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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

      — Titus Andronicus, Act I Scene 2

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KEYWORD: assail

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1

Cymbeline
[I, 4]

Posthumus Leonatus

440

What lady would you choose to assail?

2

Hamlet
[I, 1]

Bernardo

40

Sit down awhile,
And let us once again assail your ears,
That are so fortified against our story,
What we two nights have seen.

3

Henry VI, Part II
[IV, 2]

William Stafford

2480

Well, seeing gentle words will not prevail,
Assail them with the army of the king.

4

Henry VI, Part III
[I, 1]

Lord Clifford

68

Patience is for poltroons, such as he:
He durst not sit there, had your father lived.
My gracious lord, here in the parliament
Let us assail the family of York.

5

Lover's Complaint

Shakespeare

261

'My parts had power to charm a sacred nun,
Who, disciplined, ay, dieted in grace,
Believed her eyes when they to assail begun,
All vows and consecrations giving place:
O most potential love! vow, bond, nor space,
In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine,
For thou art all, and all things else are thine.

6

Twelfth Night
[I, 3]

Sir Toby Belch

167

You mistake, knight; 'accost' is front her, board
her, woo her, assail her.

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