Comparison of William Shakespeare Measure for Measure 2.4 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure 2.4 has 187 lines, and 18% of them have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14 in William Shakespeare. 82% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.42 weak matches.

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Measure for Measure 2.4: 17

’Tis not the devil’s crest. How now? Who’s there?
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Henry VI Part 2 4.2: 41

... that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? That parchment, being scribbled o’er, should undo a man? Some say the bee stings, but I say, ’tis the bee’s wax; for I did but seal once to a thing, and I was never mine own man since. How now? Who’s there?
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Henry VI Part 2 4.2: 42

The clerk of Chatham. He can write and read and cast accompt.
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King Lear 4.1: 24

I’ld say I had eyes again. How now? Who’s there?
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 18

One Isabel, a sister, desires access to you.
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Measure for Measure 2.2: 19

Desires access to you. Hath he a sister?
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Winter's Tale 5.1: 87

The fairest I have yet beheld), desires access
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Winter's Tale 5.1: 88

To your high presence. What with him? He comes not
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 30

Must needs appear offense. How now, fair maid?
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Cymbeline 3.5: 6

To show less sovereignty than they, must needs
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Cymbeline 3.5: 7

Appear unkinglike. So, sir. I desire of you
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Timon of Athens 3.6: 5

I should think so. He hath sent me an earnest inviting, which many my near occasions did urge me to put off; but he hath conjur’d me beyond them, and I must needs appear.
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 31

I am come to know your pleasure.
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Sir Thomas More 1.2: 50

What is your worship’s pleasure? [continues next]
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Sir Thomas More 1.2: 51

Sirrah, you know that you are known to me, [continues next]
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All's Well That Ends Well 1.3: 58

What is your pleasure, madam? You know, Helen, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 1.1: 26

I come to know your pleasure. Angelo: [continues next]
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Henry VIII 2.2: 61

Is business of estate; in which we come
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Henry VIII 2.2: 62

To know your royal pleasure. Ye are too bold.
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 32

That you might know it, would much better please me
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Sir Thomas More 1.2: 51

[continues previous] Sirrah, you know that you are known to me,
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All's Well That Ends Well 1.3: 58

[continues previous] What is your pleasure, madam? You know, Helen,
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Measure for Measure 1.1: 26

[continues previous] I come to know your pleasure. Angelo:
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 34

Even so. Heaven keep your honor!
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Measure for Measure 2.2: 44

I had a brother then. Heaven keep your honor!
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Measure for Measure 2.2: 159

Heaven keep your honor safe! Amen!
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 35

Yet may he live a while; and it may be
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King Lear 1.4: 188

Create her child of spleen, that it may live
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King Lear 1.4: 189

And be a thwart disnatur’d torment to her.
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 51

Say you so? Then I shall pose you quickly.
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Cymbeline 2.3: 91

To accuse myself I hate you; which I had rather [continues next]
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Cymbeline 2.3: 92

You felt than make’t my boast. You sin against [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 52

Which had you rather, that the most just law
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Cymbeline 2.3: 91

[continues previous] To accuse myself I hate you; which I had rather
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Cymbeline 2.3: 92

[continues previous] You felt than make’t my boast. You sin against
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 56

I had rather give my body than my soul.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 3.2: 64

I had rather give his carcass to my hounds.
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 62

Pronounce a sentence on your brother’s life;
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Love's Labour's Lost 1.1: 231

Sir, I will pronounce your sentence: you shall fast a week with bran and water.
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 68

Were equal poise of sin and charity.
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Henry VI Part 3 2.5: 13

So is the equal poise of this fell war.
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 73

And nothing of your answer. Nay, but hear me,
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Merchant of Venice 5.1: 243

And there’s an oath of credit. Nay, but hear me.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 566

Nay — but hear me.
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 74

Your sense pursues not mine. Either you are ignorant,
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Cymbeline 4.3: 11

Dost seem so ignorant, we’ll enforce it from thee [continues next]
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 564

[continues previous] See, see; what a man you are now! There is no other way but to tell the King she’s a changeling, and none of your flesh and blood.
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 75

Or seem so craftily; and that’s not good.
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Cymbeline 4.3: 11

[continues previous] Dost seem so ignorant, we’ll enforce it from thee
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 80

Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder
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Henry IV Part 1 4.2: 7

... of companies — slaves as ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth, where the glutton’s dogs lick’d his sores, and such as indeed were never soldiers, but discarded unjust servingmen, younger sons to younger brothers, revolted tapsters, and ostlers trade-fall’n, the cankers of a calm world and a long peace, ten times more dishonorable ragged than an old feaz’d ancient: and such have I, to fill up the rooms of them as have bought out their services, that you would think that I had a hundred and fifty totter’d prodigals lately come from swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. A mad fellow met me on the way ... [continues next]
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Hamlet 3.1: 107

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty. [continues next]
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Hamlet 3.1: 108

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 81

Than beauty could, displayed. But mark me:
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Henry IV Part 1 4.2: 7

[continues previous] ... ragged as Lazarus in the painted cloth, where the glutton’s dogs lick’d his sores, and such as indeed were never soldiers, but discarded unjust servingmen, younger sons to younger brothers, revolted tapsters, and ostlers trade-fall’n, the cankers of a calm world and a long peace, ten times more dishonorable ragged than an old feaz’d ancient: and such have I, to fill up the rooms of them as have bought out their services, that you would think that I had a hundred and fifty totter’d prodigals lately come from swine-keeping, from eating draff and husks. A mad fellow met me on the ...
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Hamlet 3.1: 107

[continues previous] That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.
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Hamlet 3.1: 108

[continues previous] Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 104

My body up to shame. Then must your brother die.
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Julius Caesar 4.1: 2

Your brother too must die; consent you, Lepidus?
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 107

Than that a sister, by redeeming him,
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Julius Caesar 1.2: 218

Why, you were with him, were you not? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 108

Should die forever.
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Julius Caesar 1.2: 219

[continues previous] I should not then ask Casca what had chanc’d. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 109

Were not you then as cruel as the sentence
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Julius Caesar 1.2: 218

[continues previous] Why, you were with him, were you not?
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Julius Caesar 1.2: 219

[continues previous] I should not then ask Casca what had chanc’d.
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 117

O, pardon me, my lord, it oft falls out,
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Love's Labour's Lost 3.1: 45

By virtue thou enforcest laughter — thy silly thought, my spleen; the heaving of my lungs provokes me to ridiculous smiling — O, pardon me, my stars! Doth the inconsiderate take salve for l’envoy, and the word “l’envoy” for a salve?
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Henry IV Part 2 4.5: 137

O, pardon me, my liege! But for my tears,
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Antony and Cleopatra 3.11: 61

Command me. O, my pardon! Now I must
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Timon of Athens 1.2: 165

I rode on. ’Tis yours, because you lik’d it.
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Timon of Athens 1.2: 166

O, I beseech you pardon me, my lord, in that.
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 118

To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean.
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Macbeth 5.4: 18

What we shall say we have, and what we owe.
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 139

I have no tongue but one; gentle my lord,
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.1: 63

All this is so, but what of this, my lord? [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.1: 64

Let me but move one question to your daughter, [continues next]
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Pericles 2.5: 31

The worst of all her scholars, my good lord. [continues next]
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Pericles 2.5: 32

Let me ask you one thing: [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 103

Thrice-noble lord, let me entreat of you [continues next]
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Henry IV Part 1 3.1: 175

In faith, my lord, you are too willful-blame, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 140

Let me entreat you speak the former language.
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.1: 64

[continues previous] Let me but move one question to your daughter,
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Pericles 2.4: 45

A twelvemonth longer let me entreat you
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Pericles 2.5: 32

[continues previous] Let me ask you one thing:
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 103

[continues previous] Thrice-noble lord, let me entreat of you
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Taming of the Shrew 3.2: 171

It may not be. Let me entreat you.
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Taming of the Shrew 3.2: 172

It cannot be. Let me entreat you.
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Two Noble Kinsmen 3.3: 13

Do. Pray sit down then, and let me entreat you
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 199

And so let me entreat you leave the house.
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Henry IV Part 1 3.1: 174

[continues previous] But do not use it oft, let me entreat you.
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Henry IV Part 1 3.1: 175

[continues previous] In faith, my lord, you are too willful-blame,
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 144

He shall not, Isabel, if you give me love.
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King Lear 4.7: 73

I know you do not love me, for your sisters [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 145

I know your virtue hath a license in’t,
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King Lear 4.7: 73

[continues previous] I know you do not love me, for your sisters
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 147

To pluck on others. Believe me, on mine honor,
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Timon of Athens 1.1: 149

My hand to thee, mine honor on my promise. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 148

My words express my purpose.
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Timon of Athens 1.1: 149

[continues previous] My hand to thee, mine honor on my promise.
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 153

Or with an outstretch’d throat I’ll tell the world aloud
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King Lear 1.1: 147

Or whilst I can vent clamor from my throat,
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King Lear 1.1: 148

I’ll tell thee thou dost evil. Hear me, recreant,
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 158

That you shall stifle in your own report,
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Henry V 2.4: 139

Even to the utmost grain; that you shall read
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Henry V 2.4: 140

In your own losses, if he stay in France.
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 169

I’ll prove a tyrant to him. As for you,
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Romeo and Juliet 1.3: 79

What say you? Can you love the gentleman? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 170

Say what you can: my false o’erweighs your true.
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Romeo and Juliet 1.3: 79

[continues previous] What say you? Can you love the gentleman?