| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.9 | would stir it up where it wanted, rather than lack it | would stirre it vp where it wanted rather then lack it |
| 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.i.53 | Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, | Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.64 | Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend | Rather in power then vse: and keepe thy friend |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.126 | virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and | virginity. Losse of Virginitie, is rationall encrease, and |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.139 | all sanctified limit, as a desperate offendress against | all sanctified limit, as a desperate Offendresse against |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.195 | When he was retrograde, I think rather. | When he was retrograde I thinke rather. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.20 | Frank nature, rather curious than in haste, | Franke Nature rather curious then in hast |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.47 | Which, followed well, would demonstrate them now | Which followed well, would demonstrate them now |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.224 | To cure the desperate languishings whereof | To cure the desperate languishings whereof |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.88 | Bring in the admiration, that we with thee | Bring in the admiration, that we with thee |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.103 | The rather will I spare my praises towards him; | The rather will I spare my praises towards him, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.129 | I cannot give thee less, to be called grateful. | I cannot giue thee lesse to be cal'd gratefull: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.179 | Thy life is dear, for all that life can rate | Thy life is deere, for all that life can rate |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.184 | Skill infinite, or monstrous desperate. | Skill infinite, or monstrous desperate, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.77 | I had rather be in this choice than throw ames-ace | I had rather be in this choise, then throw / Ames-ace |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.115 | Rather corrupt me ever! | Rather corrupt me euer. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.135 | When rather from our acts we them derive | When rather from our acts we them deriue |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.226 | with thee, or rather my knowledge, that I may say, in the | with thee, or rather my knowledge, that I may say in the |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.38 | it you'll run again rather than suffer question for your | it you'le runne againe, rather then suffer question for your |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.60 | The ministration and required office | The ministration, and required office |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.65 | And rather muse than ask why I entreat you; | And rather muse then aske why I intreate you, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.28 | And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath | And loues to grant, repreeue him from the wrath |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.41 | The rather for I think I know your hostess | The rather for I thinke I know your hostesse |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.32 | his drum; he says he has a stratagem for't. When your | his drumme, he sayes he has a stratagem for't: when your |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.59 | you think your mystery in stratagem can bring this | you thinke your mysterie in stratagem, can bring this |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.70 | put myself into my mortal preparation; and by | put my selfe into my mortall preparation: and by |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.98 | sprat you shall find him; which you shall see this very | a sprat you shall finde him, which you shall see this verie |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.41 | another of Bajazeth's mule, if you prattle me into these | another of Baiazeths Mule, if you prattle mee into these |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.49 | stratagem. | stratagem. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.161 | so many; Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowick, and Gratii, two | so many: Guiltian, Cosmo, Lodowicke and Gratij, two |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.6 | Dear almost as his life, which gratitude | Deere almost as his life, which gratitude |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.15 | sallet, or, rather, the herb of grace. | sallet, or rather the hearbe of grace. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.33 | But rather make you thank your pains for it. | But rather make you thanke your paines for it, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.27 | cruelly scratched. | cruelly scratch'd. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.30 | knave with Fortune that she should scratch you, who of | knaue with fortune that she should scratch you, who of |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.91.1 | At her life's rate. | At her liues rate. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.178 | My lord, this is a fond and desperate creature | My Lord, this is a fond and desp'rate creature, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.217 | Subdued me to her rate. She got the ring, | Subdu'd me to her rate, she got the Ring, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.253 | He's a good drum, my lord, but a naughty orator. | Hee's a good drumme my Lord, but a naughtie Orator. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.18.2 | Grates me! The sum. | Grates me, the summe. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.25 | I had rather heat my liver with drinking. | I had rather heate my Liuer with drinking. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.53 | I cannot scratch mine ear. Prithee, tell her | I cannot scratch mine eare. Prythee tel her |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.102 | Extended Asia; from Euphrates | Extended Asia: from Euphrates |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.54 | By any desperate change. My more particular, | By any desperate change: My more particular, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.102 | Our separation so abides and flies | Our separation so abides and flies, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.14 | Rather than purchased, what he cannot change | Rather then purchaste: what he cannot change, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.31 | As we rate boys who, being mature in knowledge, | As we rate Boyes, who being mature in knowledge, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.48 | Menecrates and Menas, famous pirates, | Menacrates and Menas famous Pyrates |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.1.1 | Enter Pompey, Menecrates, and Menas, in warlike | Enter Pompey, Menecrates, and Menas, in warlike |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.23 | The rather for I earnestly beseech, | The rather for I earnestly beseech, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.52 | That drew their swords with you. Did he not rather | That drew their swords with you, did he not rather |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.93.2 | Neglected rather; | Neglected rather: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.115 | Go to, then; your considerate stone. | Go too then: your Considerate stone. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.66.2 | Gracious madam, | Gratious Madam, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.86 | To bring bad news. Give to a gracious message | To bring bad newes: giue to a gratious Message |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.22 | To scourge th' ingratitude that despiteful Rome | To scourge th'ingratitude, that despightfull Rome |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.36 | Rid all the sea of pirates; then, to send | Rid all the Sea of Pirats. Then, to send |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.27 | by the operation of your sun; so is your crocodile. | by the operation of your Sun: so is your Crocodile. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.45 | and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates. | and the Elements once out of it, it Transmigrates. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.100 | But I had rather fast from all, four days, | but I had rather fast from all, foure dayes, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.103.1 | And celebrate our drink? | and celebrate our drinke? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.i.23 | The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss | (The Souldiers vertue) rather makes choise of losse |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.7.1 | Most gracious majesty! | Most gratious Maiestie. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.20 | She shows a body rather than a life, | She shewes a body, rather then a life, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.26 | I'll raise the preparation of a war | Ile raise the preparation of a Warre |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.25 | Sextus Pompeius spoiled, we had not rated him | Sextus Pompeius spoil'd, we had not rated him |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.28 | That Lepidus of the triumvirate | That Lepidus of the Triumpherate, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.13 | Both as the same, or rather ours the elder, | Both as the same, or rather ours the elder; |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.69 | Fall not a tear, I say; one of them rates | Fall not a teare I say, one of them rates |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.43 | Where rather I'll expect victorious life | Where rather Ile expect victorious life, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.45 | And drown consideration. | And drowne consideration. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.37 | Make mingle with rattling tabourines, | Make mingle with our ratling Tabourines, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.26 | Swoons rather, for so bad a prayer as his | Swoonds rather, for so bad a Prayer as his |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.x.1 | Their preparation is today by sea; | Their preparation is to day by Sea, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.75 | To penetrative shame, whilst the wheeled seat | To penetratiue shame; whil'st the wheel'd seate |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.26 | Edge, sting, or operation, I am safe. | Edge, sting, or operation. I am safe: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.2 | Being so frustrate, tell him, he mocks | Being so frustrate, tell him, / He mockes |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.57 | Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt | Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.58 | Be gentle grave unto me! Rather on Nilus' mud | Be gentle graue vnto me, rather on Nylus mudde |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.60 | Blow me into abhorring! Rather make | Blow me into abhorring; rather make |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.86 | He was as rattling thunder. For his bounty, | He was as ratling Thunder. For his Bounty, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.125 | We will extenuate rather than enforce. | We will extenuate rather then inforce: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.146 | I had rather seel my lips than to my peril | I had rather seele my lippes, / Then to my perill |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.153 | The ingratitude of this Seleucus does | The ingratitude of this Seleucus, does |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.225 | To fool their preparation, and to conquer | to foole their preparation, / And to conquer |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.286 | To excuse their after wrath. Husband, I come. | To excuse their after wrath. Husband, I come: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.36 | I rather will subject me to the malice | I rather will subiect me to the malice |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.9 | For my part, I had rather bear with you | For my part, I had rather beare with you, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.177 | As man's ingratitude. | as mans ingratitude |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.172 | that I was an Irish rat, which I can hardly remember. | that I was an Irish Rat, which I can hardly remember. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.365 | and everything about you demonstrating a careless | and euerie thing about you, demonstrating a carelesse |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.366 | desolation. But you are no such man: you are rather | desolation: but you are no such man; you are rather |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.21 | Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remains | Scratch thee but with a pin, and there remaines |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.65 | I had rather hear you chide than this man woo. | I had rather here you chide, then this man wooe. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.25 | rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to | rather haue a foole to make me merrie, then experience to |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.68 | to kiss. Very good orators, when they are out, they will | to kisse: verie good Orators when they are out, they will |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.140 | clamorous than a parrot against rain, more new-fangled | clamorous then a Parrat against raine, more new-fangled |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.186 | You have simply misused our sex in your love-prate. | You haue simply misus'd our sexe in your loue-prate: |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.194 | Or rather, bottomless, that as fast as you pour | Or rather bottomlesse, that as fast as you poure |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.38 | before marriage. They are in the very wrath of love and | before marriage; they are in the verie wrath of loue, and |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.91 | All adoration, duty and observance, | All adoration, dutie, and obseruance, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.32 | Of many desperate studies by his uncle, | Of many desperate studies, by his vnckle, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.24 | Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, | Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.43 | Returned so soon? Rather approached too late. | Return'd so soone, rather approacht too late: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.101 | Disguised cheaters, prating mountebanks, | Disguised Cheaters, prating Mountebankes; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.81 | Hence, prating peasant, fetch thy master home. | Hence prating pesant, fetch thy Master home. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.36 | would leave battering I had rather have it a head. An you | would leaue batte-ring, I had rather haue it a head, and you |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.131 | That, undividable, incorporate, | That vndiuidable Incorporate |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.141 | And that this body consecrate to thee | And that this body consecrate to thee, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.149 | I am possessed with an adulterate blot. | I am possest with an adulterate blot, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.176 | Unless it be by inspiration. | Vnlesse it be by inspiration. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.202 | Why pratest thou to thyself, and answerest not? | Why prat'st thou to thy selfe, and answer'st not? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.10 | Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator. | Be not thy tongue thy owne shames Orator: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.17 | Among my wife and her confederates | Among my wife, and their confederates, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.28 | How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat, | How much your Chaine weighs to the vtmost charect, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.14 | I'll serve you, sir, five hundred at the rate. | Ile serue you sir fiue hundred at the rate. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.21 | Nay, rather persuade him to hold his hands. | Nay, rather perswade him to hold his hands. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.36 | brat, and I think when he hath lamed me, I shall beg | brat: and I thinke when he hath lam'd me, I shall begge |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.40 | your end,’ or rather, to prophesy like the parrot, ‘ beware | your end, or rather the prophesie like the Parrat, beware |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.100 | And art confederate with a damned pack | And art confederate with a damned packe, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.82 | Of pale distemperatures and foes to life? | Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.111 | To separate the husband and the wife. | To separate the husband and the wife. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.114 | Come, go. I will fall prostrate at his feet, | Come go, I will fall prostrate at his feete, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.140 | That desperately he hurried through the street, | That desp'rately he hurried through the streete, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.237 | Of vile confederates. Along with them | Of vilde Confederates: Along with them |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.4 | You are all resolved rather to die than to | You are all resolu'd rather to dy then to |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.46 | Why stay we prating here? To th' Capitol! | why stay we prating heere? To th' Capitoll. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.126 | Your most grave belly was deliberate, | Your most graue Belly was deliberate, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.128 | ‘ True is it, my incorporate friends,’ quoth he, | True is it my Incorporate Friends (quoth he) |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.160 | Rome and her rats are at the point of battle; | Rome, and her Rats, are at the point of battell, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.187 | For corn at their own rates, whereof they say | For Corne at their owne rates, wherof they say |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.247 | The Volsces have much corn. Take these rats thither | The Volces haue much Corne: take these Rats thither, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.15 | These three lead on this preparation | These three leade on this Preparation |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.24 | rather had eleven die nobly for their country than one | rather had eleuen dye Nobly for their Countrey, then one |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.56 | He had rather see the swords and hear a drum | He had rather see the swords, and heare a Drum, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.17 | Rather than they shall pound us up. Our gates, | Rather then they shall pound vs vp our Gates, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.27 | Which makes me sweat with wrath. Come on, my fellows. | which makes me sweat with wrath. Come on my fellows |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.v.18 | The blood I drop is rather physical | The blood I drop, is rather Physicall |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.30 | Well might they fester 'gainst ingratitude | Well might they fester 'gainst Ingratitude, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.53 | More cruel to your good report than grateful | More cruell to your good report, then gratefull |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.85 | And wrath o'erwhelmed my pity. I request you | And Wrath o're-whelm'd my pittie: I request you |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.16.1 | Or wrath or craft may get him. | Or Wrath, or Craft may get him. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.41 | proud, violent, testy magistrates – alias fools – | proud, violent, testie Magistrates (alias Fooles) |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.195 | I had rather be their servant in my way | I had rather be their seruant in my way, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.198 | Are spectacled to see him. Your prattling nurse | Are spectacled to see him. Your pratling Nurse |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.216 | He cannot temperately transport his honours | He cannot temp'rately transport his Honors, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.229 | It was his word. O, he would miss it rather | It was his word: / Oh he would misse it, rather |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.30 | were a kind of ingrateful injury. To report otherwise | were a kinde of ingratefull Iniurie: to report otherwise, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.38 | To gratify his noble service that | To gratifie his Noble seruice, that |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.48 | Rather our state's defective for requital | Rather our states defectiue for requitall, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.55.2 | Which the rather | Which the rather |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.59 | I would you rather had been silent. Please you | I would you rather had been silent: Please you |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.67 | I had rather have my wounds to heal again | I had rather haue my Wounds to heale againe, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.73 | I had rather have one scratch my head i'th' sun | I had rather haue one scratch my Head i'th' Sun, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.78 | He had rather venture all his limbs for honour | He had rather venture all his Limbes for Honor, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.9 | acceptance of them. Ingratitude is monstrous, and for | acceptance of them. Ingratitude is monstrous, and for |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.10 | the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of | the multitude to be ingratefull, were to make a Monster of |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.97 | and since the wisdom of their choice is rather to have my | & since the wisedome of their choice, is rather to haue my |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.120 | For truth to o'erpeer. Rather than fool it so, | For Truth to o're-peere. Rather then foole it so, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.225.1 | After the inveterate hate he bears you. | After the inueterate Hate he beares you. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.231 | Pre-occupied with what you rather must do | pre-occupy'd with what you rather must do, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.43 | When corn was given them gratis, you repined, | When Corne was giuen them gratis, you repin'd, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.104 | Most palates theirs. They choose their magistrate; | Most pallates theirs. They choose their Magistrate, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.114 | The corn o'th' storehouse gratis, as 'twas used | The Corne a'th' Store-house gratis, as 'twas vs'd |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.125 | Did not deserve corn gratis. Being i'th' war, | Did not deserue Corne gratis. Being i'th' Warre, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.201.1 | The people's magistrates. | the Peoples Magistrates. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.218 | And temperately proceed to what you would | And temp'rately proceed to what you would |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.289 | That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude | That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.15 | False to my nature? Rather say I play | False to my Nature? Rather say, I play |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.66 | And you will rather show our general louts | And you, will rather shew our generall Lowts, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.90 | Go, and be ruled; although I know thou hadst rather | Goe, and be rul'd: although I know thou hadst rather |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.126 | Thy mother rather feel thy pride than fear | Thy Mother rather feele thy Pride, then feare |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.51.2 | Scratches with briars, | Scratches with Briars, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.57.1 | Rather than envy you. | Rather then enuy you. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.67.2 | Nay, temperately! Your promise. | Nay temperately: your promise. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.83.2 | What do you prate of service? | What do you prate of Seruice. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.15 | so. They are in a most warlike preparation, and hope to | so, they are in a most warlike preparation, & hope to |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.51 | with thy mistress. Thou prat'st and prat'st. Serve with | with thy Mistris: Thou prat'st, and prat'st, serue with |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.133 | Into the bowels of ungrateful Rome, | Into the bowels of vngratefull Rome, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.151 | Here's a strange alteration! | Heere's a strange alteration? |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.5 | Blush that the world goes well, who rather had, | Blush, that the world goes well: who rather had, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.94 | Against us brats with no less confidence | Against vs Brats, with no lesse Confidence, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.128 | As if he were his officer. Desperation | As if he were his Officer: Desperation, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.73 | countrymen. The good gods assuage thy wrath and turn | Countrimen. The good Gods asswage thy wrath, and turne |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.82 | Ingrate forgetfulness shall poison rather | Ingrate forgetfulnesse shall poison rather |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.121 | Rather to show a noble grace to both parts | Rather to shew a Noble grace to both parts, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.159 | More bound to's mother, yet here he lets me prate | More bound to's Mother, yet heere he let's me prate |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.209 | In Italy, and her confederate arms, | In Italy, and her Confederate Armes |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.9 | Enter three or four Conspirators of Aufidius's faction | Enter 3 or 4 Conspirators of Auffidius Faction. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.132.1 | The Conspirators draw their swords, and kill Martius, | Draw both the Conspirators, and kils Martius, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.26 | Crush him together, rather than unfold | Crush him together, rather then vnfold |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.17 | I something fear my father's wrath, but nothing – | I something feare my Fathers wrath, but nothing |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.66 | I am senseless of your wrath; a touch more rare | I am senselesse of your Wrath; a Touch more rare |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.73.2 | No, I rather added | No, I rather added |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.93 | But that my master rather played than fought | But that my Master rather plaid, then fought, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.4 | then have looked on him without the help of admiration, | then haue look'd on him, without the help of Admiration, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.13 | he must be weighed rather by her value than his | he must be weighed rather by her valew, then his |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.32 | rather than story him in his own hearing. | rather then story him in his owne hearing. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.36 | Sir, you o'errate my poor kindness: I was glad I | Sir, you o're-rate my poore kindnesse, I was glad I |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.42 | rather shunned to go even with what I heard than in | rather shun'd to go euen with what I heard, then in |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.74 | I praised her as I rated her: so do I my stone. | I prais'd her, as I rated her: so do I my Stone. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.107 | but I make my wager rather against your | but I make my wager rather against your |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.21 | Rather, directly fly. | Rather directly fly. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.38.2 | What makes your admiration? | What makes your admiration? |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.18 | on't! I had rather not be so noble as I am: they dare | on't. I had rather not be so Noble as I am: they dare |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.12 | her music a mornings, they say it will penetrate. | her Musicke a mornings, they say it will penetrate. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.13 | Come on, tune: if you can penetrate her with your | Come on, tune: If you can penetrate her with your |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.26 | So get you gone: if this penetrate, I will consider | So, get you gone: if this pen trate, I will consider |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.109 | To accuse myself – I hate you: which I had rather | To accuse my selfe, I hate you: which I had rather |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.118 | But brats and beggary – in self-figured knot, | But Brats and Beggery) in selfe-figur'd knot, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.128 | Comparative for your virtues to be styled | Comparatiue for your Vertues, to be stil'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.7 | I barely gratify your love; they failing, | I barely gratifie your loue; they fayling |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.151 | Let's follow him, and pervert the present wrath | Let's follow him, and peruert the present wrath |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.180 | In part, or all: but rather all. For even to vice | in part, or all: but rather all. For euen to Vice |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.40 | (reads) Justice, and your father's wrath – should he | IVstice and your Fathers wrath (should he |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.68 | I was confederate with the Romans: so | I was Confederate with the Romanes: so |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.121 | gratitude but be a diligent follower of mine. Wilt | gratitude, but be a diligent follower of mine. Wilt |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.26 | All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, | All Gold and Siluer rather turne to durt, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.4 | him that made the tailor, not be fit too? The rather – | him that made the Taylor, not be fit too? The rather |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.198 | That we have made so much on. I had rather | That we haue made so much on. I had rather |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.232 | And not protract with admiration what | And not protract with admiration, what |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.356 | Or dead, or sleeping on him? But dead rather: | Or dead, or sleeping on him? But dead rather: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.395 | And rather father thee than master thee. | And rather Father thee, then Master thee: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.6 | Upon a desperate bed, and in a time | Vpon a desperate bed, and in a time |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.29 | Your preparation can affront no less | Your preparation can affront no lesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.21 | With faces fit for masks, or rather fairer | With faces fit for Maskes, or rather fayrer |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.54 | Rather to wonder at the things you hear | Rather to wonder at the things you heare, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.5 | Than one that's sick o'th' gout, since he had rather | Then one that's sicke o'th'Gowt, since he had rather |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.26 | You rather, mine being yours: and so, great powers, | (You rather) mine being yours: and so great Powres, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.30.1 | Solemn music. Enter (as in an apparition) Sicilius Leonatus, father | Solemne Musicke. Enter (as in an Apparation) Sicillius Leonatus, Father |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.34 | Rates and revenges. | Rates, and Reuenges. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.153 | Overroasted rather: ready long ago. | Ouer-roasted rather: ready long ago. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.58 | Grew shameless-desperate, opened – in despite | Grew shamelesse desperate, open'd (in despight |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.151 | I had rather thou shouldst live, while nature will, | I had rather thou should'st liue, while Nature will, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.197 | 'Gan in your duller Britain operate | Gan in your duller Britaine operate |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.248.1 | As I would serve a rat.’ | As I would serue a Rat. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.308 | By tasting of our wrath? How of descent | By tasting of our wrath? How of descent |
| 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.12 | If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, | If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.14 | Enter Horatio and Marcellus | Enter Horatio and Marcellus. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.19.1 | What, is Horatio there? | what is Horatio there? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.20 | Welcome, Horatio. Welcome, good Marcellus. | Welcome Horatio, welcome good Marcellus. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.23 | Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, | Horatio saies, 'tis but our Fantasie, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.42 | Thou art a scholar. Speak to it, Horatio. | Thou art a Scholler; speake to it Horatio. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.43 | Looks 'a not like the King? Mark it, Horatio. | Lookes it not like the King? Marke it Horatio. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.45.2 | Speak to it, Horatio. | Question it Horatio. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.53 | How now, Horatio? You tremble and look pale. | How now Horatio? You tremble & look pale: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.87 | Well ratified by law and heraldry, | Well ratified by Law, and Heraldrie, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.105 | Is the main motive of our preparations, | Is the maine Motiue of our Preparations, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.124 | Have heaven and earth together demonstrated | |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.160 | Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, | Wherein our Sauiours Birth is celebrated, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.79 | Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, | Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.160 | Enter Horatio, Marcellus, and Barnardo | Enter Horatio, Barnard, and Marcellus. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.161 | Horatio – or I do forget myself. | Horatio, or I do forget my selfe. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.164 | And what make you from Wittenberg, Horatio? | And what make you from Wittenberg Horatio? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.168 | (To Horatio) | |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.180 | Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats | Thrift, thrift Horatio: the Funerall Bakt-meats |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.183 | Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio! | Ere I had euer seene that day Horatio. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.185.2 | In my mind's eye, Horatio. | In my minds eye (Horatio) |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.192 | Season your admiration for a while | Season your admiration for a while |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.238 | While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred. | While one with moderate hast might tell a hun-(dred. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.122 | Set your entreatments at a higher rate | Set your entreatments at a higher rate, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.129 | But mere implorators of unholy suits, | But meere implorators of vnholy Sutes, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.1.1 | Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus | Enter Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.75 | The very place puts toys of desperation, | |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.87 | He waxes desperate with imagination. | He waxes desperate with imagination. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.42 | Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, | I that incestuous, that adulterate Beast |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.113 | Enter Horatio and Marcellus | |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.113.1 | My lord, my lord! | My Lord, my Lord. Enter Horatio and Marcellus. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.136 | Yes, by Saint Patrick, but there is, Horatio, | Yes, by Saint Patricke, but there is my Lord, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.166 | There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, | There are more things in Heauen and Earth, Horatio, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.104 | And leads the will to desperate undertakings | And leads the will to desperate Vndertakings, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.63 | To be a preparation 'gainst the Polack, | To be a preparation 'gainst the Poleak: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.102 | Or rather say, the cause of this defect, | Or rather say, the cause of this defect; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.322 | sigh gratis; the humorous man shall end his part in | sigh gratis, the humorous man shall end his part in |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.341 | berattle the common stages – so they call them – that | be-ratled the common Stages (so they call them) that |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.459 | To their lord's murder; roasted in wrath and fire, | To their vilde Murthers, roasted in wrath and fire, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.3 | Grating so harshly all his days of quiet | Grating so harshly all his dayes of quiet |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.81 | And makes us rather bear those ills we have | And makes vs rather beare those illes we haue, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.143 | I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. | I haue heard of your pratlings too wel enough. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.62 | What, ho, Horatio! | What hoa, Horatio? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.63 | Enter Horatio | Enter Horatio. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.64 | Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man | Horatio, thou art eene as iust a man |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.228 | To desperation turn my trust and hope, | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.265 | Confederate season, else no creature seeing, | Confederate season, else, no Creature seeing: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.279 | Exeunt all but Hamlet and Horatio | Exeunt Manet Hamlet & Horatio. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.295 | O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a | Oh good Horatio, Ile take the Ghosts word for a |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.312 | No, my lord, with choler. | No my Lord, rather with choller. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.331 | command; or rather, as you say, my mother. Therefore | command: or rather you say, my Mother: therfore |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.334 | struck her into amazement and admiration. | stroke her into amazement, and admiration. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.337 | admiration? Impart. | admiration? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.25 | How now? A rat? Dead for a ducat, dead! | How now, a Rat? dead for a Ducate, dead. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.141 | My pulse as yours doth temperately keep time | My Pulse as yours doth temperately keepe time, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.216 | Who was in life a foolish prating knave. | Who was in life, a foolish prating Knaue. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.10 | Whips out his rapier, cries, ‘ A rat, a rat!’ | He whips his Rapier out, and cries a Rat, a Rat, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.9 | Deliberate pause. Diseases desperate grown | Deliberate pause, diseases desperate growne, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.10 | By desperate appliance are relieved, | By desperate appliance are releeued, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.22 | A ranker rate, should it be sold in fee. | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.1 | Enter the Queen, Horatio, and a Gentleman | Enter Queene and Horatio. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.75 | Exit Horatio | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.107 | The ratifiers and props of every word, | The Ratifiers and props of euery word, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.1 | Enter Horatio and a Gentleman | Enter Horatio, with an Attendant. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.11 | for England – if your name be Horatio, as I am let to | for England, if your name be Horatio, as I am let to |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.13 | (reads the letter) Horatio, when thou shalt have | Reads the Letter. HOratio, When thou shalt haue |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.16 | a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding | a Pyrate of very Warlicke appointment gaue vs Chace. Finding |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.26 | A sister driven into desperate terms, | A Sister driuen into desperate tearmes, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.68 | The rather if you could devise it so | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.145 | That is but scratched withal. I'll touch my point | That is but scratcht withall: Ile touch my point, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.55 | Mass, I cannot tell. | Masse, I cannot tell. Enter Hamlet and Horatio a farre off. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.65.1 | Enter Hamlet and Horatio | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.137 | Horatio, this three years I have took note of it, the age | Horatio, these three yeares I haue taken note of it, the Age |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.182 | Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. | Horatio, a fellow of infinite Iest; of most excellent fancy, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.192 | that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. | that: prythee Horatio tell me one thing. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.199 | To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why | To what base vses we may returne Horatio. Why |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.216 | The corse they follow did with desperate hand | The Coarse they follow, did with disperate hand, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.219 | He withdraws with Horatio | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.276 | And if thou prate of mountains, let them throw | And if thou prate of Mountaines; let them throw |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.289 | I pray thee, good Horatio, wait upon him. | I pray you good Horatio wait vpon him, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.289 | Exit Hamlet and Horatio | Exit. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.1 | Enter Hamlet and Horatio | Enter Hamlet and Horatio. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.18 | Their grand commission; where I found, Horatio – | Their grand Commission, where I found Horatio, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.38 | An earnest conjuration from the King, | An earnest Coniuration from the King, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.75 | But I am very sorry, good Horatio, | but I am very sorry good Horatio, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.82 | I humbly thank you, sir. (aside to Horatio) Dost | I humbly thank you Sir, dost |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.85 | (aside to Horatio) | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.327 | I am dead, Horatio. Wretched Queen, adieu! | I am dead Horatio, wretched Queene adiew, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.332 | But let it be. Horatio, I am dead. | But let it be: Horatio, I am dead, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.338 | O God, Horatio, what a wounded name, | Oh good Horatio, what a wounded name, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.346.2 | O, I die, Horatio! | O I dye Horatio: |
| 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.ii.80 | indeed the most comparative rascalliest sweet young | indeed the most comparatiue rascallest sweet yong |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.84 | the Council rated me the other day in the street about | the Councell rated me the other day in the street about |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.90 | O, thou hast damnable iteration, and art | O, thou hast damnable iteration, and art |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.1 | My blood hath been too cold and temperate, | My blood hath beene too cold and temperate, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.5 | I will from henceforth rather be myself, | I will from henceforth rather be my Selfe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.135 | As this ingrate and cankered Bolingbroke. | As this Ingrate and Cankred Bullingbrooke. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.164 | The cords, the ladder, or the hangman rather? | The Cords, the Ladder, or the Hangman rather? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.81 | commonwealth, or rather not pray to her, but prey on | Common-wealth; or rather, not to pray to her, but prey on |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.89 | Nay, by my faith, I think you are more | Nay, I thinke rather, you are more |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.94 | Nay, rather let me have it as you are a | Nay, rather let mee haue it, as you are a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.31 | Our grandam earth, having this distemperature, | Our Grandam Earth, hauing this distemperature, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.123 | I had rather be a kitten and cry ‘ mew ’ | I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.125 | I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, | I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.126 | Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree, | Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.155 | Worse than a smoky house. I had rather live | Worse then a smoakie House. I had rather liue |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.192 | She is desperate here, a peevish self-willed | Shee is desperate heere: / A peeuish selfe-will'd |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.230 | I had rather hear Lady my brach howl in Irish. | I had rather heare (Lady) my Brach howle in / Irish. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.67 | Of every beardless vain comparative, | Of euery Beardlesse vaine Comparatiue; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.81 | But rather drowsed and hung their eyelids down, | But rather drowz'd, and hung their eye-lids downe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.128 | To show how much thou art degenerate. | To shew how much thou art degenerate. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.156 | The long-grown wounds of my intemperance. | The long-growne Wounds of my intemperature: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.76 | I rather of his absence make this use. | I rather of his absence make this vse: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.93 | With strong and mighty preparation. | With strong and mightie preparation. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.99 | Rated mine uncle from the council board, | Rated my Vnckle from the Councell-Boord, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.17 | Who with them was a rated sinew too, | Who with them was rated firmely too, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.3.1 | At his distemperature. | At his distemperature |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.102 | Albeit considerations infinite | Albeit, considerations infinite |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.10 | And God forbid a shallow scratch should drive | And heauen forbid a shallow scratch should driue |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.30 | Under the wrath of noble Hotspur's sword, | Vnder the Wrath of Noble Hotspurres Sword: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.8 | Should be the father of some stratagem. | Should be the Father of some Stratagem; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.109 | To Harry Monmouth, whose swift wrath beat down | To Henrie Monmouth, whose swift wrath beate downe |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.40 | security. I had as lief they would put ratsbane in my | Securitie: I had as liefe they would put Rats-bane in my |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.121 | Very well, my lord, very well. Rather, an't | Very well (my Lord) very well: rather an't |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.231 | man can no more separate age and covetousness than 'a | man can no more separate Age and Couetousnesse, then he |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.44 | Then must we rate the cost of the erection, | Then must we rate the cost of the Erection, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.112 | level consideration. You have, as it appears to me, | leuell consideration, I know you ha' |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.11 | creature small beer. But indeed, these humble considerations | Creature, Small Beere. But indeede these humble considerations |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.20 | excellent stratagem. | excellent stratagem. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.162 | And Troyant Greeks? Nay, rather damn them with | and Troian Greekes? nay, rather damne them with |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.176 | Si fortune me tormente sperato me contento . | Si fortune me tormente, sperato me contente. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.9 | Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, | Why rather (Sleepe) lyest thou in smoakie Cribs, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.52 | And changes fill the cup of alteration | And Changes fill the Cuppe of Alteration |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.64 | Then checked and rated by Northumberland, | (Then check'd, and rated by Northumberland) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.158 | wrathful dove or most magnanimous mouse. Prick the | wrathfull Doue, or most magnanimous Mouse. Pricke the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.215 | Good Master Corporate Bardolph, stand my | Good Master Corporate Bardolph, stand my |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.219 | not care, but rather because I am unwilling, and, for | not care; but rather, because I am vnwilling, and for |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.294 | justice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildness | Iustice hath done nothing but prate to me of the wildenesse |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.22 | Upon or near the rate of thirty thousand. | Vpon, or neere, the rate of thirtie thousand. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.63 | But rather show awhile like fearful war | But rather shew a while like fearefull Warre, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.90 | What peer hath been suborned to grate on you, | What Peere hath beene suborn'd, to grate on you, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.49 | Whiles England shall have generation. | Whiles England shall haue generation. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.68 | thou like a kind fellow gavest thyself away gratis, and I | thou like a kinde fellow, gau'st thy selfe away; and I |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.72 | Send Colevile with his confederates | Send Colleuile, with his Confederates, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.95 | A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It | A good Sherris-Sack hath a two-fold operation in it: it |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.149 | Teacheth this prostrate and exterior bending. | Teacheth this prostrate, and exteriour bending. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.162 | Other, less fine in carat, is more precious, | Other, lesse fine in Charract, is more precious, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.48 | Not Amurath an Amurath succeeds, | Not Amurah, an Amurah succeeds, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.70 | What! Rate, rebuke, and roughly send to prison | What? Rate? Rebuke? and roughly send to Prison |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.75 | And in th' administration of his law. | And in th' administration of his Law, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.127 | To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out | To frustrate Prophesies, and to race out |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.21 | deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to | deliberate, not to remember, / Not to haue patience to |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.28 | Consideration like an angel came | Consideration like an Angell came, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.58 | Any retirement, any sequestration, | Any retyrement, any sequestration, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.73 | Or rather swaying more upon our part | Or rather swaying more vpon our part, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.29 | Under this conjuration speak, my lord, | Vnder this Coniuration, speake my Lord: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.93 | And rather choose to hide them in a net | And rather chuse to hide them in a Net, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.191 | Where some, like magistrates, correct at home; | Where some like Magistrates correct at home: |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.13 | Of this most dreadful preparation, | Of this most dreadfull preparation, |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.119 | His heart is fracted and corroborate. | his heart is fracted and corroborate. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.95 | Ingrateful, savage, and inhuman creature? | Ingratefull, sauage, and inhumane Creature? |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.108 | That admiration did not whoop at them. | That admiration did not hoope at them. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.18 | But that defences, musters, preparations, | But that Defences, Musters, Preparations, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.89 | In every branch truly demonstrative, | In euery Branch truly demonstratiue; |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.30 | Whiles yet the cool and temperate wind of grace | Whiles yet the coole and temperate Wind of Grace |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.55 | ride not warily, fall into foul bogs. I had rather have my | ride not warily, fall into foule Boggs: I had rather haue my |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.14 | Give dreadful note of preparation. | Giue dreadfull note of preparation. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.19 | Do the low-rated English play at dice, | Doe the low-rated English play at Dice; |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.66 | It is the greatest admiration in the universal world, | it is the greatest admiration in the vniuersall World, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.77 | prating coxcomb, is it meet, think you, that we should | prating Coxcombe; is it meet, thinke you, that wee should |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.78 | also, look you, be an ass, and a fool, and a prating | also, looke you, be an Asse and a Foole, and a prating |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.176 | the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation | the time was blessedly lost, wherein such preparation |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.238 | What is thy soul of adoration? | What? is thy Soule of Odoration? |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.37 | Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones, | Yond Iland Carrions, desperate of their bones, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.52 | To demonstrate the life of such a battle | To demonstrate the Life of such a Battaile, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.34 | Rather proclaim it, Westmorland, through my host, | Rather proclaime it (Westmerland) through my Hoast, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.33 | rages, and his furies, and his wraths, and his cholers, | rages, and his furies, and his wraths, and his chollers, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.146 | and literatured in the wars. | and literatured in the Warres. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.107 | Ascribe we all! When, without stratagem, | Ascribe we all: when, without stratagem, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.86 | And take with you free power to ratify, | And take with you free power, to ratifie, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.157 | out again. What! A speaker is but a prater, a rhyme is | out againe. What? a speaker is but a prater, a Ryme is |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.162 | – or rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it shines | or rather the Sunne, and not the Moone; for it shines |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.200 | rather, gentle Princess, because I love thee cruelly. | rather gentle Princesse, because I loue thee cruelly. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.358 | To make divorce of their incorporate league; | To make diuorce of their incorporate League: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.12 | His sparkling eyes, replete with wrathful fire, | His sparkling Eyes, repleat with wrathfull fire, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.166 | To go about my preparation. | To goe about my preparation. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.25 | Salisbury is a desperate homicide; | Salisbury is a desperate Homicide, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.39 | Of old I know them; rather with their teeth | Of old I know them; rather with their Teeth |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.117 | Meantime look gracious on thy prostrate thrall. | Meane time looke gracious on thy prostrate Thrall. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.33 | Stand back, thou manifest conspirator, | Stand back thou manifest Conspirator, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.57 | Fie, lords, that you, being supreme magistrates, | Fye Lords, that you being supreme Magistrates, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.10 | Wont through a secret grate of iron bars | Went through a secret Grate of Iron Barres, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.33 | Rather than I would be so pilled esteemed. | Rather then I would be so pil'd esteem'd: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.60 | Here, through this grate, I count each one | Here, through this Grate, I count each one, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.14 | To celebrate the joy that God hath given us. | To celebrate the ioy that God hath giuen vs. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.45 | More venturous or desperate than this. | More venturous, or desperate then this. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.21 | Nor any of his false confederates. | Nor any of his false Confederates. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.49 | Could not prevail with all their oratory, | Could not preuayle with all their Oratorie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.69 | Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath, | Let my presumption not prouoke thy wrath, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.25 | This loathsome sequestration have I had; | This loathsome sequestration haue I had; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.28 | But now the arbitrator of despairs, | But now, the Arbitrator of Despaires, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.16 | As very infants prattle of thy pride. | As very Infants prattle of thy pride. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.18 | Saint Denis bless this happy stratagem, | Saint Dennis blesse this happy Stratageme, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.43 | Before he'll buy again at such a rate. | Before hee'le buy againe at such a rate. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.3 | Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, | Care is no cure, but rather corrosiue, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.54 | Pretend some alteration in good will? | Pretend some alteration in good will? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.124 | And perish ye with your audacious prate! | And perish ye with your audacious prate, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.175 | Prettily, methought, did play the orator. | Prettily (me thought) did play the Orator.) |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.50 | But rather, moody-mad and desperate stags, | But rather moodie mad: And desperate Stagges, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.28 | Mad ire and wrathful fury makes me weep, | Mad ire, and wrathfull fury makes me weepe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.7 | By this unheedful, desperate, wild adventure. | By this vnheedfull, desperate, wilde aduenture: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.2 | To tutor thee in stratagems of war, | To tutor thee in stratagems of Warre, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.33 | Rather than life preserved with infamy. | Rather then Life, preseru'd with Infamie. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.35 | Ay, rather than I'll shame my mother's womb. | I, rather then Ile shame my Mothers Wombe. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.54 | Then follow thou thy desperate sire of Crete, | Then follow thou thy desp'rate Syre of Creet, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.29 | Had been a little ratsbane for thy sake. | Had bin a little Rats-bane for thy sake. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.40 | By inspiration of celestial grace | By inspiration of Celestiall Grace, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.84 | Strumpet, thy words condemn thy brat and thee. | Strumpet, thy words condemne thy Brat,and thee. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.144 | No, Lord Ambassador; I'll rather keep | No Lord Ambassador, Ile rather keepe |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.3 | As procurator to your excellence, | As Procurator to your Excellence, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.103 | This peroration with such circumstance? | This preroration with such circumstance: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.220 | Pirates may make cheap pennyworths of their pillage | Pirates may make cheape penyworths of their pillage, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.86 | With thy confederates in this weighty cause. | With thy Confederates in this weightie cause. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.99 | And buzz these conjurations in her brain. | And buzze these Coniurations in her brayne. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.10 | Mother Jourdain, be you prostrate and grovel on the | Mother Iordan, be you prostrate, and grouell on the |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.3 | Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold; | Barren Winter, with his wrathfull nipping Cold; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.175 | Be thus upbraided, chid, and rated at, | Be thus vpbrayded, chid, and rated at, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.297 | I rather would have lost my life betimes | I rather would haue lost my Life betimes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.56 | Why do you rate my lord of Suffolk thus? | Why do you rate my Lord of Suffolke thus? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.155 | To free us from His Father's wrathful curse, | To free vs from his Fathers wrathfull curse, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.237 | Why, how now, lords! Your wrathful weapons drawn | Why how now Lords? / Your wrathfull Weapons drawne, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.274 | To show how quaint an orator you are; | To shew how queint an Orator you are. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.292 | Thou wilt but add increase unto my wrath. | Thou wilt but adde encrease vnto my Wrath. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.305 | Cease, gentle Queen, these execrations, | Cease, gentle Queene, these Execrations, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.30 | Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be paid. | Rate me at what thou wilt, thou shalt be payed. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.108 | Than Bargulus, the strong Illyrian pirate. | Then Bargulus the strong Illyrian Pyrate. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.126 | With humble suit. No, rather let my head | With humble suite: no, rather let my head |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.140 | Pompey the Great; and Suffolk dies by pirates. | Pompey the Great, and Suffolke dyes by Pyrats. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.16 | vocation;’ which is as much to say as ‘ Let the magistrates | Vocation: which is as much to say, as let the Magistrates |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.18 | be magistrates. | be Magistrates. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.32 | Or rather of stealing a cade of herrings. | Or rather of stealing a Cade of Herrings. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.118 | But angry, wrathful, and inclined to blood, | But angry, wrathfull, and inclin'd to blood, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.2 | And makes it fearful and degenerate; | And makes it fearefull and degenerate, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.12 | Rather than bloody war shall cut them short, | Rather then bloody Warre shall cut them short, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.108 | God should be so obdurate as yourselves, | God should be so obdurate as your selues: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.33 | Is straightway calmed and boarded with a pirate. | Is straight way calme, and boorded with a Pyrate. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.157 | Hence, heap of wrath, foul indigested lump, | Hence heape of wrath, foule indigested lumpe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.55 | Shall to my flaming wrath be oil and flax. | Shall to my flaming wrath, be Oyle and Flax: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.70 | Sword, hold thy temper; heart, be wrathful still; | Sword, hold thy temper; Heart, be wrathfull still: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.183 | Farewell, faint-hearted and degenerate King, | Farwell faint-hearted and degenerate King, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.224 | Rather than have made that savage Duke thine heir | Rather then haue made that sauage Duke thine Heire, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.2 | No, I can better play the orator. | No, I can better play the Orator. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.23 | Before a true and lawful magistrate | Before a true and lawfull Magistrate, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.4 | As for the brat of this accursed duke, | As for the Brat of this accursed Duke, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.19 | I am too mean a subject for thy wrath; | I am too meane a subiect for thy Wrath, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.42 | So desperate thieves, all hopeless of their lives, | So desperate Theeues, all hopelesse of their Liues, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.53 | Wrath makes him deaf; speak thou, Northumberland. | Wrath makes him deafe; speake thou Northumberland. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.142 | Thou stern, obdurate, flinty, rough, remorseless. | Thou, sterne, obdurate, flintie, rough, remorselesse. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.27 | Not separated with the racking clouds, | Not seperated with the racking Clouds, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.174 | To frustrate both his oath and what beside | To frustrate both his Oath, and what beside |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.43 | Full well hath Clifford played the orator, | Full well hath Clifford plaid the Orator, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.51 | For all the rest is held at such a rate | For all the rest is held at such a Rate, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.84 | Go, rate thy minions, proud insulting boy! | Go rate thy Minions, proud insulting Boy, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.89 | What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, | What Stragems? how fell? how Butcherly? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.131 | With fiery eyes sparkling for very wrath, | With fiery eyes, sparkling for very wrath, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.33 | For Warwick is a subtle orator, | For Warwicke is a subtle Orator: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.28 | Nay then, whip me; he'll rather give her two. | Nay then whip me: hee'le rather giue her two. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.70 | To tell you plain, I had rather lie in prison. | To tell you plaine, I had rather lye in Prison. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.178 | But toiling desperately to find it out – | But toyling desperately to finde it out, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.188 | I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, | Ile play the Orator as well as Nestor, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.82 | And they shall feel the vengeance of my wrath. | And they shall feele the vengeance of my wrath. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.128 | And haste is needful in this desperate case. | And haste is needfull in this desp'rate case. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.138 | I rather wish you foes than hollow friends. | I rather wish you foes, then hollow friends. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.17 | And I the rather wean me from despair | And I the rather waine me from dispaire |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.25 | Nay, rather, wilt thou draw thy forces hence, | Nay rather, wilt thou draw thy forces hence, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.50 | I had rather chop this hand off at a blow, | I had rather chop this Hand off at a blow, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.27 | By heaven, brat, I'll plague ye for that word. | By Heauen, Brat, Ile plague ye for that word. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.30 | Nay, take away this scolding crook-back rather. | Nay, take away this scolding Crooke-backe, rather. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.2 | Ay, my good lord – ‘ my lord,’ I should say rather. | I my good Lord: my Lord I should say rather, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.99.1 | At a superfluous rate! | At a superfluous rate. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.170 | As himself pleased; and they were ratified | As himselfe pleas'd; and they were ratified |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.35 | And lack of other means, in desperate manner | And lack of other meanes, in desperate manner |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.66 | Would give it quick consideration, for | Would giue it quicke consideration; for |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.148 | A buzzing of a separation | A buzzing of a Separation |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.86 | Though he be grown so desperate to be honest – | (Though he be growne so desperate to be honest) |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.127 | I find at such proud rate that it outspeaks | I finde at such proud Rate, that it out-speakes |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.181 | Therein illustrated. The honour of it | Therein illustrated, the Honor of it |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.309 | I had rather want those than my head. Have at you! | I had rather want those, then my head; / Haue at you. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.10 | In celebration of this day with shows, | In Celebration of this day with Shewes, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.83.14 | by inspiration, she makes in her sleep signs of rejoicing, | by inspiration) she makes (in her sleepe) signes of reioycing, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.150 | Concerning his imprisonment was rather – | Concerning his Imprisonment, was rather |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.9 | I'll scratch your heads. You must be seeing christenings? | Ile scratch your heads; you must be seeing Christenings? |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.42 | As great in admiration as herself, | As great in admiration as her selfe. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.55 | That needs must light on this ingratitude. | That needs must light on this Ingratitude. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.171 | Brutus had rather be a villager | Brutus had rather be a Villager, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.210 | I rather tell thee what is to be feared | I rather tell thee what is to be fear'd, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.135 | No, it is Casca, one incorporate | No, it is Caska, one incorporate |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.86.1 | Enter the conspirators: Cassius, Casca, Decius, Cinna, | Enter the Conspirators, Cassius, Caska, Decius, Cinna, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.164 | Like wrath in death, and envy afterwards; | Like Wrath in death, and Enuy afterwards: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.172 | Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; | Let's kill him Boldly, but not Wrathfully: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.216 | Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey; | Who rated him for speaking well of Pompey; |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.229.1 | Exeunt the conspirators | Exeunt. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.243 | I urged you further; then you scratched your head, | I vrg'd you further, then you scratch'd your head, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.273 | Which did incorporate and make us one, | Which did incorporate and make vs one, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.125 | And, being prostrate, thus he bade me say: | And being prostrate, thus he bad me say: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.293 | In my oration, how the people take | In my Oration, how the People take |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.22 | loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, | lou'd Rome more. Had you rather Casar were liuing, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.126 | I will not do them wrong; I rather choose | I will not do them wrong: I rather choose |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.186 | Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, | Ingratitude, more strong then Traitors armes, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.218 | I am no orator, as Brutus is, | I am no Orator, as Brutus is; |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.233 | Away then! Come, seek the conspirators. | Away then, come, seeke the Conspirators. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.28 | Tear him to pieces! He's a conspirator. | Teare him to peeces, hee's a Conspirator. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.32 | I am not Cinna the conspirator. | I am not Cinna the Conspirator. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.27 | I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, | I had rather be a Dogge, and bay the Moone, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.72 | By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, | By Heauen, I had rather Coine my Heart, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.51 | I draw a sword against conspirators. | I draw a Sword against Conspirators, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.91.3 | Enter Brutus, Messala, Young Cato, Strato, Volumnius, | Enter Brutus, Messala, yong Cato, Strato, Volumnius, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iv.28 | Give him all kindness. I had rather have | Giue him all kindnesse. I had rather haue |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.1.1 | Enter Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, Strato, and Volumnius | Enter Brutus, Dardanius, Clitus, Strato, and Volumnius. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.7.2 | I'll rather kill myself. | Ile rather kill my selfe. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.32 | Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep; | Strato, thou hast bin all this while asleepe: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.33 | Farewell to thee too, Strato. Countrymen, | Farewell to thee, to Strato, Countrymen: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.44 | I prithee, Strato, stay thou by thy lord. | I prythee Strato, stay thou by thy Lord, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.48 | While I do run upon it. Wilt thou, Strato? | While I do run vpon it. Wilt thou Strato? |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.50 | Farewell, good Strato. – Caesar, now be still; | Farewell good Strato. ---Casar, now be still, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.53 | My master's man. Strato, where is thy master? | My Masters man. Strato, where is thy Master? |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.64 | How died my master, Strato? | How dyed my Master Strato? |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.69 | All the conspirators save only he | All the Conspirators saue onely hee, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.15 | Your gracious self, the flower of Europe's hope, | Your gratious selfe the flower of Europes hope: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.92 | My gracious father, and these other lords, | My gratious father and these other Lordes, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.105 | Regenerate traitor, viper to the place | Regenerate Traytor, viper to the place, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.87 | Dear aunt, descend, and gratulate his highness. | Deare Aunt discend and gratulate his highnes. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.99 | My gracious King, fair is she not at all, | My gratious King, faire is she not at all, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.106 | To gaze on her with doting admiration? | To gaze on her with doting admiration. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.119 | A little while, my gracious sovereign, stay, | A little while my gratious soueraigne stay, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.140 | That more persuades than winning oratory? | That more perswads then winning Oratorie. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.160 | More gracious than my terms can, let thee be. | More gratious then my tearmes can let thee be, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.89 | For, were thy admiration ten times more, | For were thy admiration ten tymes more, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.111 | The nightingale sings of adulterate wrong, | The nightingale singes of adulterate wrong, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.114 | But rather, virtue sin, sin virtue deemed. | But rather vertue sin, synne vertue deemd, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.140 | To that which craves unended admiration? | To that which craues vnended admiration. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.154 | For I had rather have her chased than chaste. | For I had rather haue her chased then chast, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.247 | Nor beg I do not, but I rather buy – | Nor beg I do not but I rather buie, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.388 | To pawn thine honour rather than thy life. | To pawne thine honor rather then thy life; |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.404 | And make it lose his operation? | And make it loose his operation: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.40 | She is as imperator over me, and I to her | She is as imperator ouer me, and I to her |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.77 | And rates my heart, and chides my thievish eye, | And rates my heart, and chides my theeuish eie, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.16 | But changing and alteration of the state. | But changing and alteration of the state, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.36 | Are all become confederates with us, | Are all become confederates with vs, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.142 | My gracious sovereign, France hath ta'en the foil, | My gratious soueraigne, Fraunce hath tane the foyle, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.30 | Yet rather fight than, like unnatural sons, | Yet rather fight, then like vnnaturall sonnes, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.62 | Three ways these dreadful ministers of wrath | Three waies these dredfull ministers of wrath, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.18 | Successfully, I thank the gracious heavens. | Succesfullie I thanke the gratious heauens, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.53 | A thievish pirate, and a needy mate, | A theeuish pyrate, and a needie mate, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.64 | Thy labour rather to be feared than loved, | They labour rather to be feared then loued, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.98 | Or railing execrations of despite. | Or rayling execrations of despight, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.135 | Judge then, conspirators, by this descent, | Iudge then conspiratours by this descent, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.137 | Father, range your battles, prate no more. | Father range your battailes, prate no more, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.164 | And rather bind ye them in captive bands. | And rather bind ye them in captiue bands, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.195 | To draw forth bloody stratagems in France | To drawe forth bloudie stratagems in France, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.206 | My gracious father, and ye forward peers, | My gratious father and yee forwarde peeres, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.107 | Here is a note, my gracious lord, of those | Heere is a note my gratious Lord of those, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.77 | And prostrate yield themselves, upon their knees, | And prostrate yeeld themselues vpon their knees, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.3 | Not for his sake, my gracious lord, so much | Not for his sake my gratious Lord so much, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.26 | Ah, but it is mine oath, my gracious lord, | Ah but itis mine othe my gratious Lord, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.63 | I have a prophecy, my gracious lord, | I haue a prophecy my gratious Lord, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.129 | And stratagems forepast with iron pens | And stratagems forepast with yron pens, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.77 | And rather let me leave to be a prince | and rather let me leaue to be a prince, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.32 | Or that it were restorative, command | Or that it were restoritiue, command |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.8 | Mercy, King Edward, mercy, gracious lord! | Mercy king Edward, mercie gratious Lord. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.82 | Had but your gracious self been there in place. | Had but your gratious selfe bin there in place, |
| King John | KJ I.i.27 | So, hence! Be thou the trumpet of our wrath | So hence: be thou the trumpet of our wrath, |
| King John | KJ I.i.38 | With fearful bloody issue arbitrate. | With fearefull bloudy issue arbitrate. |
| King John | KJ I.i.134 | Whether hadst thou rather be: a Faulconbridge, | Whether hadst thou rather be a Faulconbridge, |
| King John | KJ II.i.13 | The rather that you give his offspring life, | The rather, that you giue his off-spring life, |
| King John | KJ II.i.67 | Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, | Rash, inconsiderate, fiery voluntaries, |
| King John | KJ II.i.87 | Whiles we, God's wrathful agent, do correct | Whiles we Gods wrathfull agent doe correct |
| King John | KJ II.i.181 | Being but the second generation | Being but the second generation |
| King John | KJ II.i.195 | Peace, lady! Pause, or be more temperate. | Peace Lady, pause, or be more temperate, |
| King John | KJ II.i.210 | The cannons have their bowels full of wrath, | The Canons haue their bowels full of wrath, |
| King John | KJ II.i.213 | All preparation for a bloody siege | All preparation for a bloody siedge |
| King John | KJ II.i.225 | To save unscratched your city's threatened cheeks, | To saue vnscratch'd your Citties threatned cheekes: |
| King John | KJ II.i.343 | Rather, lost more. And by this hand I swear, | Rather lost more. And by this hand I sweare |
| King John | KJ III.i.32 | As doth the fury of two desperate men | As doth the furie of two desperate men, |
| King John | KJ III.i.56 | She adulterates hourly with thine uncle John, | Sh'adulterates hourely with thine Vnckle Iohn, |
| King John | KJ III.i.87 | Nay, rather turn this day out of the week, | Nay, rather turne this day out of the weeke, |
| King John | KJ III.i.340 | France, I am burned up with inflaming wrath – | France, I am burn'd vp with inflaming wrath, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.12 | Such temperate order in so fierce a cause, | Such temperate order in so fierce a cause, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.167 | And pick strong matter of revolt and wrath | And picke strong matter of reuolt, and wrath |
| King John | KJ IV.i.25 | If I talk to him, with his innocent prate | If I talke to him, with his innocent prate |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.25 | Startles and frights consideration, | Startles, and frights consideration: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.111 | For any foreign preparation | For any forraigne preparation, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.19 | Or rather then set forward; for 'twill be | Or rather then set forward, for 'twill be |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.49 | That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage | That euer wall-ey'd wrath, or staring rage |
| King John | KJ V.ii.14 | And heal the inveterate canker of one wound | And heale the inueterate Canker of one wound, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.151 | And you degenerate, you ingrate revolts, | And you degenerate, you ingrate Reuolts, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.170 | That shall reverberate all as loud as thine. | That shall reuerberate all, as lowd as thine. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.172 | As loud as thine, rattle the welkin's ear | (As lowd as thine) rattle the Welkins eare, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.175 | Whom he hath used rather for sport than need – | Whom he hath vs'd rather for sport, then neede) |
| King John | KJ V.iv.37 | Paying the fine of rated treachery | Paying the fine of rated Treachery, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.43 | And so ingrateful you deny me that. | And so ingratefull, you deny me that. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.87 | He will the rather do it when he sees | Hc will the rather do it, when he sees |
| King Lear | KL I.i.111 | By all the operation of the orbs | By all the operation of the Orbes, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.117 | Or he that makes his generation messes | Or he that makes his generation messes |
| King Lear | KL I.i.122 | Come not between the dragon and his wrath. | Come not betweene the Dragon and his wrath, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.144 | Let it fall rather, though the fork invade | Let it fall rather, though the forke inuade |
| King Lear | KL I.i.150 | And in thy best consideration check | And in thy best consideration checke |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.68 | which I have rather blamed as mine own jealous | which I haue rather blamed as mine owne iealous |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.181 | whipped for holding my peace. I had rather be any kind | whipt for holding my peace. I had rather be any kind |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.233 | This admiration, sir, is much o'the savour | This admiration Sir, is much o'th'sauour |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.250 | Degenerate bastard, I'll not trouble thee. | Degenerate Bastard, Ile not trouble thee; |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.256 | Ingratitude, thou marble-hearted fiend, | Ingratitude! thou Marble-hearted Fiend, |
| King Lear | KL I.v.37 | To take't again perforce! Monster ingratitude! | To tak't againe perforce; Monster Ingratitude! |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.72 | Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain, | Like Rats oft bite the holy cords a twaine, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.158 | On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones, | On her ingratefull top: strike her yong bones |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.174 | Effects of courtesy, dues of gratitude. | Effects of Curtesie, dues of Gratitude: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.197 | If till the expiration of your month | If till the expiration of your Moneth |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.203 | No, rather I abjure all roofs and choose | No, rather I abiure all roofes, and chuse |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.211 | Persuade me rather to be slave and sumpter | Perswade me rather to be slaue and sumpter |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.217 | Or rather a disease that's in my flesh, | Or rather a disease that's in my flesh, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.300 | He is attended with a desperate train, | He is attended with a desperate traine, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.9 | That makes ingrateful man! | That makes ingratefull Man. |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.43 | Love not such nights as these. The wrathful skies | Loue not such nights as these: The wrathfull Skies |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.5 | I had rather break mine own. Good my lord, enter. | I had rather breake mine owne, / Good my Lord enter. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.14 | Save what beats there. – Filial ingratitude! | Saue what beates there, Filliall ingratitude, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.53 | ratsbane by his porridge, made him proud of heart, to | Rats-bane by his Porredge, made him Proud of heart, to |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.126 | for sallets, swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog, | for Sallets; swallowes the old Rat, and the ditch-Dogge; |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.132 | But mice and rats and such small deer | But Mice, and Rats, and such small Deare, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.6 | Fraterretto calls me and tells me Nero is an angler | Fraterretto cals me, and tells me Nero is an Angler |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.10 | festinate preparation; we are bound to the like. Our | festiuate preparation: we are bound to the like. Our |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.26 | Shall do a curtsy to our wrath, which men | Shall do a curt'sie to our wrath, which men |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.28 | Ingrateful fox, 'tis he! | Ingratefull Fox, 'tis he. |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.22 | The food of thy abused father's wrath! | The food of thy abused Fathers wrath: |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.47 | Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure. | Do as I bid thee, or rather do thy pleasure: |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.43 | Most barbarous, most degenerate, have you madded. | |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.9 | Did your letters pierce the Queen to any demonstration | |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.14 | Are many simples operative, whose power | Are many Simples operatiue, whose power |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.22 | 'Tis known before. Our preparation stands | 'Tis knowne before. Our preparation stands |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.22.2 | Madam, I had rather – | Madam, I had rather---- |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.64.1 | And frustrate his proud will. | And frustrate his proud will. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.185 | It were a delicate stratagem to shoe | It were a delicate stratagem to shoo |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.26 | O my dear father! Restoration hang | O my deere Father, restauratian hang |
| King Lear | KL V.i.3 | To change the course. (To Regan) He's full of alteration | To change the course, he's full of alteration, |
| King Lear | KL V.i.18 | I had rather lose the battle than that sister | |
| King Lear | KL V.i.60 | Exasperates, makes mad, her sister Gonerill, | Exasperates, makes mad her Sister Gonerill, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.159 | Go after her. She's desperate. Govern her. | Go after her, she's desperate, gouerne her. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.184 | Rather than die at once – taught me to shift | Rather then die at once) taught me to shift |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.290.1 | And desperately are dead. | And desperately are dead |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.304 | Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, | Why should a Dog, a Horse, a Rat haue life, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.194 | To hear meekly, sir, and to laugh moderately; | To heare meekely sir, and to laugh moderately, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.289 | I had rather pray a month with mutton and | I had rather pray a Moneth with Mutton and |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.9 | By a familiar demonstration of the working, my | By a familiar demonstration of the working, my |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.113 | with the rational hind Costard. She deserves well. | with the rationall hinde Costard: she deserues well. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.85 | He rather means to lodge you in the field, | He rather meanes to lodge you in the field, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.147 | Which we much rather had depart withal, | Which we much rather had depart withall, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.58 | Minime, honest master; or rather, master, no. | Minnime honest Master, or rather Master no. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.76 | Doth the inconsiderate take salve for l'envoy and the | doth the inconsiderate take salue for lenuoy, and the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.129 | country maid Jaquenetta. There is remuneration (giving | countrey Maide Iaquenetta: there is remuneration, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.134 | will I look to his remuneration. ‘ Remuneration ’! O, | Now will I looke to his remuneration. Remuneration, O, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.136 | farthings – remuneration. ‘ What's the price of this inkle?’ | farthings remuneration, What's the price of this yncle? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.137 | ‘ One penny.’ ‘ No, I'll give you a remuneration.’ Why, | i.d. no, Ile giue you a remuneration: Why? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.138 | it carries it! ‘ Remuneration ’! Why, it is fairer name | It carries it remuneration: Why? It is a fairer name |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.143 | a man buy for a remuneration? | a man buy for a remuneration? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.144 | What is a remuneration? | What is a remuneration? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.167 | remuneration – elevenpence farthing better. Most sweet | remuneration, a leuenpence-farthing better: most sweete |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.169 | Remuneration! | remuneration. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.182 | Sole imperator and great general | Sole Emperator and great generall |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.183 | Of trotting paritors – O my little heart! | Of trotting Parrators (O my little heart.) |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.66 | beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on | beautious, truer then truth it selfe: haue comiseration on |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.67 | thy heroical vassal. The magnanimous and most illustrate | thy heroicall Vassall. The magnanimous and most illustrate |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.15 | facere, as it were, replication, or, rather, ostentare, to | facere: as it were replication, or rather ostentare, to |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.18 | rather, unlettered, or, ratherest, unconfirmed fashion | rather vnlettered, or ratherest vnconfirmed fashion, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.100 | Under pardon, sir, what are the contents? Or, rather, | Vnder pardon sir, What are the contents? or rather |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.121 | Here are only numbers ratified; but, for the elegancy, | Nath. Here are onely numbers ratified, but for the elegancy, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.153 | you to gratify the table with a grace, I will, on my | you to gratifie the table with a Grace, I will on my |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.1 | Enter Holofernes, Nathaniel, and Dull | Enter the Pedant, Curate and Dull. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.29 | scratched; 'twill serve. | scratcht, 'twil serue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.68 | very remuneration I had of thy master, thou halfpenny | very Remuneration I had of thy Maister, thou halfpenny |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.83 | affection to congratulate the Princess at her pavilion in | affection, to congratulate the Princesse at her Pauilion, in |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.107 | firework. Now, understanding that the curate and your | fire-worke: Now, vnderstanding that the Curate and your |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.115 | and this most gallant, illustrate, and learned gentleman, | and this most gallant, illustrate and learned Gentleman, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.532 | Pompey the Great; the parish curate, Alexander; | Pompey ye great, the Parish Curate Alexander, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.559 | Enter Nathaniel as Alexander | Enter Curate for Alexander. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.655 | I must rather give it the rein, for it runs | I must rather giue it the reine: for it runnes |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.738 | That which long process could not arbitrate. | That, which long processe could not arbitrate. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.774 | And, in our maiden counsel rated them | And in our maiden counsaile rated them, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.799 | Then, at the expiration of the year, | Then at the expiration of the yeare, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.9 | And like a rat without a tail | And like a Rat without a tayle, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.16 | The sin of my ingratitude even now | The sinne of my Ingratitude euen now |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.22 | And that which rather thou dost fear to do | And that which rather thou do'st feare to doe, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.31 | Would have informed for preparation. | Would haue inform'd for preparation. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.62 | Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey | (Whereto the rather shall his dayes hard Iourney |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.51 | The curtained sleep. Witchcraft celebrates | The Curtain'd sleepe: Witchcraft celebrates |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.58 | Thy very stones prate of my whereabout | Thy very stones prate of my where-about, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.61 | Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather | Cleane from my Hand? no: this my Hand will rather |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.105 | Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, | Who can be wise, amaz'd, temp'rate, & furious, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.135 | To Ireland, I. Our separated fortune | To Ireland, I: / Our seperated fortune |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.70 | Rather than so, come fate into the list | Rather then so, come Fate into the Lyst, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.41 | Who may I rather challenge for unkindness | Who, may I rather challenge for vnkindnesse, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.12 | Spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do, | Spightfull, and wrathfull, who (as others do) |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.33 | To ratify the work – we may again | To ratifie the Worke) we may againe |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.38 | Hath so exasperate the King that he | Hath so exasperate their King, that hee |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.61 | Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths | Say, if th'hadst rather heare it from our mouthes, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.67 | Thunder. First Apparition, an Armed Head | Thunder. 1. Apparation, an Armed Head |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.85.1 | Thunder. Third Apparition, a Child crowned, with a | Thunder 3 Apparation, a Childe Crowned, with a |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.64 | Poor prattler, how thou talk'st! | Poore pratler, how thou talk'st? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.2.2 | Let us rather | Let vs rather |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.184 | Which was to my belief witnessed the rather | Which was to my beleefe witnest the rather, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.57 | Ay, my good lord; your royal preparation | I my good Lord: your Royall Preparation |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iv.20 | But certain issue strokes must arbitrate; | But certaine issue, stroakes must arbitrate, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.36 | Let me endure your wrath if't be not so. | Let me endure your wrath, if't be not so: |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.7 | Thou conclud'st like the sanctimonious pirate, | Thou conclud'st like the Sanctimonious Pirat, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.126 | So every scope by the immoderate use | So euery Scope by the immoderate vse |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.128 | Like rats that ravin down their proper bane, | Like Rats that rauyn downe their proper Bane, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.4 | But rather wishing a more strict restraint | But rather wishing a more strict restraint |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.22 | The rather for I now must make you know | The rather for I now must make you know |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.5 | Let us be keen and rather cut a little | Let vs be keene, and rather cut a little |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.28 | For I have had such faults; but rather tell me, | For I haue had such faults; but rather tell me |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.115 | Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt | Thou rather with thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.150 | Or stones whose rates are either rich or poor | Or Stones, whose rate are either rich, or poore |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.52 | Which had you rather, that the most just law | Which had you rather, that the most iust Law |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.56 | I had rather give my body than my soul. | I had rather giue my body, then my soule. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.115 | And rather proved the sliding of your brother | And rather prou'd the sliding of your brother |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.93 | Whose settled visage and deliberate word | Whose setled visage, and deliberate word |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.191 | I am now going to resolve him. I had rather my | I am now going to resolue him: I had rather my |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.105 | That I know to be true. And he is a motion generative. | that I know to bee true: and he is a motion generatiue, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.200 | and have all charitable preparation. If my brother | and haue all charitable preparation. If my brother |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.225 | Rather rejoicing to see another merry than | Rather reioycing to see another merry, then |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.142 | of mortality, and desperately mortal. | of mortality, and desperately mortall. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.69 | One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate, | One Ragozine, a most notorious Pirate, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.87 | His journal greeting to yond generation, | his iournall greeting / To yond generation, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.96 | To meet me at the consecrated fount | To meet me at the consecrated Fount, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.98 | To his concup'scible intemperate lust, | To his concupiscible intemperate lust |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.182 | To prattle for himself. | to prattle for himselfe. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.345 | the other confederate companion. | the other confederate companion. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.388 | Labouring to save his life, and would not rather | Labouring to saue his life: and would not rather |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.503 | rather it would please you I might be whipped. | rather it would please you, I might be whipt. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.526 | There's more behind that is more gratulate. | There's more behinde that is more gratulate. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.53 | And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper, | And laugh like Parrats at a bag-piper. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.57 | Enter Bassanio, Lorenzo, and Gratiano | Enter Bassanio, Lorenso, and Gratiano. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.58 | Gratiano, and Lorenzo. Fare ye well; | Faryewell, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.77 | I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano, | I hold the world but as the world Gratiano, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.81 | And let my liver rather heat with wine | And let my Liuer rather heate with wine, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.107 | For Gratiano never lets me speak. | For Gratiano neuer let's me speake. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.112 | Exeunt Gratiano and Lorenzo | Exit. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.114 | Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, | Gratiano speakes an infinite deale of nothing, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.127 | From such a noble rate; but my chief care | From such a noble rate, but my cheefe care |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.27 | their death have good inspirations. Therefore the lottery | their death haue good inspirations, therefore the lotterie |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.48 | sadness in his youth. I had rather be married to a death's-head | sadnesse in his youth.) I had rather to be married to a deaths head |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.108 | hither in company of the Marquess of Montferrat? | hither in companie of the Marquesse of Mountferrat? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.124 | and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should | and the complexion of a diuell, I had rather hee should |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.22 | sailors but men; there be land rats and water rats, water | Saylers but men, there be land rats, and water rats, water |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.23 | thieves and land thieves, I mean pirates; and then there | theeues, and land theeues, I meane Pyrats, and then there |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.41 | He lends out money gratis and brings down | He lends out money gratis, and brings downe |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.42 | The rate of usance here with us in Venice. | The rate of vsance here with vs in Venice. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.79 | And when the work of generation was | And when the worke of generation was |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.101 | Three months from twelve, then, let me see, the rate – | Three months from twelue, then let me see the rate. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.104 | In the Rialto you have rated me | In the Ryalto you haue rated me |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.132 | But lend it rather to thine enemy, | But lend it rather to thine enemie, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.152 | I'll rather dwell in my necessity. | Ile rather dwell in my necessitie. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.14 | honest man's son or rather an honest woman's son, for | honest mans sonne, or rather an honest womans sonne, for |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.108 | Gratiano to come anon to my lodging. | Gratiano to come anone to my lodging. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.162 | Enter Gratiano | Enter Gratiano. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.164 | Gratiano! | Gratiano. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.167 | Why then you must. But hear thee, Gratiano: | Why then you must: but heare thee Gratiano, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.188 | I would entreat you rather to put on | I would intreate you rather to put on |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.1 | Enter Gratiano, Lorenzo, Salerio, and Solanio | Enter Gratiano, Lorenzo, Slarino, and Salanio. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.4 | We have not made good preparation. | We haue not made good preparation. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.25.2 | Meet me and Gratiano | Meete me and Gratiano |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.26 | At Gratiano's lodging some hour hence. | at Gratianos lodging / Some houre hence. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.39 | Exit with Gratiano | Exit. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.1.1 | Enter the masquers, Gratiano and Salerio | Enter the Maskers, Gratiano and Salino. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.62 | Fie, fie, Gratiano! Where are all the rest? | Fie, fie, Gratiano, where are all the rest? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.26 | If thou be'st rated by thy estimation, | If thou beest rated by thy estimation |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.2 | With him is Gratiano gone along, | With him is Gratiano gone along; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.80 | O these deliberate fools! When they do choose, | O these deliberate fooles when they doe choose, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.1.1 | Enter Bassanio, Portia, Gratiano, Nerissa, and all | Enter Bassanio, Portia, Gratiano, and all |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.105 | Which rather threaten'st than dost promise aught, | Which rather threatnest then dost promise ought, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.111 | O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, | O loue be moderate, allay thy extasie, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.148 | Until confirmed, signed, ratified by you. | Vntill confirm'd, sign'd, ratified by you. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.178 | As after some oration fairly spoke | As after some oration fairely spoke |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.210 | And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith? | And doe you Gratiano meane good faith? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.257 | Rating myself at nothing, you shall see | Rating my selfe at nothing, you shall see |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.286 | That he would rather have Antonio's flesh | That he would rather haue Anthonio's flesh, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.2 | This is the fool that lent out money gratis. | This is the foole that lends out money gratis. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.42 | discourse grow commendable in none only but parrots. | discourse grow commendable in none onely but Parrats: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.1.2 | Salerio, and Gratiano with others | and Gratiano. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.8 | His rigorous course; but since he stands obdurate, | His rigorous course: but since he stands obdurate, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.30 | And pluck commiseration of his state | And plucke commiseration of his state |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.40 | You'll ask me why I rather choose to have | You'l aske me why I rather choose to haue |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.44 | What if my house be troubled with a rat | What if my house be troubled with a Rat, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.294 | Had been her husband, rather than a Christian. | Had beene her husband, rather then a Christian. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.376 | A halter gratis! Nothing else, for God's sake! | A halter gratis, nothing else for Gods sake. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.403 | Antonio, gratify this gentleman, | Anthonio, gratifie this gentleman, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.449 | Go, Gratiano, run and overtake him, | Goe Gratiano, run and ouer-take him, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.451 | Exit Gratiano | Exit Grati. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.ii.5 | Enter Gratiano | Enter Gratiano. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.85 | Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils, | Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoyles, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.127 | Enter Bassanio, Antonio, Gratiano, and their followers | Enter Bassanio, Anthonio, Gratiano, and their Followers. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.164 | A prating boy that begged it as a fee; | A prating boy that begg'd it as a Fee, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.174 | That the world masters. Now in faith, Gratiano, | That the world masters. Now in faith Gratiano, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.218 | My honour would not let ingratitude | My honor would not let ingratitude |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.260 | And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano, | And pardon me my gentle Gratiano, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.302 | Whether till the next night she had rather stay, | Whether till the next night she had rather stay, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.8 | Ay, and Ratolorum too. And a gentleman born, | I, and Rato lorum too; and a Gentleman borne |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.183 | I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book | I had rather then forty shillings I had my booke |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.263 | I had rather walk here, I thank you. I bruised my | I had rather walke here (I thanke you) I bruiz'd my |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.292 | I'll rather be unmannerly than troublesome. | Ile rather be vnmannerly, then troublesome: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.84 | I have operations which be humours of revenge. | I haue opperations, / Which be humors of reuenge. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.118 | be well. We must give folks leave to prate. What the | bee well: We must giue folkes leaue to prate: what the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.74 | rather be a giantess and lie under Mount Pelion. Well, | rather be a Giantesse, and lye vnder Mount Pelion: Well; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.211 | rats. | Rattes. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.213 | Have with you. I had rather hear them scold than | Haue with you: I had rather heare them scold, then |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.6 | should lay my countenance to pawn. I have grated upon | should lay my countenance to pawne: I haue grated vpon |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.9 | grate, like a geminy of baboons. I am damned in hell | grate, like a Geminy of Baboones: I am damn'd in hell, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.16 | I'll endanger my soul gratis? At a word, hang no more | Ile endanger my soule, gratis? at a word, hang no more |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.152 | I make bold to press with so little preparation upon | I make bold, to presse, with so little preparation vpon |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.199 | purchased at an infinite rate, and that hath taught me to | purchased at an infinite rate, and that hath taught mee to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.221 | preparations. | preparations. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.287 | rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the | rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hugh the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.61 | He has no more knowledge in Hibocrates and | He has no more knowledge in Hibocrates and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.3 | Whether had you rather, lead mine eyes, or eye your | whether had you rather lead mine eyes, or eye your |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.5 | I had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man | I had rather (forsooth) go before you like a man, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.42 | search. There I shall find Falstaff. I shall be rather | search, there I shall finde Falstaffe: I shall be rather |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.44 | Mistress Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate, | Mistris Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.115 | as his peril. I had rather than a thousand pound he were | as his perill. I had rather then a thousand pound he were |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.117 | For shame, never stand ‘ you had rather ’ | For shame, neuer stand (you had rather, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.118 | and ‘ you had rather ’! Your husband's here at hand. | and you had rather:) your husband's heere at hand, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.84 | Alas, I had rather be set quick i'th' earth, | Alas I had rather be set quick i'th earth, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.114 | you have suffered all this. My suit, then, is desperate? | you haue sufferd all this. My suite then is desperate: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.69 | rather than a mischief. | rather then a mischiefe. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.170 | Come, Mother Prat, come, give me your | Come mother Prat, Come giue me your |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.172 | I'll prat her. | Ile Prat-her: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.6 | I rather will suspect the sun with cold | I rather will suspect the Sunne with gold, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.50 | And rattles in their hands. Upon a sudden, | And rattles in their hands; vpon a sodaine, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.80 | make grand preparation for a duke de Jamany. By my | make grand preparation for a Duke de Iamanie: by my |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.1 | Prithee no more prattling. Go. I'll hold. This | Pre'thee no more pratling: go, Ile hold, this |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.1.1 | Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate | Enter Theseus, Hippolita, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.11.2 | Go, Philostrate, | Go Philostrate, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.15 | Exit Philostrate | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.57 | Rather your eyes must with his judgement look. | Rather your eies must with his iudgment looke. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.20 | For Oberon is passing fell and wrath | For Oberon is passing fell and wrath, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.106 | And thorough this distemperature we see | And through this distemperature, we see |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.200 | Or rather do I not in plainest truth | Or rather doe I not in plainest truth, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.64 | Such separation as may well be said | Such separation, as may well be said, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.145 | I am a spirit of no common rate. | I am a spirit of no common rate: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.7 | Near to her close and consecrated bower, | Neere to her close and consecrated bower, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.64 | I had rather give his carcass to my hounds. | I'de rather giue his carkasse to my hounds. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.195 | Injurious Hermia, most ungrateful maid, | Iniurous Hermia, most vngratefull maid, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.208 | Had been incorporate. So we grew together | Had beene incorporate. So we grew together, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.235 | This you should pity rather than despise. | This you should pittie, rather then despise. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.7 | Scratch my head, Peaseblossom. Where's | Scratch my head, Pease-blossome. Wher's |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.23 | Cobweb to scratch. I must to the barber's, Monsieur, | Cobweb to scratch. I must to the Barbers Mounsieur, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.26 | must scratch. | must scratch. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.36 | I had rather have a handful or two of dried pease. | I had rather haue a handfull or two of dried pease. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.1.1 | Enter Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate, Lords, and | Enter Theseus, Hippolita, Egeus and his Lords. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.38.1 | Call Philostrate. | Call Egeus. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.84 | Exit Philostrate | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.102 | I read as much as from the rattling tongue | I read as much, as from the ratling tongue |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.106.1 | Enter Philostrate | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.140 | Did scare away, or rather did affright. | Did scarre away, or rather did affright: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.360.1 | Exeunt Theseus, Hippolyta, Philostrate, | Exeunt. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.405 | With this field dew consecrate | With this field dew consecrate, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.123 | I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear | I had rather heare my Dog barke at a Crow, than a man sweare |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.127 | scratched face. | scratcht face. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.128 | Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere | Scratching could not make it worse, and 'twere |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.130 | Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher. | Well, you are a rare Parrat teacher. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.257 | preparation. | preparation. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.25 | I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose | I had rather be a canker in a hedge, then a rose |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.27 | beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woollen. | beard on his face, I had rather lie in the woollen. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.247 | embassage to the Pygmies, rather than hold three words' | embassage to the Pigmies, rather then hould three words |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.297 | I would rather have one of your father's getting. | I would rather haue one of your fathers getting: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.45 | assurance, and all the preparation overthrown. | assurance, and all the preparation ouerthrowne. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.14 | drum and the fife, and now had he rather hear the tabor | drum and the fife, and now had hee rather heare the taber |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.153 | is sometime afeard she will do a desperate outrage to | is somtime afeard she will doe a desperate out-rage to |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.175 | her love known; and she will die if he woo her, rather | her loue knowne, and she will die if hee wooe her, rather |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.221 | her; they say, too, that she will rather die than give any | her: they say too, that she will rather die than giue any |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.82 | No; rather I will go to Benedick | No, rather I will goe to Benedicke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.37 | We will rather sleep than talk; we | We will rather sleepe than talke, wee |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.109 | Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible | Thou should'st rather aske if it were possible |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.57 | But you are more intemperate in your blood | But you are more intemperate in your blood, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.228 | they have upon record, which I had rather seal | they haue vpon record, which I had rather seale |
| Othello | Oth I.i.26 | As masterly as he. Mere prattle, without practice | As Masterly as he. Meere pratle (without practise) |
| Othello | Oth I.i.34 | By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman. | By heauen, I rather would haue bin his hangman. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.62 | For when my outward action doth demonstrate | For when my outward Action doth demonstrate |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.6.2 | Nay, but he prated | Nay but he prated, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.14 | The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes; | The Turkish Preparation makes for Rhodes, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.89 | In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, | In speaking for my selfe. Yet, (by your gratious patience) |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.92 | What conjuration and what mighty magic – | What Coniuration, and what mighty Magicke, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.172 | Men do their broken weapons rather use | Men do their broken Weapons rather vse, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.189 | I had rather to adopt a child than get it. | I had rather to adopt a Child, then get it. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.219 | The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for | The Turke with a most mighty Preparation makes for |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.251 | Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate. | Did I my soule and Fortunes consecrate. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.341 | and thou shalt see an answerable sequestration – | and thou shalt see an answerable Sequestration, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.354 | It is clean out of the way. Seek thou rather to be hanged | it is cleane out of the way. Seeke thou rather to be hang'd |
| Othello | Oth II.i.21 | The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks | The desperate Tempest hath so bang'd the Turkes, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.200 | I prattle out of fashion, and I dote | I prattle out of fashion, and I doate |
| Othello | Oth II.i.218 | will she love him still for prating? Let not thy discreet | To loue him still for prating, let not thy discreet |
| Othello | Oth II.i.254 | master and main exercise, th' incorporate conclusion. | Master, and maine exercise, th'incorporate conclusion: |
| Othello | Oth II.ii.7 | celebration of his nuptial. So much was his pleasure | Celebration of his Nuptiall. So much was his pleasure |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.145 | Dost thou prate, rogue? | Dost thou prate, Rogue? |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.215 | I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth | I had rather haue this tongue cut from my mouth, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.227 | Outran my purpose and I returned the rather | Out-ran my purpose: and I return'd then rather |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.270 | I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so | I will rather sue to be despis'd, then to deceiue so |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.272 | indiscreet an officer. Drunk! And speak parrot! And | indiscreet an Officer. Drunke? And speake Parrat? And |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.288 | to the devil wrath: one unperfectness shows me another, | to the diuell wrath, one vnperfectnesse, shewes me another |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.322 | I am desperate of my fortunes if they check me here. | I am desperate of my Fortunes if they check me. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.27 | For thy solicitor shall rather die | For thy Solicitor shall rather dye, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.267 | And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad | And not their Appetites? I had rather be a Toad, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.360.1 | Than answer my waked wrath! | Then answer my wak'd wrath. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.428.1 | That do demonstrate thinly. | That do demonstrate thinly. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.25 | Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse | Beleeue me, I had rather haue lost my purse |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.176 | Iago, and rather, as it seems to me now, keep'st from me | Iago, and rather, as it seemes to me now, keep'st from me |
| Othello | Oth V.i.37.1 | Enter Lodovico and Gratiano | Enter Lodouico and Gratiano. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.65 | Lodovico and Gratiano come forward | |
| Othello | Oth V.i.93 | Signor Gratiano? I cry you gentle pardon. | Signior Gratiano? I cry your gentle pardon: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.102.1 | Should yawn at alteration. | Did yawne at Alteration. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.167 | Enter Montano, Gratiano, and Iago | Enter Montano, Gratiano, and Iago. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.206 | This sight would make him do a desperate turn, | This sight would make him do a desperate turne: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.212 | And she did gratify his amorous works | And she did gratifie his amorous workes |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.240 | But kill him rather. I'll after that same villain, | But kill him rather. Ile after that same villaine, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.241 | Exeunt Montano and Gratiano | Exit. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.257 | Enter Gratiano | |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.361.2 | Gratiano, keep the house | Gratiano, keepe the house, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.8 | Have read it for restoratives. | Haue red it for restoratiues: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.18 | Sorrow were ever razed, and testy wrath | Sorrow were euer racte, and teastie wrath |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.101 | The which when any shall not gratify, | The which when any shall not gratifie, |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.25.1 | To the end of generation. | to the end of generation. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.44 | The pregnant instrument of wrath | The pregnant instrument of wrath. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.93.2 | Enter Pirates | Enter Pirats. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.96 | Exeunt Pirates, carrying off Marina | Exit. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.97 | These roguing thieves serve the great pirate Valdes, | These rogueing theeues serue the great Pyrato Valdes, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.38 | Enter Boult with the Pirates and Marina | Enter Boult with the Pirates and Marina. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.52 | Exeunt Pandar and Pirates | |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.61 | He should have struck, not spoke. Or that these pirates, | he should haue strooke, not spoke, or that these Pirates, |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.1 | Well, I had rather than twice the worth of her | Well, I had rather then twice the worth of her |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.4 | Priapus and undo a whole generation. We must either | Priapus, and vndoe a whole generation, we must either |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.56 | What he will do graciously, I will thankfully | What hee will doe gratiously, I will thankfully |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.156 | Why, I could wish him to be my master, or rather | Why, I could wish him to bee my master, or rather |
| Pericles | Per V.i.25 | Upon what ground is his distemperature? | Vpon what ground is his distemperature? |
| Pericles | Per V.i.176 | A crew of pirates came and rescued me, | A crew of Pirats came and rescued me, |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.80 | We'll celebrate their nuptials, and ourselves | wee'le celebrate their Nuptialls, and our selues |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.14 | Aimed at your highness; no inveterate malice. | Aym'd at your Highnesse, no inueterate malice. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.50 | Can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain. | Can arbitrate this cause betwixt vs twaine: |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.144 | A recreant and most degenerate traitor, | A recreant, and most degenerate Traitor, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.152 | Wrath-kindled gentlemen, be ruled by me: | Wrath-kindled Gentlemen be rul'd by me: |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.200 | There shall your swords and lances arbitrate | There shall your swords and Lances arbitrate |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.70 | Whose youthful spirit in me regenerate | Whose youthfull spirit in me regenerate, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.91 | More than my dancing soul doth celebrate | More then my dancing soule doth celebrate |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.136 | And grating shock of wrathful iron arms, | And grating shocke of wrathfull yron Armes, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.237 | You urged me as a judge, but I had rather | You vrg'd me as a Iudge, but I had rather |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.268 | Nay, rather every tedious stride I make | |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.262 | His noble kinsman! – most degenerate King! | His noble Kinsman, most degenerate King: |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.110 | Before the expiration of thy time | Before th'expiration of thy time, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.23 | Mock not my senseless conjuration, lords. | Mock not my sencelesse Coniuration, Lords; |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.192 | Me rather had my heart might feel your love | Me rather had, my Heart might feele your Loue, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.15 | I heard you say that you had rather refuse | I heard you say, that you had rather refuse |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.7 | But soft, but see, or rather do not see, | But soft, but see, or rather doe not see, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.26 | Thinking his prattle to be tedious: | Thinking his prattle to be tedious: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.20 | As dissolute as desperate. Yet through both | As dissolute as desp'rate, yet through both, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.52 | My heart is not confederate with my hand. | My heart is not confederate with my hand. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.8 | A generation of still-breeding thoughts, | A generation of still breeding Thoughts; |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.19 | The grand conspirator Abbot of Westminster | The grand Conspirator, Abbot of Westminster, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.106 | I had rather be a country servant-maid | I had rather be a Countrie seruant maide |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.148 | If I should be? I had rather be a pedlar. | If I should be? I had rather be a Pedler: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.157 | Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out | Heare me, you wrangling Pyrates, that fall out, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.193 | Should all but answer for that peevish brat? | Should all but answer for that peeuish Brat? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.267 | Whose bright outshining beams thy cloudy wrath | Whose bright out-shining beames, thy cloudy wrath |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.346 | Withal obdurate, do not hear him plead; | Withall obdurate, do not heare him pleade; |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.349 | Tut, tut, my lord! We will not stand to prate; | Tut, tut, my Lord, we will not stand to prate, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.71 | Yet execute Thy wrath in me alone; | Yet execute thy wrath in me alone: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.274 | A bloody deed, and desperately dispatched! | A bloody deed, and desperately dispatcht: |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.46 | Here comes Sir Richard Ratcliffe and the Duke. | Heere comes Sir Richard Ratcliffe, and the Duke. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.47.1 | Enter Sir Richard Ratcliffe and Richard, Duke of | Enter Ratcliffe, and |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.108 | Who sued to me for him? Who, in my wrath, | Who sued to me for him? Who (in my wrath) |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.120 | All this from my remembrance brutish wrath | All this from my Remembrance, brutish wrath |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.91 | In common worldly things 'tis called ungrateful | In common worldly things, 'tis call'd vngratefull, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.99 | Drown desperate sorrow in dead Edward's grave | Drowne desperate sorrow in dead Edwards graue, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.101.2 | Derby, Hastings, and Ratcliffe | Derbie, Hastings, and Ratcliffe. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.1 | Last night, I hear, they lay at Stony Stratford, | Last night I heard they lay at Stony Stratford, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.37 | My Lord of Buckingham, if my weak oratory | My Lord of Buckingham, if my weake Oratorie |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.39 | Anon expect him here; but if she be obdurate | Anon expect him here: but if she be obdurate |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.151 | Think you, my lord, this little prating York | Thinke you, my Lord, this little prating Yorke |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.20 | Bid him not fear the separated council. | Bid him not feare the seperated Councell: |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.1.1 | Enter Sir Richard Ratcliffe, with halberds, carrying | Enter Sir Richard Ratcliffe, with Halberds, carrying |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.1 | Sir Richard Ratcliffe, let me tell thee this: | Sir Richard Ratcliffe, let me tell thee this, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.1.2 | Norfolk, Ratcliffe, Lovel, with others, at a table | Norfolke, Ratcliffe, Louell, with others, at a Table. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.78 | Lovel and Ratcliffe, look that it be done. | Louell and Ratcliffe, looke that it be done: |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.80 | Lovel and Ratcliffe remain, with Lord Hastings | Manet Louell and Ratcliffe, with the Lord Hastings. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.11 | At any time to grace my stratagems. | At any time to grace my Stratagemes. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.21 | Enter Lovel and Ratcliffe, with Hastings' head | Enter Louell and Ratcliffe, with Hastings Head. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.21 | Be patient, they are friends, Ratcliffe and Lovel. | Be patient, they are friends: Ratcliffe, and Louell. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.94 | Doubt not, my lord, I'll play the orator | Doubt not, my Lord, Ile play the Orator, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.104 | Exeunt Lovel, Catesby, and Ratcliffe | Exit. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.106 | To draw the brats of Clarence out of sight, | To draw the Brats of Clarence out of sight, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.20 | And when mine oratory drew toward end | And when my Oratorie drew toward end, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.160 | That I would rather hide me from my greatness, | That I would rather hide me from my Greatnesse, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.10 | To gratulate the gentle princes there. | To gratulate the gentle Princes there. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.1.2 | Buckingham, Catesby, Ratcliffe, Lovel, a Page, and | Buckingham, Catesby, Ratcliffe, Louel. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.30 | That look into me with considerate eyes. | That looke into me with considerate eyes, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.38 | Gold were as good as twenty orators, | Gold were as good as twentie Orators, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.70 | But I had rather kill two enemies. | But I had rather kill two enemies. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.44 | Enter Ratcliffe | Enter Ratcliffe. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.69 | Th' adulterate Hastings, Rivers, Vaughan, Grey, | Th'adulterate Hastings, Riuers, Vaughan, Gray, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.129 | Poor breathing orators of miseries, | Poore breathing Orators of miseries, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.170 | Thy schooldays frightful, desperate, wild, and furious; | Thy School-daies frightfull, desp'rate, wilde, and furious, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.233 | And I, in such a desperate bay of death, | And I in such a desp'rate Bay of death, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.432 | Enter Ratcliffe, Catesby following | Enter Ratcliffe. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.441 | Ratcliffe, thyself – or Catesby – where is he? | Ratcliffe thy selfe, or Catesby, where is hee? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.444 | Ratcliffe, come hither. Post to Salisbury. | Catesby come hither, poste to Salisbury: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.502 | With many more confederates, are in arms. | With many moe Confederates, are in Armes. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.1.1 | Enter King Richard in arms, with Norfolk, Ratcliffe, | Enter King Richard in Armes with Norfolke, Ratcliffe, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.47.2 | Enter, to his tent, King Richard, Ratcliffe, Norfolk, | Enter Richard, Ratcliffe, Norfolke, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.58 | Catesby! | Ratcliffe. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.66 | Ratcliffe! | Ratcliff. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.77 | Bid my guard watch. Leave me. Ratcliffe, | Bid my Guard watch. Leaue me. / Ratcliffe, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.79 | Exit Ratcliffe with others | Exit Ratclif. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.111 | Put in their hands Thy bruising irons of wrath, | Put in their hands thy bruising Irons of wrath, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.190 | O no! Alas, I rather hate myself | O no. Alas, I rather hate my Selfe, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.208 | Enter Ratcliffe | Enter Ratcliffe. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.210 | Ratcliffe, my lord, 'tis I. The early village cock | Ratcliffe my Lord, 'tis I: the early Village Cock |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.213 | O Ratcliffe, I have dreamed a fearful dream! | |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.215.2 | Ratcliffe, I fear, I fear! | O Ratcliffe, I feare, I feare. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.223 | Exeunt Richard and Ratcliffe | Exeunt Richard & Ratliffe, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.238 | His oration to his soldiers | His Oration to his Souldiers. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.245 | Had rather have us win than him they follow. | Had rather haue vs win, then him they follow. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.272 | Enter King Richard, Ratcliffe, and soldiers | Enter King Richard, Ratcliffe, and Catesby. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.282 | Ratcliffe! | Ratcliffe. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.315.1 | His oration to his army | |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.320 | To desperate adventures and assured destruction. | To desperate Aduentures, and assur'd Destruction. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.332 | For want of means, poor rats, had hanged themselves. | For want of meanes (poore Rats) had hang'd themselues. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.183.2 | No, coz, I rather weep. | No Coze, I rather weepe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.48 | One desperate grief cures with another's languish. | One desparate greefe, cures with anothers lauguish: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.113 | Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, | Or if thou wilt sweare by thy gratious selfe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.36 | Thou art uproused with some distemperature. | Thou art vprous'd with some distemprature; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.196 | Lord! when 'twas a little prating thing – O there is a | Lord, when 'twas a little prating thing. O there is a |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.14 | Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. | Therefore Loue moderately, long Loue doth so, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.37 | Till Holy Church incorporate two in one. | Till holy Church incorporate two in one. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.8 | and by the operation of the second cup draws him on the | and by the operation of the second cup, drawes him on the |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.74 | Tybalt, you ratcatcher, will you walk? | Tybalt, you Rat-catcher, will you walke? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.93 | Ay, ay, a scratch, a scratch. Marry, 'tis enough. | I, I, a scratch, a scratch, marry 'tis inough, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.100 | houses! Zounds, a dog, a rat, a mouse, a cat, to scratch | houses. What, a Dog, a Rat, a Mouse, a Cat to scratch |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.108.2 | Hold thy desperate hand. | Hold thy desperate hand: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iv.12 | Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender | Sir Paris, I will make a desperate tender |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.123 | Rather than Paris. These are news indeed! | Rather then Paris. These are newes indeed. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.169 | You are to blame, my lord, to rate her so. | You are too blame my Lord to rate her so. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.210 | Alack, alack, that heaven should practise stratagems | Hlacke, alacke, that heauen should practise stratagems |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.6 | Immoderately she weeps for Tybalt's death, | Immoderately she weepes for Tybalts death, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.63 | Shall play the umpire, arbitrating that | Shall play the vmpeere, arbitrating that, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.69 | Which craves as desperate an execution | Which craues as desperate an execution, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.70 | As that is desperate which we would prevent. | As that is desperate which we would preuent. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.71 | If, rather than to marry County Paris, | If rather then to marrie Countie Paris |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.77 | O bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, | Oh bid me leape, rather then marrie Paris, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.82 | O'ercovered quite with dead men's rattling bones, | Orecouered quite with dead mens ratling bones, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.20 | By holy Laurence to fall prostrate here | By holy Lawrence, to fall prostrate here, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.54 | As with a club dash out my desperate brains? | As (with a club) dash out my desperate braines. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.27 | Life and these lips have long been separated. | Life and these lips haue long bene seperated: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.132 | Pretty! What say you, Hugh Rebeck? | Pratest, what say you Hugh Rebicke? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.135 | Pretty too! What say you, James Soundpost? | Pratest to, what say you Iames Sound-Post? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.36 | To enter in the thoughts of desperate men. | To enter in the thoughts of desperate men: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.59 | Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man. | Good gentle youth, tempt not a desperate man, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.68 | I do defy thy conjuration | I do defie thy commisseration, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.117 | Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on | Thou desperate Pilot, now at once run on |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.166 | To make die with a restorative. | To make me die wth a restoratiue. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.263 | And she, too desperate, would not go with me, | And she (too desperate) would not go with me, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.301 | There shall no figure at such rate be set | There shall no figure at that Rate be set, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.89 | The rather for I have some sport in hand | The rather for I haue some sport in hand, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.57 | Scratching her legs that one shall swear she bleeds, | Scratching her legs, that one shal sweare she bleeds, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.55 | To cart her rather. She's too rough for me. | To cart her rather. She's to rough for mee, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.157 | Affection is not rated from the heart. | Affection is not rated from the heart: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.26 | Molto honorato signor mio Petruchio. | multo honorata signior mio Petruchio. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.70 | As Socrates' Xanthippe, or a worse, | As Socrates Zentippe, or a worse: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.267 | Will not so graceless be to be ingrate. | Wil not so gracelesse be, to be ingrate. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.270 | You must, as we do, gratify this gentleman, | You must as we do, gratifie this Gentleman, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.76 | (to Baptista) Neighbour, this is a gift very grateful, I am | neighbors: this is a guift / Very gratefull, I am |
| 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.287 | She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. | Shee is not hot, but temperate as the morne, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.320 | And venture madly on a desperate mart. | And venture madly on a desperate Mart. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.29 | Hic steterat Priami regia celsa senis.’ | hic steterat Priami regia Celsa senis. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.33 | tellus,’ disguised thus to get your love – ‘ Hic steterat,’ | tellus, disguised thus to get your loue, hic steterat, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.42 | not – ‘ Hic steterat Priami,’ take heed he hear us not – | not, hic staterat priami, take heede he heare vs not, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.191 | You would entreat me rather go than stay. | You would intreat me rather goe then stay: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.170 | And rails, and swears, and rates, that she, poor soul, | and railes, and sweares, and rates, that shee (poore soule) |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.79 | And rather than it shall, I will be free | And rather then it shall, I will be free, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.112 | As thou shalt think on prating whilst thou liv'st. | As thou shalt thinke on prating whil'st thou liu'st: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.45 | And rather like a dream than an assurance | And rather like a dreame, then an assurance |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.92 | O'erprized all popular rate, in my false brother | Ore-priz'd all popular rate: in my false brother |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.111 | He thinks me now incapable, confederates – | He thinks me now incapable. Confederates |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.122 | To me inveterate, hearkens my brother's suit, | To me inueterate, hearkens my Brothers suit, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.147 | Nor tackle, sail, nor mast. The very rats | Nor tackle, sayle, nor mast, the very rats |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.210 | Some tricks of desperation. All but mariners | Some tricks of desperation; all but Mariners |
| 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.395 | Or it hath drawn me, rather. But 'tis gone. | (Or it hath drawne me rather) but 'tis gone. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.66 | freshness and glosses, being rather new-dyed than | freshnesse and glosses, being rather new dy'de then |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.111 | My son is lost, and, in my rate, she too, | My sonne is lost, and (in my rate) she too, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.127 | But rather loose her to an African, | But rather loose her to an Affrican, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.152 | Would I admit, no name of magistrate. | Would I admit: No name of Magistrate: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.220 | Thou let'st thy fortune sleep – die, rather; wink'st | Thou let'st thy fortune sleepe: die rather: wink'st |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.268 | As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate | As well as he that sleepes: Lords, that can prate |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.317 | Like bulls, or rather lions. Did't not wake you? | Like Buls, or rather Lyons, did't not wake you? |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.52 | Yet a tailor might scratch her where'er she did itch. | Yet a Tailor might scratch her where ere she did itch. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.26 | I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, | I had rather cracke my sinewes, breake my backe, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.38 | Indeed, the top of admiration, worth | Indeede the top of Admiration, worth |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.57 | Besides yourself, to like of. But I prattle | Besides your selfe, to like of: but I prattle |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.11 | Our frustrate search on land. Well, let him go. | Our frustrate search on land: well, let him goe. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.34 | Our human generation you shall find | Our humaine generation you shall finde |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.80 | You and your ways; whose wraths to guard you from, | You, and your wayes, whose wraths to guard you from, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.106 | All three of them are desperate. Their great guilt, | All three of them are desperate: their great guilt |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.8 | I ratify this my rich gift. O Ferdinand, | I ratifie this my rich guift: O Ferdinand, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.29 | The edge of that day's celebration | The edge of that dayes celebration, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.58 | Rather than want a spirit. Appear, and pertly. | Rather then want a Spirit; appear, & pertly. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.84 | A contract of true love to celebrate, | A contract of true Loue, to celebrate, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.132 | Come temperate nymphs, and help to celebrate | Come temperate Nimphes, and helpe to celebrate |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.140 | Of the beast Caliban and his confederates | Of the beast Calliban, and his confederates |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.44 | Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder | Set roaring warre: To the dread ratling Thunder |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.141.2 | I rather think | I rather thinke |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.300 | Or stole it, rather. | Or stole it rather. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.94 | That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's | That shall demonstrate these quicke blowes of Fortunes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.172.2 | My lord, 'tis rated | My Lord, 'tis rated |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.203 | Thy mother's of my generation. What's | Thy Mothers of my generation: what's |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.4 | Then, as in grateful virtue I am bound | Then, as in gratefull Vertue I am bound |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.74 | You had rather be at a breakfast of enemies than | You had rather be at a breakefast of Enemies, then |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.123 | To gratulate thy plenteous bosom. Th' ear, | to gratulate thy plentious bosome. There |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.11 | But rather one that smiles and still invites | But rather one that smiles, and still inuites |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.131 | That I might so have rated my expense | That I might so haue rated my expence |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.209 | They answer, in a joint and corporate voice, | They answer in a ioynt and corporate voice, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.220 | Have their ingratitude in them hereditary. | Haue their ingratitude in them Hereditary: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.75 | When he looks out in an ungrateful shape – | When he lookes out in an vngratefull shape; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.23 | I'd rather than the worth of thrice the sum | I'de rather then the worth of thrice the summe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.29 | And now ingratitude makes it worse than stealth. | And now Ingratitude, makes it worse then stealth. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.103 | called desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em. | call'd desperate ones, for a madman owes 'em. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.116.1 | A moderate table. | a moderate Table. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.9 | Rather than render back, out with your knives | Rather then render backe; out with your Kniues, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.45 | He's flung in rage from this ingrateful seat | Hee's flung in Rage from this ingratefull Seate |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.100.1 | I had rather be alone. | I had rather be alone. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.189 | Let it no more bring out ingrateful man. | Let it no more bring out ingratefull man. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.195 | Whereof ingrateful man with liquorish draughts | Whereof ingratefull man with Licourish draughts |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.197 | That from it all consideration slips – | That from it all Consideration slippes--- |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.297 | Where my stomach finds meat; or, rather, | Where my stomacke findes meate, or rather |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.338 | unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee and | the Vnicorne, pride and wrath would confound thee, and |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.358 | be welcome. I had rather be a beggar's dog than | be welcome. / I had rather be a Beggers Dogge, / Then |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.387 | Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow | Whose blush doth thawe the consecrated Snow |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.464 | What an alteration of honour | What an alteration of Honor |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.465 | Has desperate want made! | has desp'rate want made? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.470 | Grant I may ever love, and rather woo | Grant I may euer loue, and rather woo |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.63 | The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude | The monstrous bulke of this Ingratitude |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.201 | I'll teach them to prevent wild Alcibiades' wrath. | Ile teach them to preuent wilde Alcibiades wrath. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.17 | To wipe out our ingratitude with loves | To wipe out our Ingratitude, with Loues |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.41 | Which, in the bluster of thy wrath, must fall | Which in the bluster of thy wrath must fall |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.45 | Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile | Thou rather shalt inforce it with thy smile, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.14 | The Imperial seat, to virtue consecrate, | Th'Imperiall Seate to Vertue: consecrate |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.101 | Ad manes fratrum sacrifice his flesh | Ad manus fratrum, sacrifice his flesh: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.210 | Rather than rob me of the people's hearts. | Rather then rob me of the peoples harts. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.223 | To gratify the good Andronicus | To gratifie the good Andronicus, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.224 | And gratulate his safe return to Rome, | And Gratulate his safe returne to Rome, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.251 | The wide world's emperor, do I consecrate | The Wide-worlds Emperour, do I Consecrate, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.306 | Confederates all thus to dishonour me. | Confederates all, thus to dishonour me. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.347 | Nor thou, nor these, confederates in the deed | Nor thou, nor these Confedrates in the deed, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.401 | Yes, and will nobly him remunerate. | Yes, and will Nobly him remunerate. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.422 | In zeal to you, and highly moved to wrath | In zeale to you, and highly mou'd to wrath. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.450 | And so supplant you for ingratitude, | And so supplant vs for ingratitude, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.465 | Titus, I am incorporate in Rome, | Titus, I am incorparate in Rome, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.40 | Are you so desperate grown to threat your friends? | Are you so desperate growne to threat your friends? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.66 | Or Bassianus so degenerate, | Or Bassianus so degenerate, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.104 | 'Tis policy and stratagem must do | 'Tis pollicie, and stratageme must doe |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.121 | To villainy and vengeance consecrate, | To villainie and vengance consecrate, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.5 | Know that this gold must coin a stratagem | Know that this Gold must coine a stratageme, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.81 | Great reason that my noble lord be rated | Great reason that my Noble Lord, be rated |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.143 | O, do not learn her wrath. She taught it thee: | O doe not learne her wrath, she taught it thee, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.160 | Be not obdurate, open thy deaf ears. | Be not obdurate, open thy deafe eares. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.26 | My tears are now prevailing orators. | My teares are now preualing Oratours. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.14 | Sweet poetry and Tully's Orator. | Sweet Poetry, and Tullies Oratour: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.39 | Confederate in the fact. Ay, more there was, | Confederate in the fact, I more there was: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.110 | For his ungrateful country done the like. | For his vngratefull country done the like. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.12 | To gratify your honourable youth, | To gratifie your honourable youth, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.17 | Shaken with sorrows in ungrateful Rome. | Shaken with sorrowes in vngratefull Rome. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.34 | Take wreak on Rome for this ingratitude, | Take wreake on Rome for this ingratitude, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.95 | for your oration, and let him deliver the pigeons to the | for your Oration, and let him deliuer the Pigions to the |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.97 | Tell me, can you deliver an oration to the Emperor | Tell mee, can you deliuer an Oration to the Emperour |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.115 | Here, Marcus, fold it in the oration; | Heere Marcus, fold it in the Oration, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.26 | Cut off the proud'st conspirator that lives. | Cut off the proud'st Conspirator that liues. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.32 | And rather comfort his distressed plight | And rather comfort his distressed plight, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.12 | Ingrateful Rome requites with foul contempt, | Ingratefull Rome requites with foule contempt: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.28 | Did not thy hue bewray whose brat thou art, | Did not thy Hue bewray whose brat thou art? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.33 | Peace, villain, peace!’ – even thus he rates the babe – | Peace, villaine peace, euen thus he rates the babe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.108 | Confederate with the Queen and her two sons; | Confederate with the Queene, and her two Sonnes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.74 | Like a forlorn and desperate castaway, | Like a forlorne and desperate castaway, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.89 | But floods of tears will drown my oratory | But floods of teares will drowne my Oratorie, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.92 | And force you to commiseration. | Lending your kind hand Commiseration. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.183 | Ah, why should wrath be mute and fury dumb? | O why should wrath be mute, & Fury dumbe? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.11.1 | In Hector's wrath. | In Hectors wrath. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.147 | But there was more temperate fire under the | But there was more temperate fire vnder the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.244 | gone; crows and daws, crows and daws! – I had rather | gon, Crowes and Dawes, Crowes and Dawes: I had rather |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.116 | Force should be right, or, rather, right and wrong – | Force should be right, or rather, right and wrong, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.166 | As he being dressed to some oration.’ | As he, being drest to some Oration: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.17 | but I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than | but I thinke thy Horse wil sooner con an Oration, then |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.27 | and I had the scratching of thee; I would make thee the | and / I had the scratching of thee, I would make thee the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.90 | The issue of your proper wisdoms rate, | The issue of your proper Wisedomes rate, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.155 | That so degenerate a strain as this | That so degenerate a straine as this, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.7 | spiteful execrations. Then there's Achilles – a rare | spitefull execrations. Then ther's Achilles, a rare |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.18 | camp – or rather, the Neapolitan bone-ache – for that, | Camp, or rather the bone-ach, for that |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.181 | We'll consecrate the steps that Ajax makes | Weele consecrate the steps that Aiax makes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.128 | Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot | Is this the generation of loue? Hot bloud, hot |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.130 | a generation of vipers? – Sweet lord, who's a-field | a generation of Vipers? / Sweete Lord whose a field |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.174 | Want similes, truth tired with iteration – | Wants similes, truth tir'd with iteration, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.186 | And mighty states characterless are grated | And mightie States characterlesse are grated |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.120 | Where they're extended; who like an arch reverb'rate | Where they are extended: who like an arch reuerb'rate |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.147 | A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: | A great siz'd monster of ingratitudes: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.170 | Remuneration for the thing it was; | Remuneration for the thing it was: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.203 | Which hath an operation more divine | Which hath an operation more diuine, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.311 | again, that I might water an ass at it! I had rather be a | againe, that I might water an Asse at it: I had rather be a |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.42 | Or, rather, call my thought a certain knowledge – | (Or rather call my thought a certaine knowledge) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.47 | Troilus had rather Troy were borne to Greece | Troylus had rather Troy were borne to Greece, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.106 | Tear my bright hair, and scratch my praised cheeks; | Teare my bright heire, and scratch my praised cheekes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.1 | Be moderate, be moderate. | Be moderate, be moderate. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.2 | Why tell you me of moderation? | Why tell you me of moderation? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.5 | As that which causeth it. How can I moderate it? | As that which causeth it. How can I moderate it? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.16 | In aspiration lifts him from the earth. | In aspiration lifts him from the earth. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.105 | For Hector in his blaze of wrath subscribes | For Hector in his blaze of wrath subscribes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.225 | And that old common arbitrator, Time, | And that old common Arbitrator, Time, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.27 | No! Why art thou then exasperate, thou idle | No? why art thou then exasperate, thou idle, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.91 | word. I will rather leave to see Hector than not to dog | word. I will rather leaue to see Hector, then not to dogge |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.39 | To wrathful terms. This place is dangerous, | To wrathfull tearmes: this place is dangerous; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.136 | By Cressid's rule; rather think this not Cressid. | By Cressids rule. Rather thinke this not Cressid. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.151 | Of this strange nature, that a thing inseparate | Of this strange nature, that a thing inseperate, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.108 | Th' effect doth operate another way. | Th'effect doth operate another way. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.18 | And, stickler-like, the armies separates. | And stickler-like the Armies seperates |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.33 | What great ones do, the less will prattle of – | What great ones do, the lesse will prattle of,) |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.22 | Rather than make unprofited return. | Rather then make vnprofited returne, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.190 | approach rather to wonder at you than to hear you. If | approach rather to wonder at you, then to heare you. If |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.244 | With adorations, fertile tears, | With adorations, fertill teares, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.261 | Hallow your name to the reverberate hills | Hallow your name to the reuerberate hilles, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.13 | the rather to express myself. You must know of me | the rather to expresse my selfe: you must know of mee |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.3 | Even now, sir; on a moderate pace I have since | Euen now sir, on a moderate pace, I haue since |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.8 | a desperate assurance she will none of him; and one | a desperate assurance, she will none of him. And one |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.37 | My state is desperate for my master's love. | My state is desperate for my maisters loue: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.10 | Faith, so they say; but I think it rather consists | Faith so they say, but I thinke it rather consists |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.19 | I had rather than forty shillings I had such a leg, and so | I had rather then forty shillings I had such a legge, and so |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.25 | I did impetticoat thy gratillity; for Malvolio's nose | I did impeticos thy gratillity: for Maluolios nose |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.96 | can separate yourself and your misdemeanours, you are | can separate your selfe and your misdemeanors, you are |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.101 | Would they were blanks rather than filled with me. | Would they were blankes, rather then fill'd with me. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.106 | I had rather hear you to solicit that | I had rather heare you, to solicit that, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.152 | But rather reason thus with reason fetter: | But rather reason thus, with reason fetter; |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.18 | only to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, | onely to exasperate you, to awake your dormouse valour, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.12 | The rather by these arguments of fear, | The rather by these arguments of feare |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.49 | Exeunt separately | Exeunt. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.220 | tuck; be yare in thy preparation; for thy assailant is | tucke, be yare in thy preparation, for thy assaylant is |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.228 | strength, skill, and wrath can furnish man withal. | strength, skill, and wrath, can furnish man withall. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.231 | on carpet consideration – but he is a devil in private | on carpet consideration, but he is a diuell in priuate |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.265 | had rather go with Sir Priest than Sir Knight; I care not | had rather go with sir Priest, then sir knight: I care not |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.345 | I hate ingratitude more in a man | I hate ingratitude more in a man, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.2 | make him believe thou art Sir Topas the curate. Do it | make him beleeue thou art sir Topas the Curate, doe it |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.21 | Sir Topas the curate, who comes to visit Malvolio | Sir Topas the Curate, who comes to visit Maluolio |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.126 | Who with dagger of lath, in his rage and his wrath, | Who with dagger of lath, in his rage and his wrath, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.25 | And underneath that consecrated roof | And vnderneath that consecrated roofe, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.30 | What time we will our celebration keep | What time we will our celebration keepe |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.61 | Here in the streets, desperate of shame and state, | Heere in the streets, desperate of shame and state, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.66 | Notable pirate, thou salt-water thief, | Notable Pyrate, thou salt-water Theefe, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.72 | Antonio never yet was thief or pirate; | Anthonio neuer yet was Theefe, or Pyrate, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.75 | That most ingrateful boy there by your side | That most ingratefull boy there by your side, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.111 | To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars | To whose ingrate, and vnauspicious Altars |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.175 | your help! I had rather than forty pound I were at home. | your helpe, I had rather then forty pound I were at home. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.364 | May rather pluck on laughter than revenge, | May rather plucke on laughter then reuenge, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.5 | I rather would entreat thy company | I rather would entreat thy company, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.58 | That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse, | That (like a testie Babe) will scratch the Nurse, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.110 | As in revenge of thy ingratitude, | As in reuenge of thy ingratitude, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.73 | Please you deliberate a day or two. | Please you deliberate a day or two. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.17 | Thus, for my duty's sake, I rather chose | Thus (for my duties sake) I rather chose |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.97 | But rather to beget more love in you; | But rather to beget more loue in you. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.166 | By heaven, my wrath shall far exceed the love | By heauen, my wrath shall farre exceed the loue |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.170 | And why not death, rather than living torment? | And why not death, rather then liuing torment? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.231 | Could penetrate her uncompassionate sire – | Could penetrate her vncompassionate Sire; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.289 | O illiterate loiterer! It was the son of thy grandmother. | Oh illiterate loyterer; it was the sonne of thy Grand-mother: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.5 | That I am desperate of obtaining her. | That I am desperate of obtaining her. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.116 | Madam, if your heart be so obdurate, | Madam: if your heart be so obdurate: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.201 | I should have scratched out your unseeing eyes, | I should haue scratch'd out your vnseeing eyes, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.14 | For I had rather wink than look on them. | For I had rather winke, then looke on them. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.35 | Rather than have false Proteus rescue me. | Rather then haue false Protheus reskue me: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.81 | By penitence th' Eternal's wrath's appeased. | By Penitence th' Eternalls wrath's appeas'd: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.128 | Come not within the measure of my wrath; | Come not within the measure of my wrath: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.137 | The more degenerate and base art thou | The more degenerate and base art thou |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.40 | The wrath of cruel Creon; who endured | The wrath of cruell Creon; who endured |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.124 | Such heart-pierced demonstration; but alas, | Such heart peirc'd demonstration; but alas |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.131.2 | O, this celebration | O This Celebration |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.210 | In the pretended celebration. Queens, | In the pretended Celebration: Queenes |
| 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.ii.93.1 | The promise of his wrath. | The promise of his wrath. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.111 | Rather laid out for purchase. But alas, | Rather laide out for purchase: but alas |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.114 | That never-erring arbitrator, tell us | That never erring Arbitratour, tell us |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.77 | Whereon her spirits would sojourn – rather dwell on – | Whereon her spirits would sojourne (rather dwell on) |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.8 | With treble ceremony; rather than a gap | With treble Ceremonie, rather then a gap |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.29 | The very lees of such, millions of rates, | The very lees of such (millions of rates) |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.32 | Rather than niggard, waste; their lives concern us | Rather then niggard wast, their lives concerne us, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.33 | Much more than Thebes is worth. Rather than have 'em | Much more then Thebs is worth, rather then have 'em |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.36 | But forty-thousandfold we had rather have 'em | But forty thousand fold, we had rather have 'em |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.253.1 | Had rather combat me? | Had rather combat me? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.22 | And fiery mind illustrate a brave father. | And firie minde, illustrate a brave Father. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.13 | I care not, I am desperate. If the law | I care not, I am desperate, If the law |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.136 | Intrate, filii! Come forth and foot it. | Intrate filij, Come forth, and foot it, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.22 | Not to be held ungrateful to her goodness, | Not to be held ungratefull to her goodnes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.68.2 | I had rather both, | I had rather both, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.69 | That intemperate surfeit of her eye hath | That intemprat surfeit of her eye, hath |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.73 | do: confine her to a place where the light may rather | doe, Confine her to a place, where the light / May rather |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.84 | are grateful to the sense. All this shall become Palamon, | are grateful to the / Sence: all this shall become Palamon, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.49.1 | They prostrate themselves, then kneel before the altar | They kneele. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.77.1 | Here they prostrate themselves, then kneel as formerly | Here they kneele as formerly. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.119 | To those that prate and have done, no companion; | To those that prate and have done; no Companion |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.173 | Her signs were gracious. | Her Signes were gratious. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.2.1 | I had rather see a wren hawk at a fly | I had rather see a wren hawke at a fly |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.114.1 | As I do rate your value. | As I doe rate your value. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.56 | Did rather tell than trample, for the horse | Did rather tell, then trample; for the horse |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.70 | At the sharp rowel, which he frets at rather | At the sharpe Rowell, which he freats at rather |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.25 | mature dignities and royal necessities made separation | mature Dignities, and Royall Necessities, made seperation |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.283 | Than this; which to reiterate were sin | Then this; which to reiterate, were sin |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.383 | A party in this alteration, finding | A partie in this alteration, finding |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.148 | To bring false generations. They are co-heirs; | To bring false generations: they are co-heyres, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.149 | And I had rather glib myself than they | And I had rather glib my selfe, then they |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.158 | I had rather you did lack than I, my lord, | I had rather you did lacke then I (my Lord) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.162 | Commune with you of this, but rather follow | Commune with you of this? but rather follow |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.27 | Nay, rather, good my lords, be second to me. | Nay rather (good my Lords) be second to me: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.92 | And now baits me! This brat is none of mine: | And now bayts me: This Brat is none of mine, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.138 | And wilt encounter with my wrath, say so: | And wilt encounter with my Wrath, say so; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.162.1 | To save this brat's life? | To saue this Brats life? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.40 | To prate and talk for life and honour 'fore | To prate and talke for Life, and Honor, fore |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.67 | Both disobedience and ingratitude | Both Disobedience, and Ingratitude |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.86 | Thy brat hath been cast out, like to itself, | Thy Brat hath been cast out, like to it selfe, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.185 | And damnable ingrateful. Nor was't much | And damnable ingratefull:) Nor was't much. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.222 | At my petition, I beseech you; rather | At my petition; I beseech you, rather |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.54 | to lay on thee, rather than have these off. | to lay on thee, rather then haue these off. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.50 | Of celebration of that nuptial which | Of celebration of that nuptiall, which |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.96 | Which does mend Nature – change it, rather – but | Which do's mend Nature: change it rather, but |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.337 | Leave your prating. Since these good men are | Leaue your prating, since these good men are |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.422 | I'll have thy beauty scratched with briars and made | Ile haue thy beauty scratcht with briers & made |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.482.2 | This is desperate, sir. | This is desperate (sir.) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.522 | May suffer alteration, on mine honour, | May suffer alteration. On mine honor, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.703 | fardel will make him scratch his beard. | Farthell, will make him scratch his Beard. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.203.1 | Our contract celebrated. | Our Contract celebrated. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.11 | Camillo were very notes of admiration. They seemed | Camillo, were very Notes of admiration: they seem'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.26 | Thou art Hermione; or rather, thou art she | Thou art Hermione; or rather, thou art she, |