AYL III.ii.264 | [Jaques to Orlando, of Orlando's answers] have you not been acquainted with goldsmiths' wives, and conned them out of rings? [i.e. learned your answers from the ones inscribed inside rings] |
Cor IV.i.11 | [Coriolanus to Volumnia] precepts that would make invincible / The heart that conned them |
H5 III.vi.73 | [Gower to Fluellen, of people like Pistol boasting about the wars] this they con perfectly in the phrase of war |
JC IV.iii.97 | [Cassius to Brutus, of himself] all his faults observed, / Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote |
LLL V.ii.98 | [Boyet to Princess, of Mote] That well by heart hath conned his embassage |
MND I.ii.93 | [Quince to all, of their parts] con them by tomorrow night |
MND V.i.80 | [Philostrate to Theseus, of the rustics' play] conned with cruel pain, / To do you service |
TC II.i.17 | [Thersites to Ajax] I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book |
TN I.v.167 | [Viola as Cesario to Olivia, of her speech] I have taken great pains to con it |
TN II.iii.141 | [Maria to Sir Toby, of Malvolio] he is ... an affectioned ass that cons state without book |