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But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.

      — Measure for Measure, Act II Scene 2

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "busy"

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  • busy occurs 30 times in 30 speeches within 19 works.
  • Possibly related words: business, businesses, busied
  • Users have searched 341 times for busy in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which busy appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains busy more than once, the speech will still be counted once
    as part of the total count.
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As You Like It (1)
Hamlet (1)
Henry IV, Part II (2)
Henry V (1)
Henry VI, Part II (3)
Henry VIII (1)
Julius Caesar (1)
King Lear (1)
Midsummer Night's Dream (1)
Much Ado about Nothing (3)
Othello (3)
Rape of Lucrece (2)
Richard III (2)
Romeo and Juliet (1)
Sonnets (1)
Taming of the Shrew (3)
Tempest (1)
Troilus and Cressida (1)
Venus and Adonis (1)

 

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