Comparison of William Shakespeare Measure for Measure 5.1 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare Measure for Measure 5.1 has 499 lines, and 2% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in William Shakespeare. 26% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 72% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.02 strong matches and 0.67 weak matches.

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Measure for Measure 5.1: 2

Our old and faithful friend, we are glad to see you.
10

Coriolanus 2.1: 87

That is not glad to see thee! You are three
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 3

Happy return be to your royal Grace!
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 137

Blessed be your royal Grace!
10

Henry VIII 5.4: 2

And to your royal Grace and the good Queen,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 13

And razure of oblivion. Give me your hand,
12

As You Like It 2.7: 199

Support him by the arm. Give me your hand, [continues next]
10

As You Like It 2.7: 200

And let me all your fortunes understand. [continues next]
12

Comedy of Errors 4.4: 36

Give me your hand, and let me feel your pulse. [continues next]
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 458

Give me your hand, and say you will be mine, [continues next]
10

Merry Wives of Windsor 2.2: 83

Master Brook, I will first make bold with your money; next, give me your hand; and last, as I am a gentleman, you shall, and you will, enjoy Ford’s wife. [continues next]
10

Julius Caesar 4.3: 117

Do you confess so much? Give me your hand. [continues next]
10

Troilus and Cressida 4.4: 133

Lady, give me your hand, and as we walk, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 14

And let the subject see, to make them know
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As You Like It 2.7: 199

[continues previous] Support him by the arm. Give me your hand,
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As You Like It 2.7: 200

[continues previous] And let me all your fortunes understand.
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Comedy of Errors 4.4: 36

[continues previous] Give me your hand, and let me feel your pulse.
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 458

[continues previous] Give me your hand, and say you will be mine,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 2.2: 83

[continues previous] Master Brook, I will first make bold with your money; next, give me your hand; and last, as I am a gentleman, you shall, and you will, enjoy Ford’s wife.
10

Julius Caesar 4.3: 118

[continues previous] And my heart too. O Brutus! What’s the matter?
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Troilus and Cressida 4.4: 133

[continues previous] Lady, give me your hand, and as we walk,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 21

Upon a wrong’d — I would fain have said a maid!
10

Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 147

... the head at so long a breathing, but I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us. I will in the interim undertake one of Hercules’ labors, which is, to bring Signior Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection th’ one with th’ other. I would fain have it a match, and I doubt not but to fashion it, if you three will but minister such assistance as I shall give you direction.
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Hamlet 2.2: 150

Hath there been such a time — I would fain know that
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Hamlet 2.2: 151

That I have positively said, “’Tis so,”
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King Lear 1.4: 100

Prithee, nuncle, keep a schoolmaster that can teach thy Fool to lie — I would fain learn to lie.
10

Timon of Athens 4.3: 445

No more, I pray — and he’s a steward.
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Timon of Athens 4.3: 446

How fain would I have hated all mankind,
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Troilus and Cressida 3.1: 88

Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of Troy. I would fain have arm’d today, but my Nell would not have it so. How chance my brother Troilus went not?
11

Measure for Measure 5.1: 32

Or wring redress from you. Hear me, O hear me, here.
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King John 3.1: 113

Hear me, O, hear me! Lady Constance, peace!
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 38

That Angelo’s forsworn, is it not strange?
10

Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 27

Now, divine air! Now is his soul ravish’d! Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies? Well, a horn for my money when all’s done. [continues next]
10

Henry IV Part 2 2.4: 108

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? [continues next]
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 39

That Angelo’s a murderer, is’t not strange?
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 27

[continues previous] Now, divine air! Now is his soul ravish’d! Is it not strange that sheep’s guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies? Well, a horn for my money when all’s done.
10

Henry IV Part 2 2.4: 107

[continues previous] Look whe’er the wither’d elder hath not his pole claw’d like a parrot.
10

Henry IV Part 2 2.4: 108

[continues previous] Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 42

Is it not strange? And strange? Nay, it is ten times strange.
15+

Measure for Measure 5.1: 44

Than this is all as true as it is strange; [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 45

Nay, it is ten times true, for truth is truth [continues next]
15+

Measure for Measure 5.1: 43

It is not truer he is Angelo
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 44

[continues previous] Than this is all as true as it is strange; [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 45

[continues previous] Nay, it is ten times true, for truth is truth
15+

Measure for Measure 5.1: 44

Than this is all as true as it is strange;
15+

Measure for Measure 5.1: 42

Is it not strange? And strange? Nay, it is ten times strange. [continues next]
15+

Measure for Measure 5.1: 45

Nay, it is ten times true, for truth is truth
15+

Measure for Measure 5.1: 42

[continues previous] Is it not strange? And strange? Nay, it is ten times strange.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 43

[continues previous] It is not truer he is Angelo
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 62

Such a dependancy of thing on thing,
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Tempest 5.1: 284

This is a strange thing as e’er I look’d on. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 63

As e’er I heard in madness. O gracious Duke,
10

Comedy of Errors 5.1: 190

Justice, most gracious Duke, O, grant me justice,
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Tempest 5.1: 284

[continues previous] This is a strange thing as e’er I look’d on.
10

Tempest 5.1: 285

[continues previous] He is as disproportion’d in his manners
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 64

Harp not on that; nor do not banish reason
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Richard III 4.4: 364

Harp not on that string, madam, that is past.
12

Measure for Measure 5.1: 68

Have sure more lack of reason. What would you say?
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.5: 55

Pray, sir, your pardon. Well, what would you say? [continues next]
12

Measure for Measure 5.1: 69

I am the sister of one Claudio,
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.5: 56

[continues previous] I am not worthy of the wealth I owe,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 74

As then the messenger — That’s I, and’t like your Grace.
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Tempest 4.1: 226

Do, do; we steal by line and level, and’t like your Grace. [continues next]
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Tempest 4.1: 227

I thank thee for that jest; here’s a garment for’t. Wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this country. ’Steal by line and level’ is an excellent pass of pate; there’s another garment for’t. [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 2 2.1: 82

At Berwick in the north, and’t like your Grace.
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Henry VIII 4.2: 100

And’t like your Grace — You are a saucy fellow,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 75

I came to her from Claudio, and desir’d her
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Tempest 4.1: 227

[continues previous] I thank thee for that jest; here’s a garment for’t. Wit shall not go unrewarded while I am king of this country. ’Steal by line and level’ is an excellent pass of pate; there’s another garment for’t.
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 79

Nor wish’d to hold my peace. I wish you now then.
10

Hamlet 1.2: 246

And bid me hold my peace. I pray you all,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 80

Pray you take note of it; and when you have
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Twelfth Night 3.2: 13

Why then build me thy fortunes upon the basis of valor. Challenge me the Count’s youth to fight with him, hurt him in eleven places — my niece shall take note of it, and assure thyself, there is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man’s commendation with woman than report of valor.
12

Measure for Measure 5.1: 82

Be perfect. I warrant your honor.
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Hamlet 3.2: 3

I warrant your honor.
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Hamlet 3.2: 4

Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor. Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature: for any thing so o’erdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at ...
12

Measure for Measure 5.1: 88

To this pernicious caitiff deputy
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Othello 5.2: 320

Came in and satisfied him. O thou pernicious caitiff! —
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 103

For my poor brother’s head. This is most likely!
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Coriolanus 4.6: 69

The young’st and oldest thing. This is most likely!
15+

Measure for Measure 5.1: 105

By heaven, fond wretch, thou know’st not what thou speak’st,
15+

Cardenio 5.1: 38

Thou know’st not what thou speak’st. Why, my lord’s he That gives him the house-freedom, all his boldness, Keeps him a purpose here to war with me. [continues next]
10

Comedy of Errors 5.1: 336

Egeon art thou not? Or else his ghost? [continues next]
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Cymbeline 1.5: 61

Thou know’st not what; but take it for thy labor.
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Measure for Measure 2.2: 174

What dost thou? Or what art thou, Angelo? [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 1 5.3: 77

Why speak’st thou not? What ransom must I pay?
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Venus and Adonis: 615

O, be advis’d, thou know’st not what it is
10

Romeo and Juliet 4.1: 67

If what thou speak’st speak not of remedy.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 106

Or else thou art suborn’d against his honor
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Cardenio 5.1: 38

[continues previous] Thou know’st not what thou speak’st. Why, my lord’s he That gives him the house-freedom, all his boldness, Keeps him a purpose here to war with me.
10

Comedy of Errors 5.1: 336

[continues previous] Egeon art thou not? Or else his ghost?
10

Cymbeline 3.5: 83

Where is thy lady? In a word, or else
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Cymbeline 3.5: 84

Thou art straightway with the fiends. O, good my lord!
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Measure for Measure 2.2: 174

[continues previous] What dost thou? Or what art thou, Angelo?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 113

Confess the truth, and say by whose advice
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Richard II 3.4: 79

Divine his downfall? Say, where, when, and how, [continues next]
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Richard II 3.4: 80

Cam’st thou by this ill tidings? Speak, thou wretch. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 114

Thou cam’st here to complain. And is this all?
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Richard II 3.4: 80

[continues previous] Cam’st thou by this ill tidings? Speak, thou wretch.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 125

One that I would were here, Friar Lodowick.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 143

Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 256

Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 126

A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 143

[continues previous] Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 256

[continues previous] Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 127

My lord, I know him, ’tis a meddling friar.
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Henry IV Part 1 3.3: 65

O, I do not like that paying back, ’tis a double labor. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 128

I do not like the man; had he been lay, my lord,
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Henry IV Part 1 3.3: 65

[continues previous] O, I do not like that paying back, ’tis a double labor.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 130

In your retirement, I had swing’d him soundly.
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Henry IV Part 2 5.4: 6

I’ll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swing’d for this — you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famish’d correctioner, if you be not swing’d, I’ll forswear half-kirtles.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 137

Blessed be your royal Grace!
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 3

Happy return be to your royal Grace!
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 143

Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of?
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 125

One that I would were here, Friar Lodowick.
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 126

A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 256

Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person?
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 148

Did (as he vouches) misreport your Grace.
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Richard III 3.4: 63

The tender love I bear your Grace, my lord, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 149

My lord, most villainously, believe it.
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Richard III 3.4: 63

[continues previous] The tender love I bear your Grace, my lord,
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Richard III 3.4: 64

[continues previous] Makes me most forward in this princely presence
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Sonnet 17: 1

Who will believe my verse in time to come [continues next]
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Sonnet 17: 2

If it were fill’d with your most high deserts? [continues next]
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Timon of Athens 4.3: 464

Care of your food and living; and believe it,
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Timon of Athens 4.3: 465

My most honor’d lord,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 150

Well; he in time may come to clear himself;
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Sonnet 17: 1

[continues previous] Who will believe my verse in time to come
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 151

But at this instant he is sick, my lord,
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Henry VIII 1.1: 127

Me as his abject object; at this instant
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Henry VIII 1.1: 128

He bores me with some trick. He’s gone to th’ King;
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 162

Till she herself confess it. Good friar, let’s hear it.
10

Comedy of Errors 4.2: 51

A chain, a chain! Do you not hear it ring? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 163

Do you not smile at this, Lord Angelo?
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Comedy of Errors 4.2: 51

[continues previous] A chain, a chain! Do you not hear it ring?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 169

Pardon, my lord, I will not show my face
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King John 4.2: 233

Or turn’d an eye of doubt upon my face, [continues next]
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King John 4.2: 234

As bid me tell my tale in express words, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 170

Until my husband bid me.
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King John 4.2: 233

[continues previous] Or turn’d an eye of doubt upon my face,
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King John 4.2: 234

[continues previous] As bid me tell my tale in express words,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 171

What, are you married?
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Henry VI Part 2 1.2: 51

What, what, my lord? Are you so choleric [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 2 1.2: 50

[continues previous] Away from me, and let me hear no more!
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Henry VI Part 2 1.2: 51

[continues previous] What, what, my lord? Are you so choleric
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 177

Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 177

Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife? [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.1: 78

Why then are you no maiden. Leonato, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 176

Neither, my lord.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 177

[continues previous] Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 178

[continues previous] My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.3: 1

What the good-year, my lord, why are you thus out of measure sad? [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.1: 77

[continues previous] I talk’d with no man at that hour, my lord. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 5.2: 33

[continues previous] Not I. Nor I. Saw you my daughter? Neither. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 177

Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 178

[continues previous] My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.3: 1

[continues previous] What the good-year, my lord, why are you thus out of measure sad?
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.1: 78

[continues previous] Why then are you no maiden. Leonato,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 5.2: 33

[continues previous] Not I. Nor I. Saw you my daughter? Neither.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 178

My lord, she may be a punk; for many of them are neither maid, widow, nor wife.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 177

[continues previous] Why, you are nothing then: neither maid, widow, nor wife?
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Edward III 5.1: 19

My promise? Well, I do confess as much: [continues next]
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All's Well That Ends Well 5.3: 221

My lord, I do confess the ring was hers. [continues next]
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 175

O my lord, my lord, the sheriff with a most monstrous watch is at the door. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 182

My lord, I do confess I ne’er was married,
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Edward III 5.1: 19

[continues previous] My promise? Well, I do confess as much:
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All's Well That Ends Well 5.3: 221

[continues previous] My lord, I do confess the ring was hers.
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 175

[continues previous] O my lord, my lord, the sheriff with a most monstrous watch is at the door.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 183

And I confess besides I am no maid.
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All's Well That Ends Well 5.3: 262

He knows I am no maid, and he’ll swear to’t; [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 184

I have known my husband, yet my husband
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All's Well That Ends Well 5.3: 262

[continues previous] He knows I am no maid, and he’ll swear to’t;
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Macbeth 5.1: 26

This disease is beyond my practice; yet I have known those which have walk’d in their sleep who have died holily in their beds.
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 187

For the benefit of silence, would thou wert so too!
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Romeo and Juliet 1.1: 135

I would thou wert so happy by thy stay
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 197

No? You say your husband.
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Troilus and Cressida 3.1: 58

Ay, good my lord. Why should you say Cressida? No, your poor disposer’s sick. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 198

Why, just, my lord, and that is Angelo,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 200

But knows he thinks that he knows Isabel’s. [continues next]
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Troilus and Cressida 3.1: 58

[continues previous] Ay, good my lord. Why should you say Cressida? No, your poor disposer’s sick.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 199

Who thinks he knows that he ne’er knew my body,
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Sir Thomas More 4.4: 30

But he that ne’er knew court, courts sweet content. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 200

[continues previous] But knows he thinks that he knows Isabel’s. [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 1 5.3: 141

Speaks Suffolk as he thinks? Fair Margaret knows [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 1 5.3: 142

That Suffolk doth not flatter, face, or feign. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 200

But knows he thinks that he knows Isabel’s.
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Sir Thomas More 4.4: 30

[continues previous] But he that ne’er knew court, courts sweet content.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 198

Why, just, my lord, and that is Angelo,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 199

[continues previous] Who thinks he knows that he ne’er knew my body,
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Henry VI Part 1 5.3: 141

[continues previous] Speaks Suffolk as he thinks? Fair Margaret knows
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Henry VI Part 1 5.3: 142

[continues previous] That Suffolk doth not flatter, face, or feign.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 210

Carnally, she says. Sirrah, no more!
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Henry VIII 2.4: 103

And to say so no more. My lord, my lord, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 211

Enough, my lord.
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Henry VIII 2.4: 103

[continues previous] And to say so no more. My lord, my lord, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 212

My lord, I must confess I know this woman,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 2.2: 131

But fare you well; perforce I must confess
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Midsummer Night's Dream 2.2: 132

I thought you lord of more true gentleness.
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Henry VIII 2.4: 103

[continues previous] And to say so no more. My lord, my lord,
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Henry VIII 2.4: 104

[continues previous] I am a simple woman, much too weak
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 219

I never spake with her, saw her, nor heard from her,
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Comedy of Errors 2.2: 137

I never spake with her in all my life.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 230

Now, good my lord, give me the scope of justice,
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Tempest 4.1: 201

Good my lord, give me thy favor still.
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Othello 3.4: 25

How do you, Desdemona? Well, my good lord.
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Othello 3.4: 26

Give me your hand. This hand is moist, my lady.
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Timon of Athens 5.4: 5

The scope of justice; till now myself and such
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 231

My patience here is touch’d. I do perceive
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Henry VI Part 1 1.2: 123

He may mean more than we poor men do know: [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 232

These poor informal women are no more
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Henry VI Part 1 1.2: 123

[continues previous] He may mean more than we poor men do know:
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Henry VI Part 1 1.2: 124

[continues previous] These women are shrewd tempters with their tongues.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 245

Let him be sent for.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.3: 76

We will do it. Let him be sent for tomorrow, eight a’ clock, to have amends.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 248

Your Provost knows the place where he abides,
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Richard III 4.2: 49

To Richmond, in the parts where he abides.
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Timon of Athens 5.1: 1

As I took note of the place, it cannot be far
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Timon of Athens 5.1: 2

Where he abides. What’s to be thought of him?
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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 3.1: 153

I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs; but I will attend you a while. [continues next]
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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: 153

[continues previous] 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: 256

Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 125

One that I would were here, Friar Lodowick.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 126

A ghostly father, belike. Who knows that Lodowick?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 143

Know you that Friar Lodowick that she speaks of?
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 306

Against him, Signior Lucio? Is this the man
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 307

That you did tell us of? ’Tis he, my lord.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 257

Cucullus non facit monachum: honest in nothing but in his clothes, and one that hath spoke most villainous speeches of the Duke.
15+

Twelfth Night 1.5: 22

Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, “Cucullus non facit monachum”: that’s as much to say as I wear not motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to prove you a fool.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 258

We shall entreat you to abide here till he come, and enforce them against him. We shall find this friar a notable fellow.
10

Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.1: 36

By the bare scalp of Robin Hood’s fat friar,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.1: 37

This fellow were a king for our wild faction!
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 260

Call that same Isabel here once again, I would speak with her.
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All's Well That Ends Well 1.3: 29

Sirrah, tell my gentlewoman I would speak with her — Helen, I mean.
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King Lear 1.4: 42

No more of that, I have noted it well. Go you and tell my daughter I would speak with her.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 261

Pray you, my lord, give me leave to question, you shall see how I’ll handle her.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.1: 21

Pray you give me my gown, or else keep it in your arms.
10

Henry IV Part 2 4.3: 38

And we with sober speed will follow you.
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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 VI Part 2 1.4: 70

Your Grace shall give me leave, my Lord of York,
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Henry VI Part 2 1.4: 71

To be the post, in hope of his reward.
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Henry VI Part 3 4.1: 62

Which being shallow, you shall give me leave
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Henry VI Part 3 4.1: 63

To play the broker in mine own behalf;
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Richard II 4.1: 312

You shall.
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Richard II 4.1: 313

Then give me leave to go.
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Coriolanus 1.3: 5

Beseech you give me leave to retire myself.
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Coriolanus 1.3: 6

Indeed you shall not.
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King Lear 2.2: 35

Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you’ll give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. Spare my grey beard, you wagtail?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 267

Come on, mistress. Here’s a gentlewoman denies all that you have said.
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King Lear 4.2: 30

I have been worth the whistling. O Goneril, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 268

My lord, here comes the rascal I spoke of, here with the Provost.
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King Lear 4.2: 29

[continues previous] A fool usurps my bed. Madam, here comes my lord.
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King Lear 4.2: 30

[continues previous] I have been worth the whistling. O Goneril,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 273

How! Know you where you are?
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As You Like It 1.1: 10

Know you where you are, sir?
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Henry IV Part 2 3.2: 48

Peace, fellow, peace, stand aside, know you where you are? For th’ other, Sir John, let me see: Simon Shadow!
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Sonnet 57: 12

Save where you are how happy you make those.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 288

Is’t not enough thou hast suborn’d these women
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Comedy of Errors 4.4: 66

Thou hast suborn’d the goldsmith to arrest me.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 294

Joint by joint, but we will know his purpose.
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Romeo and Juliet 5.3: 35

By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint,
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Troilus and Cressida 4.5: 233

And quoted joint by joint. Is this Achilles?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 300

Where I have seen corruption boil and bubble,
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Macbeth 4.1: 19

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
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Macbeth 4.1: 20

Double, double, toil and trouble;
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 303

Stand like the forfeits in a barber’s shop,
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Taming of the Shrew 4.3: 92

Like to a censer in a barber’s shop.
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Taming of the Shrew 4.3: 93

Why, what a’ devil’s name, tailor, call’st thou this?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 305

Away with him to prison. What can you vouch
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 317

Such a fellow is not to be talk’d withal. Away with him to prison! Where is the Provost? Away with him to prison! Lay bolts enough upon him. Let him speak no more. Away with those giglets too, and with the other confederate companion!
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 306

Against him, Signior Lucio? Is this the man
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 256

Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 307

That you did tell us of? ’Tis he, my lord.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 256

[continues previous] Signior Lucio, did not you say you knew that Friar Lodowick to be a dishonest person?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 308

Come hither, goodman bald-pate, do you know me?
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All's Well That Ends Well 5.3: 156

Come hither, Count, do you know these women?
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 47

[continues previous] Do so, farewell. Come hither, Leonato. What was it you told me of today, that your niece Beatrice was in love with Signior Benedick?
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Henry IV Part 1 3.3: 15

No, Sir John, you do not know me, Sir John. I know you, Sir John, you owe me money, Sir John, and now you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it. I bought you a dozen of shirts to your back. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 309

I remember you, sir, by the sound of your voice; I met you at the prison, in the absence of the Duke.
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Comedy of Errors 5.1: 293

Ourselves we do remember, sir, by you;
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Henry IV Part 1 3.3: 15

[continues previous] No, Sir John, you do not know me, Sir John. I know you, Sir John, you owe me money, Sir John, and now you pick a quarrel to beguile me of it. I bought you a dozen of shirts to your back.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 312

Do you so, sir? And was the Duke a flesh-monger, a fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 466

You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 313

You must, sir, change persons with me, ere you make that my report. You indeed spoke so of him, and much more, much worse.
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Henry V 5 Prologue: 34

To welcome him! Much more, and much more cause,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 315

I protest I love the Duke as I love myself.
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Double Falsehood 3.3: 17

If I protest, I love you passing well.
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Love's Labour's Lost 1.1: 170

But I protest I love to hear him lie,
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Merchant of Venice 4.1: 275

I have a wife who I protest I love;
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Merchant of Venice 4.1: 276

I would she were in heaven, so she could
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.1: 262

With no sauce that can be devis’d to it. I protest I love thee.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 317

Such a fellow is not to be talk’d withal. Away with him to prison! Where is the Provost? Away with him to prison! Lay bolts enough upon him. Let him speak no more. Away with those giglets too, and with the other confederate companion!
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As You Like It 1.2: 28

My father’s love is enough to honor him enough. Speak no more of him, you’ll be whipt for taxation one of these days.
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 32

Be it as your wisdom will. Where is the Provost?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 305

Away with him to prison. What can you vouch
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Titus Andronicus 5.1: 151

Sirs, stop his mouth, and let him speak no more.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 318

Stay, sir, stay a while.
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Taming of the Shrew 1.1: 46

But stay a while, what company is this? [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 3 4.7: 51

Nay, stay, Sir John, a while, and we’ll debate
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 319

What, resists he? Help him, Lucio.
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Taming of the Shrew 1.1: 46

[continues previous] But stay a while, what company is this?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 324

Must have a word anon. — Lay hold on him.
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Cardenio 5.2: 135

Lay hold on him —
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Comedy of Errors 5.1: 91

Good people, enter and lay hold on him.
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Taming of the Shrew 5.1: 43

Lucentio! O, he hath murd’red his master! Lay hold on him, I charge you, in the Duke’s name. O, my son, my son! Tell me, thou villain, where is my son Lucentio?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 326

What you have spoke I pardon. Sit you down,
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Cymbeline 1.6: 160

For the most worthiest fit. Give me your pardon.
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Cymbeline 1.6: 161

I have spoke this to know if your affiance
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Taming of the Shrew 4.1: 86

Come, Kate, sit down, I know you have a stomach.
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Antony and Cleopatra 2.2: 132

Draw after her. Pardon what I have spoke,
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Coriolanus 3.2: 37

Repent what you have spoke.
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Macbeth 4.3: 10

As I shall find the time to friend, I will.
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Macbeth 4.3: 11

What you have spoke, it may be so perchance.
12

Measure for Measure 5.1: 327

We’ll borrow place of him. — Sir, by your leave.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.2: 14

By your leave, sir. I am sick till I see her.
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Taming of the Shrew 4.4: 24

Sir, by your leave, having come to Padua
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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 5.1: 328

Hast thou or word, or wit, or impudence,
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Sonnet 37: 5

For whether beauty, birth, or wealth, or wit,
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Sonnet 37: 6

Or any of these all, or all, or more,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 330

Rely upon it till my tale be heard,
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Richard II 5.3: 37

That no man enter till my tale be done.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 340

Say: wast thou e’er contracted to this woman?
10

Romeo and Juliet 2.3: 77

If e’er thou wast thyself and these woes thine,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 350

Attorneyed at your service. O, give me pardon,
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Cymbeline 1.6: 160

For the most worthiest fit. Give me your pardon. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 351

That I, your vassal, have employ’d and pain’d
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Cymbeline 1.6: 160

[continues previous] For the most worthiest fit. Give me your pardon.
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Cymbeline 1.6: 161

[continues previous] I have spoke this to know if your affiance
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 356

Laboring to save his life, and would not rather
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Henry VI Part 2 3.1: 240

The commons haply rise, to save his life;
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Henry VI Part 2 3.1: 241

And yet we have but trivial argument,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 381

Away with him! O my most gracious lord,
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Comedy of Errors 5.1: 364

I came from Corinth, my most gracious lord
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Henry IV Part 2 2.1: 31

Stand from him, fellow, wherefore hang’st thou upon him?
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Henry IV Part 2 2.1: 32

O my most worshipful lord, and’t please your Grace, I am a poor widow of Eastcheap, and he is arrested at my suit.
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Henry VI Part 3 3.2: 29

Three, my most gracious lord.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 382

I hope you will not mock me with a husband!
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Othello 5.2: 35

If you say so, I hope you will not kill me.
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 384

Consenting to the safeguard of your honor,
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Henry IV Part 1 4.2: 9

What, Hal? How now, mad wag? What a devil dost thou in Warwickshire? My good Lord of Westmorland, I cry you mercy! I thought your honor had already been at Shrewsbury. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 385

I thought your marriage fit; else imputation,
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Henry IV Part 1 4.2: 9

[continues previous] What, Hal? How now, mad wag? What a devil dost thou in Warwickshire? My good Lord of Westmorland, I cry you mercy! I thought your honor had already been at Shrewsbury.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 386

For that he knew you, might reproach your life,
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Henry IV Part 2 1.1: 169

That in the dole of blows your son might drop.
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Henry IV Part 2 1.1: 170

You knew he walk’d o’er perils, on an edge,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 390

To buy you a better husband. O my dear lord,
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Merchant of Venice 3.4: 7

How dear a lover of my lord your husband, [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.4: 63

I mean it not, I seek you a better husband.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 391

I crave no other, nor no better man.
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Merchant of Venice 3.4: 8

[continues previous] I know you would be prouder of the work
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 393

Gentle my liege — You do but lose your labor.
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Love's Labour's Lost 4.3: 183

He, he, and you — and you, my liege! — and I,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 395

Now, sir, to you.
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All's Well That Ends Well 5.2: 14

O my good lord, you were the first that found me! [continues next]
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Henry IV Part 2 5.2: 27

O, good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed, [continues next]
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Othello 5.2: 103

That I may speak with you. O, good my lord! [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 396

O my good lord! Sweet Isabel, take my part!
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All's Well That Ends Well 5.2: 14

[continues previous] O my good lord, you were the first that found me!
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Henry IV Part 2 5.2: 27

[continues previous] O, good my lord, you have lost a friend indeed,
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Othello 5.2: 103

[continues previous] That I may speak with you. O, good my lord!
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 398

I’ll lend you all my life to do you service.
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Cardenio 2.1: 105

Well may I spend this life to do you service,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 404

Hold up your hands, say nothing; I’ll speak all.
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Winter's Tale 3.2: 219

And I’ll say nothing. Thou didst speak but well
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 407

For being a little bad; so may my husband.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.3: 4

My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of Falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor’s marrying my daughter. But ’tis no matter; better a little chiding than a great deal of heart-break. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 408

O Isabel! Will you not lend a knee?
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.3: 4

[continues previous] My husband will not rejoice so much at the abuse of Falstaff as he will chafe at the doctor’s marrying my daughter. But ’tis no matter; better a little chiding than a great deal of heart-break.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 409

He dies for Claudio’s death. Most bounteous sir:
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Othello 2.3: 122

I am hurt to th’ death. He dies. Hold, for your lives!
14

Measure for Measure 5.1: 421

Your suit’s unprofitable; stand up, I say.
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Sir Thomas More 4.4: 148

Wife, stand up; I have bethought me, [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 422

I have bethought me of another fault.
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Sir Thomas More 4.4: 148

[continues previous] Wife, stand up; I have bethought me,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 426

No, my good lord; it was by private message.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 120

No, my good lord, it is more pleasing stuff.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 434

I would thou hadst done so by Claudio.
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As You Like It 1.2: 95

I would thou hadst been son to some man else:
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As You Like It 1.2: 101

I would thou hadst told me of another father.
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Antony and Cleopatra 4.5: 3

To make me fight at land! Hadst thou done so,
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Romeo and Juliet 2.5: 27

I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 435

Go fetch him hither, let me look upon him.
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Richard III 3.7: 88

He fears, my lord, you mean no good to him. [continues next]
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Romeo and Juliet 4.2: 28

Ay, marry, go, I say, and fetch him hither.
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Troilus and Cressida 4.2: 49

Who! — nay then. Come, come, you’ll do him wrong ere you are ware. You’ll be so true to him, to be false to him. Do not you know of him, but yet go fetch him hither, go.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 436

I am sorry, one so learned and so wise
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Richard III 3.7: 89

[continues previous] Sorry I am my noble cousin should
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 439

And lack of temper’d judgment afterward.
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Hamlet 2.1: 110

I am sorry that with better heed and judgment [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 440

I am sorry that such sorrow I procure,
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Hamlet 2.1: 110

[continues previous] I am sorry that with better heed and judgment
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Hamlet 2.1: 111

[continues previous] I had not coted him. I fear’d he did but trifle
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 441

And so deep sticks it in my penitent heart
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Antony and Cleopatra 1.5: 41

This orient pearl. His speech sticks in my heart.
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Antony and Cleopatra 1.5: 42

Mine ear must pluck it thence. “Good friend,” quoth he,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 447

That apprehends no further than this world,
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Coriolanus 3.3: 42

Shall I be charg’d no further than this present?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 456

If he be like your brother, for his sake
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Richard III 1.4: 178

For Edward, for my brother, for his sake.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 457

Is he pardon’d, and for your lovely sake,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 2.2: 83

Master Brook, I will first make bold with your money; next, give me your hand; and last, as I am a gentleman, you shall, and you will, enjoy Ford’s wife. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 458

Give me your hand, and say you will be mine,
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As You Like It 2.7: 199

Support him by the arm. Give me your hand,
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As You Like It 2.7: 200

And let me all your fortunes understand.
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Comedy of Errors 4.4: 36

Give me your hand, and let me feel your pulse.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 13

And razure of oblivion. Give me your hand,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 14

And let the subject see, to make them know
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Merry Wives of Windsor 2.2: 83

[continues previous] Master Brook, I will first make bold with your money; next, give me your hand; and last, as I am a gentleman, you shall, and you will, enjoy Ford’s wife.
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Julius Caesar 4.3: 117

Do you confess so much? Give me your hand.
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Julius Caesar 4.3: 118

And my heart too. O Brutus! What’s the matter?
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Troilus and Cressida 4.4: 133

Lady, give me your hand, and as we walk,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 466

You, sirrah, that knew me for a fool, a coward,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 312

Do you so, sir? And was the Duke a flesh-monger, a fool, and a coward, as you then reported him to be?
13

Measure for Measure 5.1: 470

Faith, my lord, I spoke it but according to the trick. If you will hang me for it, you may; but I had rather it would please you I might be whipt.
13

Measure for Measure 5.1: 477

Let him be whipt and hang’d. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 478

I beseech your Highness do not marry me to a whore. Your Highness said even now I made you a duke; good my lord, do not recompense me in making me a cuckold. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 87

And in faith, my lord, I spoke mine.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 99

... told him, and I think I told him true, that your Grace had got the good will of this young lady, and I off’red him my company to a willow-tree, either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipt. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 100

To be whipt? What’s his fault? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 471

Whipt first, sir, and hang’d after.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 477

[continues previous] Let him be whipt and hang’d.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 99

[continues previous] ... him, and I think I told him true, that your Grace had got the good will of this young lady, and I off’red him my company to a willow-tree, either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipt.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 100

[continues previous] To be whipt? What’s his fault?
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 473

If any woman wrong’d by this lewd fellow
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 235

How her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow.
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Henry VI Part 3 2.2: 148

And ne’er was Agamemnon’s brother wrong’d [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 3 2.2: 149

By that false woman as this king by thee. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 474

(As I have heard him swear himself there’s one
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As You Like It 3.4: 17

You have heard him swear downright he was.
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Merchant of Venice 3.2: 282

When I was with him I have heard him swear
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Henry VI Part 3 2.2: 149

[continues previous] By that false woman as this king by thee.
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Henry VI Part 3 3.3: 122

As may beseem a monarch like himself.
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Henry VI Part 3 3.3: 123

Myself have often heard him say, and swear,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 477

Let him be whipt and hang’d.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 470

Faith, my lord, I spoke it but according to the trick. If you will hang me for it, you may; but I had rather it would please you I might be whipt. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 471

Whipt first, sir, and hang’d after. [continues next]
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Henry IV Part 2 4.3: 16

I know not: here he is, and here I yield him, and I beseech your Grace let it be book’d with the rest of this day’s deeds, or by the Lord, I will have it in a particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the top on’t (Colevile kissing my foot), to the which course if I be enforc’d, if you do not all show like gilt twopences ... [continues next]
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King Lear 1.4: 93

... two crowns of the egg. When thou clovest thy crown i’ th’ middle and gav’st away both parts, thou bor’st thine ass on thy back o’er the dirt. Thou hadst little wit in thy bald crown when thou gav’st thy golden one away. If I speak like myself in this, let him be whipt that first finds it so.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 478

I beseech your Highness do not marry me to a whore. Your Highness said even now I made you a duke; good my lord, do not recompense me in making me a cuckold.
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.3: 83

My wife, my liege? I shall beseech your Highness,
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Cymbeline 4.3: 15

Nor when she purposes return. Beseech your Highness,
10

Cymbeline 5.5: 100

The noblest ta’en. I humbly thank your Highness.
10

Cymbeline 5.5: 101

I do not bid thee beg my life, good lad,
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 470

[continues previous] Faith, my lord, I spoke it but according to the trick. If you will hang me for it, you may; but I had rather it would please you I might be whipt.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.4: 62

Good mother, do not marry me to yond fool.
10

Winter's Tale 2.1: 116

Who is’t that goes with me? Beseech your Highness
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Winter's Tale 2.1: 125

Go, do our bidding; hence!
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Winter's Tale 2.1: 126

Beseech your Highness call the Queen again.
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Winter's Tale 2.3: 147

Beseech your Highness, give us better credit.
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Henry IV Part 2 4.3: 16

[continues previous] I know not: here he is, and here I yield him, and I beseech your Grace let it be book’d with the rest of this day’s deeds, or by the Lord, I will have it in a particular ballad else, with mine own picture on the top on’t (Colevile kissing my foot), to the which course if I be enforc’d, if you do not all ...
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Henry V 2.2: 150

Which I beseech your Highness to forgive,
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Henry V 3.5: 65

Not so, I do beseech your Majesty.
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Henry V 4.8: 25

... You appear’d to me but as a common man; witness the night, your garments, your lowliness; and what your Highness suffer’d under that shape, I beseech you take it for your own fault and not mine; for had you been as I took you for, I made no offense; therefore I beseech your Highness pardon me.
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Richard III 2.1: 77

My sovereign lord, I do beseech your Highness
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King Lear 2.2: 104

Let me beseech your Grace not to do so.
10

Measure for Measure 5.1: 479

Upon mine honor, thou shalt marry her.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 2.2: 5

... 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 honor thou hadst it not.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 497

What’s mine is yours, and what is yours is mine.
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Merchant of Venice 3.2: 16

One half of me is yours, the other half yours
10

Merchant of Venice 3.2: 17

Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
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Merchant of Venice 3.2: 166

Myself, and what is mine, to you and yours
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Merchant of Venice 3.2: 167

Is now converted. But now I was the lord
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Henry V 5.2: 117

No, it is not possible you should love the enemy of France, Kate; but in loving me, you should love the friend of France; for I love France so well that I will not part with a village of it; I will have it all mine. And, Kate, when France is mine and I am yours, then yours is France and you are mine.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 498

So bring us to our palace, where we’ll show
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.1: 72

Come, go with us, we’ll bring thee to our crews,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.1: 73

And show thee all the treasure we have got;