Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Knight's Tale to William Shakespeare

Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Knight's Tale to William Shakespeare

Summary

Geoffrey Chaucer Knight's Tale has 2250 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.

Knight's Tale

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William Shakespeare

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Knight's Tale: 67

Thanked be Fortune, and hir false wheel,
11

Antony and Cleopatra 4.15: 44

That the false huswife Fortune break her wheel, [continues next]
11

Knight's Tale: 68

That noon estat assureth to be weel.
11

Antony and Cleopatra 4.15: 44

[continues previous] That the false huswife Fortune break her wheel,
10

Knight's Tale: 80

And yet now the olde Creon, weylaway!
10

Two Noble Kinsmen 1.2: 99

Our services stand now for Thebes, not Creon. [continues next]
10

Knight's Tale: 81

That lord is now of Thebes the citee,
10

Two Noble Kinsmen 1.2: 99

[continues previous] Our services stand now for Thebes, not Creon.
11

Knight's Tale: 269

God help me so, me list ful yvele pleye.'
11

Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 140

So help me God, as I dissemble not!
11

Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 141

So help me God, as I intend it not!
12

Knight's Tale: 285

To love my lady, whom I love and serve,
12

Antony and Cleopatra 1.2: 22

You shall outlive the lady whom you serve.
12

Antony and Cleopatra 1.2: 23

O, excellent, I love long life better than figs.
10

Knight's Tale: 292

To helpen me, if it lay in thy might,
10

Timon of Athens 4.3: 305

Women nearest, but men — men are the things themselves. What wouldst thou do with the world, Apemantus, if it lay in thy power?
10

Timon of Athens 4.3: 306

Give it the beasts, to be rid of the men.
12

Knight's Tale: 354

Ever in his lyf, by day or night or stounde
12

Knight's Tale: 355

In any contree of this Theseus,
10

Knight's Tale: 426

And of my wo thou yevest litel charge.
10

Edward III 4.1: 23

But so it is, that for a smaller charge [continues next]
10

Knight's Tale: 427

Thou mayst, sin thou hast wisdom and manhede,
10

Edward III 4.1: 24

[continues previous] Thou mayst be quit, and if thou wilt thyself.
10

Knight's Tale: 615

That al that night, thogh that men wolde him shake,
10

Macbeth 2.3: 49

Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit, [continues next]
10

Knight's Tale: 616

The gayler sleep, he mighte nat awake;
10

Macbeth 2.3: 48

[continues previous] Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm, awake! [continues next]
10

Macbeth 2.3: 49

[continues previous] Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit, [continues next]
10

Knight's Tale: 617

And thus he fleeth as faste as ever he may.
10

Macbeth 2.3: 48

[continues previous] Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm, awake!
10

Macbeth 2.3: 50

[continues previous] And look on death itself! Up, up, and see
11

Knight's Tale: 840

He was war of Arcite and Palamon,
11

Two Noble Kinsmen 2.2: 186

That I was Palamon, and you were Arcite. Yes. [continues next]
11

Knight's Tale: 841

That foughten breme, as it were bores two;
11

Two Noble Kinsmen 2.2: 186

[continues previous] That I was Palamon, and you were Arcite. Yes.
11

Knight's Tale: 997

Up-on my trouthe, and as I am a knight,
11

Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 5

... girdles, and if a man is through with them in honest taking up, then they must stand upon security. I had as live they would put ratsbane in my mouth as offer to stop it with security. I look’d ’a should have sent me two and twenty yards of satin (as I am a true knight), and he sends me security! Well, he may sleep in security, for he hath the horn of abundance, and the lightness of his wife shines through it; and yet cannot he see, though he have his own lanthorn to light him. Where’s Bardolph? [continues next]
10

Knight's Tale: 998

That whether of yow bothe that hath might,
10

Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 5

[continues previous] ... at their girdles, and if a man is through with them in honest taking up, then they must stand upon security. I had as live they would put ratsbane in my mouth as offer to stop it with security. I look’d ’a should have sent me two and twenty yards of satin (as I am a true knight), and he sends me security! Well, he may sleep in security, for he hath the horn of abundance, and the lightness of his wife shines through it; and yet cannot he see, though he have his own lanthorn to light him. Where’s Bardolph?
10

Knight's Tale: 1884

But speke of Palamon and of Arcite.
10

Two Noble Kinsmen 2.1: 15

Look yonder they are! That’s Arcite looks out. [continues next]
10

Two Noble Kinsmen 2.1: 16

No, sir, no, that’s Palamon. Arcite is the lower of the twain; you may perceive a part of him. [continues next]
10

Knight's Tale: 1885

Swelleth the brest of Arcite, and the sore
10

Two Noble Kinsmen 2.1: 15

[continues previous] Look yonder they are! That’s Arcite looks out.
10

Two Noble Kinsmen 2.1: 16

[continues previous] No, sir, no, that’s Palamon. Arcite is the lower of the twain; you may perceive a part of him.
10

Knight's Tale: 1919

What is this world? what asketh men to have?
10

Henry VI Part 2 3.2: 380

Ay me! What is this world! What news are these!