issue (n.) Old form(s): yssue, yssues
child(ren), offspring, family, descendant
1H6 II.v.94[Mortimer to Richard] thou seest that I no issue have
1H6 V.v.72[Suffolk to King, of Margaret] Her valiant courage and undaunted spirit ... / Will answer our hope in issue of a king
2H4 V.ii.14[Warwick to all] Here come the heavy issue of dead Harry
2H6 II.ii.32[York to Salisbury and Warwick] The issue of the next son should have reigned
3H6 II.ii.22[Clifford to King, of York] He, but a duke, would have his son a king, / And raise his issue like a loving sire
3H6 III.ii.131[Richard alone, of the succession] Clarence, Henry, and his son young Edward, / And all the unlooked-for issue of their bodies
AC III.vi.7[Caesar to Maecenas, of Antony and Cleopatra] all the unlawful issue that their lust ... hath made between them
AW I.iii.25[Clown to Countess] I think I shall never have the blessing of God till I have issue o'my body
AW V.iii.197[Countess to King, of a jewel] Conferred by testament to th'sequent issue
Cor I.iii.21[Volumnia to Virgilia, of Martius] his good report should have been my son; I therein would have found issue
Cor IV.iv.22[Coriolanus alone] fellest foes ... shall grow dear friends / And interjoin their issues
Cym I.i.37[First Gentleman to Second Gentleman, of Posthumus' father] Then old, and fond of issue
Cym V.v.331[Belarius to Cymbeline, of Guiderius and Arviragus] They are the issue of your loins
Cym V.v.458[Soothsayer to all, of Guiderius and Arviragus] whose issue / Promises Britain peace and plenty
E3 I.i.9[Artois to King Edward, of Phillip le Beau] Three sons of his ... died and left no issue of their loins
E3 IV.iv.23[Audley to Prince Edward] Philip, the younger issue of the king
H5 V.ii.341[French King to King Henry, of Katherine] from her blood raise up / Issue to me
H8 I.ii.134[Surveyor to King Henry] if the King / Should without issue die
H8 II.iv.191[King Henry to all, of the Queen] her male issue / Or died where they were made, or shortly after / This world had aired them
H8 III.ii.291[Surrey to Norfolk] As you respect the common good, the state / Of our despised nobility, our issues
JC III.ii.138[Antony to Plebeians, of a hair from Caesar's head] Bequeathing it as a rich legacy / Unto their issue
KJ I.i.257[Lady Faulconbridge to Bastard] Thou art the issue of my dear offence
KJ II.i.186[Constance to King John, of Queen Eleanor] God hath made her sin and her the plague / On this removed issue
KL I.i.16[Kent to Gloucester] I cannot wish the fault undone, the issue of it being so proper
KL I.i.66[Lear to Gonerill, of giving her and Albany a third of his kingdom] To thine and Albany's issues / Be this perpetual
KL I.ii.9[Edmund alone] my shape [is] as true, / As honest madam's issue
KL IV.iii.35[disguised Kent to Gentleman, of Lear's daughters] The stars above us govern our conditions. / Else one self mate and make could not beget / Such different issues
Luc.37[of Collatine and Tarquin] Perchance his boast of Lucrece' sovereignty / Suggested this proud issue of a king
Luc.522[Tarquin to Lucrece] Thy issue blurred with nameless bastardy
MA IV.i.130[Leonato to all] Why had I not with charitable hand / Took up a beggar's issue at my gates
Mac III.i.64[Macbeth alone] For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind
Mac III.i.88[Macbeth to Murderers, of Banquo] Are you so gospelled, / To pray for this good man and for his issue
Mac IV.i.101[Macbeth to Witches] shall Banquo's issue ever / Reign in this kingdom?
Mac IV.i.86[Macbeth to Witches, of the vision] What is this / That rises like the issue of a king
Mac IV.iii.106[Macduff to Malcolm] the truest issue of thy throne / By his own interdiction stands accused
MND V.i.395[Oberon to all] To the best bride bed will we, / Which by us shall blessed be; / And the issue there create / Ever shall be fortunate
MV II.iv.37[Lorenzo to Gratiano, of Jessica] she is issue to a faithless Jew
Per I.ii.73[Pericles to Helicanus] I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty, / From whence an issue I might propagate
R2 I.iii.20[Mowbray to King Richard] to defend my loyalty and truth / To God, my King, and my succeeding issue
R3 I.i.57[Clarence to Richard, of King Edward] a wizard told him that by G / His issue disinherited should be
R3 I.iii.231[Queen Margaret to Richard] Thou loathed issue of thy father's loins!
R3 III.v.89[Richard to Buckingham] My princely father, then had wars in France, / And by true computation of the time / Found that the issue was not his begot
R3 IV.iv.296[King Richard to Queen Elizabeth] If I have killed the issue of your womb, / To quicken your increase I will beget / Mine issue of your blood upon your daughter
R3 IV.iv.57[Queen Margaret to Duchess of York] this carnal cur / Preys on the issue of his mother's body
R3 V.iii.124[Ghost of Prince Edward to Richmond] King Henry's issue, Richmond, comforts thee
Sonn.13.8[] your sweet issue your sweet form should bear
Tem IV.i.105[Juno to Ceres, of Ferdinand and Miranda] Go with me / To bless this twain, that they may prosperous be / And honoured in their issue
Tem IV.i.24[Ferdinand to Prospero] I hope / For quiet days, fair issue, and long life
Tem V.i.205[Gonzalo to all] Was Milan thrust from Milan that his issue / Should become kings of Naples?
Tim IV.iii.368[Timon to Apemantus] Away, thou issue of a mangy dog!
Tit IV.ii.65[Aaron to Nurse] A joyful issue [pun: sense 2]
Tit V.iii.120[Marcus to all, of a baby] The issue of an irreligious Moor
TNK II.i.86[Arcite to Palamon] no issue know us
Ven.1178[Venus to a flower] Sweet issue of a more sweet-smelling sire
WT II.i.150.1[Antigonus to Leontes, of his daughters ] I had rather glib myself than they / Should not produce fair issue
WT II.iii.192.1[Leontes to all] I'll not rear / Another's issue
WT II.iii.93[Leontes to Paulina, of Perdita] This brat is none of mine: / It is the issue of Polixenes
WT III.iii.42[Antigonus alone, of the baby] this being indeed the issue / Of King Polixenes
WT IV.ii.26[Polixenes to Camillo] Kings are no less unhappy, their issue not being gracious, than they are in losing them when they have approved their virtues
WT V.i.27[Dion to all] What dangers by his highness' fail of issue / May drop upon his kingdom
WT V.i.46[Paulina to Leontes] Care not for issue
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