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No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.

      — As You Like It, Act V Scene 2

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Shakespeare concordance:
all instances of "ay"

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  • ay occurs 771 times in 8,029 speeches within 43 works.
  • Possibly related word: ai
  • Users have searched 1,429 times for ay in Open Source Shakespeare.
  • The numbers below indicate the number of speeches
    in which ay appears in each listed work. If a single speech
    contains ay more than once, the speech will still be counted once
    as part of the total count.
  • You may want to see all the instances at once.

All's Well That Ends Well (219)
Antony and Cleopatra (239)
As You Like It (209)
Comedy of Errors (146)
Coriolanus (269)
Cymbeline (203)
Hamlet (290)
Henry IV, Part I (211)
Henry IV, Part II (193)
Henry V (175)
Henry VI, Part I (184)
Henry VI, Part II (244)
Henry VI, Part III (228)
Henry VIII (216)
Julius Caesar (184)
King John (170)
King Lear (228)
Lover's Complaint (12)
Love's Labour's Lost (207)
Macbeth (152)
Measure for Measure (207)
Merchant of Venice (195)
Merry Wives of Windsor (264)
Midsummer Night's Dream (156)
Much Ado about Nothing (213)
Othello (241)
Passionate Pilgrim (23)
Pericles (170)
Phoenix and the Turtle (3)
Rape of Lucrece (82)
Richard II (190)
Richard III (268)
Romeo and Juliet (250)
Sonnets (108)
Taming of the Shrew (261)
Tempest (140)
Timon of Athens (162)
Titus Andronicus (166)
Troilus and Cressida (246)
Twelfth Night (216)
Two Gentlemen of Verona (183)
Venus and Adonis (68)
Winter's Tale (238)

 

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