The Contemporary Shakespeare Series, Volume 6University Press of America, 1987 Contains: King Henry the Fourth, parts 1,2, ; Love's Labour's Lost; Othello; The Winter's Tale. |
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... means stops ; and we should replace it by stops , or holds me . Shakespeare regularly uses the word ' owe ' where we ... mean in a few minutes or so , but immediately - in- stantly has the same number of syllables . ' Prevent ' then had ...
... means stops ; and we should replace it by stops , or holds me . Shakespeare regularly uses the word ' owe ' where we ... mean in a few minutes or so , but immediately - in- stantly has the same number of syllables . ' Prevent ' then had ...
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... mean- ing of , and one of those we might guess : .When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? Who would fardels bear . . . ' Quietus ' means put paid ; Elizabethans wrote the Latin ' quietus est ' at the bottom of a bill ...
... mean- ing of , and one of those we might guess : .When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin ? Who would fardels bear . . . ' Quietus ' means put paid ; Elizabethans wrote the Latin ' quietus est ' at the bottom of a bill ...
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... mean to be merry . I know a wench of excellent discourse , Pretty and witty ; wild , and yet , too , gentle . There will we dine . This woman that I mean , My wife - but , I protest , without desert- Has oftentimes upbraided me with her ...
... mean to be merry . I know a wench of excellent discourse , Pretty and witty ; wild , and yet , too , gentle . There will we dine . This woman that I mean , My wife - but , I protest , without desert- Has oftentimes upbraided me with her ...
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