Chapter 9 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 03 is here in full — 376 sentences across 76 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 9 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 03 is here in full — 376 sentences across 76 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
M. MERRY. But I would not have you make her too much afraid. R. ROISTER. Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look. C. CUSTANCE.
Chapter 9 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 03 is here in full — 376 sentences across 76 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
filled with fear or apprehension
From this reading “But I would not have you make her too much afraid.”
set up or found
From this reading “Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.”
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
From this reading “M. MERRY.”
engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
From this reading “R. ROISTER.”
go sour or spoil
From this reading “Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.”
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
From this reading “Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.”
something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)
From this reading “Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.”
a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
From this reading “Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
In this reading “But I would not have you make her too much afraid.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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filled with fear or apprehension
From this reading But I would not have you make her too much afraid.
(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But I would not have you make her too much afraid.
a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature
From this reading C. CUSTANCE.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading C. CUSTANCE.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.
set up or found
From this reading Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading But I would not have you make her too much afraid.
belonging to a woman, girl, or female animal already mentioned
From this reading But I would not have you make her too much afraid.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading But I would not have you make her too much afraid.
perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards
From this reading Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.
the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
From this reading M. MERRY.
engage in
From this reading But I would not have you make her too much afraid.
full of or showing high-spirited merriment
From this reading M. MERRY.
to a great degree or extent
From this reading But I would not have you make her too much afraid.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading But I would not have you make her too much afraid.
a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air
From this reading R. ROISTER.
engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking
From this reading R. ROISTER.
go sour or spoil
From this reading Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.
having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar
From this reading Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.
to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
From this reading But I would not have you make her too much afraid.
something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary)
From this reading Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.
(often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (“good” is a nonstandard dialectal variant for “well”)
From this reading Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.
a married woman; a man's partner in marriage
From this reading Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading But I would not have you make her too much afraid.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading But I would not have you make her too much afraid.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Well found, sweet wife, (I trust) for all this your sour look.
Chapter 9 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 03 by William Carew [Editor] Hazlitt holds 376 sentences, grouped into 76 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
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