Chapter 8 of King John is here in full — 154 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 8 of King John is here in full — 154 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Iohn. How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub. Badly I feare; how fares your Maiesty? Iohn. This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
Chapter 8 of King John is here in full — 154 sentences across 31 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/30 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
to a severe or serious degree
From this reading “Badly I feare; how fares your Maiesty?”
plural of “fare” — an agenda of things to do
From this reading “Badly I feare; how fares your Maiesty?”
plural of “go” — a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
From this reading “How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.”
an old form of “has”
From this reading “This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.”
the locus of feelings and intuitions
From this reading “This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.”
the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes
From this reading “How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.”
express in words
From this reading “How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.”
characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need
From this reading “This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.”
Every word in these five lines is listed here, and every one of them can be played on its own.
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to a severe or serious degree
From this reading Badly I feare; how fares your Maiesty?
time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis
From this reading How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.
plural of “fare” — an agenda of things to do
From this reading Badly I feare; how fares your Maiesty?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Badly I feare; how fares your Maiesty?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
plural of “go” — a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
From this reading How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.
an old form of “has”
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
the locus of feelings and intuitions
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.
the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes
From this reading How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Badly I feare; how fares your Maiesty?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Iohn.
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Badly I feare; how fares your Maiesty?
the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
express in words
From this reading How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need
From this reading This Feauer that hath troubled me so long, Lyes heauie on me: oh, my heart is sicke.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.
in the company of; together with
From this reading How goes the day with vs? oh tell me Hubert Hub.
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading Badly I feare; how fares your Maiesty?
Chapter 8 of King John by William Shakespeare holds 154 sentences, grouped into 31 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the public-domain source, 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 8 holds 154 sentences of King John, unabridged, divided into 31 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 8 of King John by William Shakespeare exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 154 sentences, grouped into 31 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 31 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 31 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 8 can be played aloud in United States English.
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