Both Uses of
lascivious
in
All's Well That Ends Well
- My meaning in't, I protest, was very honest in the behalf of the maid; for I knew the young count to be a dangerous and lascivious boy, who is a whale to virginity, and devours up all the fry it finds.†
Scene 4.3
- Only to seem to deserve well, and to beguile the supposition of that lascivious young boy the count, have I run into this danger: yet who would have suspected an ambush where I was taken?†
Scene 4.3 *
Definition:
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(lascivious) excessively driven by, demonstrating, or provoking sexual desires