All 5 Uses
mettle
in
Shakespeare's Julius Caesar
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- See whe'er their basest mettle be not moved.†
p. 11.3
- He was quick mettle when he went to school.†
p. 33.1
- Yet I see
Thy honorable mettle may be wrought
From that it is disposed.†p. 33.5 - Do not stain
The even virtue of our enterprise,
Nor th’ insuppressive mettle of our spirits,
To think that our cause or our performance
Did need an oath.p. 59.5 *mettle = courageous spirit - There are no tricks in plain and simple faith;
But hollow men, like horses hot at hand,
Make gallant show and promise of their mettle,
[Low march within.]†p. 147.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(mettle) courage or strength of character
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)