| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.34 | What can from Italy annoy us, but | What can from Italy annoy vs, but |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.102 | That might annoy my finger? 'Tis so strange | That might annoy my finger? 'Tis so strange, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.67 | To mow down thorns that would annoy our foot, | To mowe downe Thornes that would annoy our Foot, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.45 | Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell, sour annoy! | Sound Drums and Trumpets, farwell sowre annoy, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.160 | As to annoy us all; which to prevent, | As to annoy vs all: which to preuent, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.157 | Good angels guard thee from the boar's annoy! | Good Angels guard thee from the Boares annoy, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.49 | And rape, I fear, was root of thy annoy. | And rape I feare was roote of thine annoy. |
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| The Rape of Lucrece | Luc.1109 | For mirth doth search the bottom of annoy; | "For mirth doth search the bottome of annoy, |
| The Rape of Lucrece | Luc.1370 | Threatening cloud-kissing Ilion with annoy; | Threatning cloud-kissing ILLION with annoy, |
| Sonnets | Sonn.8.4 | Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy? | Or else receau'st with pleasure thine annoy? |
| Venus and Adonis | Ven.497 | But now I lived, and life was death's annoy; | But now I liu'd, and life was deaths annoy, |
| Venus and Adonis | Ven.599 | That worse than Tantalus' is her annoy, | That worse then Tantalus is her annoy, |
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| annoy | harm, molest, hurt, injure |
| annoy | trouble, vexation, distress |
| annoy | injury, harm, hurt |
| annoyance | injury, harmfulness, danger |
| annoyance | discomfort, irritation, hurt |
| disease | annoyance, grievance, weakness |
| fret | irritation, annoyance, vexation |
| gall | irritation, annoyance |
| gall | vex, annoy, irritate |
| grievance | cause of annoyance, painful constraint, source of sorrow |
| ill | annoyed, cross, vexed |
| molest | vex, annoy, bother |
| offence | offensive matter, object of annoyance |
| pinch | harass, irritate, annoy |
| rub | irritate, annoy, aggravate |
| spite | annoyance, vexation, irritation |
| troublesome | annoying, irritating, vexatious |
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Themes and Topics
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| Classical mythology | ... that worse than tantalus' is her annoy , / to clip elizium and to lack her joy ...
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Words Families
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| Word Family | Word Family Group | Words |
| ANNOY | BASIC | annoy n, annoy v, annoyance n, noyance n |
| NOYANCE | BASIC | see ANNOY |
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