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Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night

Chapter V

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To.
And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?
Mal.
Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
What, what?
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Archivist
/ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
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A keeper or guardian of historical records and memories.

Twelfth Night

Chapter V

Reading 1/36 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1
To.
/tuː/
Line 2
And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?
Line 3
Mal.
Line 4
Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.
Line 5
What, what?
/wʌt wʌt/

Learner Dictionary

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

Take noun US /take/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading “And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?”

All words in this reading · 29

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adeterminerUS /ə/

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

From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?

AndconjunctionUS /ənd/

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

From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?

blow

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From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?

cast

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From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

Cosine

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From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

do's

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From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?

Fortunes

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From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

giue

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From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

hauing

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From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

lippes

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From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?

Mal

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From this reading Mal.

mepronounUS /miː/

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

From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

mydeterminerUS /maɪ/

belonging to the person speaking

From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

Neece

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From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

notadverbUS /nɑːt/

used to make a word, phrase, or sentence negative

From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?

o'the

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From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?

ofprepositionUS /ʌv/

belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something

From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

onprepositionUS /ɑːn/

touching and supported by a surface

From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

prerogatiue

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From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

Saying

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From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

speech

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From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

takenounUS /take/

an important story-specific word used in this passage

From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?

then

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From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?

thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/

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

From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.

ToparticleUS /tuː/

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

From this reading To.

Toby

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From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?

WhatpronounUS /wʌt/

used to ask for information about something

From this reading What, what?

youpronounUS /juː/

the person or people being spoken to

From this reading And do's not Toby take you a blow o'the lippes, then?

yourdeterminerUS /jɔːr/

belonging to the person or people being spoken to

From this reading Saying, Cosine Toby, my Fortunes hauing cast me on your Neece, giue me this prerogatiue of speech To.