Comparison of William Shakespeare King Lear 1.2 to William Shakespeare
Summary

William Shakespeare King Lear 1.2 has 85 lines, and 7% of them have strong matches at magnitude 15+ in William Shakespeare. 44% of the lines have weak matches at magnitude 10 to 14. 49% of the lines have no match. On average, each line has 0.08 strong matches and 1.71 weak matches.

King Lear 1.2

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King Lear 1.2: 8

My mind as generous, and my shape as true,
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Winter's Tale 2.3: 37

Do come with words as medicinal as true, [continues next]
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Winter's Tale 2.3: 38

Honest as either, to purge him of that humor [continues next]
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King Lear 1.2: 9

As honest madam’s issue? Why brand they us
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Winter's Tale 2.3: 37

[continues previous] Do come with words as medicinal as true,
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Winter's Tale 2.3: 38

[continues previous] Honest as either, to purge him of that humor
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King Lear 1.2: 16

Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land.
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King John 1.1: 129

Your father’s heir must have your father’s land. [continues next]
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King Lear 1.2: 17

Our father’s love is to the bastard Edmund
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King John 1.1: 129

[continues previous] Your father’s heir must have your father’s land.
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King Lear 1.2: 23

Kent banish’d thus? And France in choler parted?
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King Lear 3.4: 93

His daughters seek his death. Ah, that good Kent!
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King Lear 3.4: 94

He said it would be thus, poor banish’d man.
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King Lear 1.2: 26

Upon the gad? Edmund, how now? What news?
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Double Falsehood 5.2: 19

By this delay: — How now? So please your grace, — [continues next]
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Sir Thomas More 2.3: 17

How now! What news?
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Sir Thomas More 2.4: 208

How now, Crofts! What news?
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 38

How now, what news?
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Merchant of Venice 1.2: 39

The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take their leave; and there is a forerunner come from a fift, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the Prince his master will be here tonight.
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Merchant of Venice 3.1: 8

How now, Shylock, what news among the merchants?
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Merchant of Venice 3.1: 26

How now, Tubal, what news from Genoa? Hast thou found my daughter?
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Taming of the Shrew 5.2: 80

How now, what news? Sir, my mistress sends you word
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Twelfth Night 1.1: 22

E’er since pursue me. How now, what news from her?
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Henry IV Part 2 2.4: 151

Peto, how now, what news?
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Henry IV Part 2 2.4: 152

The King your father is at Westminster,
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Henry VI Part 2 4.4: 25

How now? What news? Why com’st thou in such haste?
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Henry VI Part 3 2.1: 205

How now? What news?
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Henry VI Part 3 2.1: 206

The Duke of Norfolk sends you word by me
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Henry VIII 1.3: 15

That sure th’ have worn out Christendom. How now?
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Henry VIII 1.3: 16

What news, Sir Thomas Lovell? Faith, my lord,
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Richard III 4.4: 432

How now? What news?
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Hamlet 4.7: 36

How now? What news? Letters, my lord, from Hamlet:
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King Lear 1.2: 62

How now, brother Edmund, what serious contemplation are you in?
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Macbeth 1.7: 28

And falls on th’ other — How now? What news?
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Timon of Athens 1.2: 141

Be worthily entertain’d. How now? What news?
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King Lear 1.2: 27

So please your lordship, none.
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Double Falsehood 5.2: 19

[continues previous] By this delay: — How now? So please your grace, —
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All's Well That Ends Well 3.6: 35

As’t please your lordship. I’ll leave you.
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Cymbeline 2.1: 13

Ay, it is fit for your lordship only. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 50

And say, “Will’t please your lordship cool your hands?”
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 75

So please your lordship to accept our duty. [continues next]
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 2: 2

Will’t please your lordship drink a cup of sack?
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Twelfth Night 2.4: 8

He is not here, so please your lordship, that should sing it. [continues next]
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Two Gentlemen of Verona 1.3: 52

May’t please your lordship, ’tis a word or two
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 11

Falstaff, and’t please your lordship.
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 29

And’t please your lordship, I hear his Majesty is return’d with some discomfort from Wales.
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Henry IV Part 2 1.2: 33

This apoplexy, as I take it, is a kind of lethargy, and’t please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.
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Richard III 3.2: 97

The better that your lordship please to ask.
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Timon of Athens 3.1: 10

Please your lordship, here is the wine.
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King Lear 1.2: 28

Why so earnestly seek you to put up that letter?
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Taming of the Shrew 1 Prologue 1: 75

[continues previous] So please your lordship to accept our duty.
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Twelfth Night 2.4: 8

[continues previous] He is not here, so please your lordship, that should sing it.
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King Lear 1.2: 32

No? What needed then that terrible dispatch of it into your pocket? The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself. Let’s see. Come, if it be nothing, I shall not need spectacles.
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Cymbeline 1.1: 135

Harm not yourself with your vexation, [continues next]
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King Lear 1.2: 33

I beseech you, sir, pardon me. It is a letter from my brother that I have not all o’er-read; and for so much as I have perus’d, I find it not fit for your o’erlooking.
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Cymbeline 1.1: 134

[continues previous] A year’s age on me. I beseech you, sir,
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Cymbeline 1.6: 160

For the most worthiest fit. Give me your pardon. [continues next]
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Cymbeline 3.2: 27

Madam, here is a letter from my lord.
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Merry Wives of Windsor 4.6: 10

Even to my wish. I have a letter from her
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Richard II 5.2: 60

I do beseech your Grace to pardon me.
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Richard II 5.2: 61

It is a matter of small consequence,
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Richard II 5.2: 70

I do beseech you pardon me, I may not show it.
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Coriolanus 4.7: 27

Sir, I beseech you, think you he’ll carry Rome?
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Julius Caesar 1.1: 14

Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me; yet if you be out, sir, I can mend you.
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Othello 4.3: 1

I do beseech you, sir, trouble yourself no further.
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Othello 4.3: 2

O, pardon me; ’twill do me good to walk.
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Timon of Athens 1.2: 165

I rode on. ’Tis yours, because you lik’d it.
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Timon of Athens 1.2: 166

O, I beseech you pardon me, my lord, in that.
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Timon of Athens 2.2: 88

Nor thou altogether a wise man; as much foolery as I have, so much wit thou lack’st.
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Titus Andronicus 3.2: 66

Pardon me, sir, it was a black ill-favor’d fly,
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King Lear 1.2: 34

Give me the letter, sir.
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Cymbeline 1.6: 160

[continues previous] For the most worthiest fit. Give me your pardon.
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King Lear 1.2: 38

... fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish them. I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffer’d. Come to me, that of this I may speak more. If our father would sleep till I wak’d him, you should enjoy half his revenue forever, and live the belov’d of your brother. Edgar.”
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King Lear 1.2: 40

“Sleep till I wake him, you should enjoy half his revenue.”
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King Lear 1.2: 40

“Sleep till I wake him, you should enjoy half his revenue.”
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King Lear 1.2: 38

... fortunes from us till our oldness cannot relish them. I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffer’d. Come to me, that of this I may speak more. If our father would sleep till I wak’d him, you should enjoy half his revenue forever, and live the belov’d of your brother. Edgar.”
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King Lear 1.2: 42

It was not brought me, my lord; there’s the cunning of it. I found it thrown in at the casement of my closet.
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Midsummer Night's Dream 3.1: 20

Why then may you leave a casement of the great chamber window (where we play) open; and the moon may shine in at the casement.
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King Lear 1.2: 43

You know the character to be your brother’s?
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Pericles 3.4: 3

At your command. Know you the character?
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King Lear 1.2: 48

Never, my lord. But I have heard him oft maintain it to be fit that, sons at perfect age and fathers declin’d, the father should be as ward to the son, and the son manage his revenue.
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As You Like It 3.5: 102

Not very well, but I have met him oft,
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King Lear 1.2: 49

O villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter. Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! Worse than brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him; I’ll apprehend him. Abominable villain! Where is he?
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Two Noble Kinsmen 3.4: 23

And I’ll go seek him through the world that is so wide.
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Henry IV Part 1 2.2: 6

He is walk’d up to the top of the hill, I’ll go seek him.
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Henry IV Part 2 4.4: 16

Is not his brother Thomas of Clarence with him? [continues next]
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Hamlet 1.5: 106

O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!
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King Lear 1.2: 50

I do not well know, my lord. If it shall please you to suspend your indignation against my brother till you can derive from him better testimony of his intent, you should run a certain course; where, if you violently proceed against him, mistaking his purpose, it would make a great gap in your own honor and shake in pieces the heart of his obedience. I dare pawn down my life for him that he hath writ this to feel my affection to your honor, and to no other pretense of danger.
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Cymbeline 1.4: 34

I dare thereupon pawn the moi’ty of my estate to your ring, which in my opinion o’ervalues it something. But I make my wager rather against your confidence than her reputation; and to bar your offense herein too, I durst attempt it against any lady in the world.
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Cymbeline 1.6: 203

Therefore I shall beseech you, if you please
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Cymbeline 1.6: 204

To greet your lord with writing, do’t tonight.
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Henry IV Part 2 4.4: 15

[continues previous] And how accompanied? I do not know, my lord.
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Henry VI Part 2 2.1: 135

Yes, my lord, if it please your Grace.
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Henry VIII 2.4: 143

That it shall please you to declare, in hearing
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Henry VIII 5.2: 114

Of all this table say so. Why, my lord?
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Henry VIII 5.2: 115

Do not I know you for a favorer
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Hamlet 1.3: 106

I do not know, my lord, what I should think.
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Hamlet 2.1: 84

Mad for thy love? My lord, I do not know,
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Hamlet 3.2: 221

Nay, good my lord, this courtesy is not of the right breed. If it shall please you to make me a wholesome answer, I will do your mother’s commandement; if not, your pardon and my return shall be the end of my business.
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Julius Caesar 4.3: 296

My lord, I do not know that I did cry.
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Macbeth 3.1: 12

It had been as a gap in our great feast,
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King Lear 1.2: 51

Think you so?
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 7

Sirrah, here’s a fellow will help you tomorrow in your execution. If you think it meet, compound with him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if not, use him for the present and dismiss him. He cannot plead his estimation with you; for he hath been a bawd. [continues next]
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King Lear 1.2: 52

If your honor judge it meet, I will place you where you shall hear us confer of this, and by an auricular assurance have your satisfaction, and that without any further delay than this very evening.
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All's Well That Ends Well 3.5: 16

I will conduct you where you shall be lodg’d,
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Measure for Measure 4.2: 7

[continues previous] Sirrah, here’s a fellow will help you tomorrow in your execution. If you think it meet, compound with him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if not, use him for the present and dismiss him. He cannot plead his estimation with you; for he hath been a bawd.
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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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Henry VIII 1.2: 124

As if besmear’d in hell. Sit by us, you shall hear
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Henry VIII 1.2: 125

(This was his gentleman in trust) of him
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Coriolanus 2.2: 6

He hath deserv’d worthily of his country, and his ascent is not by such easy degrees as those who, having been supple and courteous to the people, bonneted, without any further deed to have them at all into their estimation and report. But he hath so planted his honors in their eyes and his actions in their hearts that for their tongues to be silent and not confess so much were a kind of ingrateful injury; to report otherwise were a ...
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Othello 3.1: 42

I will bestow you where you shall have time
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King Lear 1.2: 55

To his father, that so tenderly and entirely loves him. Heaven and earth! Edmund, seek him out; wind me into him, I pray you. Frame the business after your own wisdom. I would unstate myself to be in a due resolution.
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Much Ado About Nothing 3.1: 37

That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely?
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King Lear 4.6: 216

To Edmund Earl of Gloucester; seek him out
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King Lear 1.2: 56

I will seek him, sir, presently; convey the business as I shall find means, and acquaint you withal.
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All's Well That Ends Well 1.3: 47

... only where qualities were level; Diana no queen of virgins, that would suffer her poor knight surpris’d without rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward. This she deliver’d in the most bitter touch of sorrow that e’er I heard virgin exclaim in, which I held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal, sithence in the loss that may happen, it concerns you something to know it. [continues next]
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As You Like It 1.1: 39

... escapes me without some broken limb shall acquit him well. Your brother is but young and tender, and for your love I would be loath to foil him, as I must for my own honor if he come in; therefore out of my love to you, I came hither to acquaint you withal, that either you might stay him from his intendment, or brook such disgrace well as he shall run into, in that it is a thing of his own search, and altogether against my will.
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King Lear 1.2: 57

These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us. Though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourg’d by the sequent effects. Love cools, friendship falls off, brothers divide: in cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond crack’d ’twixt son and father. This ...
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All's Well That Ends Well 1.3: 47

[continues previous] ... level; Diana no queen of virgins, that would suffer her poor knight surpris’d without rescue in the first assault or ransom afterward. This she deliver’d in the most bitter touch of sorrow that e’er I heard virgin exclaim in, which I held my duty speedily to acquaint you withal, sithence in the loss that may happen, it concerns you something to know it.
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Sonnet 35: 3

Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
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King Lear 1.2: 58

there’s son against father: the King falls from bias of nature; there’s father against child. We have seen the best of our time. Machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves. Find out this villain, Edmund, it shall lose thee nothing, do it carefully.
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Richard III 4.4: 54

Thy womb let loose to chase us to our graves.
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King Lear 2.1: 37

Look, sir, I bleed. Where is the villain, Edmund?
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King Lear 2.1: 38

Fled this way, sir, when by no means he could —
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King Lear 1.2: 60

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if we were villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforc’d obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star! My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon’s tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am rough and lecherous. Fut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenl’est star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing. Edgar —
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Merry Wives of Windsor 3.5: 4

... 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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Twelfth Night 5.1: 327

’Gainst knaves and thieves men shut their gate,
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Coriolanus 2.1: 25

... I find the ass in compound with the major part of your syllables; and though I must be content to bear with those that say you are reverend grave men, yet they lie deadly that tell you have good faces. If you see this in the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known well enough too? What harm can your beesom conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be known well enough too?
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Romeo and Juliet 2.2: 3

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
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Romeo and Juliet 2.2: 4

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
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King Lear 1.2: 61

Pat! He comes like the catastrophe of the old comedy. My cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o’ Bedlam. — O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! Fa, sol, la, mi.
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Love's Labour's Lost 4.2: 51

Old Mantuan, old Mantuan! Who understandeth thee not, loves thee not. Ut, re, sol, la, mi, fa. Under pardon, sir, what are the contents? Or rather, as Horace says in his — What, my soul, verses?
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Taming of the Shrew 1.2: 15

I’ll try how you can sol, fa, and sing it.
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Taming of the Shrew 3.1: 68

E la mi, show pity, or I die.”
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King Lear 1.2: 63

I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read this other day, what should follow these eclipses.
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King Lear 1.2: 64

Do you busy yourself with that?
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King Lear 1.2: 62

How now, brother Edmund, what serious contemplation are you in?
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King Lear 1.2: 26

Upon the gad? Edmund, how now? What news?
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King Lear 1.2: 63

I am thinking, brother, of a prediction I read this other day, what should follow these eclipses.
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King Lear 1.2: 61

Pat! He comes like the catastrophe of the old comedy. My cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o’ Bedlam. — O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! Fa, sol, la, mi. [continues next]
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King Lear 1.2: 64

Do you busy yourself with that?
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King Lear 1.2: 61

[continues previous] Pat! He comes like the catastrophe of the old comedy. My cue is villainous melancholy, with a sigh like Tom o’ Bedlam. — O, these eclipses do portend these divisions! Fa, sol, la, mi.
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King Lear 1.2: 65

I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed unhappily, as of unnaturalness between the child and the parent, death, dearth, dissolutions of ancient amities, divisions in state, menaces and maledictions against king and nobles, needless diffidences, banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts, nuptial breaches, and I know not what.
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Henry IV Part 2 4.3: 28

I know not how they sold themselves, but thou like a kind fellow gavest thyself away gratis, and I thank thee for thee. [continues next]
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Richard III 1.4: 241

By heavens, the Duke shall know how slack you have been! [continues next]
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Richard III 1.4: 242

I would he knew that I had sav’d his brother! [continues next]
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Coriolanus 5.3: 56

Between the child and parent. What’s this?
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King Lear 1.2: 66

How long have you been a sectary astronomical?
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 143

Come hither to me, Master Elbow; come hither, Master Constable. How long have you been in this place of constable? [continues next]
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Pericles 4.6: 32

Now, pretty one, how long have you been at this trade?
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Pericles 4.6: 36

How long have you been of this profession?
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Henry IV Part 2 4.3: 27

[continues previous] You should have won them dearer than you have.
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Henry IV Part 2 4.3: 28

[continues previous] I know not how they sold themselves, but thou like a kind fellow gavest thyself away gratis, and I thank thee for thee.
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Richard III 1.4: 241

[continues previous] By heavens, the Duke shall know how slack you have been!
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King Lear 1.2: 67

Come, come, when saw you my father last?
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Measure for Measure 2.1: 143

[continues previous] Come hither to me, Master Elbow; come hither, Master Constable. How long have you been in this place of constable?
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Antony and Cleopatra 1.1: 54

The qualities of people. Come, my queen, [continues next]
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Antony and Cleopatra 1.1: 55

Last night you did desire it. Speak not to us. [continues next]
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King Lear 1.2: 68

The night gone by.
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Antony and Cleopatra 1.1: 55

[continues previous] Last night you did desire it. Speak not to us.
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King Lear 1.2: 70

Ay, two hours together.
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Henry IV Part 1 2.4: 64

I am a rogue if I were not at half-sword with a dozen of them two hours together. I have scap’d by miracle. I am eight times thrust through the doublet, four through the hose, my buckler cut through and through, my sword hack’d like a hand-saw — ecce signum! I never dealt better since I was a man; all would not do. A plague of all cowards! ...
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King Lear 1.2: 73

Bethink yourself wherein you may have offended him; and at my entreaty forbear his presence until some little time hath qualified the heat of his displeasure, which at this instant so rageth in him, that with the mischief of your person it would scarcely allay.
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Othello 5.2: 26

If you bethink yourself of any crime
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King Lear 1.2: 74

Some villain hath done me wrong.
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Merchant of Venice 1.3: 147

And for my love I pray you wrong me not. [continues next]
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Henry VI Part 1 4.1: 86

With him, my lord, for he hath done me wrong.
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Henry VI Part 1 4.1: 87

And I with him, for he hath done me wrong.
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Henry VI Part 3 3.3: 231

Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,
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Henry VI Part 3 4.1: 110

“Tell him from me that he hath done me wrong,
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Venus and Adonis: 429

Thy mermaid’s voice hath done me double wrong; [continues next]
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Titus Andronicus 5.2: 94

Show me a villain that hath done a rape,
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King Lear 1.2: 75

That’s my fear. I pray you have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower; and as I say, retire with me to my lodging, from whence I will fitly bring you to hear my lord speak. Pray ye go, there’s my key. If you do stir abroad, go arm’d.
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Merchant of Venice 1.3: 147

[continues previous] And for my love I pray you wrong me not.
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Venus and Adonis: 430

[continues previous] I had my load before, now press’d with bearing:
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King Lear 1.2: 76

Arm’d, brother? [continues next]
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King Lear 1.2: 76

Arm’d, brother?
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King Lear 1.2: 75

[continues previous] ... fear. I pray you have a continent forbearance till the speed of his rage goes slower; and as I say, retire with me to my lodging, from whence I will fitly bring you to hear my lord speak. Pray ye go, there’s my key. If you do stir abroad, go arm’d. [continues next]
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King Lear 1.2: 77

[continues previous] Brother, I advise you to the best; I am no honest man if there be any good meaning toward you. I have told you what I have seen and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image and horror of it. Pray you away. [continues next]
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King Lear 1.2: 77

Brother, I advise you to the best; I am no honest man if there be any good meaning toward you. I have told you what I have seen and heard; but faintly, nothing like the image and horror of it. Pray you away.
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Coriolanus 2.3: 71

I have seen, and heard of; for your voices have
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Hamlet 1.1: 131

If there be any good thing to be done
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Othello 4.1: 227

What I have seen and known. You shall observe him,
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King Lear 1.2: 78

Shall I hear from you anon?
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Timon of Athens 1.1: 154

I thank you, you shall hear from me anon.
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King Lear 1.2: 81

Whose nature is so far from doing harms
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Double Falsehood 3.3: 22

Good sir, I am so far from doing wrongs
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King Lear 1.2: 83

My practices ride easy. I see the business.
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Twelfth Night 3.4: 40

“If not, let me see thee a servant still.” [continues next]
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King Lear 1.2: 84

Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit:
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Twelfth Night 3.4: 40

[continues previous] “If not, let me see thee a servant still.”