Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Cymbeline | Cym I.v.122 | What lady would you choose to assail? | What Lady would you chuse to assaile? |
Hamlet | Ham I.i.31 | And let us once again assail your ears, | And let vs once againe assaile your eares, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.165 | Assail them with the army of the King. | Assaile them with the Army of the King. |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.65 | Let us assail the family of York. | Let vs assayle the Family of Yorke. |
Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.54 | her, board her, woo her, assail her. | her, boord her, woe her, assayle her. |
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Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
A Lover's Complaint | LC.262 | Believed her eyes, when they t' assail begun, | Beleeu'd her eies, when they t' assaile begun, |
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assail | attack, assault, address |
assail | approach with offers of love, woo with vigour, attempt to seduce |
assailing | wooing, loving, amorous |
attempt | attack, assail, subdue |
beset | set upon, assail, besiege |
charge | attack, assail, storm |
encounter | confront, assail, attack |
infest | harass, trouble, assail |
offend | assail, attack, fall upon |
siege | onslaught, storm, assail |
uncharged | unattacked, unassailed |
unvulnerable | invulnerable, unassailable |
wassail | drinking-party, carousal, revels |
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assail | infest |
assail | siege |
assail | offend |
assail | encounter |
assail | charge |
assail | beset |
assail | attempt |
unassailable | unvulnerable |
unassailed | uncharged |
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Words Families
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result(s).
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Word Family | Word Family Group | Words |
ASSAIL | BASIC | assail v, assailable adj, assailing adj |
ASSAIL | PEOPLE | assailant n |
ASSAIL | NOT | unassailable adj, unassailed adj |
UNASSAILABLE | BASIC | see ASSAIL |
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