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motley: the clothes of a professional fool; a fool who wears motley.
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gored: wounded deeply.
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Made old offences of affections new: transgressed against old friendships by my conduct with new friendships.
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truth: constancy; fidelity.
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askance and strangely: obliquely and coldly; sidewise and mistrustfully.
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blenches: turning of the eyes aside; swerving away (from constancy).
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worse essays: inferior experiments (in friendship).
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will grind / On newer proof: will sharpen or whet with new experience.
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try: test.