Hamlet vocabulary

“Mistress Lucilla, to recant verities were heresy, and renew the praises of women flattery : the only cause I wished myself here, was to give thanks for so good entertainment the which I could noways deserve, and to breed a greater acquaintance if it might be to make amends.”

John Lyly. Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578)

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  in the verity of extolment

  I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion

  of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of

  him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would

  trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.

William Shakespeare. Hamlet