"how now" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
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          "source": "w"
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          "text": "How now ſir Iohn, what are you brawling here?\n Doth this become your place, your time, and buſineſſe?",
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          "ref": "c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:",
          "text": "How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!",
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          "ref": "1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 44:",
          "text": "\"How now, you scullions and cullions: bring hither a pair of cow's hooves to out face this contumelious caitiff.\"",
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      "glosses": [
        "Hello, what is that?"
      ],
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          "Hello",
          "hello"
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        "(archaic) Hello, what is that?"
      ],
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        "archaic"
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  "word": "how now"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "intj",
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        "English terms with quotations",
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          "text": "How now ſir Iohn, what are you brawling here?\n Doth this become your place, your time, and buſineſſe?",
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          "text": "How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!",
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          "ref": "1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 44:",
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      "glosses": [
        "Hello, what is that?"
      ],
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          "hello"
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        "(archaic) Hello, what is that?"
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  "word": "how now"
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