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mature (stressed “ma'ture” in Lr. IV. vi. 283)
1. ripe or ready “for” Cor. IV. iii. 26.
2. pertaining to maturity or manhood Wint. I. i. 27 “their more mature dignities.”
3. (of time) due Lr. IV. vi. 283 “in the mature time.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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