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And as the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He called them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.

      — King Henry IV. Part I, Act I Scene 3

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "purposes"

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  • purposes occurs 39 times in 39 speeches within 19 works.
  • Possibly related words: purpose, purposed, purposely, purposing
  • Users have searched 449 times for purposes in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which purposes appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains purposes 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)
Antony and Cleopatra (5)
Cymbeline (2)
Hamlet (3)
Henry IV, Part I (4)
Henry IV, Part II (3)
Henry V (2)
Henry VIII (1)
Julius Caesar (2)
King John (3)
King Lear (3)
Love's Labour's Lost (1)
Macbeth (1)
Measure for Measure (1)
Merchant of Venice (1)
Othello (3)
Tempest (1)
Timon of Athens (1)
Winter's Tale (1)

 

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