Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.166 | shake the snow from off their cassocks lest they shake | shake the snow from off their Cassockes, least they shake |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.65 | Yea, like the stag when snow the pasture sheets, | Yea, like the Stagge, when Snow the Pasture sheets, |
The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.313 | In sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, | In sap-consuming Winters drizled snow, |
Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.66 | That's curdied by the frost from purest snow | That's curdied by the Frost, from purest Snow, |
Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.165 | As chaste as unsunned snow. O, all the devils! | As Chaste, as vn-Sunn'd Snow. Oh, all the Diuels! |
Hamlet | Ham III.i.136 | thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, | thy Dowrie. Be thou as chast as Ice, as pure as Snow, |
Hamlet | Ham III.iii.46 | To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy | To wash it white as Snow? Whereto serues mercy, |
Hamlet | Ham IV.v.36 | (sings) White his shroud as the mountain snow, – | White his Shrow'd as the Mountaine Snow. |
Hamlet | Ham IV.v.195 | His beard was as white as snow, | His Beard as white as Snow, |
Henry V | H5 III.v.50 | Rush on his host, as doth the melted snow | Rush on his Hoast, as doth the melted Snow |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.223 | Free lords, cold snow melts with the sun's hot beams: | Free Lords: / Cold Snow melts with the Sunnes hot Beames: |
King John | KJ III.iv.176 | Or as a little snow, tumbled about, | Or, as a little snow, tumbled about, |
King Lear | KL II.ii.75 | Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods, | Being oile to fire, snow to the colder moodes, |
King Lear | KL IV.vi.119 | Whose face between her forks presages snow, | whose face betweene her Forkes presages Snow; |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.106 | Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows, | Then wish a Snow in Mayes new fangled showes: |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.237 | draweth from my snow-white pen the ebon-coloured ink | draweth from my snow-white penthe ebon coloured Inke, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.131 | To the snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady Rosaline. | To the snow-white hand of the most beautious Lady Rosaline. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.912 | And birds sit brooding in the snow, | And birds sit brooding in the snow, |
Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.53 | Will seem as pure as snow and the poor state | Will seeme as pure as Snow, and the poore State |
Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.58 | Is very snow-broth, one who never feels | Is very snow-broth: one, who neuer feeles |
The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.31 | 'Tween snow and fire, as treason and my love. | 'Tweene snow and fire, as treason and my loue. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.21 | snowballs for pills to cool the reins. Call her in. | snowbals, for pilles to coole the reines. Call her in. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.23 | one number more, because they say ‘ 'Od's nouns.’ | one Number more, because they say od's-Nownes. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.20 | hail kissing-comfits, and snow eringoes. Let there come | haile-kissing Comfits, and snow Eringoes: Let there come |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.57 | mother. Tom Snout, the tinker? | mother? Tom Snowt, the Tinker. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.108 | Enter Snout | Enter Snowt. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.141 | That pure congealed white, high Taurus' snow, | That pure congealed white, high Tauruss now, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.165 | Melted as the snow, seems to me now | (melted as the snow) / Seems to me now |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.59 | That is, hot ice and wondrous strange snow. | That is, hot ice, and wondrous strange snow. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.154 | That I – one Snout by name – present a wall. | That I, one Snowt (by name) present a wall: |
Othello | Oth V.ii.4 | Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, | Nor scarre that whiter skin of hers, then Snow, |
Pericles | Per IV.vi.137 | nobleman, and she sent him away as cold as a snowball, | Noble man, and shee sent him away as colde as a Snoweball, |
Richard II | R2 I.iii.298 | Or wallow naked in December snow | Or Wallow naked in December snow |
Richard II | R2 IV.i.259 | O that I were a mockery king of snow, | Oh, that I were a Mockerie, King of Snow, |
Richard III | R3 I.iv.245 | Right, as snow in harvest. Come, you deceive yourself; | Right, as Snow in Haruest: / Come, you deceiue your selfe, |
Richard III | R3 V.iii.327 | Felt so much cold as over shoes in snow? | Felt so much cold, as ouer shooes in Snow: |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.48 | So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows | So shewes a Snowy Doue trooping with Crowes, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.19 | Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back. | Whiter then new Snow vpon a Rauens backe: |
The Tempest | Tem IV.i.55 | The white cold virgin snow upon my heart | The white cold virgin Snow, vpon my heart |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.387 | Whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow | Whose blush doth thawe the consecrated Snow |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.76 | Dismounted from your snow-white goodly steed. | Dismounted from your Snow-white goodly Steed, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.20 | In winter with warm tears I'll melt the snow | In Winter with warme teares Ile melt the snow, |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.19 | Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow | Thou wouldst as soone goe kindle fire with snow |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.118 | ‘ Is ’ now comes in, which being glued together | Is---now comes in, which being glewd together |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.140 | As wind-fanned snow, who to thy female knights | As windefand Snow, who to thy femall knights |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.220 | Lawn as white as driven snow; | Lawne as white as driuen Snow, |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.361 | Or Ethiopian's tooth, or the fanned snow that's bolted | Or Ethyopians tooth, or the fan'd snow, that's bolted |