Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Coriolanus | Cor II.i.8 | The lamb. | The Lambe. |
Coriolanus | Cor II.i.11 | He's a lamb indeed, that baas like a bear. | He's a Lambe indeed, that baes like a Beare. |
Coriolanus | Cor II.i.12 | He's a bear indeed, that lives like a lamb. You | Hee's a Beare indeede, that liues like a Lambe. You |
Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.49 | Both filled and running – ravening first the lamb, | Both fill'd and running: Rauening first the Lambe, |
Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.98 | The lamb entreats the butcher. Where's thy knife? | The Lambe entreats the Butcher. Wher's thy knife? |
Henry V | H5 III.vii.31 | rising of the lark to the lodging of the lamb, vary | rising of the Larke to the lodging of the Lambe, varie |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.55 | The fox barks not when he would steal the lamb. | The Fox barkes not, when he would steale the Lambe. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.71 | As is the sucking lamb or harmless dove. | As is the sucking Lambe, or harmelesse Doue: |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.77 | Is he a lamb? His skin is surely lent him, | Is he a Lambe? his Skinne is surely lent him, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.74 | thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be | thing, that of the skin of an innocent Lambe should be |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.242 | The trembling lamb environed with wolves. | The trembling Lambe, inuironned with Wolues. |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.49 | And when the lion fawns upon the lamb, | And when the Lyon fawnes vpon the Lambe, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.50 | The lamb will never cease to follow him. | The Lambe will neuer cease to follow him. |
Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.109 | O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb | O Cassius, you are yoaked with a Lambe |
King John | KJ IV.i.79 | And I will sit as quiet as a lamb. | And I will sit as quiet as a Lambe. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.206 | No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips. | No Sheepe (sweet Lamb) vnlesse we feed on your lips. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.90 | 'Gainst thee, thou lamb, that standest as his prey. | Gainst thee thou Lambe, that standest as his pray: |
Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.16 | To offer up a weak poor innocent lamb | To offer vp a weake, poore innocent Lambe |
Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.54 | Esteem him as a lamb, being compared | Esteeme him as a Lambe, being compar'd |
Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.8 | furred with fox and lamb skins too, to signify that craft, | furd with Foxe and Lamb-skins too, to signifie, that craft |
Measure for Measure | MM V.i.296 | Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox? | Come you to seeke the Lamb here of the Fox; |
The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.74 | Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb, | The Ewe bleate for the Lambe: |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.15 | lamb, the feats of a lion; he hath indeed better bettered | Lambe, the feats of a Lion, he hath indeede better bettred |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.69 | lamb when it baas will never answer a calf when he | Lambe when it baes, will neuer answere a calfe when he |
Richard II | R2 II.i.174 | In peace was never gentle lamb more mild | In peace, was neuer gentle Lambe more milde, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.3 | I bade her come. What, lamb! What, ladybird! – | I bad her come, what Lamb: what Ladi-bird, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.44 | gentle as a lamb. Go thy ways, wench. Serve God. What, | gentle a Lambe: go thy waies wench, serue God. What |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.76 | Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb! | Rauenous Doue-feather'd Rauen, / Woluish-rauening Lambe, |
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.ii.156 | Tut, she's a lamb, a dove, a fool to him. | Tut, she's a Lambe, a Doue, a foole to him: |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.331 | thee. If thou wert the lamb, the fox would eat thee. If | thee. if thou wert the Lambe, the Foxe would eate thee: if |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.223 | All on a heap, like to a slaughtered lamb, | All on a heape like to the slaughtred Lambe, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.136 | I am a lamb, but if you brave the Moor, | I am a Lambe: but if you braue the Moore, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.191 | As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf, | As Foxe to Lambe; as Wolfe to Heifers Calfe; |
Twelfth Night | TN V.i.128 | I'll sacrifice the lamb that I do love | Ile sacrifice the Lambe that I do loue, |