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The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

      — Sonnet XX

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "idle"

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  • idle occurs 73 times in 100 speeches within 34 works.
  • Possibly related words: idleness, idles
  • Users have searched 915 times for idle in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which idle appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains idle 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 (5)
Antony and Cleopatra (5)
As You Like It (2)
Comedy of Errors (4)
Coriolanus (3)
Hamlet (3)
Henry IV, Part I (2)
Henry IV, Part II (3)
Henry V (4)
Henry VI, Part II (3)
Henry VI, Part III (2)
Julius Caesar (3)
King John (5)
King Lear (4)
Love's Labour's Lost (3)
Measure for Measure (4)
Merry Wives of Windsor (2)
Midsummer Night's Dream (4)
Othello (4)
Passionate Pilgrim (1)
Rape of Lucrece (1)
Richard II (1)
Richard III (4)
Romeo and Juliet (2)
Sonnets (2)
Taming of the Shrew (4)
Tempest (2)
Timon of Athens (2)
Titus Andronicus (1)
Troilus and Cressida (3)
Twelfth Night (3)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (3)
Venus and Adonis (5)
Winter's Tale (1)

 

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