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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw a perfume on the violet,
To smooth the ice, or add another hue
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.

      — King John, Act IV Scene 2

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "seeks"

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  • seeks occurs 31 times in 30 speeches within 21 works.
  • Possibly related words: seek, seeking
  • Users have searched 154 times for seeks in Open Source Shakespeare.
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    in which seeks appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains seeks more than once, the speech will still be counted once
    as part of the total count.
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All's Well That Ends Well (1)
Antony and Cleopatra (3)
As You Like It (1)
Comedy of Errors (1)
Coriolanus (1)
Cymbeline (1)
Hamlet (2)
Henry VI, Part I (1)
Henry VI, Part III (2)
Henry VIII (1)
King Lear (1)
Merchant of Venice (1)
Pericles (2)
Rape of Lucrece (2)
Romeo and Juliet (1)
Taming of the Shrew (1)
Tempest (1)
Timon of Athens (2)
Troilus and Cressida (1)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (1)
Venus and Adonis (3)

 

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