Both Uses of
endeavor
in
All's Well That Ends Well, by Shakespeare
- Madam, the care I have had to even your content, I wish might be found in the calendar of my past endeavours; for then we wound our modesty, and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.†
Scene 1.3endeavours = attempts; or things attemptedunconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use endeavors.
- Dear sir, to my endeavours give consent: Of heaven, not me, make an experiment.†
Scene 2.1 *
Definition:
to attempt; or a project or activity attempted