Both Uses of
recompense
in
As You Like It
- At seventeen years many their fortunes seek; But at fourscore it is too late a week: Yet fortune cannot recompense me better Than to die well and not my master's debtor.†
Scene 2.3 *
- Silvius, the time was that I hated thee; And yet it is not that I bear thee love: But since that thou canst talk of love so well, Thy company, which erst was irksome to me, I will endure; and I'll employ thee too: But do not look for further recompense Than thine own gladness that thou art employ'd.†
Scene 3.5
Definition:
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(recompense) to compensate for loss
or more rarely: to pay or reward