Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prologue to William Shakespeare

Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prologue to William Shakespeare

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Geoffrey Chaucer Wife of Bath's Prologue has 856 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 0.04 weak matches.

Wife of Bath's Prologue

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10

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 20

What that he mente ther-by, I can nat seyn;
10

Henry VI Part 3 3.2: 182

Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, [continues next]
10

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 21

But that I axe, why that the fifthe man
10

Henry VI Part 3 3.2: 181

[continues previous] Or hew my way out with a bloody axe.
10

Henry VI Part 3 3.2: 182

[continues previous] Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
10

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 201

As help me god, I laughe whan I thinke
10

Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 140

So help me God, as I dissemble not!
10

Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 141

So help me God, as I intend it not!
10

Henry VI Part 2 3.1: 110

So help me God, as I have watch’d the night,
10

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 580

But yet I hope that he shal do me good;
10

Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 159

My father dead, my fortune lives for me, [continues next]
10

Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 160

And I do hope good days and long to see. [continues next]
10

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 581

For blood bitokeneth gold, as me was taught.
10

Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 159

[continues previous] My father dead, my fortune lives for me,
10

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 605

As help me god, I was a lusty oon,
10

Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 140

So help me God, as I dissemble not!
10

Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 141

So help me God, as I intend it not!
10

Henry VI Part 2 3.1: 110

So help me God, as I have watch’d the night,
11

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 622

I ne loved never by no discrecioun,
11

Sonnet 116: 14

I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [continues next]
11

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 623

But ever folwede myn appetyt,
11

Sonnet 116: 14

[continues previous] I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
12

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 706

Therfore no womman of no clerk is preysed.
10

Merchant of Venice 5.1: 154

Gave it a judge’s clerk! No, God’s my judge, [continues next]
10

Merchant of Venice 5.1: 155

The clerk will ne’er wear hair on ’s face that had it. [continues next]
12

Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 42

And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is done! Answer, clerk. [continues next]
12

Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 43

No more words; the clerk is answer’d. [continues next]
12

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 707

The clerk, whan he is old, and may noght do
10

Merchant of Venice 5.1: 154

[continues previous] Gave it a judge’s clerk! No, God’s my judge,
10

Merchant of Venice 5.1: 155

[continues previous] The clerk will ne’er wear hair on ’s face that had it.
12

Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 42

[continues previous] And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is done! Answer, clerk.
12

Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 43

[continues previous] No more words; the clerk is answer’d.
11

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 755

That he was deed, er it were by the morwe;
11

Henry VI Part 3 5.5: 55

If this foul deed were by to equal it.
11

Henry VI Part 3 5.5: 56

He was a man; this, in respect, a child,
10

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 805

As help me god, I shal thee never smyte;
10

Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 140

So help me God, as I dissemble not!
10

Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 141

So help me God, as I intend it not!
10

Henry VI Part 2 3.1: 110

So help me God, as I have watch’d the night,
10

Wife of Bath's Prologue: 823

God help me so, I was to him as kinde
10

Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 140

So help me God, as I dissemble not!
10

Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 141

So help me God, as I intend it not!
10

Henry VI Part 2 3.1: 110

So help me God, as I have watch’d the night,