Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.199 | The winds were lovesick with them. The oars were silver, | The Windes were Loue-sicke. / With them the Owers were Siluer, |
The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.48 | Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hairs | Spread ore the siluer waues thy golden haires; |
Coriolanus | Cor I.v.3 | A murrain on't! I took this for silver. | A Murrain on't, I tooke this for Siluer. |
Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.69 | With tapestry of silk and silver, the story | With Tapistry of Silke, and Siluer, the Story |
Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.90 | Of silver, each on one foot standing, nicely | Of Siluer, each on one foote standing, nicely |
Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.26 | All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, | All Gold and Siluer rather turne to durt, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.98 | And here the smug and silver Trent shall run | And here the smug and Siluer Trent shall runne, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.17 | you neither in gold nor silver, but in vile apparel, and | you neyther in Gold, nor Siluer, but in vilde apparell, and |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.43 | Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touched, | Whose Beard, the Siluer Hand of Peace hath touch'd, |
Henry V | H5 III.iii.36 | Your fathers taken by the silver beards, | Your Fathers taken by the siluer Beards, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.72 | Troubles the silver spring where England drinks; | Troubles the siluer Spring, where England drinkes: |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.162 | Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair, | Old Salsbury, shame to thy siluer haire, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.47 | The silver livery of advised age, | The Siluer Liuery of aduised Age, |
Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.1.2 | with short silver wands; next them two Scribes, in | with short siluer wands; next them two Scribes in |
Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.1.8 | two Priests bearing each a silver cross; then Griffith, | two Priests, bearing each a Siluer Crosse: Then |
Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.1.10 | Sergeant-at-Arms bearing a silver mace; then two | Sergeant at Armes, bearing a Siluer Mace: Then two |
Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.1.11 | Gentlemen bearing two great silver pillars; after | Gentlemen bearing two great Siluer Pillers: After |
Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.13 | Surrey, bearing the rod of silver with the dove, | Surrey, bearing the Rod of Siluer with the Doue, |
Julius Caesar | JC II.i.144 | O, let us have him, for his silver hairs | O let vs haue him, for his Siluer haires |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.26 | Her voice more silver every word than other, | Her voice more siluer euery word then other, |
King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.18 | Shows like a silver quarry, or an orb, | Shewes like a siluer quarrie, or an orbe |
King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.125 | Now, Audley, sound those silver wings of thine, | Now Audley sound those siluer winges of thine, |
King John | KJ II.i.339 | Unless thou let his silver water keep | Vnlesse thou let his siluer Water, keepe |
King John | KJ II.i.441 | O, two such silver currents, when they join, | O two such siluer currents when they ioyne |
King John | KJ III.iii.13 | When gold and silver becks me to come on. | When gold and siluer becks me to come on. |
King John | KJ III.iv.63 | Where but by chance a silver drop hath fallen, | Where but by chance a filuer drop hath falne, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.28 | Nor shines the silver moon one half so bright | Nor shines the siluer Moone one halfe so bright, |
Macbeth | Mac II.iii.109 | His silver skin laced with his golden blood, | His Siluer skinne, lac'd with His Golden Blood, |
The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.28 | that he hath devised in these three chests of gold, silver, | that hee hath deuised in these three chests of gold, siluer, |
The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.92 | Or is your gold and silver ewes and rams? | Or is your gold and siluer Ewes and Rams? |
The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.6 | The second, silver, which this promise carries, | The second siluer, which this promise carries, |
The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.22 | What says the silver with her virgin hue? | What saies the Siluer with her virgin hue? |
The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.52 | Or shall I think in silver she's immured, | Or shall I thinke in Siluer she's immur'd |
The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.20 | To my heart's hope! Gold, silver, and base lead. | To my hearts hope: gold, siluer, and base lead. |
The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.34 | Why then, to thee, thou silver treasure house. | Why then to thee thou Siluer treasure house, |
The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.53 | He opens the silver casket | |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.48 | gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed – | Gold, and Siluer, is her Grand-sire vpon his deaths-bed, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.9 | And then the moon – like to a silver bow | And then the Moone, like to a siluer bow, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.210 | Her silver visage in the watery glass, | Her siluer visage, in the watry glasse, |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.27 | Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, | Cut with her golden ores the siluer streame, |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.18 | yours – cloth o' gold, and cuts, and laced with silver, set | yours, cloth a gold and cuts, and lac'd withsiluer, set |
Pericles | Per V.i.247 | Do't, and happy, by my silver bow. | doo't, and happie, by my siluer bow, |
Pericles | Per V.iii.7 | Wears yet thy silver livery. She at Tarsus | wears yet thy siluer liuerey, shee at Tharsus |
Richard II | R2 II.i.46 | This precious stone set in the silver sea, | This precious stone, set in the siluer sea, |
Richard II | R2 III.ii.107 | Which makes the silver rivers drown their shores | Which make the Siluer Riuers drowne their Shores, |
Richard II | R2 V.iii.60 | Thou sheer immaculate and silver fountain | Thou sheere, immaculate, and siluer fountaine, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.108 | That tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops – | That tips with siluer all these Fruite tree tops. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.127 | Then music with her silver sound ’ – | then Musicke with her siluer sound. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.128 | Why ‘ silver sound ’? Why ‘ music with her silver sound ’? | Why siluer sound? why Musicke with her siluer sound? |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.130 | Marry, sir, because silver hath a sweet | Mary sir, because siluer hath a sweet |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.133 | I say ‘ silver sound ’ because musicians | I say siluer sound, because Musitions |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.134 | sound for silver. | sound for siluer |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.138 | for you. It is ‘ music with her silver sound ’ because musicians | for you; it is Musicke with her siluer sound, / Because Musitions |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.140 | ‘ Then music with her silver sound | Then Musicke with her siluer sound, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.17 | Saw'st thou not, boy, how Silver made it good | Saw'st thou not boy how Siluer made it good |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.53 | Let one attend him with a silver basin | Let one attend him with a siluer Bason |
The Tempest | Tem II.ii.29 | would give a piece of silver. There would this monster | would giue a peece of siluer: there, would this Monster, |
The Tempest | Tem IV.i.256 | Silver! There it goes, Silver! | Siluer: there it goes, Siluer. |
Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.182 | Four milk-white horses, trapped in silver. | Foure Milke-white Horses, trapt in Siluer. |
Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.6 | warrant. Why, this hits right: I dreamt of a silver basin | warrant. Why this hits right: I dreampt of a Siluer Bason |
Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.73 | But Timon's silver treads upon his lip. | But Timons Siluer treads vpon his Lip, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.259 | Rend off thy silver hair, thy other hand | Rent off thy siluer haire, thy other hand |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.65 | As venerable Nestor, hatched in silver, | As venerable Nestor (hatch'd in Siluer) |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.296 | I'll hide my silver beard in a gold beaver, | Ile hide my Siluer beard in a Gold Beauer, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.140 | He bears a charging staff, embossed with silver. | He beares a charging Staffe, embost with silver. |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.20 | must bring a piece of silver on the tip of your tongue, | must / Bring a peece of silver on the tip of your tongue, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.137.4 | flowers; one before her carrying a silver hind, in | flowers: One before her carrying a silver Hynde, in |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.146 | And, sacred silver mistress, lend thine ear – | And sacred silver Mistris, lend thine eare |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.12 | More famous yet 'twixt Po and silver Trent. | More famous yet twixt Po and silver Trent. |