Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.73 | That's able to breathe life into a stone, | That's able to breath life into a stone, |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.115 | Go to, then; your considerate stone. | Go too then: your Considerate stone. |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.160 | And poison it in the source, and the first stone | And poyson it in the sourse, and the first stone |
As You Like It | AYL II.iv.43 | I broke my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for | I broke my sword vpon a stone, and bid him take that for |
The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.73 | A nut, a cherry stone. | a nut, a cherrie-stone: |
Coriolanus | Cor I.i.204 | That hunger broke stone walls, that dogs must eat, | That Hunger-broke stone wals: that dogges must eate |
Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.2 | cornerstone? | corner stone? |
Cymbeline | Cym I.v.74 | I praised her as I rated her: so do I my stone. | I prais'd her, as I rated her: so do I my Stone. |
Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.40 | Sparkles this stone as it was wont, or is't not | Sparkles this Stone as it was wont, or is't not |
Hamlet | Ham IV.v.32 | At his heels a stone. | at his heeles a stone. |
Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.20 | Work like the spring that turneth wood to stone, | Would like the Spring that turneth Wood to Stone, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.35 | And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone, | And this Worme-eaten-Hole of ragged Stone, |
Henry V | H5 II.iii.23 | bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone; | Bed, and felt them, and they were as cold as any stone: |
Henry V | H5 II.iii.25 | all was as cold as any stone. | all was as cold as any stone. |
Henry V | H5 III.vi.28 | That stands upon the rolling restless stone – | that stands vpon the rolling restlesse Stone. |
Henry V | H5 III.vi.35 | spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls. In | Sphericall Stone, which rowles, and rowles, and rowles: in |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vi.1.2 | on London Stone | staffe on London stone. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vi.2 | upon London Stone, I charge and command that, | vpon London Stone, / I charge and command, that |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.50 | My heart is turned to stone, and while 'tis mine | My heart is turn'd to stone: and while 'tis mine, |
Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.104 | When ye first put this dangerous stone a-rolling, | When we first put this dangerous stone a rowling, |
King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.36 | Hath with a stone foiled twenty stout Goliaths; | Hath with a stone foild twentie stout Goliahs, |
King John | KJ IV.i.76 | I will not struggle; I will stand stone-still. | I will not struggle, I will stand stone still: |
King Lear | KL V.iii.260 | If that her breath will mist or stain the stone, | If that her breath will mist or staine the stone, |
Macbeth | Mac IV.i.6 | Toad that under cold stone | Toad, that vnder cold stone, |
Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.53 | Is more to bread than stone. Hence shall we see, | Is more to bread then stone: hence shall we see |
The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.30 | And see the holy edifice of stone | And see the holy edifice of stone, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.110 | have a stone to throw at his dog. | haue a stone to throw at his dogge. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.30 | A stone. | A Stone. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.31 | And what is ‘ a stone,’ William? | And what is a Stone (William?) |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.159 | This loam, this roughcast, and this stone doth show | This loame, this rough-cast, and this stone doth shew, |
Othello | Oth IV.i.182 | stone: I strike it, and it hurts my hand. – O, the world | stone: I strike it, and it hurts my hand. Oh, the world |
Othello | Oth V.ii.63 | O perjured woman! Thou dost stone my heart, | O periur'd woman, thou do'st stone my heart, |
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.iii.26 | Within the limits of yon lime and stone, | Within the limits of yond Lime and Stone, |
Richard III | R3 III.vii.223 | Call them again. I am not made of stone, | Call them againe, I am not made of Stones, |
Richard III | R3 V.iii.251 | A base foul stone, made precious by the foil | A base foule Stone, made precious by the soyle |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.54 | A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone, | a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels stone? |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.55 | In shape no bigger than an agate stone | in shape no bigger then Agat-stone, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.87 | Because she brought stone jugs and no sealed quarts. | Because she brought stone-Iugs, and no seal'd quarts: |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.372 | I am sorry I shall lose a stone by thee. | I am sorry I shall lose a stone by thee. |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.373 | He throws a stone at Apemantus | |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.381 | Thy grave-stone daily. Make thine epitaph, | Thy graue stone dayly, make thine Epitaph, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.29 | And you recount your sorrows to a stone. | And you recount your sorrowes to a stone. |
Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.45 | A stone is soft as wax, tribunes, more hard than stones. | A stone is as soft waxe, / Tribunes more hard then stones: |
Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.46 | A stone is silent and offendeth not, | A stone is silent, and offendeth not, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.223 | The fall of every Phrygian stone will cost | The fall of euery Phrygian stone will cost |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.18 | There is a word will Priam turn to stone, | There is a word will Priam turne to stone; |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.80 | ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look | ordinary foole, that has no more braine then a stone. Looke |
Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.197 | I have said too much unto a heart of stone, | I haue said too much vnto a hart of stone, |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.9 | cur shed one tear. He is a stone, a very pebble-stone, | Curre shedde one teare: he is a stone, a very pibble stone, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.129 | Though it were made of stone. Pray have good comfort. | Though it were made of stone: pray have good comfort. |
The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.360 | Nor brass, nor stone, nor parchment bears not one, | Nor Brasse, nor Stone, nor Parchment beares not one, |
The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.90.1 | As ever oak or stone was sound. | As euer Oake, or Stone was sound. |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.594 | all my trumpery: not a counterfeit stone, not a ribbon, | all my Tromperie: not a counterfeit Stone, not a Ribbon, |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.25 | Chide me, dear stone, that I may say indeed | Chide me (deare Stone) that I may say indeed |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.37 | I am ashamed. Does not the stone rebuke me | I am asham'd: Do's not the Stone rebuke me, |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.38 | For being more stone than it? O royal piece! | For being more Stone then it? Oh Royall Peece: |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.42.1 | Standing like stone with thee. | Standing like Stone with thee. |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.58 | Would thus have wrought you – for the stone is mine – | Would thus haue wrought you (for the Stone is mine) |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.99 | 'Tis time: descend; be stone no more; approach; | 'Tis time: descend: be Stone no more: approach: |