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retire sb. (2 common 1550-1600; 3 the commonest S. sense)
1. retirement, withdrawal LLL. II. i. 232.
2. return John II. i. 253, Lucr. 573.
3. retreat in warfare John II. i. 326, Cor. I. vi. 3 “Nor cowardly in retire,” Lucr. 174.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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