Chapter 23 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 is here in full — 347 sentences across 70 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.
Chapter XXIII
Chapter 23 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 is here in full — 347 sentences across 70 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
SOM. Lingua, content yourself, you must be bound. LIN. What a spite's this? Are my nails pared so near?
Chapter 23 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 is here in full — 347 sentences across 70 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/69 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
These definitions explain words found in the current reading and keep every example grounded in its original sentence.
Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
confined by bonds
From this reading “Lingua, content yourself, you must be bound.”
(usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
From this reading “Lingua, content yourself, you must be bound.”
United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959)
From this reading “LIN.”
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
From this reading “Lingua, content yourself, you must be bound.”
plural of “nail” — horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
From this reading “Are my nails pared so near?”
past form of “pare” — decrease gradually or bit by bit
From this reading “Are my nails pared so near?”
the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
From this reading “SOM.”
used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action
From this reading “Lingua, content yourself, you must be bound.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
Dictionary details are shown only when verified; these are not licensed Oxford entries.
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading What a spite's this?
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading Are my nails pared so near?
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading Lingua, content yourself, you must be bound.
confined by bonds
From this reading Lingua, content yourself, you must be bound.
(usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
From this reading Lingua, content yourself, you must be bound.
United States sculptor and architect whose public works include the memorial to veterans of the Vietnam War in Washington (born in 1959)
From this reading LIN.
a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
From this reading Lingua, content yourself, you must be bound.
used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true
From this reading Lingua, content yourself, you must be bound.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Are my nails pared so near?
plural of “nail” — horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
From this reading Are my nails pared so near?
near in time or place or relationship
From this reading Are my nails pared so near?
past form of “pare” — decrease gradually or bit by bit
From this reading Are my nails pared so near?
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading Are my nails pared so near?
the basic unit of money in Uzbekistan
From this reading SOM.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading What a spite's this?
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading What a spite's this?
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What a spite's this?
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Lingua, content yourself, you must be bound.
used when the person spoken to is also the object of the action
From this reading Lingua, content yourself, you must be bound.
Chapter 23 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 by Robert [Compiler] Dodsley holds 347 sentences, grouped into 70 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.
Chapter 23 holds 347 sentences of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09, unabridged, divided into 70 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 23 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 by Robert [Compiler] Dodsley exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 347 sentences, grouped into 70 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 70 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 70 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 23 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
Common questions about reading A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 by Robert [Compiler] Dodsley on this page, its source edition and its audio.
Yes. All 12214 sentences of Project Gutenberg eBook #10550 are kept, with a record of which sentences cover which part.
Project Gutenberg eBook #10550, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
About 600 minutes of reading across 2443 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
Choose one of the 33 chapters of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09 to begin.
Each section holds 5 sentences; read it once through.
Play the section aloud, then tap any unfamiliar word for its entry.
Words and structures a reader meets early in A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 09, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
