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For it so falls out
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,
Why, then we rack the value; then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.

      — Much Ado about Nothing, Act IV Scene 1

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "main"

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  • main occurs 49 times in 311 speeches within 43 works.
  • Possibly related words: maine, mains, mained
  • Users have searched 505 times for main in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which main appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains main 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 (14)
Antony and Cleopatra (7)
As You Like It (5)
Comedy of Errors (2)
Coriolanus (15)
Cymbeline (17)
Hamlet (10)
Henry IV, Part I (7)
Henry IV, Part II (5)
Henry V (15)
Henry VI, Part I (14)
Henry VI, Part II (16)
Henry VI, Part III (16)
Henry VIII (9)
Julius Caesar (4)
King John (7)
King Lear (13)
Lover's Complaint (3)
Love's Labour's Lost (19)
Macbeth (5)
Measure for Measure (3)
Merchant of Venice (2)
Merry Wives of Windsor (1)
Midsummer Night's Dream (4)
Much Ado about Nothing (7)
Othello (8)
Passionate Pilgrim (2)
Pericles (4)
Phoenix and the Turtle (1)
Rape of Lucrece (11)
Richard II (8)
Richard III (3)
Romeo and Juliet (3)
Sonnets (8)
Taming of the Shrew (4)
Tempest (6)
Timon of Athens (8)
Titus Andronicus (7)
Troilus and Cressida (7)
Twelfth Night (2)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (1)
Venus and Adonis (4)
Winter's Tale (4)

 

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