Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.48.2 | Fie, wrangling queen! | Fye wrangling Queene: |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.51 | The good precedence. Fie upon ‘But yet’! | The good precedence, fie vpon but yet, |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.31 | O, fie, fie, fie! | Oh fie, fie, fie. |
As You Like It | AYL II.vii.62 | Fie on thee! I can tell what thou wouldst do. | Fie on thee. I can tell what thou wouldst do. |
The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.86 | Fie, how impatience loureth in your face. | Fie how impatience lowreth in your face. |
The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.102 | Self-harming jealousy! Fie, beat it hence. | Selfe-harming Iealousie; fie beat it hence. |
The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.161 | Fie, brother, how the world is changed with you. | Fie brother, how the world is chang'd with you: |
The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.57 | Fie, now you run this humour out of breath. | Fie, now you run this humor out of breath, |
The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.27 | Fie on thee, wretch. 'Tis pity that thou livest | Fie on thee wretch, 'tis pitty that thou liu'st |
Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.77 | Fie, you confine yourself most unreasonably. | Fye, you confine your selfe most vnreasonably: |
Coriolanus | Cor III.i.195.2 | Fie, fie, fie! | Fie, fie, fie, |
Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.54 | Fie, fie, fie. | Fie, fie, fie. |
Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.89.2 | Fie! You must give way. | Fye, you must giue way: |
Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.9 | Which seasons comfort. – Who may this be? Fie! | Which seasons comfort. Who may this be? Fye. |
Hamlet | Ham I.ii.101 | Take it to heart? Fie, 'tis a fault to heaven, | Take it to heart? Fye, 'tis a fault to Heauen, |
Hamlet | Ham I.ii.135 | Fie on't, ah, fie, 'tis an unweeded garden | Fie on't? Oh fie, fie, 'tis an vnweeded Garden |
Hamlet | Ham I.v.93 | And shall I couple hell? O, fie! Hold, hold, my heart. | And shall I couple Hell? Oh fie: hold my heart; |
Hamlet | Ham II.ii.585 | A stallion! Fie upon't, foh! | A Scullion ? Fye vpon't: Foh. |
Hamlet | Ham IV.v.60 | Alack, and fie for shame! | Alacke, and fie for shame: |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.103 | to his wife, ‘ Fie upon this quiet life, I want work.’ ‘ O | to his wife; Fie vpon this quiet life, I want worke. O |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.294 | prince, no, fie! | Prince; no, fie. |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.141 | Fie, cousin Percy, how you cross my father! | Fie, Cousin Percy, how you crosse my Father. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.187 | yourself young? Fie, fie, fie, Sir John! | your selfe yong? Fy, fy, fy, sir Iohn. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.92 | Fie, this is hot weather, gentlemen. Have you | Fye, this is hot weather (Gentlemen) haue you |
Henry V | H5 V.ii.218 | Now fie upon my false French! By mine | Now fye vpon my false French: by mine |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.57 | Fie, lords, that you, being supreme magistrates, | Fye Lords, that you being supreme Magistrates, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.128 | Fie, uncle Beaufort, I have heard you preach | Fie Vnckle Beauford, I haue heard you preach, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.67 | Fie, de la Pole, disable not thyself. | Fye De la Pole, disable not thy selfe: |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.17 | Fie, Joan, that thou wilt be so obstacle! | Fye Ione, that thou wilt be so obstacle: |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.307 | Fie, coward woman and soft-hearted wretch! | Fye Coward woman, and soft harted wretch, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.1 | Fie on ambitions! Fie on myself, that have a sword | Fye on Ambitions: fie on my selfe, that haue a sword, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.213 | Fie, charity, for shame! Speak not in spite, | Fie, Charitie for shame, speake not in spight, |
Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.86 | A very fresh fish here – fie, fie, fie upon | A very fresh Fish heere; fye, fye, fye vpon |
King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.6 | Fie, lords, is't not a shame that English boys, | Fie Lords, is it not a shame that English boies, |
King Lear | KL II.iv.159.2 | Fie, sir, fie! | Fye sir, fie. |
King Lear | KL III.i.49 | That yet you do not know. Fie on this storm! | That yet you do not know. Fye on this Storme, |
King Lear | KL III.iv.177 | His word was still ‘ Fie, foh, and fum, | His word was still, fie, foh, and fumme, |
King Lear | KL IV.vi.129 | pit – burning, scalding, stench, consumption! Fie, fie, | pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption: Fye, fie, |
King Lear | KL IV.vi.130 | fie! Pah, pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary, | fie; pah, pah: Giue me an Ounce of Ciuet; good Apothecary |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.237 | Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not! | Fie painted Rethoricke, O she needs it not, |
Macbeth | Mac III.iv.73.2 | Fie, for shame! | Fie for shame. |
Macbeth | Mac V.i.35 | then, 'tis time to do't. – Hell is murky! – Fie, my lord, | then 'tis time to doo't: Hell is murky. Fye, my Lord, |
Macbeth | Mac V.i.36 | fie! A soldier and afeard? What need we fear who | fie, a Souldier, and affear'd? what need we feare? who |
Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.172 | And pitch our evils there? O, fie, fie, fie! | And pitch our euils there? oh fie, fie, fie: |
Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.42 | Ha! fie, these filthy vices! It were as good | Ha? fie, these filthy vices: It were as good |
Measure for Measure | MM III.i.151 | O, fie, fie, fie! | Oh fie, fie, fie: |
Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.17 | Fie, sirrah, a bawd, a wicked bawd! | Fie, sirrah, a Bawd, a wicked bawd, |
Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.25 | A bawd, sir? Fie upon him, he will discredit | A Bawd Sir? fie vpon him, he will discredit |
The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.46.2 | Fie, fie! | Fie, fie. |
The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.62 | Fie, fie, Gratiano! Where are all the rest? | Fie, fie, Gratiano, where are all the rest? |
The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.79 | Fie, what a question's that, | Fie, what a questions that? |
The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.101 | If you deny me, fie upon your law! | If you deny me; fie vpon your Law, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.163 | It is his ‘ five senses.’ Fie, what the ignorance is! | It is his fiue sences: fie, what the ignorance is. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.297 | minute too late. Fie, fie, fie! Cuckold, cuckold, cuckold! | mynute too late: fie, fie, fie: Cuckold, Cuckold, Cuckold. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.202 | Fie, fie, Master Ford, are you not ashamed? What | Fy, fy, M. Ford, are you not asham'd? What |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.57 | Vengeance of Jenny's case! Fie on | 'Vengeance of Ginyes case; fie on |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.62 | do fast enough of themselves, and to call ‘ horum.’ Fie | doe fast enough of themselues, and to call horum; fie |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.18 | Park at midnight? Fie, fie, he'll never come. | Parke at midnight? Fie, fie, he'll neuer come. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.20 | My chambers are honourable. Fie, privacy, fie! | my Chambers are honourable: Fie, priuacy? Fie. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.93 | Fie on sinful fantasy! | Fie on sinnefull phantasie: |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.94 | Fie on lust and luxury! | Fie on Lust, and Luxurie: |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.239 | You do me mischief. Fie, Demetrius, | You doe me mischiefe. Fye Demetrius, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.288 | Fie, fie, you counterfeit, you puppet, you! | Fie, fie, you counterfeit, you puppet, you. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.25 | Fie upon thee! Art not ashamed? | Fie vpon thee, art not asham'd? |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.93 | Fie, fie, they are not to be named, my lord, | Fie, fie, they are not to be named my Lord, |
Othello | Oth II.i.112 | O, fie upon thee, slanderer! | Oh, fie vpon thee, Slanderer |
Othello | Oth II.iii.156 | The town will rise. God's will, Lieutenant, hold! | The Towne will rise. Fie, fie Lieutenant, |
Othello | Oth IV.ii.133 | Fie, there is no such man! It is impossible. | Fie, there is no such man: it is impossible. |
Othello | Oth IV.ii.144 | O fie upon them! Some such squire he was | Oh fie vpon them: some such Squire he was |
Othello | Oth V.i.121 | Fie, fie upon thee, strumpet! | Oh fie vpon thee Strumpet. |
Othello | Oth V.i.123.2 | As I? Foh! Fie upon thee! | As I? Fie vpon thee. |
Othello | Oth V.ii.221.3 | Fie! | Fye, |
Pericles | Per IV.vi.3 | Fie, fie upon her! She's able to freeze the god | Fye, fye, vpon her, shee's able to freze the god |
Richard III | R3 III.i.22 | Fie, what a slug is Hastings that he comes not | Fie, what a Slug is Hastings, that he comes not |
Richard III | R3 III.i.31 | Fie, what an indirect and peevish course | Fie, what an indirect and peeuish course |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.26 | Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunce have I! | Fie how my bones ake, what a iaunt haue I had? |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.122 | Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit, | Fie, fie, thou sham'st thy shape, thy loue, thy wit, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.157.2 | Fie, fie! What, are you mad? | Fie, fie, what are you mad? |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.2 | Why, lamb! Why, lady! Fie, you slug-a-bed! | Why Lambe, why Lady? fie you sluggabed, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.38 | Let's hear. (He plays) O fie! The treble jars. | Let's heare, oh fie, the treble iarres. |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.99 | Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate, | Fie, doff this habit, shame to your estate, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.1 | Fie, fie on all tired jades, on all mad masters, and | Fie, fie on all tired Iades, on all mad Masters, & |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.34 | Fie on her! See how beastly she doth court him. | Fie on her, see how beastly she doth court him. |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.48 | Signor Petruchio, fie, you are to blame. | Signior Petruchio, fie you are too blame: |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.65 | A velvet dish. Fie, fie, 'tis lewd and filthy! | A Veluet dish: Fie, fie, 'tis lewd and filthy, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.159 | O fie, fie, fie! | Oh fie, fie, fie. |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.124 | Fie! what a foolish duty call you this? | Fie what a foolish dutie call you this? |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.135 | Fie, fie, unknit that threatening unkind brow, | Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brow, |
The Tempest | Tem II.i.26 | Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue! | Fie, what a spend-thrift is he of his tongue. |
Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.25 | Fie, th' art a churl. Y' have got a humour there | Fie, th'art a churle, ye'haue got a humour there |
Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.9 | Fie, fie, fie, fie! | Fye, fie, fie, fie. |
Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.8 | Fie, no, do not believe it. He cannot want for | Fye no, doe not beleeue it: hee cannot want for |
Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.21 | Fie, brother, fie! Teach her not thus to lay | Fy brother fy, teach her not thus to lay |
Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.31 | Fie, fie, how franticly I square my talk, | Fie, fie, how Frantiquely I square my talke |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.116 | Fie, treacherous hue, that will betray with blushing | Fie trecherous hue, that will betray with blushing |
Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.154 | Fie, Publius, fie, thou art too much deceived: | Fie Publius, fie, thou art too much deceau'd, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.25.2 | Fie, fie, my brother! | Fie, fie, my Brother; |
Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.32 | As fears and reasons? Fie, for godly shame! | As feares and reasons? Fie for godly shame? |
Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.54.2 | Fie, fie upon her! | Fie, fie, vpon her: |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.49.1 | Fie, savage, fie! | Fie sauage, fie. |
Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.23 | Fie, that you'll say so. He plays o'the viol-de-gamboys, | Fie, that you'l say so: he playes o'th Viol-de-ganboys, |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.102 | madman. Fie on him! Go you, Malvolio. If it be a suit | madman: Fie on him. Go you Maluolio; If it be a suit |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.52 | Fie away, fie away, breath! | Fye away, fie away breath, |
Twelfth Night | TN II.v.40 | Fie on him! Jezebel! | Fie on him Iezabel. |
Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.31 | Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most | Fye, thou dishonest sathan: I call thee by the most |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.57 | Fie, fie! How wayward is this foolish love, | Fie, fie: how way-ward is this foolish loue; |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.14 | Fie, fie, unreverend tongue, to call her bad | Fie, fie, vnreuerend tongue, to call her bad, |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.285 | Fie on thee, jolthead; thou canst not read. | Fie on thee Iolt-head, thou canst not read. |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.259.2 | Fie, sir, | Fie Sir. |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.1 | Fie, fie, | Fy, fy, |
The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.18.2 | Fie, fie, no thought of him! | Fie, fie, no thought of him, |
The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.53.1 | Cry fie upon my grave! | Cry fie vpon my Graue. |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.55 | Fie, daughter! When my old wife lived, upon | Fy (daughter) when my old wife liu'd: vpon |