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Need'st means (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of need.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of need.
If that be all, then cheare thy drooping lookes, For I will furnish thee with such supplies: Let some of those thy followers goe with me, And they shall haue what thing so ere thou needst.
"Thou needst na run," he called; "I've not the time to catch thee now.
Thou needst not love me any more; I care not for thy love.
Through the faintness and the leaden horror that weighed her down she heard Ferne's voice, at first yet monotonous and low, at the last an irrepressible cry of passion: "Now there is no longer troth between us, and all thy days, by summer and by winter, thou mayst listen unabashed to tales of such as I. If I am named to thee, thou needst not blush, for now I have seared away that eve above the river, that morn at Penshurst.
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Need'st means (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of need.
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If that be all, then cheare thy drooping lookes, For I will furnish thee with such supplies: Let some of those thy followers goe with me, And they shall haue what thing so ere thou needst.
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