Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.164 | So strive upon your pulse. What, pale again? | So striue vpon your pulse; what pale agen? |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.196 | I know I love in vain, strive against hope, | I know I loue in vaine, striue against hope: |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.144 | I cannot love her nor will strive to do't. | I cannot loue her, nor will striue to doo't. |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.145 | Thou wrongest thyself if thou shouldst strive to choose. | Thou wrong'st thy selfe, if thou shold'st striue to choose. |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iii.5 | We'll strive to bear it for your worthy sake | Wee'l striue to beare it for your worthy sake, |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.14 | I prithee do not strive against my vows. | I prethee do not striue against my vowes: |
Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.73 | So bravely done, so rich, that it did strive | So brauely done, so rich, that it did striue |
Cymbeline | Cym V.v.152 | Than die ere I hear more: strive, man, and speak. | Then dye ere I heare more: striue man, and speake. |
Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.169 | Tell you the Duke, shall prosper. Bid him strive | (Tell you the Duke) shall prosper, bid him striue |
Julius Caesar | JC II.i.325 | And I will strive with things impossible, | And I will striue with things impossible, |
King John | KJ IV.ii.28 | When workmen strive to do better than well, | When Workemen striue to do better then wel, |
King Lear | KL I.i.85 | Strive to be interessed; what can you say to draw | Striue to be interest. What can you say, to draw |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.37 | Only for praise' sake, when they strive to be | Onely for praise sake, when they striue to be |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.93 | But if thou strive, poor soul, what art thou then? | But if thou striue (poore soule) what art thou then? |
Othello | Oth V.ii.82 | Nay, if you strive – | Nay, if you striue. |
Pericles | Per Chorus.II.19 | From others' labours, forthy he strive | From others labours; for though he striue |
Richard II | R2 II.i.3 | Vex not yourself, nor strive not with your breath; | Vex not your selfe, nor striue not with your breth |
Richard II | R2 III.ii.114 | Strive to speak big and clap their female joints | Striue to speake bigge, and clap their female ioints |
Richard II | R2 V.i.100 | That I may strive to kill it with a groan. | That I may striue to kill it with a groane. |
Richard III | R3 I.iv.36 | Methought I had; and often did I strive | Me thought I had, and often did I striue |
Richard III | R3 V.iii.105 | I'll strive with troubled thoughts to take a nap, | Ile striue with troubled noise, to take a Nap, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.276 | Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. | Striue mightily, but eate and drinke as friends. |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.17 | To strive for that which resteth in my choice. | To striue for that which resteth in my choice: |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.460.1 | Good things will strive to dwell with't. | Good things will striue to dwell with't. |
The Tempest | Tem III.i.23.1 | What I must strive to do. | What I must striue to do. |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.230 | I'd strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep | I'ld striue to tell you: we were dead of sleepe, |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.27 | That 'gainst the stream of virtue they may strive, | That 'gainst the streame of Vertue they may striue, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.18 | Princes that strive by factions and by friends | Princes, that striue by Factions, and by Friends, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.177 | Sirs, strive no more. Such withered herbs as these | Sirs striue no more, such withered hearbs as these |
Twelfth Night | TN V.i.405 | And we'll strive to please you every day. | and wee'l striue to please you euery day. |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.64 | The hardy youths strive for the games of honour, | The hardy youthes strive for the Games of honour |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.529 | Your discontenting father strive to qualify, | Your discontenting Father, striue to qualifie |