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All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 2] |
Second Gentleman |
1473 |
Such is his noble purpose; and believe 't,
The duke will lay upon him all the honour
That good convenience claims.
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2 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 5] |
Helena |
1685 |
How do you mean?
May be the amorous count solicits her
In the unlawful purpose.
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3 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[III, 7] |
Widow |
1878 |
Now I see
The bottom of your purpose.
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4 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 1] |
Second Lord |
1915 |
He must think us some band of strangers i' the
adversary's entertainment. Now he hath a smack of
all neighbouring languages; therefore we must every
one be a man of his own fancy, not to know what we
speak one to another; so we seem to know, is to
know straight our purpose: choughs' language,
gabble enough, and good enough. As for you,
interpreter, you must seem very politic. But couch,
ho! here he comes, to beguile two hours in a sleep,
and then to return and swear the lies he forges.
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5 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[IV, 1] |
Parolles |
1936 |
What the devil should move me to undertake the
recovery of this drum, being not ignorant of the
impossibility, and knowing I had no such purpose? I
must give myself some hurts, and say I got them in
exploit: yet slight ones will not carry it; they
will say, 'Came you off with so little?' and great
ones I dare not give. Wherefore, what's the
instance? Tongue, I must put you into a
butter-woman's mouth and buy myself another of
Bajazet's mule, if you prattle me into these perils.
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6 |
All's Well That Ends Well
[V, 3] |
King of France |
2955 |
Come, come, to the purpose: did he love this woman?
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7 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 2] |
Antony |
271 |
No more light answers. Let our officers
Have notice what we purpose. I shall break
The cause of our expedience to the queen,
And get her leave to part. For not alone
The death of Fulvia, with more urgent touches,
Do strongly speak to us; but the letters too
Of many our contriving friends in Rome
Petition us at home: Sextus Pompeius
Hath given the dare to Caesar, and commands
The empire of the sea: our slippery people,
Whose love is never link'd to the deserver
Till his deserts are past, begin to throw
Pompey the Great and all his dignities
Upon his son; who, high in name and power,
Higher than both in blood and life, stands up
For the main soldier: whose quality, going on,
The sides o' the world may danger: much is breeding,
Which, like the courser's hair, hath yet but life,
And not a serpent's poison. Say, our pleasure,
To such whose place is under us, requires
Our quick remove from hence.
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8 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 3] |
Antony |
313 |
I am sorry to give breathing to my purpose,—
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9 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 2] |
Antony |
858 |
May I never
To this good purpose, that so fairly shows,
Dream of impediment! Let me have thy hand:
Further this act of grace: and from this hour
The heart of brothers govern in our loves
And sway our great designs!
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10 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 6] |
Antony |
1273 |
The beds i' the east are soft; and thanks to you,
That call'd me timelier than my purpose hither;
For I have gain'd by 't.
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11 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 6] |
Menas |
1352 |
I think the policy of that purpose made more in the
marriage than the love of the parties.
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12 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[IV, 3] |
Third Soldier |
2591 |
'Tis a brave army,
And full of purpose.
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13 |
Antony and Cleopatra
[V, 1] |
Octavius |
3353 |
Come hither, Proculeius. Go and say,
We purpose her no shame: give her what comforts
The quality of her passion shall require,
Lest, in her greatness, by some mortal stroke
She do defeat us; for her life in Rome
Would be eternal in our triumph: go,
And with your speediest bring us what she says,
And how you find of her.
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14 |
As You Like It
[I, 1] |
Oliver |
116 |
Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which thou shalt
find I will most kindly requite. I had myself notice of my
brother's purpose herein, and have by underhand means laboured to
dissuade him from it; but he is resolute. I'll tell thee,
Charles, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France; full of
ambition, an envious emulator of every man's good parts, a secret
and villainous contriver against me his natural brother.
Therefore use thy discretion: I had as lief thou didst break his
neck as his finger. And thou wert best look to't; for if thou
dost him any slight disgrace, or if he do not mightily grace
himself on thee, he will practise against thee by poison, entrap
thee by some treacherous device, and never leave thee till he
hath ta'en thy life by some indirect means or other; for, I
assure thee, and almost with tears I speak it, there is not one
so young and so villainous this day living. I speak but brotherly
of him; but should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must blush
and weep, and thou must look pale and wonder.
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15 |
As You Like It
[IV, 2] |
Jaques (lord) |
1983 |
Let's present him to the Duke, like a Roman conqueror; and
it would do well to set the deer's horns upon his head for a
branch of victory. Have you no song, forester, for this purpose?
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Comedy of Errors
[IV, 1] |
Antipholus of Ephesus |
1050 |
Thou drunken slave, I sent thee for a rope;
And told thee to what purpose and what end.
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Comedy of Errors
[IV, 3] |
Courtezan |
1231 |
Now, out of doubt Antipholus is mad,
Else would he never so demean himself.
A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats,
And for the same he promised me a chain:
Both one and other he denies me now.
The reason that I gather he is mad,
Besides this present instance of his rage,
Is a mad tale he told to-day at dinner,
Of his own doors being shut against his entrance.
Belike his wife, acquainted with his fits,
On purpose shut the doors against his way.
My way is now to hie home to his house,
And tell his wife that, being lunatic,
He rush'd into my house and took perforce
My ring away. This course I fittest choose;
For forty ducats is too much to lose.
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Coriolanus
[I, 1] |
Menenius Agrippa |
79 |
Either you must
Confess yourselves wondrous malicious,
Or be accused of folly. I shall tell you
A pretty tale: it may be you have heard it;
But, since it serves my purpose, I will venture
To stale 't a little more.
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19 |
Coriolanus
[I, 6] |
Cominius |
673 |
CORIOLANUS,
We have at disadvantage fought and did
Retire to win our purpose.
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20 |
Coriolanus
[II, 1] |
Menenius Agrippa |
999 |
Our very priests must become mockers, if they shall
encounter such ridiculous subjects as you are. When
you speak best unto the purpose, it is not worth the
wagging of your beards; and your beards deserve not
so honourable a grave as to stuff a botcher's
cushion, or to be entombed in an ass's pack-
saddle. Yet you must be saying, CORIOLANUS is proud;
who in a cheap estimation, is worth predecessors
since Deucalion, though peradventure some of the
best of 'em were hereditary hangmen. God-den to
your worships: more of your conversation would
infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly
plebeians: I will be bold to take my leave of you.
[BRUTUS and SICINIUS go aside]
[Enter VOLUMNIA, VIRGILIA, and VALERIA]
How now, my as fair as noble ladies,—and the moon,
were she earthly, no nobler,—whither do you follow
your eyes so fast?
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