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may: the orig. sense ‘have power or ability, can’ is well represented, as are also the mod. uses; occas. with ellipsis of vb. of motion MND. III. ii. 433 “That I may back to Athens,” 1H4 III. i. 141 “you may away by night” ; the idiomatic “you may, you may” (Troil. III. i. 120, Cor. II. iii. 39) app. means go on, go on, divert yourself at my expense.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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