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3 Fish. Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
1 Fish. Why, as men do a-land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

      — Pericles, Act II Scene 1

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "govern"

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  • govern occurs 29 times in 114 speeches within 33 works.
  • Possibly related words: government, governed, governs, governance
  • Users have searched 613 times for govern in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which govern appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains govern more than once, the speech will still be counted once
    as part of the total count.
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Antony and Cleopatra (2)
Cymbeline (2)
Hamlet (1)
Henry IV, Part I (6)
Henry IV, Part II (3)
Henry V (4)
Henry VI, Part I (5)
Henry VI, Part II (6)
Henry VI, Part III (6)
Henry VIII (2)
Julius Caesar (3)
King John (1)
King Lear (4)
Macbeth (2)
Measure for Measure (6)
Merchant of Venice (3)
Merry Wives of Windsor (1)
Midsummer Night's Dream (2)
Much Ado about Nothing (3)
Othello (5)
Pericles (14)
Rape of Lucrece (5)
Richard II (3)
Richard III (8)
Romeo and Juliet (2)
Sonnets (1)
Taming of the Shrew (1)
Tempest (2)
Timon of Athens (1)
Titus Andronicus (6)
Twelfth Night (1)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (2)
Venus and Adonis (1)

 

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