Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.3 | Let it alone! Let's to billiards. Come, Charmian. | Let it alone, let's to Billards: come Charmian. |
As You Like It | AYL I.ii.114 | With bills on their necks: ‘Be it known unto | With bils on their neckes: Be it knowne vnto |
As You Like It | AYL III.iii.74 | and as pigeons bill, so wedlock would be nibbling. | and as Pigeons bill, so wedlocke would be nibling. |
Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.40 | charges distinctly billeted, already in th' entertainment, | charges distinctly billetted already in th' entertainment, |
Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.225 | With charitable bill – O bill, sore shaming | With Charitable bill (Oh bill sore shaming |
Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.160 | no more tavern-bills, which are often the sadness of | no more Tauerne Bils, which are often the sadnesse of |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.22 | Who take the ruffian billows by the top, | Who take the Ruffian Billowes by the top, |
Henry V | H5 I.i.1 | My lord, I'll tell you. That self bill is urged | My Lord, Ile tell you, that selfe Bill is vrg'd, |
Henry V | H5 I.i.19 | A thousand pounds by th' year. Thus runs the bill. | A thousand pounds by th' yeere. Thus runs the Bill. |
Henry V | H5 I.i.70 | How now for mitigation of this bill | How now for mittigation of this Bill, |
Henry V | H5 III.chorus.15 | A city on th' inconstant billows dancing; | A Citie on th'inconstant Billowes dauncing: |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.1.3 | and others. Gloucester offers to put up a bill. | Gloster offers to put vp a Bill: |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.17.4 | the Sheriff, and officers with bills and halberds | the Sherife and Officers. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.119 | commodities upon our bills? | commodities vpon our billes? |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.11 | my brain-pan had been cleft with a brown bill; and | my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill; and |
Henry VIII | H8 III.i.10 | Even the billows of the sea, | Euen the Billowes of the Sea, |
Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.171 | That by proscription and bills of outlawry | That by proscription, and billes of Outlarie, |
Julius Caesar | JC V.i.67 | Why now, blow wind, swell billow, and swim bark! | Why now blow winde, swell Billow, / And swimme Barke: |
Julius Caesar | JC V.ii.1 | Ride, ride, Messala, ride, and give these bills | Ride, ride Messala, ride and giue these Billes |
King Lear | KL IV.vi.91 | Bring up the brown bills. – O, well flown, bird! I'the | Bring vp the browne Billes. O well flowne Bird: i'th' |
Macbeth | Mac III.i.99 | Particular addition from the bill | Particular addition, from the Bill, |
Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.53 | shall beat out my brains with billets. I will not consent | shall beat out my braines with billets: I will not consent |
The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.100 | If I live to be as old as Sibylla, I will die as chaste | If I liue to be as olde as Sibilla, I will dye as chaste |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.10 | bill, warrant, quittance, or obligation, Armigero. | Bill, Warrant, Quittance, or Obligation, Armigero. |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.27 | bill in the parliament for the putting down of men. How | Bill in the Parliament for the putting downe of men: how |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.45 | There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. | There pinch the Maids as blew as Bill-berry, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.97 | known. In the meantime I will draw a bill of properties | knowne. In the meane time, I wil draw a bil of properties, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.119 | With orange-tawny bill, | With Orenge-tawny bill. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.36 | He set up his bills here in Messina, and challenged | He set vp his bils here in Messina, & challeng'd |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.41 | only, have a care that your bills be not stolen. Well, you | only haue a care that your bills be not stolne: well, you |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.172 | being taken up of these men's bills. | being taken vp of these mens bils. |
Othello | Oth II.i.12 | The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds; | The chidden Billow seemes to pelt the Clowds, |
Othello | Oth II.iii.369 | Retire thee; go where thou art billeted. | Retire thee, go where thou art Billited: |
Othello | Oth III.iv.70 | A sibyl, that had numbered in the world | A Sybill that had numbred in the world |
Pericles | Per Chorus.III.45 | On Neptune's billow; half the flood | On Neptunes billow, halfe the flood, |
Pericles | Per III.i.46 | billow kiss the moon, I care not. | billow / Kisse the Moone, I care not. |
Pericles | Per III.ii.57 | I never saw so huge a billow, sir, | I neuer saw so huge a billow sir, |
Richard II | R2 III.ii.118 | Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills | Yea Distaffe-Women manage rustie Bills: |
Richard III | R3 I.iv.20 | Into the tumbling billows of the main. | Into the tumbling billowes of the maine. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.72 | Clubs, bills, and partisans! Strike! Beat them | Clubs, Bils, and Partisons, strike, beat them |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.89 | For I have bills for money by exchange | For I haue bils for monie by exchange |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.141 | Error i'th' bill, sir, error i'th' bill! I commanded | Error i'th bill sir, error i'th bill? I commanded |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.147 | I am for thee straight. Take thou the bill, give | I am for thee straight: take thou the bill, giue |
The Tempest | Tem III.iii.98 | Methought the billows spoke, and told me of it; | Me thought the billowes spoke, and told me of it, |
Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.1.1 | Enter Flavius, Timon's steward, with many bills in | Enter Steward, with many billes in |
Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.50 | Why then preferred you not your sums and bills | Why then preferr'd you not your summes and Billes |
Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.86 | My lord, here is my bill. | My Lord, heere is my Bill. |
Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.90 | All our bills. | All our Billes. |
Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.1 | Thus, in this strange and sad habiliment, | Thus in this strange and sad Habilliament, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.56 | activity in question. What, billing again? Here's ‘ In | actiuity in question: what billing againe? here's in |
The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.183 | How she holds up the neb, the bill to him! | How she holds vp the Neb? the Byll to him? |