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Search phrase: cipher

Plays

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
As You Like It	AYL III.ii.282	Which I take to be either a fool or a cipher.	Which I take to be either a foole, or a Cipher.
Love's Labour's Lost	LLL I.ii.55	To prove you a cipher.	To proue you a Cypher.
Measure for Measure	MM II.ii.39	Mine were the very cipher of a function,	Mine were the verie Cipher of a Function
The Winter's Tale	WT I.ii.6	Go hence in debt. And therefore, like a cipher	Goe hence in debt: And therefore, like a Cypher

Poems

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
The Rape of Lucrece	Luc.207	To cipher me how fondly I did dote,	To cipher me how fondlie I did dote:
The Rape of Lucrece	Luc.811	To cipher what is writ in learned books	To cipher what is writ in learned bookes,

Glossary

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cipher	figure nought, nonentity, mere nothing
cipher	symbolize, represent, portray
cipher	decipher, read, spell out
O	cipher, zero, nought

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O

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Words Families

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
CIPHER	BASIC	cipher n, cipher v
CIPHER	OPPOSITE	decipher v
DECIPHER	BASIC	see CIPHER

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