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do (the chief obs. or archaic uses are the following; see also DOING, DONE)
1. to put “to death” Ado V. iii. 3, 2H6 III. ii. 179; also “do him dead” 3H6 I. iv. 108.
2. to play the part of, enact Ado II. i. 124, MND. I. ii. 28, 71 “You may do it extempore.”
3. imperative=‘go on!’ Tp. IV. i. 241, Troil. II. i. 45.
4. =‘do with’ Lucr. 1092 “For day hath nought to do what's done by night.”
5. to be sufficient; phr. “all would not do” 1H4 II. iv. 192. to do, to be done, still undone Meas. I. ii. 121, AYL. I. ii. 122, 2H6 III. ii. 3, Ham. IV. iv. 44; do good, succeed Wint. II. ii. 54; do withal Mer.V. III. iv. 72 “I could not do withal,” I could not help it.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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