Comparison of William Shakespeare Measure for Measure 4.2 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure 4.2 has 100 lines, and 3% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in William Shakespeare. 43% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 54% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.04 strong matches and 1.15 weak matches.

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Measure for Measure 4.2: 1

Come hither, sirrah; can you cut off a man’s head?
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Cymbeline 3.5: 81

Who is here? What, are you packing, sirrah?
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Cymbeline 3.5: 82

Come hither. Ah, you precious pandar! Villain,
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 2

If the man be a bachelor, sir, I can; but if he be a married man, he’s his wive’s head, and I can never cut off a woman’s head. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1.1: 192

Sirrah, come hither, ’tis no time to jest,
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Henry VI Part 2 4.2: 49

I am sorry for’t. The man is a proper man, of mine honor; unless I find him guilty, he shall not die. Come hither, sirrah, I must examine thee. What is thy name?
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Julius Caesar 5.3: 37

Come hither, sirrah.
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Titus Andronicus 4.3: 91

Sirrah, come hither, make no more ado,
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 2

If the man be a bachelor, sir, I can; but if he be a married man, he’s his wive’s head, and I can never cut off a woman’s head.
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Cymbeline 5.5: 295

If it could so roar to me. I cut off ’s head,
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Cymbeline 5.5: 296

And am right glad he is not standing here
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 1

[continues previous] Come hither, sirrah; can you cut off a man’s head?
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 3

Come, sir, leave me your snatches, and yield me a direct answer. Tomorrow morning are to die Claudio and Barnardine. Here is in our prison a common executioner, who in his office lacks a helper. If you will take it on you to assist him, it shall redeem you from your gyves; if not, you shall have your full time of imprisonment, and your deliverance with an unpitied whipping, for you have been a notorious bawd.
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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?
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 7

Sirrah, here’s a fellow will help you tomorrow in your execution. If you think it meet, compound with him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if not, use him for the present and dismiss him. He cannot plead his estimation with you; for he hath been a bawd. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 8

A bawd, sir? Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 21

Call hither Barnardine and Claudio.
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Measure for Measure 4.3: 49

Put them in secret holds, both Barnardine and Claudio.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 4

Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind, but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman. I would be glad to receive some instruction from my fellow partner.
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Love's Labour's Lost 2.1: 177

Pray you, do my commendations — I would be glad to see it.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 8

[continues previous] A bawd, sir? Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 5

What ho, Abhorson! Where’s Abhorson there?
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Taming of the Shrew 4.1: 77

Be merry, Kate. Some water here; what ho!
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Taming of the Shrew 4.1: 78

Where’s my spaniel Troilus? Sirrah, get you hence,
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 6

Do you call, sir?
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 10

Pray, sir, by your good favor — for surely, sir, a good favor you have, but that you have a hanging look — do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery?
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.2: 9

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my husband had him of. What do you call your knight’s name, sirrah? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 7

Sirrah, here’s a fellow will help you tomorrow in your execution. If you think it meet, compound with him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if not, use him for the present and dismiss him. He cannot plead his estimation with you; for he hath been a bawd.
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 7

Fie, sirrah, a bawd, a wicked bawd! [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 3

... in our prison a common executioner, who in his office lacks a helper. If you will take it on you to assist him, it shall redeem you from your gyves; if not, you shall have your full time of imprisonment, and your deliverance with an unpitied whipping, for you have been a notorious bawd. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 8

A bawd, sir? Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.2: 9

[continues previous] I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my husband had him of. What do you call your knight’s name, sirrah?
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Taming of the Shrew 5.1: 31

Help, help, help! Here’s a madman will murder me.
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Henry V 4.1: 66

If the enemy is an ass and a fool, and a prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should also, look you, be an ass and a fool, and a prating coxcomb, in your own conscience now?
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King Lear 1.2: 51

Think you so?
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King Lear 1.2: 52

If your honor judge it meet, I will place you where you shall hear us confer of this, and by an auricular assurance have your satisfaction, and that without any further delay than this very evening.
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Romeo and Juliet 2.4: 70

A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! So ho! [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 8

A bawd, sir? Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery.
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 7

[continues previous] Fie, sirrah, a bawd, a wicked bawd!
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 3

[continues previous] ... our prison a common executioner, who in his office lacks a helper. If you will take it on you to assist him, it shall redeem you from your gyves; if not, you shall have your full time of imprisonment, and your deliverance with an unpitied whipping, for you have been a notorious bawd.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 4

[continues previous] Sir, I have been an unlawful bawd time out of mind, but yet I will be content to be a lawful hangman. I would be glad to receive some instruction from my fellow partner.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 7

[continues previous] Sirrah, here’s a fellow will help you tomorrow in your execution. If you think it meet, compound with him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if not, use him for the present and dismiss him. He cannot plead his estimation with you; for he hath been a bawd.
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Romeo and Juliet 2.4: 70

[continues previous] A bawd, a bawd, a bawd! So ho!
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 10

Pray, sir, by your good favor — for surely, sir, a good favor you have, but that you have a hanging look — do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery?
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Love's Labour's Lost 5.2: 30

But, Rosaline, you have a favor too?
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 6

Do you call, sir?
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 12

Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and your whores, sir, being members of my occupation, using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery; but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I should be hang’d, I cannot imagine. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.2: 9

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my husband had him of. What do you call your knight’s name, sirrah?
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.2: 10

Sir John Falstaff.
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Henry VIII 5.2: 109

By your good favor, too sharp; men so noble,
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Timon of Athens 3.4: 39

He goes away in a cloud; call him, call him.
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Timon of Athens 3.4: 40

Do you hear, sir?
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Timon of Athens 3.4: 41

By your leave, sir —
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 11

Ay, sir, a mystery.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 10

[continues previous] Pray, sir, by your good favor — for surely, sir, a good favor you have, but that you have a hanging look — do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 12

[continues previous] Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and your whores, sir, being members of my occupation, using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery; but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I should be hang’d, I cannot imagine. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 12

Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery; and your whores, sir, being members of my occupation, using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery; but what mystery there should be in hanging, if I should be hang’d, I cannot imagine.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 10

[continues previous] Pray, sir, by your good favor — for surely, sir, a good favor you have, but that you have a hanging look — do you call, sir, your occupation a mystery?
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Henry IV Part 1 2.2: 31

Now cannot I strike him, if I should be hang’d.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 18

You, sirrah, provide your block and your axe tomorrow, four a’ clock.
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Henry IV Part 1 1.2: 40

But, my lads, my lads, tomorrow morning by four a’ clock early, at Gadshill, there are pilgrims going to Canterbury with rich offerings, and traders riding to London with fat purses. I have vizards for you all; you have horses for yourselves. Gadshill lies tonight in Rochester. I have bespoke supper tomorrow night in Eastcheap. We may do it as secure ...
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 19

Come on, bawd, I will instruct thee in my trade; follow.
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King John 3.1: 67

Thou mayst, thou shalt, I will not go with thee.
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King John 3.1: 68

I will instruct my sorrows to be proud,
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 20

I do desire to learn, sir; and I hope, if you have occasion to use me for your own turn, you shall find me yare; for truly, sir, for your kindness, I owe you a good turn.
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 128

Troth, and your bum is the greatest thing about you, so that in the beastliest sense you are Pompey the Great. Pompey, you are partly a bawd, Pompey, howsoever you color it in being a tapster, are you not? Come, tell me true, it shall be the better for you.
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 129

Truly, sir, I am a poor fellow that would live.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 21

Call hither Barnardine and Claudio.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 3

Come, sir, leave me your snatches, and yield me a direct answer. Tomorrow morning are to die Claudio and Barnardine. Here is in our prison a common executioner, who in his office lacks a helper. If you will take it on you to assist him, it shall redeem you from your gyves; if not, you shall have your full time of imprisonment, and your deliverance with an unpitied whipping, for ...
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Measure for Measure 4.3: 49

Put them in secret holds, both Barnardine and Claudio.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 23

Being a murderer, though he were my brother.
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Henry V 3.6: 31

Certainly, aunchient, it is not a thing to rejoice at; for if, look you, he were my brother, I would desire the Duke to use his good pleasure, and put him to execution; for discipline ought to be used. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 24

Look, here’s the warrant, Claudio, for thy death.
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Henry V 3.6: 31

[continues previous] Certainly, aunchient, it is not a thing to rejoice at; for if, look you, he were my brother, I would desire the Duke to use his good pleasure, and put him to execution; for discipline ought to be used.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 25

’Tis now dead midnight, and by eight tomorrow
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Richard III 5.3: 181

The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 29

He will not wake. Who can do good on him?
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Rape of Lucrece: 219

Will he not wake, and in a desp’rate rage
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 30

Well, go, prepare yourself. But hark, what noise?
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Richard III 2.2: 33

I cannot think it. Hark, what noise is this?
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Coriolanus 1.5: 9

And hark, what noise the general makes! To him!
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Othello 2.3: 104

“Help! Help!” But hark, what noise?
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 31

Heaven give your spirits comfort! By and by.
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Cymbeline 4.2: 381

They’ll pardon it. Say you, sir? Thy name? Fidele, sir. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 32

I hope it is some pardon or reprieve
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Cymbeline 4.2: 380

[continues previous] No harm by it, though the gods hear, I hope
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Cymbeline 4.2: 381

[continues previous] They’ll pardon it. — Say you, sir? Thy name? Fidele, sir.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 35

Envelop you, good Provost! Who call’d here of late?
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Henry VIII 4.1: 33

And the late marriage made of none effect; [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 36

None since the curfew rung.
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Henry VIII 4.1: 33

[continues previous] And the late marriage made of none effect;
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Henry VIII 4.1: 34

[continues previous] Since which she was remov’d to Kimmalton,
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 37

Not Isabel? No. They will then ere’t be long.
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Henry VI Part 3 3.3: 232

And therefore I’ll uncrown him ere’t be long.
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Henry VI Part 3 4.1: 111

And therefore I’ll uncrown him ere’t be long.”
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 39

There’s some in hope. It is a bitter deputy.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 2.1: 31

Hope is a curtal dog in some affairs. Sir John affects thy wife. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 40

Not so, not so; his life is parallel’d
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 48

The steeled jailer is the friend of men.
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Cardenio 3.1: 127

How now! What noise is this? I heard doors [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 49

How now? What noise? That spirit’s possess’d with haste
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Cardenio 3.1: 127

[continues previous] How now! What noise is this? I heard doors
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Hamlet 4.5: 147

How now, what noise is that?
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 52

Arise to let him in; he is call’d up.
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Coriolanus 2.3: 134

As cause had call’d you up, have held him to; [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 53

Have you no countermand for Claudio yet,
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 90

Provost, my brother Angelo will not be alter’d, Claudio must die tomorrow. Let him be furnish’d with divines, and have all charitable preparation. If my brother wrought by my pity, it should not be so with him. [continues next]
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Coriolanus 2.3: 134

[continues previous] As cause had call’d you up, have held him to;
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 54

But he must die tomorrow? None, sir, none.
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Measure for Measure 2.2: 84

It should be thus with him: he must die tomorrow.
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Measure for Measure 2.3: 37

Your partner, as I hear, must die tomorrow,
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Measure for Measure 2.3: 40

Must die tomorrow? O injurious love,
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 90

[continues previous] Provost, my brother Angelo will not be alter’d, Claudio must die tomorrow. Let him be furnish’d with divines, and have all charitable preparation. If my brother wrought by my pity, it should not be so with him.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 72

Now, sir, what news?
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Cymbeline 1.1: 160

Here is your servant. How now, sir? What news?
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Taming of the Shrew 5.2: 80

How now, what news? Sir, my mistress sends you word
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 369

Looks on alike. Will’t please you, sir, be gone? [continues next]
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 370

I told you what would come of this. Beseech you [continues next]
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Henry VIII 1.3: 15

That sure th’ have worn out Christendom. How now?
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Henry VIII 1.3: 16

What news, Sir Thomas Lovell? Faith, my lord,
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 73

I told you: Lord Angelo (belike) thinking me remiss in mine office, awakens me with this unwonted putting-on, methinks strangely, for he hath not us’d it before.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 370

[continues previous] I told you what would come of this. Beseech you
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Romeo and Juliet 4.3: 28

I fear it is, and yet methinks it should not,
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Romeo and Juliet 4.3: 29

For he hath still been tried a holy man.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 75

“Whatsoever you may hear to the contrary, let Claudio be executed by four of the clock, and in the afternoon Barnardine. For my better satisfaction, let me have Claudio’s head sent me by five. Let this be duly perform’d, with a thought that more depends on it than we must yet deliver. Thus fail not to do your office, as you will answer it at your peril.” What say you to this, sir?
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.3: 67

“You shall demand of him, whether one Captain Dumaine be i’ th’ camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation is with the Duke; what his valor, honesty, and expertness in wars; or whether he thinks it were not possible with well-weighing sums of gold to corrupt him to a revolt.” What say you to this? What do you know of it? [continues next]
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Love's Labour's Lost 1.1: 219

Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say you to this? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 33

Here, if it like your honor. See that Claudio
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 34

Be executed by nine tomorrow morning.
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Merchant of Venice 4.1: 418

And now methinks I have a mind to it.
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Merchant of Venice 4.1: 419

There’s more depends on this than on the value.
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 59

My lord, I was born about three of the clock in the afternoon, with a white head and something a round belly. For my voice, I have lost it with hallowing and singing of anthems. To approve my youth further, I will not. The truth is, I am only old in judgment and understanding; and he that will caper with me for a thousand marks, let him lend ...
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 76

What is that Barnardine who is to be executed in th’ afternoon?
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.3: 67

[continues previous] “You shall demand of him, whether one Captain Dumaine be i’ th’ camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation is with the Duke; what his valor, honesty, and expertness in wars; or whether he thinks it were not possible with well-weighing sums of gold to corrupt him to a revolt.” What say you to this? What do you know of it?
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Love's Labour's Lost 1.1: 219

[continues previous] Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say you to this?
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 79

His friends still wrought reprieves for him; and indeed his fact, till now in the government of Lord Angelo, came not to an undoubtful proof.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 2.2: 5

Not a penny. I have been content, sir, you should lay my countenance to pawn. I have grated upon my good friends for three reprieves for you and your coach-fellow Nym; or else you had look’d through the grate, like a geminy of baboons. I am damn’d in hell for swearing to gentlemen my friends, you were good soldiers and tall fellows; and when Mistress Bridget lost the handle of her fan, I took’t upon mine ...
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 81

Most manifest, and not denied by himself.
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 6

Much deserv’d on his part, and equally rememb’red by Don Pedro. He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed better bett’red expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 82

Hath he borne himself penitently in prison? How seems he to be touch’d?
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 6

[continues previous] Much deserv’d on his part, and equally rememb’red by Don Pedro. He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed better bett’red expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 85

He will hear none. He hath evermore had the liberty of the prison; give him leave to escape hence, he would not. Drunk many times a day, if not many days entirely drunk. We have very oft awak’d him, as if to carry him to execution, and show’d him a seeming warrant for it; it hath not mov’d him at all.
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Troilus and Cressida 3.3: 19

Yesterday took; Troy holds him very dear.
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Troilus and Cressida 3.3: 20

Oft have you (often have you thanks therefore)
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 89

Alack, how may I do it, having the hour limited, and an express command, under penalty, to deliver his head in the view of Angelo? I may make my case as Claudio’s, to cross this in the smallest.
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Sir Thomas More 4.4: 143

Be brief, my lord, for we are limited
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Sir Thomas More 4.4: 144

Unto an hour. Unto an hour! ’Tis well:
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 92

O, death’s a great disguiser, and you may add to it. Shave the head, and tie the beard, and say it was the desire of the penitent to be so bar’d before his death. You know the course is common. If any thing fall to you upon this, more than thanks and good fortune, by the saint whom I profess, I will plead against it with my life.
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Measure for Measure 4.3: 25

Not a word. If you have any thing to say to me, come to my ward; for thence will not I today.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 93

Pardon me, good father, it is against my oath.
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Merchant of Venice 3.3: 4

I’ll have my bond, speak not against my bond, [continues next]
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Merchant of Venice 3.3: 5

I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 94

Were you sworn to the Duke, or to the deputy?
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Merchant of Venice 3.3: 5

[continues previous] I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond.
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 98

Not a resemblance, but a certainty; yet since I see you fearful, that neither my coat, integrity, nor persuasion can with ease attempt you, I will go further than I meant, to pluck all fears out of you. Look you, sir, here is the hand and seal of the Duke; you know the character, I doubt not, and the signet is not strange to you.
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Measure for Measure 4.3: 18

Look you, sir, here comes your ghostly father. Do we jest now, think you?
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 100

The contents of this is the return of the Duke. You shall anon over-read it at your pleasure; where you shall find, within these two days he will be here. This is a thing that Angelo knows not, for he this very day receives letters of strange tenor, perchance of the Duke’s death, perchance entering into some monastery, but by chance nothing of what is writ. Look, th’ unfolding star calls up the shepherd. Put not ...
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Double Falsehood 2.3: 113

... you? You will be happy no body’s way but your own, forsooth. But, d’ye mark me, spare your tongue for the future; (and that’s using you hardly too, to bid you spare what you have a great deal too much of) go, go your ways, and d’ye hear, get ready within these two days to be married to a husband you don’t deserve. Do it, or, by my dead father’s soul, you are no acquaintance of mine.
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Edward III 4.2: 73

Except, within these two days, six of them,