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

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

Summary

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.

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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 20

What that he mente ther-by, I can nat seyn;
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Henry VI Part 3 3.2: 182

Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, [continues next]
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 21

But that I axe, why that the fifthe man
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Henry VI Part 3 3.2: 181

[continues previous] Or hew my way out with a bloody axe.
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Henry VI Part 3 3.2: 182

[continues previous] Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile,
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 201

As help me god, I laughe whan I thinke
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Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 140

So help me God, as I dissemble not!
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Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 141

So help me God, as I intend it not!
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Henry VI Part 2 3.1: 110

So help me God, as I have watch’d the night,
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 580

But yet I hope that he shal do me good;
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Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 159

My father dead, my fortune lives for me, [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 160

And I do hope good days and long to see. [continues next]
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 581

For blood bitokeneth gold, as me was taught.
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Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 159

[continues previous] My father dead, my fortune lives for me,
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 605

As help me god, I was a lusty oon,
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Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 140

So help me God, as I dissemble not!
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Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 141

So help me God, as I intend it not!
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Henry VI Part 2 3.1: 110

So help me God, as I have watch’d the night,
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 622

I ne loved never by no discrecioun,
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Sonnet 116: 14

I never writ, nor no man ever loved. [continues next]
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 623

But ever folwede myn appetyt,
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Sonnet 116: 14

[continues previous] I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 706

Therfore no womman of no clerk is preysed.
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Merchant of Venice 5.1: 154

Gave it a judge’s clerk! No, God’s my judge, [continues next]
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Merchant of Venice 5.1: 155

The clerk will ne’er wear hair on ’s face that had it. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 42

And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is done! Answer, clerk. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 43

No more words; the clerk is answer’d. [continues next]
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 707

The clerk, whan he is old, and may noght do
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Merchant of Venice 5.1: 154

[continues previous] Gave it a judge’s clerk! No, God’s my judge,
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Merchant of Venice 5.1: 155

[continues previous] The clerk will ne’er wear hair on ’s face that had it.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 42

[continues previous] And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is done! Answer, clerk.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 43

[continues previous] No more words; the clerk is answer’d.
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 755

That he was deed, er it were by the morwe;
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Henry VI Part 3 5.5: 55

If this foul deed were by to equal it.
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Henry VI Part 3 5.5: 56

He was a man; this, in respect, a child,
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Wife of Bath's Prologue: 805

As help me god, I shal thee never smyte;
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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!
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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
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Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 140

So help me God, as I dissemble not!
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Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 141

So help me God, as I intend it not!
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Henry VI Part 2 3.1: 110

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