Comparison of William Shakespeare Measure for Measure 3.1 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure 3.1 has 176 lines, and 31% of them have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14 in William Shakespeare. 69% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.84 weak matches.

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Measure for Measure 3.1: 5

Be absolute for death: either death or life
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Winter's Tale 3.3: 45

Either for life or death, upon the earth
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 7

If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing
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Antony and Cleopatra 3.4: 22

Best to preserve it. If I lose mine honor,
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Antony and Cleopatra 3.4: 23

I lose myself; better I were not yours
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 13

And yet run’st toward him still. Thou art not noble,
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Macbeth 2.1: 35

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
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Macbeth 2.1: 36

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 19

Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself,
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 56

All this I see, and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?
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Richard II 2.1: 198

Be not thyself; for how art thou a king [continues next]
10

Measure for Measure 3.1: 20

For thou exists on many a thousand grains
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Richard II 2.1: 198

[continues previous] Be not thyself; for how art thou a king
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 21

That issue out of dust. Happy thou art not,
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 23

And what thou hast, forget’st. Thou art not certain, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 22

For what thou hast not, still thou striv’st to get,
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 23

[continues previous] And what thou hast, forget’st. Thou art not certain, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 24

[continues previous] For thy complexion shifts to strange effects,
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 23

And what thou hast, forget’st. Thou art not certain,
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 21

That issue out of dust. Happy thou art not, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 22

[continues previous] For what thou hast not, still thou striv’st to get, [continues next]
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Tempest 1.2: 262

Once in a month recount what thou hast been,
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Tempest 1.2: 263

Which thou forget’st. This damn’d witch Sycorax,
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Sonnet 100: 1

Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 24

For thy complexion shifts to strange effects,
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 22

[continues previous] For what thou hast not, still thou striv’st to get,
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 26

For like an ass, whose back with ingots bows,
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Sir Thomas More 1.1: 5

Compel me, ye dog’s face! Thou thinkst thou hast the goldsmith’s wife in hand, whom thou enticed’st from her husband with all his plate, and when thou turnd’st her home to him again, mad’st him, like an ass, pay for his wife’s board.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 31

Do curse the gout, serpigo, and the rheum
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Two Noble Kinsmen 5.4: 8

The gout and rheum, that in lag hours attend
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 36

Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich,
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Sonnet 2: 13

This were to be new made when thou art old,
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Sonnet 2: 14

And see thy blood warm when thou feel’st it cold.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 41

That makes these odds all even. I humbly thank you.
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Edward III 4.3: 52

I humbly thank you grace; I must dispatch,
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All's Well That Ends Well 3.5: 69

Already at my house. I humbly thank you.
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.3: 61

I humbly thank you, sir. A truth’s a truth, the rogues are marvellous poor.
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Measure for Measure 1.4: 87

Notice of my affair. I humbly thank you.
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 155

I humbly thank you.
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Henry VIII 5.1: 109

Would come against you. I humbly thank your Highness,
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Antony and Cleopatra 2.2: 231

Whilst you abide here. Humbly, sir, I thank you.
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Hamlet 3.1: 92

I humbly thank you, well, well, well.
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Hamlet 4.4: 29

Why the man dies. I humbly thank you, sir.
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Hamlet 5.2: 82

I humbly thank you, sir. — Dost know this water-fly? [continues next]
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Othello 3.1: 27

I humbly thank you for’t.
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Othello 3.1: 28

I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 42

To sue to live, I find I seek to die,
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Hamlet 5.2: 81

[continues previous] Your lordship is right welcome back to Denmark.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 44

What ho! Peace here; grace and good company!
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Henry IV Part 2 2.1: 26

What is the matter? Keep the peace here, ho!
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Troilus and Cressida 2.3: 5

Who’s there? Thersites? Good Thersites, come in and rail. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 45

Who’s there? Come in, the wish deserves a welcome.
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Troilus and Cressida 2.3: 5

[continues previous] Who’s there? Thersites? Good Thersites, come in and rail.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 48

My business is a word or two with Claudio.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 1.1: 31

[continues previous] Master Page, I am glad to see you. Much good do it your good heart! I wish’d your venison better, it was ill kill’d. How doth good Mistress Page? — and I thank you always with my heart, la! With my heart.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 50

Provost, a word with you.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 51

As many as you please.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 59

Tomorrow you set on. Is there no remedy?
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.3: 121

There is no remedy, sir, but you must die. The general says, you that have so traitorously discover’d the secrets of your army, and made such pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can serve the world for no honest use; therefore you must die. Come, headsman, off with his head. [continues next]
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As You Like It 3.2: 194

I am he that is so love-shak’d, I pray you tell me your remedy. [continues next]
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As You Like It 3.2: 195

There is none of my uncle’s marks upon you. He taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 161

But yet, poor Claudio; there is no remedy. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 1.3: 19

There is no remedy; I must cony-catch, I must shift.
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Two Noble Kinsmen 2.2: 274

There is no remedy. Farewell, kind window.
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King John 4.1: 90

Is there no remedy? None, but to lose your eyes. [continues next]
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King John 4.2: 104

There is no sure foundation set on blood;
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Sonnet 62: 3

And for this sin there is no remedy,
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 60

None, but such remedy as, to save a head,
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.3: 121

[continues previous] There is no remedy, sir, but you must die. The general says, you that have so traitorously discover’d the secrets of your army, and made such pestiferous reports of men very nobly held, can serve the world for no honest use; therefore you must die. Come, headsman, off with his head.
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As You Like It 3.2: 195

[continues previous] There is none of my uncle’s marks upon you. He taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner.
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 161

[continues previous] But yet, poor Claudio; there is no remedy.
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King John 4.1: 90

[continues previous] Is there no remedy? None, but to lose your eyes.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 65

But fetter you till death. Perpetual durance?
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 66

Ay, just, perpetual durance, a restraint, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 66

Ay, just, perpetual durance, a restraint,
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 65

[continues previous] But fetter you till death. Perpetual durance?
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 69

In such a one as, you consenting to’t,
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.2: 7

When you are dead, you should be such a one
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.2: 8

As you are now; for you are cold and stern,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 5.4: 21

To hazard life, and rescue you from him [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 70

Would bark your honor from that trunk you bear,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 5.4: 21

[continues previous] To hazard life, and rescue you from him
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 5.4: 22

[continues previous] That would have forc’d your honor and your love.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 78

In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
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Twelfth Night 2.4: 82

Hath for your love as great a pang of heart [continues next]
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Twelfth Night 2.4: 83

As you have for Olivia. You cannot love her; [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 79

As when a giant dies. Why give you me this shame?
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Twelfth Night 2.4: 82

[continues previous] Hath for your love as great a pang of heart
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Twelfth Night 2.4: 83

[continues previous] As you have for Olivia. You cannot love her;
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 92

A pond as deep as hell. The precise Angelo?
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.5: 4

... give them to a dog for a new-year’s gift. The rogues slighted me into the river with as little remorse as they would have drown’d a blind bitch’s puppies, fifteen i’ th’ litter; and you may know by my size that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; and the bottom were as deep as hell, I should down. I had been drown’d, but that the shore was shelvy and shallow — a death that I abhor; for the water swells a man; and what a thing should I have been when I had been swell’d! I should have been a mountain of mummy.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 95

In princely guards! Dost thou think, Claudio,
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King Lear 2.1: 63

“Thou unpossessing bastard, dost thou think, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 96

If I would yield him my virginity,
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King Lear 2.1: 64

[continues previous] If I would stand against thee, would the reposal
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 98

Yes, he would give’t thee, from this rank offense,
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Henry IV Part 1 1.2: 84

I’ll so offend, to make offense a skill, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 99

So to offend him still. This night’s the time
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Henry IV Part 1 1.2: 84

[continues previous] I’ll so offend, to make offense a skill,
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 101

Or else thou diest tomorrow. Thou shalt not do’t.
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All's Well That Ends Well 1.1: 117

I am so full of businesses, I cannot answer thee acutely. I will return perfect courtier, in the which my instruction shall serve to naturalize thee, so thou wilt be capable of a courtier’s counsel, and understand what advice shall thrust upon thee, else thou diest in thine unthankfulness, and thine ignorance makes thee away. Farewell. When thou hast leisure, say thy prayers; when thou hast none, remember thy friends. Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee. So farewell.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.1: 66

But if thou scorn our courtesy, thou diest.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.1: 67

Thou shalt not live to brag what we have offer’d.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 108

When he would force it? Sure it is no sin,
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Cardenio 1.1: 12

It is no deadly sin in thee. While she lives, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 109

Or of the deadly seven it is the least.
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Cardenio 1.1: 12

[continues previous] It is no deadly sin in thee. While she lives,
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 124

The pendant world; or to be worse than worst
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 20

What? A young knave, and begging? Is there not wars? Is there not employment? Doth not the King lack subjects? Do not the rebels need soldiers? Though it be a shame to be on any side but one, it is worse shame to beg than to be on the worst side, were it worse than the name of rebellion can tell how to make it.
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Timon of Athens 4.3: 245

Worse than the worst, content.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 131

Alas, alas! Sweet sister, let me live.
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Two Noble Kinsmen 4.2: 51

Alas, I know not! Ask me now, sweet sister
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 146

Nay, hear me, Isabel. O fie, fie, fie!
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Measure for Measure 2.2: 173

And pitch our evils there? O fie, fie, fie!
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Merry Wives of Windsor 2.2: 92

... effect, they will break their hearts but they will effect. God be prais’d for my jealousy! Eleven o’ clock the hour. I will prevent this, detect my wife, be reveng’d on Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I will about it; better three hours too soon than a minute too late. Fie, fie, fie! Cuckold, cuckold, cuckold!
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Taming of the Shrew 4.3: 148

O fie, fie, fie!
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 58

... Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity? And will you yet call yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John!
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Henry VIII 2.3: 86

A very fresh fish here — fie, fie, fie upon
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Passionate Pilgrim: 385

“Fie, fie, fie,” now would she cry,
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Antony and Cleopatra 3.11: 33

Madam, O good Empress!
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Coriolanus 3.1: 195

Whom late you have nam’d for consul. Fie, fie, fie!
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Coriolanus 4.2: 55

Fie, fie, fie!
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King Lear 4.6: 114

Stench, consumption. Fie, fie, fie! Pah, pah!
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Timon of Athens 2.2: 9

Fie, fie, fie, fie! Good even, Varro. What,
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 149

’Tis best that thou diest quickly. O, hear me, Isabella!
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Timon of Athens 1.2: 133

Vouchsafe me a word, it does concern you near. [continues next]
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Troilus and Cressida 3.1: 39

I have business to my lord, dear queen. My lord, will you vouchsafe me a word? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 150

Vouchsafe a word, young sister, but one word.
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Timon of Athens 1.2: 133

[continues previous] Vouchsafe me a word, it does concern you near.
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Troilus and Cressida 3.1: 39

[continues previous] I have business to my lord, dear queen. My lord, will you vouchsafe me a word?
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 152

Might you dispense with your leisure, I would by and by have some speech with you. The satisfaction I would require is likewise your own benefit.
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.5: 34

Some private speech with you. I shall obey his will.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.2: 37

If your leisure serv’d, I would speak with you.
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Two Noble Kinsmen 5.4: 85

To have some speech with you. Lo he appears.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 153

I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you a while.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 253

In any chastisement. I for a while will leave you;
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 254

But stir not you till you have well determin’d
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 154

Son, I have overheard what hath pass’d between you and your sister. Angelo had never the purpose to corrupt her; only he hath made an assay of her virtue to practice his judgment with the disposition of natures. She (having the truth of honor in her) hath made him that gracious denial which he is most glad to receive. I am confessor to Angelo, and I know this to be true; therefore prepare yourself to death. Do not satisfy your resolution with hopes that are fallible, tomorrow you must die; go to your knees, and make ready.
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Measure for Measure 2.3: 39

Grace go with you, Benedicite!
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Measure for Measure 2.3: 40

Must die tomorrow? O injurious love,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.5: 26

Now, Master Brook, you come to know what hath pass’d between me and Ford’s wife?
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.2: 21

“Then” is spoken; fare you well now. And yet ere I go, let me go with that I came, which is, with knowing what hath pass’d between you and Claudio.
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Twelfth Night 5.1: 128

Reveals before ’tis ripe, what thou dost know
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Twelfth Night 5.1: 129

Hath newly pass’d between this youth and me.
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Coriolanus 1.1: 38

The gods, not the patricians, make it, and
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Coriolanus 1.1: 39

Your knees to them (not arms) must help. Alack,
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 155

Let me ask my sister pardon. I am so out of love with life that I will sue to be rid of it.
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Richard II 3.2: 96

And what loss is it to be rid of care?
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Othello 2.3: 221

I will rather sue to be despis’d than to deceive so good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Drunk? And speak parrot? And squabble? Swagger? Swear? And discourse fustian with one’s own shadow? O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us ...
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 156

Hold you there! Farewell.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 50

Provost, a word with you. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 157

Provost, a word with you.
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Measure for Measure 2.3: 2

I am the Provost. What’s your will, good friar? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 158

What’s your will, father?
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Measure for Measure 2.3: 2

[continues previous] I am the Provost. What’s your will, good friar?
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 159

That now you are come, you will be gone. Leave me a while with the maid. My mind promises with my habit, no loss shall touch her by my company.
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Taming of the Shrew 3.1: 49

You may go walk, and give me leave a while;
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Henry VIII 3.2: 84

Leave me a while.
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Romeo and Juliet 2.5: 25

I am a-weary, give me leave a while.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 162

I am now going to resolve him. I had rather my brother die by the law than my son should be unlawfully born. But O, how much is the good Duke deceiv’d in Angelo! If ever he return, and I can speak to him, I will open my lips in vain, or discover his government.
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Twelfth Night 1.5: 1

Nay, either tell me where thou hast been, or I will not open my lips so wide as a bristle may enter, in way of thy excuse. My lady will hang thee for thy absence.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 163

... itself. I do make myself believe that you may most uprighteously do a poor wrong’d lady a merited benefit; redeem your brother from the angry law; do no stain to your own gracious person; and much please the absent Duke, if peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of this business.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 165

Sweet Prince, let me go no farther to mine answer: do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have deceiv’d even your very eyes. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 164

Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do any thing that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 165

[continues previous] Sweet Prince, let me go no farther to mine answer: do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have deceiv’d even your very eyes.
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Tempest 2.1: 174

Do you not hear me speak? I do, and surely
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Twelfth Night 3.1: 81

Hides my heart. So let me hear you speak.
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Twelfth Night 3.1: 82

I pity you. That’s a degree to love.
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Henry IV Part 1 1.3: 119

Let me not hear you speak of Mortimer.
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Richard III 4.4: 180

Strike up the drum. I prithee hear me speak.
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Richard III 4.4: 181

You speak too bitterly. Hear me a word;
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 169

Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them with his comfort; swallow’d his vows whole, pretending in her discoveries of dishonor; in few, bestow’d her on her own lamentation, which she yet wears for his sake; and he, a marble to her tears, is wash’d with them, but relents not.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 2.2: 68

I have long lov’d her, and I protest to you, bestow’d much on her; follow’d her with a doting observance; engross’d opportunities to meet her; fee’d every slight occasion that could but niggardly give me sight of her; not only bought many presents to give her, but have given largely to many to know what she would have given; briefly, I have pursu’d her as love ...
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Rape of Lucrece: 559

No penetrable entrance to her plaining:
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Rape of Lucrece: 560

Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 175

It lies much in your holding up. Haste you speedily to Angelo; if for this night he entreat you to his bed, give him promise of satisfaction. I will presently to Saint Luke’s; there, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana. At that place call upon me, and dispatch with Angelo, that it may be quickly.
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Taming of the Shrew 4.4: 83

The old priest of Saint Luke’s church is at your command at all hours.
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Taming of the Shrew 4.4: 89

I cannot tarry. I knew a wench married in an afternoon as she went to the garden for parsley to stuff a rabbit, and so may you, sir. And so adieu, sir; my master hath appointed me to go to Saint Luke’s to bid the priest be ready to come against you come with your appendix.
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 115

What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? Shall I give him his answer?
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 176

I thank you for this comfort. Fare you well, good father.
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Measure for Measure 1.1: 75

I thank you. Fare you well.
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Measure for Measure 1.1: 76

I shall desire you, sir, to give me leave
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 138

... let me not find you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever; no, not for dwelling where you do. If I do, Pompey, I shall beat you to your tent, and prove a shrewd Caesar to you; in plain-dealing, Pompey, I shall have you whipt. So for this time, Pompey, fare you well.
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 139

I thank your worship for your good counsel;
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Measure for Measure 4.4: 7

I shall, sir. Fare you well.
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Measure for Measure 4.4: 9

This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.3: 28

Thanks to you all, and leave us. Fare you well.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.3: 29

Good morrow, masters — each his several way.
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Henry IV Part 2 4.3: 39

My lord, I beseech you give me leave to go through Gloucestershire, and when you come to court stand my good lord in your good report.
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Henry IV Part 2 4.3: 40

Fare you well, Falstaff. I, in my condition,
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Othello 3.3: 381

I thank you for this profit, and from hence