Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.78 | What, one good in ten? You corrupt the song, | What, one good in tenne? you corrupt the song |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.81 | purifying o'th' song. Would God would serve the world | purifying ath' song: would God would serue the world |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.9 | hold a goodly manor for a song. | hold a goodly Mannor for a song. |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.111 | (sings) | The Song. |
As You Like It | AYL II.v.1 | (sings) | Song. |
As You Like It | AYL II.v.12 | melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, | melancholly out of a song, / As a Weazel suckes egges: More, |
As You Like It | AYL II.v.28 | Well, I'll end the song. – Sirs, cover the while: | Wel, Ile end the song. Sirs, couer the while, |
As You Like It | AYL II.v.35 | (sing) | Song. |
As You Like It | AYL II.vii.4 | Here was he merry, hearing of a song. | Heere was he merry, hearing of a Song. |
As You Like It | AYL II.vii. | (sings) | Song. |
As You Like It | AYL III.ii.240 | I would sing my song without a burden. Thou | I would sing my song without a burthen, thou |
As You Like It | AYL IV.ii.5 | upon his head for a branch of victory. Have you no song, | vpon his head, for a branch of victory; haue you no song |
As You Like It | AYL IV.ii.9b | SONG | Musicke, Song. |
As You Like It | AYL V.iii.8 | a song. | a song. |
As You Like It | AYL V.iii.14a | SONG | Song. |
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 |
As You Like It | AYL V.iv.137a | SONG | Song. |
The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.172 | I'll stop mine ears against the mermaid's song. | Ile stop mine eares against the Mermaids song. |
Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.18a | SONG | SONG. |
Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.254 | We'll say our song the whilst. – Brother, begin. | Wee'l say our Song the whil'st: Brother begin. |
Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.257a | SONG | SONG. |
Hamlet | Ham IV.v.27 | Alas, sweet lady, what imports this song? | Alas sweet Lady: what imports this Song? |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.209 | And she will sing the song that pleaseth you, | And rest your gentle Head vpon her Lappe, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.210 | And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep, | And she will sing the Song that pleaseth you, And on your Eye-lids Crowne the God of Sleepe, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.239 | Here the lady sings a Welsh song | Heere the Lady sings a Welsh Song. |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.239 | Come, Kate, I'll have your song too. | Come, Ile haue your Song too. |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.13 | Why, there is it. Come, sing me a bawdy song, | Why there is it: Come, sing me a bawdy Song, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.270 | merry song! Come, it grows late; we'll to bed. Thou'lt | merrie Song, come: it growes late, wee will to Bed. Thou wilt |
Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.41 | A French song and a fiddle has no fellow. | A French Song, and a Fiddle, ha's no Fellow. |
Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.45 | A long time out of play, may bring his plainsong, | A long time out of play, may bring his plaine song, |
Henry VIII | H8 III.i.2 | (sings) | SONG. |
Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.265.1 | Music, and a song | Musicke, and a Song. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.1 | Enter Armado and Mote | Enter Broggart and Boy. Song. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.405 | Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song. | Nor woo in rime like a blind-harpers songue, |
Macbeth | Mac III.v.33 | Music and a song | Musicke, and a Song. |
Macbeth | Mac IV.i.43 | Music and a song: ‘ Black spirits,’ etc. | Musicke and a Song. Blacke Spirits, &c. |
Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.7 | Break off thy song, and haste thee quick away. | Breake off thy song, and haste thee quick away, |
The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.63.1 | A song the whilst Bassanio comments on the caskets to | Here Musicke. A Song the whilst Bassanio comments on the Caskets to |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.53 | With some diffused song. Upon their sight, | With some diffused song: Vpon their sight |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.93.0 | THE SONG | The Song. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.103.1 | During this song they pinch Falstaff; and Doctor | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.152 | That the rude sea grew civil at her song, | That the rude sea grew ciuill at her song, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.1 | Come, now a roundel and a fairy song, | Come, now a Roundell, and a Fairy song; |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.206 | Both warbling of one song, both in one key, | Both warbling of one song, both in one key; |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.387 | First rehearse your song by rote, | First rehearse this song by roate, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.391 | Song and dance | The Song. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.174 | in the song? | in the song? |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.41 | Come, Balthasar, we'll hear that song again. | Come Balthasar, wee'll heare that song again. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.60 | The Song | The Song. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.76 | By my troth, a good song. | By my troth a good song. |
Othello | Oth II.iii.70 | 'Fore God, an excellent song. | 'Fore Heauen: an excellent Song. |
Othello | Oth II.iii.93 | 'Fore God, this is a more exquisite song than the | Why this is a more exquisite Song then the |
Othello | Oth IV.iii.27 | And did forsake her. She had a song of willow; | And did forsake her. She had a Song of Willough, |
Othello | Oth IV.iii.29 | And she died singing it. That song tonight | And she dy'd singing it. That Song to night, |
Othello | Oth V.ii.244.2 | What did thy song bode, lady? | What did thy Song boad Lady? |
Pericles | Per Chorus.I.1 | To sing a song that old was sung, | TO sing a Song that old was sung, |
Pericles | Per V.i.79.4 | Marina sings | The Song. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.15 | ear with a love song; the very pin of his heart cleft with | eare with a Loue song, the very pinne of his heart, cleft with |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.375 | Song | |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.397 | Song | |
The Tempest | Tem II.i.302 | Enter Ariel with music and song | Enter Ariell with Musicke and Song. |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.28 | Be unto us as is a nurse's song | Be vnto vs, as is a Nurses Song |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.103 | sing you a song now. | you a song now. |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.107 | Let thy song be love; this love will undo us all. O | Let thy song be loue: this loue will vndoe vs al. Oh |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.29 | when all is done. Now, a song! | when all is done. Now a song. |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.31 | song. | song. |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.34 | Would you have a love song, or a song of good life? | Would you haue a loue-song, or a song of good life? |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.35 | A love song! A love song! | A loue song, a loue song. |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.2 | Now, good Cesario, but that piece of song, | Now good Cesario , but that peece of song, |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.3 | That old and antique song we heard last night. | That old and Anticke song we heard last night; |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.42 | O, fellow, come, the song we had last night. | O fellow come, the song we had last night: |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.50 | (sings) | The Song. |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.88 | Let's see your song. How now, minion! | Let's see your Song: / How now Minion? |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.95 | There wanteth but a mean to fill your song. | There wanteth but a Meane to fill your Song. |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.38 | Song | Song. |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.1.9 | then Artesius and attendants | The Song, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.1.3 | SONG | |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.63 | And listened to the words she sung, for then, | And listned to the words she song, for then |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.105.1 | Is not this a fine song? | Is not this a fine Song? |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.120 | of virtue! (sings) | of Vertue. Song. |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.58 | Would sing her song and dance her turn; now here, | Would sing her song, and dance her turne: now heere |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.295 | They sing | Song |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.307 | We'll have this song out anon by ourselves: my | Wee'l haue this song out anon by our selues: My |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.313 | He follows them, singing | Song. |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.602 | reasonable man, grew so in love with the wenches' song | reasonable man) grew so in loue with the Wenches Song, |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.609 | song, and admiring the nothing of it. So that in this time | Song, and admiring the Nothing of it. So that in this time |