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A Florentine Tragedy
A Florentine Tragedy

Chapter IV

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[_To_ SIMONE] And you, have you no shame?
A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.
Ask his pardon.
SIMONE.
I ask it humbly.
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LEARNER DICTIONARY
Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

A Florentine Tragedy

Chapter IV

Reading 1/53 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

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[_To_ SIMONE] And you, have you no shame?
Line 2
A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.
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Ask his pardon.
Line 4
SIMONE.
Line 5
I ask it humbly.

Learner Dictionary

Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, audio, and collocations from this reading.

Have auxiliary verb US /hæv/

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading “[_To_ SIMONE] And you, have you no shame?”

Must modal verb US /mʌst/

used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true

From this reading “A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.”

All words in this reading · 26

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AdeterminerUS /ə/

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.

AndconjunctionUS /ənd/

used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together

From this reading [_To_ SIMONE] And you, have you no shame?

Ask

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From this reading Ask his pardon.

assurance

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From this reading A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.

Comes

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From this reading A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.

gracious

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From this reading A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.

haveauxiliary verbUS /hæv/

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading [_To_ SIMONE] And you, have you no shame?

himpronounUS /hɪm/

the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.

hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Ask his pardon.

house

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From this reading A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.

humbly

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From this reading I ask it humbly.

IpronounUS /aɪ/

the person speaking or writing, as the subject of the verb

From this reading I ask it humbly.

itpronounUS /ɪt/

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading I ask it humbly.

misplaced

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From this reading A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.

most

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From this reading A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.

mustmodal verbUS /mʌst/

used to say something is necessary, or almost certainly true

From this reading A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.

nodeterminerUS /noʊ/

not any; not one

From this reading [_To_ SIMONE] And you, have you no shame?

ourdeterminerUS /ˈaʊər/

belonging to the speaker and others

From this reading A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.

pardon

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From this reading Ask his pardon.

Prince

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From this reading A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.

shame

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From this reading [_To_ SIMONE] And you, have you no shame?

SIMONE

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From this reading [_To_ SIMONE] And you, have you no shame?

ToparticleUS /tuː/

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading [_To_ SIMONE] And you, have you no shame?

weary

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From this reading A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.

WithprepositionUS /wɪð/

in the company of; together with

From this reading A gracious Prince Comes to our house, and you must weary him With most misplaced assurance.

youpronounUS /juː/

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading [_To_ SIMONE] And you, have you no shame?