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an agreement - typically written and enforceable by law
- —Upon a true contract I got possession of Julietta’s bed:
- She signed the contract.
- A lot of people get into trouble by signing contracts they don’t understand.
- Craft against vice I must apply; With Angelo to-night shall lie His old betrothed but despis’d; So disguise shall, by the disguis’d, Pay with falsehood false exacting, And perform an old contracting.
- Nor, gentle daughter, fear you not at all; He is your husband on a pre-contract: To bring you thus together ’tis no sin, Sith that the justice of your title to him Doth flourish the deceit.
- Come hither, Mariana:— Say, wast thou e’er contracted to this woman?
- She should this Angelo have married; was affianced to her by oath, and the nuptial appointed: between which time of the contract and limit of the solemnity her brother Frederick was wrecked at sea, having in that perished vessel the dowry of his sister.
- ] This is that face, thou cruel Angelo, Which once thou swor’st was worth the looking on: This is the hand which, with a vow’d contract, Was fast belock’d in thine; this is the body That took away the match from Isabel, And did supply thee at thy garden-house In her imagin’d person.
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as in: legal contract Define
an agreement - typically written and enforceable by law
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to get -- especially in reference to a disease
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