Chapter X

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

the form of “a” used before a word that begins with a vowel sound

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

at the same time that; because; in the way that

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

The powdery residue left after the burning of a substance.

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used with a past participle to form the passive, or with -ing for continuous tenses

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

the -ing form of “be”

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

used to form questions and negatives, and to give emphasis

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

every one of two or more people or things, taken separately

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

intended to be given to, or used by, somebody

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Fr.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

showing where something starts, or who sent it

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

an old form of “have”, used with “thou”

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

used with a past participle to form the perfect tenses

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used when the man or boy doing the action is also its object

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

on condition that; in the event that

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

moving to the inside of something

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

not any; not one

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used to join alternatives or possibilities

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used with I and we for the future, or to offer and suggest

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

an old form of “shall”, used with “thou”

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

used to introduce the second part of a comparison

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

an old word for “you”, as the object, speaking to one person

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

the people or things already mentioned, as the object

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

an old word for “you”, as the subject, speaking to one person

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

an old word for “your”, speaking to one person

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

the speaker together with one or more other people

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

at the time that

From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

in or at the place that

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used to talk about the future, or about willingness

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

an old form of “will”, used with “thou”

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

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From this reading L._ Hold, then; go home, be merry, give consent[1214] To marry Paris: Wednesday is to-morrow;[1214][1215] 90 To-morrow night look that thou lie alone,[1214] Let not thy nurse lie with thee in thy chamber:[1214][1216] Take thou this vial, being then in bed,[1214] And this distilled liquor drink thou off:[1217] When presently through all thy veins shall run 95 A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse[1218] Shall keep his native progress, but surcease:[1218] No warmth, no breath, shall testify thou livest;[1219] The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade[1220] To paly ashes; thy eyes' windows fall,[1221] 100 Like death, when he shuts up the day of life;[1222] Each part, deprived of supple government,[1223] Shall, stiff and stark and cold, appear like death:[1223] And in this borrow'd likeness of shrunk death[1224] Thou shalt continue two and forty hours, 105 And then awake as from a pleasant sleep.

in the company of; together with

From this reading 70 If, rather than to marry County Paris, Thou hast the strength of will to slay thyself,[1202] Then is it likely thou wilt undertake[1203] A thing like death to chide away this shame, That copest with death himself to 'scape from it;[1204] 75 And, if thou darest, I'll give thee remedy.[1205]

not having, not using, or not accompanied by

From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

used for something imagined, polite, or habitual in the past

From this reading L._ Hold, daughter: I do spy a kind of hope, Which craves as desperate an execution[1201] As that is desperate which we would prevent.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.

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From this reading _Jul._ O, bid me leap, rather than many Paris, From off the battlements of yonder tower;[1206] Or walk in thievish ways; or bid me lurk[1207] Where serpents are; chain me with roaring bears;[1207] 80 Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,[1208] O'er-cover'd quite with dead men's rattling bones,[1209] With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;[1210] Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;[1211] 85 Things that to hear them told, have made me tremble;[1212] And I will do it without fear or doubt, To live an unstain'd wife to my sweet love.[1213] _Fri.