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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

      — King John, Act IV Scene 2

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "zeal"

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  • zeal occurs 34 times in 40 speeches within 19 works.
  • Possibly related word: zeals
  • Users have searched 468 times for zeal in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which zeal appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains zeal 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 (1)
Henry IV, Part I (2)
Henry IV, Part II (3)
Henry V (1)
Henry VI, Part II (1)
Henry VI, Part III (1)
Henry VIII (3)
King John (7)
Love's Labour's Lost (4)
Merchant of Venice (1)
Much Ado about Nothing (1)
Richard II (2)
Richard III (4)
Sonnets (1)
Timon of Athens (3)
Titus Andronicus (1)
Troilus and Cressida (2)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (1)
Winter's Tale (1)

 

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