sesey

sesey

or

sese

interj
an exclamation found in Shakespeare, of uncertain meaning; perhaps from French cessez, meaning 'cease!'; perhaps the same as sessa
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Adisa Sesey, 23, was feeding her barely two-month old daughter at around 5am when she heard shouts of "fire" from outside her first-floor flat.
Terrified young mum held baby tight as fire trapped them in Shepherd's Bush flat; She feared for their lives
Yet similar defences could be made of the vocables 'Sesey' at 3.4.90 and 'se se' at 3.6.31, both of which are learnedly rationalized to Johnson's conjecture 'cessez!' In context, it strikes me that in each passage 'Poor Tom' is speaking as if to an animal, probably a dog ('Dauphin').
The Tragedy of King Lear
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