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embassy (3 not recorded outside S.)
1. mission of an ambassador LLL. I. i. 133 “comes in ,” John I. i. 99, Troil. IV. v. 215.
2. ambassador's commission or message LLL. II. i. 3, John I. i. 6 “hear the embassy,” H5 I. i. 95.
3. message (esp. of love) Wiv. III. v. 135 “ of meeting,” Tw.N. I. v. 177, Wint. I. i. 31 “loving embassies.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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