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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

      — The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I Scene 1

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "wives"

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  • wives occurs 61 times in 60 speeches within 26 works.
  • Possibly related words: wive, wiving, wived
  • Users have searched 709 times for wives in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which wives appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains wives 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 (1)
Antony and Cleopatra (2)
As You Like It (3)
Coriolanus (4)
Cymbeline (1)
Henry IV, Part I (4)
Henry IV, Part II (1)
Henry V (5)
Henry VI, Part I (2)
Henry VI, Part II (4)
Henry VI, Part III (1)
Julius Caesar (1)
King John (3)
Love's Labour's Lost (1)
Macbeth (1)
Merchant of Venice (3)
Merry Wives of Windsor (6)
Much Ado about Nothing (1)
Othello (4)
Pericles (1)
Richard II (1)
Richard III (4)
Romeo and Juliet (1)
Taming of the Shrew (1)
Troilus and Cressida (1)
Winter's Tale (3)

 

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