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The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

      — Measure for Measure, Act II Scene 2

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KEYWORD: mean

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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

King Lear
[II, 1]

Curan

932

Nay, I know not. You have heard of the news abroad- I mean the
whisper'd ones, for they are yet but ear-kissing arguments?

2

King Lear
[III, 7]

Earl of Gloucester

2152

What mean, your Graces? Good my friends, consider
You are my guests. Do me no foul play, friends.

3

King Lear
[III, 7]

Regan

2209

What do you mean?

4

King Lear
[V, 3]

Goneril

3212

Mean you to enjoy him?

5

King Lear
[V, 3]

Edmund

3416

I pant for life. Some good I mean to do,
Despite of mine own nature. Quickly send
(Be brief in't) to the castle; for my writ
Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia.
Nay, send in time.

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