Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.27 | He was excellent indeed, madam. The King very | He was excellent indeed Madam, the King very |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.206 | capable of a courtier's counsel, and understand what | capeable of a Courtiers councell, and vnderstand what |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.51 | Fair maid, send forth thine eye. This youthful parcel | Faire Maide send forth thine eye, this youthfull parcell |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.44 | There was excellent command: to charge in with our | There was excellent command, to charge in with our |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.43 | altogether of his council. | altogether of his councell. |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.205 | Excellently. | Excellently. |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.9 | His grace is at Marcellus, to which place | His grace is at Marcellae, to which place |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.78 | His highness comes post from Marcellus, of as | His Highnesse comes post from Marcellus, of as |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.40.2 | Excellent falsehood! | Excellent falshood: |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.27 | Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me | Good now some excellent Fortune: Let mee |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.33 | O, excellent! I love long life better than figs. | Oh excellent, I loue long life better then Figs. |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.79 | Of excellent dissembling, and let it look | Of excellent dissembling, and let it looke |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.109 | True, sir; she was the wife of Caius Marcellus. | True Sir, she was the wife of Caius Marcellus. |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.14 | Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises. | Indeed he plied them both with excellent praises. |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.25.2 | Excellent. | Excellent. |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.32 | A parcel of their fortunes, and things outward | A parcell of their Fortunes, and things outward |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.163 | Parcel the sum of my disgraces by | Parcell the summe of my disgraces, by |
As You Like It | AYL I.ii.1.1 | Enter Rosalind and Celia | Enter Rosalind, and Cellia. |
As You Like It | AYL I.ii.2 | Dear Celia, I show more mirth than I am | Deere Cellia; I show more mirth then I am |
As You Like It | AYL I.ii.112 | Three proper young men, of excellent growth | Three proper yong men, of excellent growth |
As You Like It | AYL I.ii.173 | fair and excellent ladies anything. But let your fair eyes | faire and excellent Ladies anie thing. But let your faire eies, |
As You Like It | AYL I.ii.200 | O excellent young man! | Oh excellent yong man. |
As You Like It | AYL III.iv.10 | An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the | An excellent colour: / Your Chessenut was euer the |
As You Like It | AYL III.v.125 | In parcels, as I did, would have gone near | In parcells as I did, would haue gone neere |
As You Like It | AYL V.i.26 | ‘ So so ’ is good, very good, very excellent | So, so, is good, very good, very excellent |
The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.109 | I know a wench of excellent discourse, | I know a wench of excellent discourse, |
The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.106 | It is a branch and parcel of mine oath, | It is a branch and parcell of mine oath, |
Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.90 | In truth, la, go with me, and I'll tell you excellent | In truth la go with me, and Ile tell you excellent |
Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.174 | is excellent. | is excellent. |
Cymbeline | Cym I.v.71 | I have beheld, I could not believe she excelled many: | I haue beheld, I could not beleeue she excelled many: |
Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.44 | Sluttery, to such neat excellence opposed | Sluttery to such neate Excellence, oppos'd |
Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.16 | very excellent good-conceited thing; after, a wonderful | very excellent good conceyted thing; after a wonderful |
Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.33 | A cell of ignorance, travelling a-bed, | A Cell of Ignorance: trauailing a bed, |
Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.28 | And cancel these cold bonds. O Innogen, | And cancell these cold Bonds. Oh Imogen, |
Cymbeline | Cym V.v.198 | Most vilely: for my vantage, excellent. | Most vildely: for my vantage excellent. |
Hamlet | Ham I.i.12 | If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, | If you do meet Horatio and Marcellus, |
Hamlet | Ham I.i.14 | Enter Horatio and Marcellus | Enter Horatio and Marcellus. |
Hamlet | Ham I.i.20 | Welcome, Horatio. Welcome, good Marcellus. | Welcome Horatio, welcome good Marcellus. |
Hamlet | Ham I.i.38 | Where now it burns, Marcellus and myself, | Where now it burnes, Marcellus and my selfe, |
Hamlet | Ham I.i.140.2 | Stay and speak. Stop it, Marcellus. | Stay, and speake. Stop it Marcellus. |
Hamlet | Ham I.ii.139 | So excellent a king, that was to this | So excellent a King, that was to this |
Hamlet | Ham I.ii.160 | Enter Horatio, Marcellus, and Barnardo | Enter Horatio, Barnard, and Marcellus. |
Hamlet | Ham I.ii.165 | Marcellus? | Marcellus. |
Hamlet | Ham I.ii.197 | Marcellus and Barnardo, on their watch | (Marcellus and Barnardo) on their Watch |
Hamlet | Ham I.iv.1.1 | Enter Hamlet, Horatio, and Marcellus | Enter Hamlet, Horatio, Marcellus. |
Hamlet | Ham I.v.113 | Enter Horatio and Marcellus | |
Hamlet | Ham I.v.113.1 | My lord, my lord! | My Lord, my Lord. Enter Horatio and Marcellus. |
Hamlet | Ham I.v.151 | Come on. You hear this fellow in the cellarage. | Come one you here this fellow in the selleredge |
Hamlet | Ham II.ii.112 | In her excellent white bosom, these, et cetera. | in her excellent white bosome, these. |
Hamlet | Ham II.ii.174 | Excellent well. You are a fishmonger. | Excellent, excellent well: y'are a Fishmonger. |
Hamlet | Ham II.ii.224 | My excellent good friends. | My excellent good friends? |
Hamlet | Ham II.ii.299 | me a sterile promontory. This most excellent canopy, | me a sterrill Promontory; this most excellent Canopy |
Hamlet | Ham II.ii.438 | an excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set down | an excellent Play; well digested in the Scoenes, set downe |
Hamlet | Ham III.ii.103 | Excellent, i'faith; of the chameleon's dish. I eat | Excellent Ifaith, of the Camelions dish: I eate |
Hamlet | Ham III.ii.367 | and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, | and it will discourse most excellent Musicke. Looke you, |
Hamlet | Ham III.ii.375 | the top of my compass. And there is much music, excellent | the top of my Compasse: and there is much Musicke, excellent |
Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.130 | We'll put on those shall praise your excellence | Wee'l put on those shall praise your excellence, |
Hamlet | Ham V.i.182 | Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. | Horatio, a fellow of infinite Iest; of most excellent fancy, |
Hamlet | Ham V.ii.107 | an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences, | |
Hamlet | Ham V.ii.135 | You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes | Sir, you are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes |
Hamlet | Ham V.ii.138 | with him in excellence. But to know a man well were to | |
Hamlet | Ham V.ii.359 | What feast is toward in thine eternal cell | What feast is toward in thine eternall Cell. |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.32 | What yesternight our Council did decree | What yesternight our Councell did decree, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.102 | Cousin, on Wednesday next our Council we | Cosin, on Wednesday next, our Councell we |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.84 | the Council rated me the other day in the street about | the Councell rated me the other day in the street about |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.20 | friends, and full of expectation. An excellent plot, very | Friends, and full of expectation: An excellent plot, very |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.100 | parcel of a reckoning. I am not yet of Percy's mind, the | parcell of a reckoning. I am not yet of Percies mind, the |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.383 | O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i'faith. | This is excellent sport, yfaith. |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.439 | parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed | Parcell of Dropsies, that huge Bombard of Sacke, that stuft |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.32 | Thy place in Council thou hast rudely lost, | Thy place in Councell thou hast rudely lost, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.157 | If not, the end of life cancels all bonds, | If not, the end of Life cancells all Bands, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.159 | Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow. | Ere breake the smallest parcell of this Vow. |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.99 | Rated mine uncle from the council board, | Rated my Vnckle from the Councell-Boord, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.212 | Go in with me, and counsel every man | Go in with me, and councell euery man |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.84 | the money too. Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt | the mony too. Thou didst sweare to mee vpon a parcell gilt |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.32 | Yes, faith, and let it be an excellent good thing. | Yes: and let it be an excellent good thing. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.20 | excellent stratagem. | excellent stratagem. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.23 | excellent good temperality. Your pulsidge beats as | excellent good temperalitie: your Pulsidge beates as |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.145 | which was an excellent good word before it was | |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.262 | counsel-keeper. | Councell-keeper? |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.79 | excellent thing. | excellent thing. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.107 | Ha, ha, ha! Most excellent, i'faith! Things | Ha, ha, ha, most excellent. Things |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.100 | tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The | Tongue, which is the Birth, becomes excellent Wit. The |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.101 | second property of your excellent sherris is the warming | second propertie of your excellent Sherris, is, the warming |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.118 | with excellent endeavour of drinking good, and good | with excellent endeauour of drinking good, and good |
Henry V | H5 II.ii.113 | Hath got the voice in hell for excellence. | Hath got the voyce in hell for excellence: |
Henry V | H5 II.iv.33 | How well supplied with noble counsellors, | How well supply'd with Noble Councellors, |
Henry V | H5 III.iv.56 | Excellent, madame! | Excellent, Madame. |
Henry V | H5 III.vi.3 | I assure you, there is very excellent services | I assure you, there is very excellent Seruices |
Henry V | H5 III.vi.11 | the bridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline. | the Bridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline. |
Henry V | H5 III.vi.36 | good truth, the poet makes a most excellent description | good truth, the Poet makes a most excellent description |
Henry V | H5 III.vi.37 | of it: Fortune is an excellent moral. | of it: Fortune is an excellent Morall. |
Henry V | H5 III.vii.3 | You have an excellent armour; but let my horse | You haue an excellent Armour: but let my Horse |
Henry V | H5 III.vii.25 | excellent horse. | excellent Horse. |
Henry V | H5 V.ii.79 | To appoint some of your Council presently | To appoint some of your Councell presently |
Henry V | H5 V.ii.274 | tongues of the French Council, and they should sooner | Tongues of the French Councell; and they should sooner |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.64 | Enter Joan la Pucelle and the Bastard | Enter Ioane Puzel. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.104.1 | Here they fight, and Joan la Pucelle overcomes | Here they fight, and Ioane de Puzel ouercomes. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.110 | Excellent Pucelle, if thy name be so, | Excellent Puzel, if thy name be so, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.101 | The Dauphin, with one Joan la Pucelle joined, | The Dolphin, with one Ioane de Puzel ioyn'd, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.107 | Pucelle or pussel, Dolphin or dogfish, | Puzel or Pussel, Dolphin or Dog-fish, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.1.3 | Pucelle, driving Englishmen before her, and exeunt. | Puzel, driuing Englishmen before her. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.4.1 | Enter Joan la Pucelle | Enter Puzel. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.4 | Here, here she comes. (To Pucelle) I'll have a bout with thee. | Here, here shee comes. Ile haue a bowt with thee: |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.36 | Pucelle is entered into Orleans | Puzel is entred into Orleance, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.1.1 | Flourish. Enter, on the walls, Joan la Pucelle, Charles, | Enter on the Walls, Puzel, Dolphin, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.3 | Thus Joan la Pucelle hath performed her word. | Thus Ioane de Puzel hath perform'd her word. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.vi.29 | But Joan la Pucelle shall be France's saint. | But Ioane de Puzel shall be France's Saint. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.20 | But what's that Pucelle whom they term so pure? | But what's that Puzell whom they tearme so pure? |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.49 | Enter Charles and Joan la Pucelle | Enter Charles and Ioane. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.118 | Well, I will lock his counsel in my breast; | Well, I will locke his Councell in my Brest, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.1.1 | Enter Joan la Pucelle disguised, with four soldiers | Enter Pucell disguis'd, with foure Souldiors |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.20 | Here entered Pucelle and her practisants. | Here entred Pucell, and her Practisants: |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.26.1 | Enter Joan la Pucelle on the top, thrusting out a torch | Enter Pucell on the top, thrusting out a Torch |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.38 | Pucelle, that witch, that damned sorceress, | Pucell that Witch, that damned Sorceresse, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.41.4 | Pucelle, Charles, the Bastard, Alençon, and Reignier | Pucell, Charles, Bastard, and Reigneir |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.58 | Are ye so hot, sir? Yet, Pucelle, hold thy peace. | Are ye so hot, Sir: yet Pucell hold thy peace, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.110 | Retreat. Excursions. Pucelle, Alençon, and Charles | Retreat. Excursions. Pucell, Alanson, and Charles |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.121 | Thanks, gentle Duke. But where is Pucelle now? | Thanks gentle Duke: but where is Pucel now? |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.1.1 | Enter Charles, the Bastard, Alençon, Joan la Pucelle, | Enter Charles, Bastard, Alanson, Pucell. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.40 | Speak, Pucelle, and enchant him with thy words. | Speake Pucell, and enchaunt him with thy words. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.88 | Pucelle hath bravely played her part in this, | Pucell hath brauely play'd her part in this, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.33 | Joan la Pucelle | Pucell. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.4 | They humbly sue unto your excellence | They humbly sue vnto your Excellence, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.1.2 | Reignier, and Joan la Pucelle | Reignier, and Ione. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.1 | Alarum. Excursions. Enter Joan la Pucelle | Alarum. Excursions. Enter Ione de Pucell. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.30.3 | Pucelle and overcomes her. The French fly | French flye. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.1.2 | and Joan la Pucelle, guarded | Pucell. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.94 | Lord Regent, I do greet your excellence | Lord Regent, I do greete your Excellence |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.38 | Although in glorious titles he excel. | Although in glorious Titles he excell. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.3 | As procurator to your excellence, | As Procurator to your Excellence, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.88 | Studied so long, sat in the Council House | Studied so long, sat in the Councell house, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.97 | Fatal this marriage, cancelling your fame, | Fatall this Marriage, cancelling your Fame, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.159 | ‘ Jesu maintain your royal excellence!’ | Iesu maintaine your Royall Excellence, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.117 | To be Protector of his excellence? | To be Protector of his Excellence? |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.171 | And other of your highness' Privy Council, | And other of your Highnesse Priuie Councell, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.27 | Or be admitted to your highness' Council. | Or be admitted to your Highnesse Councell. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.230 | That for the beauty thinks it excellent. | That for the beautie thinkes it excellent. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.13 | Nay, more; the King's Council are no good | Nay more, the Kings Councell are no good |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.162 | with the tongue of an enemy be a good counsellor, or no? | with the tongue of an enemy, be a good Councellour, or no? |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.238 | Warwick is Chancellor and the Lord of Calais; | Warwick is Chancelor, and the Lord of Callice, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.79 | His statutes cancelled, and his treasure spent; | His Statutes cancell'd, and his Treasure spent: |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.38 | Which now mistrust no parcel of my fear, | Which now mistrust no parcell of my feare, |
Henry VIII | H8 I.i.79 | The honourable board of Council out, | The Honourable Boord of Councell, out |
Henry VIII | H8 I.i.219.1 | One Gilbert Perk, his chancellor – | One Gilbert Pecke, his Councellour. |
Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.9 | Their very noses had been counsellors | Their very noses had been Councellours |
Henry VIII | H8 II.i.20 | Sir Gilbert Perk his chancellor, and John Car, | Sir Gilbert Pecke his Chancellour, and Iohn Car, |
Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.32 | Of her that loves him with that excellence | Of her that loues him with that excellence, |
Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.46 | A prince most prudent, of an excellent | A Prince most Prudent; of an excellent |
Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.51 | That they had gathered a wise council to them | That they had gather'd a wise Councell to them |
Henry VIII | H8 III.i.79 | Let me have time and counsel for my cause. | Let me haue time and Councell for my Cause: |
Henry VIII | H8 III.i.84 | That any Englishman dare give me counsel, | That any English man dare giue me Councell? |
Henry VIII | H8 III.i.99 | Is this your Christian counsel? Out upon ye! | Is this your Christian Councell? Out vpon ye. |
Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.317 | Either of King or Council, when you went | Either of King or Councell, when you went |
Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.394.1 | Lord Chancellor in your place. | Lord Chancellor, in your place. |
Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.5 | 3. Lord Chancellor, with purse and mace before him | 3 Lord Chancellor, with Purse and Mace before him. |
Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.112 | And one, already, of the Privy Council. | And one already of the Priuy Councell. |
Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.62 | So excellent in art, and still so rising, | So excellent in Art, and still so rising, |
Henry VIII | H8 V.i.43 | Incensed the lords o'th' Council that he is – | Incenst the Lords o'th'Councell, that he is |
Henry VIII | H8 V.i.51 | Tomorrow morning to the Council board | To morrow Morning to the Councell Boord |
Henry VIII | H8 V.i.100 | Have moved us and our Council that you shall | Haue mou'd Vs, and our Councell, that you shall |
Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.2 | That was sent to me from the Council prayed me | That was sent to me from the Councell, pray'd me |
Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.16 | Wait else at door, a fellow Councillor, | Wait else at doore: a fellow Councellor |
Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.1.1 | A council-table brought in with chairs and stools, and | A Councell Table brought in with Chayres and Stooles, and |
Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.1.2 | placed under the state. Enter Lord Chancellor, places | placed vnder the State. Enter Lord Chancellour, places |
Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.2.1 | Why are we met in council? | Why are we met in Councell? |
Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.8 | Cranmer approaches the council-table | Cranmer approches the Councell Table. |
Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.136 | And wisdom of my Council, but I find none. | And wisedome of my Councell; but I finde none: |
Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.102 | The power to cancel his captivity. | The power to cancell his Captiuitie. |
Julius Caesar | JC II.i.67 | Are then in council; and the state of man, | Are then in councell; and the state of a man, |
Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.45 | And let us presently go sit in council, | And let vs presently go sit in Councell, |
King Edward III | E3 I.ii.103 | When they excelled this excellence they have, | When they exceld this excellence they haue, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.339 | Or break thy oath or cancel all the bonds | Or breake thy oth or cancell all the bondes, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.426 | And cancel every canon that prescribes | And cancell euery cannon that prescribes, |
King Edward III | E3 III.iii.6 | Gobin de Grace, if please your excellence. | Gobin de Graie if please your excellence, |
King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.41 | Thy parcelling this power hath made it more | Thy parcelling this power hath made it more, |
King John | KJ II.i.439 | And she a fair divided excellence, | And she a faire diuided excellence, |
King John | KJ IV.ii.36 | We breathed our counsel. But it pleased your highness | We breath'd our Councell: but it pleas'd your Highnes |
King John | KJ IV.iii.66 | And breathing to this breathless excellence | And breathing to his breathlesse Excellence |
King John | KJ IV.iii.143 | From forth this morsel of dead royalty | From forth this morcell of dead Royaltie? |
King Lear | KL I.ii.118 | This is the excellent foppery of the world, that | This is the excellent foppery of the world, that |
King Lear | KL V.iii.271 | Gentle and low – an excellent thing in woman. | Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.72 | do excel thee in my rapier as much as thou didst me in | doe excell thee in my rapier, as much as thou didst mee in |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.168 | excellent strength; yet was Solomon so seduced, and he | excellent strength: Yet was Salomon so seduced, and hee |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.38 | O queen of queens, how far dost thou excel, | O Queene of Queenes, how farre dost thou excell, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.330 | Else none at all in aught proves excellent. | Else none at all in ought proues excellent. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.131 | An excellent device! So if any of the audience hiss, | An excellent deuice: so if any of the audience hisse, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.160 | A holy parcel of the fairest dames | A holy parcell of the fairest dames |
Macbeth | Mac III.i.22 | In this day's council; but we'll take tomorrow. | In this dayes Councell: but wee'le take to morrow. |
Macbeth | Mac III.ii.49 | Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond | Cancell and teare to pieces that great Bond, |
Measure for Measure | MM I.i.37 | The smallest scruple of her excellence | The smallest scruple of her excellence, |
Measure for Measure | MM II.i.61 | He, sir? A tapster, sir, parcel-bawd; one that | He Sir: a Tapster Sir: parcell Baud: one that |
Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.107 | And he, that suffers. O, 'tis excellent | And hee, that suffers: Oh, it is excellent |
The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.102 | father's will. I am glad this parcel of wooers are so | Fathers will: I am glad this parcell of wooers are so |
The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.243 | O noble judge! O excellent young man! | O noble Iudge, O excellent yong man. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.32 | The Council shall hear it. It is a riot. | The Councell shall heare it, it is a Riot. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.33 | It is not meet the Council hear a riot. There is no | It is not meet the Councell heare a Riot: there is no |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.34 | fear of Got in a riot. The Council, look you, shall desire | feare of Got in a Riot: The Councell (looke you) shall desire |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.111 | The Council shall know this. | The Councell shall know this. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.113 | counsel. You'll be laughed at. | councell: you'll be laugh'd at. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.213 | philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. | Philosophers hold, that the lips is parcell of the mouth: |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.218 | excellent breeding, admirable discourse, of great | excellent breeding, admirable discourse, of great |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.233 | the excellency of her honour that the folly of my soul | the excellency of her honor, that the folly of my soule |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.91 | Ay, dat is very good, excellent. | I, dat is very good, excellant. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.59 | foot would give an excellent motion to thy gait in a | foote, would giue an excellent motion to thy gate, in a |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.165 | Is there not a double excellency in this? | Is there not a double excellency in this? |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.68 | That will be excellent. I'll go buy them vizards. | That will be excellent, / Ile go buy them vizards. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.247.1 | O excellent! | O excellent! |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.213 | themselves, they may pass for excellent men. Here come | themselues, they may passe for excellent men. Here com |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.47 | it; he is a very valiant trencher-man, he hath an excellent | it: he's a very valiant Trencher-man, hee hath an excellent |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.6 | He were an excellent man that were made just | Hee were an excellent man that were made iust |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.109 | your excellent wit? Can virtue hide itself? Go to, mum, | your excellent wit? can vertue hide it selfe? goe to, mumme, |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.299 | father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by | father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.325 | She were an excellent wife for Benedick. | She were an excellent wife for Benedick. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.32 | good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall | good discourse: an excellent Musitian, and her haire shal |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.44 | It is the witness still of excellency | It is the witnesse still of excellency, / To slander Musicke any more then once. / Prince. It is the witnesse still of excellencie, |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.86 | pray thee, get us some excellent music; for tomorrow | pray thee get vs some excellent musick: for to morrow |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.160 | She's an excellent sweet lady, and, out of all suspicion, | shee's an excellent sweet Lady, and (out of all suspition,) |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.89 | Having so swift and excellent a wit | Hauing so swift and excellent a wit |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.98 | Indeed, he hath an excellent good name. | Indeed he hath an excellent good name. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.99 | His excellence did earn it ere he had it. | His excellence did earne it ere he had it: |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.12 | I like the new tire within excellently, if the | I like the new tire within excellently, if the |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.21 | graceful and excellent fashion, yours is worth ten on't. | gracefull and excellent fashion, yours is worth ten on't. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.55 | These gloves the Count sent me; they are an excellent | These gloues the Count sent mee, they are an excellent |
Othello | Oth II.i.171 | to play the sir in. Very good: well kissed, an excellent | to play the Sir, in. Very good: well kiss'd, and excellent |
Othello | Oth II.iii.70 | 'Fore God, an excellent song. | 'Fore Heauen: an excellent Song. |
Othello | Oth II.iii.111 | Excellent well. | Excellent well. |
Othello | Oth III.iii.90 | Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, | Excellent wretch: Perdition catch my Soule |
Othello | Oth III.iii.444 | Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell! | Arise blacke vengeance, from the hollow hell, |
Othello | Oth IV.i.212.1 | Excellent good! | Excellent good: |
Othello | Oth V.ii.11 | Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, | Thou cunning'st Patterne of excelling Nature, |
Pericles | Per II.iii.102 | Are excellent in making ladies trip, | Are excellent in making Ladyes trippe; |
Pericles | Per II.iii.103 | And that their measures are as excellent. | And that their Measures are as excellent. |
Pericles | Per IV.i.40 | That excellent complexion which did steal | that excellent complexion, which did steale |
Pericles | Per IV.ii.44 | She has a good face, speaks well, and has excellent | Shee has a good face, speakes well, and has excellent |
Richard II | R2 I.iii.124 | And list what with our council we have done. | and list / What with our Councell we haue done. |
Richard III | R3 I.iv.159 | O excellent device! And make a sop | O excellent deuice; and make a sop |
Richard III | R3 II.ii.81 | Their woes are parcelled, mine is general. | Their woes are parcell'd, mine is generall. |
Richard III | R3 III.ii.20 | Bid him not fear the separated council. | Bid him not feare the seperated Councell: |
Richard III | R3 III.v.37 | This day had plotted, in the Council House, | This day had plotted, in the Councell-House, |
Richard III | R3 IV.iv.53 | That excellent grand tyrant of the earth | That excellent grand Tyrant of the earth, |
Richard III | R3 IV.iv.77 | Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I pray, | Cancell his bond of life, deere God I pray, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.51 | Your plantain leaf is excellent for that. | Your Plantan leafe is excellent for that. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.192 | Hence will I to my ghostly Friar's close cell, | Hence will I to my ghostly Fries close Cell, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.9 | Many for many virtues excellent, | Many for many vertues excellent: |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.178 | And there she shall at Friar Laurence' cell | And there she shall at Frier Lawrence Cell |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.68 | Then hie you hence to Friar Laurence' cell. | Then high you hence to Frier Lawrence Cell, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.77 | Go. I'll to dinner. Hie you to the cell. | Go Ile to dinner, hie you to the Cell. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.141 | I'll to him. He is hid at Laurence' cell. | Ile to him, he is hid at Lawrence Cell. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.98 | My concealed lady to our cancelled love? | My conceal'd Lady to our conceal'd Loue? |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.233 | Having displeased my father, to Laurence' cell, | Hauing displeas'd my Father, to Lawrence Cell, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.17 | Look, sir, here comes the lady toward my cell. | Looke sir, here comes the Lady towards my Cell. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.25 | I met the youthful lord at Laurence' cell | I met the youthfull Lord at Lawrence Cell, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.ii.22.1 | Unto my cell. | Vnto my Cell. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.ii.28 | And keep her at my cell till Romeo come. | And keepe her at my Cell till Romeo come, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.242 | Or in my cell there would she kill herself. | Or in my Cell there would she kill her selfe. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.255 | Meaning to keep her closely at my cell | Meaning to keepe her closely at my Cell, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.65 | It will be pastime passing excellent, | It wil be pastime passing excellent, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.87 | 'Tis very true, thou didst it excellent. | 'Tis verie true, thou didst it excellent: |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.250 | 'Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady. | 'Tis a verie excellent peece of worke, Madame Ladie: |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.277 | O excellent motion! Fellows, let's be gone. | Oh excellent motion: fellowes let's be gon. |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.368 | That now is lying in Marseilles road. | That now is lying in Marcellus roade: |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.20 | Than Prospero, master of a full poor cell, | Then Prospero, Master of a full poore cell, |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.39 | A time before we came unto this cell? | A time before we came vnto this Cell? |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.347 | In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate | In mine owne Cell, till thou didst seeke to violate |
The Tempest | Tem II.i.173.1 | T' excel the Golden Age. | T'Excell the Golden Age. |
The Tempest | Tem II.ii.131 | The whole butt, man. My cellar is in a rock | The whole But (man) my Cellar is in a rocke |
The Tempest | Tem III.ii.111 | Excellent. | Excellent. |
The Tempest | Tem III.iii.40.1 | Of excellent dumb discourse. | Of excellent dumbe discourse. |
The Tempest | Tem IV.i.161 | If you be pleased, retire into my cell | If you be pleas'd, retire into my Cell, |
The Tempest | Tem IV.i.182 | I'th' filthy mantled pool beyond your cell, | I'th' filthy mantled poole beyond your Cell, |
The Tempest | Tem IV.i.195 | Hear a foot fall. We now are near his cell. | heare a foot fall: we now are neere his Cell. |
The Tempest | Tem IV.i.216 | This is the mouth o'th' cell. No noise, and enter. | This is the mouth o'th Cell: no noise, and enter: |
The Tempest | Tem IV.i.243 | this country. ‘ Steal by line and level ’ is an excellent | this / Country: Steale by line and leuell, is an excellent |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.10 | In the line-grove which weather-fends your cell. | In the Line-groue which weather-fends your Cell, |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.84 | Fetch me the hat and rapier in my cell. | Fetch me the Hat, and Rapier in my Cell, |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.166 | This cell's my court. Here have I few attendants, | This Cell's my Court: heere haue I few attendants, |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.292 | As in his shape. – Go, sirrah, to my cell. | As in his shape: Goe Sirha, to my Cell, |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.302 | To my poor cell, where you shall take your rest | To my poore Cell: where you shall take your rest |
Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.30 | So 'tis. This comes off well and excellent. | So 'tis, this comes off well, and excellent. |
Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.28 | Excellent! Your lordship's a goodly villain. The | Excellent: Your Lordships a goodly Villain: the |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.215 | And call it excellent. Thou wast told thus. | And call it excellent: thou wast told thus: |
Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.19 | will promise him an excellent piece. | will promise him / An excellent Peece. |
Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.29 | Excellent workman! Thou canst not paint | Excellent Workeman, / Thou canst not paint |
Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.96 | Sweet cell of virtue and nobility, | Sweet Cell of vertue and Noblitie, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.7 | A very excellent piece of villainy. | A very excellent peece of villany: |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.49 | Here comes a parcel of our hopeful booty, | Heere comes a parcell of our hopefull Booty, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.182 | Here, here, here's an excellent place; here | Heere, heere, here's an excellent place, heere |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.164 | Cries ‘ Excellent! 'Tis Agamemnon just. | Cries excellent, 'tis Agamemnon iust. |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.169 | Yet god Achilles still cries ‘ Excellent! | Yet god Achilles still cries excellent, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.51 | you: the falcon as the tercel, for all the ducks i'th' river | you. The Faulcon, as the Tercell, for all the Ducks ith Riuer: |
Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.25 | The thing he means to kill more excellently. | The thing he meanes to kill, more excellently. |
Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.79 | Valour and pride excel themselves in Hector; | Valour and pride excell themselues in Hector; |
Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.92 | Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair. | Then hadst thou had an excellent head of haire. |
Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.97 | Excellent, it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I | Excellent, it hangs like flax on a distaffe: & I |
Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.113 | What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight? | What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight? |
Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.125 | the excellent constitution of thy leg it was formed under | the excellent constitution of thy legge, it was form'd vnder |
Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.133 | caper. Ha! Higher! Ha! Ha! Excellent! | caper. Ha, higher: ha, ha, excellent. |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.166 | for besides that it is excellently well penned, I have | for besides that it is excellently well pend, I haue |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.226 | Excellently done – if God did all. | Excellently done, if God did all. |
Twelfth Night | TN II.i.10 | extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a touch | extrauagancie. But I perceiue in you so excellent a touch |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.18 | By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. | By my troth the foole has an excellent breast. |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.28 | Excellent! Why, this is the best fooling, | Excellent: Why this is the best fooling, |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.43 | Excellent good, i'faith. | Excellent good, ifaith. |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.144 | with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that all | with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith, that all |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.155 | Excellent! I smell a device. | Excellent, I smell a deuice. |
Twelfth Night | TN II.v.108 | Excellent wench, say I! | Excellent Wench, say I. |
Twelfth Night | TN II.v.125 | excellent at faults. | excellent at faults. |
Twelfth Night | TN II.v.198 | To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent | To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent |
Twelfth Night | TN III.i.81 | But we are prevented. (To Olivia) Most excellent, | but we are preuented. Most excellent |
Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.20 | should then have accosted her, and with some excellent | should then haue accosted her, and with some excellent |
Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.185 | letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror | Letter being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror |
Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.8 | His counsel now might do me golden service. | His councell now might do me golden seruice, |
Twelfth Night | TN V.i.23 | Why, this is excellent. | Why this is excellent. |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.89 | O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet! | Oh excellent motion; oh exceeding Puppet: |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.132 | O excellent device! Was there ever heard a better, | Oh excellent deuise, was there euer heard a better? |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.75 | As meet to be an emperor's counsellor. | As meet to be an Emperors Councellor: |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.49 | That Silvia is excelling; | That Siluia is excelling; |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.43.2 | At Friar Patrick's cell, | At Frier Patrickes Cell, |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.i.3 | That Silvia at Friar Patrick's cell should meet me. | That Siluia, at Fryer Patricks Cell should meet me, |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.42 | At Patrick's cell this even; and there she was not. | At Patricks Cell this euen, and there she was not. |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.144 | Cancel all grudge, repeal thee home again, | Cancell all grudge, repeale thee home againe, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.53 | Most parlously in our behalfs. He's excellent i'th' woods; | most parlously in our behalfes: hees excellent i'th woods, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.77 | The best men called it excellent; and run | The best men calld it excellent, and run |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.148.2 | 'Twas an excellent dance, | Twas an excellent dance, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.162 | In service of so excellent a beauty, | In service of so excellent a Beutie, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.286 | I cannot, sir, they are both too excellent; | I cannot Sir, they are both too excellent |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.24 | Though parcel of myself. Then from this gather | Though parcell of my selfe: Then from this gather |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.420 | Of excellent witchcraft, who of force must know | Of excellent Witchcraft, whom of force must know |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.44 | Did perish with the infant. 'Tis your counsel | Did perish with the Infant. 'Tis your councell, |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.52 | Had squared me to thy counsel! Then even now | Had squar'd me to thy councell: then, euen now, |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.16 | Excels whatever yet you looked upon, | Excells what euer yet you look'd vpon, |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.30 | So much the more our carver's excellence, | So much the more our Caruers excellence, |