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Have you not heard it said full oft,
A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

      — The Passionate Pilgrim

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "better"

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  • better occurs 614 times in 598 speeches within 41 works.
  • Possibly related words: betters, bettering, bettered
  • Users have searched 2,923 times for better in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which better appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains better 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 (13)
Antony and Cleopatra (20)
As You Like It (30)
Comedy of Errors (4)
Coriolanus (16)
Cymbeline (17)
Hamlet (16)
Henry IV, Part I (17)
Henry IV, Part II (31)
Henry V (17)
Henry VI, Part I (10)
Henry VI, Part II (14)
Henry VI, Part III (15)
Henry VIII (15)
Julius Caesar (14)
King John (13)
King Lear (30)
Love's Labour's Lost (10)
Macbeth (8)
Measure for Measure (21)
Merchant of Venice (20)
Merry Wives of Windsor (20)
Midsummer Night's Dream (4)
Much Ado about Nothing (14)
Othello (14)
Passionate Pilgrim (1)
Pericles (13)
Rape of Lucrece (3)
Richard II (7)
Richard III (17)
Romeo and Juliet (12)
Sonnets (16)
Taming of the Shrew (17)
Tempest (5)
Timon of Athens (15)
Titus Andronicus (10)
Troilus and Cressida (21)
Twelfth Night (20)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (12)
Venus and Adonis (3)
Winter's Tale (23)

 

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