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to express disapproval of one's actions to them
- The virtue of this jest will be, the incomprehensible lies that this same fat rogue will tell us when we meet at supper: how thirty, at least, he fought with; what wards, what blows, what extremities he endured; and in the reproof of this lies the jest.1.2 — Act 1 Scene 2 — The same. An Apartment of Prince Henry's (88% in)
- He holds your temper in a high respect, And curbs himself even of his natural scope When you do cross his humour; faith, he does: I warrant you, that man is not alive Might so have tempted him as you have done, Without the taste of danger and reproof: But do not use it oft, let me entreat you.3.1 — Act 3 Scene 1 — Bangor. A Room in the Archdeacon's House (64% in)
- So please your Majesty, I would I could Quit all offences with as clear excuse As well as I am doubtless I can purge Myself of many I am charged withal: Yet such extenuation let me beg, As, in reproof of many tales devised By smiling pick-thanks and base news-mongers,— Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear,— I may, for some things true, wherein my youth Hath faulty wander'd and irregular, Find pardon on my true submission.3.2 — Act 3 Scene 2 — London. A Room in the Palace (14% in)
There are no more uses of "reprove" in Henry IV, Part 1.
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