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Search phrase: sprite

Plays

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
As You Like It	AYL III.ii.135	The quintessence of every sprite	The quintessence of euerie sprite,
A Midsummer Night's Dream	MND II.i.33	Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite	Or else you are that shrew'd and knauish spirit
A Midsummer Night's Dream	MND V.i.371	Every one lets forth his sprite	Euery one lets forth his spright,
A Midsummer Night's Dream	MND V.i.383	Every elf and fairy sprite	Euerie Elfe and Fairie spright,
Troilus and Cressida	TC III.ii.31	with a sprite. I'll fetch her. It is the prettiest villain; she	with a sprite: Ile fetch her; it is the prettiest villaine, she

Poems

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
The Rape of Lucrece	Luc.121	Intending weariness with heavy sprite;	Intending wearinesse with heauie sprite:
The Rape of Lucrece	Luc.451	That thinks she hath beheld some ghastly sprite,	That thinkes shee hath beheld some gastlie sprite,
The Rape of Lucrece	Luc.1728	Her winged sprite, and through her wounds doth fly	Her winged sprite, & through her woũds doth flie
Venus and Adonis	Ven.181	And now Adonis, with a lazy spright,	And now Adonis with a lazie sprite,

Glossary

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hag	malicious sprite, wicked fairy
sprite	spirit, ghost, supernatural being
sprite	torment, haunt [as if by a spirit]
sprite	spirit, feeling, frame of mind
sprite	spirit, soul

Thesaurus

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malicious sprite	hag
sprite, malicious	hag

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Words Families

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
SPRITE	BASIC	see SPRIGHT

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