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Let us make an honourable retreat.

      — As You Like It, Act III Scene 2

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1

Pericles
[I, 1]

Antiochus

197

He hath found the meaning, for which we mean
To have his head.
He must not live to trumpet forth my infamy,
Nor tell the world Antiochus doth sin
In such a loathed manner;
And therefore instantly this prince must die:
For by his fall my honour must keep high.
Who attends us there?

2

Pericles
[II, 1]

First Fisherman

715

What mean you, sir?

3

Pericles
[II, 2]

First Lord

805

He had need mean better than his outward show
Can any way speak in his just commend;
For by his rusty outside he appears
To have practised more the whipstock than the lance.

4

Pericles
[II, 2]

(stage directions)

818

[Great shouts within and all cry 'The mean knight!']

5

Pericles
[IV, 1]

Marina

1621

What mean you?

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