Both Uses
recompense
in
As You Like It
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- 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 *recompense = compensate for a loss; or pay a reward
- 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.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(recompense) compensation for loss; or payment or rewardRecompense is seldom used in modern literature.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)