Comparison of William Shakespeare Winter's Tale 4.4 to William Shakespeare
Summary
William Shakespeare Winter's Tale 4.4 has 617 lines, and one of them has a strong match at magnitude 15+ in William Shakespeare. 30% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 70% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.67 weak matches.
Winter's Tale 4.4
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Othello 4.2: 192
O no; he goes into Mauritania and taketh away with him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be ling’red here by some accident; wherein none can be so determinate as the removing of Cassio.
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Coriolanus 4.5: 159
Why, he is so made on here within as if he were son and heir to Mars; set at upper end o’ th’ table; no question ask’d him by any of the senators but they stand bald before him. Our general himself makes a mistress of him, sanctifies himself with ’s hand, and turns up the white o’ th’ eye to his discourse. But the bottom of the news is, our general is cut ...
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King Lear 1.5: 9
She will taste as like this as a crab does to a crab. Thou canst tell why one’s nose stands i’ th’ middle on ’s face? [continues next]
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King Lear 1.5: 9
[continues previous] She will taste as like this as a crab does to a crab. Thou canst tell why one’s nose stands i’ th’ middle on ’s face?
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Hamlet 4.5: 168
There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts.
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Coriolanus 4.3: 13
The day serves well for them now. I have heard it said, the fittest time to corrupt a man’s wife is when she’s fall’n out with her husband. Your noble Tullus Aufidius will appear well in these wars, his great opposer Coriolanus being now in no request of his country.
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Winter's Tale 1.1: 9
I think there is not in the world either malice or matter to alter it. You have an unspeakable comfort of your young prince Mamillius: it is a gentleman of the greatest promise that ever came into my note.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 181
O master! If you did but hear the pedlar at the door, you would never dance again after a tabor and pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you. He sings several tunes faster than you’ll tell money; he utters them as he had eaten ballads and all men’s ears grew to his tunes.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 5
... he hath laugh’d at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling in love — and such a man is Claudio. I have known when there was no music with him but the drum and the fife, and now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe; I have known when he would have walk’d ten mile afoot to see a good armor, and now will he lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet; he was wont to speak plain and to the purpose (like an honest man and a soldier), and now ...
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 186
He hath ribbons of all the colors i’ th’ rainbow; points more than all the lawyers in Bohemia can learnedly handle, though they come to him by th’ gross; inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Why, he sings ’em over as they were gods or goddesses: you would think a smock were a she-angel, he so chants to the sleeve-hand and the ...
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.5: 45
What tellest thou me of black and blue? I was beaten myself into all the colors of the rainbow; and I was like to be apprehended for the witch of Brainford. But that my admirable dexterity of wit, my counterfeiting the action of an old woman, deliver’d me, the knave constable had set me i’ th’ stocks, i’ th’ common stocks, for a witch.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 189
You have of these pedlars, that have more in them than you’ld think, sister.
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Macbeth 1.5: 1
“They met me in the day of success; and I have learn’d by the perfect’st report, they have more in them than mortal knowledge. When I burnt in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanish’d. Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the King, who all-hail’d me “Thane of Cawdor,” by which title, before, these weïrd sisters saluted me, and referr’d ...
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Troilus and Cressida 2.1: 63
E’en so; a great deal of your wit, too, lies in your sinews, or else there be liars. Hector shall have a great catch, and ’a knock out either of your brains; ’a were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 216
Here’s one to a very doleful tune, how a usurer’s wife was brought to bed of twenty money-bags at a burden, and how she long’d to eat adders’ heads, and toads carbonado’d.
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 52
Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred; it is well allied; but it is impossible to extirp it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put down. They say this Angelo was not made by man and woman after this downright way of creation. Is it true, think you?
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Love's Labour's Lost 4.2: 28
And I say, the pollution holds in the exchange, for the moon is never but a month old; and I say beside that, ’twas a pricket that the Princess kill’d.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 220
Here’s the midwive’s name to’t, one Mistress Tale-porter, and five or six honest wives that were present. Why should I carry lies abroad?
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 52
Yes, in good sooth, the vice is of a great kindred; it is well allied; but it is impossible to extirp it quite, friar, till eating and drinking be put down. They say this Angelo was not made by man and woman after this downright way of creation. Is it true, think you?
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Winter's Tale 3.3: 60
... which I fear the wolf will sooner find than the master. If any where I have them, ’tis by the sea-side, browsing of ivy. Good luck, and’t be thy will! What have we here? Mercy on ’s, a barne? A very pretty barne! A boy, or a child, I wonder? A pretty one, a very pretty one: sure some scape. Though I am not bookish, yet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the scape. This has been some stair-work, some trunk-work, some behind-door-work. They were warmer that got this than the poor thing is here. I’ll take it up for pity, yet I’ll tarry till my son come; ...
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 229
Why, this is a passing merry one and goes to the tune of “Two maids wooing a man.” There’s scarce a maid westward but she sings it. ’Tis in request, I can tell you.
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As You Like It 1.2: 66
You will take little delight in it, I can tell you, there is such odds in the man. In pity of the challenger’s youth I would fain dissuade him, but he will not be entreated. Speak to him, ladies, see if you can move him.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 249
We’ll have this song out anon by ourselves. My father and the gentlemen are in sad talk, and we’ll not trouble them. Come bring away thy pack after me. Wenches, I’ll buy for you both. Pedlar, let’s have the first choice. Follow me, girls.
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 41
Come, bring them away. If these be good people in a commonweal that do nothing but use their abuses in common houses, I know no law. Bring them away.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 260
Master, there is three carters, three shepherds, three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that have made themselves all men of hair. They call themselves Saltiers, and they have a dance which the wenches say is a gallimaufry of gambols, because they are not in’t; but they themselves are o’ th’ mind (if it be not too rough for some that know little but bowling) it will please plentifully.
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Coriolanus 2.1: 43
So do I too, if it be not too much. Brings ’a victory in his pocket? The wounds become him.
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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.
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.3: 5
I know that, but I would have thee hence, and here again. I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors to love, will, after he hath laugh’d at such shallow follies in others, become the argument of his own scorn ...
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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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Winter's Tale 4.4: 262
You weary those that refresh us. Pray let’s see these four threes of herdsmen.
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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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Much Ado About Nothing 4.1: 251
Ah, how much might the man deserve of me that would right her! [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 8
I have already deliver’d him letters, and there appears much joy in him, even so much that joy could not show itself modest enough without a badge of bitterness. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 8
[continues previous] I have already deliver’d him letters, and there appears much joy in him, even so much that joy could not show itself modest enough without a badge of bitterness.
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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. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 5.1: 165
[continues previous] 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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Love's Labour's Lost 4.3: 1
... 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 it hath taught me to rhyme and to be mallicholy; and here is part of my rhyme, and here my mallicholy. Well, she ... [continues next]
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Love's Labour's Lost 4.3: 1
[continues previous] ... 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 it hath taught me to rhyme and to be mallicholy; and here is part of my rhyme, and here my mallicholy. Well, she hath one a’ my sonnets ...
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Henry V 5.2: 113
... my farm to buy my crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say “I love you”; then if you urge me farther than to say “Do you in faith?” I wear out my suit. Give me your answer, i’ faith, do, and so clap hands and a bargain. How say you, lady? [continues next]
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Henry V 5.2: 113
[continues previous] ... farm to buy my crown. I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say “I love you”; then if you urge me farther than to say “Do you in faith?” I wear out my suit. Give me your answer, i’ faith, do, and so clap hands and a bargain. How say you, lady?
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Cardenio 4.3: 60
Not only, sir, with reverence, but with fear. You shall have more than your own asking once. I am afraid of nothing but she’ll rise At the first jog and save us all a labour.
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Twelfth Night 3.4: 10
No, madam, he does nothing but smile. Your ladyship were best to have some guard about you, if he come, for sure the man is tainted in ’s wits. [continues next]
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Twelfth Night 3.4: 10
[continues previous] No, madam, he does nothing but smile. Your ladyship were best to have some guard about you, if he come, for sure the man is tainted in ’s wits.
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Love's Labour's Lost 2.1: 91
“Fair” I give you back again, and “welcome” I have not yet. The roof of this court is too high to be yours, and welcome to the wide fields too base to be mine. [continues next]
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Love's Labour's Lost 2.1: 91
[continues previous] “Fair” I give you back again, and “welcome” I have not yet. The roof of this court is too high to be yours, and welcome to the wide fields too base to be mine.
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Tempest 3.2: 74
Give me thy hand. I am sorry I beat thee; but while thou liv’st keep a good tongue in thy head. [continues next]
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Tempest 3.2: 74
[continues previous] Give me thy hand. I am sorry I beat thee; but while thou liv’st keep a good tongue in thy head.
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 173
But to say I know more harm in him than in myself, were to say more than I know. That he is old, the more the pity, his white hairs do witness it, but that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be ...
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Henry IV Part 1 1.2: 20
Thou judgest false already. I mean thou shalt have the hanging of the thieves, and so become a rare hangman.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.5: 40
... your good. Being thus cramm’d in the basket, a couple of Ford’s knaves, his hinds, were call’d forth by their mistress to carry me in the name of foul clothes to Datchet-lane. They took me on their shoulders; met the jealous knave their master in the door, who ask’d them once or twice what they had in their basket. I quak’d for fear, lest the lunatic knave would have search’d it; but fate (ordaining he should be a cuckold) held his hand. Well, on went he for a search, and away went I for foul clothes. But mark the sequel, Master Brook. I ...
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Henry IV Part 2 5.1: 18
... 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. [continues next]
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.5: 27
I like him well, ’tis not amiss. And I was about to tell you, since I heard of the good lady’s death, and that my lord your son was upon his return home, I mov’d the King my master to speak in the behalf of my daughter, which in the minority of them both, his Majesty, out of a self-gracious remembrance, did first ...
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Henry IV Part 2 5.1: 18
[continues previous] ... 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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Measure for Measure 4.2: 73
[continues previous] I told you: Lord Angelo (belike) thinking me remiss in mine office, awakens me with this unwonted putting-on, methinks strangely, for he hath not us’d it before.
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Two Noble Kinsmen 3.6: 35
[continues previous] And quickly, yours or mine. Will’t please you arm, sir?
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 77
Sir, but you shall come to it, by your honor’s leave. And I beseech you, look into Master Froth here, sir; a man of fourscore pound a year; whose father died at Hallowmas. Was’t not at Hallowmas, Master Froth? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 77
[continues previous] Sir, but you shall come to it, by your honor’s leave. And I beseech you, look into Master Froth here, sir; a man of fourscore pound a year; whose father died at Hallowmas. Was’t not at Hallowmas, Master Froth?
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 596
Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box, which none must know but the King, and which he shall know within this hour, if I may come to th’ speech of him.
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As You Like It 3.5: 66
He’s fall’n in love with your foulness — and she’ll fall in love with my anger. If it be so, as fast as she answers thee with frowning looks, I’ll sauce her with bitter words. — Why look you so upon me?
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Sir Thomas More 2.1: 11
Why, I am a prentice as thou art; seest thou now? I’ll play with thee at blunt here in Cheapside, and when thou hast done, if thou beest angry, I’ll fight with thee at sharp in More fields. I have a sword to serve my turn in a favor ... come Julie, to serve ...
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Coriolanus 2.3: 48
You have been a scourge to her enemies, you have been a rod to her friends; you have not indeed lov’d the common people. [continues next]
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Coriolanus 2.3: 45
[continues previous] Pray you now, if it may stand with the tune of your voices that I may be consul, I have here the customary gown.
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Coriolanus 2.3: 48
[continues previous] You have been a scourge to her enemies, you have been a rod to her friends; you have not indeed lov’d the common people.
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Two Noble Kinsmen 2.1: 12
It seems to me they have no more sense of their captivity than I of ruling Athens. They eat well, look merrily, discourse of many things, but nothing of their own restraint and disasters. Yet sometime a divided sigh, martyr’d as ’twere i’ th’ deliverance, will break from one of them; when the other presently gives it so sweet a rebuke that I could wish myself a sigh to be so chid, or at least a sigher to be comforted.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 5.4: 162
[continues previous] I think the boy hath grace in him; he blushes.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 519
Ha, ha, what a fool Honesty is! And Trust, his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman! I have sold all my trompery; not a counterfeit stone, not a ribbon, glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape, glove, shoe-tie, bracelet, horn-ring, to keep my pack from fasting. They throng who should buy first, as if my trinkets had been hallow’d and ...
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 531
... be so still; here’s nobody will steal that from thee. Yet for the outside of thy poverty we must make an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly (thou must think there’s a necessity in’t) and change garments with this gentleman. Though the pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee, there’s some boot. [continues next]
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.5: 22
I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always lov’d a great fire, and the master I speak of ever keeps a good fire. But sure he is the prince of the world; let his nobility remain in ’s court. I am for the house with the narrow gate, which I take to be too little for ...
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 531
Why, be so still; here’s nobody will steal that from thee. Yet for the outside of thy poverty we must make an exchange; therefore discase thee instantly (thou must think there’s a necessity in’t) and change garments with this gentleman. Though the pennyworth on his side be the worst, yet hold thee, there’s some boot.
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Much Ado About Nothing 1.1: 46
I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick, nobody marks you.
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.2: 15
Sir, I am a poor friend of yours that loves you. [continues next]
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.5: 22
I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always lov’d a great fire, and the master I speak of ever keeps a good fire. But sure he is the prince of the world; let his nobility remain in ’s court. I am for the house with the narrow gate, which I take to be too little for ... [continues next]
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All's Well That Ends Well 1.3: 4
[continues previous] ’Tis not unknown to you, madam, I am a poor fellow.
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.2: 15
[continues previous] Sir, I am a poor friend of yours that loves you.
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.5: 22
[continues previous] I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always lov’d a great fire, and the master I speak of ever keeps a good fire. But sure he is the prince of the world; let his nobility remain in ’s court. I am for the house with the narrow gate, which I take ...
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Henry IV Part 2 2.2: 11
Marry, I tell thee it is not meet that I should be sad, now my father is sick, albeit I could tell to thee — as to one it pleases me, for fault of a better, to call my friend — I could be sad, and sad indeed too.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 562
I understand the business, I hear it. To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse; a good nose is requisite also, to smell out work for th’ other senses. I see this is the time that the unjust man doth thrive. What an exchange had this been, without boot! What a boot is here, with this exchange! Sure the gods do this year connive at us, and we may do any thing extempore. The Prince himself is about a piece of iniquity: stealing away from his father with his clog at his heels. If I thought it were a piece of honesty to acquaint the King withal, I would not do’t. I hold it the more knavery to conceal it; and therein am I constant to my profession.
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Sir Thomas More 1.1: 19
Indeed, my lord Mayor, on the ambassador’s complaint, sent me to Newgate one day, because (against my will) I took the wall of a stranger. You may do any thing; the goldsmith’s wife and mine now must be at your commandment.
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Winter's Tale 5.2: 12
Like an old tale still, which will have matter to rehearse, though credit be asleep and not an ear open: he was torn to pieces with a bear. This avouches the shepherd’s son, who has not only his innocence (which seems much) to justify him, but a handkerchief and rings of his that Paulina knows.
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Hamlet 5.2: 128
I am constant to my purposes, they follow the King’s pleasure. If his fitness speaks, mine is ready; now or whensoever, provided I be so able as now.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 563
Aside, aside, here is more matter for a hot brain. Every lane’s end, every shop, church, session, hanging, yields a careful man work.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 564
See, see; what a man you are now! There is no other way but to tell the King she’s a changeling, and none of your flesh and blood.
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All's Well That Ends Well 4.1: 1
He can come no other way but by this hedge-corner. When you sally upon him, speak what terrible language you will. Though you understand it not yourselves, no matter; for we must not seem to understand him, unless some one among us, whom we must produce for an interpreter.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 568
She being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh and blood has not offended the King, and so your flesh and blood is not to be punish’d by him. Show those things you found about her, those secret things, all but what she has with her. This being done, let the law go whistle; I warrant you.
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Hamlet 5.1: 7
Give me leave. Here lies the water; good. Here stands the man; good. If the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes, mark you that. But if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself; argal, he that is ... [continues next]
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Hamlet 5.1: 7
[continues previous] Give me leave. Here lies the water; good. Here stands the man; good. If the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes, mark you that. But if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself; argal, he that is ...
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 568
She being none of your flesh and blood, your flesh and blood has not offended the King, and so your flesh and blood is not to be punish’d by him. Show those things you found about her, those secret things, all but what she has with her. This being done, let the law go whistle; I warrant you.
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Tempest 2.1: 153
No, I warrant you, I will not adventure my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy? [continues next]
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 564
See, see; what a man you are now! There is no other way but to tell the King she’s a changeling, and none of your flesh and blood.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 569
I will tell the King all, every word, yea, and his son’s pranks too; who, I may say, is no honest man, neither to his father nor to me, to go about to make me the King’s brother-in-law.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 1.4: 37
What shall de honest man do in my closet? Dere is no honest man dat shall come in my closet.
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Tempest 2.1: 153
[continues previous] No, I warrant you, I will not adventure my discretion so weakly. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 570
Indeed brother-in-law was the farthest off you could have been to him, and then your blood had been the dearer by I know how much an ounce.
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All's Well That Ends Well 3.5: 8
I hope so. Look here comes a pilgrim. I know she will lie at my house; thither they send one another. I’ll question her. God save you, pilgrim, whither are bound? [continues next]
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.2: 13
To be young again, if we could, I will be a fool in question, hoping to be the wiser by your answer. I pray you, sir, are you a courtier? [continues next]
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 583
Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings? Hath not my gait in it the measure of the court? Receives not thy nose court-odor from me? Reflect I not on thy baseness court-contempt? Think’st thou, for that I insinuate, that toze from thee thy business, I am therefore no courtier? I am courtier cap-a-pe, and one that will either push on or pluck back thy business there; whereupon I command thee to open thy affair.
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All's Well That Ends Well 2.2: 12
[continues previous] But a trifle neither, in good faith, if the learned should speak truth of it. Here it is, and all that belongs to’t. Ask me if I am a courtier: it shall do you no harm to learn.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 604
[continues previous] Has the old man e’er a son, sir, do you hear, and’t like you, sir?
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 596
Sir, there lies such secrets in this fardel and box, which none must know but the King, and which he shall know within this hour, if I may come to th’ speech of him.
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Cymbeline 4.1: 1
... not beneath him in fortunes, beyond him in the advantage of the time, above him in birth, alike conversant in general services, and more remarkable in single oppositions; yet this imperceiverant thing loves him in my despite. What mortality is! Posthumus, thy head, which now is growing upon thy shoulders, shall within this hour be off, thy mistress enforc’d, thy garments cut to pieces before her face: and all this done, spurn her home to her father, who may (happily) be a little angry for my so rough usage; but my mother, having power of his testiness, shall turn all into my commendations. My ...
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 599
The King is not at the palace. He is gone aboard a new ship to purge melancholy and air himself; for if thou be’st capable of things serious, thou must know the King is full of grief.
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King Lear 1.4: 15
If thou be’st as poor for a subject as he’s for a king, th’ art poor enough. What wouldst thou?
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 600
So ’tis said, sir — about his son, that should have married a shepherd’s daughter.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 601
If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him fly. The curses he shall have, the tortures he shall feel, will break the back of man, the heart of monster.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 603
Not he alone shall suffer what wit can make heavy and vengeance bitter; but those that are germane to him (though remov’d fifty times) shall all come under the hangman; which though it be great pity, yet it is necessary. An old sheep-whistling rogue, a ram-tender, to offer to have his daughter come into grace! Some say he shall be ston’d; but that death is too soft for him, say I. Draw our throne into a sheep-cote! — all deaths are too few, the sharpest too easy.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 583
Whether it like me or no, I am a courtier. Seest thou not the air of the court in these enfoldings? Hath not my gait in it the measure of the court? Receives not thy nose court-odor from me? Reflect I not on thy baseness court-contempt? Think’st thou, for that I insinuate, that ...
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 605
He has a son, who shall be flay’d alive; then ’nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp’s nest; then stand till he be three quarters and a dram dead; then recover’d again with aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as he is (and in the hottest day prognostication proclaims), shall he be set against a brick-wall, the sun looking with a southward eye upon him, where he is to behold him with flies blown to death. But what talk we of these traitorly rascals, whose miseries are to be smil’d at, their offenses being so capital? Tell me (for you seem to be honest plain men) what you have to the King. Being something gently consider’d, I’ll bring you where he is aboard, tender your persons to his presence, whisper him in your behalfs; and if it be in man besides the King to effect your suits, here is man shall do it.
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As You Like It 3.4: 20
I met the Duke yesterday, and had much question with him. He ask’d me of what parentage I was. I told him of as good as he, so he laugh’d and let me go. But what talk we of fathers, when there is such a man as Orlando?
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.2: 28
Come, we’ll have you merry: I’ll bring you where you shall hear music and see the gentleman that you ask’d for.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 606
He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold. Show the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand, and no more ado. Remember “ston’d,” and “flay’d alive.” [continues next]
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 606
He seems to be of great authority. Close with him, give him gold; and though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold. Show the inside of your purse to the outside of his hand, and no more ado. Remember “ston’d,” and “flay’d alive.”
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Double Falsehood 1.2: 2
O, come on, sir; read this paper: no more ado, but read it: it must not be answer’d by my hand, nor yours, but, in gross, by your person; your sole person. Read aloud.
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 4.4: 1
... smell before, knew it was Crab, and goes me to the fellow that whips the dogs: “Friend,” quoth I, “you mean to whip the dog?” “Ay, marry, do I,” quoth he. “You do him the more wrong,” quoth I, “’twas I did the thing you wot of.” He makes me no more ado, but whips me out of the chamber. How many masters would do this for his servant? Nay, I’ll be sworn, I have sat in the stocks for puddings he hath stol’n, otherwise he had been executed; I have stood on the pillory for geese he hath kill’d, otherwise he had ...
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 605
[continues previous] He has a son, who shall be flay’d alive; then ’nointed over with honey, set on the head of a wasp’s nest; then stand till he be three quarters and a dram dead; then recover’d again with aqua-vitae or some other hot infusion; then, raw as he is (and in the hottest day prognostication proclaims), shall he be set ...
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 80
These four came all afront, and mainly thrust at me. I made me no more ado but took all their seven points in my target, thus.
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Henry V 4.7: 63
And’t please your Majesty, ’tis the gage of one that I should fight withal, if he be alive.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 607
And’t please you, sir, to undertake the business for us, here is that gold I have. I’ll make it as much more, and leave this young man in pawn till I bring it you.
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 37
Very well, my lord, very well. Rather, and’t please you, it is the disease of not list’ning, the malady of not marking, that I am troubled withal.
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Henry IV Part 2 3.2: 39
What think you, Sir John? A good-limb’d fellow, young, strong, and of good friends.
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Henry V 4.7: 65
And’t please your Majesty, a rascal that swagger’d with me last night; who if alive and ever dare to challenge this glove, I have sworn to take him a box a’ th’ ear; or if I can see my glove in his cap, which he swore, as he was a soldier, he ...
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Coriolanus 1.1: 51
Well, I’ll hear it, sir; yet you must not think to fob off our disgrace with a tale. But and’t please you, deliver.
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Two Noble Kinsmen 2.1: 2
Sir, I demand no more than your own offer, and I will estate your daughter in what I have promis’d.
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 16
Indeed, it does stink in some sort, sir; but yet, sir, I would prove — [continues next]
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Two Noble Kinsmen 2.1: 3
Well, we will talk more of this when the solemnity is past. But have you a full promise of her? When that shall be seen, I tender my consent.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 611
In some sort, sir; but though my case be a pitiful one, I hope I shall not be flay’d out of it.
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 16
[continues previous] Indeed, it does stink in some sort, sir; but yet, sir, I would prove —
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 612
O, that’s the case of the shepherd’s son. Hang him, he’ll be made an example.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 613
Comfort, good comfort! We must to the King, and show our strange sights. He must know ’tis none of your daughter, nor my sister; we are gone else. Sir, I will give you as much as this old man does when the business is perform’d, and remain (as he says) your pawn till it be brought you.
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 617
If I had a mind to be honest, I see Fortune would not suffer me: she drops booties in my mouth. I am courted now with a double occasion: gold and a means to do the Prince my master good; which who knows how that may turn back to my advancement? I will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard him. If he think it fit to shore them again, and that the complaint they have to the King concerns him nothing, let him call me rogue for being so far officious, for I am proof against that title, and what shame else belongs to’t. To him will I present them, there may be matter in it.
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Winter's Tale 5.2: 31
I humbly beseech you, sir, to pardon me all the faults I have committed to your worship, and to give me your good report to the Prince my master.