Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.6.1 | With clouts about their heads. | With clowts about their heads. |
Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.214 | My clouted brogues from off my feet, whose rudeness | My clowted Brogues from off my feete, whose rudenesse |
Hamlet | Ham II.ii.382 | out of his swaddling clouts. | out of his swathing clouts. |
Hamlet | Ham II.ii.504 | With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head | With Bisson Rheume: A clout about that head, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.45 | have clapped i'th' clout at twelve score, and carried you | haue clapt in the Clowt at Twelue-score, and carryed you |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.175 | Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon, | Spare none, but such as go in clouted shooen, |
King John | KJ III.iv.58 | Or madly think a babe of clouts were he. | Or madly thinke a babe of clowts were he; |
King Lear | KL IV.vi.92 | clout, i' the clout! Hewgh! – Give the word. | clout, i'th'clout: Hewgh. Giue the word. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.135 | Indeed, 'a must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout. | Indeede a'must shoote nearer, or heele ne're hit the clout. |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.710 | dishclout of Jaquenetta's, and that 'a wears next his | dishclout of Iaquenettas, and that hee weares next his |
Richard III | R3 I.iii.176 | And then, to dry them, gav'st the Duke a clout | And then to dry them, gau'st the Duke a Clowt, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.201 | say so, she looks as pale as any clout in the versal world. | say so, shee lookes as pale as any clout in the versall world. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.220 | Romeo's a dishclout to him. An eagle, madam, | Romeos a dish-clout to him: an Eagle Madam |