Comparison of William Shakespeare Richard III 1.1 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare Richard III 1.1 has 162 lines, and 1% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in William Shakespeare. 36% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 63% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.02 strong matches and 1.14 weak matches.

Richard III 1.1

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Richard III 1.1: 5

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths,
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Coriolanus 1.3: 1

... honor would become such a person, that it was no better than picture-like to hang by th’ wall, if renown made it not stir, was pleas’d to let him seek danger where he was like to find fame. To a cruel war I sent him, from whence he return’d, his brows bound with oak. I tell thee, daughter, I sprang not more in joy at first hearing he was a man-child than now in first seeing he had prov’d himself a man.
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Richard III 1.1: 7

Our stern alarums chang’d to merry meetings,
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Passionate Pilgrim: 289

All our pleasure known to us poor swains, [continues next]
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Passionate Pilgrim: 290

All our merry meetings on the plains, [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 8

Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
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Passionate Pilgrim: 290

[continues previous] All our merry meetings on the plains,
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Passionate Pilgrim: 291

[continues previous] All our evening sport from us is fled,
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Richard III 1.1: 10

And now, in stead of mounting barbed steeds
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Richard II 3.3: 117

His barbed steeds to stables, and his heart [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 11

To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
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Richard II 3.3: 117

[continues previous] His barbed steeds to stables, and his heart
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Richard III 1.1: 12

He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber
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Winter's Tale 4.4: 196

Perfume for a lady’s chamber;
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Richard III 1.1: 21

Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
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Cymbeline 4.2: 111

You say he is so fell. Being scarce made up, [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 22

And that so lamely and unfashionable
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Cymbeline 4.2: 111

[continues previous] You say he is so fell. Being scarce made up,
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Richard III 1.1: 34

To set my brother Clarence and the King
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Richard II 2.2: 132

Wherein the King stands generally condemn’d. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 35

In deadly hate the one against the other;
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Richard II 2.2: 131

[continues previous] By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.
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Richard II 2.2: 132

[continues previous] Wherein the King stands generally condemn’d.
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Richard III 1.1: 36

And if King Edward be as true and just
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Richard II 3.3: 119

This swears he, as he is a prince, is just, [continues next]
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Richard II 3.3: 120

And as I am a gentleman I credit him. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 37

As I am subtle, false, and treacherous,
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Richard II 3.3: 120

[continues previous] And as I am a gentleman I credit him.
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Richard III 1.1: 38

This day should Clarence closely be mew’d up
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Taming of the Shrew 1.1: 152

And therefore has he closely mew’d her up,
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Richard III 1.1: 51

But what’s the matter, Clarence, may I know?
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Cymbeline 1.1: 3

Still seem as does the King’s. But what’s the matter?
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Two Noble Kinsmen 1.2: 89

But what’s the matter?
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Richard III 1.1: 52

Yea, Richard, when I know; but I protest
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Love's Labour's Lost 1.1: 169

How you delight, my lords, I know not, I, [continues next]
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Love's Labour's Lost 1.1: 170

But I protest I love to hear him lie, [continues next]
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Pericles 4.3: 51

But yet I know you’ll do as I advise. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 53

As yet I do not. But, as I can learn,
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Love's Labour's Lost 1.1: 169

[continues previous] How you delight, my lords, I know not, I,
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Love's Labour's Lost 1.1: 170

[continues previous] But I protest I love to hear him lie,
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Pericles 4.3: 51

[continues previous] But yet I know you’ll do as I advise.
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Richard III 1.1: 72

But the Queen’s kindred, and night-walking heralds
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Richard III 1.1: 95

And that the Queen’s kindred are made gentlefolks. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 73

That trudge betwixt the King and Mistress Shore.
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Richard III 1.1: 95

[continues previous] And that the Queen’s kindred are made gentlefolks.
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Richard III 1.1: 74

Heard you not what an humble suppliant
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Titus Andronicus 4.3: 101

For then hast made it like an humble suppliant.
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Richard III 1.1: 77

Got my Lord Chamberlain his liberty.
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Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 87

... let him go while the humor lasts. A’ my word, and she knew him as well as I do, she would think scolding would do little good upon him. She may perhaps call him half a score knaves or so. Why, that’s nothing; and he begin once, he’ll rail in his rope-tricks. I’ll tell you what, sir, and she stand him but a little, he will throw a figure in her face, and so disfigure her with it, that she shall have no more eyes to see withal than a cat. You know him not, sir. [continues next]
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Henry IV Part 2 1.1: 51

Had met ill luck? My lord, I’ll tell you what: [continues next]
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Troilus and Cressida 2.1: 44

This lord, Achilles, Ajax, who wears his wit in his belly and his guts in his head, I’ll tell you what I say of him. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 78

I’ll tell you what, I think it is our way,
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Comedy of Errors 3.1: 14

Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.
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Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 87

[continues previous] ... go while the humor lasts. A’ my word, and she knew him as well as I do, she would think scolding would do little good upon him. She may perhaps call him half a score knaves or so. Why, that’s nothing; and he begin once, he’ll rail in his rope-tricks. I’ll tell you what, sir, and she stand him but a little, he will throw a figure in her face, and so disfigure her with it, that she shall have no more eyes to see withal than a cat. You know him not, sir.
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Two Noble Kinsmen 1.2: 37

How dangerous, if we will keep our honors, [continues next]
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Two Noble Kinsmen 1.2: 38

It is for our residing; where every evil [continues next]
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Henry IV Part 2 1.1: 51

[continues previous] Had met ill luck? My lord, I’ll tell you what:
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Henry IV Part 2 5.4: 6

I’ll tell you what, you thin man in a censer, I will have you as soundly swing’d for this — you blue-bottle rogue, you filthy famish’d correctioner, if you be not swing’d, I’ll forswear half-kirtles.
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Henry VIII 5.1: 42

Sir (I may tell it you), I think I have
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Richard III 3.1: 89

I’ll tell you what, my cousin Buckingham —
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Othello 2.3: 232

You, or any man living, may be drunk at a time, man. I’ll tell you what you shall do. Our general’s wife is now the general — I may say so in this respect, for that he hath devoted and given up himself to the contemplation, mark, and denotement of her parts and graces. Confess yourself freely to her; importune her help to put you in ...
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Troilus and Cressida 2.1: 44

[continues previous] This lord, Achilles, Ajax, who wears his wit in his belly and his guts in his head, I’ll tell you what I say of him.
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Troilus and Cressida 5.2: 20

I’ll tell you what
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Richard III 1.1: 79

If we will keep in favor with the King,
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Two Noble Kinsmen 1.2: 37

[continues previous] How dangerous, if we will keep our honors,
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Richard III 1.1: 84

I beseech your Graces both to pardon me:
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Henry VIII 2.2: 5

Good day to both your Graces.
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Richard II 2.1: 141

I do beseech your Majesty, impute his words [continues next]
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Richard II 2.1: 142

To wayward sickliness and age in him. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 102

Her husband, knave. Wouldst thou betray me?
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Richard III 1.1: 103

I do beseech your Grace to pardon me, and withal
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Richard III 4.1: 5

Daughter, well met. God give your Graces both
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Romeo and Juliet 4.2: 18

To beg your pardon.
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Romeo and Juliet 4.2: 19

Pardon, I beseech you!
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Richard III 1.1: 85

His Majesty hath straitly given in charge
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Pericles 2.4: 17

See, not a man in private conference [continues next]
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Richard II 2.1: 141

[continues previous] I do beseech your Majesty, impute his words
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Richard III 1.1: 86

That no man shall have private conference
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Pericles 2.4: 17

[continues previous] See, not a man in private conference
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Henry VIII 2.2: 72

Of private conference. We are busy; go. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 87

(Of what degree soever) with your brother.
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Henry VIII 2.2: 72

[continues previous] Of private conference. We are busy; go.
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Richard III 1.1: 88

Even so? And please your worship, Brakenbury,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 2.2: 13

Not so, and’t please your worship.
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Richard III 1.1: 95

And that the Queen’s kindred are made gentlefolks.
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Richard III 1.1: 72

But the Queen’s kindred, and night-walking heralds
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Richard III 1.1: 73

That trudge betwixt the King and Mistress Shore.
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Richard III 1.1: 98

Naught to do with Mistress Shore? I tell thee, fellow,
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Cymbeline 5.4: 154

I tell thee, fellow, there are none want eyes to direct them the way I am going, but such as wink and will not use them.
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Richard III 3.5: 51

After he once fell in with Mistress Shore.
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Coriolanus 5.2: 13

Is not here passable. I tell thee, fellow,
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Richard III 1.1: 102

Her husband, knave. Wouldst thou betray me?
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Cardenio 1.1: 165

I need no spur, my lord; honour pricks me. I do beseech your grace look cheerfully. You shall not want content if it be locked In any blood of mine. The key’s your own. You shall command the words. [continues next]
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As You Like It 1.3: 25

Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me: [continues next]
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Merry Wives of Windsor 2.2: 87

... Brook, you shall want none. I shall be with her (I may tell you) by her own appointment; even as you came in to me, her assistant or go-between parted from me. I say I shall be with her between ten and eleven; for at that time the jealous rascally knave her husband will be forth. Come you to me at night, you shall know how I speed.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 58

I do entreat your Grace to pardon me. [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 133

No, my lord, unless I might have another for working-days. Your Grace is too costly to wear every day. But I beseech your Grace pardon me, I was born to speak all mirth and no matter. [continues next]
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Richard II 5.2: 60

I do beseech your Grace to pardon me. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 84

I beseech your Graces both to pardon me: [continues next]
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Richard III 3.7: 106

I do beseech your Grace to pardon me, [continues next]
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Sonnet 151: 5

For thou betraying me, I do betray [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 103

I do beseech your Grace to pardon me, and withal
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Cardenio 1.1: 165

[continues previous] I need no spur, my lord; honour pricks me. I do beseech your grace look cheerfully. You shall not want content if it be locked In any blood of mine. The key’s your own. You shall command the words.
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Cardenio 4.3: 24

I beseech your grace,
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Cardenio 4.3: 25

Twill come to a worse hand. You’ll find us all Of one mind for the church, I can assure you, sir.
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As You Like It 1.3: 24

[continues previous] Thou diest for it. I do beseech your Grace
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As You Like It 1.3: 25

[continues previous] Let me the knowledge of my fault bear with me:
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Comedy of Errors 5.1: 252

Ran hither to your Grace, whom I beseech
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Comedy of Errors 5.1: 253

To give me ample satisfaction
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 59

[continues previous] I know not by what power I am made bold, [continues next]
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Much Ado About Nothing 2.1: 133

[continues previous] No, my lord, unless I might have another for working-days. Your Grace is too costly to wear every day. But I beseech your Grace pardon me, I was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
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Henry VIII 2.1: 79

I do beseech your Grace, for charity,
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Richard II 5.2: 60

[continues previous] I do beseech your Grace to pardon me. [continues next]
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Richard II 5.3: 26

God save your Grace! I do beseech your Majesty,
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Richard III 1.1: 84

[continues previous] I beseech your Graces both to pardon me:
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Richard III 3.7: 106

[continues previous] I do beseech your Grace to pardon me,
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Sonnet 151: 5

[continues previous] For thou betraying me, I do betray
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King Lear 2.2: 104

Let me beseech your Grace not to do so.
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King Lear 3.4: 101

I do beseech your Grace — O, cry you mercy, sir.
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Richard III 1.1: 104

Forbear your conference with the noble Duke.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 1.1: 58

[continues previous] I do entreat your Grace to pardon me.
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Richard II 5.2: 60

[continues previous] I do beseech your Grace to pardon me.
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Richard III 3.4: 8

Who is most inward with the noble Duke? [continues next]
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Richard III 3.4: 9

Your Grace, we think, should soonest know his mind. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 105

We know thy charge, Brakenbury, and will obey.
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Richard III 3.4: 9

[continues previous] Your Grace, we think, should soonest know his mind.
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Richard III 1.1: 112

Touches me deeper than you can imagine.
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Romeo and Juliet 1.1: 121

I neither know it, nor can learn of him. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 113

I know it pleaseth neither of us well.
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Romeo and Juliet 1.1: 121

[continues previous] I neither know it, nor can learn of him.
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Richard III 1.1: 114

Well, your imprisonment shall not be long,
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King Lear 3.6: 1

Here is better than the open air, take it thankfully. I will piece out the comfort with what addition I can. I will not be long from you. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 115

I will deliver you, or else lie for you.
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Henry VIII 4.2: 166

You must not leave me yet. I must to bed, [continues next]
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King Lear 3.6: 1

[continues previous] Here is better than the open air, take it thankfully. I will piece out the comfort with what addition I can. I will not be long from you.
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Richard III 1.1: 116

Mean time, have patience. I must perforce. Farewell.
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Sir Thomas More 4.4: 164

Strange farewell! Thou shalt ne’er more see More true, [continues next]
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Henry VIII 4.2: 165

[continues previous] My lord. Griffith, farewell. Nay, Patience,
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Henry VIII 4.2: 166

[continues previous] You must not leave me yet. I must to bed,
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Richard III 3.7: 231

I must have patience to endure the load;
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Antony and Cleopatra 5.1: 37

Diseases in our bodies. I must perforce
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Antony and Cleopatra 5.1: 38

Have shown to thee such a declining day,
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Richard III 1.1: 117

Go tread the path that thou shalt ne’er return:
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Sir Thomas More 4.4: 164

[continues previous] Strange farewell! Thou shalt ne’er more see More true,
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Richard III 1.1: 118

Simple plain Clarence, I do love thee so
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Richard III 1.1: 119

That I will shortly send thy soul to heaven,
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Richard III 1.1: 120

If heaven will take the present at our hands.
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Richard II 3.2: 90

Hath power enough to serve our turn. But who comes here? [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 121

But who comes here? The new-delivered Hastings?
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Edward III 5.1: 63

But who comes here?
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As You Like It 2.7: 87

Unclaim’d of any man. But who comes here?
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 83

But who comes here?
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Merchant of Venice 3.2: 216

But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel?
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Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1: 186

But who comes here? I am invisible,
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Henry IV Part 1 5.3: 30

... lead, and as heavy too. God keep lead out of me! I need no more weight than mine own bowels. I have led my ragamuffins where they are pepper’d; there’s not three of my hundred and fifty left alive, and they are for the town’s end, to beg during life. But who comes here?
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Richard II 2.3: 20

Than your good words. But who comes here? [continues next]
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Richard II 2.3: 67

Stands for my bounty. But who comes here?
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Richard II 3.2: 90

[continues previous] Hath power enough to serve our turn. But who comes here?
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Richard II 3.3: 19

Against their will. But who comes here?
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Richard II 5.3: 22

May happily bring forth. But who comes here?
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Richard III 4.1: 12

And in good time, here the Lieutenant comes. [continues next]
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King Lear 4.1: 9

Owes nothing to thy blasts. But who comes here?
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King Lear 4.6: 81

Bear free and patient thoughts. But who comes here?
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King Lear 4.6: 82

The safer sense will ne’er accommodate
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Titus Andronicus 5.1: 19

But who comes here, led by a lusty Goth?
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Richard III 1.1: 122

Good time of day unto my gracious lord!
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 39

[continues previous] Good morrow, neighbor Baptista.
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Henry VIII 2.2: 4

Well met, my Lord Chamberlain. [continues next]
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Richard II 2.3: 20

[continues previous] Than your good words. But who comes here?
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Richard III 1.3: 18

Good time of day unto your royal Grace!
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Richard III 4.1: 12

[continues previous] And in good time, here the Lieutenant comes.
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Richard III 1.1: 123

As much unto my good Lord Chamberlain!
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Henry VIII 2.2: 53

Health to your lordships. Thanks, my good Lord Chamberlain.
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Richard III 1.1: 124

Well are you welcome to the open air.
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Pericles 1.2: 87

That I should open to the list’ning air [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 2.1: 69

I know him well; you are welcome for his sake.
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Henry VI Part 3 3.2: 177

Not knowing how to find the open air, [continues next]
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Henry VIII 2.2: 4

[continues previous] Well met, my Lord Chamberlain.
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Richard III 1.1: 125

How hath your lordship brook’d imprisonment?
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Pericles 1.2: 88

[continues previous] How many worthy princes’ bloods were shed
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Henry VI Part 3 3.2: 177

[continues previous] Not knowing how to find the open air,
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Richard III 1.1: 129

No doubt, no doubt, and so shall Clarence too,
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Richard III 3.1: 154

To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously?
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Richard III 3.1: 155

No doubt, no doubt. O, ’tis a perilous boy,
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Richard III 1.1: 131

And have prevail’d as much on him as you.
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Julius Caesar 2.1: 254

As it hath much prevail’d on your condition,
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Richard III 1.1: 134

What news abroad?
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Edward III 3.2: 6

Have ye not heard the news that flies abroad?
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Edward III 3.2: 7

What news?
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 41

Then, Pompey, nor now. What news abroad, friar? What news? [continues next]
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 99

What news abroad i’ th’ world? [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 3 2.1: 95

How now, fair lords? What fare? What news abroad? [continues next]
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Henry VIII 3.2: 391

What news abroad? The heaviest and the worst [continues next]
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King John 5.6: 16

Come, come; sans compliment, what news abroad? [continues next]
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Richard III 4.3: 45

Good or bad news, that thou com’st in so bluntly? [continues next]
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Richard III 4.3: 46

Bad news, my lord. Morton is fled to Richmond, [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 135

No news so bad abroad as this at home:
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 41

[continues previous] Then, Pompey, nor now. What news abroad, friar? What news?
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Measure for Measure 3.2: 99

[continues previous] What news abroad i’ th’ world?
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Henry VI Part 3 2.1: 95

[continues previous] How now, fair lords? What fare? What news abroad?
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Henry VIII 3.2: 391

[continues previous] What news abroad? The heaviest and the worst
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King John 5.6: 16

[continues previous] Come, come; sans compliment, what news abroad?
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Richard III 4.3: 45

[continues previous] Good or bad news, that thou com’st in so bluntly?
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Richard III 4.3: 46

[continues previous] Bad news, my lord. Morton is fled to Richmond,
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Richard III 1.1: 136

The King is sickly, weak, and melancholy,
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Henry V 3.6: 70

My army but a weak and sickly guard;
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Richard III 1.1: 141

’Tis very grievous to be thought upon.
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Richard III 1.3: 342

That we may be admitted where he is. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.3: 343

Well thought upon, I have it here about me. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 142

Where is he? In his bed?
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Richard III 1.3: 342

[continues previous] That we may be admitted where he is.
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Richard III 1.1: 145

He cannot live, I hope, and must not die
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Venus and Adonis: 1017

To wail his death who lives, and must not die [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 146

Till George be pack’d with post-horse up to heaven.
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Venus and Adonis: 1018

[continues previous] Till mutual overthrow of mortal kind!
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Richard III 1.1: 154

What though I kill’d her husband and her father?
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Richard III 1.1: 156

Is to become her husband and her father: [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 157

The which will I, not all so much for love [continues next]
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Richard III 1.2: 231

I’ll have her, but I will not keep her long.
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Richard III 1.2: 232

What? I, that kill’d her husband and his father,
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Richard III 1.2: 233

To take her in her heart’s extremest hate,
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Titus Andronicus 3.1: 114

Perchance she weeps because they kill’d her husband,
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Titus Andronicus 5.2: 172

You kill’d her husband, and for that vild fault
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Richard III 1.1: 155

The readiest way to make the wench amends
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Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 187

Tell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 188

To the house of Signior Baptista Minola? [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 156

[continues previous] Is to become her husband and her father: [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 157

[continues previous] The which will I, not all so much for love
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Richard III 1.1: 156

Is to become her husband and her father:
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Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 187

[continues previous] Tell me, I beseech you, which is the readiest way
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Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 188

[continues previous] To the house of Signior Baptista Minola?
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Richard III 1.1: 154

What though I kill’d her husband and her father? [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 155

[continues previous] The readiest way to make the wench amends [continues next]
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Richard III 1.1: 157

The which will I, not all so much for love
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Richard III 1.1: 154

[continues previous] What though I kill’d her husband and her father?
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Richard III 1.1: 155

[continues previous] The readiest way to make the wench amends
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Richard III 1.1: 162

When they are gone, then must I count my gains.
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Edward III 2.2: 176

Which now lies fast a sleep within my heart:
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Edward III 2.2: 177

When they are gone, then I’ll consent to love.