Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xii.18 | The circle of the Ptolemies for her heirs, | The Circle of the Ptolomies for her heyres, |
As You Like It | AYL II.v.56 | 'Tis a Greek invocation, to call fools into a circle. | 'Tis a Greeke inuocation, to call fools into a circle. |
As You Like It | AYL V.iv.34 | Obscured in the circle of this forest. | Obscured in the circle of this Forrest. |
Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.30.6 | circle Posthumus round as he lies sleeping | circle Posthumus round as he lies sleeping. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.6 | Encircled you to hear with reverence | Encircled you, to heare with reuerence |
Henry V | H5 V.ii.289 | make a circle; if conjure up love in her in his true likeness, | make a Circle: if coniure vp Loue in her in his true likenesse, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.133 | Glory is like a circle in the water, | Glory is like a Circle in the Water, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.136 | With Henry's death the English circle ends; | With Henries death, the English Circle ends, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.10 | Until thy head be circled with the same. | Vntill thy head be circled with the same. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.22.2 | circle. Bolingbroke or Southwell reads ‘Conjuro | Circle, Bullingbrooke or Southwell reades, Coniuro |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.21 | Or modest Dian circled with her nymphs, | Or modest Dyan, circled with her Nymphs, |
Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.25 | 10. Certain Ladies or Countesses, with plain circlets | 10 Certaine Ladies or Countesses, with plaine Circlets |
King Edward III | E3 III.i.72 | Figuring the horned circle of the moon; | Figuring the horned Circle of the Moone, |
King John | KJ V.i.2.1 | The circle of my glory. | The Circle of my glory. |
King John | KJ V.ii.136 | From out the circle of his territories. | From out the circle of his Territories. |
King Lear | KL V.iii.172 | The wheel is come full circle; I am here. | The Wheele is come full circle, I am heere. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.60 | semicircled farthingale. I see what thou wert if Fortune, | semi-circled Farthingale. I see what thou wert if Fortune |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.55 | Then let them all encircle him about, | Then let them all encircle him about, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.24 | To raise a spirit in his mistress' circle | To raise a spirit in his Mistresse circle, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.110 | That monthly changes in her circled orb, | That monethly changes in her circled Orbe, |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.58.5 | They all enter the circle which Prospero had made, | They all enter the circle which Prospero had made, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.275 | You, heavy people, circle me about, | You heauie people, circle me about, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.81 | The circles of his eyes show fire within him, | The circles of his eyes show faire within him, |
The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.10 | Too much hair there, but in a semicircle, | Too much haire there, but in a Cemicircle, |