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O, good old man, how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed!
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat but for promotion.

      — As You Like It, Act II Scene 3

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "contrary"

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  • contrary occurs 50 times in 50 speeches within 26 works.
  • Possibly related words: contraries, contrarious, contrariously
  • Users have searched 403 times for contrary in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which contrary appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains contrary more than once, the speech will still be counted once
    as part of the total count.
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All's Well That Ends Well (2)
Hamlet (1)
Henry IV, Part I (1)
Henry IV, Part II (1)
Henry VI, Part I (2)
Henry VI, Part II (2)
Henry VI, Part III (2)
Henry VIII (4)
King John (2)
Love's Labour's Lost (3)
Measure for Measure (2)
Merchant of Venice (2)
Merry Wives of Windsor (3)
Much Ado about Nothing (2)
Othello (1)
Pericles (2)
Rape of Lucrece (1)
Richard II (1)
Richard III (2)
Romeo and Juliet (3)
Sonnets (1)
Tempest (1)
Timon of Athens (2)
Twelfth Night (1)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (2)
Winter's Tale (4)

 

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