Both Uses of
besiege
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- 'So it is, besieged with sable-coloured melancholy, I did commend the black-oppressing humour to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving air; and, as I am a gentleman, betook myself to walk.†
Scene 1.1 *
- Marry, thus much I have learnt; He rather means to lodge you in the field, Like one that comes here to besiege his court, Than seek a dispensation for his oath, To let you enter his unpeeled house.†
Scene 2.1
Definition:
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(besiege) to surround with armed forces, and cut-off supplies or attack
or:
to make an overwhelming number of requests, complaints, or comments -- typically in an annoying manner and sometimes while surrounding