Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.125 | the face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring. There | the face of the earth, then am I a shotten Herring: there |
King Lear | KL III.vi.31 | white herring. Croak not, black angel! I have no food for | |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.11 | By gar, de herring is no dead so as I vill kill him. | By gar, de herring is no dead, so as I vill kill him: |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.37 | Without his roe, like a dried herring. O flesh, | Without his Roe, like a dryed Hering. O flesh, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.58 | a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I | a Lizard, an Owle, a Puttocke, or a Herring without a Roe, I |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.116 | pickle-herring! (To Feste) How now, sot! | pickle herring: How now Sot. |