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A King, and No King
A King, and No King

Chapter VI

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_Mar_.
Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.
_Arb_.
Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?
_Enter_ Gobrias.
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A King, and No King

Chapter VI

Reading 1/84 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
_Mar_.
Line 2
Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.
Line 3
_Arb_.
Line 4
Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?
Line 5
_Enter_ Gobrias.

Learner Dictionary

Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, audio, and collocations from this reading.

Art auxiliary verb US /ɑːrt/

an old form of “are”, used with “thou”

From this reading “Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?”

Honest adjective US /ˈɑnɪst/

truthful and trustworthy

From this reading “Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?”

Thou pronoun US /ðaʊ/

an old word for “you”, as the subject, speaking to one person

From this reading “Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?”

Though conjunction US /ðoʊ/

in spite of the fact that

From this reading “Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.”

Upon preposition US /əˈpɑːn/

a formal word for “on”

From this reading “Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?”

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adeterminerUS /ə/

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

Arb

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From this reading _Arb_.

artauxiliary verbUS /ɑːrt/

an old form of “are”, used with “thou”

From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

beauxiliary verbUS /biː/

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

bosome

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From this reading Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.

draw

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From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

Enter

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From this reading _Enter_ Gobrias.

error

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From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

fear

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From this reading Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.

Go

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From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

Gobrias

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From this reading _Enter_ Gobrias.

hasty

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From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

Heaven

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From this reading Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.

helpless

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From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

honestadjectiveUS /ˈɑnɪst/

truthful and trustworthy

From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

IpronounUS /aɪ/

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.

I'le

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From this reading Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.

intoprepositionUS /ˈɪntuː/

moving to the inside of something

From this reading Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.

leave

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From this reading Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.

Mar

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From this reading _Mar_.

mepronounUS /miː/

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

mydeterminerUS /maɪ/

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

ofprepositionUS /ʌv/

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

put

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From this reading Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.

shouldmodal verbUS /ʃʊd/

used to say what is right, expected, or advisable

From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

sin

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From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

soconjunctionUS /soʊ/

for that reason; with the result that

From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

temperate

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From this reading Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.

thedeterminerUS /ðə/

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

thoupronounUS /ðaʊ/

an old word for “you”, as the subject, speaking to one person

From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

thoughconjunctionUS /ðoʊ/

in spite of the fact that

From this reading Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.

thoughts

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From this reading Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.

toparticleUS /tuː/

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

unpardonable

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From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/

a formal word for “on”

From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

why

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From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?

youpronounUS /juː/

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.

yourdeterminerUS /jɔːr/

belonging to the person or people being spoken to

From this reading Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts, I'le leave you though I fear.

youth

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From this reading Go, thou art honest, why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me?