Comparison of William Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2 has 123 lines, and 4% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in William Shakespeare. 31% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 65% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.05 strong matches and 1.26 weak matches.

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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 1

For God’s sake, a pot of small ale.
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Comedy of Errors 5.1: 36

Run, master, run, for God’s sake take a house!
15+

Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 60

And once again a pot o’ th’ smallest ale. [continues next]
10

Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.3: 52

May’t please your lordship, ’tis a word or two [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.3: 53

Of commendations sent from Valentine, [continues next]
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Henry IV Part 1 1.3: 233

I would have him poisoned with a pot of ale.
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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. [continues next]
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Henry V 3.2: 8

Would I were in an alehouse in London, I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
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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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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? [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 50

And say, “Will’t please your lordship cool your hands?” [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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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 3

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

[continues previous] Will’t please your mightiness to wash your hands? [continues next]
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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

[continues previous] May’t please your lordship, ’tis a word or two [continues next]
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Henry IV Part 1 2.2: 14

Hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent garters! If I be ta’en, I’ll peach for this. And I have not ballads made on you all and sung to filthy tunes, let a cup of sack be my poison. When a jest is so forward, and afoot too! I hate it.
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 47

A plague of all cowards, I say, and a vengeance too! Marry and amen! Give me a cup of sack, boy. Ere I lead this life long, I’ll sew nether-stocks, and mend them and foot them too. A plague of all cowards! Give me a cup of sack, rogue. Is there no virtue extant?
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 49

You rogue, here’s lime in this sack too. There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous man, yet a coward is worse than a cup of sack with lime in it. A villainous coward! Go thy ways, old Jack, die when thou wilt; if manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring. There lives not three good men unhang’d in England, and one of them is fat ...
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 55

... but I would give a thousand pound I could run as fast as thou canst. You are straight enough in the shoulders, you care not who sees your back. Call you that backing of your friends? A plague upon such backing! Give me them that will face me. Give me a cup of sack. I am a rogue if I drunk today.
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 123

O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since thou hast blush’d extempore. Thou hadst fire and sword on thy side, and yet thou ran’st away; what instinct hadst thou for it?
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 148

Well, and the fire of grace be not quite out of thee, now shalt thou be mov’d. Give me a cup of sack to make my eyes look red, that it may be thought I have wept, for I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses’ vein.
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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

[continues previous] 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 2.4: 37

Welcome, Ancient Pistol. Here, Pistol, I charge you with a cup of sack, do you discharge upon mine hostess.
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Henry IV Part 2 4.5: 18

Will’t please your Grace to go along with us? [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 2 2.3: 59

Here, neighbor Horner, I drink to you in a cup of sack; and fear not, neighbor, you shall do well enough.
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Richard II 5.5: 99

Taste of it first, as thou art wont to do. [continues next]
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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. [continues next]
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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? [continues next]
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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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Merry Wives of Windsor 1.1: 121

[continues previous] Will’t please your worship to come in, sir?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 50

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

[continues previous] Will’t please your lordship drink a cup of sack?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 5

I am Christophero Sly, call not me honor nor lordship. I ne’er drank sack in my life; and if you give me any conserves, give me conserves of beef. Ne’er ask me what raiment I’ll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet — nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 61

[continues previous] Will’t please your mightiness to wash your hands?
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.3: 52

[continues previous] May’t please your lordship, ’tis a word or two
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Henry IV Part 2 4.5: 18

[continues previous] Will’t please your Grace to go along with us?
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Richard II 5.5: 98

[continues previous] My lord, will’t please you to fall to?
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Richard II 5.5: 99

[continues previous] Taste of it first, as thou art wont to do.
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King Lear 4.7: 83

[continues previous] Will’t please your Highness walk? You must bear with me.
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Titus Andronicus 5.3: 54

[continues previous] Will’t please you eat? Will’t please your Highness feed?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 4

What raiment will your honor wear today?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 5

[continues previous] I am Christophero Sly, call not me honor nor lordship. I ne’er drank sack in my life; and if you give me any conserves, give me conserves of beef. Ne’er ask me what raiment I’ll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet — nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 5

I am Christophero Sly, call not me honor nor lordship. I ne’er drank sack in my life; and if you give me any conserves, give me conserves of beef. Ne’er ask me what raiment I’ll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet — nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather.
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Sir Thomas More 2.2: 16

We be ourselves rough ministers at law. Use no more swords, Nor no more words, But fire the houses; Brave captain courageous, Fire me their houses.
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All's Well That Ends Well 1.3: 85

I care no more for than I do for heaven,
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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: 4

[continues previous] What raiment will your honor wear today?
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 372

Nay, I have off’red all, I have no more,
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 373

And she can have no more than all I have;
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Henry IV Part 1 4.1: 111

No more, no more! Worse than the sun in March,
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Titus Andronicus 4.3: 83

Alas, sir, I know not Jubiter, I never drank with him in all my life.
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Troilus and Cressida 2.3: 91

What is he more than another?
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Troilus and Cressida 2.3: 92

No more than what he thinks he is.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 10

What, would you make me mad? Am not I Christopher Sly, old Sly’s son of Burton-heath, by birth a pedlar, by education a card-maker, by transmutation a bear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker? Ask Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if she know me not. If she say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lying’st knave in Christendom. What! I am not bestraught. Here’s —
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All's Well That Ends Well 3.7: 1

If you misdoubt me that I am not she,
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All's Well That Ends Well 3.7: 2

I know not how I shall assure you further
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 58

And not a tinker, nor Christopher Sly.
10

Twelfth Night 1.5: 130

I would not understand it. Why, what would you?
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Twelfth Night 1.5: 131

Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
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Two Noble Kinsmen 3.6: 170

Stay here to love her; and if she say “traitor,”
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Two Noble Kinsmen 3.6: 171

I am a villain fit to lie unburied.
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Henry VI Part 2 2.1: 123

Then, Saunder, sit there, the lying’st knave
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Henry VI Part 2 2.1: 124

In Christendom. If thou hadst been born blind,
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King John 3.4: 44

Thou art not holy to belie me so,
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King John 3.4: 45

I am not mad. This hair I tear is mine,
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Titus Andronicus 5.2: 20

If thou didst know me, thou wouldst talk with me.
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Titus Andronicus 5.2: 21

I am not mad, I know thee well enough.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 11

O, this it is that makes your lady mourn!
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 12

O, this is it that makes your servants droop! [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 3 4.4: 19

This is it that makes me bridle passion, [continues next]
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Timon of Athens 4.3: 38

With senators on the bench. This is it [continues next]
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Timon of Athens 4.3: 39

That makes the wappen’d widow wed again; [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 12

O, this is it that makes your servants droop!
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 11

[continues previous] O, this it is that makes your lady mourn!
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Henry VI Part 3 4.4: 19

[continues previous] This is it that makes me bridle passion,
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Timon of Athens 4.3: 38

[continues previous] With senators on the bench. This is it
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Timon of Athens 4.3: 39

[continues previous] That makes the wappen’d widow wed again;
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 26

Or wilt thou ride? Thy horses shall be trapp’d,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 29

Above the morning lark. Or wilt thou hunt?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 30

Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them
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Henry IV Part 1 2.3: 72

Nay, tell me if you speak in jest or no.
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Henry IV Part 1 2.3: 73

Come, wilt thou see me ride?
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Henry VI Part 2 1.2: 59

I go. Come, Nell, thou wilt ride with us?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 28

Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar
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Edward III 2.1: 87

Fly it a pitch above the soar of praise. [continues next]
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Julius Caesar 1.1: 64

Who else would soar above the view of men, [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 29

Above the morning lark. Or wilt thou hunt?
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Edward III 2.1: 87

[continues previous] Fly it a pitch above the soar of praise.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 26

Or wilt thou ride? Thy horses shall be trapp’d, [continues next]
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Julius Caesar 1.1: 64

[continues previous] Who else would soar above the view of men,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 30

Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 26

[continues previous] Or wilt thou ride? Thy horses shall be trapp’d,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 35

Adonis painted by a running brook,
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Passionate Pilgrim: 43

Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook [continues next]
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Passionate Pilgrim: 44

With young Adonis, lovely, fresh, and green, [continues next]
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Passionate Pilgrim: 74

A longing tarriance for Adonis made
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Passionate Pilgrim: 75

Under an osier growing by a brook,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 36

And Cytherea all in sedges hid,
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Passionate Pilgrim: 44

[continues previous] With young Adonis, lovely, fresh, and green,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 37

Which seem to move and wanton with her breath,
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Taming of the Shrew 1.1: 143

Tranio, I saw her coral lips to move,
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Taming of the Shrew 1.1: 144

And with her breath she did perfume the air.
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Rape of Lucrece: 400

Her hair like golden threads play’d with her breath
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Rape of Lucrece: 401

O modest wantons, wanton modesty! —
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Othello 2.3: 249

Even as her appetite shall play the god [continues next]
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Othello 2.3: 250

With his weak function. How am I then a villain, [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 38

Even as the waving sedges play with wind.
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Othello 2.3: 249

[continues previous] Even as her appetite shall play the god
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Othello 2.3: 250

[continues previous] With his weak function. How am I then a villain,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 42

Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood,
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Henry VI Part 3 3.2: 174

And I — like one lost in a thorny wood,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 45

So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn.
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Romeo and Juliet 3.3: 110

Thy tears are womanish, thy wild acts denote [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 46

Thou art a lord, and nothing but a lord.
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Romeo and Juliet 3.3: 109

[continues previous] Art thou a man? Thy form cries out thou art;
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 47

Thou hast a lady far more beautiful
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Winter's Tale 5.1: 111

More worth than any man; men, that she is [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 48

Than any woman in this waning age.
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Winter's Tale 5.1: 110

[continues previous] Women will love her, that she is a woman
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Winter's Tale 5.1: 111

[continues previous] More worth than any man; men, that she is
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Rape of Lucrece: 142

With honor, wealth, and ease, in waning age; [continues next]
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Rape of Lucrece: 143

And in this aim there is such thwarting strife [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 49

And till the tears that she hath shed for thee
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Rape of Lucrece: 142

[continues previous] With honor, wealth, and ease, in waning age;
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Rape of Lucrece: 143

[continues previous] And in this aim there is such thwarting strife
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 58

And not a tinker, nor Christopher Sly.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 10

What, would you make me mad? Am not I Christopher Sly, old Sly’s son of Burton-heath, by birth a pedlar, by education a card-maker, by transmutation a bear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker? Ask Marian Hacket, the fat ale-wife of Wincot, if she know me not. If she say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ...
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 60

And once again a pot o’ th’ smallest ale.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 1

For God’s sake, a pot of small ale. [continues next]
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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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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: 50

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

[continues previous] 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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Henry IV Part 2 4.5: 18

Will’t please your Grace to go along with us?
10

King Lear 4.7: 83

Will’t please your Highness walk? You must bear with me.
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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 2: 64

These fifteen years you have been in a dream,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 65

Or when you wak’d, so wak’d as if you slept. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 66

These fifteen years! By my fay, a goodly nap,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 65

Or when you wak’d, so wak’d as if you slept.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 64

[continues previous] These fifteen years you have been in a dream, [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 66

These fifteen years! By my fay, a goodly nap,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 64

[continues previous] These fifteen years you have been in a dream,
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Hamlet 2.2: 218

Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and outstretch’d heroes the beggars’ shadows. Shall we to th’ court? For, by my fay, I cannot reason.
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Romeo and Juliet 1.5: 118

Ah, sirrah, by my fay, it waxes late,
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 68

O yes, my lord, but very idle words,
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Antony and Cleopatra 3.11: 35

Yes, my lord, yes; he at Philippi kept
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Hamlet 1.2: 231

O yes, my lord, he wore his beaver up.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 76

Why, sir, you know no house nor no such maid,
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Taming of the Shrew 3.2: 69

Why, sir, you know this is your wedding-day.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 81

Which never were, nor no man ever saw.
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Sonnet 116: 14

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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Cymbeline 3.4: 183

Direct you to the best! Amen! I thank thee. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 84

I thank thee, thou shalt not lose by it.
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Cymbeline 3.4: 183

[continues previous] Direct you to the best! Amen! I thank thee.
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Richard II 5.6: 34

Exton, I thank thee not, for thou hast wrought
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 85

How fares my noble lord?
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Edward III 4.8: 1

How fares my lord? Even as a man may do,
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Sir Thomas More 4.2: 31

How my lord fares. No it. Come hither, wife:
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Henry VI Part 2 3.3: 1

How fares my lord? Speak, Beauford, to thy sovereign.
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Hamlet 3.2: 189

How fares my lord?
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King Lear 4.7: 44

How does my royal lord? How fares your Majesty?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 86

Marry, I fare well, for here is cheer enough.
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Romeo and Juliet 3.1: 58

Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch, marry, ’tis enough. [continues next]
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Timon of Athens 4.3: 98

I had rather be alone. Why, fare thee well;
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Timon of Athens 4.3: 99

Here is some gold for thee. Keep it, I cannot eat it.
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Romeo and Juliet 3.1: 59

[continues previous] Where is my page? Go, villain, fetch a surgeon.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 93

I know it well. What must I call her?
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Winter's Tale 2.2: 14

Shall bring Emilia forth. I pray now call her.[continues next]
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Winter's Tale 2.2: 15

Withdraw yourselves. And, madam, I must [continues next]
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Winter's Tale 2.2: 15

[continues previous] Withdraw yourselves. And, madam, I must
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 103

Thrice-noble lord, let me entreat of you
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 139

I have no tongue but one; gentle my lord,
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Measure for Measure 2.4: 140

Let me entreat you speak the former language.
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Pericles 2.4: 45

A twelvemonth longer let me entreat you [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 104

To pardon me yet for a night or two;
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Pericles 2.4: 46

[continues previous] To forbear the absence of your king;
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 110

Ay, it stands so that I may hardly tarry so long. But I would be loath to fall into my dreams again. I will therefore tarry in despite of the flesh and the blood.
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Edward III 5.1: 74

And, like a soldiers, would be loath to lose
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As You Like It 1.1: 39

... understand that your younger brother, Orlando, hath a disposition to come in disguis’d against me to try a fall. Tomorrow, sir, I wrastle for my credit, and he that escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Your brother is but young and tender, and for your love I would be loath to foil him, as I must for my own honor if he come in; therefore out of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint you withal, that either you might stay him from his intendment, or brook such disgrace well as he shall run into, in that it is ...
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Merry Wives of Windsor 2.1: 74

I do not misdoubt my wife; but I would be loath to turn them together. A man may be too confident. I would have nothing lie on my head. I cannot be thus satisfied.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 4.1: 9

Mounsieur Cobweb, good mounsieur, get you your weapons in your hand, and kill me a red-hipp’d humble-bee on the top of a thistle; and, good mounsieur, bring me the honey-bag. Do not fret yourself too much in the action, mounsieur; and, good mounsieur, have a care the honey-bag break not, I would be loath to have you overflowen with a honey-bag, signior. Where’s mounsieur Mustardseed?
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Twelfth Night 1.5: 78

Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty — I pray you tell me if this be the lady of the house, for I never saw her. I would be loath to cast away my speech; for besides that it is excellently well penn’d, I have taken great pains to con it. Good beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very comptible, even to the least sinister usage.
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Two Noble Kinsmen 2.2: 145

A maid, if she have any honor, would be loath
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Two Noble Kinsmen 2.2: 146

To take example by her. Thou art wanton.
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Henry IV Part 1 5.1: 125

’Tis not due yet, I would be loath to pay him before his day. What need I be so forward with him that calls not on me? Well, ’tis no matter, honor pricks me on. Yea, but how if honor prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honor set to a leg? No. Or an arm? ...
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King John 4.1: 18

I should be as merry as the day is long;
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King John 4.1: 19

And so I would be here, but that I doubt
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 120

No, my good lord, it is more pleasing stuff.
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Measure for Measure 5.1: 426

No, my good lord; it was by private message.
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 123

Well, we’ll see’t. Come, madam wife, sit by my side, and let the world slip, we shall ne’er be younger.
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As You Like It 5.3: 4

By my troth, well met. Come, sit, sit, and a song.