Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.233.1 | He ploughed her, and she cropped. | He ploughed her, and she cropt. |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.38 | Patient Octavia plough thy visage up | Patient Octauia, plough thy visage vp |
Coriolanus | Cor III.i.71 | Which we ourselves have ploughed for, sowed, and scattered | Which we our selues haue plowed for, sow'd, & scatter'd, |
Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.34 | Plough Rome and harrow Italy! I'll never | Plough Rome, and harrow Italy, Ile neuer |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.16 | and plough-irons. | And Plough-Irons. |
King Edward III | E3 III.i.78 | They plough the ocean hitherward amain. | They plough the Ocean hitherward amayne: |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.872 | a votary; I have vowed to Jaquenetta to hold the plough | a Votarie, I haue vow'd to Iaquenetta to holde the Plough |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.893 | And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks, | And merrie Larkes are Ploughmens clockes: |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.94 | The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn | The Ploughman lost his sweat, and the greene Corne |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.363 | Whilst the heavy ploughman snores | Whilest the heauy ploughman snores, |
Pericles | Per IV.vi.143 | is, she shall be ploughed. | is, shee shall be plowed. |
Richard II | R2 I.iii.128 | Of civil wounds ploughed up with neighbours' sword, | Of ciuill wounds plowgh'd vp with neighbors swords, |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.194 | Dry up thy marrows, vines and plough-torn leas, | Dry vp thy Marrowes, Vines, and Plough-torne Leas, |
Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.48 | 'Tis thou that riggest the bark and ploughest the foam, | 'Tis thou that rigg'st the Barke, and plow'st the Fome, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.86 | Sooner this sword shall plough thy bowels up! | Sooner this sword shall plough thy bowels vp. |
Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.60 | Hard as the palm of ploughman! This thou tell'st me, | Hard as the palme of Plough-man. This thou tel'st me; |
Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.105 | – yoke you like draught-oxen, and make you plough up | yoke you like draft-Oxen, and make you plough vp |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.28 | Let the plough play today; I'll tickle't out | Let the plough play to day, ile tick'lt out |