Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.181 | Youth, beauty, wisdom, courage – all | Youth, beauty, wisedome, courage, all |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.18 | Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty, | Layes downe his wanton siedge before her beautie, |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.16 | Whose beauty did astonish the survey | Whose beauty did astonish the suruey |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.22 | Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both! | Let Witchcraft ioyne with Beauty, Lust with both, |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.133 | Octavia to his wife; whose beauty claims | Octauia to his wife: whose beauty claimes |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.246 | If beauty, wisdom, modesty, can settle | If Beauty, Wisedome, Modesty, can settle |
As You Like It | AYL I.iii.108 | Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. | Beautie prouoketh theeues sooner then gold. |
As You Like It | AYL III.iii.27 | for honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce | for honestie coupled to beautie, is to haue Honie a sawce |
As You Like It | AYL III.v.37 | Over the wretched? What though you have no beauty – | Ouer the wretched? what though you hau no beauty |
The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.89 | Hath homely age the alluring beauty took | Hath homelie age th' alluring beauty tooke |
The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.110 | Will lose his beauty. Yet the gold bides still | Will loose his beautie: yet the gold bides still |
The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.114 | Since that my beauty cannot please his eye, | Since that my beautie cannot please his eie, |
The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.15 | First he did praise my beauty, then my speech. |
First, he did praise my beautie, then my speech. |
Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.27 | Sir, as I told you always, her beauty and her | Sir, as I told you alwayes: her Beauty & her |
Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.33 | And therewithal the best, or let her beauty | And therewithall the best, or let her beauty |
Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.109 | Where there is beauty: truth, where semblance: love, | Where there is Beauty: Truth, where semblance: Loue, |
Cymbeline | Cym V.v.162 | For beauty, that made barren the swelled boast | For Beauty, that made barren the swell'd boast |
Hamlet | Ham I.iii.37 | If she unmask her beauty to the moon. | If she vnmaske her beauty to the Moone: |
Hamlet | Ham II.ii.307 | beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! And yet | beauty of the world, the Parragon of Animals; and yet |
Hamlet | Ham III.i.108 | should admit no discourse to your beauty. | should admit no discourse to your Beautie. |
Hamlet | Ham III.i.109 | Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce | Could Beautie my Lord, haue better Comerce |
Hamlet | Ham III.i.111 | Ay, truly. For the power of beauty will sooner | I trulie: for the power of Beautie, will sooner |
Hamlet | Ham III.i.113 | force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness. | force of Honestie can translate Beautie into his likenesse. |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.25 | thieves of the day's beauty. Let us be Diana's foresters, | Theeues of the Dayes beautie. Let vs be Dianaes Forresters, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.197 | To smother up his beauty from the world, | To smother vp his Beauty from the world, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.182 | Upon the beauty of all parts besides, | Vpon the beautie of all parts besides, |
Henry V | H5 V.ii.53 | Losing both beauty and utility; | Loosing both beautie and vtilitie; |
Henry V | H5 V.ii.228 | that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon | that ill layer vp of Beautie, can doe no more spoyle vpon |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.86 | That beauty am I blessed with which you may see. | That beautie am I blest with, which you may see. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.44 | Her beauty, and the value of her dower, | Her Beauty, and the valew of her Dower, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.46 | O fairest beauty, do not fear nor fly! | Oh Fairest Beautie, do not feare, nor flye: |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.64 | So seems this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes. | So seemes this gorgeous beauty to mine eyes. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.139 | Could I come near your beauty with my nails, | Could I come neere your Beautie with my Nayles, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.230 | That for the beauty thinks it excellent. | That for the beautie thinkes it excellent. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.54 | And beauty, that the tyrant oft reclaims, | And Beautie, that the Tyrant oft reclaimes, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.128 | 'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud, | 'Tis Beautie that doth oft make Women prowd, |
Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.54 | The beauty of this kingdom, I'll assure you. | The Beauty of this Kingdome Ile assure you. |
Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.59 | Into our presence, where this heaven of beauty | Into our presence, where this heauen of beauty |
Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.69 | Out of the great respect they bear to beauty, | (Out of the great respect they beare to beauty) |
Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.75 | The fairest hand I ever touched! O beauty, | The fairest hand I euer touch'd: O Beauty, |
Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.76 | Beauty and honour in her are so mingled | Beauty and Honour in her are so mingled, |
Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.68 | The beauty of her person to the people. | The Beauty of her Person to the People. |
Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.144 | For virtue and true beauty of the soul, | For Vertue, and true Beautie of the Soule, |
Julius Caesar | JC II.i.271 | I charm you, by my once commended beauty, | I charme you, by my once commended Beauty, |
King Edward III | E3 I.ii.95 | Even she, my liege; whose beauty tyrants fear, | Euen shee liege, whose beauty tyrants feare, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.41 | Beauty a slander but in her fair face. | Beauty a slander but in her faire face, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.1.95 | Her beauty makes me. | Her beautie makes mee, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.96 | What beauty else could triumph over me? | Whatbewtie els could triumph on me, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.134 | Her beauty hath no match but my affection; | Her bewtie hath no match but my affection, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.223 | If on my beauty, take it if thou canst: | Yfon my beauty take yt if thou canst, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.229 | It is thy beauty that I would enjoy. | It is thy beauie that I woulde enioy, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.278 | Whether is her beauty by her words divine, | Whether is her bewtie by her words dyuine, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.279 | Or are her words sweet chaplains to her beauty? | Or are her words sweet chaplaines to her bewtie, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.282 | So do her words her beauty, beauty words. | So doe her words her bewties, bewtie wordes, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.287 | Religion is austere, and beauty gentle: | Religion is austere and bewty gentle, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.446 | In tissue, and the beauty of the robe | In tissue, and the beautie of the robe, |
King Edward III | E3 II.ii.111 | For she gives beauty both to heaven and earth. | For shee giues beautie both to heauen and earth, |
King Edward III | E3 II.ii.159 | Thy beauty makes them guilty of their death | Thy beauty makes them guilty of their death, |
King Edward III | E3 II.ii.162 | (aside) O perjured beauty, more corrupted judge! | O periurde beautie, more corrupted Iudge: |
King John | KJ II.i.426 | If lusty love should go in quest of beauty, | If lustie loue should go in quest of beautie, |
King John | KJ II.i.432 | Such as she is, in beauty, virtue, birth, | Such as she is, in beautie, vertue, birth, |
King John | KJ II.i.485 | Can in this book of beauty read ‘ I love,’ | Can in this booke of beautie read, I loue: |
King John | KJ II.i.493 | As she in beauty, education, blood, | As she in beautie, education, blood, |
King John | KJ III.iv.83 | And chase the native beauty from his cheek, | And chase the natiue beauty from his cheeke, |
King John | KJ IV.iii.35 | O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty! | Oh death, made proud with pure & princely beuty, |
King John | KJ IV.iii.39 | Or, when he doomed this beauty to a grave, | Or when he doom'd this Beautie to a graue, |
King Lear | KL I.i.58 | No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour, | No lesse then life, with grace, health, beauty, honor: |
King Lear | KL II.iv.161 | Into her scornful eyes! Infect her beauty, | Into her scornfull eyes: Infect her Beauty, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.13 | Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, | Good L. Boyet, my beauty though but mean, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.15 | Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye, | Beauty is bought by iudgement of the eye, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.11 | I thank my beauty, I am fair that shoot, | I thanke my beautie, I am faire that shoote, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.21 | See, see, my beauty will be saved by merit! | See, see, my beautie will be sau'd by merit. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.110.1 | Ay, my continent of beauty. | I my continent of beautie. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.106 | Ah, never faith could hold if not to beauty vowed! | Ah neuer faith could hold, if not to beautie vowed. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.242 | Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, | Beauty doth varnish Age, as if new borne, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.249 | That I may swear beauty doth beauty lack | That I may sweare Beauty doth beauty lacke, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.20 | A light condition in a beauty dark. | A light condition in a beauty darke. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.751 | Played foul play with our oaths. Your beauty, ladies, | Plaid foule play with our oaths: your beautie Ladies |
Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.80 | Proclaim an enshield beauty ten times louder | Proclaime an en-shield beauty ten times louder |
Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.81 | Than beauty could, displayed. But mark me; | Then beauty could displaied: But marke me, |
Measure for Measure | MM III.i.37 | Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty | Thou hast neither heate, affection, limbe, nor beautie |
Measure for Measure | MM III.i.183 | good. The goodness that is cheap in beauty makes | good: the goodnes that is cheape in beauty, makes |
Measure for Measure | MM III.i.184 | beauty brief in goodness, but grace, being the soul of | beauty briefe in goodnes; but grace being the soule of |
The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.88 | To render them redoubted. Look on beauty, | To render them redoubted. Looke on beautie, |
The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.99 | Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, | Vailing an Indian beautie; In a word, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.2 | holiday time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for | holly-day-time of my beauty, and am I now a subiect for |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.52 | hast the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes | hast the right arched-beauty of the brow, that becomes |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.201 | None but your beauty. Would that fault were mine! | None but your beauty, wold that fault wer mine |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.11 | Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. | Sees Helens beauty in a brow of Egipt. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.179 | with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the | with a furie, exceedes her as much in beautie, as the |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.217 | despite of beauty. | despight of Beautie. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.164 | And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch | And trust no Agent: for beautie is a witch, |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.105 | To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm, | To turne all beauty into thoughts of harme, |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.5 | my beauty? | my beautie? |
Othello | Oth I.i.136 | Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes | Tying her Dutie, Beautie, Wit, and Fortunes |
Othello | Oth I.iii.286 | If virtue no delighted beauty lack, | If Vertue no delighted Beautie lacke, |
Othello | Oth II.i.71 | As having sense of beauty, do omit | As hauing sence of Beautie, do omit |
Othello | Oth IV.i.204 | expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unprovide | expostulate with her: least her body and beautie vnprouide |
Othello | Oth V.i.19 | He hath a daily beauty in his life | He hath a dayly beauty in his life, |
Pericles | Per Chorus.I.31 | The beauty of this sinful dame | The beautie of this sinfull Dame, |
Pericles | Per I.ii.72 | I sought the purchase of a glorious beauty, | I sought the purchase of a glorious beautie, |
Pericles | Per II.ii.34 | Which shows that beauty hath his power and will, | Which shewes that Beautie hath his power & will, |
Pericles | Per IV.ii.137 | the beds of eels as my giving out her beauty stirs up the | the beds of Eeles, as my giuing out her beautie stirs vp the |
Pericles | Per V.i.69 | Fair one, all goodness that consists in beauty, | Faire on all goodnesse that consists in beautie, |
Richard II | R2 III.i.14 | And stained the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks | And stayn'd the beautie of a faire Queenes Cheekes, |
Richard III | R3 I.ii.121 | Your beauty was the cause of that effect – | Your beauty was the cause of that effect: |
Richard III | R3 I.ii.122 | Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleep | Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleepe, |
Richard III | R3 I.ii.126 | These nails should rent that beauty from my cheeks. | These Nailes should rent that beauty from my Cheekes. |
Richard III | R3 I.ii.166 | Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping. | Thy Beauty hath, and made them blinde with weeping. |
Richard III | R3 I.ii.169 | But, now thy beauty is proposed my fee, | But now thy Beauty is propos'd my Fee, |
Richard III | R3 I.ii.180 | But 'twas thy beauty that provoked me. | But 'twas thy Beauty that prouoked me. |
Richard III | R3 IV.iii.13 | Which in their summer beauty kissed each other. | And in their Summer Beauty kist each other. |
Richard III | R3 IV.iv.207 | And I'll corrupt her manners, stain her beauty, | And Ile corrupt her Manners, staine her Beauty, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.153 | Or dedicate his beauty to the sun. | Or dedicate his beauty to the same. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.215 | O, she is rich in beauty; only poor | O she is rich in beautie, onely poore, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.216 | That, when she dies, with beauty dies her store. | That when she dies, with beautie dies her store. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.219 | For beauty, starved with her severity, | For beauty steru'd with her seuerity, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.220 | Cuts beauty off from all posterity. | Cuts beauty off from all posteritie. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.235 | What doth her beauty serve but as a note | What doth her beauty serue but as a note, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.47 | Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! | Beauty too rich for vse, for earth too deare: |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.53 | For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night. | For I neuer saw true Beauty till this night. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.114 | Thy beauty hath made me effeminate | Thy Beauty hath made me Effeminate, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.85 | For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes | For here lies Iuliet, and her beautie makes |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.93 | Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. | Hath had no power yet vpon thy Beautie: |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.164 | O yes, I saw sweet beauty in her face, | Oh yes, I saw sweet beautie in her face, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.48 | That hearing of her beauty and her wit, | That hearing of her beautie, and her wit, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.192 | Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, | Thy vertues spoke of, and thy beautie sounded, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.266 | For by this light whereby I see thy beauty, | For by this light, whereby I see thy beauty, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.267 | Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well, | Thy beauty that doth make me like thee well, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.31 | What stars do spangle heaven with such beauty | What stars do spangle heauen with such beautie, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.138 | It blots thy beauty as frosts do bite the meads, | It blots thy beautie, as frosts doe bite the Meads, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.142 | Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty, | Muddie, ill seeming, thicke, bereft of beautie, |
The Tempest | Tem III.ii.100 | The beauty of his daughter. He himself | The beautie of his daughter: he himselfe |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.115 | Why, there's the privilege your beauty bears. | Why ther's the priuiledge your beauty beares: |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.91 | Nor his beauty. | Nor his beautie. |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.253 | birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, | birth, b auty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.262 | mine honesty; my mask to defend my beauty, and you | mine honesty; my Maske, to defend my beauty, and you |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.271 | And dare avow her beauty and her worth | And dare avow her Beauty, and her Worth, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.32 | Cerberus is at Proserpina's beauty, ay, that thou | Cerberus is at Proserpina's beauty. I, that thou |
Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.148 | The pleasures such a beauty brings with it; | The pleasures such a beauty brings with it: |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.32 | him, the mortal Venus, the heart-blood of beauty, | him the mortall Venus, the heart bloud of beauty, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.154 | Gives us more palm in beauty than we have, | Giues vs more palme in beautie then we haue: |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.103 | The beauty that is borne here in the face | The beautie that is borne here in the face, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.171 | For beauty, wit, | for beautie, wit, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.67.1 | O beauty, where is thy faith? | O beautie! where is thy Faith? |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.141 | If beauty have a soul, this is not she; | If beautie haue a soule, this is not she: |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.3 | Fellow, commend my service to her beauty; | Fellow, commend my seruice to her beauty; |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.163 | Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty – | Most radiant, exquisite, and vnmatchable beautie. |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.228 | 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white | Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white, |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.234 | out divers schedules of my beauty. It shall be inventoried, | out diuers scedules of my beautie. It shalbe Inuentoried |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.243.1 | The nonpareil of beauty! | The non-pareil of beautie. |
Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.360 | Virtue is beauty; but the beauteous evil | Vertue is beauty, but the beauteous euill |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.86 | Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, | Which now shewes all the beauty of the Sun, |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.51 | I mean that her beauty is exquisite, but her | I meane that her beauty is exquisite, / But her |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.57 | man counts of her beauty. | man counts of her beauty. |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.59 | beauty. | beauty. |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.78 | Then let her beauty be her wedding-dower; | Then let her beauty be her wedding dowre: |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.73 | Say that upon the altar of her beauty | Say that vpon the altar of her beauty |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.9 | When to her beauty I commend my vows, | When to her beauty I commend my vowes, |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.44 | For beauty lives with kindness. | For beauty liues with kindnesse: |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.202.2 | She is all the beauty extant. | She is all the beauty extant. |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.208.1 | What think you of this beauty? | What thinke you of this beauty? |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.209.2 | Yes, a matchless beauty. | Yes a matchles beauty. |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.236 | And have as just a title to her beauty, | And have as just a title to her beauty |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.11 | Upon the sweetness of a noble beauty | Vpon the sweetenes of a noble beauty, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.38 | Sir, you're a noble giver. (To Emilia) Dearest beauty, | Sir, y'ar a noble Giver: dearest Bewtie, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.31 | And then to whom the birthright of this beauty | And then to whom the birthright of this Beauty |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.162 | In service of so excellent a beauty, | In service of so excellent a Beutie, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.247 | If your vow stand, shall curse me and my beauty, | If your vow stand, shall curse me and my Beauty, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.39 | These the bright lamps of beauty, that command | These the bright lamps of beauty, that command |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.64.1 | To my unhappy beauty? | To my unhappy Beautie? |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.149 | You have steeled 'em with your beauty. – Honoured friend, | You have steel'd 'em with your Beautie: honord Friend, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.103 | Sought to betray a beauty, but have blushed | Sought to betray a Beautie, but have blush'd |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.32 | Were never for a piece of beauty rarer, | Were neuer for a peece of beauty, rarer, |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.120 | The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim, | The windes of March with beauty: Violets dim, |
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 V.i.102 | Flowed with her beauty once. 'Tis shrewdly ebbed | Flow'd with her Beautie once; 'tis shrewdly ebb'd, |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.213 | Your choice is not so rich in worth as beauty, | Your Choice is not so rich in Worth, as Beautie, |