Shrive me for obeying the Bishop, and bringing doom upon the heretics!

Did ever “Father Confessor” have so sweet and so wilful a sinner to shrive!

Yet if Father Bastian refused to shrive me, what should come of me?

Confess, dear sinner; I will shrive you and grant absolution for the past, whatever it may be.

Who will shrive these poor fellows, then, if you have turned your back upon them?

They went to shrive the dying, bury the dead, and console the bereaved.

This is naughty, I know, but as I have gone into the confessional, I will make a clean "shrive" of it.

The Prince goes to shrive himself, and right wisely he judges.

For they shrive them and housel them evermore once or twice in the week.

A priest, a priest, sayes Aldingàr, Me for to houzle and shrive.