Cou'd

Cou'd have told them the name of the Man in the Moon:

The Peacock and Parrot, on their Tour to Discover the Author of "The Peacock At Home" Unknown

Cou'd you get none to serve you, but some Newgate-Stallion; One that us'd to Break up Houses, and Pick open Locks!

The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women Anonymous

_Cou'd they_ annihilate _Hell, indeed, or did it only consist of such_ painted Flames _as they'd fain believe it, they might make a shift to be tolerably happy, more quietly rake through the World, and_ sink _into_ Nothing.

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley

But it may be ask'd, Cou'd he not have done that without exposing so many great _Genius_'s?

A Letter to A.H. Esq.; Concerning the Stage (1698) and The Occasional Paper No. IX (1698) Anonymous

Cou'd I suspect that Falshood in my Heart, I wou'd this Moment tear it from my Breast, and streight present him with the Treacherous Part.

The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre

Cou'd have sense to inform him, and that was the OWL.

The Peacock and Parrot, on their Tour to Discover the Author of "The Peacock At Home" Unknown

Ship to tow her Up, but the Sea breeze Coming in fresh was obliged to moor her as well as we Cou'd.

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

Stone [8] fired a Gun and beat the Drum to lett them know what we was. the Ferry boat Came off and told Us that we Cou'd not Gett hands att

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

Offered his Assistance in all he Cou'd and Spared Us his Carpenter who view'd the Mast and said he thought he coud make it do again.

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

Crowding all the Sail she Cou'd, and we doing the Like Came again within Gun-Shott and plyed her with Our Bow Chase which were shifted to the fore ports for that purpose and she kept pelting of Us with her Stern Chase out of her

Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898