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composition (3 peculiar to S.)
1. constitution John I. i. 88 “the large composition of this man,” R2 II. i. 73.
2. compact, agreement Meas. I. ii. 2, V. i. 214, John II. i. 561, Mac. I. ii. 61.
3. consistency Oth. I. iii. 1 “There is no composition in these news That gives them credit.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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