Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.27 | I am commanded here, and kept a coil with | I am commanded here, and kept a coyle with, |
Coriolanus | Cor V.i.6 | The way into his mercy. Nay, if he coyed | The way into his mercy: Nay, if he coy'd |
Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.128.1 | Recoil from your great stock. | Recoyle from your great Stocke. |
Cymbeline | Cym II.i.58 | A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer | A Mother hourely coyning plots: A Wooer, |
Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.157 | When I was stamped. Some coiner with his tools | When I was stampt. Some Coyner with his Tooles |
Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.23 | 'Tis not so dear, yet 'tis a life; you coined it: | 'Tis not so deere, yet 'tis a life; you coyn'd it, |
Hamlet | Ham III.iv.138 | This is the very coinage of your brain. | This is the very coynage of your Braine, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.77 | you rich? Let them coin his nose, let them coin his | you Rich? Let them coyne his Nose, let them coyne his |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.8 | make twenty, take them all, I'll answer the coinage. Bid | make twentie, take them all, Ile answere the Coynage. Bid |
Henry V | H5 II.ii.98 | That almost mightst have coined me into gold, | That (almost) might'st haue coyn'd me into Golde, |
Henry V | H5 V.ii.152 | liv'st, dear Kate, take a fellow of plain and uncoined | liu'st, deare Kate, take a fellow of plaine and vncoyned |
King Edward III | E3 III.iii.67 | Exceeding store of treasure, pearl, and coin. | Exceding store of treasure, perle, and coyne, |
King John | KJ II.i.165 | I am not worth this coil that's made for me. | I am not worth this coyle that's made for me. |
King John | KJ II.i.530 | Full thirty thousand marks of English coin. | Full thirty thousand Markes of English coyne: |
Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.19 | A good and virtuous nature may recoil | A good and vertuous Nature may recoyle |
Macbeth | Mac V.ii.23 | His pestered senses to recoil and start, | His pester'd Senses to recoyle, and start, |
Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.45 | Their saucy sweetness that do coin God's image | Their sawcie sweetnes, that do coyne heauens Image |
The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.56 | A coin that bears the figure of an angel | A coyne that beares the figure of an Angell |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.339 | You, mistress – all this coil is 'long of you. | You Mistris, all this coyle is long of you. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.2 | While I thy amiable cheeks do coy, | While I thy amiable cheekes doe coy, |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.35 | I know her spirits are as coy and wild | I know her spirits are as coy and wilde, |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.91 | being there tomorrow, there is a great coil tonight. | being there to morrow, there is a great coyle to night, |
Othello | Oth III.iii.234 | Her will, recoiling to her better judgement, | Her will, recoyling to her better iudgement, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.101 | Than those that have more cunning to be strange. | Then those that haue coying to be strange, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.237 | 'Twas told me you were rough, and coy, and sullen, | 'Twas told me you were rough, and coy, and sullen, |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.207 | Who was so firm, so constant, that this coil | Who was so firme, so constant, that this coyle |
Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.27 | Who bates mine honour shall not know my coin. | Who bates mine Honor, shall not know my Coyne. |
Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.37 | in Illyria. He's a coward and a coistrel that will not | in Illyria: he's a Coward and a Coystrill that will not |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.30 | Coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth, | Coy looks, with hart-sore sighes: one fading moments mirth, |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.82 | Whom I affect; but she is nice, and coy, | Whom I affect: but she is nice, and coy, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.76 | From musical coinage, why, it was a note | From misicall Coynadge; why it was a note |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iii.18 | Lord, what a coil he keeps! To hear him | Lord, what a coyle he keepes? To heare him |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.11 | The coy denials of young maids, yet doubtless | The coy denialls of yong Maydes, yet doubtles, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.39 | How her brain coins! | How her braine coynes? |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.61 | But he is like his master, coy and scornful. | But he is like his master coy and scornefull. |
The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.20 | Recoil upon me: in himself too mighty, | Recoyle vpon me: in himselfe too mightie, |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.720 | stamped coin, not stabbing steel; therefore they do not | stamped Coyne, not stabbing Steele, therefore they doe not |