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1 —1 use as in:
content with how things are
Definition
satisfied
- Let your wedding be to-morrow: thither will I invite the duke and all's contented followers.5.2 — Act 5 Scene 2 — Another part of the Forest (14% in)
There are no more uses of "content" flagged with this meaning in As You Like It.
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exact meaning not specified
- No, I protest, I know not the contents: Phebe did write it.4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — Another part of the Forest (13% in)
- Now go we in content To liberty, and not to banishment.1.3 — Act 1 Scene 3 — A Room in the Palace (99% in)
- But, poor old man, thou prun'st a rotten tree, That cannot so much as a blossom yield In lieu of all thy pains and husbandry: But come thy ways, we'll go along together; And ere we have thy youthful wages spent We'll light upon some settled low content.2.3 — Act 2 Scene 3 — Before OLIVER'S House (89% in)
- Ay, now am I in Arden: the more fool I; when I was at home I was in a better place; but travellers must be content.2.4 — Act 2 Scene 4 — The Forest of Arden (19% in)
- No more but that I know the more one sickens, the worse at ease he is; and that he that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet, and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep; and that a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding, or comes of a very dull kindred.3.2 — Act 3 Scene 2 — The Forest of Arden (7% in)
- Sir, I am a true labourer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm; and the greatest of my pride is to see my ewes graze and my lambs suck.3.2 — Act 3 Scene 2 — The Forest of Arden (19% in)
- Doth my simple feature content you?3.3 — Act 3 Scene 3 — Another part of the Forest (5% in)
- ] I know not the contents; but, as I guess By the stern brow and waspish action Which she did use as she was writing of it, It bears an angry tenor: pardon me, I am but as a guiltless messenger.4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — Another part of the Forest (6% in)
- — [to PHEBE] I will marry you if ever I marry woman, and I'll be married to-morrow:— [to ORLANDO] I will satisfy you if ever I satisfied man, and you shall be married to-morrow:— [to SILVIUS] I will content you if what pleases you contents you, and you shall be married to-morrow.5.2 — Act 5 Scene 2 — Another part of the Forest (94% in)
- — [to PHEBE] I will marry you if ever I marry woman, and I'll be married to-morrow:— [to ORLANDO] I will satisfy you if ever I satisfied man, and you shall be married to-morrow:— [to SILVIUS] I will content you if what pleases you contents you, and you shall be married to-morrow.5.2 — Act 5 Scene 2 — Another part of the Forest (95% in)
- I bar confusion: 'tis I must make conclusion Of these most strange events: Here's eight that must take hands To join in Hymen's bands, If truth holds true contents.5.4 — Act 5 Scene 4 — Another part of the Forest (60% in)
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