Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.326 | Their music frightful as the serpent's hiss, | Their Musicke, frightfull as the Serpents hisse, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.78 | Who in contempt shall hiss at thee again; | Who in contempt shall hisse at thee againe. |
Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.257 | and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased | and hisse him, according as he pleas'd, and displeas'd |
King Lear | KL III.vi.16 | Come hissing in upon 'em! | Come hizzing in vpon 'em. |
King Lear | KL IV.vi.184 | To this great stage of fools. – This's a good block. | To this great stage of Fooles. This a good blocke: |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.131 | An excellent device! So if any of the audience hiss, | An excellent deuice: so if any of the audience hisse, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.914 | When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl, | When roasted Crabs hisse in the bowle, |
Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.175 | That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker; | That of an houres age, doth hisse the speaker, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.36 | I warrant thee. If I do not act it, hiss me. | I warrant thee, if I do not act it, hisse me. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.111 | Think of that – hissing hot – think of that, Master | thinke of that; hissing hot: thinke of that (Master |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.69 | There thou prickest her with a thistle. | There thou prickst her with a thissell. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.73 | meaning; I meant plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance | meaning, I meant plaine holy thissell, you may thinke perchance |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.112 | Who nothing hurt withal, hissed him in scorn. | Who nothing hurt withall, hist him in scorne. |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.45 | Why, this's a heavy chance 'twixt him and you, | Why this a heauie chance twixr him and you, |
The Tempest | Tem II.ii.14.1 | Do hiss me into madness. | Doe hisse me into madnesse: |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.100 | A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes, | A thousand Fiends, a thousand hissing Snakes, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.21 | discoveries! | discoueries. Q addition 'rawe eies, durtrottē liuers, whissing lungs, bladders full of impostume. Sciaticaes lime-kills ith' palme, incurable bone-ach, and the riueled fee simple of the tetter take' |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.86 | leers than I will a serpent when he hisses. He will | leeres, then I will a Serpent when he hisses: he will |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.55 | Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss. | Some galled Goose of Winchester would hisse: |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.32 | hissing, howling, chattering, cursing – O, they have | hissing, / Howling, chattring, cursing, oh they have |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK epilogue.8 | Against his conscience, let him hiss, and kill | Against his Conscience let him hisse, and kill |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.16 | And the first sound this child hear be a hiss, | And the first sound this child heare, be a hisse, |
The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.189 | Will hiss me to my grave. Contempt and clamour | Will hisse me to my Graue: Contempt and Clamor |