All 5 Uses of
scorn
in
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; Coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth With twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights: If haply won, perhaps a hapless gain; If lost, why then a grievous labour won: However, but a folly bought with wit, Or else a wit by folly vanquished.†
Scene 1.1scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- But she did scorn a present that I sent her.
Scene 3.1 *scorn = reject
- A woman sometime scorns what best contents her.†
Scene 3.1scorns = disrespects or rejects as not valuable enough
- Send her another; never give her o'er, For scorn at first makes after-love the more.†
Scene 3.1scorn = disrespect or reject as not good enough
- But if thou scorn our courtesy thou diest.†
Scene 4.1