policy (n.) Old form(s): police, policie, pollicie, pollicies, Pollicy
stratagem, cunning, intrigue, craft
1H4 I.iii.107[Hotspur to King Henry] Never did bare and rotten policy / Colour her working with such deadly wounds
1H6 III.ii.2[Pucelle to her soldiers] These are the city gates ... / Through which our policy must make a breach
1H6 III.iii.12[Bastard to Pucelle] Search out thy wit for secret policies
2H4 IV.i.146[Mowbray to Westmorland, of King Henry IV's offer] it proceeds from policy, not love
2H6 IV.i.83[Lieutenant to Suffolk] By devilish policy art thou grown great
3H6 I.ii.58[York to Montague] Let noble Warwick, Cobham, and the rest ... / With powerful policy strengthen themselves
3H6 II.vi.65[Richard to Warwick, of Clifford] 'Tis but his policy to counterfeit
3H6 V.iv.62[Oxford to all, of Edward] it is his policy / To haste thus fast to find us unprovided
AYL V.i.55[Touchstone to William] I will o'er-run thee with policy
Cor III.ii.42[Volumnia to Coriolanus] when extremities speak ... / Honour and policy, like unsevered friends, / I'th' war do grow together
Cor III.ii.48[Volumnia to Coriolanus] for your best ends / You adopt your policy
H5 II.chorus.14[Chorus] The French ... with pale policy / Seek to divert the English purposes
H8 III.ii.259[Surrey to Wolsey] Plague of your policy!
KJ II.i.396[Bastard to King John and King Philip, of his advice] Smacks it not something of the policy?
LLL V.ii.510[Berowne to King, of the pageant] 'tis some policy / To have one show worse than the King's and his company
Sonn.118.9[] Thus policy in love t'anticipate / The ills what were not, grew to faults assured
Sonn.124.9[of love] It fears not policy, that heretic
TC IV.i.19[Diomedes to Aeneas] I'll play the hunter for thy life / With all my force, pursuit, and policy
TC V.iv.9[Thersites alone, of Nestor and Ulysses] the policy of those crafty-swearing rascals ... is not proved worth a blackberry
Tit II.i.104[Aaron to Demetrius and Chiron] 'Tis policy and stratagem must do / That you affect
TS II.i.285[Petruchio to Baptista, of Katherina] If she be curst, it is for policy
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