Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Shipman's Prologue to Geoffrey Chaucer
Summary
Geoffrey Chaucer Shipman's Prologue has 28 lines, and 7% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in Geoffrey Chaucer. 75% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 18% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.11 strong matches and 5.57 weak matches.
Shipman's Prologue
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Melibee's Tale: 40
'Certes,' quod Melibee, 'I see wel that ye enforce yow muchel by wordes to overcome me in swich manere, that I shal nat venge me of myne enemys; shewinge me the perils and the yveles that mighten falle of this vengeance. But who-so wolde considere in alle vengeances the perils and yveles that mighte sewe of vengeance-takinge, a ...
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Melibee's Tale: 5
... now were deed, ye ne oghte nat as for hir deeth your-self to destroye. Senek seith: "the wise man shal nat take to greet disconfort for the deeth of his children, but certes he sholde suffren it in pacience, as wel as he abydeth the deeth of his owene propre persone."' [continues next]
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Melibee's Tale: 6
This Melibeus answerde anon and seyde, 'What man,' quod he, 'sholde of his weping stinte, that hath so greet a cause for to wepe? Iesu Crist, our lord, him-self wepte for the deeth of Lazarus his freend.' Prudence answerde, 'Certes, wel I woot, attempree weping is no-thing defended to him that sorweful is, ... [continues next]
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Melibee's Tale: 6
[continues previous] This Melibeus answerde anon and seyde, 'What man,' quod he, 'sholde of his weping stinte, that hath so greet a cause for to wepe? Iesu Crist, our lord, him-self wepte for the deeth of Lazarus his freend.' Prudence answerde, 'Certes, wel I woot, attempree weping is no-thing defended to him that sorweful is, amonges folk in sorwe, but ...
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Parson's Tale: 11
... to paye with his dette to god, to whom he oweth al his lyf. For trust wel, 'he shal yeven acountes,' as seith seint Bernard, 'of alle the godes that han be yeven him in this present lyf, and how he hath hem despended; in so muche that ther shal nat perisse an heer of his heed, ne a moment of an houre ne shal nat perisse of his tyme, that he ne shal yeve of it a rekening.' [continues next]
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Parson's Tale: 11
[continues previous] ... hath to paye with his dette to god, to whom he oweth al his lyf. For trust wel, 'he shal yeven acountes,' as seith seint Bernard, 'of alle the godes that han be yeven him in this present lyf, and how he hath hem despended; in so muche that ther shal nat perisse an heer of his heed, ne a moment of an houre ne shal nat perisse of his tyme, that he ne shal yeve of it a rekening.'
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 4: 52
y-sustened by stidefast resoun, ne shal nat ben lad ne proeved by [continues next]
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 12: 8
[continues previous] the thinges that thou hast graunted, it ne shal nat ben right fer
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Consolatione Philosophie 3 Prose 12: 9
[continues previous] that thou ne shalt remembren thilke thing that thou seydest that
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 4: 5
[continues previous] it mochel, and outrely, and longe; but yit ne hath it nat ben
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 4: 6
[continues previous] determined ne y-sped fermely and diligently of any of yow. And
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 4: 53
[continues previous] signes ne by arguments y-taken fro with-oute, but by causes
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Consolatione Philosophie 5 Prose 6: 27
[continues previous] ne hath no lenger the preterits that ben y-doon or y-passed. But