Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Summoner's Tale to William Shakespeare

Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Summoner's Tale to William Shakespeare

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Geoffrey Chaucer Summoner's Tale has 586 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 0.02 weak matches.

Summoner's Tale

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10

Summoner's Tale: 148

I dar wel seyn that, er that half an hour
10

Coriolanus 1.3: 32

A’ my word, the father’s son. I’ll swear ’tis a very pretty boy. A’ my troth, I look’d upon him a’ We’n’sday half an hour together; h’as such a confirm’d countenance. I saw him run after a gilded butterfly, and when he caught it, he let it go again, and after it again, and over and over he comes, and up again; catch’d it again: or whether his fallen rag’d him, or how ’twas, he ... [continues next]
10

King Lear 3.6: 67

If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life, [continues next]
10

Summoner's Tale: 149

After his deeth, I saugh him born to blisse
10

Coriolanus 1.3: 32

[continues previous] A’ my word, the father’s son. I’ll swear ’tis a very pretty boy. A’ my troth, I look’d upon him a’ We’n’sday half an hour together; h’as such a confirm’d countenance. I saw him run after a gilded butterfly, and when he caught it, he let it go again, and after it again, and over and over he comes, and up again; catch’d it again: or whether his fallen rag’d ...
10

King Lear 3.6: 67

[continues previous] If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life,
11

Summoner's Tale: 157

Withouten noyse or clateringe of belles;
11

Henry VIII 4.1: 91

With all the choicest music of the kingdom, [continues next]
11

Summoner's Tale: 158

Te deum was our song and no-thing elles,
11

Henry V 4.8: 83

Let there be sung Non nobis and Te Deum,
11

Henry VIII 4.1: 92

[continues previous] Together sung Te Deum. So she parted,
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Henry VIII 4.1: 93

And with the same full state pac’d back again
10

Summoner's Tale: 289

That twenty thousand men han lost hir lyves,
10

Hamlet 4.4: 60

The imminent death of twenty thousand men,
10

Hamlet 4.4: 61

That for a fantasy and trick of fame
12

Summoner's Tale: 367

Singeth Placebo, and I shal, if I can,
12

Tempest 2.2: 38

This is some monster of the isle with four legs, who hath got (as I take it) an ague. Where the devil should he learn our language? I will give him some relief, if it be but for that. If I can recover him, and keep him tame, and get to Naples with him, he’s a present for any emperor that ever trod on neat’s-leather. [continues next]
12

Summoner's Tale: 368

But if it be un-to a povre man.
12

Tempest 2.2: 38

[continues previous] This is some monster of the isle with four legs, who hath got (as I take it) an ague. Where the devil should he learn our language? I will give him some relief, if it be but for that. If I can recover him, and keep him tame, and get to Naples with him, he’s a present for any emperor that ever trod on neat’s-leather.
11

Summoner's Tale: 561

And sette him on the wheel right of this cart,
11

Henry IV Part 2 2.4: 105

Would not this nave of a wheel have his ears cut off? [continues next]
11

Summoner's Tale: 562

Upon the nave, and make him lete a fart.
11

Henry IV Part 2 2.4: 105

[continues previous] Would not this nave of a wheel have his ears cut off?