Chapter 10 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 08 is here in full — 367 sentences across 74 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 10 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 08 is here in full — 367 sentences across 74 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_Enter_ MUCH, _running_. MUCH. Hold, hold, hold! I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour. O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
Chapter 10 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 08 is here in full — 367 sentences across 74 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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putting a condemned person to death
From this reading “O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?”
be suspended or hanging
From this reading “I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.”
the quality of being just or fair
From this reading “O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?”
a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
From this reading “I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.”
the local environment
From this reading “O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?”
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
move hurridly
From this reading “I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.”
plural of “thief” — a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
From this reading “O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
on the subject of; concerning
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
to come or go into
From this reading _Enter_ MUCH, _running_.
putting a condemned person to death
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
a boy or man
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
be suspended or hanging
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
cause to continue in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., “keep clean”
From this reading Hold, hold, hold!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
the quality of being just or fair
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
engage in
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
an artist of consummate skill
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
to a great degree or extent
From this reading _Enter_ MUCH, _running_.
any disease of domestic animals that resembles a plague
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
used to mean any person in general, including the speaker
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
the local environment
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
participate in games or sport
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
(of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream
From this reading _Enter_ MUCH, _running_.
except for; apart from
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
express in words
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
(quantifier) used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
move hurridly
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
of the kind already mentioned
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
in or at that place or location
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
plural of “thief” — a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading I hear say my fellow Warman is about to hang himself, and make I some speed to save him a labour.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading O good master, Justice Shrieve, have you execution in hand, and is there such a murrain among thieves and hangmen, that you play two parts in one?
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