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My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.

      — The Merchant of Venice, Act I Scene 3

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KEYWORD: enforce

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Antony and Cleopatra
[I, 3]

Charmian

302

Madam, methinks, if you did love him dearly,
You do not hold the method to enforce
The like from him.

2

Antony and Cleopatra
[II, 2]

Mecaenas

806

If it might please you, to enforce no further
The griefs between ye: to forget them quite
Were to remember that the present need
Speaks to atone you.

3

Antony and Cleopatra
[V, 2]

Octavius

3545

Cleopatra, know,
We will extenuate rather than enforce:
If you apply yourself to our intents,
Which towards you are most gentle, you shall find
A benefit in this change; but if you seek
To lay on me a cruelty, by taking
Antony's course, you shall bereave yourself
Of my good purposes, and put your children
To that destruction which I'll guard them from,
If thereon you rely. I'll take my leave.

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