Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.7 | Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst | Which in the scuffles of great Fights hath burst |
Hamlet | Ham II.ii.354 | argument unless the poet and the player went to cuffs | argument, vnlesse the Poet and the Player went to Cuffes |
Hamlet | Ham V.ii.296.1 | In scuffling, they change rapiers, and both are wounded | In scuffling they change Rapiers. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.48 | I mean to tug it and to cuff you soundly. | I meane to tugge it, and to cuffe you soundly. |
King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.20 | And new-replenished pendants cuff the air | And new replenisht pendants cuff the aire, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.218 | I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again. | I sweare Ile cuffe you, if you strike againe. |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.162 | The mad-brained bridegroom took him such a cuff | This mad-brain'd bridegroome tooke him such a cuffe, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.58 | cuff was but to knock at your ear and beseech listening. | Cuffe was but to knocke at your eare, and beseech listning: |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.56 | With ruffs and cuffs and farthingales and things, | With Ruffes and Cuffes, and Fardingales, and things: |
Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.382 | Do, cuff him soundly, but never draw thy | Do, cuffe him soundly, but neuer draw thy |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.104 | I could for each word give a cuff, my stomach | I could for each word, give a Cuffe: my stomach |