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…showed last 75 words of 271 total…thou wast and thou wert) and in the odd use of "be" for plural present. "Rub a dub dub / Three men in a tub / And who do you think they be?" "The powers that be." 2. The modals cause trouble: would and should are past tense version of will (variants of will are wull and woll) and shall. Could was developed by adding an l on analogy with would and should; otherwise, it should be "coud."