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All's Well That Ends Well
All's Well That Ends Well

Chapter I

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All's Well, that Ends Well Actus primus.
Scoena Prima.
Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.
Mother.
In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros.
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All's Well That Ends Well

Chapter I

Reading 1/26 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
All's Well, that Ends Well Actus primus.
Line 2
Scoena Prima.
Line 3
Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.
Line 4
Mother.
Line 5
In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros.

Learner Dictionary

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

Second noun US /second/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros.”

Well noun US /well/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “All's Well, that Ends Well Actus primus.”

All words in this reading · 34

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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 In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros.

Actus

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From this reading All's Well, that Ends Well Actus primus.

all

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From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.

All's

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From this reading All's Well, that Ends Well Actus primus.

andconjunctionUS /ənd/

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

From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.

Bertram

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From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.

blacke

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burie

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From this reading In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros.

Count

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From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.

deliuering

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Ends

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From this reading All's Well, that Ends Well Actus primus.

Enter

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From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.

fromprepositionUS /frʌm/

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros.

Helena

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From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.

hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/

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

From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.

husband

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From this reading In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros.

IpronounUS /aɪ/

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

From this reading In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros.

inprepositionUS /ɪn/

inside something, or within a place, period, or state

From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.

Lafew

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From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.

Lord

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From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.

mepronounUS /miː/

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros.

Mother

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From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.

mydeterminerUS /maɪ/

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros.

ofprepositionUS /ʌv/

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.

Prima

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From this reading Scoena Prima.

primus

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From this reading All's Well, that Ends Well Actus primus.

Ros

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From this reading In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros.

Rossillion

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From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.

Scoena

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From this reading Scoena Prima.

second

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From this reading In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros.

sonne

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From this reading In deliuering my sonne from me, I burie a second husband Ros.

thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading All's Well, that Ends Well Actus primus.

Well

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From this reading All's Well, that Ends Well Actus primus.

yong

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From this reading Enter yong Bertram Count of Rossillion, his Mother, and Helena, Lord Lafew, all in blacke.