Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Clerk's Tale to William Shakespeare

Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Clerk's Tale to William Shakespeare

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Geoffrey Chaucer Clerk's Tale has 1156 lines, and 1% of them have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14 in William Shakespeare. 99% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.01 weak matches.

Clerk's Tale

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10

Clerk's Tale: 44

More than another man hath in this place,
10

Cardenio 1.2: 206

More than another man? Say he be fair,
11

Clerk's Tale: 513

But o thing wol I preye yow of your grace,
11

Pericles 3.3: 18

Your Grace, that fed my country with your corn, [continues next]
11

Clerk's Tale: 514

That, but my lord forbad yow, atte leste
11

Pericles 3.3: 17

[continues previous] Manner’d as she is born. Fear not, my lord, but think
11

Pericles 3.3: 18

[continues previous] Your Grace, that fed my country with your corn,
11

Clerk's Tale: 521

He tolde him point for point, in short and playn,
11

Pericles 5.1: 225

Tell Helicanus, my Marina, tell him
11

Pericles 5.1: 226

O’er, point by point, for yet he seems to dote,
10

Clerk's Tale: 548

And eek in love as she was wont to be,
10

Julius Caesar 1.2: 34

And show of love as I was wont to have.
10

Clerk's Tale: 681

He to the court of Rome, in subtil wyse
10

Titus Andronicus 2.1: 52

Be so dishonored in the court of Rome.
10

Clerk's Tale: 830

But swich a smok as I was wont to were,
10

Julius Caesar 1.2: 34

And show of love as I was wont to have.
11

Clerk's Tale: 977

A fairer say I never noon than she.
11

Love's Labour's Lost 3.1: 89

Now will I look to his remuneration. Remuneration! O, that’s the Latin word for three farthings: three farthings — remuneration. “What’s the price of this inkle?” — “One penny.” — “No, I’ll give you a remuneration”: why, it carries it. Remuneration: why, it is a fairer name than French crown! I will never buy and sell out of this word. [continues next]
10

Clerk's Tale: 978

I prey to god yeve hir prosperitee;
10

Love's Labour's Lost 3.1: 89

[continues previous] Now will I look to his remuneration. Remuneration! O, that’s the Latin word for three farthings: three farthings — remuneration. “What’s the price of this inkle?” — “One penny.” — “No, I’ll give you a remuneration”: why, it carries it. Remuneration: why, it is a fairer name than French crown! I will never buy and sell out of this word.
12

Clerk's Tale: 1061

And in a cloth of gold that brighte shoon,
12

Much Ado About Nothing 3.4: 11

By my troth ’s but a night-gown in respect of yours: cloth a’ gold and cuts, and lac’d with silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves, and skirts, round underborne with a bluish tinsel; but for a fine, quaint, graceful, and excellent fashion, yours is worth ten on’t.
10

Clerk's Tale: 1109

In al a toun Grisildes three or two;
10

Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 74

All? I know not what you call all, but if I fought not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish. If there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old Jack, then am I no two-legg’d creature. [continues next]
10

Clerk's Tale: 1110

For, if that they were put to swiche assayes,
10

Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 74

[continues previous] All? I know not what you call all, but if I fought not with fifty of them, I am a bunch of radish. If there were not two or three and fifty upon poor old Jack, then am I no two-legg’d creature.