Chapter 6 of Sir Thomas More is here in full — 218 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 6 of Sir Thomas More is here in full — 218 sentences across 44 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
PLAYER. My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us. MORE. What, for a play, you mean? Whom do ye serve?
Chapter 6 of Sir Thomas More is here in full — 218 sentences across 44 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.
an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
From this reading “My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.”
plural of “fellow” — a boy or man
From this reading “My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.”
a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
From this reading “PLAYER.”
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading “My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.”
serve a purpose, role, or function
From this reading “Whom do ye serve?”
work done by one person or group that benefits another
From this reading “My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.”
given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
From this reading “My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.”
disposed or inclined toward
From this reading “My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.”
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 before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading What, for a play, you mean?
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
an authoritative direction or instruction to do something
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis
From this reading Whom do ye serve?
plural of “fellow” — a boy or man
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
intended to be given to, or used by, somebody
From this reading What, for a play, you mean?
terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
mean or intend to express or convey
From this reading What, for a play, you mean?
(comparative of “much” used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree
From this reading MORE.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
used when the speaker is also the object of the action
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
belonging to the speaker and others
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
participate in games or sport
From this reading What, for a play, you mean?
a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
From this reading PLAYER.
give pleasure to or be pleasing to
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
serve a purpose, role, or function
From this reading Whom do ye serve?
work done by one person or group that benefits another
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
for that reason; with the result that
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
the speaker and others, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
used to ask for information about something
From this reading What, for a play, you mean?
the form of “who” used as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading Whom do ye serve?
disposed or inclined toward
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
an old word for “you”, speaking to more than one person
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
the person or people being spoken to
From this reading My lord, my fellows and myself Are come to tender ye our willing service, So please you to command us.
Chapter 6 of Sir Thomas More by William [Dubious author] Shakespeare holds 218 sentences, grouped into 44 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 6 holds 218 sentences of Sir Thomas More, unabridged, divided into 44 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 6 of Sir Thomas More by William [Dubious author] Shakespeare exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 218 sentences, grouped into 44 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.
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