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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:
254
thou:
254
with:
196
this:
190
have:
154
what:
137
will:
137
shall:
134
your:
129
lord:
123
thee:
103
i'll:
86
good:
82
come:
79
well:
77
they:
71
from:
70
then:
70
them:
70
king:
67
upon:
64
when:
64
such:
64
like:
62
more:
61
there:
60
would:
58
hath:
53
were:
51
than:
50
tell:
49
which:
48
here:
47
time:
45
make:
42
their:
42
never:
41
know:
41
percy:
41
hear:
39
give:
39
john:
36
harry:
36
some:
35
hast:
35
these:
35
should:
34
jack:
34
think:
33
where:
33
faith:
33
true:
33
prince:
32
horse:
32
life:
32
must:
31
doth:
31
down:
30
speak:
29
away:
29
cousin:
29
call:
28
love:
28
much:
28
mortimer:
27
father:
27
fear:
26
night:
26
head:
26
could:
25
four:
25
douglas:
25
name:
25
blood:
24
been:
24
sweet:
23
honour:
23
great:
22
devil:
22
francis:
22
world:
22
sack:
22
many:
21
again:
21
meet:
21
being:
21
take:
21
even:
20
better:
20
house:
20
morrow:
20
face:
20
wales:
20
anon:
20
hand:
20
grace:
19
stand:
19
those:
19
prithee:
19
three:
19
against:
19
falstaff:
19
leave:
19
arms:
18
word:
18
whose:
18
part:
18
ever:
18
noble:
18
fair:
17
death:
17
mine:
17
brother:
17
said:
17
heart:
17
find:
17
dost:
17
still:
17
very:
17
indeed:
17
myself:
17
done:
17
plague:
17
sword:
17
keep:
16
poor:
16
farewell:
16
nothing:
16
earth:
16
glendower:
16
long:
16
full:
16
thousand:
16
there's:
16
made:
16
cannot:
16
before:
16
thus:
15
other:
15
peace:
15
power:
14
little:
14
came:
14
look:
14
rogue:
14
friends:
14
news:
14
therefore:
14
pray:
14
charge:
14
soul:
14
land:
13
fight:
13
every:
13
back:
13
uncle:
13
prisoners:
13
most:
13
into:
13
bear:
13
hold:
13
company:
13
hour:
13
coward:
13
since:
13
himself:
13
enough:
13
live:
13
play:
13
majesty:
12
that's:
12
comes:
12
westmoreland:
12
eyes:
12
dead:
12
home:
12
half:
12
money:
12
poins:
12
scot:
12
truth:
12
valiant:
12
tongue:
12
earl:
12
wilt:
12
forth:
12
march:
12
thing:
12
lies:
11
already:
11
young:
11
both:
11
lady:
11
foot:
11
wherein:
11
shame:
11
answer:
11
without:
11
after:
11
send:
11
heard:
11
same:
11
worcester:
11
kate:
11
hundred:
11
england:
11
lost:
11
looks:
11
counterfeit:
11
through:
11
reason:
11
sirrah:
11
bring:
10
drink:
10
rather:
10
we'll:
10
fire:
10
zounds:
10
rest:
10
heaven:
10
kind:
10
bardolph:
10
thine:
10
wind:
10
seven:
10
shalt:
10
state:
10
hanged:
10
help:
10
matter:
9
show:
9
sayest:
9
swear:
9
business:
9
speed:
9
instinct:
9
alone:
9
about:
9
dear:
9
gave:
9
lead:
9
sure:
9
drawn:
9
soldiers:
9
welsh:
9
till:
9
next:
9
given:
9
else:
9
rascal:
9
pocket:
9
alive:
9
none:
9
youth:
9
further:
9
lancaster:
9
villanous:
9
once:
9
awhile:
9
days:
9
hang:
9
high:
9
king's:
8
wild:
8
thieves:
8
need:
8
sleep:
8
pound:
8
save:
8
afoot:
8
cold:
8
fortune:
8
under:
8
lend:
8
sblood:
8
bound:
8
jest:
8
unto:
8
court:
8
plot:
8
welcome:
8
sake:
8
moon:
8
hotspur:
8
pardon:
8
break:
8
what's:
8
worth:
8
says:
8
wife:
8
straight:
8
ground:
8
lion:
8
over:
8
read:
8
villain:
8
praise:
8
banish:
8
paid:
8
spirit:
8
fellow:
8
brought:
8
mark:
8
years:
8
hostess:
8
times:
8
place:
8
first:
8
trust:
7
god's:
7
oath:
7
sheriff:
7
crown:
7
certain:
7
told:
7
york:
7
yourself:
7
cowards:
7
peto:
7
content:
7
hours:
7
o'clock:
7
hope:
7
owen:
7
ne'er:
7
ours:
7
hill:
7
morning:
7
northumberland:
7
bloody:
7
english:
7
sworn:
7
turn:
7
letters:
7
took:
7
sing:
7
whole:
7
steal:
7
gentlemen:
7
deny:
7
close:
7
cross:
7
seen:
7
only:
7
ransom:
7
blunt:
7
deep:
7
buckram:
7
though:
7
betwixt:
7
another:
7
within:
7
tavern:
7
thief:
7
base:
7
question:
7
point:
7
while:
7
gentle:
7
bolingbroke:
7
door:
7
courtesy:
7
greatness:
7
bought:
7
wert:
7
taken:
6
twenty:
6
haste:
6
guts:
6
thank:
6
flesh:
6
gone:
6
whom:
6
heads:
6
lords:
6
virtue:
6
ostler:
6
deeds:
6
tale:
6
behind:
6
withal:
6
marry:
6
want:
6
purses:
6
horses:
6
hair:
6
mercy:
6
month:
6
dare:
6
damned:
6
bold:
6
proud:
6
truly:
6
gadshill:
6
liege:
6
woman:
6
might:
6
hearts:
6
sugar:
6
didst:
6
wounds:
6
eight:
6
foul:
6
light:
6
means:
6
strong:
6
father's:
6
ring:
6
rich:
6
sent:
6
respect:
6
breathe:
6
brave:
6
advantage:
6
scotland:
6
worse:
6
walter:
6
fill:
6
terms:
6
hence:
6
masters:
6
battle:
6
bears:
6
fifty:
6
field:
6
dangerous:
6
current:
6
north:
6
apparent:
6
side:
6
short:
6
mean:
6
butter:
6
stay:
6
fought:
6
london:
5
presence:
5
knew:
5
things:
5
item:
5
breath:
5
gentleman:
5
villains:
5
jesu:
5
thyself:
5
unless:
5
ta'en:
5
monstrous:
5
sick:
5
countenance:
5
pick:
5
hangman:
5
drive:
5
care:
5
quick:
5
sooner:
5
case:
5
lean:
5
prove:
5
trick:
5
together:
5
picked:
5
aside:
5
hands:
5
soon:
5
pride:
5
richard:
5
labour:
5
opposed:
5
shrewsbury:
5
council:
5
gallant:
5
eastcheap:
5
hark:
5
reckoning:
5
takes:
5
percy's:
5
fields:
5
forward:
5
title:
5
quite:
5
knows:
5
hadst:
5
dearest:
5
least:
5
last:
5
burning:
5
knowest:
5
fault:
5
heir:
5
merry:
5
enterprise:
5
behalf:
5
thought:
5
offer:
5
vile:
5
soft:
5
opinion:
5
wear:
5
friend:
5
holds:
5
walk:
5
hard:
5
best:
5
found:
5
golden:
5
dozen:
5
purpose:
5
present:
5
heavy:
5
common:
5
general:
5
nobility:
5
sickness:
5
supper:
5
safety:
5
rebels:
5
michael:
5
ride:
5
lads:
5
fool:
5
along:
5
knaves:
5
swore:
5
honourable:
4
mighty:
4
going:
4
knight:
4
faced:
4
henceforth:
4
dagger:
4
front:
4
holy:
4
fresh:
4
seek:
4
debt:
4
drunk:
4
hide:
4
men's:
4
danger:
4
known:
4
envy:
4
deal:
4
person:
4
knee:
4
line:
4
white:
4
does:
4
saint:
4
brow:
4
sight:
4
perfect:
4
tears:
4
forgive:
4
huge:
4
itself:
4
ourselves:
4
defy:
4
stain:
4
adventure:
4
suits:
4
open:
4
here's:
4
right:
4
talk:
4
sport:
4
pity:
4
blame:
4
near:
4
hither:
4
saved:
4
action:
4
soldier:
4
bare:
4
thrice:
4
wrong:
4
humours:
4
purse:
4
account:
4
seldom:
4
score:
4
kept:
4
wound:
4
understand:
4
thoughts:
4
ease:
4
whither:
4
redeem:
4
living:
4
piece:
4
rebellion:
4
forgot:
4
vanity:
4
twere:
4
fall:
4
angel:
4
penny:
4
nose:
4
each:
4
start:
4
loves:
4
double:
4
mettle:
4
year:
4
neither:
4
gracious:
4
cause:
4
nobleman:
4
mordake:
4
less:
4
lately:
4
rogues:
4
twelve:
4
asleep:
4
sooth:
4
younger:
4
bawdy:
4
canst:
4
beseech:
4
bosom:
4
seeming:
4
wives:
4
needs:
4
holmedon:
4
lives:
4
fourteen:
4
deliver:
4
kill:
4
knave:
4
wars:
4
reward:
4
touch:
4
stir:
4
honest:
4
pale:
4
blessed:
4
whoreson:
4
shook:
4
used:
4
presently:
4
believe:
4
pleasure:
4
irish:
4
coin:
4
thirty:
4
called:
4
merrily:
4
scots:
4
heels:
4
rise:
4
join:
4
purposes:
4
pluck:
4
spoken:
4
fell:
4
nicholas:
4
enemy:
4
compulsion:
4
afraid:
4
either:
4
by'r:
4
compass:
4
turned:
4
trent:
4
gold:
4
powers:
4
valour:
4
false:
4
rare:
4
nephew:
4
turn'd:
4
harm:
4
taste:
4
horseback:
4
room:
4
serve:
3
wanton:
3
makest:
3
seal:
3
setting:
3
herein:
3
severn:
3
share:
3
beauty:
3
proof:
3
nature:
3
amend:
3
lift:
3
harry's:
3
ashamed:
3
meeting:
3
fish:
3
powder:
3
hacked:
3
coats:
3
government:
3
bids:
3
return:
3
unjust:
3
rose:
3
fine:
3
scourge:
3
yours:
3
spend:
3
watch:
3
reproof:
3
passion:
3
latter:
3
sees:
3
hell:
3
kingdom:
3
slain:
3
rage:
3
grief:
3
indentures:
3
birth:
3
humour:
3
let's:
3
tree:
3
occasion:
3
during:
3
bottom:
3
absence:
3
undone:
3
breathless:
3
tarry:
3
husband:
3
forty:
3
encounter:
3
natural:
3
ears:
3
attend:
3
embrace:
3
honey:
3
methinks:
3
beast:
3
amongst:
3
thence:
3
revolted:
3
virtuous:
3
colour:
3
lady's:
3
lips:
3
spoke:
3
heat:
3
fast:
3
mouth:
3
deaths:
3
tickle:
3
fiery:
3
east:
3
cheap:
3
sceptre:
3
princely:
3
foolish:
3
castle:
3
gelding:
3
seat:
3
ravenspurgh:
3
engaged:
3
willingly:
3
please:
3
goes:
3
heigh:
3
removed:
3
fellowship:
3
creature:
3
urged:
3
jerkin:
3
patience:
3
all's:
3
strike:
3
shillings:
3
seems:
3
sovereign:
3
couldst:
3
order:
3
vernon:
3
gallows:
3
roan:
3
water:
3
cudgel:
3
departure:
3
stands:
3
grown:
3
telling:
3
womanhood:
3
boots:
3
wisdom:
3
otter:
3
lying:
3
speedily:
3
flood:
3
yesternight:
3
calls:
3
melancholy:
3
wonder'd:
3
daughter:
3
doubt:
3
grow:
3
stung:
3
wednesday:
3
marks:
3
sirs:
3
sought:
3
truant:
3
song:
3
report:
3
worst:
3
stop:
3
hare:
3
mountains:
3
breakfast:
3
reasons:
3
servant:
3
command:
3
left:
3
warrant:
3
master:
3
o'er:
3
brook:
3
whence:
3
teaching:
3
tedious:
3
duke:
3
civil:
3
behold:
3
food:
3
often:
3
forsooth:
3
sons:
3
themselves:
3
shoulders:
3
pitiful:
3
choose:
3
hanging:
3
born:
3
barren:
3
trifle:
3
twas:
3
exchequer:
3
book:
3
struck:
3
dinner:
3
blows:
3
mind:
3
course:
3
heavens:
3
body:
3
single:
3
mark'd:
3
worthy:
3
boys:
3
counsel:
3
quoth:
3
runs:
3
glad:
3
manner:
3
besides:
3
offence:
3
because:
3
asked:
3
strange:
3
spleen:
3
shore:
3
longer:
3
smooth:
3
arras:
3
woman's:
3
parcel:
3
darest:
3
copper:
3
quickly:
3
vizards:
3
remember:
3
show'd:
3
names:
3
makes:
3
divide:
3
sparrow:
3
manhood:
3
coming:
3
held:
3
wouldst:
3
pause:
3
killed:
3
courage:
3
estimation:
3
ancient:
3
persuasion:
3
draw:
3
governed:
3
commonwealth:
3
rated:
3
scroop:
3
tent:
3
madcap:
3
five:
3
utter:
3
dying:
3
clifton:
3
list:
3
glorious:
3
scape:
3
shirt:
3
tread:
3
words:
3
shallow:
3
queen:
3
brain:
3
starve:
3
drop:
3
lantern:
3
above:
3
noses:
2
learned:
2
mortal:
2
issue:
2
million:
2
oftentimes:
2
match'd:
2
smoky:
2
lights:
2
breast:
2
crop:
2
crest:
2
tenderness:
2
picking:
2
fear'd:
2
revenge:
2
keeping:
2
favours:
2
blushed:
2
robbery:
2
south:
2
people:
2
tidings:
2
beard:
2
honours:
2
coventry:
2
excuse:
2
deposed:
2
companion:
2
lack:
2
prophecies:
2
immediately:
2
purge:
2
yourselves:
2
braver:
2
robe:
2
wears:
2
taught:
2
interest:
2
roared:
2
hedge:
2
waiting:
2
standest:
2
exchange:
2
deputation:
2
triumph:
2
offend:
2
thigh:
2
town's:
2
punish:
2
happy:
2
green:
2
adversaries:
2
garment:
2
retold:
2
partly:
2
teach:
2
houses:
2
wonder:
2
chimney:
2
bacon:
2
laugh:
2
mend:
2
garments:
2
bleed:
2
shines:
2
they'll:
2
bore:
2
drinking:
2
dame:
2
pass:
2
bend:
2
marching:
2
capon:
2
dish:
2
abuses:
2
say'st:
2
possess'd:
2
proclaim'd:
2
hate:
2
moody:
2
streets:
2
bread:
2
tallow:
2
darkness:
2
stuff:
2
bootless:
2
faint:
2
bleeding:
2
smell:
2
likelihood:
2
crowns:
2
gawsey:
2
thrive:
2
argument:
2
hoofs:
2
pressed:
2
today:
2
spirits:
2
pupil:
2
likeness:
2
ungentle:
2
thursday:
2
tench:
2
contempt:
2
inquired:
2
weak:
2
discomfited:
2
armies:
2
weary:
2
language:
2
staff:
2
deadly:
2
portly:
2
chid:
2
halter:
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