Comparison of William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing 3.1 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing 3.1 has 116 lines, and 26% of them have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14 in William Shakespeare. 74% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.4 weak matches.

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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 1

Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor,
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Tempest 5.1: 98

There shalt thou find the mariners asleep [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 2

There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.4: 1

Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire her to rise.
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Tempest 5.1: 98

[continues previous] There shalt thou find the mariners asleep
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Henry IV Part 1 2.2: 30

Sirrah Jack, thy horse stands behind the hedge; when thou need’st him, there thou shalt find him. Farewell, and stand fast.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 3

Proposing with the Prince and Claudio.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 45

Here comes the Prince and Claudio hastily. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.4: 2

So are the Prince and Claudio, who accus’d her [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 4

Whisper her ear, and tell her I and Ursley
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 44

[continues previous] And all of them that thus dishonor her.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.4: 2

[continues previous] So are the Prince and Claudio, who accus’d her
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 103

And then to dinner. You are passing welcome, [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 5

Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 102

[continues previous] We will go walk a little in the orchard,
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 103

[continues previous] And then to dinner. You are passing welcome,
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 21

Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter
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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: 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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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 24

For look where Beatrice like a lapwing runs
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Hamlet 5.2: 125

This lapwing runs away with the shell on his head.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 37

That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely?
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King Lear 1.2: 55

To his father, that so tenderly and entirely loves him. Heaven and earth! Edmund, seek him out; wind me into him, I pray you. Frame the business after your own wisdom. I would unstate myself to be in a due resolution.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 47

O god of love! I know he doth deserve
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Merchant of Venice 2.7: 31

As much as I deserve! Why, that’s the lady. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 48

As much as may be yielded to a man;
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Merchant of Venice 2.7: 31

[continues previous] As much as I deserve! Why, that’s the lady.
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Venus and Adonis: 608

She hath assay’d as much as may be prov’d.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 51

Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,
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Sonnet 9: 8

By children’s eyes, her husband’s shape in mind. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 52

Misprising what they look on, and her wit
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Sonnet 9: 9

[continues previous] Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 68

So turns she every man the wrong side out,
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King Lear 4.2: 10

And told me I had turn’d the wrong side out.
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Othello 2.3: 33

Whom love hath turn’d almost the wrong side out,
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 74

But who dare tell her so? If I should speak,
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Cardenio 4.3: 4

I fear nothing but the whorish ghost of a queen I kept once. She swore she would so haunt me I should never pray in quiet for her, and I have kept myself from [continues next]
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Sir Thomas More 4.1: 26

The youngest should speak first, so, if I chance
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 75

She would mock me into air; O, she would laugh me
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Cardenio 4.3: 4

[continues previous] I fear nothing but the whorish ghost of a queen I kept once. She swore she would so haunt me I should never pray in quiet for her, and I have kept myself from
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 79

It were a better death than die with mocks,
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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 their ill report while you live.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 80

Which is as bad as die with tickling.
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Coriolanus 2.2: 5

... love or no, he wav’d indifferently ’twixt doing them neither good nor harm; but he seeks their hate with greater devotion than they can render it him, and leaves nothing undone that may fully discover him their opposite. Now, to seem to affect the malice and displeasure of the people is as bad as that which he dislikes, to flatter them for their love.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 84

And truly I’ll devise some honest slanders
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Edward III 2.1: 418

Hath he no means to stain my honest blood, [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 85

To stain my cousin with. One doth not know
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Edward III 2.1: 418

[continues previous] Hath he no means to stain my honest blood,
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 570

Indeed brother-in-law was the farthest off you could have been to him, and then your blood had been the dearer by I know how much an ounce. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 86

How much an ill word may empoison liking.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 570

[continues previous] Indeed brother-in-law was the farthest off you could have been to him, and then your blood had been the dearer by I know how much an ounce.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 88

She cannot be so much without true judgment —
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Rape of Lucrece: 1534

“It cannot be,” quoth she, “that so much guile” —
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 91

So rare a gentleman as Signior Benedick.
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 48

Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her presence.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 98

Indeed he hath an excellent good name.
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 20

You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it. He is a very valiant trencherman, he hath an excellent stomach.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 103

Which is the best to furnish me tomorrow.
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Romeo and Juliet 4.2: 33

As you think fit to furnish me tomorrow?
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 104

She’s limed, I warrant you. We have caught her, madam.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.1: 87

If it please me, madam, what then? [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 105

If it prove so, then loving goes by haps:
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.1: 86

[continues previous] And if it please you, so; if not, why, so.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.1: 87

[continues previous] If it please me, madam, what then?
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 108

Stand I condemn’d for pride and scorn so much?
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Troilus and Cressida 3.3: 220

In time of action. I stand condemn’d for this;
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 111

And, Benedick, love on, I will requite thee,
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Henry V 3.6: 28

Speak, captain, for his life, and I will thee requite.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 113

If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 129

If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,
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Henry VI Part 2 1.2: 17

O Nell, sweet Nell, if thou dost love thy lord,
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Richard III 4.4: 259

That thou dost love my daughter from thy soul;
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Othello 3.3: 115

Some horrible conceit. If thou dost love me,
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Romeo and Juliet 2.2: 94

If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully;
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 115

For others say thou dost deserve, and I
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Merchant of Venice 2.7: 27

Thou dost deserve enough, and yet enough