Comparison of William Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1 has 251 lines, and 28% of them have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14 in William Shakespeare. 72% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.54 weak matches.

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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 1

Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour
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Measure for Measure 4.3: 40

Dispatch it presently, the hour draws on [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.3: 12

The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak! [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 2

Draws on apace. Four happy days bring in
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Measure for Measure 4.3: 40

[continues previous] Dispatch it presently, the hour draws on
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Merry Wives of Windsor 5.3: 12

[continues previous] The hour draws on. To the oak, to the oak!
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 4

This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires,
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Double Falsehood 5.1: 39

That, like a villain, murders my desires? [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 5

Like to a step-dame, or a dowager,
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Double Falsehood 5.1: 39

[continues previous] That, like a villain, murders my desires?
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Double Falsehood 5.1: 40

[continues previous] Or should I drink that wine, and think it cordial,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 7

Four days will quickly steep themselves in night;
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Sonnet 153: 3

And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep
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Sonnet 153: 4

In a cold valley-fountain of that ground;
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 17

And won thy love doing thee injuries;
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Sonnet 88: 10

For bending all my loving thoughts on thee, [continues next]
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Sonnet 88: 11

The injuries that to myself I do, [continues next]
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Sonnet 88: 12

Doing thee vantage, double-vantage me. [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 18

But I will wed thee in another key,
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Sonnet 88: 11

[continues previous] The injuries that to myself I do,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 21

Thanks, good Egeus. What’s the news with thee?
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Measure for Measure 1.2: 44

How now? What’s the news with you?
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Measure for Measure 4.3: 14

How now, Abhorson? What’s the news with you?
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Coriolanus 5.4: 16

They’ll give him death by inches. What’s the news?
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Coriolanus 5.4: 17

Good news, good news! The ladies have prevail’d,
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Hamlet 1.2: 42

And now, Laertes, what’s the news with you?
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Othello 3.4: 99

How now, good Cassio, what’s the news with you?
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Othello 4.1: 169

And what’s the news, good cousin Lodovico?
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 26

Stand forth, Lysander. And, my gracious Duke,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 38

To stubborn harshness. And, my gracious Duke,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 38

To stubborn harshness. And, my gracious Duke,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 26

Stand forth, Lysander. And, my gracious Duke,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 52

Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.
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Henry IV Part 1 3.1: 163

In faith, he is a worthy gentleman,
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Romeo and Juliet 3.5: 144

Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought [continues next]
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Romeo and Juliet 3.5: 145

So worthy a gentleman to be her bride? [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 53

So is Lysander. In himself he is;
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Romeo and Juliet 3.5: 144

[continues previous] Unworthy as she is, that we have wrought
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Romeo and Juliet 3.5: 145

[continues previous] So worthy a gentleman to be her bride?
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 56

I would my father look’d but with my eyes.
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Sonnet 106: 11

And for they look’d but with divining eyes,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 58

I do entreat your Grace to pardon me.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 133

No, my lord, unless I might have another for working-days. Your Grace is too costly to wear every day. But I beseech your Grace pardon me, I was born to speak all mirth and no matter. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.4: 66

If you be she, I do entreat your patience
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.4: 67

To hear me speak the message I am sent on.
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Richard II 5.2: 60

I do beseech your Grace to pardon me. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 102

Her husband, knave. Wouldst thou betray me? [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 103

I do beseech your Grace to pardon me, and withal [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 104

Forbear your conference with the noble Duke. [continues next]
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Richard III 3.7: 106

I do beseech your Grace to pardon me, [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 59

I know not by what power I am made bold,
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Sir Thomas More 4.2: 2

Troth, son, I know not what; I am not sick,
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 133

[continues previous] No, my lord, unless I might have another for working-days. Your Grace is too costly to wear every day. But I beseech your Grace pardon me, I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
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Richard II 5.2: 60

[continues previous] I do beseech your Grace to pardon me.
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Richard III 1.1: 103

[continues previous] I do beseech your Grace to pardon me, and withal
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Richard III 3.7: 106

[continues previous] I do beseech your Grace to pardon me,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 62

But I beseech your Grace that I may know
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Cardenio 4.3: 24

I beseech your grace,
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As You Like It 1.2: 90

Yes, I beseech your Grace, I am not yet well breath’d.
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Cymbeline 1.5: 6

But I beseech your Grace, without offense
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Love's Labour's Lost 4.3: 170

I beseech your Grace let this letter be read:
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 133

No, my lord, unless I might have another for working-days. Your Grace is too costly to wear every day. But I beseech your Grace pardon me, I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
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Henry IV Part 1 5.5: 23

The Douglas is; and I beseech your Grace
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Henry IV Part 1 5.5: 24

I may dispose of him. With all my heart.
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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 ...
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Richard II 2.3: 115

And, noble uncle, I beseech your Grace
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 63

The worst that may befall me in this case,
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Julius Caesar 5.1: 97

Let’s reason with the worst that may befall.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 64

If I refuse to wed Demetrius.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 88

Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would, [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 65

Either to die the death, or to abjure
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 88

[continues previous] Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 69

Whether (if you yield not to your father’s choice)
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Richard III 3.7: 208

I cannot nor I will not yield to you.
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Richard III 3.7: 209

If you refuse it — as, in love and zeal,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 79

So will I grow, so live, so die, my lord,
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Timon of Athens 4.3: 352

Long live so, and so die. I am quit.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 87

For disobedience to your father’s will,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 118

To fit your fancies to your father’s will; [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 88

Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 64

If I refuse to wed Demetrius.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 65

Either to die the death, or to abjure
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 118

[continues previous] To fit your fancies to your father’s will;
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 119

[continues previous] Or else the law of Athens yields you up
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 91

Relent, sweet Hermia, and, Lysander, yield
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Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1: 189

Where is Lysander and fair Hermia?
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 99

I am, my lord, as well deriv’d as he,
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Twelfth Night 4.2: 51

Good fool, help me to some light and some paper. I tell thee I am as well in my wits as any man in Illyria.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 105

Why should not I then prosecute my right?
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Henry VI Part 2 4.10: 12

I know thee not, why then should I betray thee?
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 108

And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 109

Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry, [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 109

Devoutly dotes, dotes in idolatry,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 108

[continues previous] And won her soul; and she, sweet lady, dotes,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 111

I must confess that I have heard so much,
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Antony and Cleopatra 2.6: 67

Then so much have I heard; [continues next]
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Antony and Cleopatra 2.6: 68

And I have heard, Apollodorus carried — [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 112

And with Demetrius thought to have spoke thereof;
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Antony and Cleopatra 2.6: 68

[continues previous] And I have heard, Apollodorus carried —
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 114

My mind did lose it. But, Demetrius, come,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 123

Demetrius and Egeus, go along; [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 115

And come, Egeus, you shall go with me;
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.5: 34

Some private speech with you. I shall obey his will. [continues next]
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Romeo and Juliet 1.1: 76

You, Capulet, shall go along with me,
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Romeo and Juliet 1.1: 77

And, Montague, come you this afternoon,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 116

I have some private schooling for you both.
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.5: 34

[continues previous] Some private speech with you. I shall obey his will.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 117

For you, fair Hermia, look you arm yourself
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Coriolanus 3.2: 138

Away, the tribunes do attend you. Arm yourself [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 118

To fit your fancies to your father’s will;
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 87

For disobedience to your father’s will, [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 88

Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would, [continues next]
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Coriolanus 3.2: 139

[continues previous] To answer mildly; for they are prepar’d
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 119

Or else the law of Athens yields you up
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 88

[continues previous] Or else to wed Demetrius, as he would,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 120

(Which by no means we may extenuate)
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Pericles 2.5: 6

Which from her by no means can I get.
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Pericles 2.5: 7

May we not get access to her, my lord?
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 123

Demetrius and Egeus, go along;
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 114

My mind did lose it. But, Demetrius, come,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 115

And come, Egeus, you shall go with me;
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Julius Caesar 2.4: 38

Speak to great Caesar as he comes along. [continues next]
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Julius Caesar 2.4: 39

I must go in. Ay me! How weak a thing [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 124

I must employ you in some business
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Julius Caesar 2.4: 39

[continues previous] I must go in. Ay me! How weak a thing
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 129

How chance the roses there do fade so fast?
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Sonnet 54: 10

They live unwoo’d, and unrespected fade,
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Sonnet 54: 11

Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 132

Ay me! For aught that I could ever read,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 133

Could ever hear by tale or history, [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 133

Could ever hear by tale or history,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 132

[continues previous] Ay me! For aught that I could ever read,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 136

O cross! Too high to be enthrall’d to low.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 138

O spite! Too old to be engag’d to young. [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 137

Or else misgraffed in respect of years —
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 139

[continues previous] Or else it stood upon the choice of friends —
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 138

O spite! Too old to be engag’d to young.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 136

O cross! Too high to be enthrall’d to low. [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 139

Or else it stood upon the choice of friends —
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 137

[continues previous] Or else misgraffed in respect of years —
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 163

Cannot pursue us. If thou lovest me, then
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Taming of the Shrew 4.3: 50

Eat it up all, Hortensio, if thou lovest me.
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Sonnet 136: 14

And then thou lovest me, for my name is Will.
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Julius Caesar 5.3: 14

They are, my lord. Titinius, if thou lovest me,
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Julius Caesar 5.3: 15

Mount thou my horse, and hide thy spurs in him
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 164

Steal forth thy father’s house tomorrow night;
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.2: 47

Some of your French crowns have no hair at all; and then you will play barefac’d. But, masters, here are your parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by tomorrow night; and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse; for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogg’d with company, and our devices known. In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants. ... [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 165

And in the wood, a league without the town
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.2: 47

[continues previous] Some of your French crowns have no hair at all; and then you will play barefac’d. But, masters, here are your parts, and I am to entreat you, request you, and desire you, to con them by tomorrow night; and meet me in the palace wood, a mile without the town, by moonlight; there will we rehearse; for if we meet in the city, we shall be dogg’d with company, and our devices known. In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties, such as our play wants. I pray you fail me not.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 166

(Where I did meet thee once with Helena
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Merchant of Venice 5.1: 245

I never more will break an oath with thee.
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Merchant of Venice 5.1: 246

I once did lend my body for his wealth,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 171

By the simplicity of Venus’ doves,
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Rape of Lucrece: 58

From Venus’ doves, doth challenge that fair field;
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 178

Tomorrow truly will I meet with thee.
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Troilus and Cressida 5.2: 70

I will not meet with you tomorrow night.
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Troilus and Cressida 5.2: 71

I prithee, Diomed, visit me no more.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 180

God speed fair Helena! Whither away?
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Romeo and Juliet 1.2: 60

... and his wife and daughters; County Anselme and his beauteous sisters; the lady widow of Vitruvio; Signior Placentio and his lovely nieces; Mercutio and his brother Valentine; mine uncle Capulet, his wife, and daughters; my fair niece Rosaline, and Livia; Signior Valentio and his cousin Tybalt; Lucio and the lively Helena.”
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Romeo and Juliet 1.2: 61

A fair assembly. Whither should they come?
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 183

Your eyes are lodestars, and your tongue’s sweet air
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 189

My tongue should catch your tongue’s sweet melody.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 185

When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.3: 28

What made me love thee? Let that persuade thee there’s something extraordinary in thee. Come, I cannot cog and say thou art this and that, like a many of these lisping hawthorn buds, that come like women in men’s apparel, and smell like Bucklersbury in simple time — I cannot; but I love thee, none but thee; and thou deserv’st it.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 189

My tongue should catch your tongue’s sweet melody.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 183

Your eyes are lodestars, and your tongue’s sweet air
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 191

The rest I’ll give to be to you translated.
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Titus Andronicus 5.3: 70

O, let me teach you how to knit again [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 192

O, teach me how you look, and with what art
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Merchant of Venice 4.1: 425

You teach me how a beggar should be answer’d.
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Richard III 1.2: 225

But since you teach me how to flatter you,
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Rape of Lucrece: 1653

O, teach me how to make mine own excuse,
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Romeo and Juliet 1.1: 203

O, teach me how I should forget to think.
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Titus Andronicus 5.3: 70

[continues previous] O, let me teach you how to knit again
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 200

His folly, Helena, is no fault of mine.
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Love's Labour's Lost 4.3: 48

If broken then, it is no fault of mine:
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Passionate Pilgrim: 40

If broken, then it is no fault of mine.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 202

Take comfort; he no more shall see my face;
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 217

There my Lysander and myself shall meet; [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 203

Lysander and myself will fly this place.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 217

[continues previous] There my Lysander and myself shall meet;
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 208

Helen, to you our minds we will unfold:
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Julius Caesar 4.3: 230

Early tomorrow will we rise, and hence. [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 209

Tomorrow night, when Phoebe doth behold
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Julius Caesar 4.3: 229

[continues previous] There is no more to say? No more. Good night.
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Julius Caesar 4.3: 230

[continues previous] Early tomorrow will we rise, and hence.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 217

There my Lysander and myself shall meet;
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 202

Take comfort; he no more shall see my face;
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 203

Lysander and myself will fly this place.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 225

As you on him, Demetrius dote on you!
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Hamlet 3.4: 124

Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look? [continues next]
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Hamlet 3.4: 125

On him, on him! Look you how pale he glares! [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 226

How happy some o’er other some can be!
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Hamlet 3.4: 125

[continues previous] On him, on him! Look you how pale he glares!
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 227

Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 3.2: 274

I am as fair now as I was erewhile.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 235

And therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.
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Romeo and Juliet 2.5: 8

And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings. [continues next]
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Romeo and Juliet 2.5: 9

Now is the sun upon the highmost hill [continues next]
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 236

Nor hath Love’s mind of any judgment taste;
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Romeo and Juliet 2.5: 8

[continues previous] And therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 242

For ere Demetrius look’d on Hermia’s eyne,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 2.2: 99

Made me compare with Hermia’s sphery eyne!
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Midsummer Night's Dream 2.2: 100

But who is here? Lysander! On the ground?