Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Manciple's Tale to William Shakespeare

Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Manciple's Tale to William Shakespeare

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Geoffrey Chaucer Manciple's Tale has 258 lines, and 2% of them have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14 in William Shakespeare. 98% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.03 weak matches.

Manciple's Tale

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Magnitude15+
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Manciple's Tale: 64

Al-though his cage of gold be never so gay,
12

Othello 2.1: 144

Never lack’d gold, and yet went never gay, [continues next]
12

Manciple's Tale: 65

Yet hath this brid, by twenty thousand fold,
12

Othello 2.1: 144

[continues previous] Never lack’d gold, and yet went never gay,
11

Manciple's Tale: 71

Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk,
11

Tempest 2.1: 252

They’ll take suggestion as a cat laps milk;
11

Manciple's Tale: 107

I am a boistous man, right thus seye I,
11

Sir Thomas More 3.3: 269

Not to be thus deceived of thy right.
11

Sir Thomas More 3.3: 270

Am I a man, by office truly ordained
10

Manciple's Tale: 150

Noght worth to thee, as in comparisoun,
10

King John 4.1: 91

O heaven! That there were but a mote in yours, [continues next]
10

Manciple's Tale: 151

The mountance of a gnat; so mote I thryve!
10

King John 4.1: 91

[continues previous] O heaven! That there were but a mote in yours,
10

King John 4.1: 92

[continues previous] A grain, a dust, a gnat, a wandering hair,