Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.184.1 | Let's mock the midnight bell. | Let's mocke the midnight Bell. |
As You Like It | AYL II.vii.122 | And have with holy bell been knolled to church, | And haue with holy bell bin knowld to Church, |
The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.45 | The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell; | The clocke hath strucken twelue vpon the bell: |
The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.52.2 | No, no – the bell. 'Tis time that I were gone. |
No, no, the bell, 'tis time that I were gone: |
Hamlet | Ham I.i.39 | The bell then beating one – | The Bell then beating one. |
Hamlet | Ham V.i.230 | Of bell and burial. | Of Bell and Buriall. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.102 | Sounds ever after as a sullen bell | Sounds euer after as a sullen Bell |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.5 | When that your flock, assembled by the bell, | When that your Flocke (assembled by the Bell) |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.16 | Enter, go in; the market bell is rung. | Enter, goe in, the Market Bell is rung. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.39 | Hark! hark! The Dauphin's drum, a warning bell, | Harke, harke, the Dolphins drumme, a warning bell, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.117 | My sighing breast shall be thy funeral bell; | My sighing brest, shall be thy Funerall bell; |
Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.295 | Worse than the sacring bell, when the brown wench | Worse then the Sacring Bell, when the browne Wench |
King John | KJ III.iii.12 | Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back | Bell, Booke, & Candle, shall not driue me back, |
King John | KJ III.iii.37 | To give me audience. If the midnight bell | To giue me audience: If the mid-night bell |
Macbeth | Mac II.i.32 | She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed. | She strike vpon the Bell. Get thee to bed. |
Macbeth | Mac II.i.61 | A bell rings | A Bell rings. |
Macbeth | Mac II.i.62 | I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. | I goe, and it is done: the Bell inuites me. |
Macbeth | Mac II.iii.71 | Ring the alarum bell! Murder and treason! | Ring the Alarum Bell: Murther, and Treason, |
Macbeth | Mac II.iii.77 | To countenance this horror. Ring the bell! | To countenance this horror. Ring the Bell. |
Macbeth | Mac II.iii.77 | Bell rings | Bell rings. |
Macbeth | Mac V.v.51 | Ring the alarum bell! – Blow wind, come wrack, | Ring the Alarum Bell, blow Winde, come wracke, |
The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.71 | I'll begin it – Ding, dong, bell. | Ile begin it. Ding, dong, bell. |
The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.72 | Ding, dong, bell. | Ding, dong, bell. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.1 | The Windsor bell hath struck twelve; the | The Windsor-bell hath stroke twelue: the |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.12 | bell and his tongue is the clapper, for what his heart | bell, and his tongue is the clapper, for what his heart |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.72 | in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps. | in monuments, then the Bels ring, & the Widdow weepes. |
Othello | Oth I.i.91 | Awake the snorting citizens with the bell, | Awake the snorting Cittizens with the Bell, |
Othello | Oth II.ii.10 | till the bell have told eleven. Heaven bless the isle of | till the Bell haue told eleuen. Blesse the Isle of |
Othello | Oth II.iii.155 | Bell rings | |
Othello | Oth II.iii.155 | Who's that which rings the bell? Diablo, ho! | Who's that which rings the Bell: Diablo, hoa: |
Othello | Oth II.iii.169 | Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle | Silence that dreadfull Bell, it frights the Isle, |
Richard II | R2 V.v.57 | Which is the bell. So sighs, and tears, and groans | Which is the bell: so Sighes, and Teares, and Grones, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.4 | The curfew bell hath rung. 'Tis three o'clock. | The Curphew Bell hath rung, 'tis three a clocke: |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.206 | O me! This sight of death is as a bell | O me, this sight of death, is as a Bell |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.405 | Hark! Now I hear them – Ding-dong bell. | Harke now I heare them, ding-dong bell. |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.89 | In a cowslip's bell I lie; | In a Cowslips bell, I lie, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.196 | No mournful bell shall ring her burial, | No mournfull Bell shall ring her Buriall: |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.20 | Be bold to ring the bell. How stand I then? | Be bold to ring the Bell; how stand I then? |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.6 | A bell than blade. I will stay here. | A Bell, then blade: I will stay here, |