Contention

Contention is as a fire; it heats the spirit, burns up all that is good, and puts families and societies into a flame.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Bear with me, I am hungry for revenge "-- if Shakspere wrote those lines, he wrote those like them from the same lips, in the second part of the" Contention "--

The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Francis Asbury Smith 1876

Of the issue of six sons and two daughters of John and Susanna (Woodson) Pleasants, the third son, James, of "Contention," married Anne, widow of John P. Pleasants and Isham Randolph, of "Dungenness," Goochland County, who was the son of the emigrant

Virginia and Virginians 1888

Two Parts of the 'Contention' in conjunction; or that Greene wrote one

The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Francis Asbury Smith 1876

If, therefore, Marlowe wrote one or both parts of the "Contention," the extravagant assumption must be made

The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Francis Asbury Smith 1876

"Contention" assigned by Malone and his disciples to somebody else, named only by conjecture.

The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Francis Asbury Smith 1876

The two parts of the "Contention" are admitted to be by the same hand.

The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Francis Asbury Smith 1876

Greene and Peele, but have assumed, as Malone assumed, that Greene's charge in his "Groat's Worth of Wit" was conclusive proof that Shakspere did not write the two parts of the "Contention," and that Greene, or one of the friends he addresses, was in fact the author.

The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Francis Asbury Smith 1876

The next point made is that the two parts of the "Contention" were written by the author of "Richard III."

The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Francis Asbury Smith 1876

"Contention" in which Duke Humphrey's assassin "whispers to his pillow as to him."

The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant Francis Asbury Smith 1876