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Here I and sorrows sit;
Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.

      — King John, Act III Scene 1

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "wherefore"

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  • wherefore occurs 145 times in 137 speeches within 38 works.
  • Possibly related word: wherefore's
  • Users have searched 1,359 times for wherefore in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which wherefore appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains wherefore 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 (4)
Antony and Cleopatra (4)
As You Like It (3)
Comedy of Errors (8)
Coriolanus (3)
Cymbeline (7)
Hamlet (3)
Henry IV, Part I (1)
Henry IV, Part II (7)
Henry V (4)
Henry VI, Part I (4)
Henry VI, Part II (5)
Henry VI, Part III (4)
Henry VIII (3)
Julius Caesar (6)
King John (4)
King Lear (6)
Love's Labour's Lost (2)
Macbeth (3)
Merchant of Venice (1)
Merry Wives of Windsor (1)
Midsummer Night's Dream (4)
Much Ado about Nothing (4)
Othello (4)
Passionate Pilgrim (1)
Pericles (2)
Richard II (3)
Richard III (4)
Romeo and Juliet (4)
Sonnets (3)
Taming of the Shrew (2)
Tempest (3)
Timon of Athens (3)
Titus Andronicus (5)
Troilus and Cressida (5)
Twelfth Night (2)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (3)
Winter's Tale (2)

 

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