Chapter 3 of Locrine is here in full — 194 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter III
Chapter 3 of Locrine is here in full — 194 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
STRUMBO. Gate! O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside? Gate! Oh how I am vexed in my collar!
Chapter 3 of Locrine is here in full — 194 sentences across 39 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
the side of an object that is opposite its front
From this reading “O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?”
a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over
From this reading “Oh how I am vexed in my collar!”
a movable barrier in a fence or wall
From this reading “Gate!”
an insignificant place
From this reading “O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?”
a human being
From this reading “O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?”
inferior in rank or status
From this reading “O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?”
a crime that undermines the offender's government
From this reading “O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?”
troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
From this reading “Oh how I am vexed in my collar!”
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.
the form of “be” used with “I”
From this reading Oh how I am vexed in my collar!
the side of an object that is opposite its front
From this reading O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?
showing who or what does the action
From this reading O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?
a band that fits around the neck and is usually folded over
From this reading Oh how I am vexed in my collar!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?
a movable barrier in a fence or wall
From this reading Gate!
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Oh how I am vexed in my collar!
the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb
From this reading Oh how I am vexed in my collar!
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading Oh how I am vexed in my collar!
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?
an insignificant place
From this reading O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?
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 petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?
a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region
From this reading Oh how I am vexed in my collar!
a human being
From this reading O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?
inferior in rank or status
From this reading O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading STRUMBO.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?
a crime that undermines the offender's government
From this reading O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?
troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
From this reading Oh how I am vexed in my collar!
belonging to the person or people being spoken to
From this reading O petty treason to my person! nowhere else but by your backside?
Chapter 3 of Locrine by William [Dubious author] Shakespeare holds 194 sentences, grouped into 39 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 3 holds 194 sentences of Locrine, unabridged, divided into 39 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 3 of Locrine by William [Dubious author] Shakespeare exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 194 sentences, grouped into 39 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 39 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 39 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.
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About 97 minutes of reading across 235 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
How to work through Locrine section by section, using the audio and the tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Locrine, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
