Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Legend of Hypermnestra to William Shakespeare

Comparison of Geoffrey Chaucer Legend of Hypermnestra to William Shakespeare

Summary

Geoffrey Chaucer Legend of Hypermnestra has 162 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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Legend of Hypermnestra: 31

What with Venus and other oppressioun
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Antony and Cleopatra 1.5: 17

Yet have I fierce affections, and think [continues next]
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Antony and Cleopatra 1.5: 18

What Venus did with Mars. O Charmian! [continues next]
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Legend of Hypermnestra: 32

Of houses, Mars his venim is adoun,
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Antony and Cleopatra 1.5: 18

[continues previous] What Venus did with Mars. O Charmian!
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Legend of Hypermnestra: 106

And seyde, 'herof a draught, or two or three,
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Two Noble Kinsmen 3.3: 19

After a draught or two more. Spare it not,
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Two Noble Kinsmen 3.3: 36

Or two, or three, or ten. The Marshal’s sister
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Legend of Hypermnestra: 129

I am a maid, and, as by my nature,
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Twelfth Night 2.4: 51

I am slain by a fair cruel maid.
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Twelfth Night 2.4: 52

My shroud of white, stuck all with yew,