Chapter 7 of Twelfth Night is here in full — 175 sentences across 35 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter 7 of Twelfth Night is here in full — 175 sentences across 35 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Fa. No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To. Why how now my bawcock? how dost y chuck? Mal. Sir To.
Chapter 7 of Twelfth Night is here in full — 175 sentences across 35 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
Reading 1/35 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5
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throw carelessly
From this reading “Why how now my bawcock? how dost y chuck?”
an old form of “do”, used with “thou”
From this reading “Why how now my bawcock? how dost y chuck?”
a cruel wicked and inhuman person
From this reading “No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.”
in a gradual manner
From this reading “No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.”
having or caused by an irregular surface
From this reading “No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.”
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
From this reading “No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.”
term of address for a man
From this reading “Sir To.”
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading “No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.”
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used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
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From this reading Why how now my bawcock? how dost y chuck?
used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
throw carelessly
From this reading Why how now my bawcock? how dost y chuck?
an old form of “do”, used with “thou”
From this reading Why how now my bawcock? how dost y chuck?
the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization
From this reading Fa.
a cruel wicked and inhuman person
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
in a gradual manner
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading Why how now my bawcock? how dost y chuck?
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
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From this reading Mal.
belonging to the person speaking
From this reading Why how now my bawcock? how dost y chuck?
not any; not one
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
in the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
From this reading Why how now my bawcock? how dost y chuck?
having or caused by an irregular surface
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
term of address for a man
From this reading Sir To.
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
how something is done or how it happens
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
the cause or intention underlying an action or situation, especially in the phrase “the whys and wherefores”
From this reading Why how now my bawcock? how dost y chuck?
used to talk about the future, or about willingness
From this reading No way but gentlenesse, gently, gently: the Fiend is rough, and will not be roughly vs'd To.
a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys
From this reading Why how now my bawcock? how dost y chuck?
Chapter 7 of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare holds 175 sentences, grouped into 35 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 7 holds 175 sentences of Twelfth Night, unabridged, divided into 35 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 7 of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare exactly as it stands in the public-domain source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 175 sentences, grouped into 35 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 35 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 35 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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Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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Words and structures a reader meets early in Twelfth Night, each tappable for pronunciation and meaning.
