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Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.

      — The Merchant of Venice, Act I Scene 2

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KEYWORD: prove

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1

Henry VI, Part I
[I, 2]

Charles, King of France

348

Presently we'll try: come, let's away about it:
No prophet will I trust, if she prove false.

2

Henry VI, Part I
[II, 1]

Duke of Burgundy

688

Pray God she prove not masculine ere long,
If underneath the standard of the French
She carry armour as she hath begun.

3

Henry VI, Part I
[II, 2]

Lord Talbot/Earl of Shrewsbury

818

Well then, alone, since there's no remedy,
I mean to prove this lady's courtesy.
Come hither, captain.
[Whispers]
You perceive my mind?

4

Henry VI, Part I
[II, 4]

Richard Plantagenet (Duke of Gloucester)

1029

My father was attached, not attainted,
Condemn'd to die for treason, but no traitor;
And that I'll prove on better men than Somerset,
Were growing time once ripen'd to my will.
For your partaker Pole and you yourself,
I'll note you in my book of memory,
To scourge you for this apprehension:
Look to it well and say you are well warn'd.

5

Henry VI, Part I
[III, 1]

Henry VI

1358

Fie, uncle Beaufort! I have heard you preach
That malice was a great and grievous sin;
And will not you maintain the thing you teach,
But prove a chief offender in the same?

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