shall do

[notletrest]

[FONT=&#23435]I have done no more to Caesar than you shall do(=would have done) to Brutus.(by Shakespeare)[/FONT]
[FONT=&#23435]ask:1.shall do=would have done?[/FONT]
[FONT=&#23435]2.What's the meaning of the sentence?[/FONT]
[FONT=&#23435]Thanks![/FONT]

 

[Frank Antonson]

"shall do" is the same as "will do". It is the future tense. In Shakespeare's day there was a slight difference in the meanings of "will" and "shall", but that difference has disappeared. "Shall" is slightly archaic now.