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If I do prove her haggard,
Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings,
I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,
To prey at fortune.

      — Othello, Act III Scene 3

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "heir"

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  • heir occurs 110 times in 1,713 speeches within 43 works.
  • Possibly related word: heirs
  • Users have searched 1,538 times for heir in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which heir appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains heir more than once, the speech will still be counted once
    as part of the total count.
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All's Well That Ends Well (22)
Antony and Cleopatra (63)
As You Like It (31)
Comedy of Errors (18)
Coriolanus (100)
Cymbeline (49)
Hamlet (45)
Henry IV, Part I (34)
Henry IV, Part II (34)
Henry V (65)
Henry VI, Part I (56)
Henry VI, Part II (61)
Henry VI, Part III (64)
Henry VIII (56)
Julius Caesar (48)
King John (43)
King Lear (49)
Lover's Complaint (16)
Love's Labour's Lost (43)
Macbeth (49)
Measure for Measure (21)
Merchant of Venice (21)
Merry Wives of Windsor (25)
Midsummer Night's Dream (37)
Much Ado about Nothing (26)
Othello (36)
Passionate Pilgrim (3)
Pericles (42)
Phoenix and the Turtle (2)
Rape of Lucrece (65)
Richard II (46)
Richard III (63)
Romeo and Juliet (40)
Sonnets (39)
Taming of the Shrew (19)
Tempest (34)
Timon of Athens (51)
Titus Andronicus (49)
Troilus and Cressida (39)
Twelfth Night (14)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (22)
Venus and Adonis (33)
Winter's Tale (40)

 

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