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1  I am satisfied in nature, Whose motive in this case should stir me most To my revenge.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
2  The very place puts toys of desperation, Without more motive, into every brain That looks so many fadoms to the sea And hears it roar beneath.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
3  And this, I take it, Is the main motive of our preparations, The source of this our watch, and the chief head Of this post-haste and rummage in the land.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT I
4  The other motive, Why to a public count I might not go, Is the great love the general gender bear him, Who, dipping all his faults in their affection, Would like the spring that turneth wood to stone, Convert his gyves to graces; so that my arrows, Too slightly timber'd for so loud a wind, Would have reverted to my bow again, And not where I had aim'd them.
Hamlet By William Shakespeare
ContextHighlight   In ACT IV