Comparison of William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing 2.1 to Geoffrey Chaucer
Summary
William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing 2.1 has 152 lines, and 3% of them have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14 in Geoffrey Chaucer. 97% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.05 weak matches.
Much Ado About Nothing 2.1
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 14
What should I do with him? Dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him; therefore I will even take sixpence in earnest of the berrord, and lead his apes into hell.
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Melibee's Tale: 46
Forther-more, ye knowen wel that, after the comune sawe, "it is a woodnesse a man to stryve with a strenger or a more mighty man than he is him-self; and for to stryve with a man of evene strengthe, that is to seyn, with as strong a man as he, it is peril; and for to stryve with a weyker man, it is folie." And therfore sholde a man flee stryvinge as muchel as he mighte. For Salomon seith: "it ...
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 42
And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is done! Answer, clerk.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 61
Why, he is the Prince’s jester, a very dull fool; only his gift is in devising impossible slanders. None but libertines delight in him, and the commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy, for he both pleases men and angers them, and then they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in the fleet; I would he had boarded me.