7, pag. 202.

A SHOT window means a projected window, thrown out beyond the rest of the front: what we now call a bow window. And this was a very common method in our antient houses (many of which still remain ;) and was a circumstance worth the painting poet's notice; as affording a much better station for the serenading clerk Absolon (whom I think I now see) than that which Mr. Urry and Mr. Tyrwhitt assign to him().

When Speed (in the Two Gentlemen of Verona, pag. 27,) says to Launce...." Ile to the alehouse "with you presently; where for one SHOT of five pence, thou shalt haue five thousand welcomes;" but that....for five pence .....What else does he say,

cast down, or for one cast of five pence, he shall have five thousand welcomes?

A SHOTTEN herring, is a herring which has cast or thrown forth its spawn.

A SHOOT of a tree, (in Italian SCHIATTA(2), which is the same participle) is....that which the tree has cast forth, or thrown forth.

(y) Mr. Urry alters the text to "SHOP" window.

Mr. Tyrwhitt retains SHOT window; but says....." This is, I 66 suppose, a window that was SHUT."

(2) Ferrari derives SCHIATTA from "caudex, caudico, ciocco, “ caudicata, schiatta :" or from " scaturiendo” : or from “ scapus.”

"Quhare stude ane wod, with scHOUTAND bewis schene."
Douglas, boke 6, pag. 189.

A SHOUT (" a word, says Johnson, of which no "etymology is known") is no other than the same participle differently spelled, and applied to sound thrown forth from the mouth.

"The nobles bended as to Ioue's statue, and the commons "made a shower and thunder, with their caps and SHOWTS." Coriolanus, pag. 11.

"You SHOOT me forth in acclamations hyperbolical,
"As if I lou'd my little should be dieted

"As they would hang them on the hornes o' th' moone,
"SHOOTING their emulation." Coriolanus, pag. 2.
"UNSHOOT the noise that banish'd Martius;
"Repeale him."

Coriolanus, pag. 29.

SHUT and SHIT are also the past tense (and therefore past participle) of the verb to shite. And though, according to the modern fashion, we now write....to shut the door....the common people. generally pronounce it more properly and nearly to the original verb, and say....to shet the door: which means to throw or cast the door to. But formerly it was otherwise written and pronounced: nor had a false delicacy proscribed a very innocent and decent word, till affectation made it otherwise.

Menage disapproves these, and says...." Crederei piutosto deri66 vasse da planta, exsplanta, schianta, schiatta." And, upon second thoughts, is so well satisfied with this latter derivation from planta; that his crederei piutosto is converted into....“ Ne "viene al sicuro."

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"Forsothe bifore the faith cam, we weren kepte under the "lawe SHIT togidir in to that faith that was to be shewid. And "so the lawe was oure litel mastir in Crist."

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Galatheis, chap. ii. (v. 23, 24.)

"These han power of SHITTYNG heuen, that yt reyne not Apocalips, chap. xi. (v. 6.) ́

"in the daies of her prophecie."

"There Christ is in kingedome to close and to SHIT,
"And to open it to hem, and heuens blisse shewe."
Vis. of P. Ploughman, pass. 1, fol. 2, pag. 2.
"Marchaunts meten with him and made him abide
"And SHITTE hym in her shoppes to shewen her ware."
Vis. of P. Ploughman, pass. 3, fol. xi, pag. 1.

“For there is none so lytel thyng

"So hyd ne closed with SHYTTYNG
"That it ne is sene."

Rom. of the Rose, fol. 127, pag. 2, col. 1.
"And the sothfast garner of the holy grayne,
"As saith Guydo, was a mayde swete,
"In whome was SHYTTE, sothely for to sayne,
"The sacred store."

Lydgate, Lyfe of our Lady, pag. 128.

"For of her wombe the cloyster virginall
"Was euer eliche bothe firste and laste
"Closed and SHYTTE, as castell pryncipall,

"For the holy ghoste deuised it and caste,

"And at bothe tymes SHYTTE as lyke faste

"In her chyldynge no more through grace ybroke,
"Than at her conceyuynge than it was unloke."

Lyfe of our Lady, pag. 210.

"Fader Joseph, ye knowe well that ye buryed the body of "Jhesu, and, fader, ye knowe well that we SHYTTE you in "prison, and we coude not fynde you therin, and therfore tell ❝us what befell there. Then Joseph answered and sayd, Whan ye dyde SHYTTE me in the close pryson" &c.

Nychodemus Gospell, chap. 13,

"Than they lad them in to theyr synagoge, and whan they "had SHYTTE the dores surely they toke theyr lawes &c."

Nychodemus Gospell, chap. 15.

Nychodemus Gospell, chap. 15.

"SHYTTE myghtely your gates with yren barres."

"All the gates and SHYTTYNGES with yren barres and boltes "all to braste in his holy comynge.”

Nychodemus Gospell, chap. 16.

"Whan man or woman sholde pray, they sholde go in to "theyr chambre and SHYTTE the dore to them. The dore that "we sholde SHYTTE ben our fyue wyttes outwarde, to flee "dystraccion." Diues and Pauper, firste comm. cap. 54.

"She saye, that she hadde leuer to SHYTTE herselfe all "quyck in the graue, than to harme eny soule that God made "to his lykenesse." Diues and Pauper, 10th comm. cap. 4.

"The yates of this cyte shall neuer be SHYTTE."

Diues and Pauper, 10th comm. cap. 11.

"Sometymes the mouth of the matrice is so large and ample "that it cannot conueniently SHYTTE itselfe together, nether 66 contayne the feture or conception."

Byrth of Mankynde, fol. 41, pag. 1.

"And holding out her fyngers, SHYTTING together her "hand, &c. Byrthe of Mankynde, fol. 51, pag. 1.

"The woman fealeth her matrice verye fastelye enclosed and SHYTTE in so muche &c.

Byrthe of Mankynde, fol. 84, pag. 2. "The foure sayde bishoppes denounced kynge Ihon with ❝his realme of Englande accursed, and SHITTE faste the doores "of the churches." Fabian, pag. 28.

"That boke whiche as sainct Iohan saith in the Apocalyps " is so SHYT with vii clapses, that it cannot be opened but by the "lambe, that whan he SHYTTETH, then can no man open it, and "whan he openeth it, than can no man SHYT it."

Sir T. Mores workes. A dialogue, 1st boke, pag. 111. "The temple of Christ is mans harte, and God is not ❝included nor SHIT in any place."

Sir T. Mores workes. A dialogue, c. pag. 122.