use this word properly in a sentence

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jjones

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Originally posted by: allisolm
After discovering her perfidy, King Arthur told Guinivere to"Hie thee to a nunnery!"
Are you sure he didn't say whorehouse instead of nunnery?

 

allisolm

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Whan that April with his showres soote...
The droughte of March hath perced to the roote...

(man that whole passage was no fun to memorize in 11th grade)

and bathed every veyne in swich liquer
of which vertu engendered is the fleur.

Arghhh! I still remember it all....
 

allisolm

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Wasn't that Hamlet/Ophelia and not Arthur/Guinevere?

Where do you think Shakespeare got it from? :D