Note 275 — THE PROLOGUE.
Reading edition
[A play on shall and shale (or shell).] Churchyard, in his "Challenge," 1593, says—
"Thus all with shall; or shalles ye shal be fed."
The old editions spell it shales, and it is not a very forced construction to suppose that Mounchensey, complaining of Clare's want of faith, uses the word shalls in the sense of promises; and this seems to be the real meaning of the quotation from Churchyard.—Collier.