Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.92 | the black gown of a big heart. I am going, forsooth. The | the blacke-Gowne of a bigge heart: I am going forsooth, the |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.278 | Yes, forsooth. I wish you joy o'th' worm. | Yes forsooth: I wish you ioy o'th'worm. |
As You Like It | AYL III.ii.348 | brambles; all, forsooth, deifying the name of Rosalind. | brambles; all (forsooth) defying the name of Rosalinde. |
The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.243 | Forsooth, took on him as a conjurer, | Forsooth tooke on him as a Coniurer: |
Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.85 | Thyself, forsooth, hereafter theirs, so far | Thy selfe (forsooth) hereafter theirs so farre, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.138 | He will forsooth have all my prisoners, | He will (forsooth) haue all my Prisoners: |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.41 | Forsooth, five years, and as much as to – | Forsooth fiue yeares, and as much as to--- |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.78 | And now forsooth takes on him to reform | And now (forsooth) takes on him to reforme |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.157 | Because, forsooth, the King of Scots is crowned. | Because (forsooth) the King of Scots is Crown'd. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.83 | And yet, forsooth, she is a virgin pure! | And yet forsooth she is a Virgin pure. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.29 | That my master was? No, forsooth; my master said | That my Mistresse was? No forsooth: my Master said, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.113 | Because the King, forsooth, will have it so. | Because the King forsooth will haue it so. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.61 | Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine | Forsooth, a blinde man at Saint Albones Shrine, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.92 | Most true, forsooth; and many time and oft | Most true, forsooth: / And many time and oft |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.111 | Black, forsooth, coal-black as jet. | Black forsooth, Coale-Black, as Iet. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.81 | Peter, forsooth. | Peter forsooth. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.183 | And you, forsooth, had the good Duke to keep; | And you (forsooth) had the good Duke to keepe: |
Henry VIII | H8 III.i.87 | And live a subject? Nay, forsooth, my friends, | And liue a Subiect? Nay forsooth, my Friends, |
Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.124 | Forsooth, an inventory, thus importing | Forsooth an Inuentory, thus importing |
King Lear | KL I.iv.190 | art nothing. (To Gonerill) Yes, forsooth, I will hold my | art nothing. Yes forsooth I will hold my |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.170 | And I, forsooth, in love! | O, and I forsooth in loue, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.248 | No, I thank you, forsooth, heartily. I am very | No, I thank you forsooth, hartely; I am very |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.251 | I am not a-hungry, I thank you, forsooth. | I am not a-hungry, I thanke you, forsooth: |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.18 | Ay, forsooth. | I forsooth. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.21 | No, forsooth. He hath but a little wee face, with a | No forsooth: he hath but a little wee-face; with a |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.24 | Ay, forsooth. But he is as tall a man of his hands | I forsooth: but he is as tall a man of his hands, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.46 | Ay, forsooth, I'll fetch it you. | I forsooth ile fetch it you: |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.77 | Ay, forsooth, to desire her to – | I forsooth: to desire her to --- |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.153 | Ay, forsooth; and, I pray, how does | I forsooth: and I pray how do's |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.83 | Ay, forsooth; and then you may | I, forsooth: and then you may |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.5 | I had rather, forsooth, go before you like a man | I had rather (forsooth) go before you like a man, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.145 | To the laundress, forsooth. | To the Landresse forsooth? |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.71 | and instigated by his distemper, and, forsooth, to | and instigated by his distemper, and (forsooth) to |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.71 | Forsooth, I have forgot. | Forsooth, I haue forgot. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.96 | From the two parties, forsooth. | From the two parties forsooth. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.ii.4 | Ay, forsooth. I have spoke with her, and we have | I forsooth, I haue spoke with her, & we haue |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.70 | But that, forsooth, the bouncing Amazon, | But that forsooth the bouncing Amazon |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.230 | And tender me forsooth affection, | And tender me (forsooth) affection, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.293 | Her height, forsooth, she hath prevailed with him. | Her height (forsooth) she hath preuail'd with him. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.55 | Note notes, forsooth, and nothing. | Note notes forsooth, and nothing. |
Othello | Oth I.i.19 | Forsooth, a great arithmetician, | For-sooth, a great Arithmatician, |
Richard III | R3 I.iii.44 | That I, forsooth, am stern, and love them not? | Thar I (forsooth) am sterne, and loue them not? |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.12 | Ay, forsooth. | I forsooth. |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.8 | No shame but mine. I must forsooth be forced | No shame but mine, I must forsooth be forst |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.1 | No, no, forsooth, I dare not for my life. | No, no forsooth I dare not for my life. |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.40 | Yea, forsooth, an your mistress-ship be Emperial. | Yea forsooth, and your Mistership be Emperiall. |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.172 | And then, forsooth, the faint defects of age | And then (forsooth) the faint defects of Age |