Comparison of William Shakespeare Funeral Elegy to William Shakespeare

Comparison of William Shakespeare Funeral Elegy to William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare Funeral Elegy has 578 lines, and less than 1% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in William Shakespeare. 9% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 91% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.12 weak matches.

Funeral Elegy

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Funeral Elegy: 8

Sith as [that] ever he maintain'd the same?
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Funeral Elegy: 297

Which ever he maintain'd in sweet content [continues next]
10

Funeral Elegy: 9

Oblivion in the darkest day to come,
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Funeral Elegy: 297

[continues previous] Which ever he maintain'd in sweet content
10

Funeral Elegy: 39

Sometime in reputation not oppress'd
10

Funeral Elegy: 336

And not oppress'd by wrath's unhappy sin- [continues next]
10

Funeral Elegy: 40

By some in nothing famous but defame?
10

Funeral Elegy: 336

[continues previous] And not oppress'd by wrath's unhappy sin-
12

Funeral Elegy: 55

Those noble twins of heaven-infused races,
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Henry VIII 4.2: 58

Those twins of learning that he rais’d in you, [continues next]
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Funeral Elegy: 56

Learning and Wit, refined in their kind
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Henry VIII 4.2: 58

[continues previous] Those twins of learning that he rais’d in you,
10

Funeral Elegy: 110

In knowing, but for that it was the best,
10

Love's Labour's Lost 1.1: 218

This is not so well as I look’d for, but the best that ever I heard. [continues next]
10

Funeral Elegy: 111

Ever within himself free choice resuming
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Love's Labour's Lost 1.1: 218

[continues previous] This is not so well as I look’d for, but the best that ever I heard.
10

Funeral Elegy: 142

Of plenty and desert, have strove to win
10

Funeral Elegy: 508

Strove to win love in general, is sad,
12

Funeral Elegy: 161

Whiles parents to their children will make known,
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Cymbeline 2.4: 24

(Now wing-led with their courages) will make known [continues next]
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Cymbeline 2.4: 25

To their approvers they are people such [continues next]
12

Funeral Elegy: 162

And they to their posterity impart,
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Cymbeline 2.4: 24

[continues previous] (Now wing-led with their courages) will make known
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Cymbeline 2.4: 25

[continues previous] To their approvers they are people such
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Funeral Elegy: 170

As they will all go weeping to their beds.
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Richard II 5.1: 45

And send the hearers weeping to their beds. [continues next]
10

Hamlet 4.4: 62

Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot [continues next]
13

Funeral Elegy: 171

For when the world lies winter'd in the storms
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Richard II 5.1: 45

[continues previous] And send the hearers weeping to their beds.
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Richard II 5.1: 46

[continues previous] For why, the senseless brands will sympathize
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Hamlet 4.4: 62

[continues previous] Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot
11

Funeral Elegy: 195

What can we leave behind us but a name,
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Sir Thomas More 2.5: 112

Only two little babes we leave behind us,
10

Funeral Elegy: 198

Thou didst deserve and hast; for though thy soul
10

Funeral Elegy: 250

What more thou didst deserve than in thy name,
10

Funeral Elegy: 206

In this last act of friendship, sacrifice
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Sir Thomas More 5.4: 59

and do it instantly. I confess, his majesty hath been ever good to me; and my offense to his highness makes me of a state pleader a stage player (though I am old, and have a bad voice), to act this last scene of my tragedy. I’ll send him (for my trespass) a reverend head, somewhat bald; for it is not requisite any head should stand covered to so high majesty. If that content him not, because I think my body will then do me small pleasure, let him but bury it, and take ... [continues next]
10

Funeral Elegy: 207

My love to thee, which I could not set forth
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Sir Thomas More 5.4: 59

[continues previous] and do it instantly. I confess, his majesty hath been ever good to me; and my offense to his highness makes me of a state pleader a stage player (though I am old, and have a bad voice), to act this last scene of my tragedy. I’ll send him (for my trespass) a reverend head, somewhat bald; for it is not requisite any head should stand covered to so high majesty. If that content him not, because I think my body will then do me small pleasure, let him but bury it, and take it.
10

Funeral Elegy: 210

To speak the language of a servile breath,
10

Richard II 3.2: 185

Where fearing dying pays death servile breath. [continues next]
10

Funeral Elegy: 211

My truth stole from my tongue into my heart,
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Richard II 3.2: 186

[continues previous] My father hath a power, inquire of him,
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Funeral Elegy: 217

By what I would have been, not only ready
10

Coriolanus 2.1: 47

And ’twas time for him too, I’ll warrant him that; and he had stay’d by him, I would not have been so fidius’d for all the chests in Corioles, and the gold that’s in them. Is the Senate possess’d of this?
10

Funeral Elegy: 228

And limn thee to the world but as thou wert-
10

Romeo and Juliet 3.3: 65

Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love, [continues next]
10

Funeral Elegy: 229

Not hir'd, as heaven can witness in my soul,
10

Romeo and Juliet 3.3: 64

[continues previous] Thou canst not speak of that thou dost not feel.
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Romeo and Juliet 3.3: 65

[continues previous] Wert thou as young as I, Juliet thy love,
10

Funeral Elegy: 232

Which, pain to many men, I do not owe it.
10

Henry IV Part 1 3.1: 34

In passion shook. Cousin, of many men
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Henry IV Part 1 3.1: 35

I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave
10

Funeral Elegy: 234

(Fair lovely branch too soon cut off) to thee,
10

Merchant of Venice 4.1: 309

Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh.
11

Funeral Elegy: 236

As, had it chanc'd, thou mightst have done to me-
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Twelfth Night 4.2: 28

Thou mightst have done this without thy beard and gown, he sees thee not.
11

Timon of Athens 4.3: 310

If thou couldst please me with speaking to me, thou mightst have hit upon it here. The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
10

Funeral Elegy: 240

How s'ere enriched by thy plenteous skill.
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Edward III 2.1: 75

And be enriched by thy sovereign’s love.
10

Funeral Elegy: 247

Yet ere I take my longest last farewell
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Troilus and Cressida 5.3: 89

Farewell; yet soft: Hector, I take my leave.
10

Funeral Elegy: 250

What more thou didst deserve than in thy name,
10

Funeral Elegy: 198

Thou didst deserve and hast; for though thy soul
10

Funeral Elegy: 288

Their name by doing what they do not care),
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Macbeth 1.4: 26

Which do but what they should, by doing every thing
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Funeral Elegy: 297

Which ever he maintain'd in sweet content
11

Funeral Elegy: 8

Sith as [that] ever he maintain'd the same?
10

Funeral Elegy: 9

Oblivion in the darkest day to come,
15+

Funeral Elegy: 336

And not oppress'd by wrath's unhappy sin-
10

Funeral Elegy: 39

Sometime in reputation not oppress'd
10

Funeral Elegy: 40

By some in nothing famous but defame?
15+

Funeral Elegy: 337

By wrath's unhappy sin, which unadvis'd [continues next]
15+

Funeral Elegy: 337

By wrath's unhappy sin, which unadvis'd
15+

Funeral Elegy: 336

[continues previous] And not oppress'd by wrath's unhappy sin-
11

Funeral Elegy: 340

At higher rate, and reason set above
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Hamlet 1.3: 124

Set your entreatments at a higher rate
10

Funeral Elegy: 376

Should so profane the deity above
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Richard II 1.4: 13

Should so profane the word, that taught me craft
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Funeral Elegy: 392

Who sit with crowns of glory on their heads,
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 43

With rounds of waxen tapers on their heads, [continues next]
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Funeral Elegy: 393

Wash'd white in blood, from earth hence have not gone
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.4: 42

[continues previous] Like urchins, ouphes, and fairies, green and white,
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Funeral Elegy: 394

All to their joys in quiet on their beds,
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Henry VI Part 1 2.1: 6

When others sleep upon their quiet beds,
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Henry VI Part 1 2.1: 7

Constrain’d to watch in darkness, rain, and cold.
12

Funeral Elegy: 431

His being but a private man in rank
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Henry VIII 5.2: 90

Where being but a private man again,
10

Funeral Elegy: 440

Without fit ornaments of disposition,
10

Funeral Elegy: 469

Are, without ornaments to praise them, vile: [continues next]
10

Funeral Elegy: 441

Are in themselves but heathenish and [profaned],
10

Funeral Elegy: 468

[continues previous] With all what men in eminence possess,
10

Funeral Elegy: 469

[continues previous] Are, without ornaments to praise them, vile:
11

Funeral Elegy: 449

Do toil their giddy brains, and ever sweat
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Henry VI Part 1 3.1: 84

That many have their giddy brains knock’d out;
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Funeral Elegy: 455

Whence, when he falls, who did erewhile aspire,
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Henry VIII 3.2: 371

And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, [continues next]
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Funeral Elegy: 456

Falls deeper down, for that he climbed higher.
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Henry VIII 3.2: 371

[continues previous] And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
10

Funeral Elegy: 468

With all what men in eminence possess,
10

Funeral Elegy: 441

Are in themselves but heathenish and [profaned], [continues next]
10

Funeral Elegy: 469

Are, without ornaments to praise them, vile:
10

Funeral Elegy: 440

[continues previous] Without fit ornaments of disposition,
10

Funeral Elegy: 441

[continues previous] Are in themselves but heathenish and [profaned],
10

Funeral Elegy: 508

Strove to win love in general, is sad,
10

Funeral Elegy: 142

Of plenty and desert, have strove to win
10

Funeral Elegy: 518

As meager death itself seems to lament,
10

Henry IV Part 1 4.3: 81

Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep [continues next]
10

Funeral Elegy: 519

And weep upon those cheeks which nature fram'd
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Henry IV Part 1 4.3: 81

[continues previous] Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep
10

Funeral Elegy: 531

But since the sum of all that can be said
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Funeral Elegy: 532

Can be but said that "He was good" (which wholly [continues next]
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Funeral Elegy: 532

Can be but said that "He was good" (which wholly
10

Funeral Elegy: 531

[continues previous] But since the sum of all that can be said
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Funeral Elegy: 540

As witnesses I did not love thee least.
10

King Lear 1.1: 134

Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least,
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Funeral Elegy: 556

To wait on thee alive, I ask no more
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Two Noble Kinsmen 3.6: 91

Here’s one, if it but hold, I ask no more [continues next]
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Funeral Elegy: 557

(But shall hereafter in a poor content
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Two Noble Kinsmen 3.6: 91

[continues previous] Here’s one, if it but hold, I ask no more
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Funeral Elegy: 566

Of dim misfortune, has none other prop
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Henry VI Part 3 2.1: 68

Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon, [continues next]
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Funeral Elegy: 567

Whereon to lean and rest itself the while
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Henry VI Part 3 2.1: 68

[continues previous] Sweet Duke of York, our prop to lean upon,