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In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt
But being season'd with a gracious voice
Obscures the show of evil?

      — The Merchant of Venice, Act III Scene 2

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KEYWORD: countenance

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Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Princess of France

2180

O poverty in wit, kingly-poor flout!
Will they not, think you, hang themselves tonight?
Or ever, but in vizards, show their faces?
This pert Biron was out of countenance quite.

2

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Holofernes

2549

I will not be put out of countenance.

3

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Biron

2560

Ay, and worn in the cap of a tooth-drawer.
And now forward; for we have put thee in countenance.

4

Love's Labour's Lost
[V, 2]

Holofernes

2562

You have put me out of countenance.

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