How do you say had in Shakespearean language?

Answer 1

"Shakespearean language" is in fact English. Now, what is "but" in English?

While you are trying to figure that out, here are some quotations:

"Who would these fardels bear,

To grunt and sweat under a weary life,

But that the dread of something after death-

The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn

No traveller returns- puzzles the will . . ." (Part of the "To be or not to be" speech in Hamlet 3,1)

"He was my friend, faithful and just to me:

But Brutus says he was ambitious;

And Brutus is an honourable man." (Part of the "Friends, Romans, Countrymen" speech in Julius Caesar 3,2. The word appears seven more times in this one speech alone.)

"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?

Deny thy father and refuse thy name;

Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,

And I'll no longer be a Capulet." (From the balcony scene of Romeo and Juliet 2,2)

"Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour

Draws on apace; four happy days bring in

Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow

This old moon wanes!" (very first lines of A Midsummer Night's Dream)

For more, pick any play and randomly pick any line.

Answer 2

Shakespeare's language is English, and so as a result, his word for "had" was "had". "The Thane of Fife had a wife--where is she now?" (Macbeth)

Answer 3

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