All 11 Uses of
content
in
Henry IV, Part 1
- Peace, cousin, say no more: And now I will unclasp a secret book, And to your quick-conceiving discontent I'll read you matter deep and dangerous; As full of peril and adventurous spirit As to o'er-walk a current roaring loud On the unsteadfast footing of a spear.†
Scene 1.3 (definition 1)
- —But, for mine own part, my lord, I could be well contented to be there, in respect of the love I bear your House.†
Scene 2.3 (definition 1)
- —He could be contented; why is he not, then?†
Scene 2.3 (definition 1) *
- These things, indeed, you have articulate, Proclaim'd at market-crosses, read in churches, To face the garment of rebellion With some fine colour that may please the eye Of fickle changelings and poor discontents, Which gape and rub the elbow at the news Of hurlyburly innovation: And never yet did insurrection want Such water-colours to impaint his cause; Nor moody beggars, starving for a time Of pellmell havoc and confusion.†
Scene 5.1 (definition 1)
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Tut! there are other Trojans that thou dreamest not of, the which, for sport-sake, are content to do the profession some grace; that would, if matters should be look'd into, for their own credit-sake, make all whole.†
Scene 2.1 (definition 2)
- Will this content you, Kate?†
Scene 2.3 (definition 2)
- Content; and the argument shall be thy running away.†
Scene 2.4 (definition 2)
- Shall I? content: this chair shall be my state, this dagger my sceptre, and this cushion my crown.†
Scene 2.4 (definition 2)
- Content.†
Scene 4.3 (definition 2) *
- Hear me, my liege: For mine own part, I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours; for I do protest, I have not sought the day of this dislike.†
Scene 5.1 (definition 2)
- For my part,—I may speak it to my shame,— I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too: Yet this before my father's Majesty,— I am content that he shall take the odds Of his great name and estimation, And will, to save the blood on either side, Try fortune with him in a single fight.†
Scene 5.1 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(2) (meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.