All 5 Uses of
entreat
in
All's Well That Ends Well
- My duty, then, shall pay me for my pains: I will no more enforce mine office on you; Humbly entreating from your royal thoughts A modest one to bear me back again.†
Scene 2.1
- this drives me to entreat you:
Scene 2.5 *entreat = ask earnestly
- Prepared I was not For such a business; therefore am I found So much unsettled: this drives me to entreat you: That presently you take your way for home, And rather muse than ask why I entreat you: For my respects are better than they seem; And my appointments have in them a need Greater than shows itself at the first view To you that know them not.†
Scene 2.5
- I will entreat you, when you see my son, To tell him that his sword can never win The honour that he loses: more I'll entreat you Written to bear along.†
Scene 3.2
- I will entreat you, when you see my son, To tell him that his sword can never win The honour that he loses: more I'll entreat you Written to bear along.†
Scene 3.2
Definition:
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(entreat) to ask -- especially while trying hard to overcome resistance