Comparison of William Shakespeare Measure for Measure 1.2 to William Shakespeare
Summary
William Shakespeare Measure for Measure 1.2 has 129 lines, and 30% of them have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14 in William Shakespeare. 70% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.91 weak matches.
Measure for Measure 1.2
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William Shakespeare
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10
Measure for Measure 1.2: 4
Thou conclud’st like the sanctimonious pirate, that went to sea with the Ten Commandements, but scrap’d one out of the table.
12
All's Well That Ends Well 2.3: 190
... thy arms a’ this fashion? Dost make hose of thy sleeves? Do other servants so? Thou wert best set thy lower part where thy nose stands. By mine honor, if I were but two hours younger, I’d beat thee. Methink’st thou art a general offense, and every man should beat thee. I think thou wast created for men to breathe themselves upon thee.
10
Measure for Measure 1.2: 14
Ay, why not? Grace is grace, despite of all controversy; as for example, thou thyself art a wicked villain, despite of all grace.
14
Measure for Measure 1.2: 16
I grant; as there may between the lists and the velvet. Thou art the list.
14
Measure for Measure 1.2: 17
And thou the velvet — thou art good velvet; thou’rt a three-pil’d piece, I warrant thee. I had as lief be a list of an English kersey as be pil’d, as thou art pil’d, for a French velvet. Do I speak feelingly now? [continues next]
14
Measure for Measure 1.2: 17
And thou the velvet — thou art good velvet; thou’rt a three-pil’d piece, I warrant thee. I had as lief be a list of an English kersey as be pil’d, as thou art pil’d, for a French velvet. Do I speak feelingly now?
10
As You Like It 1.1: 40
... underhand means labor’d to dissuade him from it; but he is resolute. I’ll tell thee, Charles, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France, full of ambition, an envious emulator of every man’s good parts, a secret and villainous contriver against me his natural brother; therefore use thy discretion — I had as lief thou didst break his neck as his finger. And thou wert best look to’t; for if thou dost him any slight disgrace, or if he do not mightily grace himself on thee, he will practice against thee by poison, entrap thee by some treacherous device, and never leave thee till ...
10
As You Like It 3.2: 144
I thank you for your company, but, good faith, I had as lief have been myself alone.
13
As You Like It 4.1: 20
Nay, and you be so tardy, come no more in my sight. I had as lief be woo’d of a snail.
10
Measure for Measure 1.2: 77
If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for certain of my creditors; and yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the mortality of imprisonment. What’s thy offense, Claudio?
10
Merry Wives of Windsor 3.1: 35
Got’s will, and his passion of my heart! I had as lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge.
10
Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 44
And he had been a dog that should have howl’d thus, they would have hang’d him, and I pray God his bad voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the night-raven, come what plague could have come after it.
10
Taming of the Shrew 1.1: 112
I cannot tell; but I had as lief take her dowry with this condition: to be whipt at the high cross every morning.
13
Twelfth Night 3.2: 12
And’t be any way, it must be with valor, for policy I hate. I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician.
10
Hamlet 3.2: 2
trippingly on the tongue, but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it ...
10
Measure for Measure 1.2: 18
I think thou dost; and indeed with most painful feeling of thy speech. I will, out of thine own confession, learn to begin thy health; but, whilst I live, forget to drink after thee.
10
Merry Wives of Windsor 1.1: 84
Ay, you spake in Latin then too: but ’tis no matter; I’ll ne’er be drunk whilst I live again, but in honest, civil, godly company, for this trick. If I be drunk, I’ll be drunk with those that have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves.
10
Much Ado About Nothing 5.4: 95
I’ll tell thee what, Prince: a college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? No, if a man will be beaten with brains, ’a shall wear nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can say against it, and therefore never flout at ...
12
Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 62
Nay, look you, sir, he tells you flatly what his mind is. Why, give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby, or an old trot with ne’er a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses. Why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.
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Twelfth Night 1.3: 12
[continues previous] Ay, but he’ll have but a year in all these ducats. He’s a very fool and a prodigal.
10
Measure for Measure 3.2: 76
I’ll be hang’d first; thou art deceiv’d in me, friar. But no more of this. Canst thou tell if Claudio die tomorrow, or no? [continues next]
10
Measure for Measure 1.2: 28
Thou art always figuring diseases in me; but thou art full of error, I am sound.
10
Measure for Measure 3.2: 76
[continues previous] I’ll be hang’d first; thou art deceiv’d in me, friar. But no more of this. Canst thou tell if Claudio die tomorrow, or no?
11
Merchant of Venice 3.5: 5
[continues previous] Marry, you may partly hope that your father got you not, that you are not the Jew’s daughter.
11
Measure for Measure 1.2: 36
Nay, but I know ’tis so. I saw him arrested; saw him carried away; and which is more, within these three days his head to be chopp’d off.
10
Measure for Measure 1.2: 37
But after all this fooling, I would not have it so. Art thou sure of this?
11
Measure for Measure 1.2: 39
Believe me, this may be. He promis’d to meet me two hours since, and he was ever precise in promise-keeping.
11
As You Like It 3.3: 16
Well, prais’d be the gods for thy foulness! Sluttishness may come hereafter. But be it as it may be, I will marry thee; and to that end I have been with Sir Oliver Martext, the vicar of the next village, who hath promis’d to meet me in this place of the forest and to couple us.
11
Troilus and Cressida 2.1: 58
I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the proclamation, and he rails upon me. [continues next]
11
Troilus and Cressida 2.1: 58
[continues previous] I bade the vile owl go learn me the tenor of the proclamation, and he rails upon me.
10
King Lear 2.2: 23
With you, goodman boy, and you please! Come, I’ll flesh ye, come on, young master.
10
Henry V 3.6: 37
I’ll assure you, ’a utt’red as prave words at the pridge as you shall see in a summer’s day. But it is very well; what he has spoke to me, that is well, I warrant you, when time is serve. [continues next]
10
Henry V 3.6: 37
[continues previous] I’ll assure you, ’a utt’red as prave words at the pridge as you shall see in a summer’s day. But it is very well; what he has spoke to me, that is well, I warrant you, when time is serve.
12
Measure for Measure 1.2: 58
Why, here’s a change indeed in the commonwealth! What shall become of me?
12
Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 177
Here, here comes Master Signior Leonato, and the sexton too. [continues next]
12
Measure for Measure 1.2: 61
Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the Provost to prison; and there’s Madam Juliet.
12
Measure for Measure 1.2: 77
If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for certain of my creditors; and yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the mortality of imprisonment. What’s thy offense, Claudio?
10
As You Like It 1.1: 40
... underhand means labor’d to dissuade him from it; but he is resolute. I’ll tell thee, Charles, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France, full of ambition, an envious emulator of every man’s good parts, a secret and villainous contriver against me his natural brother; therefore use thy discretion — I had as lief thou didst break his neck as his finger. And thou wert best look to’t; for if thou dost him any slight disgrace, or if he do not mightily grace himself on thee, he will practice against thee by poison, entrap thee by some treacherous device, and never leave thee till ...
12
As You Like It 3.2: 144
I thank you for your company, but, good faith, I had as lief have been myself alone.
10
As You Like It 4.1: 20
Nay, and you be so tardy, come no more in my sight. I had as lief be woo’d of a snail.
10
Measure for Measure 1.2: 17
And thou the velvet — thou art good velvet; thou’rt a three-pil’d piece, I warrant thee. I had as lief be a list of an English kersey as be pil’d, as thou art pil’d, for a French velvet. Do I speak feelingly now?
10
Merry Wives of Windsor 3.1: 35
Got’s will, and his passion of my heart! I had as lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge.
11
Midsummer Night's Dream 3.1: 74
Methinks, mistress, you should have little reason for that. And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days. The more the pity that some honest neighbors will not make them friends. Nay, I can gleek upon occasion.
12
Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 44
And he had been a dog that should have howl’d thus, they would have hang’d him, and I pray God his bad voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the night-raven, come what plague could have come after it.
10
Taming of the Shrew 1.1: 112
I cannot tell; but I had as lief take her dowry with this condition: to be whipt at the high cross every morning.
10
Twelfth Night 3.2: 12
And’t be any way, it must be with valor, for policy I hate. I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician.
11
Hamlet 3.2: 2
trippingly on the tongue, but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it offends ...
10
Two Noble Kinsmen 4.3: 21
... she is in, which is with falsehoods to be combated. This may bring her to eat, to sleep, and reduce what’s now out of square in her into their former law and regiment. I have seen it approv’d, how many times I know not, but to make the number more I have great hope in this. I will, between the passages of this project, come in with my appliance. Let us put it in execution; and hasten the success, which doubt not will bring forth comfort.
10
Measure for Measure 1.2: 127
I pray she may; as well for the encouragement of the like, which else would stand under grievous imposition, as for the enjoying of thy life, who I would be sorry should be thus foolishly lost at a game of tick-tack. I’ll to her.
10
Twelfth Night 3.1: 18
Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun, it shines every where. I would be sorry, sir, but the fool should be as oft with your master as with my mistress. I think I saw your wisdom there.
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Henry IV Part 2 4.3: 14
I would be sorry, my lord, but it should be thus. I never knew yet but rebuke and check was the reward of valor. Do you think me a swallow, an arrow, or a bullet? Have I, in my poor and old motion, the expedition of thought? I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of possibility; I have found’red ...
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Henry IV Part 1 3.1: 253
’Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be redbreast teacher. And the indentures be drawn, I’ll away within these two hours, and so come in when ye will.