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1  So is it, if thou knew'st our purposes.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV
2  And for that purpose I'll anoint my sword.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
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3  This visitation Is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
4  I am constant to my purposes, they follow the King's pleasure.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
5  What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
6  Good gentlemen, give him a further edge, And drive his purpose on to these delights.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
7  Let the foils be brought, the gentleman willing, and the King hold his purpose, I will win for him if I can; if not, I will gain nothing but my shame and the odd hits.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
8  So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody and unnatural acts, Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters, Of deaths put on by cunning and forc'd cause, And, in this upshot, purposes mistook Fall'n on the inventors' heads.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT V