Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SIM'PLY, adv.

1. Without art; without subtilty; artlessly; plainly. Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise / By simply meek. – Milton.
2. Of itself; without addition; alone. They make that good or evil, which otherwise of itself were not simply the one nor the other. – Hooker.
3. Merely; solely. Simply the thing I am / Shall make me live. – Shak.
4. Weakly; foolishly.