Chapter 21 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 is here in full — 386 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 21 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 is here in full — 386 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_Enter_ HANNA JENNITING. JEN. Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys? CURD. O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
Chapter 21 of A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 is here in full — 386 sentences across 78 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/77 · 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.
plural of “apple” — fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
From this reading “Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?”
a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose
From this reading “O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!”
plural of “buy” — an advantageous purchase
From this reading “Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?”
a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd
From this reading “CURD.”
plural of “pippin” — any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red
From this reading “Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?”
a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
From this reading “O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!”
a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
From this reading “O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!”
do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
From this reading “O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!”
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.
flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
In this reading “O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!”
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 O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
plural of “apple” — fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh
From this reading Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?
from a particular thing or place or position (“forth” is obsolete)
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
unrestrained by convention or propriety
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
a sum of money allocated for a particular purpose
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction
From this reading Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?
plural of “buy” — an advantageous purchase
From this reading Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
a coagulated liquid resembling milk curd
From this reading CURD.
beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
From this reading Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?
delicately beautiful
From this reading Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?
to come or go into
From this reading _Enter_ HANNA JENNITING.
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Enter_ HANNA JENNITING.
used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
in or at this place; where the speaker or writer is
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading JEN.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading _Enter_ HANNA JENNITING.
a room or building equipped with one or more toilets
From this reading Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?
and nothing more
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
prefer or wish to do something
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
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 sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?
plural of “pippin” — any of numerous superior eating apples with yellow or greenish yellow skin flushed with red
From this reading Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?
a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
a female person who has the same parents as another person
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
desired or wished for or sought
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
which person or people
From this reading Come, buy my pearmains, curious John apples, dainty pippins; come, who buys? who buys?
in the company of; together with
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading O sister Hanna, I wanted you just now; here was a tinker had like to have run away with me in his budget; a copper-nosed rogue, brazen-faced rascal!
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