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Definition
to ask strongly or beg for something
- Let me see them, I beseech you.3.2 — Act 3 Scene 2 — Gloucestershire. Before Justice Shallow's house (30% in)
beseech = to ask strongly or beg for something
- Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, hath yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time; and I most humbly beseech your lordship to have a reverend care of your health.1.2 — Act 1 Scene 2 — London. A street (41% in)
- I beseech you, stand to me.2.1 — Act 2 Scene 1 — London. A street (33% in)
- But for these foolish officers, I beseech you I may have redress against them.2.1 — Act 2 Scene 1 — London. A street (57% in)
- Good morrow, honest gentlemen: I beseech you, which is justice Shallow?3.2 — Act 3 Scene 2 — Gloucestershire. Before Justice Shallow's house (18% in)
- I know not: here he is, and here I yield him: and I beseech your grace, let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds; or, by the Lord, I will have it in a particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the top on't, Colevile kissing my foot: to the which course if I be enforced, if you do not all show like gilt twopences to me, and I in the clear sky of fame o'ershine you as much as the full moon doth the cinders of the element, which show like pins' heads to her, believe not...4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — Another part of the forest (35% in)
- My lord, I beseech you, give me leave to go through Gloucestershire: and, when you come to court, stand my good lord, pray, in your good report.4.3 — Act 4 Scene 3 — Another part of the forest (60% in)
- I beseech you, sir, to countenance William Visor of Woncot against Clement Perkes of the hill.5.1 — Act 5 Scene 1 — Gloucestershire. Shallow's house (40% in)
- The knave is mine honest friend, sir; therefore, I beseech your worship, let him be countenanced.5.1 — Act 5 Scene 1 — Gloucestershire. Shallow's house (55% in)
- And, princes all, believe me, I beseech you; My father is gone wild into his grave, For in his tomb lie my affections; And with his spirit sadly I survive, To mock the expectation of the world, To frustrate prophecies and to raze out Rotten opinion, who hath writ me down After my seeming.5.2 — Act 5 Scene 2 — Westminster. The palace (85% in)
- Yea, marry, Sir John; which I beseech you to let me have home with me.5.5 — Act 5 Scene 5 — A public place near Westminster Abbey (51% in)
- I beseech you, good Sir John, let me have five hundred of my thousand.5.5 — Act 5 Scene 5 — A public place near Westminster Abbey (57% in)
- One word more, I beseech you.5.5 — Act 5 Scene 5 — A public place near Westminster Abbey (93% in)
There are no more uses of "beseech" in Henry IV, Part 2.
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