Both Uses of
afflict
in
Measure for Measure
- Bound by my charity and my bless'd order, I come to visit the afflicted spirits Here in the prison: do me the common right To let me see them, and to make me know The nature of their crimes, that I may minister To them accordingly.†
Scene 2.3 *afflicted = suffering; or made to suffer
- Reason thus with life,—If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, Servile to all the skiey influences, That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st Hourly afflict; mere'y, thou art death's fool; For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shun, And yet runn'st toward him still.†
Scene 3.1afflict = cause suffering
Definition:
to cause pain, suffering, or trouble -- especially something long-lasting or hard to endure