Taken

Spenser's sarcastic and joking remarks are often misinterpreted as signs of ambivalence and often taken too seriously.

You were taken in by her.

Have you taken your medicine yet?

You needn't have taken a taxi.

You ought to have taken your father's advice.

You should have taken a chance then.

If only I had taken your advice.

I should have taken the money.

With teaching and studying, my time is taken up.

The students have taken no notice of these instructions.

He was very taken with the girl, I hear.

I can't ask her out, she's taken.

No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief[…]