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Hamlet vocabulary
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lief
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synonyms: fain ???
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Definition:willing(ly)
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"Well, that's odd!" said Marie. "What in the world do you want that for?"
"Never mind, mamma; you'd as lief as not Topsy should do it,—had you not?"
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin
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I was lying down, staring at the stars, thinking of El Remendado, and telling myself I would just as lief be in his place.Prosper Merimee. Carmen (Mary Loyd translation)
---Ham. Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town crier spoke my lines.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet.
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