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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
play .
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Examples
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“Thou poor old man,” said Halbert, “and can such a vain conceit as this of thy fancied use, reconcile thee to a world where thou playest so poor a part?”
The Monastery 2008
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Thou playest a noble part, maiden; but sickly are the whims of Fate and the goddess.
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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Thou playest a noble part, maiden; but sickly are the whims of Fate and the goddess.
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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"I will forgive thee thine indiscretion if thou playest while we dance."
Blue Adept Anthony, Piers 1981
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Thou playest with all mobile and immobile things (as with thy toys).
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Nor can it be consistent with the condition of love that any thought of life should divert the heart from affection for its mistress: -- Thou, who art the slave of thine own precious self, playest false in the affairs of love.
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THOU LAND OF THE GLAD HAND Thou land of the Glad Hand, whose frequent boast Is of the hordes to whom thou playest host!
The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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Sweet is the tune, by Pan of Arcady, that thou playest on the harp,
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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Voiceful cricket, drunken with drops of dew thou playest thy rustic music that murmurs in the solitude, and perched on the leaf-edges shrillest thy lyre-tune with serrated legs and swart skin.
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Anonymous 1902
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Thou dancest and playest with thy feet, and I with my feet have laboured in great pain.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900
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