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shooke

n. (en-simple past of: shake); (archaic spelling of shook nocap=1 English)

Usage examples of "shooke".

So as they gazed after her a while,Lo where a griesly Foster forth did rush,Breathing out beastly lust her to defile:His tyreling iade he fiercely forth did push,Through thicke and thin, both ouer banke and bushIn hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke,That from his gorie sides the bloud did gush:Large were his limbes, and terrible his looke,And in his clownish hand a sharp bore speare he shooke.

Thus heard I cryen all, And fast they came out of the hall, And shooke *nobles and sterlings,* *coins And some y-crowned were as kings, With crownes wrought fall of lozenges.