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Meaning of "bring them away" in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" (Act2, scene1)?
Not exactly. It is the usual difference between take and bring. If he had said “take them away”, it would have been a demand that the people in question be separated from him and removed to another ...
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Meaning of "get out" in "He gets out when he can"
Get out is just a phrasal verb meaning "to go out, to spend time outside". OED lists the relevant sense of get out including the figurative sense as below:
To leave one's home or lodgings ...
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