Chapter 15 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 11 is here in full — 394 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 15 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 11 is here in full — 394 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
SPEND. And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in. BOY. I will, sir. [_Exit_ BOY.
Chapter 15 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 11 is here in full — 394 sentences across 79 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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propose a payment
From this reading “And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.”
a youthful male person
From this reading “BOY.”
an opening that permits escape or release
the force of workers available
From this reading “And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.”
term of address for a man
From this reading “I will, sir.”
express in speech
From this reading “And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.”
use up a period of time in a specific way
From this reading “SPEND.”
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading “And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.”
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 “And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.”
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 to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.
propose a payment
From this reading And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.
a youthful male person
From this reading BOY.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.
an opening that permits escape or release
From this reading [_Exit_ BOY.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading I will, sir.
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.
the force of workers available
From this reading And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.
being the one previously mentioned or spoken of
From this reading And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.
term of address for a man
From this reading I will, sir.
express in speech
From this reading And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.
use up a period of time in a specific way
From this reading SPEND.
the plural of “that”: the people or things further away, or already known
From this reading And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
From this reading And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading I will, sir.
in the company of; together with
From this reading And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.
used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past
From this reading And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading And bid those two men you said would speak with me come in.
Chapter 15 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 11 by William Carew [Editor] Hazlitt holds 394 sentences, grouped into 79 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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