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Search phrase: lunatic

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The Comedy of ErrorsCE IV.iii.93And tell his wife that, being lunatic,And tell his wife, that being Lunaticke, 
King LearKL II.iii.19Sometimes with lunatic bans, sometime with prayers,Sometimes with Lunaticke bans, sometime with Praiers
King LearKL III.vii.46To whose hands you have sent the lunatic King? Speak!To whose hands/ You haue sent the Lunaticke King: Speake.
Love's Labour's LostLLL V.i.26make frantic, lunatic.make franticke, lunaticke?
The Merry Wives of WindsorMW III.v.95lunatic knave would have searched it; but Fate,Lunatique Knaue would haue search'd it: but Fate
A Midsummer Night's DreamMND V.i.7The lunatic, the lover, and the poetThe Lunaticke, the Louer, and the Poet,
Richard IIR2 II.i.115.2 – a lunatic lean-witted fool,And thou, a lunaticke leane-witted foole,
Richard IIIR3 I.iii.253Dispute not with her; she is lunatic.Dispute not with her, shee is lunaticke.
The Taming of the ShrewTS induction.1.61Persuade him that he hath been lunatic,Perswade him that he hath bin Lunaticke,
The Taming of the ShrewTS II.i.280To wish me wed to one half lunatic,To wish me wed to one halfe Lunaticke,
The Taming of the ShrewTS V.i.63What, is the man lunatic?What is the man lunaticke?
Twelfth NightTN IV.ii.22the lunatic.the Lunaticke.

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bedlammad beggar, madman/woman, lunatic
distemperedinsane, deranged, lunatic
idlemad, crazy, lunatic
lunatichallucinating, suffering from delusions
madcapmad-brained fellow, lunatic
rheumaticmalapropism for ‘choleric’ or ‘lunatic

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lunaticbedlam
lunaticidle
lunaticdistempered
lunaticmadcap

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