Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.85 | at an earthquake, 'twould mend the lottery well; a man | at an earthquake, 'twould mend the Lotterie well, a man |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.6 | Why, he will look upon his boot and sing, mend | Why he will looke vppon his boote, and sing: mend |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.63 | Our worser thoughts heavens mend! Alexas – | Our worser thoughts Heauens mend. Alexas. |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.45 | To mend the petty present, I will piece | To mend the petty present, I will peece |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.318 | I'll mend it, and then play – | Ile mend it, and then play--- |
As You Like It | AYL II.iv.91 | And we will mend thy wages: I like this place, | And we will mend thy wages: / I like this place, |
As You Like It | AYL III.ii.65 | very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend the instance, shepherd. | verie vncleanly fluxe of a Cat. Mend the instance Shepheard. |
As You Like It | AYL IV.i.175 | mend me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous, | mend mee, and by all pretty oathes that are not dangerous, |
As You Like It | AYL V.iii.45 | hear such a foolish song. God buy you, and God mend | heare such a foolish song. God buy you, and God mend |
The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.114 | Thus I mend it: Time himself is bald, and therefore | Thus I mend it: Time himselfe is bald, and therefore |
The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.110 | will mend. | will mend. |
The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.59 | Will you go with me? We'll mend our dinner here. | Will you goe with me, wee'll mend our dinner here? |
Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.38 | With flight and agued fear! Mend and charge home, | With flight and agued feare, mend and charge home, |
Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.26.1 | You must return and mend it. | you must returne, and mend it. |
Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.26.1 | That mend upon the world. | That mend vpon the world. |
Cymbeline | Cym V.v.68 | And prove it in thy feeling. Heaven mend all! | And proue it in thy feeling. Heauen mend all. |
Hamlet | Ham V.i.57 | your dull ass will not mend his pace with beating. And | your dull Asse will not mend his pace with beating; and |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.113 | lead this life long, I'll sew nether-stocks, and mend | leade this life long, Ile sowe nether stockes, and mend |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.243 | ‘ As true as I live!’, and ‘ As God shall mend me!’, and | as true as I liue; / And, as God shall mend me; and, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.109 | Well, God mend him! I pray you | Well, heauen mend him. I pray |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.163 | mightst mend him and make him fit to go. I cannot put | might'st mend him, and make him fit to goe. I cannot put |
Henry V | H5 IV.viii.69 | you to mend your shoes. Come, wherefore should you | you to mend your shooes: come, wherefore should you |
Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.201.2 | God mend all! | God mend all. |
Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.61 | You have now a broken banquet, but we'll mend it. | You haue now a broken Banket, but wee'l mend it. |
Henry VIII | H8 III.i.105 | Mend 'em for shame, my lords. Is this your comfort? | Mend 'em for shame my Lords: Is this your comfort? |
Julius Caesar | JC I.i.17 | yet if you be out, sir, I can mend you. | yet if you be out Sir, I can mend you. |
Julius Caesar | JC I.i.18 | What meanest thou by that? Mend me, thou saucy fellow? | What meanst thou by that? Mend mee, thou sawcy Fellow? |
King Lear | KL I.i.94 | How, how, Cordelia! Mend your speech a little | How, how Cordelia? mend your speech a little, |
King Lear | KL II.iv.224 | Mend when thou canst, be better at thy leisure; | Mend when thou can'st, be better at thy leisure, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.17 | Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow. | Where faire is not, praise cannot mend the brow. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.329 | Mend him who can. The ladies call him sweet. | Mend him who can: the Ladies call him sweete. |
Macbeth | Mac III.i.113.1 | To mend it or be rid on't. | To mend it, or be rid on't. |
Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.25 | So stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend. | So stinkingly depending? Go mend, go mend. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.420 | If you pardon, we will mend. | If you pardon, we will mend. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.84 | Serve God, love me, and mend. There will I | Serue God, loue me, and mend, there will I |
Othello | Oth II.iii.293 | it is as it is, mend it for your own good. | it is, as it is, mend it for your owne good. |
Othello | Oth IV.iii.104 | Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend! | Not to picke bad, from bad; but by bad, mend. |
Richard II | R2 II.iii.152 | I cannot mend it, I must needs confess, | I cannot mend it, I must needes confesse, |
Richard II | R2 III.ii.100 | Revolt our subjects? That we cannot mend. | Reuolt our Subiects? That we cannot mend, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.79 | You'll not endure him! God shall mend my soul! | Youle not endure him, God shall mend my soule, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.148 | I'll mend it with a largess. Take your paper too. | Ile mend it with a Largesse. Take your paper too, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.134 | Take that, and mend the plucking off the other. | Take that, and mend the plucking of the other. |
Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.176 | You mend the jewel by the wearing it. | You mend the Iewell by the wearing it. |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.284.2 | Here, I will mend thy feast. | Heere, I will mend thy Feast. |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.285 | First mend my company, take away thyself. | First mend thy company, take away thy selfe. |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.286 | So I shall mend mine own by th' lack of thine. | So I shall mend mine owne, by'th'lacke of thine |
Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.87.1 | You take much pains to mend. | You take much paines to mend. |
Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.185 | Of health and living now begins to mend, | Of Health, and Liuing, now begins to mend, |
Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.219 | What is amiss, plague and infection mend! | What is amisse, Plague and Infection mend. |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.40 | not dry. Bid the dishonest man mend himself: if he | not dry: bid the dishonest man mend himself, if he |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.41 | mend, he is no longer dishonest; if he cannot, let the | mend, he is no longer dishonest; if hee cannot, let the |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.42 | botcher mend him. Anything that's mended, is but | Botcher mend him: any thing that's mended, is but |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.69 | not mend? | not mend? |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.96 | Which does mend Nature – change it, rather – but | Which do's mend Nature: change it rather, but |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.164 | mend her kissing with! | mend her kissing with. |