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Search phrase: statute

Plays

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
The Comedy of Errors	CE I.ii.6	According to the statute of the town	According to the statute of the towne,
Love's Labour's Lost	LLL V.ii.281	Well, better wits have worn plain statute-caps.	Well, better wits haue worne plain statute caps,
Macbeth	Mac III.iv.75	Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal;	Ere humane Statute purg'd the gentle Weale:
Measure for Measure	MM I.iv.67	And follows close the rigour of the statute	And followes close the rigor of the Statute

Poems

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
Sonnets	Sonn.134.9	The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,	The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,

Glossary

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statue	F alternative to 'statute'
statute	bond securing a debt with the debtor's land; legal security
statute	law, decree, regulation
statute-cap	woollen cap ordered (by an Act of 1571) to be worn on Sundays and holy days by all below a certain social rank

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Words Families

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
STATUTE	BASIC	statute n
STATUTE	CLOTHING	statute-cap n

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