Comparison of William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing 5.1 to William Shakespeare
Summary
William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing 5.1 has 235 lines, and 2% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in William Shakespeare. 44% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 54% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.02 strong matches and 1.32 weak matches.
Much Ado About Nothing 5.1
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Hamlet 5.1: 46
... land, with his statutes, his recognizances, his fines, his double vouchers, his recoveries. Is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? Will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures? The very conveyances of his lands will scarcely lie in this box, and must th’ inheritor himself have no more, ha?
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.5: 25
And shall do so ever, though I took him at ’s prayers. Fare you well, my lord, and believe this of me: there can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them tame, and know their natures. Farewell, monsieur, I have spoken better of you than you ... [continues next]
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.3: 129
Good captain, will you give me a copy of the sonnet you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count Roussillion? And I were not a very coward, I’d compel it of you, but fare you well. [continues next]
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.3: 130
You are undone, captain, all but your scarf; that has a knot on’t yet. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.2: 144
Such sense that my sense breeds with it. — Fare you well. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.2: 28
Well, fare you well. We shall have the freer wooing at Master Page’s.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.5: 25
My lord, they stay for you to give your daughter to her husband. [continues next]
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Hamlet 2.2: 190
You cannot take from me any thing that I will not more willingly part withal — except my life, except my life, except my life.
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.5: 25
[continues previous] And shall do so ever, though I took him at ’s prayers. Fare you well, my lord, and believe this of me: there can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes. Trust him not in matter of heavy consequence; I have kept of them tame, and know their natures. Farewell, monsieur, I have spoken better of ...
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.3: 129
[continues previous] Good captain, will you give me a copy of the sonnet you writ to Diana in behalf of the Count Roussillion? And I were not a very coward, I’d compel it of you, but fare you well.
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.3: 130
[continues previous] You are undone, captain, all but your scarf; that has a knot on’t yet.
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Measure for Measure 2.2: 144
[continues previous] Such sense that my sense breeds with it. — Fare you well.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 68
Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart, [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 182
[continues previous] Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill’d
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King Lear 4.6: 86
Nature’s above art in that respect. There’s your press-money. That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper; draw me a clothier’s yard. Look, look, a mouse! Peace, peace, this piece of toasted cheese will do’t. There’s my gauntlet, I’ll prove it on a giant. Bring up the brown bills. O, well flown, bird! I’ th’ clout, i’ th’ clout — hewgh! Give the word. [continues next]
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King Lear 4.6: 86
[continues previous] Nature’s above art in that respect. There’s your press-money. That fellow handles his bow like a crow-keeper; draw me a clothier’s yard. Look, look, a mouse! Peace, peace, this piece of toasted cheese will do’t. There’s my gauntlet, I’ll prove it on a giant. Bring up the brown bills. O, well flown, bird! I’ th’ clout, i’ th’ clout — hewgh! Give the word.
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Henry V 5.2: 127
... created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better; and therefore tell me, most fair Katherine, will you have me? Put off your maiden blushes, avouch the thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress, take me by the hand, and say, ... [continues next]
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Henry V 5.2: 127
[continues previous] ... a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is, that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst; and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better; and therefore tell me, most fair Katherine, will you have me? Put off your maiden blushes, avouch the thoughts of your heart with the looks of an empress, take me by the hand, and say, ...
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Coriolanus 2.3: 13
Are you all resolv’d to give your voices? But that’s no matter, the greater part carries it, I say. If he would incline to the people, there was never a worthier man.
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Love's Labour's Lost 1.1: 204
“So it is, besieged with sable-colored melancholy, I did commend the black oppressing humor to the most wholesome physic of thy health-giving air; and as I am a gentleman, betook myself to walk: the time When? About the sixt hour, when beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper: so much for the time When. Now for the ground Which? Which, I mean, I walk’d upon: it is ycliped thy ...
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Merry Wives of Windsor 2.2: 83
Master Brook, I will first make bold with your money; next, give me your hand; and last, as I am a gentleman, you shall, and you will, enjoy Ford’s wife.
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Twelfth Night 4.2: 39
Good fool, as ever thou wilt deserve well at my hand, help me to a candle, and pen, ink, and paper. As I am a gentleman, I will live to be thankful to thee for’t.
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.2: 4
As the event stamps them, but they have a good cover; they show well outward. The Prince and Count Claudio, walking in a thick-pleach’d alley in mine orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine. The Prince discover’d to Claudio that he lov’d my niece your daughter, and meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance; and if he found her accordant, he meant to take the present time by the top, and instantly break with you of it.
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 36
My lord, old Sir John with half a dozen more are at the door, shall I let them in?
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Henry IV Part 2 3.2: 34
Fie, this is hot weather, gentlemen. Have you provided me here half a dozen sufficient men?
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Hamlet 5.1: 69
Why, because ’a was mad. ’A shall recover his wits there, or if ’a do not, ’tis no great matter there. [continues next]
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Hamlet 5.1: 69
[continues previous] Why, because ’a was mad. ’A shall recover his wits there, or if ’a do not, ’tis no great matter there.
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Henry IV Part 2 5.5: 69
[continues previous] I cannot now speak, I will hear you soon. Take them away.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 116
Leonato and his brother. What think’st thou? Had we fought, I doubt we should have been too young for them.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 117
In a false quarrel there is no true valor. I came to seek you both.
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Merchant of Venice 3.1: 23
Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house, and desires to speak with you both. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 118
We have been up and down to seek thee, for we are high-proof melancholy, and would fain have it beaten away. Wilt thou use thy wit?
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 147
... head at so long a breathing, but I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us. I will in the interim undertake one of Hercules’ labors, which is, to bring Signior Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection th’ one with th’ other. I would fain have it a match, and I doubt not but to fashion it, if you three will but minister such assistance as I shall give you direction.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 121
Never any did so, though very many have been beside their wit. I will bid thee draw, as we do the minstrels, draw to pleasure us.
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Sir Thomas More 1.1: 3
Purchase of me? Away, ye rascal! I am an honest plain carpenters wife, and though I have no beauty to like a husband, yet whatsoever is mine scorns to stoop to a stranger. Hand off, then, when I bid thee!
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Henry IV Part 1 3.3: 40
I am no thing to thank God on, I would thou shouldst know it. I am an honest man’s wife, and setting thy knighthood aside, thou art a knave to call me so.
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 23
I pray you, sir, then set your knighthood and your soldiership aside, and give me leave to tell you you lie in your throat if you say I am any other than an honest man.
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 24
I give thee leave to tell me so? I lay aside that which grows to me? If thou get’st any leave of me, hang me; if thou tak’st leave, thou wert better be hang’d. You hunt counter, hence, avaunt!
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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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Othello 2.3: 220
As I am an honest man, I had thought you had receiv’d some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser. What, man, there ...
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 123
What, courage, man! What though care kill’d a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.
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Henry V 4.8: 31
By this day and this light, the fellow has mettle enough in his belly. Hold, there is twelvepence for you, and I pray you to serve God, and keep you out of prawls and prabbles, and quarrels and dissensions, and I warrant you it is the better for you.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 124
Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career, and you charge it against me. I pray you choose another subject.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 126
By this light, he changes more and more. I think he be angry indeed.
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.2: 15
A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you, but I will go about with him. Come you hither, sirrah; a word in your ear, sir. I say to you, it is thought you are false knaves.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 130
You are a villain. I jest not; I will make it good how you dare, with what you dare, and when you dare. Do me right; or I will protest your cowardice. You have kill’d a sweet lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you. Let me hear from you.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 148
... boy, you know my mind. I will leave you now to your gossip-like humor. You break jests as braggards do their blades, which, God be thank’d, hurt not. My lord, for your many courtesies I thank you. I must discontinue your company. Your brother the bastard is fled from Messina. You have among you kill’d a sweet and innocent lady. For my Lord Lack-beard there, he and I shall meet, and till then peace be with him.
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Henry V 2.3: 7
... after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his finger’s end, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and ’a babbl’d of green fields. “How now, Sir John?” quoth I, “what, man? Be a’ good cheer.” So ’a cried out, “God, God, God!” three or four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him ’a should not think of God; I hop’d there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So ’a bade me lay more clothes on his feet. I put ... [continues next]
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Henry V 2.3: 7
[continues previous] ... o’ th’ tide; for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his finger’s end, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and ’a babbl’d of green fields. “How now, Sir John?” quoth I, “what, man? Be a’ good cheer.” So ’a cried out, “God, God, God!” three or four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him ’a should not think of God; I hop’d there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So ’a bade me lay more clothes on his feet. I put my hand ... [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 133
I’ faith, I thank him, he hath bid me to a calve’s-head and a capon, the which if I do not carve most curiously, say my knife’s naught. Shall I not find a woodcock too?
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Henry V 2.3: 7
[continues previous] ... turning o’ th’ tide; for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his finger’s end, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and ’a babbl’d of green fields. “How now, Sir John?” quoth I, “what, man? Be a’ good cheer.” So ’a cried out, “God, God, God!” three or four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him ’a should not think of God; I hop’d there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So ’a bade me lay more ...
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 33
Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 34
I know it well, sir; you have an exchequer of words and, I think, no other treasure to give your followers; for it appears by their bare liveries that they live by your bare words.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 137
“True,” said she, “a fine little one.” “No,” said I, “a great wit.” “Right,” says she,
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 138
“a great gross one.” “Nay,” said I, “a good wit.” “Just,” said she, “it hurts nobody.”
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 140
said I, “he hath the tongues.” “That I believe,” said she, “for he swore a thing to me on Monday night, which he forswore on Tuesday morning.
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Henry IV Part 1 1.2: 8
Thou sayest well, and it holds well too, for the fortune of us that are the moon’s men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being govern’d, as the sea is, by the moon. As, for proof, now: a purse of gold most resolutely snatch’d on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with swearing “Lay by,” and spent with crying “Bring in”; now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder, and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 144
Yea, that she did, but yet for all that, and if she did not hate him deadly, she would love him dearly. The old man’s daughter told us all.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 146
But when shall we set the savage bull’s horns on the sensible Benedick’s head?
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 101
The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull’s horns, and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted, and in such great letters as they write “Here is good horse to hire,” let them signify under my sign, “Here you may see Benedick the married man.” [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 101
[continues previous] ... may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull’s horns, and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted, and in such great letters as they write “Here is good horse to hire,” let them signify under my sign, “Here you may see Benedick the married man.”
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 148
Fare you well, boy, you know my mind. I will leave you now to your gossip-like humor. You break jests as braggards do their blades, which, God be thank’d, hurt not. My lord, for your many courtesies I thank you. I must discontinue your company. Your brother the bastard is fled from Messina. You have among you kill’d a sweet and innocent lady. For my Lord Lack-beard there, he and I shall meet, and till then peace be with him.
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 109
Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither. Ere you flout old ends any further, examine your conscience, and so I leave you.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 130
You are a villain. I jest not; I will make it good how you dare, with what you dare, and when you dare. Do me right; or I will protest your cowardice. You have kill’d a sweet lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you. Let me hear from you.
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Henry IV Part 2 3.2: 123
These fellows woll do well, Master Shallow. God keep you, Master Silence, I will not use many words with you. Fare you well, gentlemen both, I thank you. I must a dozen mile tonight. Bardolph, give the soldiers coats.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 153
What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!
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As You Like It 2.4: 3
I could find in my heart to disgrace my man’s apparel and to cry like a woman; but I must comfort the weaker vessel, as doublet and hose ought to show itself courageous to petticoat; therefore courage, good Aliena.
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As You Like It 3.2: 117
Good my complexion, dost thou think, though I am caparison’d like a man, I have a doublet and hose in my disposition? One inch of delay more is a South-sea of discovery. I prithee tell me who is it quickly, and speak apace. I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightst pour this conceal’d man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out of a narrow-mouth’d bottle, either too much ...
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As You Like It 3.2: 127
Alas the day, what shall I do with my doublet and hose? What did he when thou saw’st him? What said he? How look’d he?
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As You Like It 4.1: 83
You have simply misus’d our sex in your love-prate. We must have your doublet and hose pluck’d over your head, and show the world what the bird hath done to her own nest.
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As You Like It 5.4: 55
He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.1: 27
And youthful still, in your doublet and hose, this raw rheumatic day?
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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 5.1: 154
He is then a giant to an ape, but then is an ape a doctor to such a man.
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As You Like It 5.4: 55
[continues previous] He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 156
Come you, sir. If justice cannot tame you, she shall ne’er weigh more reasons in her balance. Nay, and you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be look’d to.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 160
Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixt and lastly, they have belied a lady;
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 162
First, I ask thee what they have done; thirdly, I ask thee what’s their offense; sixt and lastly, why they are committed; and to conclude, what you lay to their charge.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 161
thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and to conclude, they are lying knaves.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 162
First, I ask thee what they have done; thirdly, I ask thee what’s their offense; sixt and lastly, why they are committed; and to conclude, what you lay to their charge.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 160
Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixt and lastly, they have belied a lady;
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 164
Who have you offended, masters, that you are thus bound to your answer? This learned constable is too cunning to be understood. What’s your offense?
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 165
Sweet Prince, let me go no farther to mine answer: do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have deceiv’d even your very eyes.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 163
... itself. I do make myself believe that you may most uprighteously do a poor wrong’d lady a merited benefit; redeem your brother from the angry law; do no stain to your own gracious person; and much please the absent Duke, if peradventure he shall ever return to have hearing of this business.
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Measure for Measure 3.1: 164
Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do any thing that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 166
What your wisdoms could not discover, these shallow fools have brought to light, who in the night overheard me confessing to this man how Don John your brother incens’d me to slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into the orchard, and saw me court Margaret in Hero’s garments, how you disgrac’d her when you should marry her.
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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.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 167
My villainy they have upon record, which I had rather seal with my death than repeat over to my shame. The lady is dead upon mine and my master’s false accusation; and briefly, I desire nothing but the reward of a villain.
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Double Falsehood 1.2: 146
Chase! — let chase alone; no matter for that. You may halt after her, whom you profess to pursue, and catch her too; marry, not unless your father let you slip. — Briefly, I desire you, (for she tells me, my instructions shall be both eyes and feet to her) no farther to insist in your requiring, ’till, as I have formerly said, Camillo make known to me, that his good liking goes along with us; which but once breath’d, all is done; ’till when, ...
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Sir Thomas More 5.4: 66
O, my death? I had rather it were in thy power to forgive me, for thou hast the sharpest action against me; the law, my honest friend, lies in thy hands now. Here’s thy fee;
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 176
Come, bring away the plaintiffs. By this time our sexton hath reform’d Signior Leonato of the matter; and, masters, do not forget to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an ass.
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.3: 78
There’s one grape yet; I am sure thy father drunk wine — but if thou be’st not an ass, I am a youth of fourteen. I have known thee already.
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Comedy of Errors 4.4: 25
I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have serv’d him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me with ...
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Much Ado About Nothing 4.2: 40
But, masters, remember that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 177
Here, here comes Master Signior Leonato, and the sexton too. [continues next]
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Twelfth Night 5.1: 13
Marry, sir, they praise me, and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, and by my friends I am abus’d; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then the worse for my friends and the better for my foes.
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Measure for Measure 1.2: 61
Here comes Signior Claudio, led by the Provost to prison; and there’s Madam Juliet.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 176
[continues previous] Come, bring away the plaintiffs. By this time our sexton hath reform’d Signior Leonato of the matter; and, masters, do not forget to specify, when time and place shall serve, that I am an ass.
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 168
Swearest thou, ungracious boy? Henceforth ne’er look on me. Thou art violently carried away from grace, there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man, a tun of man is thy companion. Why dost thou converse with that trunk of humors, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swoll’n parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of ... [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 68
Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart, [continues next]
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 168
[continues previous] Swearest thou, ungracious boy? Henceforth ne’er look on me. Thou art violently carried away from grace, there is a devil haunts thee in the likeness of an old fat man, a tun of man is thy companion. Why dost thou converse with that trunk of humors, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swoll’n parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that ...
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Henry IV Part 2 Epilogue: 1
... to say is of mine own making, and what indeed (I should say) will (I doubt) prove mine own marring. But to the purpose, and so to the venture. Be it known to you, as it is very well, I was lately here in the end of a displeasing play, to pray your patience for it and to promise you a better. I meant indeed to pay you with this, which if like an ill venture it come unluckily home, I break, and you, my gentle creditors, lose. Here I promis’d you I would be, and here I commit my body to your mercies. ...
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 230
... an arrant knave with your worship, which I beseech your worship to correct yourself, for the example of others. God keep your worship! I wish your worship well. God restore you to health! I humbly give you leave to depart, and if a merry meeting may be wish’d, God prohibit it! Come, neighbor. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.3: 92
Let’s go in, gentlemen, but (trust me) we’ll mock him. I do invite you tomorrow morning to my house to breakfast; after, we’ll a-birding together. I have a fine hawk for the bush. Shall it be so?
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 230
[continues previous] ... arrant knave with your worship, which I beseech your worship to correct yourself, for the example of others. God keep your worship! I wish your worship well. God restore you to health! I humbly give you leave to depart, and if a merry meeting may be wish’d, God prohibit it! Come, neighbor.
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Timon of Athens 3.3: 27
Excellent! Your lordship’s a goodly villain. The devil knew not what he did when he made man politic; he cross’d himself by’t; and I cannot think but, in the end, the villainies of man will set him clear. How fairly this lord strives to appear foul! Takes virtuous copies to be wicked; like those that under hot ardent zeal would set whole realms on ...
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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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All's Well That Ends Well 4.3: 67
... be i’ th’ camp, a Frenchman; what his reputation is with the Duke; what his valor, honesty, and expertness in wars; or whether he thinks it were not possible with well-weighing sums of gold to corrupt him to a revolt.” What say you to this? What do you know of it?
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.3: 68
I beseech you let me answer to the particular of the inter’gatories. Demand them singly.
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Measure for Measure 4.4: 6
Well; I beseech you let it be proclaim’d betimes i’ th’ morn. I’ll call you at your house. Give notice to such men of sort and suit as are to meet him.
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Winter's Tale 5.2: 21
Now, had I not the dash of my former life in me, would preferment drop on my head. I brought the old man and his son aboard the Prince; told him I heard them talk of a fardel, and I know not what; but he at that time, overfond of the shepherd’s daughter (so he then took her to be), who began to be much sea-sick, and himself little better, extremity of weather continuing, this mystery remain’d undiscover’d. But ’tis all one to me; for had ...
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As You Like It 1.1: 40
Charles, I thank thee for thy love to me, which thou shalt find I will most kindly requite. I had myself notice of my brother’s purpose herein, and have by 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 ...
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 226
Your worship speaks like a most thankful and reverent youth, and I praise God for you.
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Love's Labour's Lost 5.1: 2
I praise God for you, sir. Your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious: pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange without heresy. I did converse this quondam day with a companion of the King’s, who is intituled, nominated, or called, Don Adriano de Armado.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.4: 76
Give my sweet Nan this ring. There’s for thy pains. [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.4: 76
[continues previous] Give my sweet Nan this ring. There’s for thy pains.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 230
I leave an arrant knave with your worship, which I beseech your worship to correct yourself, for the example of others. God keep your worship! I wish your worship well. God restore you to health! I humbly give you leave to depart, and if a merry meeting may be wish’d, God prohibit it! Come, neighbor.
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As You Like It 1.1: 41
I am heartily glad I came hither to you. If he come tomorrow, I’ll give him his payment. If ever he go alone again, I’ll never wrastle for prize more. And so God keep your worship!
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Henry IV Part 2 2.1: 16
Yonder he comes, and that arrant malmsey-nose knave, Bardolph, with him. Do your offices, do your offices, Master Fang and Master Snare, do me, do me, do me your offices.
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Henry IV Part 2 5.1: 17
There is many complaints, Davy, against that Visor. That Visor is an arrant knave, on my knowledge.
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Henry IV Part 2 5.1: 18
I grant your worship that he is a knave, sir; but yet God forbid, sir, but a knave should have some countenance at his friend’s request. An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not. I have serv’d your worship truly, sir, this eight years; and I cannot once or twice in a quarter bear out a knave against an honest man, I have little credit with your worship. The knave is mine honest friend, sir, therefore I beseech you let him be countenanc’d.
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Henry V 4.8: 17
Your Majesty hear now, saving your Majesty’s manhood, what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy knave it is. I hope your Majesty is pear me testimony and witness, and will avouchment, that this is the glove of Alanson that your Majesty is give me, in your conscience now.