Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.39 | If every of your wishes had a womb, | If euery of your wishes had a wombe, |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.163 | Till by degrees the memory of my womb, | Till by degrees the memory of my wombe, |
Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.6 | and the only son of my womb, when youth with | and the onely Sonne of my womb; when youth with |
Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.124 | Trust to't, thou shalt not – on thy mother's womb | (Trust too't, thou shalt not) on thy Mothers wombe |
Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.37 | I died whilst in the womb he stayed, | I dy'de whil'st in the Wombe he staide, |
Hamlet | Ham I.i.138 | Extorted treasure in the womb of earth, | Extorted Treasure in the wombe of Earth, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.23 | Whose arms were moulded in their mother's womb | Whose armes were moulded in their Mothers wombe, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.28 | Within her womb, which for enlargement striving | Within her Wombe: which for enlargement striuing, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.22 | my womb, my womb, my womb undoes me. Here | my wombe, my wombe, my wombe vndoes mee. Heere |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iv.13 | the fruit of her womb miscarry! | the Fruite of her Wombe might miscarry. |
Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.4 | From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, | From Camp to Camp, through the foule Womb of Night |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.35 | Ay, rather than I'll shame my mother's womb. | I, rather then Ile shame my Mothers Wombe. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.63 | Murder not then the fruit within my womb, | Murther not then the Fruite within my Wombe, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.153 | Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb; | Why Loue forswore me in my Mothers Wombe: |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.18 | For love of Edward's offspring in my womb. | For loue of Edwards Off-spring in my wombe: |
Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.188 | Commanded nature that my lady's womb, | Commanded Nature, that my Ladies wombe |
King Edward III | E3 I.i.14 | And from the fragrant garden of her womb | And from the fragrant garden of her wombe, |
King John | KJ II.i.182 | Removed from thy sin-conceiving womb. | Remoued from thy sinne-conceiuing wombe. |
King John | KJ III.i.44 | Ugly and slanderous to thy mother's womb, | Vgly, and slandrous to thy Mothers wombe, |
King John | KJ IV.iii.128 | That ever spider twisted from her womb | That euer Spider twisted from her wombe |
King John | KJ V.ii.152 | You bloody Neroes, ripping up the womb | you bloudy Nero's, ripping vp the wombe |
King Lear | KL I.iv.275 | Into her womb convey sterility, | Into her Wombe conuey stirrility, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.70 | nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered | nourisht in the wombe of primater, and deliuered |
Macbeth | Mac V.vi.54 | Tell thee Macduff was from his mother's womb | Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb |
Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.43 | To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb | To teeming foyson: euen so her plenteous wombe |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.131 | Following – her womb then rich with my young squire – | Following (her wombe then rich with my yong squire) |
Othello | Oth I.iii.365 | womb of time, which will be delivered. Traverse! Go, | Wombe of Time, which wilbe deliuered. Trauerse, go, |
Pericles | Per I.i.108 | All love the womb that their first being bred; | All loue the Wombe that their first beeing bred, |
Pericles | Per III.i.34 | To herald thee from the womb. Poor inch of nature! | To harould thee from the wombe: |
Richard II | R2 I.ii.22 | Ah, Gaunt, his blood was thine! That bed, that womb, | Ah Gaunt! His blood was thine, that bed, that wombe, |
Richard II | R2 II.i.51 | This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, | This Nurse, this teeming wombe of Royall Kings, |
Richard II | R2 II.i.83 | Whose hollow womb inherits naught but bones. | Whose hollow wombe inherits naught but bones. |
Richard II | R2 II.ii.10 | Some unborn sorrow ripe in fortune's womb | Some vnborne sorrow, ripe in fortunes wombe |
Richard III | R3 I.iii.230 | Thou slander of thy heavy mother's womb! | Thou slander of thy heauie Mothers Wombe, |
Richard III | R3 IV.i.53 | O my accursed womb, the bed of death! | O my accursed Wombe, the Bed of Death: |
Richard III | R3 IV.iv.47 | From forth the kennel of thy womb hath crept | From forth the kennell of thy wombe hath crept |
Richard III | R3 IV.iv.54 | Thy womb let loose to chase us to our graves. | Thy wombe let loose to chase vs to our graues. |
Richard III | R3 IV.iv.138 | By strangling thee in her accursed womb, | By strangling thee in her aceursed wombe, |
Richard III | R3 IV.iv.296 | If I have killed the issue of your womb, | If I haue kill'd the issue of your wombe, |
Richard III | R3 IV.iv.423 | But in your daughter's womb I bury them, | But in your daughters wombe I bury them. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.6 | What is her burying grave, that is her womb; | What is her burying graue that is her wombe: |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.7 | And from her womb children of divers kind | And from her wombe children of diuers kind |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.65 | Doth hurry from the fatal cannon's womb. | Doth hurry from the fatall Canons wombe. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.45 | Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death, | Thou detestable mawe, thou wombe of death, |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.3 | Infect the air. Twinned brothers of one womb, | Infect the ayre. Twin'd Brothers of one wombe, |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.179 | Whose womb unmeasurable and infinite breast | Whose wombe vnmeasureable, and infinite brest |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.188 | Ensear thy fertile and conceptious womb, | Enseare thy Fertile and Conceptious wombe, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.239 | I may be plucked into the swallowing womb | I may be pluckt into the swallowing wombe, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.123 | And from that womb where you imprisoned were | And from that wombe where you imprisoned were |
Twelfth Night | TN V.i.235 | Which from the womb I did participate. | Which from the wombe I did participate. |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.27 | And as you wish your womb may thrive with fair ones, | And as you wish your womb may thrive with faire ones, |
The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.59 | This child was prisoner to the womb, and is | This Childe was prisoner to the wombe, and is |