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Search phrase: slug

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
The Comedy of Errors	CE II.ii.203	Dromio, thou Dromio, thou snail, thou slug, thou sot.	Dromio, thou Dromio, thou snaile, thou slug, thou sot.
Cymbeline	Cym IV.ii.205	The ooze, to show what coast thy sluggish care	The Ooze, to shew what Coast thy sluggish care
Richard II	R2 III.ii.84	Awake, thou coward majesty; thou sleepest.	Awake thou sluggard Maiestie, thou sleepest:
Richard III	R3 III.i.22	Fie, what a slug is Hastings that he comes not	Fie, what a Slug is Hastings, that he comes not
Richard III	R3 V.iii.226	That you have ta'en a tardy sluggard here.	That you haue tane a tardie sluggard heere?
Romeo and Juliet	RJ IV.v.2	Why, lamb! Why, lady! Fie, you slug-a-bed!	Why Lambe, why Lady? fie you sluggabed,
The Two Gentlemen of Verona	TG I.i.7	Than, living dully sluggardized at home,	Then (liuing dully sluggardiz'd at home)

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Play	Key Line	Modern Text	Original Text
The Rape of Lucrece	Luc.1278	‘ The more to blame my sluggard negligence.	The more to blame my sluggard negligence.

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bed-presser	sluggard, lazy fellow
behindhand	backward, tardy, sluggish
drumble	dawdle, loiter, move sluggishly
dull	dead, lifeless, sluggish, inactive
dullness, dulness	lethargy, sluggishness, inactivity
flagging	drooping, pendulous, sluggish
heavy	slow-moving, sluggish, laggard
lown	rogue, sluggard; worthless idiot
muddy	[of a young deer] sluggish, lazy
muddy-mettled	sluggish, dull-spirited
resty	lazy, sluggish
resty-stiff	stiff because too rested, sluggish
sapless	feeble, sluggish, lacking vigour
slow-gaited	slow-moving, sluggish
slug	sluggard, lazy fellow
slug-abed	lazy-bones
sluggardized	like a sluggard, made lazy
stiff	unsupple, unathletic; or: lethargic, sluggish
still	lethargic, indolent, sluggish
tardy-gaited	slow-moving, sluggish
unactive	inactive, slothful, sluggish

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...entlemen / that you have ta’en a tardy sluggard here mercy i cry you 1...

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Word Family	Word Family Group	Words
BED	PEOPLE	slug-abed m
SLUG	BASIC	slug n, sluggard n, sluggardized adj, sluggish adj
SLUG	PEOPLE	slug-abed adj

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