Syag: Shakespeare spoke in old English and certainly parts of it are still used because of him, but the “thou shalt not” form comes from the ten commandments in the King James bible. At least, that’s where common usage comes from. I’m sure he (and by he I mean whoever translated it; James just financed it, not wrote it) didn’t invent the form. He’s just the reason it’s popular today, which is all Chukas Hagoyim should care about.
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