Authors: William Shakespeare
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searched
sought
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heir … reward
inheritor of the reward I should have given to him
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liver … brain
believed to control passion, affection, and judgment respectively
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grant
acknowledge, affirm
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of … are
where you are from
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Cambria
Wales
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are
were
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knights o’th’battle
knights created on the battlefield (an especial honor)
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fit
supply
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estates
i.e. new rank as knights
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business
serious concern
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trip me
correct me/catch me out
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Affected
desired, longed for
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by
through
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but
if it weren’t for the fact that
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opening
revealing, disclosing
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bore in hand
pretended, professed
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had Ta’en off
would have destroyed
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delicate
beautiful/crafty, skillful
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mortal mineral
fatal poison
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by the minute
minute by minute
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By … you
consume you little by little
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purposed
intended
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watching
i.e. at your bedside by night
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tendance
attention
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show
pretense
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fitted
molded, shaped
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th’adoption … crown
i.e. becoming adopted heir to the crown
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end
purpose, design
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opened
revealed
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Mine ears
nor were mine ears
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seeming
appearance
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had been vicious
would have been reprehensible
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feeling
emotions/experience
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razed out
erased
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made suit
appealed
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their
i.e. those killed in battle
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estate
spiritual state
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had … us
had we been the victors
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called
named as/taken for
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sufficeth
it is enough that
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think on’t
i.e. consider a strategy (with the unspoken implication “and then revenge it”)
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peculiar care
personal concerns
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tender … occasions
sensitive to his master’s needs
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feat
deft, graceful
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And
even if you
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favour
face, countenance
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looked … grace
won my favor by your looks
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Ne’er … master
i.e. because I don’t even know why I’m sparing you myself, but it’s not due to his pleading on your behalf
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boon
request
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state
rank
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shuffle
shift, look out
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briefly
quickly
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truth
loyalty, fidelity
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perplexed
distressed
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vassal
subject
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Am something nearer
i.e. I am more closely connected to you by being a British subject
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Wherefore … so?
Why do you stare at him in that way?
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eyes
sees
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forbear
have patience
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But … dead
but we see him whom we know to be dead
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Winnow
separate, like grain from chaff
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render
declare, state
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Thou’lt torture me
i.e. if you had any idea what I have to say, you’d torture me
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All … this
everything relating to this matter
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while nature will
for as long as nature will have it/for the remainder of your natural life
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ere
before
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viands
food
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heaved to head
raised to my mouth
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rar’st
most exceptional
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sadly
soberly, reservedly
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made barren
rendered impotent
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feature
shape/comeliness/form of face
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laming
crippling by comparison
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shrine
veneration, idolizing
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Venus
Roman goddess of love
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straight-pight
straight pitched, i.e. erect, upright in bearing
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Minerva
Roman goddess of arts and war
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beyond
surpassing
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brief nature
the brevity of mortal life
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condition
character, personality
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shop
storehouse
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hook of wiving
i.e. beauty which is bait for marriage
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I … fire
i.e. I am burning with impatience
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matter
point
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hint
cue/opportunity
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mind put in’t
described her character
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cracked of
boastfully uttered about
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kitchen-trulls
kitchen maids
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trull
wench/trollop
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unspeaking sots
fools/drunkards, incapable of articulate speech
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to th’purpose
get to the point
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as Dian
as though Diana (Roman goddess of chastity)
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hot
erotic, lustful
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she
i.e. Innogen
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cold
chaste
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scruple
doubt
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In suit
by courtship
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carbuncle
precious stone, mythical gem said to emit light in the dark
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Of Phoebus’ wheel
from the chariot wheel of Phoebus Apollo, the sun god
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might so
might have done so
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of’s car
of his chariot
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Post
hurry
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Of
by
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duller Britain
refers to the idea that cold, northern countries produced slower-witted people than those from the hot south
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vantage
profit, gain
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simular
simulated, specious
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renown
reputation
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thus, and thus
of this and that kind
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averring
affirming
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cracked
broken
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forfeit
that which is due when a contract is breached
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anything
any name, title
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in being
present
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cord
rope
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justicer
judge
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ingenious
masterly, skillful
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th’abhorrèd
the detested
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amend
make seem better
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sacrilegious thief
because he sacked the
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temple
that was Innogen
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she herself
i.e. virtue
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bay
bark at
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Be … ’twas
i.e. by comparing it with what I have done
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Shall’s have
shall we make
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There … part
play your part by lying on the ground
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staggers
giddiness, dizziness; a disease in animals which causes them to walk unsteadily
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mortal
earthly, human/deadly, fatal
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tune
voice
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stones of sulphur
thunderbolts
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approve
prove
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confection
mixture (drug)
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for cordial
as a restorative
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temper
mix, concoct
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still pretending
always claiming
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esteem
value, worth
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cease
halt, arrest
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offices of nature
natural faculties/bodily parts
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Most like
very likely
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sure
definitely
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the tree
i.e. himself
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mak’st … act
do you cast me as an idiot
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motive
reason
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mother’s
i.e. stepmother is
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naught
nothing/wicked
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long of
because of (along of)
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strangely
as strangers/in unusual circumstances
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missing
absence
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discovered
revealed
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accident
chance
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feignèd letter
i.e. the letter falsely claiming that Posthumus was waiting at Milford Haven
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enforced
took by force
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posts
hurries
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forfend
forbid
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Deny’t again
take it back again, unsay it
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He … prince
i.e. killing him is therefore treasonable and merits death
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incivil
unmannerly
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To … mine
i.e. to tell you that he had cut off my head
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sorrow
sorry/filled with sorrow
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dead
condemned to die
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As well descended
of as good lineage, family stock
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of
from
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merited
deserved
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Had … for
ever deserved for their wounds in battle
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worth … for
the reward you have not yet been given
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tasting of
experiencing, feeling
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thou
i.e. Belarius
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But I will
unless I
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on’s
of us
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given out him
declared him (Guiderius) to be
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For … speech
i.e. what I am about to say will prove dangerous to me
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haply
perhaps, with luck
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well for
beneficial to
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by leave
with your permission
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Assumed this age
attained this aged appearance
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hot
hasty
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it
i.e. the payment
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confiscate all
all confiscated
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so
as
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saucy
impudent
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prefer
raise in social stature
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blood
offspring
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sometime
once
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mere
whole
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That … did
i.e. I did no harm at all, unless you think my suffering harmful
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put into
teach
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moved
persuaded
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Having … then
i.e. he had already been unjustly banished for treason, but stealing the children was actually a treasonable offense
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Beaten
being beaten
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Excited
provoked, incited
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of
by