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Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
I'd set my ten commandments in your face.

      — King Henry VI. Part II, Act I Scene 3

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "brief"

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  • brief occurs 95 times in 117 speeches within 34 works.
  • Possibly related word: briefness
  • Users have searched 1,098 times for brief in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which brief appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains brief 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 (3)
Antony and Cleopatra (3)
As You Like It (3)
Comedy of Errors (1)
Coriolanus (4)
Cymbeline (6)
Hamlet (5)
Henry IV, Part I (1)
Henry IV, Part II (1)
Henry V (2)
Henry VI, Part III (1)
Henry VIII (1)
Julius Caesar (4)
King John (7)
King Lear (5)
Lover's Complaint (1)
Macbeth (2)
Measure for Measure (5)
Merchant of Venice (3)
Merry Wives of Windsor (6)
Midsummer Night's Dream (5)
Much Ado about Nothing (6)
Othello (4)
Pericles (3)
Rape of Lucrece (2)
Richard II (3)
Richard III (9)
Romeo and Juliet (6)
Sonnets (3)
Taming of the Shrew (4)
Timon of Athens (1)
Troilus and Cressida (3)
Twelfth Night (3)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (1)

 

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