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argal

Shakespearean Definition:

Adverb - Similar to therefore

Frequency: 3

Here are all of the speeches where argal shows up across the corpus:

Hamlet

It must be se offendendo ; it cannot be
else . For here lies the point : if I drown myself
wittingly , it argues an act , and an act hath three
branches — it is to act , to do , to perform . Argal , she
drowned herself wittingly .

Hamlet

Give me leave . Here lies the water ;
good . Here stands the man ; good . If the man go to
this water and drown himself , it is ( will he , nill he )
he goes ; mark you that . But if the water come to him
and drown him , he drowns not himself . Argal , he
that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his
own life .

Hamlet

I like thy wit well , in good faith . The
gallows does well . But how does it well ? It does
well to those that do ill . Now , thou dost ill to say the
gallows is built stronger than the church . Argal , the
gallows may do well to thee . To ’t again , come .