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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 "persuade"

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  • persuade occurs 37 times in 61 speeches within 33 works.
  • Possibly related words: persuaded, persuades, persuading
  • Users have searched 290 times for persuade in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which persuade appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains persuade more than once, the speech will still be counted once
    as part of the total count.
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Antony and Cleopatra (1)
As You Like It (2)
Comedy of Errors (1)
Coriolanus (2)
Cymbeline (1)
Hamlet (1)
Henry IV, Part I (1)
Henry IV, Part II (1)
Henry V (2)
Henry VI, Part I (5)
Henry VI, Part II (2)
Henry VI, Part III (3)
Henry VIII (1)
King Lear (4)
Love's Labour's Lost (1)
Macbeth (1)
Measure for Measure (4)
Merchant of Venice (2)
Merry Wives of Windsor (2)
Much Ado about Nothing (1)
Othello (4)
Passionate Pilgrim (1)
Rape of Lucrece (2)
Richard II (2)
Richard III (1)
Sonnets (1)
Taming of the Shrew (2)
Tempest (1)
Troilus and Cressida (2)
Twelfth Night (3)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (2)
Venus and Adonis (1)
Winter's Tale (1)

 

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