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Read the following excerpt from Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew: “Baptista:
Gentlemen, importune me no farther,
For how I firmly am resolu'd you know:
That is, not to bestow my yongest daughter,
Before I haue a husband for the elder:
If either of you both loue Katherina,
Because I know you well, and loue you well,
Leaue shall you haue to court her at your pleasure.”
In this context, the word “bestow” is closest in meaning to: