Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Hamlet | Ham III.ii.146 | Marry, this is miching mallecho. It means | Marry this is Miching Malicho, that meanes |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.93 | Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, | Rumor doth double, like the Voice, and Eccho, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.17 | The time when screech-owls cry and ban-dogs howl, | The time when Screech-owles cry, and Bandogs howle, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.327 | And boding screech-owls make the consort full! | And boading Screech-Owles, make the Consort full. |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.56 | Bring forth that fatal screech-owl to our house, | Bring forth that fatall Schreechowle to our house, |
King Edward III | E3 III.i.123 | O father, how this echoing cannon shot, | O Father how this eckoing Cannon shot. Shot. |
King John | KJ V.ii.168 | An echo with the clamour of thy drum, | An eccho with the clamor of thy drumme, |
Macbeth | Mac V.iii.53 | I would applaud thee to the very echo | I would applaud thee to the very Eccho, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.110 | Of hounds and echo in conjunction. | Of hounds and eccho in coniunction. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.366 | Whilst the screech-owl, screeching loud, | Whil'st the scritch-owle, scritching loud, |
Othello | Oth III.iii.105 | Think, my lord! By heaven, he echoes me, | Thinke, my Lord? Alas, thou ecchos't me; |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.161 | Else would I tear the cave where Echo lies, | Else would I teare the Caue where Eccho lies, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.24 | Thou art a fool. If Echo were as fleet, | Thou art a Foole, if Eccho were as fleete, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.45 | And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth. | And fetch shrill ecchoes from the hollow earth. |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.178 | That at the parting all the church did echo. | that at the parting all the Church did eccho: |
The Tempest | Tem I.i.55 | This wide-chopped rascal – would thou mightst lie drowning | This wide-chopt-rascall, would thou mightst lye drowning |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.6 | That all the court may echo with the noise. | That all the Court may eccho with the noyse. |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.17 | And whilst the babbling echo mocks the hounds, | And whil'st the babling Eccho mock's the Hounds, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.16 | Let him that will a screech-owl aye be called | Let him that will a screechoule aye be call'd, |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.21 | It gives a very echo to the seat | It giues a verie eccho to the seate |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.80 | I think the echoes of his shames have deafed | I thinke the Ecchoes of his shames have dea'ft |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.101 | That shook the aged forest with their echoes, | That shooke the aged Forrest with their ecchoes, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.35 | The moon is down, the crickets chirp, the screech-owl | The Moone is down, the Cryckets chirpe, the Schreichowle |