Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.309.1 | That sucks the nurse asleep? | That suckes the Nurse asleepe. |
As You Like It | AYL II.v.11 | I thank it. More, I prithee, more. I can suck | I thanke it: More, I prethee more, / I can sucke |
As You Like It | AYL II.v.12 | melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, | melancholly out of a song, / As a Weazel suckes egges: More, |
As You Like It | AYL III.ii.73 | lambs suck. | Lambes sucke. |
As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.127 | Food to the sucked and hungry lioness? | Food to the suck'd and hungry Lyonnesse? |
The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.201 | They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue. | They'll sucke our breath, or pinch vs blacke and blew. |
Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.42 | When she did suckle Hector, looked not lovelier | When she did suckle Hector, look'd not louelier |
Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.129 | Thy valiantness was mine, thou suck'dst it from me, | Thy Valiantnesse was mine, thou suck'st it from me: |
Cymbeline | Cym III.i.23 | But suck them up to th' topmast. A kind of conquest | But sucke them vp to'th'Top-mast. A kinde of Conquest |
Hamlet | Ham III.i.157 | That sucked the honey of his music vows, | That suck'd the Honie of his Musicke Vowes: |
Hamlet | Ham V.ii.184 | 'A did comply, sir, with his dug, before 'a sucked | He did Complie with his Dugge before hee suck't |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.426 | heels for a rabbit-sucker, or a poulter's hare. | heeles for a Rabbet-sucker, or a Poulters Hare. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.48 | Murder! Murder! Ah, thou honeysuckle villain, wilt | Murder, murder, O thou Hony-suckle villaine, wilt |
Henry V | H5 I.ii.171 | Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs, | Comes sneaking, and so sucks her Princely Egges, |
Henry V | H5 II.iii.53 | To suck, to suck, the very blood to suck! | to sucke, to sucke, the very blood to sucke. |
Henry V | H5 II.iv.10 | As waters to the sucking of a gulf. | As Waters to the sucking of a Gulfe. |
Henry V | H5 IV.ii.15 | And your fair show shall suck away their souls, | And your faire shew shall suck away their Soules, |
Henry V | H5 IV.iv.63 | As I suck blood, I will some mercy show. | As I sucke blood, I will some mercy shew. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.49 | When at their mothers' moistened eyes babes shall suck, | When at their Mothers moistned eyes, Babes shall suck, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.199 | Was in the mouth of every sucking babe: | Was in the mouth of euery sucking Babe, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.28 | Thy mother gave thee when thou sucked'st her breast | Thy mother gaue thee when thou suck'st her brest, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.71 | As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove. | As is the sucking Lambe, or harmelesse Doue: |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.226 | Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men! | Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.109 | Drones suck not eagles' blood, but rob beehives. | Drones sucke not Eagles blood, but rob Bee-hiues: |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.22 | And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighs, | And stop the rising of blood-sucking sighes, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.55 | Now stops thy spring; my sea shall suck them dry, | Now stops thy Spring, my Sea shall suck them dry, |
Julius Caesar | JC II.i.262 | To walk unbraced and suck up the humours | To walke vnbraced, and sucke vp the humours |
Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.87 | Signifies that from you great Rome shall suck | Signifies, that from you great Rome shall sucke |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.285 | And not a poison-sucking envious spider, | And not a poison sucking enuious spider, |
King Edward III | E3 III.i.82 | Shall suck forth deadly venom from the leaves. – | Shall sucke forth deadly venom from the leaues, |
King Edward III | E3 III.iii.121 | And, like a thirsty tiger, suck'st her blood. | And like a thirstie tyger suckst her bloud. |
King John | KJ I.i.192 | Why then I suck my teeth and catechize | Why then I sucke my teeth, and catechize |
King Lear | KL II.iv.162 | You fen-sucked fogs drawn by the powerful sun, | You Fen-suck'd Fogges, drawne by the powrfull Sunne, |
Macbeth | Mac I.vii.54 | Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know | Do's vnmake you. I haue giuen Sucke, and know |
The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.29 | Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear, | Plucke the yong sucking Cubs from the she Beare, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.77 | that I will roar you as gently as any sucking dove. I will | that I will roare you as gently as any sucking Doue; I will |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.89 | As in revenge have sucked up from the sea | As in reuenge, haue suck'd vp from the sea |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.41 | So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle | So doth the woodbine, the sweet Honisuckle, |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.8 | Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun, | Where hony-suckles ripened by the sunne, |
Othello | Oth II.i.157 | To suckle fools and chronicle small beer. | To suckle Fooles, and chronicle small Beere. |
Richard II | R2 III.ii.14 | But let thy spiders that suck up thy venom, | But let thy Spiders, that suck vp thy Venome, |
Richard II | R2 III.iv.38 | The noisome weeds which without profit suck | The noysome Weedes, that without profit sucke |
Richard III | R3 III.iii.5 | A knot you are of damned blood-suckers. | A Knot you are, of damned Blood-suckers. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.69 | I would say thou hadst sucked wisdom from thy teat. | I would say thou had'st suckt wisedome from thy teat. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.8 | We sucking on her natural bosom find, | We sucking on her naturall bosome find: |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.92 | Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, | Death that hath suckt the honey of thy breath, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.28 | To suck the sweets of sweet philosophy. | To sucke the sweets of sweete Philosophie. |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.87 | And sucked my verdure out on't. Thou attend'st not! | And suckt my verdure out on't: Thou attend'st not? |
The Tempest | Tem II.ii.1 | All the infections that the sun sucks up | All the infections that the Sunne suckes vp |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.88 | Where the bee sucks, there suck I, | Where the Bee sucks, there suck I, |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.431 | Here's gold. Go, suck the subtle blood o'th' grape | Heere's Gold. Go, sucke the subtle blood o'th'Grape, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.144 | The milk thou sucked'st from her did turn to marble, | The milke thou suck'st from her did turne to Marble, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.177 | And feed on curds and whey, and suck the goat, | And feed on curds and whay, and sucke the Goate, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.292 | When Hector's grandsire sucked: he is old now; | When Hectors Grandsire suckt: he is old now, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.12 | More spongy to suck in the sense of fear, | More spungie, to sucke in the sense of Feare, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.238 | Praise him that got thee, she that gave thee suck. | Praise him that got thee, she that gaue thee sucke: |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.72 | The blood of mine that's sib to him be sucked | The blood of mine that's sibbe to him, be suckt |