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Word Frequency
The following table shows the frequency of
spoken
words longer than three letters in the play. These numbers should not be considered authoritative.
that:
343
your:
194
with:
191
have:
169
will:
164
this:
161
thou:
142
good:
115
love:
115
what:
98
thee:
90
more:
81
well:
77
would:
72
than:
72
come:
68
shall:
67
then:
66
they:
64
here:
61
which:
59
like:
58
rosalind:
57
there:
57
when:
56
hath:
52
i'll:
48
were:
46
upon:
44
from:
43
time:
42
know:
41
must:
38
brother:
38
father:
37
fool:
36
such:
36
most:
36
them:
36
should:
35
very:
35
take:
34
much:
34
give:
34
heart:
33
make:
33
mine:
33
their:
32
these:
32
some:
31
better:
30
duke:
30
tell:
29
into:
29
young:
29
youth:
29
world:
28
speak:
28
orlando:
26
pray:
26
look:
26
think:
26
ever:
25
shepherd:
25
doth:
25
fair:
25
comes:
25
therefore:
25
never:
25
woman:
25
cannot:
24
forest:
24
made:
24
could:
24
life:
24
bear:
23
many:
23
true:
23
every:
23
little:
23
marry:
22
been:
22
call:
22
poor:
22
where:
21
sweet:
21
thing:
20
even:
19
though:
19
master:
19
eyes:
19
daughter:
18
till:
18
before:
18
faith:
18
lord:
18
morrow:
18
away:
17
fortune:
17
being:
17
phebe:
17
again:
17
thank:
17
court:
17
prithee:
17
full:
17
thus:
16
word:
16
mistress:
16
other:
16
first:
16
place:
16
hand:
16
truly:
16
gentle:
16
part:
16
live:
16
leave:
15
matter:
15
hour:
15
find:
15
after:
15
hither:
14
another:
14
audrey:
14
please:
14
man's:
14
might:
14
against:
14
hear:
14
withal:
14
together:
14
loved:
13
lover:
13
pity:
13
under:
13
honour:
13
fall:
13
sight:
13
nothing:
13
bring:
13
pretty:
13
show:
13
said:
13
without:
12
cousin:
12
sing:
12
down:
12
food:
12
else:
12
married:
12
hast:
12
none:
12
great:
12
name:
12
nature:
12
company:
12
makes:
12
seek:
11
monsieur:
11
charles:
11
myself:
11
right:
11
dear:
11
wise:
11
means:
11
hard:
11
sure:
11
house:
11
desire:
11
tree:
11
keep:
11
heaven:
11
hands:
11
women:
10
cause:
10
reason:
10
wilt:
10
found:
10
head:
10
indeed:
10
grace:
10
those:
10
welcome:
10
heard:
10
sister:
10
proud:
10
play:
10
kind:
10
within:
10
remember:
9
gentleman:
9
both:
9
uncle:
9
shalt:
9
stay:
9
beard:
9
answer:
9
came:
9
foul:
9
hope:
9
promise:
9
yourself:
9
feed:
9
neither:
9
mouth:
9
tears:
9
friends:
9
melancholy:
9
along:
9
fools:
9
meet:
9
itself:
9
father's:
9
strange:
9
something:
9
kill:
9
still:
9
sake:
8
jaques:
8
wrestling:
8
merry:
8
wear:
8
three:
8
verses:
8
words:
8
sport:
8
fare:
8
ladies:
8
ganymede:
8
tongue:
8
honest:
8
thought:
8
lack:
8
service:
8
forth:
8
since:
8
colour:
8
unto:
8
break:
8
respect:
8
folly:
8
himself:
8
patience:
8
manners:
8
he's:
7
living:
7
whither:
7
alas:
7
what's:
7
motley:
7
sooner:
7
about:
7
blood:
7
fellow:
7
death:
7
wife:
7
horn:
7
only:
7
yours:
7
years:
7
called:
7
turn:
7
country:
7
besides:
7
strong:
7
almost:
7
content:
7
silvius:
7
because:
7
friend:
7
thousand:
7
swear:
7
song:
7
you'll:
7
adam:
7
kiss:
7
mind:
7
passion:
7
oliver:
7
coming:
6
believe:
6
talk:
6
knowledge:
6
troth:
6
things:
6
virtue:
6
born:
6
loves:
6
rest:
6
sent:
6
natural:
6
disposition:
6
knew:
6
whom:
6
between:
6
dost:
6
trees:
6
gods:
6
banished:
6
lands:
6
weep:
6
fashion:
6
further:
6
wast:
6
wrestler:
6
dead:
6
whose:
6
home:
6
weary:
6
didst:
6
best:
6
hose:
6
ta'en:
6
fear:
6
days:
6
wind:
6
lovers:
6
quoth:
6
longer:
6
fortunes:
6
over:
6
desert:
6
letter:
6
hate:
6
shallow:
6
lost:
6
rather:
6
change:
6
farewell:
6
banish'd:
6
truth:
6
aliena:
6
alone:
6
fault:
6
horns:
6
scorn:
6
parts:
6
duke's:
6
brave:
6
wherein:
6
winter:
6
through:
6
told:
6
given:
6
marriage:
6
news:
6
body:
6
enough:
6
priest:
5
sans:
5
brothers:
5
seen:
5
o'clock:
5
says:
5
back:
5
excellent:
5
just:
5
quarrel:
5
canst:
5
nature's:
5
peace:
5
laugh:
5
broken:
5
ripe:
5
dearly:
5
rowland:
5
foot:
5
second:
5
comfort:
5
counsel:
5
gold:
5
gone:
5
pardon:
5
cast:
5
once:
5
ways:
5
deer:
5
sleep:
5
wert:
5
enemy:
5
instance:
5
verse:
5
hair:
5
suit:
5
worse:
5
loving:
5
honesty:
5
sudden:
5
worth:
5
wouldst:
5
warrant:
5
calls:
5
measure:
5
there's:
5
lady:
5
seventh:
5
high:
5
laid:
5
seven:
5
bitter:
5
taught:
5
proceed:
5
consent:
5
knows:
5
spring:
5
left:
5
mean:
5
people:
5
last:
5
either:
5
heigh:
5
wonderful:
5
humour:
5
charge:
5
prove:
5
near:
5
horse:
5
that's:
5
whiles:
5
night:
5
cheek:
5
lips:
5
clown:
5
chide:
5
question:
5
suits:
4
tongues:
4
twas:
4
offer:
4
counterfeit:
4
seem:
4
wisely:
4
rich:
4
hence:
4
minute:
4
common:
4
gallant:
4
worship:
4
confess:
4
drink:
4
ne'er:
4
shame:
4
younger:
4
done:
4
liege:
4
avoid:
4
write:
4
bears:
4
themselves:
4
yonder:
4
proper:
4
looks:
4
suddenly:
4
wrestle:
4
wound:
4
hadst:
4
damned:
4
excuse:
4
care:
4
pasture:
4
sayest:
4
voice:
4
year:
4
went:
4
hold:
4
desires:
4
holy:
4
wide:
4
nonino:
4
saying:
4
glad:
4
snail:
4
black:
4
join:
4
wedding:
4
wine:
4
woman's:
4
unless:
4
possible:
4
blame:
4
city:
4
highness:
4
fruit:
4
long:
4
flock:
4
happy:
4
learned:
4
weeping:
4
youngest:
4
knight:
4
help:
4
lioness:
4
twill:
4
brook:
4
hours:
4
while:
4
adieu:
4
gifts:
4
device:
4
travel:
4
spirits:
4
note:
4
green:
4
lusty:
4
lean:
4
twenty:
4
direct:
4
doublet:
4
church:
4
maid:
4
stand:
4
sword:
4
contents:
4
present:
4
fancy:
4
begin:
4
villain:
4
courtier's:
4
devise:
4
william:
4
neck:
4
bloody:
4
foolish:
4
rowland's:
4
less:
4
mend:
4
sweat:
4
behind:
4
rose:
4
gentleness:
4
pale:
4
mere:
4
countenance:
4
attend:
4
beards:
4
having:
4
graces:
4
thrown:
4
arden:
4
hangs:
4
complexion:
4
faithful:
4
churlish:
4
wretched:
4
naught:
4
pride:
4
earnest:
4
rank:
4
town:
3
free:
3
blush:
3
coat:
3
breaks:
3
same:
3
morning:
3
hurt:
3
frederick:
3
madam:
3
child:
3
affection:
3
brother's:
3
removed:
3
tall:
3
cured:
3
wood:
3
seems:
3
mercy:
3
weather:
3
religious:
3
work:
3
invention:
3
study:
3
ducdame:
3
shepherd's:
3
send:
3
labour:
3
grow:
3
kindly:
3
unworthy:
3
side:
3
strength:
3
covered:
3
becomes:
3
burden:
3
boys:
3
cote:
3
sheep:
3
music:
3
experience:
3
poverty:
3
wives:
3
beast:
3
growth:
3
quickly:
3
madness:
3
stir:
3
poetry:
3
sawest:
3
beau:
3
liberty:
3
goes:
3
humorous:
3
thoughts:
3
become:
3
degrees:
3
blow:
3
warp:
3
purpose:
3
heartily:
3
lacks:
3
style:
3
condition:
3
niece:
3
wrestled:
3
magician:
3
touches:
3
judge:
3
rough:
3
face:
3
false:
3
ewes:
3
spoke:
3
thither:
3
cave:
3
deep:
3
occasion:
3
chiding:
3
wedlock:
3
female:
3
benefits:
3
school:
3
wiser:
3
counterfeited:
3
taste:
3
receive:
3
envious:
3
shepherdess:
3
round:
3
fain:
3
herself:
3
rude:
3
we'll:
3
deserved:
3
deserves:
3
understand:
3
fantastical:
3
pure:
3
manner:
3
giving:
3
empty:
3
epilogue:
3
died:
3
maids:
3
books:
3
feet:
3
dies:
3
match:
3
disgrace:
3
mustard:
3
fast:
3
wish:
3
wooing:
3
keeps:
3
wits:
3
runs:
3
wounded:
3
observance:
3
men's:
3
acquaintance:
3
fell:
3
wherefore:
3
force:
3
stands:
3
jove:
3
ding:
3
profit:
3
happiness:
3
merely:
3
forswear:
3
endure:
3
society:
3
smile:
3
let's:
3
tune:
3
heir:
3
honourable:
3
beginning:
3
grows:
3
broke:
3
barks:
3
native:
3
tedious:
3
parted:
3
sorrow:
3
lined:
3
spent:
3
looked:
3
diest:
3
hers:
3
martext:
3
oaths:
3
move:
3
doors:
3
seeking:
3
argument:
3
boughs:
3
crowns:
3
greater:
3
plays:
3
power:
3
lame:
3
celia:
3
swoon:
3
modest:
3
valiant:
3
spirit:
3
princess:
3
serve:
3
trust:
3
swore:
3
brain:
3
beseech:
3
entreat:
3
traitor:
3
thanks:
3
grieves:
3
according:
3
person:
3
meat:
3
brings:
3
praise:
3
scarce:
3
bush:
3
seeming:
3
charged:
3
apparel:
3
drops:
3
mark:
3
dull:
3
thyself:
3
hymen:
3
begot: