TPTT The Winter's Tale: About the Play
Introduction
ACT I
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
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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: 319
your: 263
have: 238
this: 202
with: 197
thou: 127
what: 121
which: 121
will: 114
shall: 111
good: 103
more: 91
come: 86
from: 80
would: 78
there: 75
they: 74
then: 72
than: 71
lord: 67
were: 65
i'll: 65
thee: 64
them: 61
upon: 56
like: 56
should: 55
know: 55
most: 54
these: 53
must: 51
when: 51
some: 49
king: 49
make: 45
here: 45
well: 45
their: 45
mine: 44
queen: 44
think: 43
father: 43
much: 43
take: 43
camillo: 41
hath: 41
life: 40
been: 38
give: 37
such: 37
speak: 36
nothing: 34
time: 33
daughter: 31
being: 31
honour: 31
very: 30
though: 30
done: 30
cannot: 30
even: 29
where: 29
true: 29
never: 28
great: 28
look: 28
ever: 28
hand: 27
whose: 26
heart: 26
none: 26
made: 26
love: 25
bear: 25
prince: 24
business: 24
bohemia: 24
best: 24
death: 23
hear: 23
better: 23
poor: 23
thought: 23
since: 23
could: 22
lady: 22
again: 22
thus: 22
himself: 22
pray: 22
does: 21
gentleman: 21
call: 21
might: 21
three: 21
wife: 21
fear: 21
before: 21
gone: 20
brother: 20
court: 20
hast: 20
tell: 20
bring: 19
that's: 19
both: 19
eyes: 19
about: 19
other: 19
present: 19
whom: 18
those: 18
away: 18
please: 18
sweet: 18
still: 18
beseech: 18
hence: 18
leave: 18
thing: 18
first: 18
something: 17
blood: 17
born: 17
things: 16
swear: 16
hermione: 16
every: 16
paulina: 16
part: 16
indeed: 16
honest: 16
therefore: 16
fellow: 16
stay: 16
fair: 15
nature: 15
yours: 15
little: 15
dead: 15
till: 15
lost: 15
found: 15
polixenes: 15
name: 15
issue: 14
stand: 14
oracle: 14
said: 14
gracious: 14
father's: 14
against: 14
mistress: 14
else: 14
another: 14
yourself: 13
earth: 13
young: 13
highness: 13
many: 13
down: 13
dear: 13
prithee: 13
without: 13
comfort: 13
heard: 13
hold: 13
truth: 13
myself: 13
she's: 13
friend: 13
in't: 13
once: 13
enough: 13
sicilia: 13
matter: 12
grace: 12
seems: 12
child: 12
grave: 12
honesty: 12
left: 12
only: 12
into: 12
royal: 12
world: 12
makes: 12
you'll: 12
live: 12
play: 12
known: 11
need: 11
we'll: 11
comes: 11
dare: 11
prove: 11
past: 11
hands: 11
follow: 11
sheep: 11
came: 11
thine: 11
there's: 11
seen: 11
master: 11
o'er: 11
less: 11
heavens: 11
madam: 11
forth: 11
mean: 11
place: 11
trust: 10
knowledge: 10
word: 10
lest: 10
shepherd: 10
let's: 10
together: 10
to't: 10
piece: 10
on't: 10
money: 10
welcome: 10
dost: 10
cause: 10
free: 10
worthy: 10
gods: 10
within: 10
mother: 10
believe: 10
noble: 10
over: 10
queen's: 10
false: 10
mark: 10
king's: 9
twenty: 9
stone: 9
lords: 9
sight: 9
open: 9
here's: 9
sworn: 9
thoughts: 9
home: 9
woman: 9
twere: 9
sure: 9
work: 9
report: 9
behold: 9
themselves: 9
women: 9
break: 9
leontes: 9
princess: 9
babe: 9
purpose: 9
years: 9
do't: 9
knew: 8
told: 8
keep: 8
speed: 8
doing: 8
perdita: 8
flowers: 8
rather: 8
fire: 8
pity: 8
apollo: 8
he's: 8
sorrow: 8
care: 8
fortune: 8
turn: 8
liege: 8
long: 8
become: 8
rest: 8
sorry: 8
after: 8
heaven: 8
nose: 8
each: 8
i'ld: 8
tender: 8
ballad: 8
shalt: 8
hour: 8
what's: 8
tongue: 8
faith: 8
desire: 8
while: 8
night: 8
either: 8
kings: 8
head: 8
brought: 8
kiss: 8
deed: 8
help: 8
oath: 7
note: 7
fardel: 7
show: 7
already: 7
wonder: 7
sleep: 7
power: 7
tears: 7
itself: 7
behind: 7
marry: 7
appear: 7
husband: 7
methinks: 7
shame: 7
answer: 7
for't: 7
goes: 7
whither: 7
strike: 7
took: 7
pretty: 7
full: 7
shepherd's: 7
loves: 7
blest: 7
thousand: 7
means: 7
pardon: 7
last: 7
next: 7
rich: 7
merry: 7
mind: 7
becomes: 7
counsel: 7
worth: 7
change: 7
wilt: 7
gentle: 7
read: 7
alas: 7
seem: 7
doth: 7
gold: 7
charge: 7
rare: 7
fool: 7
services: 7
bastard: 7
honourable: 6
land: 6
flesh: 6
lies: 6
lack: 6
precious: 6
person: 6
grief: 6
e'er: 6
white: 6
tale: 6
verily: 6
approach: 6
save: 6
foot: 6
hope: 6
talk: 6
ears: 6
prisoner: 6
affairs: 6
purse: 6
maids: 6
lived: 6
affection: 6
face: 6
feel: 6
kind: 6
service: 6
innocent: 6
sacred: 6
half: 6
you're: 6
find: 6
speech: 6
command: 6
neither: 6
often: 6
guilty: 6
anon: 6
glass: 6
antigonus: 6
heir: 6
between: 6
folly: 6
betwixt: 6
children: 6
shearing: 6
ship: 6
manner: 6
besides: 6
loved: 6
justice: 6
youth: 6
longer: 6
looks: 6
remember: 6
is't: 6
aboard: 6
villain: 6
reason: 6
side: 6
spirit: 6
loss: 6
high: 6
taken: 5
going: 5
presence: 5
beauty: 5
crown: 5
guest: 5
certain: 5
suspicion: 5
breath: 5
promised: 5
holy: 5
fresh: 5
seek: 5
drunk: 5
boot: 5
happy: 5
house: 5
tyrant: 5
ignorant: 5
look'd: 5
thyself: 5
content: 5
absence: 5
late: 5
touch'd: 5
ne'er: 5
four: 5
caught: 5
thence: 5
mercy: 5
month: 5
shows: 5
visit: 5
mistake: 5
beyond: 5
innocence: 5
move: 5
creature: 5
puts: 5
force: 5
sing: 5
prize: 5
water: 5
bound: 5
stands: 5
thanks: 5
didst: 5
kill'd: 5
courtier: 5
song: 5
winter: 5
servant: 5
flight: 5
knows: 5
moon: 5
warrant: 5
thither: 5
least: 5
dance: 5
feast: 5
tall: 5
almost: 5
worship: 5
push: 5
rogue: 5
hanging: 5
fault: 5
ones: 5
given: 5
bosom: 5
begin: 5
kneel: 5
course: 5
request: 5
stir: 5
alive: 5
worse: 5
laid: 5
dreams: 5
news: 5
statue: 5
goodly: 5
strange: 5
gross: 5
having: 5
question: 5
point: 5
brows: 5
standing: 5
through: 5
clear: 5
weather: 5
draw: 5
twice: 5
senses: 5
days: 5
twixt: 5
words: 5
chance: 5
door: 5
sister: 5
softly: 5
soul: 5
an't: 5
married: 4
gloves: 4
bless: 4
authority: 4
trouble: 4
meeting: 4
emilia: 4
breeding: 4
exchange: 4
farewell: 4
arms: 4
majesty: 4
virtue: 4
green: 4
secrets: 4
pound: 4
pass: 4
ourselves: 4
adventure: 4
self: 4
you'ld: 4
undone: 4
want: 4
he'll: 4
scarce: 4
right: 4
encounter: 4
near: 4
hither: 4
colour: 4
subject: 4
cheek: 4
desires: 4
spoke: 4
case: 4
therein: 4
blow: 4
tune: 4
under: 4
aside: 4
heigh: 4
proceed: 4
neck: 4
satisfy: 4
patience: 4
credit: 4
flayed: 4
just: 4
weep: 4
awake: 4
living: 4
neat: 4
sovereign: 4
lead: 4
perceive: 4
back: 4
apollo's: 4
hark: 4
grown: 4
maid: 4
unto: 4
gentlemen: 4
goodness: 4
changed: 4
shed: 4
close: 4
doubt: 4
footman: 4
worst: 4
fore: 4
witness: 4
wind: 4
sings: 4
became: 4
sometimes: 4
stars: 4
cleomenes: 4
toward: 4
cast: 4
prison: 4
sooth: 4
choose: 4
canst: 4
friends: 4
denied: 4
seeming: 4
son's: 4
deliver: 4
offer: 4
sigh: 4
follows: 4
neighbour: 4
affliction: 4
contrary: 4
vengeance: 4
powerful: 4
soft: 4
favour: 4
office: 4
florizel: 4
trifles: 4
rough: 4
sixteen: 4
ground: 4
walk: 4
called: 4
swain: 4
unknown: 4
doricles: 4
throne: 4
prettiest: 4
suffer: 4
enemy: 4
chamber: 4
wenches: 4
praise: 4
five: 4
sickness: 4
jealousies: 4
paid: 4
remembrance: 4
blessing: 4
perform'd: 4
harm: 4
perform: 4
party: 4
serve: 3
mighty: 3
confess: 3
counted: 3
custom: 3
access: 3
pawn: 3
lord's: 3
quench: 3
farther: 3
proof: 3
fight: 3
divine: 3
fish: 3
express: 3
delphos: 3
purge: 3
yourselves: 3
wears: 3
blush: 3
accusation: 3
danger: 3
passion: 3
sees: 3
table: 3
tunes: 3
bearing: 3
moiety: 3
country: 3
entertainment: 3
deeds: 3
print: 3
vices: 3
garments: 3
mamillius: 3
play'd: 3
estate: 3
stain: 3
wife's: 3
casting: 3
accused: 3
ballads: 3
plain: 3
smell: 3
waters: 3
contract: 3
morrow: 3
spirits: 3
ours: 3
pack: 3
countenance: 3
contempt: 3
whispering: 3
wish'd: 3
weak: 3
simple: 3
language: 3
dream: 3
palace: 3
lady's: 3
advocate: 3
brains: 3
benefit: 3
mouth: 3
account: 3
nobleness: 3
relation: 3
trick: 3
plight: 3
cold: 3
wherein: 3
possible: 3
forbid: 3
truly: 3
understand: 3
deliver'd: 3
foolish: 3
lawful: 3
letters: 3
dion: 3
burthen: 3
couple: 3
removed: 3
bark: 3
violent: 3
manners: 3
abroad: 3
mock'd: 3
particular: 3
strength: 3
know't: 3
depart: 3
commend: 3
unhappy: 3
mile: 3
growing: 3
second: 3
departure: 3
hearts: 3
herself: 3
whole: 3
send: 3
fortunes: 3
plainly: 3
silence: 3
wish: 3
whereof: 3
tenderly: 3
reigns: 3
visitation: 3
mirth: 3
beat: 3
year: 3
weeping: 3
among: 3
considered: 3
thousands: 3
calf: 3
horn: 3
infected: 3
infection: 3
inch: 3
clamour: 3
warm: 3
ordering: 3
alike: 3
mother's: 3
seven: 3
breed: 3
state: 3
dignity: 3
bidding: 3
received: 3
upon't: 3
summer: 3
daughter's: 3
sent: 3
middle: 3
trespass: 3
twas: 3
deserved: 3
wives: 3
forced: 3
needs: 3
dram: 3
traitor: 3
lives: 3
fail: 3
settled: 3
grieve: 3
secret: 3
guests: 3
hopes: 3
fond: 3
consider: 3
seemed: 3
body: 3
design: 3
faces: 3
appeared: 3
deserves: 3
commanded: 3
opinion: 3
earnest: 3
broken: 3
choice: 3
wear: 3
because: 3
tyranny: 3
pale: 3
chaste: 3
train: 3
blessed: 3
shoulder: 3
says: 3
mere: 3
woo'd: 3
straight: 3
murder: 3
shore: 3
priest: 3
pedlar: 3
errand: 3
goddess: 3
spur: 3
served: 3
virtues: 3
honour'd: 3
hard: 3
faults: 3
be't: 3
produce: 3
adulteress: 3
winds: 3
required: 3
fairest: 3
dread: 3
fancy: 3
acquaint: 3
former: 3
receive: 3
bears: 3
easy: 3
coming: 3
deceived: 3
conceive: 3
held: 3
actions: 3
wouldst: 3
pluck: 3
sights: 3
greater: 3
dangerous: 3
swift: 3
heavy: 3
homely: 3
instantly: 3
wept: 3
chase: 3
tells: 3
thereto: 3
angry: 3
nine: 3
utter: 3
bitter: 3
accident: 3
negligent: 3
condemn'd: 3
dances: 3
posterns: 3
continue: 3
grant: 3
penitent: 3
songs: 3
looking: 3
until: 3
curtain: 3
commit: 3
powers: 3
profess: 3
star: 3
lads: 3
noted: 3
boldness: 3
tongues: 3
hang: 3
hostess: 3
conscience: 3
times: 3
pair: 3
embraces: 3
forget: 3
above: 3
picture: 3
lace: 3
fearful: 3
cruel: 2
thinks: 2
noses: 2
nearest: 2
wanton: 2
distraction: 2
rags: 2
privy: 2
tied: 2
matters: 2
descend: 2
exercise: 2
wild: 2
visage: 2
seeing: 2
pastime: 2
perpetual: 2
miseries: 2
cordial: 2
sheets: 2
hopeful: 2
tyrannous: 2
revenge: 2
despair: 2
race: 2
south: 2
importance: 2
lift: 2
obey: 2
beard: 2
allowing: 2
fill'd: 2
obedience: 2
bids: 2
conceit: 2
sprites: 2
serious: 2
necessity: 2
spider: 2
minister: 2
fine: 2
pronounce: 2
pace: 2
roared: 2
hedge: 2
men's: 2
inclining: 2
waiting: 2
forgiveness: 2
lucky: 2
ghost: 2
saying: 2
holding: 2
deal: 2
whereupon: 2
city: 2
kingdom: 2
forbear: 2
hated: 2
admiring: 2
milk: 2
nest: 2
fled: 2
partner: 2
spectators: 2
quarters: 2
partly: 2
poison: 2
tooth: 2
outside: 2
performed: 2
process: 2
laugh: 2
trunk: 2
alter'd: 2
knowing: 2
lovest: 2
perfect: 2
mend: 2
birth: 2
unworthy: 2
gainst: 2
although: 2
shines: 2
dame: 2
stealing: 2
transported: 2
autolycus: 2
forgive: 2
to's: 2
unless: 2
justified: 2
third: 2
dares: 2
integrity: 2
hours: 2
crutches: 2
disease: 2
parting: 2
black: 2
proclaim'd: 2
feel't: 2
occasion: 2
withal: 2
ta'en: 2
character: 2
moves: 2
mock: 2
execution: 2
higher: 2
officious: 2
jewel: 2
petition: 2
steel: 2
monstrous: 2
doleful: 2
necessary: 2
sport: 2
daffodils: 2
ungentle: 2
post: 2
natural: 2
hides: 2
feasts: 2
heirs: 2
arrive: 2
fairly: 2
goest: 2
honey: 2
undergo: 2
coldly: 2
amongst: 2
doubted: 2
afresh: 2
luck: 2
witnesses: 2
ships: 2
imperial: 2
weary: 2
hair: 2
entreaties: 2
rotten: 2
perchance: 2
hangman: 2
temple: 2
blue: 2
advice: 2
testimony: 2
silent: 2
newly: 2
jealous: 2
opening: 2
shepherdess: 2
recoil: 2
dispatch: 2
sometime: 2
thrice: 2
petty: 2
beloved: 2
wrong: 2
gillyvors: 2
adieu: 2
receives: 2
betray: 2
wisest: 2
greet: 2
understanding: 2
conceiving: 2
fast: 2
quick: 2
torture: 2
thorns: 2
match: 2
sooner: 2
climate: 2
ages: 2
bloody: 2
places: 2
rice: 2
deaths: 2
purchase: 2
alone: 2
man's: 2
lean: 2
faster: 2
employ'd: 2
threaten: 2
girls: 2
seldom: 2
lesser: 2
squared: 2
advised: 2
offences: 2
was't: 2
needful: 2
tempt: 2
fetch: 2
open't: 2
pedlar's: 2
gave: 2
brat: 2
thick: 2
gentlewoman: 2
preserved: 2
vows: 2
frame: 2
obedient: 2
motion: 2
prosperous: 2
herds: 2
provided: 2
fasting: 2
seest: 2
sense: 2
soon: 2
wipe: 2
miss: 2
pheasant: 2
bones: 2
methought: 2
lend: 2
measure: 2
liars: 2
accursed: 2
several: 2
pleased: 2
commission: 2
image: 2
chose: 2
piteous: 2
threes: 2
copy: 2
fertile: 2
forgot: 2
succession: 2
labour: 2
opposed: 2
assisted: 2
stoned: 2
eggs: 2
difference: 2
theirs: 2
skill: 2
instrument: 2
bastards: 2
went: 2
centre: 2
intelligence: 2
repent: 2
whether: 2
feeling: 2
hearing: 2
complaint: 2
wisdom: 2
steal: 2
answer'd: 2
wide: 2
deny: 2
flock: 2
combat: 2
bounty: 2
execute: 2
plot: 2
begins: 2
fright: 2
discover: 2
unbuckle: 2
keys: 2
pleasant: 2
drawn: 2
allegiance: 2
grow: 2
double: 2
session: 2
wink: 2
give't: 2
unsettled: 2
madness: 2
freely: 2
hardly: 2
committing: 2
afeard: 2
prepare: 2
delicate: 2
wretch: 2
fix'd: 2
undertake: 2
corse: 2
daughters: 2
usage: 2
fury: 2
mopsa: 2
storm: 2
misery: 2
followers: 2
foul: 2
light: 2
captain: 2
bracelet: 2
ribbons: 2
rule: 2
colours: 2
peerless: 2
falsehood: 2
quite: 2
apparel: 2
gates: 2
spices: 2
negligence: 2
kindness: 2
neptune: 2
blind: 2
avoid: 2
likewise: 2
reasonable: 2
boy's: 2
changeling: 2
strong: 2
shearers: 2
meet: 2
whipped: 2
making: 2
fulfilled: 2
retired: 2
fifteen: 2
stays: 2
chide: 2
thou'lt: 2
circumstance: 2
dearest: 2
hook: 2
losing: 2
deep: 2
offices: 2
chapel: 2
instruments: 2
sorrows: 2
duty: 2
changes: 2
died: 2
calumny: 2
same: 2
bohemia's: 2
believed: 2
clear'd: 2
thou'rt: 2
finest: 2
company: 2
disposition: 2
allow: 2
yields: 2
pitiful: 2
slept: 2
howe'er: 2
leaving: 2
grew: 2
shouldst: 2
robes: 2
eaten: 2
barren: 2
constant: 2
gifts: 2
certainly: 2
music: 2
sweet'st: 2
society: 2
bury: 2
souls: 2
inside: 2
ability: 2
sessions: 2
book: 2
parts: 2
passage: 2
blows: 2
infant: 2
remove: 2
trial: 2
kill: 2
escape: 2
libya: 2
brave: 2
dash: 2
looked: 2
between's: 2
on's: 2
pattern: 2
geld: 2
baseness: 2
chants: 2
prig: 2
instruct: 2
able: 2
prosper: 2
with't: 2
parents: 2
prophecy: 2
boys: 2
quit: 2
friendly: 2
jove: 2
necessities: 2
partake: 2
glad: 2
fellows: 2
liking: 2
troth: 2
cottage: 2
remedy: 2
alack: 2
ready: 2
spare: 2
wildly: 2
fill: 2
alteration: 2
beheld: 2
whiles: 2
level: 2
garden: 2
stood: 2
towards: 2
robbed: 2
whoop: 2
knees: 2
eyebrows: 2
proofs: 2
spring: 2
revenges: 2
cheat: 2
evils: 2
weakness: 2
equal: 2
cupbearer: 2
nuptial: 2
form: 2
baby: 2
mankind: 2
used: 2
woman's: 2
accuse: 2
scared: 2
remote: 2
acknowledge: 2
friendship: 2
presently: 2
sword: 2
pleasure: 2
peril: 2
purity: 2
fares: 2
marvel: 2
holds: 2
cross'd: 2
prevail: 2
merrily: 2
mingle: 2
lass: 2
charged: 2
nurse: 2
show'd: 2
tape: 2
cease: 2
names: 2
proclaim: 2
also: 2
sound: 2
takest: 2
coat: 2
princes: 2
wills: 2
anger: 2
golden: 2
extremity: 2
exposed: 2
appearing: 2
praises: 2
pure: 2
asks: 2
stronger: 2
royally: 2
beating: 2
unspeakable: 2
kingdoms: 2
vessel: 2
safer: 2
spoken: 2
circumstances: 2
longs: 2
vain: 2
lamented: 2
evil: 2
guess: 2
example: 2
ancient: 2
peace: 2
landed: 2
common: 2
human: 2
tremble: 2
tried: 2
enjoy: 2
dream'd: 2
flies: 2
wherefore: 2
smiles: 2
apparent: 2
seal'd: 2
concerns: 2
dying: 2
shores: 2
list: 2
apart: 2
durst: 2
curse: 2
traitors: 2
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