Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Henry VIII | H8 I.i.4.2 | An untimely ague | An vntimely Ague |
Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.113 | As that same ague which hath made you lean. | As that same Ague which hath made you leane. |
Macbeth | Mac V.v.4 | Till famine and the ague eat them up. | Till Famine and the Ague eate them vp: |
The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.23 | Would blow me to an ague when I thought | Would blow me to an Ague, when I thought |
Richard II | R2 III.ii.190 | This ague-fit of fear is overblown. | This ague fit of feare is ouer-blowne, |
The Tempest | Tem II.ii.65 | legs, who hath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devil | legs; who hath got (as I take it) an Ague: where the diuell |
The Tempest | Tem II.ii.92 | I will help his ague. Come! (Caliban drinks) Amen! I | I will helpe his Ague: Come: Amen, I |
The Tempest | Tem II.ii.133 | How does thine ague? | how do's thine Ague? |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.232 | And danger, like an ague, subtly taints | And danger like an ague subtly taints |
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ague | fever, sickness, shaking [as caused by a fever] |
agued | shivering, shaking [as with a fever] |
ague-fit | feverish fit, fit of shaking |
ague-proof | immune to fevers, resistant to sickness |
bandy | band together, make a league, fight |
coleagued | joined, supported, in league |
colleagued, coleagued | joined, supported, in league |
combination | alliance, league, treaty |
compact | allied, in league, in collusion |
competitor | partner, associate, colleague |
confederate | ally, enter into a league, conspire |
confederate | acting as an ally, in league |
consorted | conspiring, associated, in league together |
cross | afflict, plague, go against |
fellow | fellow-servant, colleague |
grind | torment, afflict, plague |
inflict | afflict, trouble, plague |
league | compact, alliance, treaty, bond of friendship |
league | [measure of distance] c.3 miles [c.5 km] |
league | join, link, intertwine |
league | bind together, ally, confederate |
leaguer | military camp |
murrain | plague, pestilence |
murrion | infected with plague [murrain], diseased |
packed | in league, acting as an accomplice |
pestered | afflicted, troubled, plagued |
pestilence | plague, epidemic, fatal disease |
plague | calamity, affliction, scourge |
plague | torment, vex, trouble |
pox | venereal disease; also: plague, or any other disease displaying skin pustules |
punish | afflict, plague, torment |
south | south wind [believed to bring storms, and plague-carrying mists] |
still-vexed | always beset, perpetually plagued |
sweat | sweating-sickness [type of plague] |
torture | torment, afflict, plague |
vengeance | fie on, a plague on |
wanion, with a | with a vengeance, with a plague |
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colleague | competitor |
colleague | fellow |
infected with plague | murrion |
league | combination |
league, enter into a | confederate |
league, in | colleagued, coleagued |
league, in | confederate |
league, in | packed |
league, in | compact |
league, in | consorted |
league, make a | bandy |
perpetually plagued | still-vexed |
plague | punish |
plague | pox |
plague | pestilence |
plague | cross |
plague | inflict |
plague | grind |
plague | torture |
plague | murrain |
plague | sweat |
plague on, a | vengeance |
plague, infected with | murrion |
plague, with a | wanion, with a |
plagued | pestered |
plagued, perpetually | still-vexed |
together, in league | consorted |
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Words Families
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result(s).
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Word Family | Word Family Group | Words |
AGUE | BASIC | ague n, agued adj |
AGUE | EVENT | ague-fit n |
AGUE | PEOPLE | Agueface n |
AGUE | STATE | ague-proof adj |
FIT [seizure] | TYPE | ague-fit n |
PROOF | DISEASE | ague-proof adj |
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