Comparison of William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing 3.3 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing 3.3 has 68 lines, and 12% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in William Shakespeare. 40% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 48% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.16 strong matches and 1.46 weak matches.

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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 1

Are you good men and true?
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Taming of the Shrew 4.5: 70

But is this true, or is it else your pleasure, [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 2

Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer salvation, body and soul.
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Taming of the Shrew 4.5: 70

[continues previous] But is this true, or is it else your pleasure,
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 6

Hugh Oatcake, sir, or George Seacole, for they can write and read.
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Two Noble Kinsmen 5.2: 57

Alas, that’s nothing. Can he write and read too?
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Henry VI Part 2 4.2: 42

The clerk of Chatham. He can write and read and cast accompt.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 8

Both which, Master Constable —
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.2: 22

Master Constable —
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 9

You have: I knew it would be your answer. Well, for your favor, sir, why, give God thanks, and make no boast of it, and for your writing and reading, let that appear when there is no need of such vanity. You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch; therefore bear you the lanthorn. This is your charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are to bid any man stand, in the Prince’s name.
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As You Like It 2.5: 19

And I have been all this day to avoid him. He is too disputable for my company. I think of as many matters as he, but I give heaven thanks, and make no boast of them. Come, warble, come.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 60

We charge you, in the Prince’s name, stand!
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 61

Call up the right Master Constable. We have here recover’d the most dangerous piece of lechery that ever was known in the commonwealth.
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.2: 19

Yea, marry, that’s the eftest way; let the watch come forth. Masters, I charge you in the Prince’s name accuse these men.
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Henry IV Part 2 4.1: 95

There is no need of any such redress,
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Richard III 3.7: 166

But God be thank’d, there is no need of me,
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Romeo and Juliet 3.1: 5

Thou art like one of these fellows that, when he enters the confines of a tavern, claps me his sword upon the table, and says, “God send me no need of thee!” and by the operation of the second cup draws him on the drawer, when indeed there is no need.
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Romeo and Juliet 3.1: 98

I charge thee in the Prince’s name, obey.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 11

Why then take no note of him, but let him go, and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.
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Sir Thomas More 5.2: 21

Let us entreat ye to go call together
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Sir Thomas More 5.2: 22

The rest of your sad fellows (by the rule
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Winter's Tale 1.2: 35

But let him say so then, and let him go;
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Winter's Tale 1.2: 36

But let him swear so, and he shall not stay,
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Julius Caesar 3.1: 27

Where is Metellus Cimber? Let him go
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Julius Caesar 3.1: 28

And presently prefer his suit to Caesar.
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Romeo and Juliet 1.5: 63

Therefore be patient, take no note of him;
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 12

If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none of the Prince’s subjects.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 13

True, and they are to meddle with none but the Prince’s subjects. You shall also make no noise in the streets; for, for the watch to babble and to talk, is most tolerable, and not to be endur’d. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 13

True, and they are to meddle with none but the Prince’s subjects. You shall also make no noise in the streets; for, for the watch to babble and to talk, is most tolerable, and not to be endur’d.
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Merchant of Venice 5.1: 3

And they did make no noise, in such a night
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 12

[continues previous] If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none of the Prince’s subjects.
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Henry VI Part 1 1.4: 57

I grieve to hear what torments you endur’d, [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 1 1.4: 58

But we will be reveng’d sufficiently. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 14

We will rather sleep than talk, we know what belongs to a watch.
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Tempest 4.1: 217

O, ho, monster! We know what belongs to a frippery. O King Stephano!
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Henry VI Part 1 1.4: 58

[continues previous] But we will be reveng’d sufficiently.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 19

If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by virtue of your office, to be no true man; and for such kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them, why, the more is for your honesty.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 1.4: 49

You jack’nape, give-a this letter to Sir Hugh. By gar, it is a shallenge. I will cut his troat in de park; and I will teach a scurvy jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make — You may be gone; it is not good you tarry here. By gar, I will cut all his two stones; by gar, he shall not have a stone to throw at his dog.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 20

If we know him to be a thief, shall we not lay hands on him?
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Cardenio 5.2: 139

How’s that? I charge you all, lay hands on him.
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Cymbeline 5.3: 91

Had answer’d him. Lay hands on him; a dog!
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 6

Marry, sir, he hath offended the law; and, sir, we take him to be a thief too, sir, for we have found upon him, sir, a strange picklock, which we have sent to the deputy.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 21

Truly by your office you may, but I think they that touch pitch will be defil’d. The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is, and steal out of your company.
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Julius Caesar 2.1: 263

Of the dank morning? What, is Brutus sick?
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Julius Caesar 2.1: 264

And will he steal out of his wholesome bed
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 27

’Tis very true.
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Henry VIII 2.1: 40

The Cardinal is the end of this. ’Tis likely, [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 28

This is the end of the charge: you, constable, are to present the Prince’s own person. If you meet the Prince in the night, you may stay him.
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Henry VIII 2.1: 40

[continues previous] The Cardinal is the end of this. ’Tis likely,
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 29

Nay, by’r lady, that I think ’a cannot.
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Cardenio 5.1: 75

By’r lady, I think oftener.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 31

By’r lady, I think it be so.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.4: 38

Moral? No, by my troth I have no moral meaning, I meant plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance that I think you are in love. Nay, by’r lady, I am not such a fool to think what I list, nor I list not to think what I can, nor indeed I cannot think, if I would think my heart out of thinking, that you are in love, or that you will be in love, or that you can ...
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 31

By’r lady, I think it be so.
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Cardenio 5.1: 75

By’r lady, I think oftener.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 29

Nay, by’r lady, that I think ’a cannot.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.4: 38

Moral? No, by my troth I have no moral meaning, I meant plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance that I think you are in love. Nay, by’r lady, I am not such a fool to think what I list, nor I list not to think what I can, nor indeed I cannot think, if I would think my heart out of thinking, that you are in love, or that you will be in love, or that you can be ...
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Tempest 2.1: 31

Though this island seem to be desert — [continues next]
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Tempest 2.1: 33

So: you’re paid! [continues next]
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 159

A goodly portly man, i’ faith, and a corpulent, of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage, and as I think, his age some fifty, or, by’r lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff. If that man should be lewdly given, he deceiveth me; for, Harry, I see virtue in his looks. If then the tree may be known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree, then peremptorily I speak ...
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Henry IV Part 2 5.3: 58

By’r lady, I think ’a be, but goodman Puff of Barson.
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Henry VIII 1.2: 186

Should have gone off. Ha? What, so rank? Ah ha, [continues next]
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Othello 3.3: 74

To bring him in! By’r lady, I could do much —
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 32

Ha, ah ha! Well, masters, good night. And there be any matter of weight chances, call up me. Keep your fellows’ counsels and your own, and good night. Come, neighbor.
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Henry VIII 1.2: 186

[continues previous] Should have gone off. Ha? What, so rank? Ah ha,
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Romeo and Juliet 3.4: 19

Monday! Ha, ha! Well, We’n’sday is too soon,
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 33

Well, masters, we hear our charge. Let us go sit here upon the church-bench till two, and then all to bed.
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Julius Caesar 4.1: 45

And let us presently go sit in council,
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Titus Andronicus 1.1: 273

Thanks, sweet Lavinia. Romans, let us go;
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Titus Andronicus 1.1: 274

Ransomless here we set our prisoners free.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 34

One word more, honest neighbors. I pray you watch about Signior Leonato’s door, for the wedding being there tomorrow, there is a great coil tonight. Adieu! Be vigitant, I beseech you.
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Comedy of Errors 3.1: 48

What a coil is there, Dromio?
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Hamlet 4.5: 65

Follow her close, give her good watch, I pray you.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 43

Therefore know I have earn’d of Don John a thousand ducats.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.2: 15

Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put it in practice. Be cunning in the working this, and thy fee is a thousand ducats. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.2: 25

Marry, that he had receiv’d a thousand ducats of Don John for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 44

Is it possible that any villainy should be so dear?
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.2: 15

[continues previous] Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put it in practice. Be cunning in the working this, and thy fee is a thousand ducats.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 45

Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any villainy should be so rich; for when rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 45

Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any villainy should be so rich; for when rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
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Cardenio 1.1: 105

If it were possible to be less than nothing, I wake the man you seek for. There’s the kingdom Within yon valley fixed, while I stand here
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Cardenio 3.1: 182

If it were possible, ten thousand worlds
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Cymbeline 5.5: 151

I had rather thou shouldst live while nature will
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 44

[continues previous] Is it possible that any villainy should be so dear?
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Merchant of Venice 3.3: 8

The Duke shall grant me justice. I do wonder, [continues next]
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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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Edward III 4.1: 19

Villiers, thou knowest, thou art my prisoner,
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Merchant of Venice 3.3: 9

[continues previous] Thou naughty jailer, that thou art so fond
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 5

... 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 ...
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Henry IV Part 1 3.3: 56

Why, Hal! Thou knowest, as thou art but man, I dare, but as thou art Prince, I fear thee as I fear the roaring of the lion’s whelp.
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Troilus and Cressida 2.3: 20

Thy knower, Patroclus. Then tell me, Patroclus, what art thou?
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Troilus and Cressida 2.3: 21

Thou must tell that knowest.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 51

Tush, I may as well say the fool’s the fool. But seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion is?
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 52

I know that Deformed; ’a has been a vile thief this seven year; ’a goes up and down like a gentleman. I remember his name. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 55

Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is, how giddily ’a turns about all the hot-bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirch’d worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club? [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 52

I know that Deformed; ’a has been a vile thief this seven year; ’a goes up and down like a gentleman. I remember his name.
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Cymbeline 2.1: 8

I am not vex’d more at any thing in th’ earth; a pox on’t! I had rather not be so noble as I am. They dare not fight with me because of the Queen my mother. Every Jack slave hath his bellyful of fighting, and I must go up and down like a cock that nobody can match.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 51

[continues previous] Tush, I may as well say the fool’s the fool. But seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion is?
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 55

[continues previous] Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is, how giddily ’a turns about all the hot-bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirch’d worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as ...
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Timon of Athens 2.2: 86

A fool in good clothes, and something like thee. ’Tis a spirit; sometime’t appears like a lord, sometime like a lawyer, sometime like a philosopher, with two stones more than ’s artificial one. He is very often like a knight; and, generally, in all shapes that man goes up and down in from fourscore to thirteen, this spirit walks in.
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Troilus and Cressida 3.3: 245

Ajax goes up and down the field, asking for himself.
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Troilus and Cressida 3.3: 249

Why, ’a stalks up and down like a peacock — a stride and a stand; ruminates like an hostess that hath no arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning; bites his lip with a politic regard, as who should say there were wit in this head and ’twould out — and so there is; but it ...
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 53

Didst thou not hear somebody?
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Henry VI Part 3 5.5: 74

Didst thou not hear me swear I would not do it?
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Julius Caesar 5.3: 85

And bid me give it thee? Didst thou not hear their shouts?
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Macbeth 2.2: 14

I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 55

Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this fashion is, how giddily ’a turns about all the hot-bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty, sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reechy painting, sometime like god Bel’s priests in the old church-window, sometime like the shaven Hercules in the smirch’d worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 51

Tush, I may as well say the fool’s the fool. But seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion is?
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 52

I know that Deformed; ’a has been a vile thief this seven year; ’a goes up and down like a gentleman. I remember his name.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 56

All this I see, and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 19

Thy death, which is no more. Thou art not thyself,
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 57

Not so neither, but know that I have tonight woo’d Margaret, the Lady Hero’s gentlewoman, by the name of Hero. She leans me out at her mistress’ chamber-window, bids me a thousand times good night — I tell this tale vildly, I should first tell thee how the Prince, Claudio, and my master, planted and plac’d and possess’d by my master Don John, saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.2: 8

I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night, appoint her to look out at her lady’s chamber-window.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.2: 14

... your brother’s honor, who hath made this match, and his friend’s reputation, who is thus like to be cozen’d with the semblance of a maid — that you have discover’d thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial. Offer them instances, which shall bear no less likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window, hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me Claudio; and bring them to see this the very night, before the intended wedding — for in the mean time I will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be absent — and there shall appear such seeming truth of Hero’s ...
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 59

Two of them did, the Prince and Claudio, but the devil my master knew she was Margaret; and partly by his oaths, which first possess’d them, partly by the dark night, which did deceive them, but chiefly by my villainy, which did confirm any slander that Don John had made, away went Claudio enrag’d; swore he would meet her as he was appointed ...
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Twelfth Night 5.1: 223

Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.3: 6

Sir Eglamour, a thousand times good morrow.
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Romeo and Juliet 2.2: 153

Tomorrow will I send. So thrive my soul
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Romeo and Juliet 2.2: 154

A thousand times good night!
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Romeo and Juliet 2.2: 155

A thousand times the worse, to want thy light.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 59

Two of them did, the Prince and Claudio, but the devil my master knew she was Margaret; and partly by his oaths, which first possess’d them, partly by the dark night, which did deceive them, but chiefly by my villainy, which did confirm any slander that Don John had made, away went Claudio enrag’d; swore he would meet her as he was appointed next morning at the temple, and there, before the whole congregation, shame her with what he saw o’ernight, and send her home again without a husband.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 57

Not so neither, but know that I have tonight woo’d Margaret, the Lady Hero’s gentlewoman, by the name of Hero. She leans me out at her mistress’ chamber-window, bids me a thousand times good night — I tell this tale vildly, I should first tell thee how the Prince, Claudio, and my master, planted and plac’d and possess’d by my master Don John, saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter.
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.2: 20

This man said, sir, that Don John, the Prince’s brother, was a villain. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.2: 39

Madam, you must come to your uncle, yonder’s old coil at home. It is prov’d my Lady Hero hath been falsely accus’d, the Prince and Claudio mightily abus’d, and Don John is the author of all, who is fled and gone. Will you come presently?
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.4: 26

From Claudio, and the Prince. But what’s your will?
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Pericles 4.2: 53

Ay, he, he offer’d to cut a caper at the proclamation, but he made a groan at it, and swore he would see her tomorrow.
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Pericles 4.2: 54

Well, well, as for him, he brought his disease hither; here he does but repair it. I know he will come in our shadow, to scatter his crowns in the sun.
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Henry V 4.7: 65

And’t please your Majesty, a rascal that swagger’d with me last night; who if alive and ever dare to challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box a’ th’ ear; or if I can see my glove in his cap, which he swore, as he was a soldier, he would wear if alive, I will strike it out soundly.
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Romeo and Juliet 2.2: 106

Which the dark night hath so discovered.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 60

We charge you, in the Prince’s name, stand!
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 9

... let that appear when there is no need of such vanity. You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch; therefore bear you the lanthorn. This is your charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are to bid any man stand, in the Prince’s name. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.2: 19

[continues previous] Yea, marry, that’s the eftest way; let the watch come forth. Masters, I charge you in the Prince’s name accuse these men.
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Henry V 1.2: 23

We charge you, in the name of God, take heed;
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Henry VI Part 3 3.1: 97

We charge you, in God’s name and the King’s,
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Romeo and Juliet 3.1: 98

I charge thee in the Prince’s name, obey.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 61

Call up the right Master Constable. We have here recover’d the most dangerous piece of lechery that ever was known in the commonwealth.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 9

[continues previous] ... appear when there is no need of such vanity. You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man for the constable of the watch; therefore bear you the lanthorn. This is your charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are to bid any man stand, in the Prince’s name.
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Othello 5.2: 241

Which I have here recover’d from the Moor.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 62

And one Deformed is one of them; I know him, ’a wears a lock.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 223

Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call me ass. I beseech you let it be rememb’red in his punishment. And also, the watch heard them talk of one Deformed. They say he wears a key in his ear and a lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God’s name, the which he hath us’d so long and never paid that now men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing for God’s sake.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.3: 64

You’ll be made bring Deformed forth, I warrant you.
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Tempest 3.2: 70

Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant,
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Tempest 3.2: 71

And bring thee forth brave brood.