Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.255 | This is hard and undeserved measure, my | This is hard and vndeserued measure my |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.295 | Why, these balls bound, there's noise in it. 'Tis hard: | Why these bals bound, ther's noise in it. Tis hard |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.30 | be once heard and thrice beaten. (Aloud) God save you, | bee once hard, and thrice beaten. God saue you |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.63 | 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife | 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.228 | Whom ne'er the word of ‘ No’ woman heard speak, | Whom nere the word of no woman hard speake, |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.111 | But when we in our viciousness grow hard – | But when we in our viciousnesse grow hard |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.117.2 | Take to you no hard thoughts. | Take to you no hard thoughts, |
As You Like It | AYL I.ii.46 | Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature, | Indeed there is fortune too hard for nature, |
As You Like It | AYL I.ii.171 | I beseech you, punish me not with your hard | I beseech you, punish mee not with your harde |
As You Like It | AYL II.iv.41 | I have by hard adventure found mine own. | I haue by hard aduenture found mine owne. |
As You Like It | AYL III.ii.56 | Besides, our hands are hard. | Besides, our hands are hard. |
As You Like It | AYL III.ii.178 | O Lord, Lord, it is a hard matter for friends to | O Lord, Lord, it is a hard matter for friends to |
As You Like It | AYL III.ii.304 | Marry, he trots hard with a young maid | Marry he trots hard with a yong maid, |
As You Like It | AYL III.ii.307 | pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven year. | pace is so hard, that it seemes the length of seuen yeare. |
As You Like It | AYL III.iii.26 | No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured: | No truly, vnlesse thou wert hard fauour'd: |
As You Like It | AYL III.v.4 | Whose heart th' accustomed sight of death makes hard, | Whose heart th'accustom'd sight of death makes hard |
As You Like It | AYL III.v.75 | 'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by. – | 'Tis at the tufft of Oliues, here hard by: |
As You Like It | AYL III.v.76 | Will you go, sister? – Shepherd, ply her hard. – | Will you goe Sister? Shepheard ply her hard: |
The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.93 | Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard. | Vnkindnesse blunts it more then marble hard. |
The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.58.1 | Master, knock the door hard. | Master, knocke the doore hard. |
The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.128 | hard in the palm of the hand. | hard in the palme of the hand. |
The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.34 | One whose hard heart is buttoned up with steel, |
On whose hard heart is button'd vp with steele: |
Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.80 | A shield as hard as his. A certain number, | A Shield, as hard as his. A certaine number |
Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.190 | He was ever too hard for him, I have heard him say so | he was euer too hard for him, I haue heard him say so |
Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.192 | He was too hard for him, directly | He was too hard for him directly, |
Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.24 | Shall from this practice but make hard your heart: | Shall from this practise, but make hard your heart: |
Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.107 | Made hard with hourly falsehood – falsehood, as | Made hard with hourely falshood (falshood as |
Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.34 | As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard. | As slippery as the Gordian-knot was hard. |
Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.46.1 | The stone's too hard to come by. | The Stones too hard to come by. |
Cymbeline | Cym III.i.41 | We have yet many among us can gripe as hard as | We haue yet many among vs, can gripe as hard as |
Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.47 | As hard to leave as keep: whose top to climb | As hard to leaue, as keepe: whose top to climbe |
Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.79 | How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature! | How hard it is to hide the sparkes of Nature? |
Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.16 | And he's at some hard point. Speak, man, thy tongue | And hee's at some hard point. Speake man, thy Tongue |
Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.8 | Finds the down-pillow hard. Now peace be here, | Findes the Downe-pillow hard. Now peace be heere, |
Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.42 | I should woo hard, but be your groom in honesty: | I should woo hard, but be your Groome in honesty: |
Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.27 | The certainty of this hard life, aye hopeless | The certainty of this heard life, aye hopelesse |
Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.44 | Like fragments in hard voyages became | Like Fragments in hard Voyages became |
Cymbeline | Cym V.v.289 | Pluck a hard sentence: prithee, valiant youth, | Plucke a hard sentence: Prythee valiant youth |
Hamlet | Ham I.ii.60 | Upon his will I sealed my hard consent. | |
Hamlet | Ham I.ii.179 | Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon. | Indeed my Lord, it followed hard vpon. |
Hamlet | Ham II.i.87 | He took me by the wrist and held me hard. | He tooke me by the wrist, and held me hard; |
Hamlet | Ham II.i.107 | What, have you given him any hard words of late? | What haue you giuen him any hard words of late? |
Hamlet | Ham III.iv.208 | Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard | |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.179 | Yea, but I doubt they will be too hard for | But I doubt they will be too hard for |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.264.3 | True, who bears hard | True, who beares hard |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.74 | Here, hard by, stand close. | Heere hard by: Stand close. |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.515 | Hark how hard he fetches breath. Search | Harke, how hard he fetches breath: |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.23 | Their courage with hard labour tame and dull, | Their courage with hard labour tame and dull, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.36 | Outrode me. After him came spurring hard | Out-rod me. After him, came spurring head |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.27 | How ill it follows, after you have laboured so hard, | How ill it followes, after you haue labour'd so hard, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.317 | be acquainted with him if I return, and't shall go hard | be acquainted with him, if I returne: and it shall goe hard, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.30 | 'a be killed with your hard opinions; for Oldcastle died | he be kill'd with your hard Opinions: For Old-Castle dyed |
Henry V | H5 III.i.16 | Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit | Hold hard the Breath, and bend vp euery Spirit |
Henry V | H5 III.iii.11 | And the fleshed soldier, rough and hard of heart, | And the flesh'd Souldier, rough and hard of heart, |
Henry V | H5 IV.i.226 | We must bear all. O hard condition, | We must beare all. / O hard Condition, |
Henry V | H5 IV.vii.86 | What is this castle called that stands hard by? | What is this Castle call'd that stands hard by. |
Henry V | H5 V.ii.294 | lord, a hard condition for a maid to consign to. | Lord) a hard Condition for a Maid to consigne to. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.87 | Again, in pity of my hard distress, | Againe, in pitty of my hard distresse, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.23 | O thou whose wounds become hard-favoured Death, | O thou whose wounds become hard fauoured death, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.99 | Because thy flinty heart, more hard than they, | Because thy flinty heart more hard then they, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.20 | brave mind than a hard hand. | braue minde, then a hard hand. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.93 | hard with you. | hard with you. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.106 | brother are hard by, with the King's forces. | brother are hard by, with the Kings Forces. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.45 | For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language. | For he is fierce, and cannot brooke hard Language. |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.51 | She is hard by with twenty thousand men; | She is hard by, with twentie thousand men: |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.200 | Then Clifford, were thy heart as hard as steel, | Then Clifford, were thy heart as hard as Steele, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.77 | What! Not an oath? Nay, then the world goes hard | What, not an Oath? Nay then the world go's hard |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.50 | He plies her hard; and much rain wears the marble. | Hee plyes her hard, and much Raine weares the Marble. |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.78 | Hard-favoured Richard; Richard, where art thou? | Hard fauor'd Richard? Richard, where art thou? |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.1 | Good day, my lord. What! At your book so hard? | Good day, my Lord, what at your Booke so hard? |
Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.52.1 | Too hard an exclamation. | Too hard an exclamation. |
Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.11.2 | Hearts of most hard temper | Hearts of most hard temper |
Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.101 | Our hard-ruled King. Again, there is sprung up | Our hard rul'd King. Againe, there is sprung vp |
Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.117 | Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts | Strikes his brest hard, and anon, he casts |
Henry VIII | H8 V.i.57 | My mind's not on't; you are too hard for me. | My mindes not on't, you are too hard for me. |
Julius Caesar | JC I.i.36 | O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, | O you hard hearts, you cruell men of Rome, |
Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.75 | That I do fawn on men and hug them hard, | That I do fawne on men, and hugge them hard, |
Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.173 | Under these hard conditions as this time | Vnder these hard Conditions, as this time |
Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.310 | Caesar doth bear me hard, but he loves Brutus. | Casar doth beare me hard, but he loues Brutus. |
Julius Caesar | JC II.i.215 | Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard, | Caius Ligarius doth beare Casar hard, |
Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.9 | How hard it is for women to keep counsel! | How hard it is for women to keepe counsell. |
Julius Caesar | JC III.i.157 | I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard, | I do beseech yee, if you beare me hard, |
Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.74 | From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash | From the hard hands of Peazants, their vile trash |
King Edward III | E3 III.i.117.1 | A table and provisions brought in; the battle heard afar off | The battell hard a farre off. |
King Edward III | E3 III.iii.13 | Good news, my lord; the Prince is hard at hand, | Good newes my Lord the prince is hard at hand, |
King John | KJ III.i.310 | Made hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee, | made hard with kneeling, / I doe pray to thee, |
King John | KJ IV.i.67 | Are you more stubborn-hard than hammered iron? | Are you more stubborne hard, then hammer'd Iron? |
King Lear | KL II.ii.153 | Pray do not, sir. I have watched and travelled hard. | Pray do not Sir, I haue watch'd and trauail'd hard, |
King Lear | KL II.iv.237 | Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible. | Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible. |
King Lear | KL III.i.27 | Or the hard rein which both of them have borne | Or the hard Reine which both of them hath borne |
King Lear | KL III.ii.61 | Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel; | Gracious my Lord, hard by heere is a Houell, |
King Lear | KL III.ii.63 | Repose you there while I to this hard house – | Repose you there, while I to this hard house, |
King Lear | KL III.iv.142 | T' obey in all your daughters' hard commands; | T'obey in all your daughters hard commands: |
King Lear | KL III.vi.77 | these hard hearts? You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred. | these hard-hearts. You sir, I entertaine for one of my hundred; |
King Lear | KL III.vi.98 | Stand in hard cure. (To the Fool) Come, help to bear thy master. | |
King Lear | KL III.vii.32.2 | Hard, hard! O filthy traitor! | Hard, hard: O filthy Traitor. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.47 | O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep, | O, these are barren taskes, too hard to keepe, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.65 | Or, having sworn too hard-a-keeping oath, | Or hauing sworne too hard a keeping oath, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.169 | had a very good wit. Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for | had a very good witte. Cupids Butshaft is too hard for |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.244.2 | You are too hard for me. | You are too hard for me. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.1 | Was that the King that spurred his horse so hard | Was that the King that spurd his horse so hard, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.139 | She's too hard for you at pricks, sir. Challenge her to bowl. | She's too hard for you at pricks, sir challenge her to boule. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.796 | If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weeds, | If frosts, and fasts, hard lodging, and thin weeds |
Macbeth | Mac I.vii.62 | Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey | (Whereto the rather shall his dayes hard Iourney |
Macbeth | Mac III.iv.142 | Is the initiate fear that wants hard use. | Is the initiate feare, that wants hard vse: |
Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.139.1 | 'Tis hard to reconcile. | 'Tis hard to reconcile. |
Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.51 | Friar, not I. I have been drinking hard all | Friar, not I: I haue bin drinking hard all |
The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.24 | by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard, Nerissa, that I | by the will of a dead father: it is not hard Nerrissa, that I |
The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.158 | Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect | Whose owne hard dealings teaches them suspect |
The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.25 | my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience to offer to | my conscience is a kinde of hard conscience, to offer to |
The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.40 | By God's sonties, 'twill be a hard way to hit! Can | Be Gods sonties 'twill be a hard waie to hit, can |
The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.66 | shall go hard but I will better the instruction. | shall goe hard but I will better the instruction. |
The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.102 | Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee; | Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee, |
The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.290 | It will go hard with poor Antonio. | It will goe hard with poore Anthonio. |
The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.78 | You may as well do anything most hard | You may as well do any thing most hard, |
The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.145.2 | He attendeth here hard by | He attendeth heere hard by |
The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.81 | Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage | Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.9 | Robert, be ready here hard by in the brew-house. And | Robert) be ready here hard-by in the Brew-house, & |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.36 | Hard by, at street end. He will be here | Hard by, at street end; he wil be here |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.103 | shoulders. Your master is hard at door. If he bid you | shoulders: your Master is hard at doore: if hee bid you |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.iii.13 | They are all couched in a pit hard by | They are all couch'd in a pit hard by |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.43 | Well, it shall be so. But there is two hard things: | Well, it shall be so; but there is two hard things, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.72 | Hard-handed men that work in Athens here, | Hard handed men, that worke in Athens heere, |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.118 | I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart, for, | I could finde in my heart that I had not a hard heart, for |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.272 | Any hard lesson that may do thee good. | Any hard Lesson that may do thee good. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.38 | ‘ horn ’ – a hard rhyme; for ‘ school ’, ‘ fool ’ – a babbling | horne, a hard time: for schoole foole, a babling |
Othello | Oth I.ii.10 | I did full hard forbear him. But I pray, sir, | I did full hard forbeare him. But I pray you Sir, |
Othello | Oth I.iii.351 | barbarian and a super-subtle Venetian not too hard | Barbarian, and super-subtle Venetian be not too hard |
Othello | Oth II.i.253 | mutualities so marshal the way, hard at hand comes the | mutabilities so marshall the way, hard at hand comes the |
Othello | Oth III.iii.283 | Let me but bind it hard, within this hour | Let me but binde it hard, within this houre |
Othello | Oth III.iii.419 | Cry ‘ O sweet creature!’ and then kiss me hard, | Cry, oh sweet Creature: then kisse me hard, |
Pericles | Per I.i.30 | For deathlike dragons here affright thee hard. | For Death like Dragons heere affright thee hard: |
Richard II | R2 II.iii.7 | Making the hard way sweet and delectable. | Making the hard way sweet and delectable: |
Richard II | R2 III.ii.111 | With hard bright steel, and hearts harder than steel. | With hard bright Steele, and hearts harder then Steele: |
Richard II | R2 V.v.16 | ‘ It is as hard to come as for a camel | It is as hard to come, as for a Camell |
Richard II | R2 V.v.21 | Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls, | Of this hard world, my ragged prison walles: |
Richard III | R3 III.vii.92 | Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence, | Are at their Beades, 'tis much to draw them thence, |
Richard III | R3 V.iii.341 | Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood! | Spurre your proud Horses hard, and ride in blood, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.2 | In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think, | In penalty alike, and 'tis not hard I thinke, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.63 | The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, | The Orchard walls are high, and hard to climbe, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.79 | Who knocks so hard? Whence come you? What's your will? | Who knocks so hard? / Whence come you? what's your will? |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.183 | Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing; | Well haue you heard, but something hard of hearing: |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.80 | My life, sir? How, I pray? For that goes hard. | My life sir? how I pray? for that goes hard. |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.104 | It shall go hard if Cambio go without her. | It shall goe hard if Cambio goe without her. |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.343 | In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me | In this hard Rocke, whiles you doe keepe from me |
The Tempest | Tem III.i.16 | Work not so hard. I would the lightning had | Worke not so hard: I would the lightning had |
The Tempest | Tem III.i.20 | Is hard at study. Pray now, rest yourself. | Is hard at study; pray now rest your selfe, |
Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.216 | After distasteful looks and these hard fractions, | After distastefull lookes; and these hard Fractions |
Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.76.2 | Hard fate! He might have died in war. | Hard fate: he might haue dyed in warre. |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.270 | Hath made thee hard in't. Why shouldst thou hate men? | Hath made thee hard in't. Why should'st yu hate Men? |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.155 | O be to me, though thy hard heart say no, | Oh be to me though thy hard hart say no, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.45 | A stone is soft as wax, tribunes, more hard than stones. | A stone is as soft waxe, / Tribunes more hard then stones: |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.60 | Hard as the palm of ploughman! This thou tell'st me, | Hard as the palme of Plough-man. This thou tel'st me; |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.25 | The hard and soft, seem all affined and kin; | The hard and soft, seeme all affin'd, and kin. |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.316 | Blunt wedges rive hard knots; the seeded pride | Blunt wedges riue hard knots: the seeded Pride |
Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.48 | Should have hare-hearts, would they but fat their thoughts | Should haue hard hearts, wold they but fat their thoghts |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.114 | Why was my Cressid then so hard to win? | Why was my Cressid then so hard to win? |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.115 | Hard to seem won; but I was won, my lord, | Hard to seeme won: but I was won my Lord |
Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.45.2 | That were hard to compass, | That were hard to compasse, |
Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.102 | none of me; the Count himself, here hard by, woos her. | none of me: the Connt himselfe here hard by, wooes her. |
Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.41 | It is too hard a knot for me t' untie. | It is too hard a knot for me t'vnty. |
Twelfth Night | TN III.i.112 | Under your hard construction must I sit, | Vnder your hard construction must I sit, |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.85 | It shall go hard but I'll prove it by another. | It shall goe hard but ile proue it by another. |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.137 | being so hard to me that brought your mind, I fear she'll | being so hard to me, that brought your minde; / I feare / she'll |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.138 | prove as hard to you in telling your mind. Give her no | proue as hard to you in telling your minde. / Giue her no |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.139 | token but stones, for she's as hard as steel. | token but stones, for she's as hard as steele. |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.47 | Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset. | Now, daughter Siluia, you are hard beset. |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.81 | To bear a hard opinion of his truth; | To beare a hard opinion of his truth: |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.2 | him, look you, it goes hard – one that I brought up of a | him (looke you) it goes hard: one that I brought vp of a |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.25 | Her charitable heart, now hard and harsher | Her charitable heart now hard, and harsher |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.138 | Is our inheritance; no hard oppressor | Is our Inheritance: no hard Oppressour |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.176.3 | Or were they all hard-hearted? | Or were they all hard hearted? |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.106 | Yet pardon me hard language; when I spur | Yet pardon me hard language, when I spur |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.76 | I spurred hard to come up, and under me | I spurd hard to come up, and under me |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.104 | Hard-haired and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, | Hard hayr'd, and curld, thicke twind like Ivy tops, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.95 | He was kept down with hard meat and ill lodging; | He was kept downe with hard meate, and ill lodging |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK epilogue.5 | Then it goes hard, I see. He that has | Then it goes hard I see; He that has |
The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.5 | You'll kiss me hard, and speak to me as if | You'le kisse me hard, and speake to me, as if |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.276 | against the hard hearts of maids. It was thought she was | against the hard hearts of maids: it was thought she was |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.143 | Ay, or else 'twere hard luck, being in so | I: or else 'twere hard luck, being in so |