Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Shortly

Shortly , adverb

[Anglo-Saxon sceortlice.]

1.
In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. — Chaucer
I shall grow jealous of you shortly. — Shakespeare
The armies came shortly in view of each other. — Clarendon
2.
In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.