Both Uses of
surmise
in
Henry IV, Part 2
- Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it.†
Scene 1.1 *
- Yea, marry, there 's the point: But if without him we be thought too feeble, My judgement is, we should not step too far Till we had his assistance by the hand; For in a theme so bloody-faced as this Conjecture, expectation, and surmise Of aids incertain should not be admitted.†
Scene 1.3
Definition:
to guess something is true or form an opinion based on incomplete evidence