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cross: frustrate.
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spite: harm; injury. make me bow: humiliate me.
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drop in for an after-loss: come in unexpectedly to inflict a second loss on me.
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'scaped: escaped.
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in the rearward of a conquer'd woe: following a woe I managed to survive.
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Give not a windy night a rainy morrow: i.e., don't make it so that sighs are followed by tears.
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linger out: protract. purposed overthrow: deliberate defeat.
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spite: harm; injury.
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in the onset: right away.
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strains: kinds and degrees.