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press: push.
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tongue-tied: silent.
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manner: nature. pity-wanting: unpitied.
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wit: wisdom.
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Though not to love, yet, love, to tell me so: To say you love me even though you don't.
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testy: fretful; peevish.
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know: hear.
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ill-wresting: that puts a bad construction on everything.
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so: i.e., mad.
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wide: wide of the mark (from archery); i.e., astray.