Comparison of William Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4 has 201 lines, and 40% of them have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14 in William Shakespeare. 60% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.82 weak matches.

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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 8

Servant, you are sad.
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King John 4.1: 11

To be more prince, as may be. You are sad. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 9

Indeed, madam, I seem so.
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King John 4.1: 12

[continues previous] Indeed I have been merrier. Mercy on me!
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 23

What, angry, Sir Thurio? Do you change color?
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Double Falsehood 4.1: 141

A delicate fine hand, — never change color;
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Double Falsehood 4.1: 142

You understand me, — and a woman’s hand.
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As You Like It 3.2: 110

And a chain, that you once wore, about his neck. Change you color?
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 28

I know it well, sir; you always end ere you begin.
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Sir Thomas More 5.4: 35

I know it well, sir, else I would have been glad
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Comedy of Errors 3.2: 126

I know it well, sir. Lo here’s the chain.
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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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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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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 134

Sir, your wit ambles well, it goes easily. [continues next]
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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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Double Falsehood 1.2: 16

He will surely think I deal too slightly, or unmannerly, or foolishly, indeed; nay, dishonestly; to bear him in hand with my father’s consent, who yet hath not been touch’d with so much as a request to it.
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Double Falsehood 1.2: 17

Well, sir, have you read it over?
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Double Falsehood 2.3: 129

Sir, I have long held you in singular esteem: and what I shall now say, will be a proof of it. You know, sir, I have but one son.
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Sir Thomas More 5.4: 35

I know it well, sir, else I would have been glad
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Comedy of Errors 3.2: 126

I know it well, sir. Lo here’s the chain.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 134

[continues previous] Sir, your wit ambles well, it goes easily.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 28

I know it well, sir; you always end ere you begin.
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Coriolanus 3.1: 75

No more words, we beseech you. How? No more? [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 35

No more, gentlemen, no more; here comes my father.
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Pericles 2.5: 66

Here comes my daughter, she can witness it. [continues next]
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Coriolanus 3.1: 74

[continues previous] Which they have given to beggars. Well, no more.
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Coriolanus 3.1: 75

[continues previous] No more words, we beseech you. How? No more?
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Hamlet 1.3: 53

I stay too long — but here my father comes.
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King Lear 4.1: 9

Owes nothing to thy blasts. But who comes here?
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King Lear 4.1: 10

My father, parti-ey’d? World, world, O world!
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 36

Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset.
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Pericles 2.5: 66

[continues previous] Here comes my daughter, she can witness it.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 39

Of much good news? My lord, I will be thankful
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Edward III 3.3: 13

Good news, my lord; the prince is hard at hand,
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Antony and Cleopatra 1.1: 18

News, my good lord, from Rome. Grates me, the sum.
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Hamlet 2.2: 42

Thou still hast been the father of good news.
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Hamlet 2.2: 43

Have I, my lord? I assure my good liege
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 41

Know ye Don Antonio, your countryman?
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Macbeth 5.3: 57

Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 42

Ay, my good lord, I know the gentleman
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Winter's Tale 1.2: 120

Art thou my boy? Ay, my good lord. I’ fecks!
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Henry VI Part 3 4.7: 22

True, my good lord, I know you for no less.
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Hamlet 5.2: 37

Th’ effect of what I wrote? Ay, good my lord.
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Macbeth 5.3: 57

[continues previous] Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 45

Hath he not a son?
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Measure for Measure 2.2: 19

Desires access to you. Hath he a sister? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.2: 20

Ay, my good lord, a very virtuous maid, [continues next]
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Troilus and Cressida 2.3: 191

Ay, my good son. Be rul’d by him, Lord Ajax. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 46

Ay, my good lord, a son that well deserves
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Measure for Measure 2.2: 19

[continues previous] Desires access to you. Hath he a sister?
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Measure for Measure 2.2: 20

[continues previous] Ay, my good lord, a very virtuous maid,
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Hamlet 5.2: 179

This likes me well. These foils have all a length?
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Hamlet 5.2: 180

Ay, my good lord.
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Troilus and Cressida 2.3: 191

[continues previous] Ay, my good son. Be rul’d by him, Lord Ajax.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 48

You know him well?
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 69

I know him well; you are welcome for his sake. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 96

I know him well. You are very welcome, sir. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 49

I knew him as myself: for from our infancy
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 69

[continues previous] I know him well; you are welcome for his sake.
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 96

[continues previous] I know him well. You are very welcome, sir.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 50

We have convers’d and spent our hours together,
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Richard III 3.6: 4

And mark how well the sequel hangs together:
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Richard III 3.6: 5

Eleven hours I have spent to write it over,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 60

He is complete in feature and in mind
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Henry VIII 3.2: 49

She is a gallant creature, and complete
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Henry VIII 3.2: 50

In mind and feature. I persuade me, from her
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 63

He is as worthy for an empress’ love
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 5.4: 138

And think thee worthy of an empress’ love.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 69

Should I have wish’d a thing, it had been he.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.5: 4

... know by my size that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking; and the bottom were as deep as hell, I should down. I had been drown’d, but that the shore was shelvy and shallow — a death that I abhor; for the water swells a man; and what a thing should I have been when I had been swell’d! I should have been a mountain of mummy.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 71

Silvia, I speak to you, and you, Sir Thurio;
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.6: 39

For Thurio, he intends, shall wed his daughter; [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 72

For Valentine, I need not cite him to it.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.6: 38

[continues previous] Who, all enrag’d, will banish Valentine;
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.6: 39

[continues previous] For Thurio, he intends, shall wed his daughter;
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 73

I will send him hither to you presently.
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Sir Thomas More 1.2: 81

I’ll send him hither to thee presently,
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Taming of the Shrew 4.4: 20

Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 74

This is the gentleman I told your ladyship
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Taming of the Shrew 4.4: 20

[continues previous] Sir, this is the gentleman I told you of.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.4: 79

This is the letter to your ladyship.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.4: 80

I pray thee let me look on that again.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 75

Had come along with me, but that his mistress
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Henry IV Part 1 5.4: 111

with a new wound in your thigh, come you along with me.
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Henry IV Part 1 5.4: 112

Come, brother John, full bravely hast thou flesh’d
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 81

How could he see his way to seek out you?
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Merchant of Venice 3.2: 124

How could he see to do them? Having made one,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 86

Have done, have done; here comes the gentleman.
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Cymbeline 1.1: 68

We must forbear. Here comes the gentleman,
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Antony and Cleopatra 3.7: 19

I will not stay behind. Nay, I have done,
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Antony and Cleopatra 3.7: 20

Here comes the Emperor. Is it not strange, Canidius,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 91

Mistress, it is: sweet lady, entertain him
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 97

Sweet lady, entertain him for your servant.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 93

Too low a mistress for so high a servant.
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Love's Labour's Lost 1.1: 184

A high hope for a low heaven. God grant us patience!
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 68

Why, i’ faith, methinks she’s too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise, and too little for a great praise; only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome, and being no other but as she is, I do not like her.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 97

Sweet lady, entertain him for your servant.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 91

Mistress, it is: sweet lady, entertain him
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 98

My duty will I boast of, nothing else.
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Richard II 1.3: 273

Having my freedom, boast of nothing else
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Richard II 1.3: 274

But that I was a journeyman to grief?
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 99

And duty never yet did want his meed.
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Henry IV Part 1 5.1: 79

And never yet did insurrection want
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 102

That you are welcome? That you are worthless.
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All's Well That Ends Well 1.3: 82

You are my mother, madam; would you were — [continues next]
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Merchant of Venice 4.1: 155

I did, my lord. You are welcome, take your place. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 103

Madam, my lord your father would speak with you.
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Cardenio 2.1: 1

Who is‘t would speak with us?
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Cardenio 2.1: 2

My lord your father.
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All's Well That Ends Well 1.3: 81

[continues previous] He must not be my brother. Nor I your mother?
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All's Well That Ends Well 1.3: 82

[continues previous] You are my mother, madam; would you were —
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Merchant of Venice 4.1: 155

[continues previous] I did, my lord. You are welcome, take your place.
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Merchant of Venice 4.2: 12

That will I do. Sir, I would speak with you. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.2: 37

If your leisure serv’d, I would speak with you. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 104

I wait upon his pleasure. Come, Sir Thurio,
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Merchant of Venice 4.2: 12

[continues previous] That will I do. Sir, I would speak with you.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.2: 37

[continues previous] If your leisure serv’d, I would speak with you.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 105

Go with me. Once more, new servant, welcome;
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Hamlet 2.2: 359

My good friends, I’ll leave you till night. You are welcome to Elsinore. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 106

I’ll leave you to confer of home affairs;
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Hamlet 2.2: 359

[continues previous] My good friends, I’ll leave you till night. You are welcome to Elsinore.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 108

We’ll both attend upon your ladyship.
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.2: 34

So much for praising myself, who I myself will bear witness is praiseworthy. And now tell me, how doth your cousin? [continues next]
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Twelfth Night 3.1: 94

Grace and good disposition attend your ladyship!
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 109

Now tell me: how do all from whence you came?
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.2: 34

[continues previous] So much for praising myself, who I myself will bear witness is praiseworthy. And now tell me, how doth your cousin?
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 113

My tales of love were wont to weary you;
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 261

Away! We’ll none on’t. Here has been too much homely foolery already. I know, sir, we weary you. [continues next]
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 262

You weary those that refresh us. Pray let’s see these four threes of herdsmen. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 114

I know you joy not in a love-discourse.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 261

[continues previous] Away! We’ll none on’t. Here has been too much homely foolery already. I know, sir, we weary you.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 262

[continues previous] You weary those that refresh us. Pray let’s see these four threes of herdsmen.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 118

With bitter fasts, with penitential groans,
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Twelfth Night 1.5: 118

With adorations, fertile tears, [continues next]
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Twelfth Night 1.5: 119

With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 119

With nightly tears, and daily heart-sore sighs,
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Twelfth Night 1.5: 118

[continues previous] With adorations, fertile tears,
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Twelfth Night 1.5: 119

[continues previous] With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.1: 30

Coy looks with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment’s mirth
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 122

And made them watchers of mine own heart’s sorrow.
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Henry VI Part 3 3.3: 173

Mine full of sorrow and heart’s discontent.
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Sonnet 23: 8

O’ercharg’d with burden of mine own love’s might. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 123

O gentle Proteus, Love’s a mighty lord,
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Sonnet 23: 8

[continues previous] O’ercharg’d with burden of mine own love’s might.
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Sonnet 23: 9

[continues previous] O, let my books be then the eloquence
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 128

Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep,
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Measure for Measure 4.3: 113

O pretty Isabella, I am pale at mine heart to see thine eyes so red; thou must be patient. I am fain to dine and sup with water and bran; I dare not for my head fill my belly; one fruitful meal would set me to’t. But they say the Duke will be here tomorrow. By my troth, Isabel, I lov’d thy brother. If the old fantastical Duke of dark corners had been at home, he ...
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 133

No; but she is an earthly paragon.
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Cymbeline 3.6: 43

An earthly paragon! Behold divineness [continues next]
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Cymbeline 3.6: 44

No elder than a boy!
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 134

Call her divine. I will not flatter her.
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Cymbeline 3.6: 42

[continues previous] By Jupiter, an angel! Or if not,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 137

And I must minister the like to you.
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King Lear 5.1: 9

Do you not love my sister? In honor’d love. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 138

Then speak the truth by her; if not divine,
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King Lear 5.1: 8

[continues previous] Tell me but truly, but then speak the truth,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 143

Have I not reason to prefer mine own?
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Cardenio 2.3: 40

Fit for no place but bawd to mine own flesh? You’ll prefer all your old courtiers to good services. If your lust keep but hot some twenty winters, we are like to have a virtuous world of wives, Daughters and sisters, besides kinswomen
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 144

And I will help thee to prefer her too:
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Henry VI Part 2 2.1: 91

Come offer at my shrine, and I will help thee.”
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 145

She shall be dignified with this high honor
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Cymbeline 5.5: 284

With unchaste purpose, and with oath to violate [continues next]
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Cymbeline 5.5: 285

My lady’s honor. What became of him [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 146

To bear my lady’s train, lest the base earth
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Cymbeline 5.5: 284

[continues previous] With unchaste purpose, and with oath to violate
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Cymbeline 5.5: 285

[continues previous] My lady’s honor. What became of him
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 147

Should from her vesture chance to steal a kiss,
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Venus and Adonis: 726

Lest she should steal a kiss and die forsworn. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 148

And of so great a favor growing proud,
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Venus and Adonis: 726

[continues previous] Lest she should steal a kiss and die forsworn.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 155

Not for the world. Why, man, she is mine own,
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Taming of the Shrew 3.2: 201

I will be master of what is mine own.
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Taming of the Shrew 3.2: 202

She is my goods, my chattels, she is my house,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 159

Forgive me, that I do not dream on thee,
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As You Like It 1.3: 28

If that I do not dream, or be not frantic
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Henry V 3.6: 65

Did march three Frenchmen. Yet forgive me, God,
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Henry V 3.6: 66

That I do brag thus! This your air of France
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 163

Is gone with her along, and I must after,
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Sonnet 42: 6

Thou dost love her because thou know’st I love her, [continues next]
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Sonnet 42: 7

And for my sake even so doth she abuse me, [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 164

For love, thou know’st, is full of jealousy.
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Sonnet 42: 6

[continues previous] Thou dost love her because thou know’st I love her,
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Sonnet 42: 7

[continues previous] And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 169

The ladder made of cords, and all the means
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 3.1: 117

Why then a ladder, quaintly made of cords,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 171

Good Proteus, go with me to my chamber,
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.3: 221

Go with me to my chamber, and advise me.
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Taming of the Shrew 3.2: 85

Go to my chamber, put on clothes of mine. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.7: 83

And presently go with me to my chamber,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.7: 84

To take a note of what I stand in need of,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 172

In these affairs to aid me with thy counsel.
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Taming of the Shrew 3.2: 84

[continues previous] See not your bride in these unreverent robes,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 176

And then I’ll presently attend you.
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.4: 33

That having this obtain’d, you presently
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.4: 34

Attend his further pleasure.
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King Lear 5.1: 33

I shall attend you presently at your tent.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 177

Will you make haste?
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Merchant of Venice 3.2: 316

I will make haste; but till I come again, [continues next]
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Hamlet 3.2: 9

Bid the players make haste.
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Hamlet 3.2: 10

Will you two help to hasten them?
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Merchant of Venice 3.2: 316

[continues previous] I will make haste; but till I come again,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 186

She is fair; and so is Julia that I love
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.2: 93

I grant, sweet love, that I did love a lady; [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 187

(That I did love, for now my love is thaw’d,
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.2: 93

[continues previous] I grant, sweet love, that I did love a lady;
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 191

And that I love him not as I was wont:
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Julius Caesar 1.2: 34

And show of love as I was wont to have.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 192

O, but I love his lady too too much,
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Cardenio 4.1: 8

In my affection, raised by too much love; [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 193

And that’s the reason I love him so little.
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Cardenio 4.1: 8

[continues previous] In my affection, raised by too much love;
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Cardenio 4.1: 9

[continues previous] And that’s the worst words you can give it, madam.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 194

How shall I dote on her with more advice,
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Midsummer Night's Dream 4.1: 26

O, how I love thee! How I dote on thee!
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 195

That thus without advice begin to love her?
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Pericles 4.2: 47

I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs, I have drawn her picture with my voice. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 196

’Tis but her picture I have yet beheld,
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Pericles 4.2: 47

[continues previous] I have cried her almost to the number of her hairs, I have drawn her picture with my voice.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 198

But when I look on her perfections,
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Titus Andronicus 3.1: 110

Look, Marcus! Ah, son Lucius, look on her!
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Titus Andronicus 3.1: 111

When I did name her brothers, then fresh tears
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 199

There is no reason but I shall be blind.
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Twelfth Night 3.4: 130

... his form, as you are like to find him in the proof of his valor. He is indeed, sir, the most skillful, bloody, and fatal opposite that you could possibly have found in any part of Illyria. Will you walk towards him? I will make your peace with him if I can. [continues next]
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Twelfth Night 3.4: 131

I shall be much bound to you for’t. I am one that had rather go with sir priest than sir knight. I care not who knows so much of my mettle. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 200

If I can check my erring love, I will;
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Love's Labour's Lost 4.3: 1

... defile! A foul word. Well, “set thee down, sorrow!” for so they say the fool said, and so say I, and I the fool: well prov’d, wit! By the Lord, this love is as mad as Ajax. It kills sheep; it kills me, I a sheep: well prov’d again a’ my side! I will not love; if I do, hang me; i’ faith, I will not. O but her eye — by this light, but for her eye, I would not love her; yes, for her two eyes. Well, I do nothing in the world but lie, and lie in my throat. By heaven, I do love, and ... [continues next]
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Twelfth Night 3.4: 130

[continues previous] ... by his form, as you are like to find him in the proof of his valor. He is indeed, sir, the most skillful, bloody, and fatal opposite that you could possibly have found in any part of Illyria. Will you walk towards him? I will make your peace with him if I can.
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Twelfth Night 3.4: 131

[continues previous] I shall be much bound to you for’t. I am one that had rather go with sir priest than sir knight. I care not who knows so much of my mettle.
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Henry VI Part 3 1.4: 151

That hardly can I check my eyes from tears.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 2.4: 201

If not, to compass her I’ll use my skill.
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Love's Labour's Lost 4.3: 1

[continues previous] ... Well, “set thee down, sorrow!” for so they say the fool said, and so say I, and I the fool: well prov’d, wit! By the Lord, this love is as mad as Ajax. It kills sheep; it kills me, I a sheep: well prov’d again a’ my side! I will not love; if I do, hang me; i’ faith, I will not. O but her eye — by this light, but for her eye, I would not love her; yes, for her two eyes. Well, I do nothing in the world but lie, and lie in my throat. By heaven, I do love, ...