Comparison of William Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1 has 131 lines, and one of them has a strong match at magnitude 15+ in William Shakespeare. 32% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 67% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.01 strong matches and 0.94 weak matches.

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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 1

I’ll pheeze you, in faith.
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Comedy of Errors 3.1: 61

What needs all that, and a pair of stocks in the town? [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 2

A pair of stocks, you rogue!
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Comedy of Errors 3.1: 61

[continues previous] What needs all that, and a pair of stocks in the town? [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 3

Y’ are a baggage, the Slys are no rogues. Look in the chronicles; we came in with Richard Conqueror. Therefore paucas pallabris, let the world slide. Sessa!
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Comedy of Errors 3.1: 61

[continues previous] What needs all that, and a pair of stocks in the town?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 5

No, not a denier. Go by, Saint Jeronimy! Go to thy cold bed, and warm thee.
15+

King Lear 3.4: 42

Away, the foul fiend follows me! Through the sharp hawthorn blow the cold winds. Humh, go to thy bed and warm thee.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 7

Third, or fourth, or fifth borough, I’ll answer him by law. I’ll not budge an inch, boy; let him come, and kindly.
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Henry IV Part 2 5.3: 78

Under King Harry. Harry the Fourth, or Fifth?
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Henry IV Part 2 5.3: 79

Harry the Fourth. A foutre for thine office!
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 8

Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds
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Troilus and Cressida 4.4: 121

I charge thee use her well, even for my charge;
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 12

At the hedge-corner, in the coldest fault?
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Henry IV Part 2 5.2: 31

You stand in coldest expectation. [continues next]
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Henry IV Part 2 5.2: 32

I am the sorrier, would ’twere otherwise! [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 13

I would not lose the dog for twenty pound.
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Henry IV Part 2 5.2: 32

[continues previous] I am the sorrier, would ’twere otherwise!
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 14

Why, Belman is as good as he, my lord;
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Henry VI Part 1 3.4: 35

Sirrah, thy lord I honor as he is.
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Henry VI Part 1 3.4: 36

Why, what is he? As good a man as York.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 17

Trust me, I take him for the better dog.
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Romeo and Juliet 1.1: 9

A dog of that house shall move me to stand! I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 18

Thou art a fool; if Echo were as fleet,
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As You Like It 1.3: 59

Thou art a fool; she robs thee of thy name,
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Two Noble Kinsmen 4.1: 41

So sillily, as if she were a fool,
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King John 3.1: 122

And sooth’st up greatness. What a fool art thou,
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King John 3.1: 123

A ramping fool, to brag and stamp and swear
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Richard II 5.2: 68

That he is bound to? Wife, thou art a fool.
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Venus and Adonis: 695

Then do they spend their mouths: echo replies,
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Venus and Adonis: 696

As if another chase were in the skies.
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King Lear 1.4: 105

Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need to care for her frowning, now thou art an O without a figure. I am better than thou art now, I am a Fool, thou art nothing.
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Romeo and Juliet 1.1: 8

[continues previous] To move is to stir, and to be valiant is to stand; therefore, if thou art mov’d, thou run’st away.
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Romeo and Juliet 1.1: 9

[continues previous] A dog of that house shall move me to stand! I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague’s.
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Timon of Athens 1.1: 253

Thou art a fool to bid me farewell twice.
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Timon of Athens 3.1: 19

Ha? Now I see thou art a fool, and fit for thy master.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 25

This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly.
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Henry V 4.1: 147

Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave;
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Julius Caesar 2.1: 4

I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 28

Sirs, I will practice on this drunken man.
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Troilus and Cressida 3.3: 251

What think you of this man that takes me for the general? He’s grown a very land-fish, languageless, a monster. A plague of opinion! A man may wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 29

What think you, if he were convey’d to bed,
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Troilus and Cressida 3.3: 251

[continues previous] What think you of this man that takes me for the general? He’s grown a very land-fish, languageless, a monster. A plague of opinion! A man may wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 34

Believe me, lord, I think he cannot choose.
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Othello 3.3: 38

Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it, [continues next]
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Othello 3.3: 39

That he would steal away so guilty-like, [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 35

It would seem strange unto him when he wak’d.
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Othello 3.3: 38

[continues previous] Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it,
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Othello 3.3: 39

[continues previous] That he would steal away so guilty-like,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 36

Even as a flatt’ring dream or worthless fancy.
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Twelfth Night 4.1: 41

Or I am mad, or else this is a dream.
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Twelfth Night 4.1: 42

Let fancy still my sense in Lethe steep;
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 46

Say, “What is it your honor will command?”
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 108

And say, “What is’t your honor will command,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 109

Wherein your lady, and your humble wife,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 47

Let one attend him with a silver basin
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Timon of Athens 3.1: 4

One of Lord Timon’s men? A gift, I warrant. Why, this hits right; I dreamt of a silver basin and ew’r tonight. — Flaminius, honest Flaminius, you are very respectively welcome, sir. Fill me some wine. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 48

Full of rose-water and bestrew’d with flowers,
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Timon of Athens 3.1: 4

[continues previous] One of Lord Timon’s men? A gift, I warrant. Why, this hits right; I dreamt of a silver basin and ew’r tonight. — Flaminius, honest Flaminius, you are very respectively welcome, sir. Fill me some wine.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 50

And say, “Will’t please your lordship cool your hands?”
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All's Well That Ends Well 3.6: 35

As’t please your lordship. I’ll leave you.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 1.1: 121

Will’t please your worship to come in, sir?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 75

So please your lordship to accept our duty.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 2

Will’t please your lordship drink a cup of sack?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 3

Will’t please your honor taste of these conserves?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 61

Will’t please your mightiness to wash your hands?
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Twelfth Night 2.4: 8

He is not here, so please your lordship, that should sing it.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.3: 52

May’t please your lordship, ’tis a word or two
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 11

Falstaff, and’t please your lordship.
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 29

And’t please your lordship, I hear his Majesty is return’d with some discomfort from Wales.
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 33

This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, and’t please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.
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Henry IV Part 2 4.5: 18

Will’t please your Grace to go along with us?
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Richard II 5.5: 97

What my tongue dares not, that my heart shall say.
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Richard II 5.5: 98

My lord, will’t please you to fall to?
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Richard III 3.2: 97

The better that your lordship please to ask.
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King Lear 1.2: 27

So please your lordship, none.
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King Lear 4.7: 83

Will’t please your Highness walk? You must bear with me.
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Timon of Athens 3.1: 10

Please your lordship, here is the wine.
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Titus Andronicus 5.3: 54

Will’t please you eat? Will’t please your Highness feed?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 61

My lord, I warrant you we will play our part
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 5.4: 163

I warrant you, my lord — more grace than boy.
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Richard III 5.3: 58

I warrant you, my lord.
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Titus Andronicus 2.3: 133

I warrant you, madam, we will make that sure.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 63

He is no less than what we say he is.
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Cymbeline 4.3: 29

Your preparation can affront no less
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Cymbeline 4.3: 30

Than what you hear of. Come more, for more you’re ready;
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 24

It is so indeed, he is no less than a stuff’d man. But for the stuffing — well, we are all mortal.
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Coriolanus 2.3: 126

That as his worthy deeds did claim no less
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Coriolanus 2.3: 127

Than what he stood for, so his gracious nature
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 43

If it please your honor, I am the poor Duke’s constable, and my name is Elbow. I do lean upon justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good honor two notorious benefactors. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 45

If it please your honor, I know not well what they are; but precise villains they are, that I am sure of, and void of all profanation in the world that good Christians ought to have. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 62

Sir, if it please your honor, this is not so. [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 87

A bawd of eleven years’ continuance, may it please your honor. [continues next]
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Henry IV Part 2 1.1: 5

Please it your honor knock but at the gate, [continues next]
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Julius Caesar 4.3: 258

Ay, my lord, an’t please you. It does, my boy. [continues next]
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Timon of Athens 1.2: 137

May it please your honor, Lord Lucius [continues next]
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Timon of Athens 3.2: 10

May it please your honor, my lord hath sent — [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 70

An’t please your honor, players
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 43

[continues previous] If it please your honor, I am the poor Duke’s constable, and my name is Elbow. I do lean upon justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good honor two notorious benefactors.
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 45

[continues previous] If it please your honor, I know not well what they are; but precise villains they are, that I am sure of, and void of all profanation in the world that good Christians ought to have.
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 62

[continues previous] Sir, if it please your honor, this is not so.
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 87

[continues previous] A bawd of eleven years’ continuance, may it please your honor.
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Merchant of Venice 2.2: 18

Of Launcelot, an’t please your mastership.
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Henry IV Part 2 1.1: 5

[continues previous] Please it your honor knock but at the gate,
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Henry V 4.7: 50

Your grandfather of famous memory, an’t please your Majesty, and your great-uncle Edward the Plack Prince of Wales, as I have read in the chronicles, fought a most prave pattle here in France.
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Henry VIII 1.4: 92

An’t please your Grace, Sir Thomas Bullen’s daughter — [continues next]
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Julius Caesar 4.3: 258

[continues previous] Ay, my lord, an’t please you. It does, my boy.
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Timon of Athens 1.2: 137

[continues previous] May it please your honor, Lord Lucius
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Timon of Athens 3.2: 10

[continues previous] May it please your honor, my lord hath sent —
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 71

That offer service to your lordship.
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 86

I think no less. Good morrow to your lordship. [continues next]
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Henry VIII 1.4: 91

[continues previous] Prithee come hither. What fair lady’s that?
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King John 5.1: 34

To offer service to your enemy;
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 72

Bid them come near. Now, fellows, you are welcome.
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 87

[continues previous] Now, sir, come on. What was done to Elbow’s wife, once more?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 74

Do you intend to stay with me tonight?
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All's Well That Ends Well 3.6: 34

Your brother he shall go along with me. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 75

So please your lordship to accept our duty.
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All's Well That Ends Well 3.6: 35

[continues previous] As’t please your lordship. I’ll leave you.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 50

And say, “Will’t please your lordship cool your hands?”
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 2

Will’t please your lordship drink a cup of sack?
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Twelfth Night 2.4: 8

He is not here, so please your lordship, that should sing it.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.3: 52

May’t please your lordship, ’tis a word or two
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 11

Falstaff, and’t please your lordship.
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 29

And’t please your lordship, I hear his Majesty is return’d with some discomfort from Wales.
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 33

This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, and’t please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.
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Richard III 3.2: 97

The better that your lordship please to ask.
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King Lear 1.2: 27

So please your lordship, none.
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King Lear 1.2: 28

Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?
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Timon of Athens 1.1: 157

Your lordship to accept. Painting is welcome.
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Timon of Athens 3.1: 10

Please your lordship, here is the wine.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 76

With all my heart. This fellow I remember
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Cymbeline 1.4: 31

Sir, with all my heart. This worthy signior, I thank him, makes no stranger of me: we are familiar at first.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 78

’Twas where you woo’d the gentlewoman so well.
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 174

Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing: [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 79

I have forgot your name; but sure that part
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 173

[continues previous] Good morrow, Kate, for that’s your name, I hear.
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 174

[continues previous] Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing:
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 82

’Tis very true; thou didst it excellent.
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Hamlet 2.2: 171

Excellent well, you are a fishmonger. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 83

Well, you are come to me in happy time,
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Hamlet 2.2: 171

[continues previous] Excellent well, you are a fishmonger.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 98

Sirrah, go you to Barthol’mew my page,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.2: 4

Well met, Mistress Page. Whither go you? [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.2: 5

Truly, sir, to see your wife. Is she at home? [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 99

And see him dress’d in all suits like a lady;
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.2: 5

[continues previous] Truly, sir, to see your wife. Is she at home?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 108

And say, “What is’t your honor will command,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 46

Say, “What is it your honor will command?” [continues next]
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Antony and Cleopatra 3.7: 9

A soldier and his horse. What is’t you say?
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Antony and Cleopatra 3.7: 10

Your presence needs must puzzle Antony,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 109

Wherein your lady, and your humble wife,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 46

[continues previous] Say, “What is it your honor will command?”
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 110

May show her duty and make known her love?”
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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. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 111

And then with kind embracements, tempting kisses,
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 81

[continues previous] 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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Venus and Adonis: 312

Beating his kind embracements with her heels.
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Venus and Adonis: 313

Then like a melancholy malcontent,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 118

To rain a shower of commanded tears,
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Antony and Cleopatra 1.2: 114

... that when old robes are worn out, there are members to make new. If there were no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut, and the case to be lamented. This grief is crown’d with consolation: your old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 119

An onion will do well for such a shift,
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 43

Ha, no, no, faith, thou sing’st well enough for a shift.
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Antony and Cleopatra 1.2: 114

[continues previous] ... robes are worn out, there are members to make new. If there were no more women but Fulvia, then had you indeed a cut, and the case to be lamented. This grief is crown’d with consolation: your old smock brings forth a new petticoat, and indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 123

Anon I’ll give thee more instructions.
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King John 2.1: 157

And out of my dear love I’ll give thee more