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Why, then the world's mine oyster,
Which I with sword will open.

      — The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II Scene 2

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KEYWORD: behold

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Henry IV, Part I
[I, 3]

Earl of Worcester

607

True; who bears hard
His brother's death at Bristol, the Lord Scroop.
I speak not this in estimation,
As what I think might be, but what I know
Is ruminated, plotted and set down,
And only stays but to behold the face
Of that occasion that shall bring it on.

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Henry IV, Part I
[II, 4]

Henry V

1111

Didst thou never see Titan kiss a dish of butter?
pitiful-hearted Titan, that melted at the sweet tale
of the sun's! if thou didst, then behold that compound.

3

Henry IV, Part I
[II, 4]

Lord Bardolph

1304

My lord, do you see these meteors? do you behold
these exhalations?

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