Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.324 | (To Diana) If thou beest yet a fresh uncropped flower | If thou beest yet a fresh vncropped flower, |
As You Like It | AYL V.iii.29 | How that a life was but a flower, | How that a life was but a Flower, |
Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.32.2 | Flower of warriors, | Flower of Warriors, |
Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.221 | The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor | The Flower that's like thy face. Pale-Primrose, nor |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.11 | nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. | Nettle, Danger; we plucke this Flower, Safety. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.76 | When, like the bee tolling from every flower, | When, like the Bee, culling from euery flower |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.129 | That you on my behalf would pluck a flower. | That you on my behalfe would pluck a Flower. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.106 | Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower | Pronouncing that the palenesse of this Flower, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.71 | The flower of Europe for his chivalry; | The flowre of Europe, for his Cheualrie, |
King Edward III | E3 I.i.15 | Your gracious self, the flower of Europe's hope, | Your gratious selfe the flower of Europes hope: |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.284 | To bear the comb of virtue from this flower, | To beare the combe of vertue from his flower, |
King Edward III | E3 IV.v.33 | Which now hath hid the airy floor of heaven | Which now hath hid the airie flower of heauen, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.331 | This is the flower that smiles on everyone, | This is the flower that smiles on euerie one, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.653.1 | I am that flower – | I am that Flower. |
Macbeth | Mac I.v.63 | Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, | Your Hand, your Tongue: looke like th' innocent flower, |
Macbeth | Mac V.ii.30 | To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds. | To dew the Soueraigne Flower, and drowne the Weeds: |
Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.167 | Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, | Doe as the Carrion do's, not as the flowre, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.62 | With juice of balm and every precious flower. | With iuyce of Balme; and euery precious flowre, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.166 | It fell upon a little western flower, | It fell vpon a little westerne flower; |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.169 | Fetch me that flower – the herb I showed thee once. | Fetch me that flower; the hearb I shew'd thee once, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.247 | Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer. | Hast thou the flower there? Welcome wanderer. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.33.2 | He squeezes the flower on Titania's eyes | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.86 | He squeezes the flower on Lysander's eyes | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.194 | And when she weeps, weeps every little flower, | And when she weepes, weepe euerie little flower, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.102 | Flower of this purple dye, | Flower of this purple die, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.105 | He squeezes the flower on Demetrius's eyes | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.204 | Have with our needles created both one flower, | Haue with our needles, created both one flower, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.72 | Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower | Dians bud, or Cupids flower, |
Pericles | Per III.ii.94 | See how she 'gins to blow into life's flower again. | See how she ginnes to blow into lifes flower againe. |
Richard II | R2 II.i.134 | To crop at once a too-long withered flower. | To crop at once a too-long wither'd flowre. |
Richard II | R2 III.ii.19 | And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower | And when they from thy Bosome pluck a Flower, |
Richard II | R2 III.iii.97 | Shall ill become the flower of England's face, | Shall ill become the flower of Englands face, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.78 | Verona's summer hath not such a flower. | Veronas Summer hath not such a flower. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.79 | Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower. | Nay hee's a flower, infaith a very flower. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.122 | May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. | May proue a beautious Flower when next we meete: |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.19 | Within the infant rind of this weak flower | Within the infant rin'd of this weake flower, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.57 | Pink for flower. | Pinke for flower. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.43 | He is not the flower of courtesy, but, I'll warrant him, as | he is not the flower of curtesie, but Ile warrant him as |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.29 | Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. | Vpon the swetest flower of all the field. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.37 | Flower as she was, deflowered by him. | Flower as she was, deflowred by him. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.12 | Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew – | Sweet Flower with flowers thy Bridall bed I strew: |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.9 | And to the field goes he; where every flower | And to the field goe's he; where euery flower |
Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.261 | And cull their flower, Ajax shall cope the best. | And cull their flowre, Aiax shall cope the best. |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.47 | so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take away the fool; | so beauties a flower; The Lady bad take away the foole, |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.38 | For women are as roses whose fair flower, | For women are as Roses, whose faire flowre |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.58 | Not a flower, not a flower sweet | Not a flower, not a flower sweete |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.160 | Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower | Disdaine to roote the Sommer-swelling flowre, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.66 | No more arraignment; the flower that I would pluck | No more arraignement, the flowre that I would plncke |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.173.1 | What flower is this? | What Flowre is this? |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.167 | Both these brave knights, and I a virgin flower | Both these brave Knights, and I a virgin flowre |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.169 | The flower is fallen, the tree descends! O mistress, | The flowre is falne, the Tree descends: O Mistris |