Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.41 | Crack thy frail case! Apace, Eros, apace! | Cracke thy fraile Case. Apace Eros, apace; |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.15 | A greater crack. The round world | A greater cracke. The round World |
Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.69 | A crack, madam. | A Cracke Madam. |
Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.236 | Have got the mannish crack, sing him to th' ground, | Haue got the mannish cracke, sing him to'th'ground |
Hamlet | Ham I.iii.108 | Or – not to crack the wind of the poor phrase, | Or not to crack the winde of the poore Phrase, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.30 | crack, not thus high; and the very same day did I fight | Crack, not thus high: and the very same day did I fight |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.61 | By the mass, you'll crack a quart together – ha! | You'l cracke a quart together? Ha, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.11 | And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder, | And from my shoulders crack my Armes asunder, |
Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.193 | Though all the world should crack their duty to you, | (Though all the world should cracke their duty to you, |
King John | KJ II.i.146 | Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack. | Or lay on that shall make your shoulders cracke. |
King Lear | KL III.ii.1 | Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! | Blow windes, & crack your cheeks; Rage, blow |
King Lear | KL III.ii.8 | Crack Nature's moulds, all germens spill at once | Cracke Natures moulds, all germaines spill at once |
King Lear | KL V.iii.215 | Began to crack. Twice then the trumpets sounded, | |
King Lear | KL V.iii.257 | That heaven's vault should crack. She's gone for ever. | That Heauens vault should crack: she's gone for euer. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.266 | And Ethiops of their sweet complexion crack. | And Athiops of their sweet complexion crake. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.415 | My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw. | My loue to thee is sound, sans cracke or flaw. |
Macbeth | Mac IV.i.116 | What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom? | What will the Line stretch out to'th' cracke of Doome? |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.274 | is ready to crack with impatience. Who says this is | is ready to cracke with impatience: who saies this is |
Othello | Oth II.iii.315 | naming, this crack of your love shall grow stronger than | naming, this cracke of your Loue, shall grow stronger, then |
Pericles | Per I.ii.121 | Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both. | Who shuns not to breake one, will cracke both. |
Pericles | Per IV.vi.140 | Crack the glass of her virginity, and make the rest | crack the glasse of her virginitie, and make the rest |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.95 | As thunder when the clouds in autumn crack. | As thunder, when the clouds in Autumne cracke. |
The Tempest | Tem III.i.26 | I had rather crack my sinews, break my back, | I had rather cracke my sinewes, breake my backe, |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.2 | My charms crack not, my spirits obey, and time | My charmes cracke not: my Spirits obey, and Time |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.154 | And mar men's spurring. Crack the lawyer's voice, | And marre mens spurring. Cracke the Lawyers voyce, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.3 | Secure of thunder's crack or lightning flash, | Secure of Thunders cracke or lightning flash, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.99 | Divert and crack, rend and deracinate | Diuert, and cracke, rend and deracinate |
Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.101 | were as good crack a fusty nut with no kernel. | were as good cracke a fustie nut with no kernell. |
Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.107 | Crack my clear voice with sobs, and break my heart | Cracke my cleere voyce with sobs, and breake my heart |
Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.7 | Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe; | Now cracke thy lungs, and split thy brasen pipe: |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.74 | When neither curb would crack, girth break, nor differing plunges | When neither Curb would cracke, girth breake nor diffring plunges |
The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.322 | Believe this crack to be in my dread mistress, | Beleeue this Crack to be in my dread Mistresse |