complain used as a verb active:
“Where, then, alas, may I complain myself”
RICHARD II., i. 2. 42
(
“as Mr. M. Mason observes, is a literal translation of the
French phrase, me plaindre,”
STEEVENS)
;
“And what I want it boots not to complain,”
RICHARD II., iii. 4. 18.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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