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He hath a tear for pity, and a hand
Open as day for melting charity.

      — King Henry IV. Part II, Act IV Scene 4

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "purpose"

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  • purpose occurs 216 times in 268 speeches within 40 works.
  • Possibly related words: purposes, purposed, purposely, purposing
  • Users have searched 1,245 times for purpose in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which purpose appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains purpose 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 (7)
Antony and Cleopatra (14)
As You Like It (4)
Comedy of Errors (2)
Coriolanus (10)
Cymbeline (17)
Hamlet (14)
Henry IV, Part I (8)
Henry IV, Part II (8)
Henry V (7)
Henry VI, Part I (3)
Henry VI, Part II (3)
Henry VI, Part III (1)
Henry VIII (6)
Julius Caesar (7)
King John (11)
King Lear (14)
Lover's Complaint (1)
Love's Labour's Lost (9)
Macbeth (5)
Measure for Measure (15)
Merchant of Venice (7)
Merry Wives of Windsor (7)
Midsummer Night's Dream (3)
Much Ado about Nothing (5)
Othello (9)
Pericles (6)
Rape of Lucrece (4)
Richard II (4)
Richard III (5)
Romeo and Juliet (3)
Sonnets (6)
Taming of the Shrew (1)
Tempest (6)
Timon of Athens (3)
Titus Andronicus (2)
Troilus and Cressida (12)
Twelfth Night (5)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (4)
Winter's Tale (10)

 

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