Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.71 | midnight look to hear further from me. | midnight looke to heare further from me. |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.54 | When midnight comes, knock at my chamber window; | When midnight comes, knocke at my chamber window: |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.28 | Not till after midnight, for he is dieted to | Not till after midnight: for hee is dieted to |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.83 | Is't not after midnight? | i'st not after midnight? |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.18 | By certain scales i'th' pyramid. They know | By certaine scales i'th' Pyramid: they know |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.19 | Prays, and destroys the prayer; no midway | Prayes, and distroyes the prayer, no midway |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.19 | Enter Antony and Canidius | Enter Anthony and Camidias. |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.20.2 | Is it not strange, Canidius, | Is it not strange Camidius, |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.27 | To taunt at slackness. Canidius, we | To taunt at slacknesse. Camidius, wee |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.57 | Strange that his power should be. Canidius, | Strange, that his power should be. Camidius, |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.79 | The Emperor calls Canidius. | The Emperor cals Camidius. |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.1.1 | Canidius marcheth with his land army one way over | Camidius Marcheth with his Land Army one way ouer |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.11 | Whom leprosy o'ertake! – i'th' midst o'th' fight, | (Whom Leprosie o're-take) i'th'midst o'th'fight, |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.24 | Enter Canidius | Enter Camidius. |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.184.1 | Let's mock the midnight bell. | Let's mocke the midnight Bell. |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.31 | Then in the midst a tearing groan did break | Then in the midd'st a tearing grone did breake |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.61 | My country's high pyramides my gibbet | My Countries high pyramides my Gibbet, |
As You Like It | AYL II.iv.23 | As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow. | As euer sigh'd vpon a midnight pillow: |
As You Like It | AYL IV.i.92 | nun, if it had not been for a hot midsummer night: for, | Nun; if it had not bin for a hot Midsomer-night, for |
As You Like It | AYL V.iii.9 | We are for you. Sit i'th' middle. | We are for you, sit i'th middle. |
The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.104 | Our helpful ship was splitted in the midst; | Our helpefull ship was splitted in the midst; |
Coriolanus | Cor I.i.97 | I'th' midst o'th' body, idle and unactive, | I'th midd'st a th' body, idle and vnactiue, |
Coriolanus | Cor III.i.85 | Were I as patient as the midnight sleep, | Were I as patient as the midnight sleep, |
Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.28.1 | Cleave in the midst and perish. | Cleaue in the midd'st, and perish. |
Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.204 | bottom of the news is, our general is cut i'th' middle and | bottome of the Newes is, our Generall is cut i'th' middle, & |
Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.31 | At the sixth hour of morn, at noon, at midnight, | At the sixt houre of Morne, at Noone, at Midnight, |
Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.27 | But even the very middle of my heart | But euen the very middle of my heart |
Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.2.2 | Almost midnight, madam. | Almost midnight, Madam. |
Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.283 | Here's a few flowers, but 'bout midnight more: | Heere's a few Flowres, but 'bout midnight more: |
Hamlet | Ham I.ii.198 | In the dead waste and middle of the night | In the dead wast and middle of the night |
Hamlet | Ham II.ii.231 | Then you live about her waist, or in the middle | Then you liue about her waste, or in the middle |
Hamlet | Ham III.ii.266 | Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected, | Thou mixture ranke, of Midnight Weeds collected, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.94 | midnight. | midnight. |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.287 | What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? | What doth Grauitie out of his Bed at Midnight? |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.153 | up with guts and midriff. Charge an honest woman with | vppe with Guttes and Midriffe. Charge an honest Woman with |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.102 | And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer, | And gorgeous as the Sunne at Mid-summer, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.24 | kingdom – but the midwives say the children are not in | |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.209 | We have heard the chimes at midnight, Master | Wee haue heard the Chymes at mid-night, Master |
Henry V | H5 III.chorus.19 | And leave your England, as dead midnight still, | And leaue your England as dead Mid-night, still, |
Henry V | H5 III.vii.86 | 'Tis midnight: I'll go arm myself. | 'Tis Mid-night, Ile goe arme my selfe. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.14 | Than midday sun fierce bent against their faces. | Then mid-day Sunne, fierce bent against their faces. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.24 | But that they left me 'midst my enemies. | But that they left me 'midst my Enemies. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.6 | The middle centre of this cursed town. | The middle Centure of this cursed Towne. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.40 | I knew her well; she was a midwife. | I knew her well, she was a Midwife. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.60 | through the very midst of you! And heavens and | through the verie middest of you, and heauens and |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.17 | Have been as piercing as the midday sun, | Haue beene as piercing as the Mid-day Sunne, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.3 | But, in the midst of this bright-shining day, | But in the midst of this bright-shining Day, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.74 | The midwife wondered and the women cried | The Midwife wonder'd, and the Women cri'de |
Henry VIII | H8 V.i.14 | As they say spirits do, at midnight, have | (As they say Spirits do) at midnight, haue |
Henry VIII | H8 V.i.72.2 | 'Tis midnight, Charles; | 'Tis midnight Charles, |
Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.163 | For it is after midnight, and ere day | For it is after Mid-night, and ere day, |
Julius Caesar | JC II.iii.1 | Enter Artemidorus reading a paper | Enter |
Julius Caesar | JC II.iii.9 | Artemidorus. | Artemidorus. |
Julius Caesar | JC III.i.1.4 | Artemidorus, Publius, and the Soothsayer | Artimedorus, Publius, and the Soothsayer. |
King Edward III | E3 III.i.101 | Here in the middle coast, betwixt you both, | Heere in the middle cost betwixtyou both, |
King Edward III | E3 III.i.168 | And scatters it in middle of the air. | And scatters it in midddle of the aire, |
King Edward III | E3 III.ii.66 | And in the midst our nation's glittering host; | And in the midst our nations glittering hoast, |
King Edward III | E3 IV.v.12 | A tongue-tied fear hath made a midnight hour, | A tongue-tied feare hath made a midnight houre, |
King Edward III | E3 V.i.139 | And in the midst, like to a slender point | And in the midst like to a slender poynt, |
King Edward III | E3 V.i.142 | A hazel wand amidst a wood of pines, | A Hasle wand a midst a wood of Pynes, |
King John | KJ III.iii.37 | To give me audience. If the midnight bell | To giue me audience: If the mid-night bell |
King John | KJ IV.i.45 | And with my hand at midnight held your head, | And with my hand, at midnight held your head; |
King Lear | KL I.iv.156 | Why, after I have cut the egg i'the middle and eat | Why after I haue cut the egge i'th'middle and eate |
King Lear | KL I.iv.158 | clovest thy crown i'the middle, and gavest away both | clouest thy Crownes i'th'middle, and gau'st away both |
King Lear | KL I.iv.184 | i'the middle. Here comes one o'the parings. | i'th'middle; heere comes one o'the parings. |
King Lear | KL I.v.19 | Thou canst tell why one's nose stands i'the middle on's | thou canst tell why ones nose stands i'th'middle on's |
King Lear | KL IV.vi.13 | The crows and choughs that wing the midway air | The Crowes and Choughes, that wing the midway ayre |
Macbeth | Mac III.iv.10 | Both sides are even. Here I'll sit i'the midst. | Both sides are euen: heere Ile sit i'th' mid'st, |
Macbeth | Mac IV.i.47 | How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags! | How now you secret, black, & midnight Hags? |
Macbeth | Mac IV.i.56 | Though palaces and pyramids do slope | Though Pallaces, and Pyramids do slope |
Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.34 | Upon the heavy middle of the night, | vpon the / Heauy midle of the night, |
Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.61 | 'Tis now dead midnight, and by eight tomorrow | 'Tis now dead midnight, and by eight to morrow |
Measure for Measure | MM V.i.278 | That's the way, for women are light at midnight. | That's the way: for women are light at midnight. |
The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.102 | Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee; | Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.38 | humidity, this gross watery pumpion. We'll teach him | humidity, this grosse-watry Pumpion; we'll teach him |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.18 | Park at midnight? Fie, fie, he'll never come. | Parke at midnight? Fie, fie, he'll neuer come. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.28 | Doth all the winter-time, at still midnight, | Doth all the winter time, at still midnight |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.11 | midnight, at Herne's Oak, and you shall see wonders. | midnight, at Hernes-Oake, and you shall see wonders. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.80 | But stay – I smell a man of middle earth. | But stay, I smell a man of middle earth. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.223 | From lovers' food till morrow deep midnight. | From louers foode, till morrow deepe midnight. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.82 | And never since the middle summer's spring | And neuer since the middle Summers spring |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.87 | And will tomorrow midnight solemnly | And will to morrow midnight, solemnly |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.96 | Make periods in the midst of sentences, | Make periods in the midst of sentences, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.353 | The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. | The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelue. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.7 | in the midway between him and Benedick; the one is | in the mid-way betweene him and Benedicke, the one is |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.117 | witness; bear it coldly but till midnight, and let the | witnesses, beare it coldly but till night, and let the |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.16 | Midnight, assist our moan; | Midnight assist our mone, |
Othello | Oth IV.i.211 | hear more by midnight. | heare more by midnight. |
Othello | Oth V.ii.298 | Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil | Will you, I pray, demand that demy-Diuell, |
Pericles | Per III.i.11 | Divinest patroness and midwife gentle | Diuinest patrionesse, and my wife gentle |
Pericles | Per V.i.45 | Which now are midway stopped. | which now are midway stopt, |
Richard II | R2 II.ii.62 | So, Green, thou art the midwife to my woe, | So Greene, thou art the midwife of my woe, |
Richard III | R3 III.v.2 | Murder thy breath in middle of a word, | Murther thy breath in middle of a word, |
Richard III | R3 V.iii.78 | About the mid of night come to my tent | about the mid of night come to my Tent |
Richard III | R3 V.iii.181 | The lights burn blue. It is now dead midnight. | The Lights burne blew. It is not dead midnight. |
Richard III | R3 V.iii.296 | Our archers shall be placed in the midst; | Our Archers shall be placed in the mid'st; |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.54 | She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes | She is the Fairies Midwife, & she comes |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.189 | Ay, and amid this hurly I intend | I, and amid this hurlie I intend, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.133 | What, in the midst of the street? | What in the midst of the streete? |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.128 | A treacherous army levied, one midnight | A treacherous Armie leuied, one mid-night |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.228 | Thou called'st me up at midnight to fetch dew | Thou calldst me vp at midnight to fetch dewe |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.239.2 | Past the mid-season. | Past the mid season. |
The Tempest | Tem IV.i.207 | All's hushed as midnight yet. | All's husht as midnight yet. |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.39 | Is to make midnight mushrumps, that rejoice | Is to make midnight-Mushrumps, that reioyce |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.272 | These three have robbed me, and this demi-devil – | These three haue robd me, and this demy-diuell; |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.2 | Rotten humidity. Below thy sister's orb | Rotten humidity: below thy Sisters Orbe |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.302 | The middle of humanity thou never knewest, | The middle of Humanity thou neuer knewest, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.140 | Cornelia the midwife, and myself, | Cornelia, the midwife, and myselfe, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.142 | The Empress, the midwife, and yourself. | The Empresse, the Midwife, and yourselfe, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.165 | But send the midwife presently to me. | But send the Midwife presently to me. |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.166 | The midwife and the Nurse well made away, | The Midwife and the Nurse well made away, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.28 | Beginning in the middle; starting thence away | Beginning in the middle: starting thence away, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.91 | Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye | Amid'st the other, whose med'cinable eye |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.278 | Midway between your tents and walls of Troy, | Midway betweene your Tents, and walles of Troy, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.378 | For that will physic the great Myrmidon, | For that will physicke the great Myrmidon |
Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.105 | Virgins and boys, mid-age and wrinkled old, | Virgins, and Boyes; mid-age & wrinkled old, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.140 | This she? No, this is Diomed's Cressida. | This she? no, this is Diomids Cressida: |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.v.33 | Together with his mangled Myrmidons, | Together with his mangled Myrmidons, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.1 | Enter Achilles with Myrmidons | Enter Achilles with Myrmidons. |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vii.1 | Come here about me, you my Myrmidons; | Come here about me you my Myrmidons: |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.5 | Enter Achilles and his Myrmidons | Enter Achilles and his Myrmidons. |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.13 | On, Myrmidons; and cry you all amain: | On Myrmidons, cry you all a maine, |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.2 | midnight, is to be up betimes, and diluculo surgere, | midnight, is to be vp betimes, and Deliculo surgere, |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.7 | To be up after midnight and to go to bed then is early; | To be vp after midnight, and to go to bed then is early: |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.8 | so that to go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes. | so that to go to bed after midnight, is to goe to bed betimes. |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.27 | Myrmidons are no bottle-ale houses. | Mermidons are no bottle-ale houses. |
Twelfth Night | TN II.v.189 | Like aqua-vitae with a midwife. | Like Aqua vite with a Midwife. |
Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.56 | Why, this is very midsummer madness. | Why this is verie Midsommer madnesse. |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.293 | In which I'll plant a pyramid; and whether, | In which Ile plant a Pyramid; and whether |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.80 | Within an inch o'th' pyramid, that the cry | Within an inch o'th Pyramid, that the cry |
The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.290 | Hours minutes? Noon midnight? And all eyes | Houres, Minutes? Noone, Mid-night? and all Eyes |
The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.159 | With Lady Margery, your midwife there, | With Lady Margerie, your Mid-wife there, |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.59 | At upper end o'th' table, now i'th' middle; | At vpper end o'th Table; now, i'th middle: |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.107 | Of middle summer, and I think they are given | Of middle summer, and I thinke they are giuen |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.108 | To men of middle age. Y'are very welcome. | To men of middle age. Y'are very welcome. |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.267 | Here's the midwife's name to't: one Mistress | Here's the Midwiues name to't: one Mist. |