| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.50 | Helena; go to, no more, lest it be rather thought you | Helena go too, no more least it be rather thought you |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.68 | They that least lend it you shall lack you first. | They that least lend it you, shall lacke you first. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.179 | And be performed tonight. The solemn feast | And be perform'd to night: the solemne Feast |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.210 | Do not plunge thyself too far in anger, lest thou | Do not plundge thy selfe to farre in anger, least thou |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.113 | Whoever charges on his forward breast, | Who euer charges on his forward brest |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.12 | It were fit you knew him; lest, reposing | It were fit you knew him, least reposing |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.31.1 | At least in my opinion. | At lest in my opinion. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.166 | shake the snow from off their cassocks lest they shake | shake the snow from off their Cassockes, least they shake |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.99 | As she had made the overture, she ceased | As she had made the ouerture, she ceast |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.8 | The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper, | The Buckles on his brest, reneages all temper, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.36 | Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life | Feeds Beast as Man; the Noblenesse of life |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.141 | nothing. Cleopatra, catching but the least noise of this, | nothing. Cleopatra catching but the least noyse of this, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.63 | Which beasts would cough at. Thy palate then did deign | Which Beasts would cough at. Thy pallat thẽ did daine |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.46 | Her opulent throne with kingdoms. All the East, | Her opulent Throne, with Kingdomes. All the East, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.50.1 | Was beastly dumbed by him. | Was beastly dumbe by him. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.23 | Tie up the libertine in a field of feasts; | Tye vp the Libertine in a field of Feasts, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.80 | Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want | Three Kings I had newly feasted, and did want |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.162 | Lest my remembrance suffer ill report; | Least my remembrance, suffer ill report: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.187 | much more monstrous matter of feast, which worthily | much more monstrous matter of Feast, which worthily |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.229 | Being barbered ten times o'er, goes to the feast, | Being barber'd ten times o're, goes to the Feast; |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.41.1 | I'th' East my pleasure lies. | I'th'East my pleasure lies. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.50 | The beds i'th' East are soft; and thanks to you, | The beds i'th'East are soft, and thanks to you, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.60 | We'll feast each other ere we part, and let's | Weele feast each other, ere we part, and lett's |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.65.1 | Grew fat with feasting there. | grew fat with feasting there. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.73.1 | Four feasts are toward. | Foure Feasts are toward. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.2 | plants are ill-rooted already; the least wind i'th' world | Plants are ill rooted already, the least winde i'th'world |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.94 | This is not yet an Alexandrian feast. | This is not yet an Alexandrian Feast. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.5 | Since Pompey's feast, as Menas says, is troubled | Since Pompey's feast, as Menas saies, is troubled |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.35 | Though you be therein curious, the least cause | Though you be therein curious, the lest cause |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.i.15 | And feast the army; we have store to do't, | And Feast the Army, we haue store to doo't, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.23 | Lest I be taken. Not th' imperious show | Least I be taken: not th'Imperious shew |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.64 | Lest in her greatness, by some mortal stroke, | Least in her greatnesse, by some mortall stroke |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.307.2 | O eastern star! | Oh Easterne Starre. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.308 | Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, | Dost thou not see my Baby at my breast, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.346.2 | Here, on her breast, | Heere on her brest, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.1 | I think he be transformed into a beast, | I thinke he be transform'd into a beast, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.116 | If ever sat at any good man's feast; | If euer sate at any good mans feast: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.123 | And sat at good men's feasts, and wiped our eyes | And sat at good mens feasts, and wip'd our eies |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.84 | From the east to western Ind, | From the east to westerne Inde, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.46 | but the wood, no assembly but horn-beasts. But what | but the wood, no assembly but horne-beasts. But what |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.189 | done to her own nest. | done to her owne neast. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.50 | Meaning me a beast. | Meaning me a beast. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.118 | The royal disposition of that beast | The royall disposition of that beast |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.37 | very strange beasts, which in all tongues are called fools. | verie strange beasts, which in all tongues, are call'd Fooles. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.40 | With her I lived in joy, our wealth increased | With her I liu'd in ioy, our wealth increast |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.18 | The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowls, | The beasts, the fishes, and the winged fowles |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.86 | bestows on beasts, and what he hath scanted men in | bestowes on beasts, and what he hath scanted them in |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.228 | Ay, and let none enter, lest I break your pate. | I, and let none enter, least I breake your pate. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.26 | Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. | Small cheere and great welcome, makes a merrie feast. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.88 | beast – not that, I being a beast, she would have me, | beast, not that I beeing a beast she would haue me, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.89 | but that she, being a very beastly creature, lays claim | but that she being a verie beastly creature layes claime |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.153 | And I think if my breast had not been made of faith, and my heart of steel, | And I thinke, if my brest had not beene made of faith, and my heart of steele, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.171 | But lest myself be guilty to self-wrong, | But least my selfe be guilty to selfe wrong, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.41 | No, bear it with you lest I come not time enough. | No beare it with you, least I come not time enough. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.60 | Revel and feast it at my house today, | Reuell and feast it at my house to day, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.84 | To be disturbed would mad or man or beast. | To be disturb'd, would mad or man, or beast: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.205 | While she with harlots feasted in my house. | While she with Harlots feasted in my house. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.406 | Go to a gossips' feast, and go with me. | Go to a Gossips feast, and go with mee, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.408 | With all my heart I'll gossip at this feast. | With all my heart, Ile Gossip at this feast. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.10 | Whether for east or west. The dearth is great, | Whether for East or West: the Dearth is great, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.41 | Than gilt his trophy. The breasts of Hecuba, | Then gilt his Trophe. The brests of Hecuba |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.10 | Yet cam'st thou to a morsel of this feast, | Yet cam'st thou to a Morsell of this Feast, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.6 | Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. | Nature teaches Beasts to know their Friends. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.30 | pleasures – at the least, if you take it as a pleasure to you | pleasures (at the least) if you take it as a pleasure to you, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.90 | of the beastly plebeians. I will be bold to take my leave | of the Beastly Plebeans. I will be bold to take my leaue |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.221 | With the least cause these his new honours, which | With the least cause, these his new Honors, / Which |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.120.1 | To ease his breast with panting. | To ease his Brest with panting. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.21 | skull, they would fly east, west, north, south, and their | Scull, they would flye East, West, North, South, and their |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.257 | What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent, | What his Brest forges, that his Tongue must vent, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.308 | Lest his infection, being of catching nature, | Least his infection being of catching nature, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.313 | Lest parties – as he is beloved – break out | Least parties (as he is belou'd) breake out, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.121 | Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth | Least I surcease to honor mine owne truth, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.1 | Come, leave your tears. A brief farewell. The beast | Come leaue your teares: a brief farwel: the beast |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.5 | Lest that thy wives with spits and boys with stones | Least that thy Wiues with Spits, and Boyes with stones |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.9 | He is, and feasts the nobles of the state | He is, and Feasts the Nobles of the State, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.5 | A goodly house. The feast smells well, but I | A goodly House: / The Feast smels well: but I |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.102 | Drawn tuns of blood out of thy country's breast, | Drawne Tunnes of Blood out of thy Countries brest, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.223 | were a parcel of their feast, and to be executed ere they | were a parcel of their Feast, and to be executed ere they |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.54 | Lest you shall chance to whip your information | Least you shall chance to whip your Information, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.123 | How? Was't we? We loved him, but, like beasts | How? Was't we? We lou'd him, / But like Beasts, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.54 | go, lest I let forth your half-pint of blood. Back – that's | go: least I let forth your halfe pinte of blood. Backe, that's |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.81 | In Volscian breasts. That we have been familiar, | In Volcean brests. That we haue beene familiar, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.39 | Big of this gentleman – our theme – deceased | Bigge of this Gentleman (our Theame) deceast |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.24 | O lady, weep no more, lest I give cause | O Lady, weepe no more, least I giue cause |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.109 | You shall – at least – go see my lord aboard. | You shall (at least) go see my Lord aboord. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.30 | She shines not upon fools, lest the reflection | She shines not vpon Fooles, least the reflection |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.164 | Britain, lest the bargain should catch cold and | Britaine, least the Bargaine should catch colde, and |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.153 | His beastly mind to us, he hath a court | His beastly minde to vs; he hath a Court |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.37 | To th' madding of her lord. On her left breast | To'th'madding of her Lord. On her left brest |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.134 | For further satisfying, under her breast – | For further satisfying, vnder her Breast |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.40 | We are beastly: subtle as the fox for prey, | We are beastly; subtle as the Fox for prey, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.75 | The venison first shall be the lord o'th' feast, | The Venison first, shall be the Lord o'th'Feast, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.150 | The residence of Posthumus; so nigh – at least – | The residence of Posthumus; so nie (at least) |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.188 | Lest being missed, I be suspected of | Least being mist, I be suspected of |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.2 | Are master of the feast: Cadwal and I | Are Master of the Feast: Cadwall, and I |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.255 | Nay, Cadwal, we must lay his head to the east, | Nay Cadwall, we must lay his head to th'East, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.372 | From east to occident, cry out for service, | From East to Occident, cry out for Seruice, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.27 | Like beasts which you shun beastly, and may save | Like beasts, which you shun beastly, and may saue |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.109 | This tablet lay upon his breast, wherein | This Tablet lay vpon his Brest, wherein |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.112 | Express impatience, lest you stir up mine. | Expresse Impatience, least you stirre vp mine: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.4 | Whose rags shamed gilded arms, whose naked breast | Whose ragges, sham'd gilded Armes, whose naked brest |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.155 | The mansion where: 'twas at a feast, O, would | The Mansion where: 'twas at a Feast, oh would |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.156 | Our viands had been poisoned – or at least | Our Viands had bin poyson'd (or at least |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.484 | Our peace we'll ratify: seal it with feasts. | Our Peace wee'l ratifie: Seale it with Feasts. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.80 | At least the whisper goes so. Our last King, | At least the whisper goes so: Our last King, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.168 | Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill. | Walkes o're the dew of yon high Easterne Hill, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.150 | O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason | (O Heauen! A beast that wants discourse of Reason |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.17 | This heavy-headed revel east and west | |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.42 | Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, | I that incestuous, that adulterate Beast |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.109 | At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark. | At least I'm sure it may be so in Denmarke; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.52 | My news shall be the fruit to that great feast. | My Newes shall be the Newes to that great Feast. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.84 | Go to your rest. At night we'll feast together. | Go to your rest, at night wee'l Feast together. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.448 | ‘ The rugged Pyrrhus, like th' Hyrcanian beast – ’ | The rugged Pyrrhus like th' Hyrcanian Beast. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.188 | Such love must needs be treason in my breast: | Such Loue, must needs be Treason in my brest: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.129 | Lest with this piteous action you convert | Least with this pitteous action you conuert |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.35 | Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.87 | Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts; | Without the which we are Pictures, or meere Beasts. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.87 | With the brave beast. So far he topped my thought | With the braue Beast, so farre he past my thought, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.87 | fertile. Let a beast be lord of beasts, and his crib shall | fertile; let a Beast be Lord of Beasts, and his Crib shall |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.187 | time and, out of an habit of encounter, a kind of yeasty | time, and outward habite of encounter, a kinde of yesty |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.359 | What feast is toward in thine eternal cell | What feast is toward in thine eternall Cell. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.34 | | [Q1 replaces this scene with the following] Enter Horatio and the Queene. HOR. Madame, your sonne is safe arriv'de in Denmarke, This letter I euen now receiv'd of him, Whereas he writes how he escap't the danger, And subtle treason that the king had plotted, Being crossed by the contention of the windes, He found the Packet sent to the king of England, Wherein he saw himselfe betray'd to death, As at his next conuersion with your grace, He will relate the circumstance at full. QUEENE. Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie: But I will soothe and please him for a time, For murderous mindes are alwayes jealous, But know not you Horatio where he is? HOR. Yes Madame, and he hath appoynted me To meete him on the east side of the Cittie To morrow morning. QUEENE. O faile not, good Horatio, and withall, commend me A mothers care to him, bid him a while Be wary of his presence, lest that he Faile in that he goes about. HOR. Madam, neuer make doubt of that: I thinke by this the news be come to court: He is arriv'de, obserue the king, and you shall Quickely finde, Hamlet being here, Things fell not to his minde. QUEENE. But what became of Gilderstone and Rossencraft? HOR. He being set ashore, they went for England, And in the Packet there writ down that doome To be perform'd on them poynted for him: And by great chance he had his fathers Seale, So all was done without discouerie. QUEENE. Thankes be to heauen for blessing of the prince, Horatio once againe I take my leaue, With thowsand mothers blessings to my sonne. HORAT. Madam adue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.44 | Such beastly shameless transformation | Such beastly, shamelesse transformation, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.129 | Eastcheap. We may do it as secure as sleep. If you will | Eastcheape; we may doe it as secure as sleepe: if you will |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.155 | Farewell, you shall find me in Eastcheap. | Farwell, you shall finde me in Eastcheape. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.186 | supper. How thirty at least he fought with, what wards, | Supper: how thirty at least he fought with, what Wardes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.190 | necessary and meet me tomorrow night in Eastcheap. | necessary, and meete me to morrow night in Eastcheape, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.215 | Redeeming time when men think least I will. | Redeeming time, when men thinke least I will. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.193 | Send danger from the east unto the west, | Send danger from the East vnto the West, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.14 | good lads in Eastcheap. They call drinking deep | good Laddes in East-cheape. They call drinking deepe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.170 | Sixteen at least, my lord. | Sixteene, at least, my Lord. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.430 | My noble lord, from Eastcheap. | My Noble Lord, from East-cheape. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.438 | humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen | Humors, that Boulting-Hutch of Beastlinesse, that swolne |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.71 | By south and east is to my part assigned. | By South and East, is to my part assign'd: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.150 | He held me last night at least nine hours | He held me last Night, at least, nine howres, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.180 | The least of which haunting a nobleman | The least of which, haunting a Nobleman, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.215 | Begins his golden progress in the east. | Begins his Golden Progresse in the East. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.253 | 'Tis the next way to turn tailor, or be redbreast | 'Tis the next way to turne Taylor, or be Red-brest |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.58 | Seldom, but sumptuous, showed like a feast, | Seldome but sumptuous, shewed like a Feast, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.120 | Setting thy womanhood aside, thou art a beast | Setting thy woman-hood aside, thou art a beast |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.122 | Say, what beast, thou knave, thou? | Say, what beast, thou knaue thou? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.123 | What beast? Why – an otter. | What beast? Why an Otter. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.78 | To the latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast | to the latter end of a Fray, and the beginning of a Feast, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.43 | You conjure from the breast of civil peace | You coniure from the Brest of Ciuill Peace, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.5 | Lest your retirement do amaze your friends. | Least your retirement do amaze your friends. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.47 | In fewer offices, or at least desist | In fewer offices? Or at least, desist |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.95 | Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him | Thou (beastly Feeder) art so full of him, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.14 | in mine own house, most beastly, in good faith. 'A cares | in mine owne house, and that most beastly: he cares |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.36 | and a beast, to bear every knave's wrong. | and a Beast, to beare euery Knaues wrong. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.68 | grace, I am a poor widow of Eastcheap, and he is | Grace, I am a poore widdow of Eastcheap, and he is |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.141 | At the old place, my lord, in Eastcheap. | At the old place my Lord, in East-cheape. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.55 | Did feast together, and in two years after | Did feast together; and in two yeeres after, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.122 | My father from the breast of Bolingbroke, | My Father from the Breast of Bullingbrooke; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.104 | East, west, north, south; or like a school broke up, | East, West, North, South: or like a Schoole, broke vp, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.106 | Such are the poor, in health – or else a feast | (Such are the poore, in health) or else a Feast, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.173 | Did with the least affection of a welcome | Did, with the least Affection of a Welcome, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.211 | Lest rest and lying still might make them look | Least rest, and lying still, might make them looke |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.26 | Peace be with us, lest we be heavier! | Peace be with vs, least we be heauier. |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.67 | It must be so, for miracles are ceased; | It must be so; for Miracles are ceast: |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.4 | Reigns solely in the breast of every man. | Reignes solely in the breast of euery man. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.45 | Let him be punished, sovereign, lest example | Let him be punish'd Soueraigne, least example |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.141 | Dispatch us with all speed, lest that our King | Dispatch vs with all speed, least that our King |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.13 | Breasting the lofty surge. O, do but think | Bresting the loftie Surge. O, doe but thinke |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.19 | And of the heat of the ginger. It is a beast for | And of the heat of the Ginger. It is a Beast for |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.23 | indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts. | indeede a Horse, and all other Iades you may call Beasts. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.57 | that day, lest he knock that about yours. | that day, least he knock that about yours. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.109 | lest he, by showing it, should dishearten his army. | least hee, by shewing it, should dis-hearten his Army. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.40 | This day is called the Feast of Crispian: | This day is call'd the Feast of Crispian: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.45 | Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, | Will yeerely on the Vigil feast his neighbours, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.94 | While the beast lived, was killed with hunting him. | While the beast liu'd, was kill'd with hunting him. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.17 | Tarry, sweet soul, for mine, then fly abreast, | Tarry (sweet soule) for mine, then flye a-brest: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.154 | To keep our great Saint George's feast withal. | To keepe our great Saint Georges Feast withall. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.73 | Speak, Salisbury; at least, if thou canst, speak. | Speake Salisbury; at least, if thou canst, speake: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.10 | My breast I'll burst with straining of my courage, | My brest Ile burst with straining of my courage, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.13 | And feast and banquet in the open streets | And feast and banquet in the open streets, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.9 | There hath at least five Frenchmen died tonight. | There hath at least fiue Frenchmen dyed to night. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.52 | And least proportion of humanity. | And least proportion of Humanitie: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.81 | To feast so great a warrior in my house. | To feast so great a Warrior in my House. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.50 | Lest, bleeding, you do paint the white rose red, | Least bleeding, you doe paint the white Rose red, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.118 | Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast; | Well, I will locke his Councell in my Brest, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.39 | And that engenders thunder in his breast | And that engenders Thunder in his breast, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.62 | Lest it be said ‘ Speak, sirrah, when you should; | Least it be said, Speake Sirrha when you should: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.99 | Undaunted spirit in a dying breast! | Vndaunted spirit in a dying breast, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.51 | Which thou thyself hast given her woeful breast. | Which thou thy selfe hast giuen her wofull Brest. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.87 | And doth beget new courage in our breasts. | And doth beget new Courage in our Breasts. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.7 | Now thou art come unto a feast of death, | Now thou art come vnto a Feast of death, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.28 | Thy mother gave thee when thou sucked'st her breast | Thy mother gaue thee when thou suck'st her brest, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.84 | I feel such sharp dissension in my breast, | I feele such sharpe dissention in my breast, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.68 | And grumbling York; and not the least of these | And grumbling Yorke: and not the least ofthese, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.42 | This evening on the east side of the grove. | this Euening, / On the East side of the Groue. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.47 | Are ye advised? The east side of the grove. | are ye aduis'd? / The East side of the Groue: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.344 | Who, cherished in your breasts, will sting your hearts. | Who cherisht in your breasts, will sting your hearts. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.43 | By crying comfort from a hollow breast, | By crying comfort from a hollow breast, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.178 | The least of all these signs were probable. | The least of all these signes were probable. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.184 | 'Tis like you would not feast him like a friend, | Tis like you would not feast him like a friend, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.232 | What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! | What stronger Brest-plate then a heart vntainted? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.262 | Lest, being suffered in that harmful slumber, | Least being suffer'd in that harmefull slumber, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.58 | When I have feasted with Queen Margaret? | When I haue feasted with Queene Margaret? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.5 | Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast; | Heere may his head lye on my throbbing brest: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.56 | My hope is gone, now Suffolk is deceased. | My hope is gone, now Suffolke is deceast. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.96 | This breast from harbouring foul deceitful thoughts. | This breast from harbouring foule deceitfull thoughts. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.124 | them again, lest they consult about the giving up of | them againe, / Least they consult about the giuing vp / Of |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.160 | Take heed, lest by your heat you burn yourselves. | Take heede least by your heate you burne your selues: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.12 | Even of the bonny beast he loved so well. | Euen of the bonnie beast he loued so well. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.7 | Lord Clifford, and Lord Stafford, all abreast, | Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford all a-brest |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.9 | Lest thou be hated both of God and man. | Least thou be hated both of God and Man. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.41 | Lest in revenge thereof, sith God is just, | Least in reuenge thereof, sith God is iust, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.83 | Is kindling coals that fires all my breast, | Is kindling coales that fires all my brest, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.12 | Not to the beast that would usurp their den. | Not to the Beast, that would vsurpe their Den. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.54 | This may plant courage in their quailing breasts; | This may plant courage in their quailing breasts, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.11 | Both tugging to be victors, breast to breast, | Both tugging to be Victors, brest to brest: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.117 | My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell; | My sighing brest, shall be thy Funerall bell; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.30 | I stabbed your fathers' bosoms; split my breast. | I stab'd your Fathers bosomes; Split my brest. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.37 | Her sighs will make a battery in his breast; | Her sighes will make a batt'ry in his brest, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.57 | A man at least, for less I should not be; | A man at least, for lesse I should not be: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.91 | I am a subject fit to jest withal, | I am a subiect fit to ieast withall, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.113 | That would be ten days' wonder at the least. | That would be tenne dayes wonder at the least. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.116 | Well, jest on, brothers; I can tell you both | Well, ieast on Brothers: I can tell you both, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.23 | Lest with my sighs or tears I blast or drown | Least with my sighes or teares, I blast or drowne |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.32 | To save at least the heir of Edward's right. | To saue (at least) the heire of Edwards right: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.21 | Yet Edward at the least is Duke of York. | Yet Edward, at the least, is Duke of Yorke. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.29 | I thought at least he would have said ‘ the King.’ | I thought at least he would haue said the King, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.30 | Or did he make the jest against his will? | Or did he make the Ieast against his will? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.41 | Infuse his breast with magnanimity, | Infuse his Breast with Magnanimitie, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.46 | Lest in our need he might infect another | Least in our need he might infect another, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.27 | My breast can better brook thy dagger's point | My brest can better brooke thy Daggers point, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.81 | Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that have | Kinsmen of mine, three at the least, that haue |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.205 | Another spread on's breast, mounting his eyes, | Another spread on's breast, mounting his eyes, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.44.1 | Lest he should help his father. | Least he should helpe his Father. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.129 | The least rub in your fortunes, fall away | The least rub in your fortunes, fall away |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.153 | A royal lady, spake one the least word that might | A Royall Lady, spake one, the least word that might |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.184 | The region of my breast; which forced such way | The region of my Breast, which forc'd such way, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.110 | Take heed, for heaven's sake take heed, lest at once | Take heed, for heauens sake take heed, least at once |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.7 | To meet the least occasion that may give me | To meete the least occasion, that may giue me |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.10 | Have uncontemned gone by him, or at least | Haue vncontemn'd gone by him, or at least |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.117 | Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts | Strikes his brest hard, and anon, he casts |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.200 | Take notice, lords, he has a loyal breast, | Take notice Lords, he ha's a Loyall brest, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.94.1 | To York Place, where the feast is held. | To Yorke-Place, where the Feast is held. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.28 | At least good manners – as not thus to suffer | At least good manners; as not thus to suffer |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.67 | You know it is the feast of Lupercal. | You know it is the Feast of Lupercall. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.49 | By means whereof this breast of mine hath buried | By meanes whereof, this Brest of mine hath buried |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.51 | The breast of heaven, I did present myself | The Brest of Heauen, I did present my selfe |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.64 | Why birds and beasts from quality and kind, | Why Birds and Beasts, from qualitie and kinde, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.28 | Then, lest he may, prevent. And, since the quarrel | Then least he may, preuent. And since the Quarrell |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.101 | Here lies the east; doth not the day break here? | Here lyes the East: doth not the Day breake heere? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.110 | He first presents his fire; and the high east | He first presents his fire, and the high East |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.40 | They could not find a heart within the beast. | They could not finde a heart within the beast. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.42 | Caesar should be a beast without a heart | Casar should be a Beast without a heart |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.87 | Stand fast together, lest some friend of Caesar's | Stand fast together, least some Friend of Casars |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.92 | And leave us, Publius, lest that the people, | And leaue vs Publius, least that the people |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.189 | Though last, not least in love, yours, good Trebonius. | Though last, not least in loue, yours good Trebonius. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.105 | O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts, | O Iudgement! thou are fled to brutish Beasts, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.1 | I dreamt tonight that I did feast with Caesar, | I dreamt to night, that I did feast with Casar, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.100 | And here my naked breast; within, a heart | And heere my naked Breast: Within, a Heart |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.106 | Lest it discomfort us. Lucilius, come; | Least it discomfort vs. Lucillius come, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.45 | Hot courage is engendered in my breast, | Hot courage is engendred in my brest, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.99 | Lest, meeting with the lion in the field, | Least meeting with the Lyon in the feeld, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.79 | Turned hence again the blasting north-east wind | Turnd hence againe the blasting North-east winde: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.117 | Lest, yielding here, I pine in shameful love, | Least yeelding heere, I pyne in shamefull loue: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.121 | Against my breast, and burns my heart within. | Against my brest and burnes my hart within, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.180 | The man that starves the sweetness of a feast, | The man that starues the sweetnes of a feast, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.447 | Adds but the greater scorn unto the beast. | Adds but the greater scorne vnto the beast: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.208 | For ere the sun shall gild the eastern sky, | For ere the Sunne shal guide the esterne skie, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.95 | To several places, lest they chance to land. | To seuerall places least they chaunce to land: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.26 | Lest, when we would, we cannot be relieved. | Least when we would, we cannot be relieued. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.29 | How gently had we thought to touch thy breast | How gently had we thought to touch thy brest, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.180 | As with this armour I impall thy breast, | As with this armour I impall thy breast, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.62 | And we are threescore thousand at the least. | and we are threescore thousand at the least, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.95 | Back with the beast unto the beast that sent him! | Back with the beast vnto the beast that sent him |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.102 | But with all bounty feasted them and theirs. | But with all bountie feasted them and theirs. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.54 | That dines at such a bloody feast as this. | That dines at such a bloudie feast as this. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.75 | The least pre-eminence that I had won. | The least preheminence that I had won. |
| King John | KJ I.i.69 | At least from fair five hundred pound a year. | At least from faire fiue hundred pound a yeere: |
| King John | KJ II.i.65 | With them a bastard of the King's deceased. | With them a Bastard of the Kings deceast, |
| King John | KJ II.i.113 | In any breast of strong authority | In any beast of strong authoritie, |
| King John | KJ II.i.354 | And now he feasts, mousing the flesh of men, | And now he feasts, mousing the flesh of men |
| King John | KJ II.i.381 | By east and west let France and England mount | By East and West let France and England mount |
| King John | KJ II.i.477 | Lest zeal, now melted by the windy breath | Least zeale now melted by the windie breath |
| King John | KJ III.i.21 | What means that hand upon that breast of thine? | What meanes that hand vpon that breast of thine? |
| King John | KJ III.i.302 | What, shall our feast be kept with slaughtered men? | What, shall our feast be kept with slaughtered men? |
| King John | KJ IV.i.35 | I must be brief, lest resolution drop | I must be breefe, least resolution drop |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.73 | Does show the mood of a much troubled breast, | Do shew the mood of a much troubled brest, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.85 | Lest I, by marking of your rage, forget | Least I, by marking of your rage, forget |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.153 | As doth a raven on a sick-fallen beast, | As doth a Rauen on a sicke-falne beast, |
| King John | KJ V.i.75 | Or, if he do, let it at least be said | Or if he doe, let it at least be said |
| King John | KJ V.ii.58 | Nor met with fortune other than at feasts, | Nor met with Fortune, other then at feasts, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.178 | To feast upon whole thousands of the French. | To feast vpon whole thousands of the French. |
| King John | KJ V.iv.32 | Behold another daybreak in the east. | Behold another day breake in the East: |
| King Lear | KL I.i.83 | Although our last and least, to whose young love | Although our last and least; to whose yong loue, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.95.1 | Lest you may mar your fortunes. | Least you may marre your Fortunes. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.152 | Thy youngest daughter does not love thee least, | Thy yongest Daughter do's not loue thee least, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.191 | Hath rivalled for our daughter: what in the least | Hath riuald for our Daughter; what in the least |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.21 | beat into clamorous whining if thou deniest the least | beate into clamours whining, if thou deny'st the least |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.67 | You beastly knave, know you no reverence? | You beastly knaue, know you no reuerence? |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.9 | Brought near to beast. My face I'll grime with filth, | Brought neere to beast; my face Ile grime with filth, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.70 | a hill, lest it break thy neck with following. But the great | a hill, least it breake thy necke with following. But the great |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.136 | I cannot think my sister in the least | I cannot thinke my Sister in the least |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.262 | Man's life is cheap as beast's. Thou art a lady; | Mans life is cheape as Beastes. Thou art a Lady; |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.101 | worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the | Worme no Silke; the Beast, no Hide; the Sheepe, no Wooll; the |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.19 | Lest his ungoverned rage dissolve the life | Least his vngouern'd rage, dissolue the life |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.23 | Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight | Least my braine turne, and the deficient sight |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.233 | Lest that th' infection of his fortune take | Least that th'infection of his fortune take |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.62 | When I to feast expressly am forbid; | When I to fast expressely am forbid. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.154 | And he that breaks them in the least degree | And he that breakes them in the least degree, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.231 | the sixth hour; when beasts most graze, birds best peck, | thesixt houre, When beasts most grase, birds best pecke, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.239 | to the place where. It standeth north-north-east and by | to the place Where? It standeth North North-east and by |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.240 | east from the west corner of thy curious-knotted garden. | East from the West corner of thy curious knotted garden; |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.263 | as a vessel of thy law's fury, and shall, at the least of thy | as a vessell of thy Lawes furie, and shall at the least of thy |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.40 | I know him, madam. At a marriage feast | I know him Madame at a marriage feast, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.58 | Most power to do most harm, least knowing ill, | Most power to doe most harme, least knowing ill: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.152 | A yielding 'gainst some reason in my breast, | A yeelding 'gainst some reason in my brest, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.208.2 | Not so, gentle beast. | Not so gentle beast. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.9 | sweetly varied, like a scholar at the least; but, sir, I | sweetly varied like a scholler at the least: but sir I |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.171 | And where my liege's? All about the breast. | And where my Liedges? all about the brest: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.183 | A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist, | a gate, a state, a brow, a brest, a waste, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.221 | At the first opening of the gorgeous east, | At the first opening of the gorgeous East, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.223 | Kisses the base ground with obedient breast? | Kisses the base ground with obedient breast? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.36 | They have been at a great feast of | They haue beene at a great feast of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.514 | That sport best pleases that doth least know how – | That sport best pleases, that doth least know how. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.560 | By east, west, north, and south, I spread my conquering might; | By East, West, North, & South, I spred my conquering might |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.821 | Yet swear not, lest ye be forsworn again. | Yet sweare not, least ye be forsworne agen. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.45 | The effect and it. Come to my woman's breasts | Th' effect, and hit. Come to my Womans Brests, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.47.2 | What beast was't then | What Beast was't then |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.40.1 | Chief nourisher in life's feast,’ | Chiefe nourisher in Life's Feast. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.70 | Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us | Get on your Night-Gowne, least occasion call vs, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.38 | Lest our old robes sit easier than our new. | Least our old Robes sit easier then our new. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.12 | It had been as a gap in our great feast | It had bene as a gap in our great Feast, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.27.2 | Fail not our feast. | Faile not our Feast. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.27.1 | The least a death to nature. | The least a Death to Nature. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.32 | You do not give the cheer. The feast is sold | You do not giue the Cheere, the Feast is sold |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.43 | Lays blame upon his promise. Please't your highness | Layes blame vpon his promise. Pleas't your Highnesse |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.22 | His presence at the tyrant's feast, I hear | His presence at the Tyrants Feast, I heare |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.35 | Free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives, | Free from our Feasts, and Banquets bloody kniues; |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.37.1 | And the rich East to boot. | And the rich East to boot. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.113 | Have banished me from Scotland. O my breast, | Hath banish'd me from Scotland. O my Brest, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.197.1 | Due to some single breast? | Due to some single brest? |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.52 | At least we'll die with harness on our back. | At least wee'l dye with Harnesse on our backe. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.20 | No? A dozen times at least. | No? a dozen times at least. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.56 | Impiety has made a feast of thee. | Impiety has made a feast of thee. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.208 | you, so that, in the beastliest sense, you are Pompey the | you, so that in the beastliest sence, you are Pompey the |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.179 | And feast upon her eyes? What is't I dream on? | And feast vpon her eyes? what is't I dreame on? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iii.30 | 'Tis meet so, daughter, but lest you do repent | 'Tis meet so (daughter) but least you do repent |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.78 | Lest thou a feverous life shouldst entertain, | Least thou a feauorous life shouldst entertaine, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.114 | Or of the deadly seven it is the least. | Or of the deadly seuen it is the least. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.115 | Which is the least? | Which is the least? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.139.2 | O you beast! | Oh you beast, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.2 | needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall | needes buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.22 | From their abominable and beastly touches | From their abhominable and beastly touches |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.31 | Ere this rude beast will profit. | Ere this rude beast will profit. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.109.1 | When it is least expected. | When it is least expected. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.295 | Boldly at least. But O, poor souls, | Boldly, at least. But oh poore soules, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.84 | worst he is little better than a beast. An the worst fall | worst, he is little better then a beast: and the worst fall |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.159 | Return in haste, for I do feast tonight | Returne in haste, for I doe feast to night |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.174 | Thy skipping spirit, lest through thy wild behaviour | Thy skipping spirit, least through thy wilde behauiour |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.36 | I have no mind of feasting forth tonight, | I haue no minde of feasting forth to night: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.8 | That ever holds. Who riseth from a feast | That euer holds, who riseth from a feast |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.48 | And we are stayed for at Bassanio's feast. | And we are staid for at Bassanio's feast. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.19 | Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my | Let me say Amen betimes, least the diuell crosse my |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.7 | But lest you should not understand me well – | But least you should not vnderstand me well, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.73 | So may the outward shows be least themselves. | So may the outward showes be least themselues |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.212 | Our feast shall be much honoured in your marriage. | Our feast shall be much honored in your marriage. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.249.2 | Ay, his breast, | I, his brest, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.255 | To stop his wounds, lest he do bleed to death. | To stop his wounds, least he should bleede to death. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.299 | And you must cut this flesh from off his breast, | And you must cut this flesh from off his breast, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.18 | It agrees well, passant. It is a familiar beast to man, and | it agrees well passant: It is a familiar beast to man, and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.66 | shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to | shall be my East and West Indies, and I will trade to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.10 | Page – at the least if the love of soldier can suffice – that I | Page) at the least if the Loue of Souldier can suffice, that I |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.80 | Anne Page is, at a farmhouse a-feasting; and thou shalt | AnnePage is, at a Farm-house a Feasting: and thou shalt |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.107 | John Falstaff from my two mistresses. What a beast am | Iohn Falstaffe from my two Mistresses: what a beast am |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.94 | what they had in their basket. I quaked for fear lest the | what they had in their Basket? I quak'd for feare least the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.135 | into a halfpenny purse, nor into a pepperbox. But, lest | into a halfe-penny purse, nor into a Pepper-Boxe: But least |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.7 | least, keep your counsel. | least) keepe your counsell. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.5 | respects makes a beast a man, in some other a man a | respects makes a Beast a Man: in som other, a Man a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.6 | beast. You were also, Jupiter, a swan for the love of | beast. / You were also (Iupiter) a Swan, for the loue of |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.9 | beast – O Jove, a beastly fault – and then another fault | beast, (O Ioue, a beastly fault:) and then another fault, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.34 | I think the devil will not have me damned, lest | I thinke the diuell wil not haue me damn'd, / Least |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.82 | lest he transform me to a piece of cheese. | Least he transforme me to a peece of Cheese. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.228 | And leave thee to the mercy of wild beasts. | And leaue thee to the mercy of wilde beasts. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.101 | For beasts that meet me run away for fear. | For beasts that meete me, runne away for feare, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.152 | To pluck this crawling serpent from my breast! | To plucke this crawling serpent from my brest. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.142 | Fanned with the eastern wind, turns to a crow | Fan'd with the Easterne winde, turnes to a crow, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.385 | For fear lest day should look their shames upon | For feare least day should looke their shames vpon, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.391 | Even till the eastern gate all fiery red | Euen till the Easterne gate all fierie red, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.432 | Abate thy hours, shine comforts from the East, | Abate thy houres, shine comforts from the East, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.184 | We'll hold a feast in great solemnity. | Wee'll hold a feast in great solemnitie. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.53 | Of learning, late deceased in beggary. | of learning, late deceast in beggerie. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.105 | In least speak most, to my capacity. | In least, speake most, to my capacity. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.138 | This grisly beast – which Lion hight by name – | This grizly beast (which Lyon hight by name) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.146 | He bravely broached his boiling bloody breast. | He brauely broacht his boiling bloudy breast, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.214 | two noble beasts in: a man and a lion. | two noble beasts, in a man and a Lion. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.223 | A very gentle beast, of a good conscience. | A verie gentle beast, and of good conscience. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.224 | The very best at a beast, my lord, that e'er I. | The verie best at a beast, my Lord, ytere I |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.336 | Come blade, my breast imbrue. | Come blade, my brest imbrue: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.131 | A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of | A bird of my tongue, is better than a beast of |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.141 | least a month, and he heartily prays some occasion may | least a moneth, and he heartily praies some occasion may |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.8 | If not a present remedy, at least a patient | If not a present remedy, yet a patient |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.123 | Why, he is the Prince's jester, a very dull fool; | Why he is the Princes ieaster, a very dull foole, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.195 | howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests he | howsoeuer it seemes not in him, by some large ieasts hee |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.148 | What, a feast, a feast? | What, a feast, a feast? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.27 | Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey. | Dapples the drowsie East with spots of grey: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.47 | When he would play the noble beast in love. | When he would play the noble beast in loue. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.117 | and the Moor are now making the beast with two | and the Moore, are making the Beast with two |
| Othello | Oth II.i.57.1 | Our friends at least. | Our Friends, at least. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.292 | At least into a jealousy so strong | At least into a Ielouzie so strong |
| Othello | Oth II.ii.9 | full liberty of feasting from this present hour of five | full libertie of Feasting from this presenr houre of fiue, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.177 | Swords out, and tilting one at others' breasts | Swords out, and tilting one at others breastes, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.225 | Lest by his clamour – as it so fell out – | Least by hisclamour (as it so fell out) |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.284 | and applause transform ourselves into beasts! | and applause, transforme our selues into Beasts. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.297 | man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O, strange! | man, by and by a Foole, and presently a Beast. Oh strange! |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.137 | Sometimes intrude not? Who has a breast so pure, | Sometimes intrude not? Who ha's that breast so pure, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.361 | Make me to see't: or, at the least, so prove it | Make me to see't: or (at the least) so proue it, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.62 | A horned man's a monster and a beast. | A Horned man's a Monster, and a Beast. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.63 | There's many a beast then in a populous city, | Ther's many a Beast then in a populous Citty, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.204 | expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unprovide | expostulate with her: least her body and beautie vnprouide |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.35 | Lest being like one of heaven, the devils themselves | least being like one of Heauen, the diuells themselues |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.108 | The smallest opinion on my least misuse? | The small'st opinion on my least misvse? |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.143.1 | Even from the east to th' west! | Euen from the East to th'West. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.177 | all conveniency, than suppliest me with the least advantage | all conueniencie, then suppliest me with the least aduantage |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.268 | Man but a rush against Othello's breast, | Man but a Rush against Othello's brest, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.5 | It hath been sung at festivals, | It hath been sung at Feastiuals, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.18 | Sorrow were ever razed, and testy wrath | Sorrow were euer racte, and teastie wrath |
| Pericles | Per I.i.21 | That have inflamed desire in my breast | That haue enflamde desire in my breast, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.142 | Then, lest my life be cropped to keep you clear, | Then least my life be cropt, to keepe you cleare, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.34 | Joy and all comfort in your sacred breast! | Ioy and all comfort in your sacred brest. |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.20 | Took some displeasure at him; at least he judged so. | tooke some displeasure at him, at least hee iudg'de so: and |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.39 | As friends to Antioch, we may feast in Tyre. | as friends to Antioch wee may feast in Tyre. |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.71 | That's the least fear, for by the semblance | That's the least feare. For by the semblance |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.107 | Which welcome we'll accept, feast here awhile, | Which welcome wee'le accept, feast here awhile, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.7 | Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast. | Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a Feast. |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.17 | And you are her laboured scholar. Come, queen o'th' feast – | And you are her labourd scholler: come Queene a th'feast, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.3 | Made louder by the o'erfed breast | Made louder by the orefed breast, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.4 | Of this most pompous marriage-feast. | Of this most pompous maryage Feast: |
| Pericles | Per III.i.52 | still observed, and we are strong in custom. Therefore | still obserued. And we are strong in easterne, therefore |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.45 | Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least. | walke halfe an houre Leonine, at the least, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.17 | God Neptune's annual feast to keep; from whence | God Neptunes Annuall feast to keepe, from whence |
| Pericles | Per V.i.193 | Lest this great sea of joys rushing upon me | least this great sea of ioyes rushing vpon me, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.181 | Is a bold spirit in a loyal breast. | Is a bold spirit, in a loyall brest. |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.34 | Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. | Is pale cold cowardice in noble brests: |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.48 | That it may enter butcher Mowbray's breast! | That it may enter butcher Mowbrayes brest: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.67 | Lo, as at English feasts, so I regreet | Loe, as at English Feasts, so I regreete |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.92 | This feast of battle with mine adversary. | This Feast of Battell, with mine Aduersarie |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.96 | Go I to fight. Truth hath a quiet breast. | Go I to fight: Truth, hath a quiet brest. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.297 | By bare imagination of a feast, | by bare imagination of a Feast? |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.6 | Faith, none for me, except the north-east wind, | Faith none for me: except the Northeast wind |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.42 | He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines, | He fires the prowd tops of the Easterne Pines, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.50 | Shall see us rising in our throne, the east, | Shall see vs rising in our Throne, the East, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.17 | Lest you mistake the heavens are over our heads. | Least you mistake the Heauens are ore your head. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.64 | From out the fiery portal of the east | From out the fierie Portall of the East, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.195 | Thus high at least, although your knee be low. | Thus high at least, although your Knee be low. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.59 | Lest being overproud in sap and blood | Least being ouer-proud with Sap and Blood, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.96 | Thy sorrow in my breast. Come, ladies, go | Thy sorrow in my breast. Come Ladies goe, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.58 | I have a thousand spirits in one breast | |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.149 | Lest child, child's children, cry against you woe. | Least Child, Childs Children cry against you, Woe. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.34 | Which art a lion and a king of beasts? | Which art a Lyon, and a King of Beasts? |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.35 | A king of beasts indeed! If aught but beasts | A King of Beasts indeed: if aught but Beasts, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.51 | Lest you be cropped before you come to prime. | Least you be cropt before you come to prime. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.56 | Forget to pity him lest thy pity prove | Forget to pitty him, least thy pitty proue |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.101 | His words come from his mouth, ours from our breast. | His words come from his mouth, ours from our brest. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.40 | Advance thy halberd higher than my breast, | Aduance thy Halbert higher then my brest, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.71 | No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. | No Beast so fierce, but knowes some touch of pitty. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.72 | But I know none, and therefore am no beast. | But I know none, and therefore am no Beast. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.95 | The which thou once didst bend against her breast, | The which, thou once didd'st bend against her brest, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.175 | Which if thou please to hide in this true breast | Which if thou please to hide in this true brest, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.179 | He lays his breast open. She offers at it with his sword | He layes his brest open, she offers at withhis sword. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.204 | Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart. | Euen so thy Brest incloseth my poore heart: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.247 | Lest to thy harm thou move our patience. | Least to thy harme, thou moue our patience. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.266 | Not to relent is beastly, savage, devilish! | Not to relent, is beastly, sauage, diuellish: |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.3 | Why do you weep so oft, and beat your breast, | Why do weepe so oft? And beate your Brest? |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.107 | God bless thee, and put meekness in thy breast, | God blesse thee, and put meeknes in thy breast, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.124 | Marry, my lord, lest by a multitude | Marrie my Lord, least by a multitude, |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.75 | You may jest on, but, by the Holy Rood, | You may ieast on, but by the holy Rood, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.80 | And bestial appetite in change of lust, | And beastiall appetite in change of Lust, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.91 | A queen in jest, only to fill the scene. | A Queene in ieast, onely to fill the Scene. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.254 | Be brief, lest that the process of thy kindness | Be breefe, least that the processe of thy kindnesse |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.37 | His regiment lies half a mile at least | His Regiment lies halfe a Mile at least |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.61 | Before sunrising, lest his son George fall | Before Sun-rising, least his Sonne George fall |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.87 | And flaky darkness breaks within the east. | And flakie darkenesse breakes within the East. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.96 | Lest, being seen, thy brother, tender George, | Least being seene, thy Brother, tender George |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.269 | The least of you shall share his part thereof. | The least of you shall share his part thereof. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.280 | He should have braved the east an hour ago. | He should haue brau'd the East an houre ago, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.83 | Will they not hear? What, ho – you men, you beasts, | Will they not heare? What hoe, you Men, you Beasts, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.119 | Peered forth the golden window of the East, | Peer'd forth the golden window of the East, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.135 | Should in the farthest East begin to draw | Should in the farthest East begin to draw |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.186 | Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast, | Griefes of mine owne lie heauie in my breast, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.187 | Which thou wilt propagate, to have it pressed | Which thou wilt propagate to haue it preast |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.20 | This night I hold an old accustomed feast, | This night I hold an old accustom'd Feast, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.81 | At this same ancient feast of Capulet's | At this same auncient Feast of Capulets |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.97 | That I will show you shining at this feast, | That I will show you, shining at this Feast, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.81 | This night you shall behold him at our feast. | This night you shall behold him at our Feast, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.110 | Of a despised life, closed in my breast, | Of a despised life clos'd in my brest: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.74 | An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast. | An ill beseeming semblance for a Feast. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.104 | They pray: grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. | They pray (grant thou) least faith turne to dispaire. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.1 | He jests at scars that never felt a wound. | He ieasts at Scarres that neuer felt a wound, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.3 | It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! | It is the East, and Iuliet is the Sunne, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.111 | Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. | Least that thy Loue proue likewise variable. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.124 | Come to thy heart as that within my breast! | Come to thy heart, as that within my brest. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.186 | Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! | Sleepe dwell vpon thine eyes, peace in thy brest. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.188 | The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night. Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles. From forth daies path. and Titans burning wheeles: Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.189 | Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light, | Checkring the Easterne Clouds with streakes of light, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.1 | Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night, / Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: / And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles, / From forth daies path, and Titans burning wheeles: / Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.45 | I have been feasting with mine enemy, | I haue beene feasting with mine enemie, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.60 | Sure wit, follow me this jest now till thou hast | Sure wit, follow me this ieast, now till thou hast |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.62 | is worn, the jest may remain, after the wearing, solely | is worne, the ieast may remaine after the wearing, sole- |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.64 | O single-soled jest, solely singular for the | O single sol'd ieast, / Soly singular for the |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.27 | his new doublet before Easter; with another for tying | his new Doublet before Easter? with another, for tying |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.80 | Make haste, lest mine be about your ears ere it be out. | Make hast, least mine be about your eares ere it be out. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.159 | With piercing steel at bold Mercutio's breast; | With Peircing steele at bold Mercutio's breast, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.53 | God save the mark! – here on his manly breast. | God saue the marke, here on his manly brest, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.95 | O, what a beast was I to chide at him! | O what a beast was I to chide him? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.111 | The unreasonable fury of a beast. | The vnreasonable Furie of a beast. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.113 | And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! | And ill beseeming beast in seeming both, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.8 | Do lace the severing clouds in yonder East. | Do lace the seuering Cloudes in yonder East: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.26 | Lest in this marriage he should be dishonoured | Least in this marriage he should be dishonour'd, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.23 | She's dead, deceased. She's dead, alack the day! | Shee's dead: deceast, shee's dead: alacke the day. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.87 | Our wedding cheer to a sad burial feast; | Our wedding cheare, to a sad buriall Feast: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.86 | This vault a feasting presence full of light. | This Vault a feasting presence full of light. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.223 | I am the greatest, able to do least, | I am the greatest, able to doe least, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.32 | O monstrous beast, how like a swine he lies! | Oh monstrous beast, how like a swine he lyes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.93 | Lest overeyeing of his odd behaviour – | Least (ouer-eying of his odde behauiour, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.53 | Antonio, my father, is deceased, | Antonio my father is deceast, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.71 | She moves me not, or not removes at least | She moues me not, or not remoues at least |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.133 | That so I may by this device at least | That so I may by this deuice at least |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.118 | Which I have bettered rather than decreased. | Which I haue bettered rather then decreast, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.309 | Provide the feast, father, and bid the guests. | Prouide the feast father, and bid the guests, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.16 | Make feasts, invite friends, and proclaim the banns, | Make friends, inuite, and proclaime the banes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.223 | Go to the feast, revel and domineer, | Goe to the feast, reuell and domineere, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.247 | You know there wants no junkets at the feast. | You know there wants no iunkets at the feast: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.20 | know'st winter tames man, woman, and beast; for it | know'st winter tames man, woman, and beast: for it |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.23 | Away, you three-inch fool! I am no beast. | Away you three inch foole, I am no beast. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.25 | and so long am I at the least. But wilt thou make a fire, | and so long am I at the least. But wilt thou make a fire, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.34 | Fie on her! See how beastly she doth court him. | Fie on her, see how beastly she doth court him. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.179 | To feast and sport us at thy father's house. | To feast and sport vs at thy fathers house, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.89 | Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched | Take heede signior Baptista, least you be coni-catcht |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.129 | Out of hope of all but my share of the feast. | Out of hope of all, but my share of the feast. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.8 | Feast with the best, and welcome to my house. | Feast with the best, and welcome to my house, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.174 | That seeming to be most which we indeed least are. | That seeming to be most, which we indeed least are. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.177.1 | For raising this sea-storm? | For raysing this Sea-storme? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.240 | At least two glasses. The time 'twixt six and now | At least two Glasses: the time 'twixt six & now |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.288 | Did make wolves howl, and penetrate the breasts | Did make wolues howle, and penetrate the breasts |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.371.1 | That beasts shall tremble at thy din. | That beasts shall tremble at thy dyn. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.452 | I must uneasy make, lest too light winning | I must vneasie make, least too light winning |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.118 | Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted | Whose enmity he flung aside: and brested |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.128 | Where she, at least, is banished from your eye, | Where she at least, is banish'd from your eye, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.329.2 | Heavens keep him from these beasts! | Heauens keepe him from these Beasts: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.30 | make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. | make a man: any strange beast there, makes a man: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.104.1 | As great'st does least. | As great'st do's least. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.48 | Whose heads stood in their breasts? Which now we find | Whose heads stood in their brests? which now we finde |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.140 | Of the beast Caliban and his confederates | Of the beast Calliban, and his confederates |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.169 | Lest I might anger thee. | Least I might anger thee. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.170 | At least bring forth a wonder to content ye | At least bring forth a wonder, to content ye |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.264 | Thou art going to Lord Timon's feast? | Thou art going to Lord Timons Feast. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.50 | Lest they should spy my windpipe's dangerous notes. | least they should spie my wind-pipes dangerous noates, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.60 | Feasts are too proud to give thanks to the gods. | Feasts are to proud to giue thanks to the Gods. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.78 | feast. | Feast. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.125 | They only now come but to feast thine eyes. | They onely now come but to Feast thine eies. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.247 | What needs these feasts, pomps, and vainglories? | What needs these Feasts, pompes, and Vaine-glories? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.16 | Importune him for my moneys. Be not ceased | Importune him for my Moneyes, be not ceast |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.176 | Feast-won, fast-lost. One cloud of winter showers, | Feast won, fast lost; one cloud of Winter showres, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.45 | What a wicked beast was I to disfurnish myself | What a wicked Beast was I to disfurnish my self |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.50 | I am not able to do – the more beast, I say! I was sending | I am not able to do (the more beast I say) I was sending |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.83 | The place which I have feasted, does it now, | The place which I haue Feasted, does it now |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.113.1 | I'll once more feast the rascals. | Ile once more feast the Rascals. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.72 | To overcome him. In that beastly fury | To ouercome him. In that Beastly furie, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.8 | feasting. | Feasting. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.34 | dinner will not recompense this long stay. Feast your | dinner will not recompence this long stay: Feast your |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.60 | I'll tell you more anon. Here's a noble feast | Ile tell you more anon. Here's a Noble feast |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.68 | alike. Make not a City feast of it, to let the meat cool ere | alike. Make not a Citie Feast of it, to let the meat coole, ere |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.73 | reserve still to give, lest your deities be despised. Lend to | reserue still to giue, least your Deities be despised. Lend to |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.88 | May you a better feast never behold, | May you a better Feast neuer behold |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.98 | Of man and beast the infinite malady | Of Man and Beast, the infinite Maladie |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.102 | What? All in motion? Henceforth be no feast | What? All in Motion? Henceforth be no Feast, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.36 | Th' unkindest beast more kinder than mankind. | Th'vnkindest Beast, more kinder then Mankinde. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.21 | All feasts, societies, and throngs of men. | All Feasts, Societies, and Throngs of men. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.50 | A beast, as thou art. The canker gnaw thy heart | A Beast as thou art. The Canker gnaw thy hart |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.179 | Whose womb unmeasurable and infinite breast | Whose wombe vnmeasureable, and infinite brest |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.284.2 | Here, I will mend thy feast. | Heere, I will mend thy Feast. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.325 | Give it the beasts, to be rid of the men. | Giue it the Beasts, to be rid of the men. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.327 | men, and remain a beast with the beasts? | men, and remaine a Beast with the Beasts. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.329 | A beastly ambition, which the gods grant thee | A beastly Ambition, which the Goddes graunt thee |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.345 | beast couldst thou be that were not subject to a beast? | Beast could'st thou bee, that were not subiect to a Beast: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.346 | And what a beast art thou already, that seest not thy | and what a Beast art thou already, that seest not thy |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.350 | of Athens is become a forest of beasts. | of Athens, is become / A Forrest of Beasts. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.373 | Beast! | Beast. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.393 | Set them into confounding odds, that beasts | Set them into confounding oddes, that Beasts |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.425 | As beasts, and birds, and fishes. | As Beasts, and Birds, and Fishes. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.426 | Nor on the beasts themselves, the birds, and fishes; | Nor on the Beasts themselues, the Birds & Fishes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.514 | No, my most worthy master, in whose breast | No my most worthy Master, in whose brest |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.516 | You should have feared false times when you did feast. | You should haue fear'd false times, when you did Feast. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.517 | Suspect still comes where an estate is least. | Suspect still comes, where an estate is least. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.172 | Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brained war, | Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd warre: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.ii.2.2 | I have spoke the least. | I haue spoke the least. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iii.4 | Some beast read this; there does not live a man. | Some Beast reade this; There do's not liue a Man. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.259 | The least of these unspeakable deserts, | The least of these vnspeakable Deserts, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.448 | Lest then the people, and patricians too, | Least then the people, and Patricians too, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.492 | Come, if the Emperor's court can feast two brides, | Come, if the Emperours Court can feast two Brides, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.182 | No grace? No womanhood? Ah, beastly creature, | No Garace, / No womanhood? Ah beastly creature, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.27 | And, lest thou shouldst detect him, cut thy tongue. | And least thou should'st detect them, cut thy tongue. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.34 | O that I knew thy heart, and knew the beast, | Oh that I knew thy hart, and knew the beast |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.8 | Is left to tyrannize upon my breast, | Is left to tirranize vppon my breast. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.11 | Then thus (striking his breast) I thump it down. | Then thus I thumpe it downe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.30 | Lest we remember still that we have none. | Least we remember still that we haue none, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.97 | O barbarous, beastly villains, like thyself! | Oh barbarous beastly villaines like thyselfe! |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.56 | Even from Hyperion's rising in the east | Euen from Eptons rising in the East, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.79 | Or at the least make them his enemies. | Or at the least make them his Enemies: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.115 | When he is here, even at thy solemn feast, | When he is heere, euen at thy Solemne Feast, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.128 | Feast at my house, and he shall feast with them. | Feasts at my house, and he shall Feast with them, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.183 | You know your mother means to feast with me, | You know your Mother meanes to feast with me, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.191 | This is the feast that I have bid her to, | This is the Feast, that I haue bid her to, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.202 | More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast. | More sterne and bloody then the Centaures Feast. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.21 | The feast is ready which the careful Titus | The Feast is ready which the carefull Titus, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.162 | Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow; | Sung thee asleepe, his Louing Brest, thy Pillow: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.178 | Set him breast-deep in earth and famish him; | Set him brest deepe in earth, and famish him: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.197 | But throw her forth to beasts and birds to prey. | But throw her foorth to Beasts and Birds of prey: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.198 | Her life was beastly and devoid of pity, | Her life was Beast-like, and deuoid of pitty, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.38 | Lest Hector or my father should perceive me, | Least Hector, or my Father should perceiue me: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.2.2 | Up to the eastern tower, | Vp to the Easterne Tower, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.19 | This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts | This man Lady, hath rob'd many beasts |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.36 | Upon her patient breast, making their way | Vpon her patient brest, making their way |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.191 | Makes factious feasts, rails on our state of war | Makes factious Feasts, railes on our state of Warre |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.308 | Yourself shall feast with us before you go, | Your selfe shall Feast with vs before you goe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.260 | And here's a lord – come knights from east to west, | And here's a Lord, come Knights from East to West, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.137 | While pride is fasting in his wantonness! | While pride is feasting in his wantonnesse |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.140 | As if his foot were on brave Hector's breast, | As if his foote were on braue Hectors brest, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.155 | Where one but goes abreast. Keep then the path, | Where one but goes a breast, keepe then the path: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.229 | To feast with me, and see me at my tent. | To Feast with me, and see me at my Tent. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.280 | There Diomed doth feast with him tonight, | There Diomed doth feast with him to night, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.3 | Patroclus, let us feast him to the height. | Patroclus, / let vs Feast him to the hight. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vi.30 | But I'll be master of it. Wilt thou not, beast, abide? | But Ile be maister of it: wilt thou not beast abide? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.5 | In beastly sort, dragged through the shameful field. | In beastly sort, drag'd through the shamefull Field. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.38 | When least in company. Prosper well in this, | When least in companie: prosper well in this, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.168 | no scorn. I am very comptible, even to the least sinister | no scorne; I am very comptible, euen to the least sinister |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.37 | least occasion more, mine eyes will tell tales of me. I am | least occasion more, mine eyes will tell tales of me: I am |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.18 | By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. | By my troth the foole has an excellent breast. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.20 | the name of jesting! | the name of ieasting, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.2 | How shall I feast him? What bestow of him? | How shall I feast him? What bestow of him? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.130 | Nay, pursue him now, lest the device take air, and | Nay pursue him now, least the deuice take ayre, and |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.341 | Lest that it make me so unsound a man | Least that it make me so vnsound a man |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.122 | Live you the marble-breasted tyrant still. | Liue you the Marble-brested Tirant still. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.32 | O, they love least that let men know their love. | Oh, they loue least, that let men know their loue. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.81 | Lest he should take exceptions to my love, | Least he should take exceptions to my loue, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.19 | malcontent; to relish a love-song, like a robin-redbreast; | Male-content: to rellish a Loue-song, like a Robin-red-breast: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.68 | That is the least, Lucetta, of my fear: | That is the least (Lucetta) of my feare: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.52 | Lest it should ravel, and be good to none, | Least it should rauell, and be good to none, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.13 | The least whereof would quell a lover's hope, | The least whereof would quell a louers hope: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.114 | Or, at the least, in hers sepulchre thine. | Or at the least, in hers, sepulcher thine. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.7 | O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, | O thou that dost inhabit in my brest, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.34 | I would have been a breakfast to the beast, | I would haue beene a break-fast to the Beast, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.174 | One feast, one house, one mutual happiness. | One Feast, one house, one mutuall happinesse. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.116 | For my least minnow, let him lead his line | For my least minnow, let him lead his line |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.220.1 | Keep the feast full, bate not an hour on't. | Keepe the feast full, bate not an howre on't. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.221 | I'll follow you at heels; the feast's solemnity | Ile follow you at heeles; The Feasts solempnity |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.224 | Ere you can end this feast, of which I pray you | Ere you can end this Feast; of which I pray you |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.9 | At least to frustrate striving; and to follow | At least to frustrate striving, and to follow |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.39 | I'th' least of these was dreadful; and they have | I'th least of these was dreadfull, and they have |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.67 | And put between my breasts – O, then but beginning | And put betweene my breasts, oh (then but beginning |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.40 | Since I have known frights, fury, friends' behests, | Since I have knowne frights, fury, friends, beheastes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.44 | be so chid, or at least a sigher to be comforted. | be so chid, / Or at least a Sigher to be comforted. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.67 | And as an east wind leave 'em all behind us, | And as an Eastwind leave 'em all behinde us, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.153 | 'Tis like a beast, methinks. I find the court here; | Tis like a Beast me thinkes: I finde the Court here, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.46 | The circuit of my breast any gross stuff | The circuit of my breast, any grosse stuffe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.97 | Enter your muset, lest this match between's | Enter your Musicke least this match between's |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.30 | Lest I should drown, or stab, or hang myself. | Least I should drowne, or stab, or hang my selfe. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.6 | You shall not die thus beastly. Here, sir, drink, | You shall not dye thus beastly, here Sir drinke |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.47.1 | You are a beast now. | you are a Beast now: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.15 | By east and north-east to the King of Pygmies, | By east and North East to the King of Pigmes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.26 | To put my breast against; I shall sleep like a top else. | to put my breast / Against. I shall sleepe like a Top else. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.130 | Then the beest-eating clown, and next the fool, | Then the beast eating Clowne, and next the foole, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.64 | But use your gauntlets, though. Those are o'th' least; | But use your Gauntlets though; those are o'th least, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.128 | There is at least two hundred now with child by him – | There is at least two hundred now with child by him, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.51 | wife howl together – I were a beast an I'd call it good | wiffe, howle together: I were a beast and il'd call it good |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.102 | Of liberal wits; I never at great feasts | Of liberall wits: I never at great feastes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.60 | She is horribly in love with him, poor beast, | She is horribly in love with him, poore beast, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.117 | Would have him die a bachelor, lest his race | Would have him die a Batchelour, least his race |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.127 | And by and by outbreasted, that the sense | And by and by out breasted, that the sence |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.81 | Of this make no conclusion, lest you say | Of this make no conclusion, least you say |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.157 | Lest it should bite its master and so prove, | Least it should bite it's Master, and so proue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.203 | From east, west, north, and south. Be it concluded, | From East, West, North, and South, be it concluded, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.249.1 | And tak'st it all for jest. | And tak'st it all for ieast. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.344 | As friendship wears at feasts, keep with Bohemia | As Friendship weares at Feasts, keepe with Bohemia, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.401 | Which honour does acknowledge, whereof the least | Which Honor do's acknowledge, whereof the least |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.84 | Lest barbarism, making me the precedent, | Least Barbarisme (making me the precedent) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.127 | Be certain what you do, sir, lest your justice | Be certaine what you do (Sir) least your Iustice |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.195 | Lest that the treachery of the two fled hence | Least that the treachery of the two, fled hence, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.51.1 | Lest she should be denied. | Least she should be deny'd. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.106 | No yellow in't, lest she suspect, as he does, | No Yellow in't, least she suspect, as he do's, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.164 | And nobleness impose – at least thus much: | And Noblenesse impose: at least thus much; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.32 | Who least will seem to do so – my past life | (Whom least will seeme to doe so) my past life |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.98 | Starred most unluckily, is from my breast – | (Star'd most vnluckily) is from my breast |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.171 | O cut my lace, lest my heart, cracking it, | O cut my Lace, least my heart (cracking it) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.91 | yeast and froth, as you'd thrust a cork into a hogshead. | yest and froth, as you'ld thrust a Corke into a hogs-head. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.36 | am I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three pound | am I to buy for our Sheepe-shearing-Feast? Three pound |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.39 | mistress of the feast, and she lays it on. She hath made | Mistris of the Feast, and she layes it on. Shee hath made- |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.10 | Most goddess-like pranked up. But that our feasts | Most Goddesse-like prank'd vp: But that our Feasts |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.27 | The shapes of beasts upon them: Jupiter | The shapes of Beasts vpon them. Iupiter, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.42 | The mirth o'th' feast. Or I'll be thine, my fair, | The Mirth o'th' Feast: Or Ile be thine (my Faire) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.63 | As if you were a feasted one and not | As if you were a feasted one: and not |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.68 | That which you are, Mistress o'th' Feast. Come on, | That which you are, Mistris o'th' Feast. Come on, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.235 | I was promised them against the feast, but they | I was promis'd them against the Feast, but they |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.344 | Your mind from feasting. Sooth, when I was young | Your minde from feasting. Sooth, when I was yong, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.352 | For a reply, at least if you make a care | For a reply at least, if you make a care |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.153 | At least ungentle, of the dreadful Neptune | (At least vngentle) of the dreadfull Neptune, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.60 | No longer shall you gaze on't, lest your fancy | No longer shall you gaze on't, least your Fancie |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.129 | Lest they desire upon this push to trouble | Least they desire (vpon this push) to trouble |