Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.66 | Exeunt Antony, Cleopatra, and Enobarbus | exit Ant. Cleo. & Enob. |
Coriolanus | Cor I.i.92 | think to fob off our disgrace with a tale. But, an't please | thinke / To fobbe off our disgrace with a tale: / But and'tplease |
Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.387 | I'll follow, sir. But first, an't please the gods, | Ile follow Sir. But first, and't please the Gods, |
Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.9 | 'A shall, sir, an't please him. There's a letter for | Hee shall Sir, and't please him. There's a Letter for |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.1 | Heigh-ho! An it be not four by the day | Heigh-ho, an't be not foure by the day, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.143 | With telling me of the moldwarp and the ant, | With telling me of the Moldwarpe and the Ant, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.57 | Falstaff, an't please your lordship. | Falstaffe, and't please your Lordship. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.103 | An't please your lordship, I hear his majesty | If it please your Lordship, I heare his Maiestie |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.112 | lethargy, an't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in | Lethargie, a sleeping of |
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 II.i.67 | O my most worshipful lord, an't please your | Oh my most worshipfull Lord, and't please your |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.101 | Here, an't please you. | Heere, if it please you. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.105 | Yea, an't please you. | Yea, if it please you. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.229 | we owe God a death. I'll ne'er bear a base mind. An't, | wee owe a death. I will neuer beare a base minde: if it |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.230 | be my destiny, so; an't be not, so. No man's too good | be my destinie, so: if it be not, so: no man is too good |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.2 | 'Tis Gaultree Forest, an't shall please your grace. | 'Tis Gualtree Forrest, and't shall please your Grace. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.80 | An't please your worship, there's one Pistol come | If it please your Worshippe, there's one Pistoll come |
Henry V | H5 IV.vii.90 | Your grandfather of famous memory, an't | Your Grandfather of famous memory (an't |
Henry V | H5 IV.vii.119 | An't please your majesty, 'tis the gage of one | And't please your Maiesty, tis the gage of one |
Henry V | H5 IV.vii.122 | An't please your majesty, a rascal that | And't please your Maiesty, a Rascall that |
Henry V | H5 IV.vii.130 | He is a craven and a villain else, an't please | Hee is a Crauen and a Villaine else, and't please |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.15 | Mine is, an't please your grace, | Mine is, and't please your Grace, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.185 | An't shall please your majesty, I never said nor | And't shall please your Maiestie, I neuer sayd nor |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.30 | An't like your lordly Lord's Protectorship. | An't like your Lordly Lords Protectorship. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.75 | Born blind, an't please your grace. | Borne blinde, and't please your Grace. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.78 | His wife, an't like your worship. | His Wife, and't like your Worship. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.82 | At Berwick in the north, an't like your grace. | At Barwick in the North, and't like your Grace. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.76 | An't please your grace, here my commission stays, | And't please your Grace, here my Commission stayes: |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.72 | I was, an't like your majesty. | I was, an't like your Maiesty. |
Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.92 | An't please your grace, Sir Thomas Bullen's daughter, | An't please your Grace, / Sir Thomas Bullens Daughter, |
Henry VIII | H8 III.i.16 | An't please your grace, the two great Cardinals | And't please your Grace, the two great Cardinals |
Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.100.1 | An't like your grace – | And't like your Grace ------ |
Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.73.2 | An't please your honour, | And't please your Honour, |
Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.256.1 | Ay, my lord, an't please you. | I my Lord, an't please you. |
King Lear | KL II.iv.65 | We'll set thee to school to an ant to teach thee | Wee'l set thee to schoole to an Ant, to teach thee |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.260 | Me, an't shall please you. I am Anthony Dull. | Me, an't shall please you? I am Anthony Dull. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.577 | There, an't shall please you, a foolish mild man; an | There an't shall please you: a foolish milde man, an |
Macbeth | Mac III.vi.19 | As, an't please heaven, he shall not – they should find | (As, and't please Heauen he shall not) they should finde |
Measure for Measure | MM II.i.186 | Yes, an't please you, sir. | Yes, and't please you sir. |
Measure for Measure | MM V.i.74.2 | That's I, an't like your grace. | That's I, and't like your Grace: |
The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.54 | Of Launcelot, an't please your mastership. | Of Launcelet, ant please your maistership. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.34 | Not so, an't please your worship. | Not so and't please your worship. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.23 | Yea, an't 'twere a thousand pound more than | Yea, and 'twere a thousand times more than |
Pericles | Per II.i.148 | thee good on't. | thee good an't. |
Richard III | R3 I.i.88 | Even so? An't please your worship, Brakenbury, | Euen so, and please your Worship Brakenbury, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.75.2 | An't please your honour, players | An't please your Honor, Players |
The Tempest | Tem IV.i.239 | Do, do! We steal by line and level, an't like | Doe, doe; we steale by lyne and leuell, and't like |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.153 | An't had been a green hair I should have | And t'had beene a greene haire, I should haue |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.29 | Wit, an't be thy will, put me into good fooling. | Wit, and't be thy will, put me into good fooling: |
Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.29 | An't be any way, it must be with valour, for | And't be any way, it must be with Valour, for |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.4 | Excess and overflow of power, an't might be, | Exces, and overflow of power, and't might be |
The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.67 | ivy. Good luck, an't be thy will! | Iuy. Good-lucke (and't be thy will) |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.724 | Are you a courtier, an't like you, sir? | Are you a Courtier, and't like you Sir? |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.736 | I know not, an't like you. | I know not (and't like you.) |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.777 | Has the old man e'er a son, sir, do you hear, an't | Ha's the old-man ere a Sonne Sir (doe you heare) and't |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.800 | An't please you, sir, to undertake the business | And't please you (Sir) to vndertake the Businesse |