Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.472 | Heigh, heigh, the devil rides upon a fiddlestick. | Heigh, heigh, the Deuill rides vpon a Fiddle-sticke: |
Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.41 | A French song and a fiddle has no fellow. | A French Song, and a Fiddle, ha's no Fellow. |
Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.42 | The devil fiddle 'em! I am glad they are going, | The Diuell fiddle 'em, / I am glad they are going, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.47 | discords. Here's my fiddlestick. Here's that shall make | discords: heere's my fiddlesticke, heere's that shall make |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.157 | While she did call me rascal fiddler | While she did call me Rascall, Fidler, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.1 | Fiddler, forbear, you grow too forward, sir. | Fidler forbeare, you grow too forward Sir, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.303 | I know not; but I am sure, none, unless the fiddler | I know not: but I am sure none, vnlesse the Fidler |