All 12 Uses of
content
in
As You Like It
- Let your wedding be to-morrow: thither will I invite the duke and all's contented followers.†
Scene 5.2 *contented = satisfied
- 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.†
Scene 4.3
- No, I protest, I know not the contents: Phebe did write it.†
Scene 4.3
- —[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.†
Scene 5.2
- 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.†
Scene 5.4
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- Now go we in content To liberty, and not to banishment.†
Scene 1.3
- 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.†
Scene 2.3
- 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.†
Scene 2.4 *
- 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.†
Scene 3.2
- 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.†
Scene 3.2
- Doth my simple feature content you?†
Scene 3.3
- —[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.†
Scene 5.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(content as in: content with how things are) satisfied
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus:
The word forms content and contents are also commonly used to refer to what is inside something else.