Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.21 | The angered ocean foams; with which I meant | The anger'd Ocean fomes, with which I meant |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.68 | Whate'er the ocean pales, or sky inclips, | What ere the Ocean pales, or skie inclippes, |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.82 | His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm | His legges bestrid the Ocean, his rear'd arme |
The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.36 | That in the ocean seeks another drop, | That in the Ocean seekes another drop, |
Hamlet | Ham IV.v.101 | The ocean, overpeering of his list, | The Ocean (ouer-peering of his List) |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.50 | The beachy girdle of the ocean | The beachie Girdle of the Ocean |
Henry V | H5 I.chorus.22 | The perilous narrow ocean parts asunder. | The perillous narrow Ocean parts asunder. |
Henry V | H5 III.i.14 | Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. | Swill'd with the wild and wastfull Ocean. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.143 | Upon his face an ocean of salt tears, | Vpon his face an Ocean of salt teares, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.20 | Like to his island girt in with the ocean, | Like to his Iland, gyrt in with the Ocean, |
Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.7 | Th' ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam, | Th'ambitious Ocean swell, and rage, and foame, |
King Edward III | E3 III.i.78 | They plough the ocean hitherward amain. | They plough the Ocean hitherward amayne: |
King John | KJ II.i.340 | A peaceful progress to the ocean? | A peacefull progresse to the Ocean. |
King John | KJ IV.iii.132 | And it shall be as all the ocean, | And it shall be as all the Ocean, |
King John | KJ V.iv.57 | Even to our ocean, to our great King John. | Euen to our Ocean, to our great King Iohn. |
Macbeth | Mac II.ii.60 | Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood | Will all great Neptunes Ocean wash this blood |
The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.8 | Your mind is tossing on the ocean, | Your minde is tossing on the Ocean, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.133 | Give fire! She is my prize, or ocean whelm them all! | Giue fire: she is my prize, or Ocean whelme them all. |
Richard III | R3 I.i.4 | In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. | In the deepe bosome of the Ocean buried. |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.6 | And, having gilt the ocean with his beams, | And hauing gilt the Ocean with his beames, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.100 | For all the water in the ocean | For all the water in the Ocean, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.138 | The ocean, swells not so as Aaron storms. | The Ocean swells not so at Aaron stormes: |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.6 | You, cousins, shall go sound the ocean, | You Cosens shall goe sound the Ocean: |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.32 | With willing sport, to the wild ocean. | With willing sport to the wilde Ocean. |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.69 | A thousand oaths, an ocean of his tears, | A thousand oathes, an Ocean of his teares, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.7 | His ocean needs not my poor drops, yet they | His Ocean needes not my poore drops, yet they |