Comparison of William Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4 has 80 lines, and 31% of them have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14 in William Shakespeare. 69% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.83 weak matches.

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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 3

Within a quarter of an hour.
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 3

... the Lord, so they call me!), and when I am King of England I shall command all the good lads in Eastcheap. They call drinking deep, dyeing scarlet, and when you breathe in your watering, they cry “hem!” and bid you play it off. To conclude, I am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour, that I can drink with any tinker in his own language during my life. I tell thee, Ned, thou hast lost much honor that thou wert not with me in this action. But, sweet Ned — to sweeten which name of Ned, I give thee this pennyworth of sugar, clapp’d ...
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Henry IV Part 1 3.3: 3

Why, there is it. Come sing me a bawdy song, make me merry. I was as virtuously given as a gentleman need to be, virtuous enough: swore little, dic’d not above seven times — a week, went to a bawdy-house not above once in a quarterof an hour, paid money that I borrow’d — three or four times, liv’d well and in good compass, and now I live out of all order, out of all compass.
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Macbeth 5.1: 13

It is an accustom’d action with her, to seem thus washing her hands. I have known her continue in this a quarter of an hour.
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Macbeth 5.1: 14

Yet here’s a spot.
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Romeo and Juliet 3.1: 10

And I were so apt to quarrel as thou art, any man should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour and a quarter.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 4

Pardon me, wife, henceforth do what thou wilt.
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Edward III 2.2: 118

Play, spend, give, riot, waste, do what thou wilt,
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As You Like It 1.1: 21

And what wilt thou do? Beg, when that is spent? Well, sir, get you in. I will not long be troubled with you; you shall have some part of your will. I pray you leave me.
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Comedy of Errors 4.4: 98

What wilt thou do, thou peevish officer?
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Henry IV Part 2 4.5: 134

What wilt thou do when riot is thy care?
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Henry VI Part 3 3.2: 44

What service wilt thou do me if I give them? [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 3 3.2: 45

What you command that rests in me to do. [continues next]
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King John 4.3: 101

What wilt thou do, renowned Faulconbridge?
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Richard II 5.2: 88

Why, York, what wilt thou do?
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Hamlet 3.4: 21

What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me?
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Hamlet 5.1: 156

Make up my sum. What wilt thou do for her?
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 5

I rather will suspect the sun with cold
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Love's Labour's Lost 3.1: 18

[continues previous] And out of heart, master; all those three I will prove.
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Twelfth Night 2.3: 81

[continues previous] I will drop in his way some obscure epistles of love, wherein by the color of his beard, the shape of his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure of his eye, forehead, and complexion, he shall find himself most feelingly personated. I can write very like my lady your ...
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Henry VI Part 3 3.2: 44

[continues previous] What service wilt thou do me if I give them?
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 8

As firm as faith. ’Tis well, ’tis well, no more.
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Hamlet 2.2: 348

Look whe’er he has not turn’d his color and has tears in ’s eyes. Prithee no more.
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Hamlet 2.2: 349

’Tis well, I’ll have thee speak out the rest of this soon. Good my lord, will you see the players well bestow’d? Do you hear, let them be well us’d, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time. After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than ...
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Troilus and Cressida 5.2: 94

Well, well, ’tis done, ’tis past. And yet it is not;
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 15

How? To send him word they’ll meet him in the park at midnight? Fie, fie, he’ll never come.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.1: 4

How now, Master Brook? Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight, or never. Be you in the park about midnight, at Herne’s oak, and you shall see wonders. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 16

You say he has been thrown in the rivers, and has been grievously peaten as an old oman. Methinks there should be terrors in him that he should not come; methinks his flesh is punish’d, he shall have no desires.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.1: 4

[continues previous] How now, Master Brook? Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight, or never. Be you in the park about midnight, at Herne’s oak, and you shall see wonders.
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Antony and Cleopatra 2.6: 107

I think so too. But you shall find the band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity. Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 18

Devise but how you’ll use him when he comes,
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Antony and Cleopatra 2.6: 107

[continues previous] I think so too. But you shall find the band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity. Octavia is of a holy, cold, and still conversation.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 20

There is an old tale goes, that Herne the Hunter
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 30

This tale of Herne the Hunter for a truth. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5: 10

I bequeath your husbands. Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like Herne the hunter? Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience, he makes restitution. As I am a true spirit, welcome! [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5: 54

Our dance of custom, round about the oak
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5: 55

Of Herne the hunter, let us not forget.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5: 83

Will none but Herne the hunter serve your turn?
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Winter's Tale 5.2: 7

Here comes the Lady Paulina’s steward, he can deliver you more. How goes it now, sir? This news, which is call’d true, is so like an old tale, that the verity of it is in strong suspicion. Has the King found his heir?
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 21

(Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest)
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 30

[continues previous] This tale of Herne the Hunter for a truth.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5: 10

[continues previous] I bequeath your husbands. Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like Herne the hunter? Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience, he makes restitution. As I am a true spirit, welcome!
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 22

Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.1: 4

How now, Master Brook? Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight, or never. Be you in the park about midnight, at Herne’s oak, and you shall see wonders. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 23

Walk round about an oak, with great ragg’d horns,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.1: 4

[continues previous] How now, Master Brook? Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight, or never. Be you in the park about midnight, at Herne’s oak, and you shall see wonders.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 30

This tale of Herne the Hunter for a truth.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 20

There is an old tale goes, that Herne the Hunter
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 21

(Sometime a keeper here in Windsor forest)
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5: 10

I bequeath your husbands. Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like Herne the hunter? Why, now is Cupid a child of conscience, he makes restitution. As I am a true spirit, welcome!
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5: 54

Our dance of custom, round about the oak
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5: 55

Of Herne the hunter, let us not forget.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5: 83

Will none but Herne the hunter serve your turn?
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 32

In deep of night to walk by this Herne’s oak.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.6: 17

Tonight at Herne’s oak, just ’twixt twelve and one,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.1: 4

How now, Master Brook? Master Brook, the matter will be known tonight, or never. Be you in the park about midnight, at Herne’s oak, and you shall see wonders.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.3: 6

They are all couch’d in a pit hard by Herne’s oak, with obscur’d lights; which, at the very instant of Falstaff’s and our meeting, they will at once display to the night.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 35

Disguis’d like Herne, with huge horns on his head.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 5.1: 216

He should have worn the horns on his head.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 16

No, but to the gate, and there will the devil meet me like an old cuckold with horns on his head, and say, “Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven, here’s no place for you maids.” So deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter. For the heavens, he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 37

And in this shape when you have brought him thither,
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Antony and Cleopatra 4.15: 9

His guard have brought him thither. O sun,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 42

Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies, green and white,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5: 16

Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
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Funeral Elegy: 393

Wash'd white in blood, from earth hence have not gone [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 43

With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads,
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Funeral Elegy: 392

[continues previous] Who sit with crowns of glory on their heads,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 54

Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5: 78

Pinch him, fairies, mutually!
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5: 79

Pinch him for his villainy!
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.5: 80

Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 59

I will teach the children their behaviors; and I will be like a jack-an-apes also, to burn the knight with my taber.
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Henry V 5.2: 115

... by vauting into my saddle with my armor on my back, under the correction of bragging be it spoken, I should quickly leap into a wife. Or if I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher, and sit like a jack-an-apes, never off. But, before God, Kate, I cannot look greenly, nor gasp out my eloquence, nor I have no cunning in protestation; only downright oaths, which I never use till urg’d, nor never break for urging. If thou canst love a fellow of this temper, Kate, whose face is not ...
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 63

That silk will I go buy.
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As You Like It 1.1: 20

... like a peasant, obscuring and hiding from me all gentleman-like qualities. The spirit of my father grows strong in me, and I will no longer endure it; therefore allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or give me the poor allottery my father left me by testament, with that I will go buy my fortunes.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 1.1: 29

Here is Got’s plessing, and your friend, and Justice Shallow, and here young Master Slender, that peradventures shall tell you another tale, if matters grow to your likings. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 65

Shall Master Slender steal my Nan away,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 1.1: 29

[continues previous] Here is Got’s plessing, and your friend, and Justice Shallow, and here young Master Slender, that peradventures shall tell you another tale, if matters grow to your likings.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 72

Go, Mistress Ford,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.3: 22

Mistress Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate, Mistress Ford. Now shall I sin in my wish: I would thy husband were dead. I’ll speak it before the best lord, I would make thee my lady. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.5: 5

Here’s Mistress Quickly, sir, to speak with you. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.2: 33

Go, go, sweet Sir John. Mistress Page and I will look some linen for your head. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 73

Send Quickly to Sir John, to know his mind.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.5: 5

[continues previous] Here’s Mistress Quickly, sir, to speak with you.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.2: 33

[continues previous] Go, go, sweet Sir John. Mistress Page and I will look some linen for your head.
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Henry V 2.1: 71

As ever you come of women, come in quickly to Sir John. Ah, poor heart! He is so shak’d of a burning quotidian tertian, that it is most lamentable to behold. Sweet men, come to him.