Comparison of William Shakespeare Merchant of Venice 1.2 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare Merchant of Venice 1.2 has 42 lines, and 45% of them have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14 in William Shakespeare. 55% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 1.57 weak matches.

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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 2

You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are; and yet for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. It is no mean happiness therefore to be seated in the mean: superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.
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Cardenio 4.1: 27

You say We’re weak; but the best wits on you all Are glad of our advice, for aught I see, And hardly thrive without us.
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Cardenio 5.1: 28

Nay, good sweet madam,
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Cardenio 5.1: 29

You would not think how much this passion alters you. It drinks up all the beauty of your cheek;
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Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 22

Nay, ’tis no matter, sir, what he ’leges in Latin. If this be not a lawful cause for me to leave his service, look you, sir. He bid me knock him and rap him soundly, sir. Well, was it fit for a servant to use his master so, being perhaps (for aught I see) two and thirty, a peep out?
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Henry VI Part 1 1.4: 68

For aught I see, this city must be famish’d,
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Sonnet 71: 7

That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot,
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Sonnet 71: 8

If thinking on me then should make you woe.
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 9

so is the will of a living daughter curb’d by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard, Nerissa, that I cannot choose one, nor refuse none?
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King John 1.1: 126

My brother might not claim him, nor your father, [continues next]
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King John 1.1: 127

Being none of his, refuse him. This concludes: [continues next]
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 10

Your father was ever virtuous, and holy men at their death have good inspirations; therefore the lott’ry that he hath devis’d
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King John 1.1: 126

[continues previous] My brother might not claim him, nor your father,
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 11

in these three chests of gold, silver, and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning chooses you, will no doubt never be chosen by any rightly but one who you shall rightly love.
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Merchant of Venice 2.9: 20

To my heart’s hope! Gold, silver, and base lead.
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Merchant of Venice 2.9: 21

“Who chooseth me must give and hazard all he hath.”
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 16

that he can shoe him himself. I am much afeard my lady his mother play’d false with a smith.
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.3: 32

I have tonight dispatch’d sixteen businesses, a month’s length a-piece, by an abstract of success: I have congied with the Duke, done my adieu with his nearest; buried a wife, mourn’d for her, writ to my lady mother I am returning, entertain’d my convoy, and between these main parcels of dispatch effected many nicer needs. The last was the greatest, but that I have not ended yet.
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 18

He doth nothing but frown, as who should say, “And you will not have me, choose.” He hears merry tales and smiles not.
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Julius Caesar 1.2: 204

As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music;
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Julius Caesar 1.2: 205

Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 21

How say you by the French lord, Monsieur Le Bon?
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As You Like It 1.2: 34

All the better; we shall be the more marketable. Bon jour, Monsieur Le Beau. What’s the news?
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Henry V 3.4: 7

La main, de hand; les doigts, de fingres. Je pense que je suis le bon écolier; j’ai gagné deux mots d’Anglois vitement. Comment appelez-vous les ongles?
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 28

Very vildly in the morning, when he is sober, and most vildly in the afternoon, when he is drunk. When he is best, he is a little worse than a man, and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. And the worst fall that ever fell, I hope I shall make shift to go without him.
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 54

A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.
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Hamlet 3.3: 89

When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage,
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 29

If he should offer to choose, and choose the right casket, you should refuse to perform your father’s will, if you should refuse to accept him.
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Coriolanus 5.3: 14

The first conditions, which they did refuse
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Coriolanus 5.3: 15

And cannot now accept, to grace him only
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 30

Therefore for fear of the worst, I pray thee set a deep glass of Rhenish wine on the contrary casket, for if the devil be within, and that temptation without, I know he will choose it. I will do any thing, Nerissa, ere I will be married to a spunge.
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Double Falsehood 2.1: 41

This man is certainly mad, and may be mischievous. Prithee, neighbor, let’s follow him; but at some distance, for fear of the worst.
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Taming of the Shrew 4.2: 37

I will be married to a wealthy widow,
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Taming of the Shrew 4.2: 38

Ere three days pass, which hath as long lov’d me
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 31

You need not fear, lady, the having any of these lords. They have acquainted me with their determinations, which is indeed to return to their home, and to trouble you with no more suit, unless you may be won by some other sort than your father’s imposition depending on the caskets.
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Love's Labour's Lost 5.2: 553

... shall please you, a foolish mild man, an honest man, look you, and soon dash’d. He is a marvellous good neighbor, faith, and a very good bowler; but for Alisander — alas, you see how ’tis — a little o’erparted. But there are Worthies a-coming will speak their mind in some other sort.
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Merchant of Venice 3.5: 14

Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo, Launcelot and I are out. He tells me flatly there’s no mercy for me in heaven because I am a Jew’s daughter;
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Tempest 3.3: 43

Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys,
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Winter's Tale 2.2: 57

Having no warrant. You need not fear it, sir.
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Henry IV Part 1 4.4: 21

Why, my good lord, you need not fear,
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Henry VI Part 1 2.3: 27

I’ll sort some other time to visit you.
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Henry VI Part 1 5.2: 17

Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear.
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Venus and Adonis: 1083

Having no fair to lose, you need not fear,
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 33

I am glad this parcel of wooers are so reasonable, for there is not one among them but I dote on his very absence, and I pray God grant them a fair departure.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 1.3: 14

I am glad I am so acquit of this tinderbox; his thefts were too open; his filching was like an unskillful singer, he kept not time.
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 34

Do you not remember, lady, in your father’s time, a Venetian, a scholar and a soldier, that came hither in company of the Marquis of Montferrat?
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 67

Either this is envy in you, folly, or mistaking. The very stream of his life, and the business he hath helm’d, must, upon a warranted need, give him a better proclamation. Let him be but testimonied in his own bringings-forth, and he shall appear to the envious a scholar, a statesman, and a soldier. Therefore you speak unskillfully; or, if your knowledge be more, it is much dark’ned in your malice.
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 36

True, madam; he, of all the men that ever my foolish eyes look’d upon, was the best deserving a fair lady.
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Winter's Tale 4.1: 21

In fair Bohemia, and remember well, [continues next]
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Winter's Tale 4.1: 22

I mentioned a son o’ th’ King’s, which Florizel [continues next]
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Winter's Tale 5.1: 53

I might have look’d upon my queen’s full eyes,
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King Lear 3.3: 6

This seems a fair deserving, and must draw me
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 37

I remember him well, and I remember him worthy of thy praise.
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Winter's Tale 4.1: 21

[continues previous] In fair Bohemia, and remember well,
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Winter's Tale 4.1: 22

[continues previous] I mentioned a son o’ th’ King’s, which Florizel
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 38

How now, what news?
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Sir Thomas More 2.3: 17

How now! What news?
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Sir Thomas More 2.4: 208

How now, Crofts! What news?
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Cymbeline 1.1: 160

Here is your servant. How now, sir? What news?
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Merchant of Venice 3.1: 8

How now, Shylock, what news among the merchants? [continues next]
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Merchant of Venice 3.1: 26

How now, Tubal, what news from Genoa? Hast thou found my daughter?
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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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Twelfth Night 1.1: 22

E’er since pursue me. How now, what news from her?
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Henry IV Part 2 2.4: 151

Peto, how now, what news? [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 2 4.4: 25

How now? What news? Why com’st thou in such haste?
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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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Richard III 4.4: 432

How now? What news?
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Hamlet 4.7: 36

How now? What news? Letters, my lord, from Hamlet:
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King Lear 1.2: 26

Upon the gad? Edmund, how now? What news? [continues next]
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Macbeth 1.7: 28

And falls on th’ other — How now? What news?
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Timon of Athens 1.2: 141

Be worthily entertain’d. How now? What news?
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 39

The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take their leave; and there is a forerunner come from a fift, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the Prince his master will be here tonight.
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.5: 30

It rejoices me, that I hope I shall see him ere I die. I have letters that my son will be here tonight. I shall beseech your lordship to remain with me till they meet together. [continues next]
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Merchant of Venice 3.1: 8

[continues previous] How now, Shylock, what news among the merchants?
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Henry IV Part 2 2.4: 152

[continues previous] The King your father is at Westminster,
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Henry VI Part 3 2.1: 206

[continues previous] The Duke of Norfolk sends you word by me
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King Lear 1.2: 26

[continues previous] Upon the gad? Edmund, how now? What news?
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 40

If I could bid the fift welcome with so good heart as I can bid the other four farewell, I should be glad of his approach. If he have the condition of a saint, and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me.
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.5: 30

[continues previous] It rejoices me, that I hope I shall see him ere I die. I have letters that my son will be here tonight. I shall beseech your lordship to remain with me till they meet together.
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Merchant of Venice 2.5: 32

But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah, [continues next]
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 41

Come, Nerissa. Sirrah, go before.
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Merchant of Venice 2.5: 32

[continues previous] But I will go. Go you before me, sirrah,