Comparison of William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing 2.3 to William Shakespeare
Summary
William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing 2.3 has 105 lines, and 6% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in William Shakespeare. 46% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 48% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.1 strong matches and 2.29 weak matches.
Much Ado About Nothing 2.3
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William Shakespeare
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 261
Away! We’ll none on’t. Here has been too much homely foolery already. I know, sir, we weary you. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 5
I know that, but I would have thee hence, and here again. I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love, will, after he hath laugh’d at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling in love — and such a man is Claudio. I have known when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife, and now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe; I have known when he would have walk’d ten mile afoot to see a good armor, and now will he lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet; he was wont to speak plain and to the purpose (like an honest man and a soldier), and now is he turn’d orthography — his words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not. I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster, but I’ll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that’s certain; wise, or I’ll none; virtuous, or I’ll never cheapen her; fair, or I’ll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall be of what color it please God. Hah! The Prince and Monsieur Love. I will hide me in the arbor.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.3: 15
Thou’rt a good boy. This secrecy of thine shall be a tailor to thee, and shall make thee a new doublet and hose. I’ll go hide me.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 47
That shows thou art unconfirm’d. Thou knowest that the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a cloak, is nothing to a man.
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Twelfth Night 4.2: 2
Well, I’ll put it on, and I will dissemble myself in’t, and I would I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown. I am not tall enough to become the function well, nor lean enough to be thought a good studient; but to be said an honest man and a good house-keeper goes as fairly as to say a careful man and a great scholar. The competitors enter.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 181
O master! If you did but hear the pedlar at the door, you would never dance again after a tabor and pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you. He sings several tunes faster than you’ll tell money; he utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men’s ears grew to his tunes.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 261
[continues previous] Away! We’ll none on’t. Here has been too much homely foolery already. I know, sir, we weary you.
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Hamlet 2.2: 220
No such matter. I will not sort you with the rest of my servants; for to speak to you like an honest man, I am most dreadfully attended. But in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?
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Henry IV Part 2 3.2: 80
’Fore God, a likely fellow! Come prick Bullcalf till he roar again. [continues next]
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Sir Thomas More 5.4: 59
and do it instantly. I confess, his majesty hath been ever good to me; and my offense to his highness makes me of a state pleader a stage player (though I am old, and have a bad voice), to act this last scene of my tragedy. I’ll send him (for my trespass) a reverend head, somewhat bald; for it is not requisite any head should stand covered to so high majesty. If that content him not, because I think my body will then do me small pleasure, let ... [continues next]
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As You Like It 5.3: 6
Shall we clap into’t roundly, without hawking or spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are the only prologues to a bad voice? [continues next]
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Sir Thomas More 5.4: 59
[continues previous] and do it instantly. I confess, his majesty hath been ever good to me; and my offense to his highness makes me of a state pleader a stage player (though I am old, and have a bad voice), to act this last scene of my tragedy. I’ll send him (for my trespass) a reverend head, somewhat bald; for it is not requisite any head should stand covered to so high majesty. If that content him not, because I think my body will then do me small pleasure, let him ...
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As You Like It 5.3: 6
[continues previous] Shall we clap into’t roundly, without hawking or spitting or saying we are hoarse, which are the only prologues to a bad voice?
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Hamlet 3.1: 117
If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunn’ry, farewell. Or if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunn’ry, go, and quickly too. Farewell.
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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.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.4: 7
By my troth ’s not so good, and I warrant your cousin will say so. [continues next]
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Henry IV Part 1 1.2: 5
No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to be prologue to an egg and butter. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.4: 7
[continues previous] By my troth ’s not so good, and I warrant your cousin will say so.
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Henry IV Part 1 1.2: 5
[continues previous] No, by my troth, not so much as will serve to be prologue to an egg and butter.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 44
And he had been a dog that should have howl’d thus, they would have hang’d him, and I pray God his bad voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the night-raven, come what plague could have come after it.
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As You Like It 1.1: 40
... underhand means labor’d to dissuade him from it; but he is resolute. I’ll tell thee, Charles, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France, full of ambition, an envious emulator of every man’s good parts, a secret and villainous contriver against me his natural brother; therefore use thy discretion — I had as lief thou didst break his neck as his finger. And thou wert best look to’t; for if thou dost him any slight disgrace, or if he do not mightily grace himself on thee, he will practice against thee by poison, entrap thee by some treacherous device, and never leave thee till ...
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As You Like It 3.2: 144
I thank you for your company, but, good faith, I had as lief have been myself alone.
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As You Like It 4.1: 20
Nay, and you be so tardy, come no more in my sight. I had as lief be woo’d of a snail.
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Measure for Measure 1.2: 17
And thou the velvet — thou art good velvet; thou’rt a three-pil’d piece, I warrant thee. I had as lief be a list of an English kersey as be pil’d, as thou art pil’d, for a French velvet. Do I speak feelingly now?
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Measure for Measure 1.2: 77
If I could speak so wisely under an arrest, I would send for certain of my creditors; and yet, to say the truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as the mortality of imprisonment. What’s thy offense, Claudio?
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.1: 35
Got’s will, and his passion of my heart! I had as lief you would tell me of a mess of porridge.
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Taming of the Shrew 1.1: 112
I cannot tell; but I had as lief take her dowry with this condition: to be whipt at the high cross every morning.
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Twelfth Night 3.2: 12
And’t be any way, it must be with valor, for policy I hate. I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician.
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Hamlet 3.2: 2
trippingly on the tongue, but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently, for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness. O, it ...
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 45
Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray thee get us some excellent music; for tomorrow night we would have it at the Lady Hero’s chamber-window.
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Henry IV Part 2 2.4: 27
... him not come here. No, by my faith, I must live among my neighbors; I’ll no swaggerers, I am in good name and fame with the very best. Shut the door, there comes no swaggerers here; I have not liv’d all this while to have swaggering now. Shut the door, I pray you.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 47
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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Measure for Measure 2.1: 124
Come you hither to me, Master Tapster. What’s your name, Master Tapster?
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 152
... noble strain, of approv’d valor, and confirm’d honesty. I will teach you how to humor your cousin, that she shall fall in love with Benedick, and I, with your two helps, will so practice on Benedick that, in despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this, Cupid is no longer an archer; his glory shall be ours, for we are the only love-gods. Go in with me, and I will tell you my drift.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 48
O ay, stalk on, stalk on, the fowl sits. — I did never think that lady would have lov’d any man.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 49
No, nor I neither, but most wonderful that she should so dote on Signior Benedick, whom she hath in all outward behaviors seem’d ever to abhor.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 51
By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to think of it but that she loves him with an enrag’d affection; it is past the infinite of thought.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 1.1: 129
I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruis’d my shin th’ other day with playing at sword and dagger with a master of fence (three veneys for a dish of stew’d prunes) and by my troth, I cannot abide the smell of hot meat since. Why do your dogs bark so? Be there bears i’ th’ town?
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Hamlet 5.2: 91
Exceedingly, my lord, it is very sultry — as ’twere — I cannot tell how. My lord, his Majesty bade me signify to you that ’a has laid a great wager on your head. Sir, this is the matter —
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Troilus and Cressida 5.3: 101
... whoreson rascally tisick so troubles me, and the foolish fortune of this girl, and what one thing, what another, that I shall leave you one a’ th’s days; and I have a rheum in mine eyes too, and such an ache in my bones, that unless a man were curs’d, I cannot tell what to think on’t. What says she there?
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 54
O God! Counterfeit? There was never counterfeit of passion came so near the life of passion as she discovers it.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 59
How, how, I pray you? You amaze me, I would have thought her spirit had been invincible against all assaults of affection.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 65
’Tis true indeed, so your daughter says. “Shall I,” says she, “that have so oft encount’red him with scorn, write to him that I love him?”
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Othello 2.1: 157
He takes her by the palm; ay, well said, whisper. With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio. Ay, smile upon her, do; I will gyve thee in thine own courtship. You say true, ’tis so indeed. If such tricks as these strip you out of your lieutenantry, it had been better you had not kiss’d your three fingers so oft, which now again you are most apt to play the sir in. Very good; well kiss’d! An excellent courtesy! ’Tis so indeed. Yet again, your fingers ...
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 66
This says she now when she is beginning to write to him, for she’ll be up twenty times a night, and there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a sheet of paper. My daughter tells us all.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 3.2: 253
[continues previous] To prove him false that says I love thee not.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 67
Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a pretty jest your daughter told us of. [continues next]
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Twelfth Night 3.2: 16
... it in a martial hand, be curst and brief. It is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and full of invention. Taunt him with the license of ink. If thou thou’st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of paper, although the sheet were big enough for the bed of Ware in England, set ’em down. Go about it. Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. About it. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 67
Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a pretty jest your daughter told us of.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.4: 43
My will? ’Od’s heartlings, that’s a pretty jest indeed! I ne’er made my will yet, I thank heaven. I am not such a sickly creature, I give heaven praise.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 66
[continues previous] This says she now when she is beginning to write to him, for she’ll be up twenty times a night, and there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a sheet of paper. My daughter tells us all.
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Twelfth Night 3.2: 16
[continues previous] ... it in a martial hand, be curst and brief. It is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and full of invention. Taunt him with the license of ink. If thou thou’st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy sheet of paper, although the sheet were big enough for the bed of Ware in England, set ’em down. Go about it. Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. About it.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 70
O, she tore the letter into a thousand half-pence; rail’d at herself, that she should be so immodest to write to one that she knew would flout her. “I measure him,” says she, “by my own spirit, for I should flout him, if he writ to me, yea, though I love him, I should.”
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 71
Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs, beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses: “O sweet Benedick! God give me patience!”
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 75
And he should, it were an alms to hang him. She’s an excellent sweet lady, and (out of all suspicion) she is virtuous.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 78
O my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so tender a body, we have ten proofs to one that blood hath the victory. I am sorry for her, as I have just cause, being her uncle and her guardian.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 143
[continues previous] O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married, they would talk themselves mad.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 90
And so will he do, for the man doth fear God, howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests he will make. Well, I am sorry for your niece. Shall we go seek Benedick, and tell him of her love?
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.1: 257
As strange as the thing I know not. It were as possible for me to say I lov’d nothing so well as you, but believe me not; and yet I lie not: I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 79
I would she had bestow’d this dotage on me, I would have daff’d all other respects, and made her half myself. I pray you tell Benedick of it, and hear what ’a will say.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 81
Hero thinks surely she will die, for she says she will die if he love her not, and she will die ere she make her love known, and she will die if he woo her, rather than she will bate one breath of her accustom’d crossness.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 97
... of this from Hero; they seem to pity the lady. It seems her affections have their full bent. Love me? Why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censur’d; they say I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive the love come from her; they say too that she will rather die than give any sign of affection. I did never think to marry. I must not seem proud; happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 82
She doth well. If she should make tender of her love, ’tis very possible he’ll scorn it, for the man (as you know all) hath a contemptible spirit.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.1: 10
[continues previous] Ay, by my beard, will we, for he is a proper man.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 90
And so will he do, for the man doth fear God, howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests he will make. Well, I am sorry for your niece. Shall we go seek Benedick, and tell him of her love?
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 78
O my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so tender a body, we have ten proofs to one that blood hath the victory. I am sorry for her, as I have just cause, being her uncle and her guardian.
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.1: 257
As strange as the thing I know not. It were as possible for me to say I lov’d nothing so well as you, but believe me not; and yet I lie not: I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 93
Well, we will hear further of it by your daughter, let it cool the while. I love Benedick well, and I could wish he would modestly examine himself, to see how much he is unworthy so good a lady.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 25
The revellers are ent’ring, brother, make good room. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 95
If he do not dote on her upon this, I will never trust my expectation.
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.3: 54
I will never trust a man again for keeping his sword clean, nor believe he can have every thing in him by wearing his apparel neatly.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 97
This can be no trick: the conference was sadly borne; they have the truth of this from Hero; they seem to pity the lady. It seems her affections have their full bent. Love me? Why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censur’d; they say I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive the love come from her; they say too that she will rather die than give any sign of affection. I did never think to marry. I must not seem proud; happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 81
Hero thinks surely she will die, for she says she will die if he love her not, and she will die ere she make her love known, and she will die if he woo her, rather than she will bate one breath of her accustom’d crossness.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.2: 34
So much for praising myself, who I myself will bear witness is praiseworthy. And now tell me, how doth your cousin?
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 98
They say the lady is fair; ’tis a truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; ’tis so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her. I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have rail’d so long against marriage; but doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 99
Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humor? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day, she’s a fair lady. I do spy some marks of love in her.
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Merchant of Venice 3.1: 42
Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turkis, I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.4: 15
... me say, “saving your reverence, a husband.” And bad thinking do not wrest true speaking, I’ll offend nobody. Is there any harm in “the heavier for a husband”? None, I think, and it be the right husband and the right wife; otherwise ’tis light, and not heavy. Ask my Lady Beatrice else, here she comes.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.2: 26
Suffer love! A good epithite! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.2: 27
In spite of your heart, I think. Alas, poor heart, if you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for yours, for I will never love that which my friend hates. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 105
Ha! “Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner” — there’s a double meaning in that. “I took no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to thank me” — that’s as much as to say, “Any pains that I take for you is as easy as thanks.” If I do not take pity of her, I ... [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.2: 26
[continues previous] Suffer love! A good epithite! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.
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All's Well That Ends Well 1.3: 48
You have discharg’d this honestly, keep it to yourself. Many likelihoods inform’d me of this before, which hung so tott’ring in the balance that I could neither believe nor misdoubt. Pray you leave me. Stall this in your bosom, and I thank you for your honest care. I will speak with you further anon.
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As You Like It 3.2: 144
I thank you for your company, but, good faith, I had as lief have been myself alone.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 105
[continues previous] Ha! “Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner” — there’s a double meaning in that. “I took no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to thank me” — that’s as much as to say, “Any pains that I take for you is as easy as thanks.” If I do not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not love her, I am a Jew. ... [continues next]
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Hamlet 4.5: 64
I hope all will be well. We must be patient, but I cannot choose but weep to think they would lay him i’ th’ cold ground. My brother shall know of it, and so I thank you for your good counsel. Come, my coach! Good night, ladies, good night. Sweet ladies, good night, good night.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 102
I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me. If it had been painful, I would not have come.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 105
[continues previous] Ha! “Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner” — there’s a double meaning in that. “I took no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to thank me” — that’s as much as to say, “Any pains that I take for you is as easy as thanks.” If I do not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture.
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Taming of the Shrew 3.2: 156
[continues previous] Gentlemen and friends, I thank you for your pains.
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 22
Nay, but hark you, Francis: for the sugar thou gavest me, ’twas a pennyworth, was’t not?
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 104
Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knive’s point, and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach, signior, fare you well.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 105
Ha! “Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner” — there’s a double meaning in that. “I took no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to thank me” — that’s as much as to say, “Any pains that I take for you is as easy as thanks.” If I do not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture.
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Comedy of Errors 4.3: 30
Nay, she is worse, she is the devil’s dam, and here she comes in the habit of a light wench; and thereof comes that the wenches say, “God damn me,” that’s as much to say, “God make me a light wench.” It is written, they appear to men like angels of light, light is an effect of fire, and fire will burn: ergo, light wenches will burn. Come not near her.
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Love's Labour's Lost 4.3: 1
... Well, “set thee down, sorrow!” for so they say the fool said, and so say I, and I the fool: well prov’d, wit! By the Lord, this love is as mad as Ajax. It kills sheep; it kills me, I a sheep: well prov’d again a’ my side! I will not love; if I do, hang me; i’ faith, I will not. O but her eye — by this light, but for her eye, I would not love her; yes, for her two eyes. Well, I do nothing in the world but lie, and lie in my throat. By heaven, I do love, and it ...
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 102
I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me. If it had been painful, I would not have come.
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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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Two Gentlemen of Verona 3.1: 288
That’s as much as to say “bastard virtues,” that indeed know not their fathers, and therefore have no names.
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Henry IV Part 2 2.2: 48
Thine, by yea and no, which is as much as to say, as thou usest him, Jack Falstaff with my familiars, John with my brothers and sisters, and Sir John with all Europe.”
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Henry VI Part 2 4.2: 8
True; and yet it is said, labor in thy vocation; which is as much to say as, let the magistrates be laboring men; and therefore should we be magistrates.
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Julius Caesar 3.3: 14
That’s as much as to say, they are fools that marry. You’ll bear me a bang for that, I fear. Proceed directly.
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Romeo and Juliet 2.4: 23
That’s as much as to say, such a case as yours constrains a man to bow in the hams.