All 4 Uses of
recompense
in
Twelfth Night
- I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse; My master, not myself, lacks recompense.†
Scene 1.5 *recompense = compensate for a loss; or pay a reward
- It were a bad recompense for your love, to lay any of them on you.†
Scene 2.1
- This is to give a dog; and in recompense desire my dog again.†
Scene 5.1
- Maria writ The letter, at Sir Toby's great importance; In recompense whereof he hath married her.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
compensation for loss; or payment or reward
Recompense is seldom used in modern literature.