Richard II (36 page)

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room
empty space

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staggers
makes stagger
my person
my royal person

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seat
royal throne/place in heaven

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gross
earthly, fleshy, lowly

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Cicester
Cirencester

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ta’en
taken, captured

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next
most pressing

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taking
capture

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at large discoursèd
related in full

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worthy
well-deserved/valuable

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dire
dangerous, dreadful

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wot
know

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grand
chief

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clog
burden

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abide
await

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doom
judgment, punishment

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reverend room
holy place (i.e. monastery)

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More
i.e. more worthy of reverence/larger than your prison cell
joy
enjoy

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High
noble

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Bordeaux
Richard’s birthplace

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wrought
created, fashioned

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love … murderèd
love him who has been murdered/love the fact that he has been murdered

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Cain
in the Bible, the world’s first murderer

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sullen
mournful, somber
incontinent
immediately

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Holy Land
i.e. Jerusalem

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sadly
solemnly/sorrowfully
grace
dignify

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after
as you follow
bier
stretcher-like structure on which a corpse is carried to the grave