| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.92 | To see him every hour, to sit and draw | To see him euerie houre to sit and draw |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.244.1 | By such a day, an hour. | By such a day, an houre. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.206 | good for nothing but taking up, and that thou'rt scarce | good for nothing but taking vp, and that th'ourt scarce |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.251 | if I were but two hours younger I'd beat thee. | if I were but two houres yonger, I'de beate thee: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.44 | To make the coming hour o'erflow with joy | To make the comming houre oreflow with ioy, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.82 | And call her, hourly, mistress. Who was with him? | And call her hourely Mistris. Who was with him? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.10 | endless liar, an hourly promise-breaker, the owner of no | endlesse Lyar, an hourely promise-breaker, the owner of no |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.22 | two hours in a sleep, and then to return and swear the | two houres in a sleepe, and then to returne & swear the |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.24 | Ten o'clock. Within these three hours 'twill be | Ten a clocke: Within these three houres 'twill be |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.58 | Remain there but an hour, nor speak to me. | Remaine there but an houre, nor speake to mee: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.2 | I have delivered it an hour since. There is | I haue deliu'red it an houre since, there is |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.29 | his hour | his houre. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.159 | hour, I will tell true. Let me see: Spurio, a hundred and | houre, I will tell true. Let me see, Spurio a hundred & |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.5 | hour, and your son here at home, more advanced by the | houre, and your sonne heere at home, more aduanc'd by the |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.282.1 | Thou diest within this hour. | Thou diest within this houre. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.44 | Now for the love of Love and her soft hours, | Now for the loue of Loue, and her soft houres, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.34 | Thy biddings have been done; and every hour, | Thy biddings haue beene done, & euerie houre |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.29 | Mark Antony is every hour in Rome | Marke Anthony is euery houre in Rome |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.94 | And then when poisoned hours had bound me up | And then when poysoned houres had bound me vp |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.152 | Further this act of grace, and from this hour | Further this act of Grace: and from this houre, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.21 | Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed; | Ere the ninth houre, I drunke him to his bed: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.118 | Of Gnaeus Pompey's, besides what hotter hours, | Of Gneius Pompeyes, besides what hotter houres |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.178 | And fight maliciously. For when mine hours | And fight maliciously: for when mine houres |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.32 | Tend me tonight two hours, I ask no more, | Tend me to night two houres, I aske no more, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.1 | If we be not relieved within this hour, | If we be not releeu'd within this houre, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.4.1 | By th' second hour i'th' morn. | By'th'second houre i'th'Morne. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.31 | To th' court of guard; he is of note. Our hour | to'th'Court of Guard: he is of note: / Our houre |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.30 | The greatness he has got. I hourly learn | The Greatnesse he has got. I hourely learne |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.24 | 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, | 'Tis but an houre agoe, since it was nine, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.25 | And after one hour more 'twill be eleven, | And after one houre more, 'twill be eleuen, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.26 | And so from hour to hour we ripe, and ripe, | And so from houre to houre, we ripe, and ripe, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.27 | And then from hour to hour we rot, and rot, | And then from houre to houre, we rot, and rot, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.33 | An hour by his dial. O noble fool! | An houre by his diall. Oh noble foole, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.113 | Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time: | Loose, and neglect the creeping houres of time: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.93 | dinners and suppers and sleeping-hours excepted: it is | dinners, and suppers, and sleeping hours excepted: it is |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.295 | sighing every minute and groaning every hour would | sighing euerie minute, and groaning euerie houre wold |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.37 | My fair Rosalind, I come within an hour of my | My faire Rosalind, I come within an houre of my |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.39 | Break an hour's promise in love? He that will | Breake an houres promise in loue? hee that will |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.164 | For these two hours, Rosalind, I will leave thee. | For these two houres Rosalinde, I wil leaue thee. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.165 | Alas, dear love, I cannot lack thee two hours! | Alas, deere loue, I cannot lacke thee two houres. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.172 | o'clock is your hour? | o'clocke is your howre. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.177 | behind your hour, I will think you the most pathetical | behinde your houre, I will thinke you the most patheticall |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.82 | But at this hour the house doth keep itself, | But at this howre, the house doth keepe it selfe, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.101 | Within an hour; and pacing through the forest, | Within an houre, and pacing through the Forrest, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.27 | This carol they began that hour, | This Carroll they began that houre, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.12 | That will I, should I die the hour after. | That will I, should I die the houre after. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.54 | That very hour, and in the selfsame inn, | That very howre, and in the selfe-same Inne, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.11 | Within this hour it will be dinner-time. | Within this houre it will be dinner time, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.69 | Reserve them till a merrier hour than this. | Reserue them till a merrier houre then this: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.14 | Even now, even here, not half an hour since. | Euen now, euen here, not halfe an howre since. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.29 | And make a common of my serious hours. | And make a Common of my serious howres, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.157 | In Ephesus I am but two hours old, | In Ephesus I am but two houres old, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.2 | My wife is shrewish when I keep not hours. | My wife is shrewish when I keepe not howres; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.122 | I'll meet you at that place some hour hence. | Ile meet you at that place some houre hence. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.52 | The hour steals on. I pray you, sir, dispatch. | The houre steales on, I pray you sir dispatch. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.65 | You know I gave it you half an hour since. | You know I gaue it you halfe an houre since. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.54 | The hours come back – that did I never hear. |
The houres come backe, that did I neuer here. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.55 | O yes, if any hour meet a sergeant 'a turns back for very fear. |
Oh yes, if any houre meete a Serieant, a turnes backe for
verie feare. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.61 | Hath he not reason to turn back an hour in a day? |
Hath he not reason to turne backe an houre in a day? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.37 | Why, sir, I brought you word | Why sir, I brought you word an houre since, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.38 | an hour since that the bark Expedition put forth tonight, | that the Barke Expedition put forth to night, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.29 | hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at | houre of my Natiuitie to this instant, and haue nothing at |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.289 | Within this hour I was his bondman, sir, | Within this houre I was his bondman sir, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.299 | And careful hours with time's deformed hand | And carefull houres with times deformed hand, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.402 | Of you, my sons, and till this present hour | Of you my sonnes, and till this present houre |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.8 | kings' entreaties a mother should not sell him an hour | Kings entreaties, a Mother should not sel him an houre |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.60 | half an hour together. 'Has such a confirmed | halfe an houre together: ha's such a confirm'd |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.v.4 | See here these movers that do prize their hours | See heere these mouers, that do prize their hours |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.15 | Above an hour, my lord. | Aboue an houre, my Lord. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.17 | How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour, | How could'st thou in a mile confound an houre, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.21.1 | Half an hour since brought my report. | Halfe an houre since brought my report. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.62.1 | We prove this very hour. | We proue this very houre. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.viii.7.2 | Within these three hours, Tullus, | Within these three houres Tullus |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.168 | Then were they chosen. In a better hour | Then were they chosen: in a better houre, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.60 | I am so dishonoured that the very hour | I am so dishonour'd, that the very houre |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.41 | and to be on foot at an hour's warning. | and to be on foot at an houres warning. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.14 | Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise | Whose Houres, whose Bed, whose Meale and Exercise |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.16 | Unseparable, shall within this hour, | Vnseparable, shall within this houre, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.66 | hourly synod about thy particular prosperity and love | hourely Synod about thy particular prosperity, and loue |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.154 | Which to this hour bewail the injury, | Which to this houre bewaile the Iniury, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.60 | Were stolen; and to this hour no guess in knowledge | Were stolne, and to this houre, no ghesse in knowledge |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.20 | And I shall here abide the hourly shot | And I shall heere abide the hourely shot |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.59.1 | Thou'rt poison to my blood. | Thou'rt poyson to my blood. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.108 | About some half-hour hence, pray you, speak with me; | About some halfe houre hence, / Pray you speake with me; |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.27 | How I would think on him at certain hours, | How I would thinke on him at certaine houres, |
| 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.72 | But must be, will's free hours languish for | But must be: will's free houres languish: / For |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.107 | Made hard with hourly falsehood – falsehood, as | Made hard with hourely falshood (falshood as |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.58 | A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer | A Mother hourely coyning plots: A Wooer, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.2.1 | What hour is it? | What houre is it? |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.3 | I have read three hours then: mine eyes are weak, | I haue read three houres then: / Mine eyes are weake, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.166 | This yellow Iachimo, in an hour, was't not? | This yellow Iachimo in an houre, was't not? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.69.1 | 'Twixt hour, and hour? | Twixt houre, and houre? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.39 | The freezing hours away? We have seen nothing: | The freezing houres away? We haue seene nothing: |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.152 | Report should render him hourly to your ear | Report should render him hourely to your eare, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.16 | is growing upon thy shoulders – shall within this hour | is growing vppon thy shoulders) shall within this houre |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.30.1 | 'Tis the ninth hour o'th' morn. | 'Tis the ninth houre o'th'Morne. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.118.2 | Thou'rt my good youth: my page | Thou'rt my good youth: my Page |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.154 | That struck the hour: it was in Rome, accursed | That strooke the houre: it was in Rome, accurst |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.299.1 | Endure our law: thou'rt dead. | Endure our Law: Thou'rt dead. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.6 | You come most carefully upon your hour. | You come most carefully vpon your houre. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.65 | Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, | Thus twice before, and iust at this dead houre, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.62 | Take thy fair hour, Laertes. Time be thine; | Take thy faire houre Laertes, time be thine, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.3.1 | What hour now? | What hower now? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.2.3 | My hour is almost come, | My hower is almost come, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.61 | Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole | Vpon my secure hower thy Vncle stole |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.160 | You know sometimes he walks four hours together | You know sometimes / He walkes foure houres together, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.136 | mother looks, and my father died within's two hours. | Mother lookes, and my Father dyed within's two Houres. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.6 | Hazard so near us as doth hourly grow | Hazard so dangerous as doth hourely grow |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.294 | An hour of quiet shortly shall we see. | An houre of quiet shortly shall we see; |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.309 | In thee there is not half an hour's life. | In thee, there is not halfe an houre of life; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.56 | A sad and bloody hour – | A sad and bloody houre: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.7 | Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, | vnlesse houres were cups of Sacke, and minutes Capons, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.99 | He did confound the best part of an hour | He did confound the best part of an houre |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.295 | Uncle, adieu. O, let the hours be short, | Vncle, adieu: O let the houres be short, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.15 | that rogue. I have forsworn his company hourly any | that Rogue, I haue forsworne his company hourely any |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.38 | hours. | hours. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.68 | He is, my lord, an hour ago. | He is my Lord, an houre agone. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.17 | I am so good a proficient in one quarter of an hour that I | I am so good a proficient in one quarter of an houre, that I |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.106 | answers ‘ Some fourteen,’ an hour after, ‘ a trifle, a | answeres, some fourteene, an houre after: a trifle, a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.160 | dozen of them two hours together. I have scaped by | dozen of them two houres together. I haue scaped by |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.150 | He held me last night at least nine hours | He held me last Night, at least, nine howres, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.214 | The hour before the heavenly-harnessed team | The houre before the Heauenly Harneis'd Teeme |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.255 | these two hours. And so, come in when ye will. | these two howres: and so come in, when yee will. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.94 | As thou art to this hour was Richard then | As thou art to this houre, was Richard then, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.17 | not above once in a quarter – of an hour. Paid money | not aboue once in a quarter of an houre, payd Money |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.48 | On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? | On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.25 | With quiet hours. For I protest | With quiet houres: For I do protest, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.84 | Still ending at the arrival of an hour. | Still ending at the arriuall of an houre, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.67 | Nor shall it, Harry, for the hour is come | Nor shall it Harry, for the houre is come |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.147 | and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock. If I may | and fought a long houre by Shrewsburie clocke. If I may |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.v.8 | Had been alive this hour | Had beene aliue this houre, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.151 | The ragged'st hour that time and spite dare bring | The ragged'st houre, that Time and Spight dare bring |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.5 | Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, | Are at this howre asleepe? O Sleepe, O gentle Sleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.27 | To the wet sea-son in an hour so rude, | To the wet Sea-Boy, in an houre so rude: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.101 | And these unseasoned hours perforce must add | And these vnseason'd howres perforce must adde |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.55 | And with our surfeiting and wanton hours | And with our surfetting, and wanton howres, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.57 | Stretches itself beyond the hour of death. | Stretches it selfe beyond the howre of death. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.97 | Before thy hour be ripe? O foolish youth! | Before thy howre be ripe? O foolish Youth! |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.102 | Thou hast stolen that which after some few hours | Thou hast stolne that, which after some few howres |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.109 | To stab at half an hour of my life. | To stab at halfe an howre of my Life. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.110 | What, canst thou not forbear me half an hour? | What? canst thou not forbeare me halfe an howre? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.61 | By number into hours of happiness. | By number, into houres of Happinesse. |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.31 | Into an hour-glass: for the which supply, | Into an Howre-glasse: for the which supplie, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.56 | His hours filled up with riots, banquets, sports, | His Houres fill'd vp with Ryots, Banquets, Sports; |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.92 | Craved audience, and the hour, I think, is come | Crau'd audience; and the howre I thinke is come, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.301 | Therefore, my lords, omit no happy hour | Therefore, my Lords, omit no happy howre, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.163 | Than I do at this hour joy o'er myself, | Then I do at this houre ioy ore my selfe, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.89 | Chrish save me, la, in an hour. O, tish ill done, 'tish ill | Chrish saue me law, in an houre. O tish ill done, tish ill |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.16 | And the third hour of drowsy morning name. | And the third howre of drowsie Morning nam'd, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.277 | Whose hours the peasant best advantages. | Whose howres, the Pesant best aduantages. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.50 | Fly o'er them all, impatient for their hour. | Flye o're them all, impatient for their howre. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.4 | Lives he, good uncle? Thrice within this hour | Liues he good Vnckle: thrice within this houre |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.98 | Monmouth caps, which, your majesty know to this hour | Monmouth caps, which your Maiesty know to this houre |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.120 | More than three hours the fight continued, | More then three houres the fight continued: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.8 | Faintly besiege us one hour in a month. | Faintly besiege vs one houre in a moneth. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.13 | Talbot, farewell; thy hour is not yet come. | Talbot farwell, thy houre is not yet come, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.36 | Finish the process of his sandy hour, | Finish the processe of his sandy houre, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.35 | And on his son, young John, who two hours since | And on his Sonne yong Iohn, who two houres since, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.42 | That sundered friends greet in the hour of death. | That sundred friends greete in the houre of death. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.41 | Within six hours they will be at his aid. | Within sixe houres, they will be at his ayde. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.31 | If the first hour I shrink and run away. | If the first howre I shrinke and run away: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.62 | Within this half-hour hath received his sight, | Within this halfe houre hath receiu'd his sight, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.176 | 'Tis like, my lord, you will not keep your hour. | 'Tis like, my Lord, you will not keepe your houre. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.6 | Ten is the hour that was appointed me | Tenne is the houre that was appointed me, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.204 | And yet, good Humphrey, is the hour to come | And yet, good Humfrey, is the houre to come, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.283 | For sure my thoughts do hourly prophesy | For sure, my thoughts doe hourely prophecie, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.381 | But wherefore grieve I at an hour's poor loss, | But wherefore greeue I at an houres poore losse, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.63 | You are come to Sandal in a happy hour; | You are come to Sandall in a happie houre. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.189 | And when thou failest – as God forbid the hour! – | And when thou failst (as God forbid the houre) |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.26 | How many make the hour full complete, | How many makes the Houre full compleate, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.27 | How many hours bring about the day, | How many Houres brings about the Day, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.31 | So many hours must I tend my flock, | So many Houres, must I tend my Flocke; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.32 | So many hours must I take my rest, | So many Houres, must I take my Rest: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.33 | So many hours must I contemplate, | So many Houres, must I Contemplate: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.34 | So many hours must I sport myself, | So many Houres, must I Sport my selfe: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.38 | So minutes, hours, days, months, and years, | So Minutes, Houres, Dayes, Monthes, and Yeares, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.80 | If this right hand would buy two hour's life, | If this right hand would buy two houres life, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.147 | Now therefore let us hence, and lose no hour | Now therefore let vs hence, and lose no howre, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.v.10 | That if about this hour he make this way | That if about this houre he make this way, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.10 | And do expect him here some two hours hence. | And doe expect him here some two howres hence. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.43 | Shall rue the hour that ever thou wast born. | Shall rue the houre that euer thou was't borne. |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.13 | Richly in two short hours. Only they | Richly in two short houres. Onely they |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.121 | His hour of speech a minute – he, my lady, | His houre of speech, a minute: He, (my Lady) |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.162 | John de la Car, my chaplain, a choice hour | Iohn de la Car, my Chaplaine, a choyce howre |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.46 | And have an hour of hearing, and, by'r lady, | And haue an houre of hearing, and by'r Lady |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.72.1 | An hour of revels with 'em. | An houre of Reuels with 'em. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.132 | Pray for me! I must now forsake ye; the last hour | Pray for me, I must now forsake ye; the last houre |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.71 | Is this an hour for temporal affairs, ha? | Is this an howre for temporall affaires? Ha? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.78 | I would your grace would give us but an hour | I would your Grace would giue vs but an houre |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.27 | As I saw it inclined. When was the hour | As I saw it inclin'd? When was the houre |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.25.1 | Once every hour. | Once euery houre. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.108 | To his own portion! And what expense by th' hour | To his owne portion? And what expence by'th'houre |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.253 | Within these forty hours Surrey durst better | Within these fortie houres, Surrey durst better |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.66 | To rest awhile, some half an hour or so, | To rest a while, some halfe an houre, or so, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.26 | About the hour of eight, which he himself | About the houre of eight, which he himselfe |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.2 | These should be hours for necessities, | These should be houres for necessities, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.5 | To waste these times. Good hour of night, Sir Thomas! | To waste these times. Good houre of night Sir Thomas: |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.6 | And has done half an hour, to know your pleasures. | And ha's done halfe an houre to know your pleasures. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.8.1 | May hourly fall upon ye! | May hourely fall vpon ye. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.88 | I have been up this hour, awake all night. | I haue beene vp this howre, awake all Night: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.213 | By the eighth hour; is that the uttermost? | By the eight houre, is that the vttermost? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.251 | Which sometime hath his hour with every man. | Which sometime hath his houre with euery man. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.121 | I have an hour's talk in store for you; | I haue an houres talke in store for you: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.23.2 | About the ninth hour, lady. | About the ninth houre Lady. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.153 | If I myself, there is no hour so fit | If I my selfe, there is no houre so fit |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.154 | As Caesar's death's hour; nor no instrument | As Casars deaths houre; nor no Instrument |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.20.1 | I know my hour is come. | I know my houre is come. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.42 | That have but laboured to attain this hour. | That haue but labour'd, to attaine this houre. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.54 | An easy march within four hours will bring | An easie march within foure howres will bring, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.115 | Since leathern Adam till this youngest hour. | Since Letherne Adam, till this youngest howre. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.36 | Yes, my good lord, and not two hours ago, | Yes my good Lord, and not two owers ago, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.106 | To thy fair hand, and, for thy hour of life, | To thy faire hand, and for thy houre of lyfe, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.161 | Let come the hour when he that rules it will! | Let come the houre when he that rules it will, |
| 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.242 | Where, in a happy hour, I trust, we shall | Where in a happie houre I trust we shall |
| King John | KJ I.i.165 | Now blessed be the hour, by night or day, | Now blessed be the houre by night or day |
| King John | KJ III.i.56 | She adulterates hourly with thine uncle John, | Sh'adulterates hourely with thine Vnckle Iohn, |
| King John | KJ III.i.109 | Let not the hours of this ungodly day | Let not the howres of this vngodly day |
| King John | KJ III.i.323 | France, thou shalt rue this hour within this hour. | France, yu shalt rue this houre within this houre. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.133 | The misplaced John should entertain an hour, | The mis-plac'd-Iohn should entertaine an houre, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.46 | And like the watchful minutes to the hour, | And like the watchfull minutes, to the houre, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.104 | 'Tis not an hour since I left him well. | 'Tis not an houre since I left him well: |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.121 | Thou'rt damn'd as black – nay, nothing is so black; | Thou'rt damn'd as blacke, nay nothing is so blacke, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.26 | Were born to see so sad an hour as this; | Was borne to see so sad an houre as this, |
| King John | KJ V.v.17 | King John did fly an hour or two before | King Iohn did flie an houre or two before |
| King John | KJ V.vii.83 | Who half an hour since came from the Dauphin, | Who halfe an houre since came from the Dolphin, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.43 | We have this hour a constant will to publish | We haue this houre a constant will to publish |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.153 | Ay, two hours together. | I, two houres together. |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.4 | By day and night he wrongs me; every hour | By day and night, he wrongs me, euery howre |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.198 | Do hourly carp and quarrel, breaking forth | Do hourely Carpe and is Quarrell, breaking forth |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.91 | If thou shouldst dally half an hour, his life, | If thou should'st dally halfe an houre, his life |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.214.1 | Stands on the hourly thought. | Stands on the hourely thought. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.7 | These weeds are memories of those worser hours. | These weedes are memories of those worser houres: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.61 | Four score and upward, not an hour more nor less, | Fourescore and vpward, / Not an houre more, nor lesse: |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.163 | That hast this fortune on me? If thou'rt noble, | That hast this Fortune on me? If thou'rt Noble, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.183 | That we the pain of death would hourly die | That we the paine of death would hourely dye, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.191 | Until some half-hour past, when I was armed, | Vntill some halfe houre past when I was arm'd, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.42 | And then to sleep but three hours in the night, | And then to sleepe but three houres in the night, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.231 | the sixth hour; when beasts most graze, birds best peck, | thesixt houre, When beasts most grase, birds best pecke, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.37 | You may do it in an hour, sir. | You may doe it in an houre sir. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.68 | I never spent an hour's talk withal. | I neuer spent an houres talke withall. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.114.2 | Berowne and Rosaline converse apart | [Q1] BEROWNE Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? KATHER. Did not I dance with you in Brabant once? BEROWNE I know you did. KATH. How needles was it then to aske the question? BEROWNE You must not be so quicke. KATH. Tis long of you that spur me with such questions. BEROWNE Your wit's too hot, it speedes too fast, twill tire. KATH. Not till it leaue the rider in the mire. BEROWNE What time a day? KATH. The houre that fooles should aske. BEROWNE Now faire befall your maske. KATH. Faire fall the face it couers. BEROWNE And send you manie louers. KATH. Amen, so you be none. BEROWNE Nay then will I be gone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.355 | For revels, dances, masques, and merry hours | For Reuels, Dances, Maskes, and merry houres, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.90 | I thought to close mine eyes some half an hour, | I thought to close mine eyes some halfe an houre: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.368 | In Russian habit. Here they stayed an hour | In Russia habit: Heere they stayed an houre, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.369 | And talked apace; and in that hour, my lord, | And talk'd apace: and in that houre (my Lord) |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.782 | Now, at the latest minute of the hour, | Now at the latest minute of the houre, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.147 | Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. | Time, and the Houre, runs through the roughest Day. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.29.2 | Thou'rt mad to say it! | Thou'rt mad to say it. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.22 | Yet, when we can entreat an hour to serve, | Yet when we can entreat an houre to serue, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.44.1 | I have almost slipped the hour. | I haue almost slipt the houre. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.88 | Had I but died an hour before this chance | Had I but dy'd an houre before this chance, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.3 | Hours dreadful and things strange; but this sore night | Houres dreadfull, and things strange: but this sore Night |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.27.1 | For a dark hour or twain. | For a darke houre, or twaine. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.127 | Your spirits shine through you. Within this hour, at most, | Your Spirits shine through you. / Within this houre, at most, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.137 | Of that dark hour. Resolve yourselves apart; | Of that darke houre: resolue your selues apart, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.132 | Where are they? Gone! Let this pernicious hour | Where are they? Gone? / Let this pernitious houre, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.175 | That of an hour's age doth hiss the speaker; | That of an houres age, doth hisse the speaker, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.30 | in this a quarter of an hour. | in this a quarter of an houre. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.25 | That struts and frets his hour upon the stage | That struts and frets his houre vpon the Stage, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.32 | velvet. Thou'rt a three-piled piece, I warrant thee. I | veluet; thou'rt a three pild-peece I warrant thee: I |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.74 | two hours since, and he was ever precise in | two howres since, and he was euer precise in |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.192.1 | Within two hours. | Within two houres. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.16.1 | She's very near her hour. | Shee's very neere her howre. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.129 | Thou'rt i'th' right, girl, more o' that. | Thou'rt i'th right (Girle) more o'that. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.159.2 | At what hour tomorrow | At what hower to morrow, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.11 | Hourly afflict. Merely, thou art death's fool, | Hourely afflict: Meerely, thou art deaths foole, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.15 | Are nursed by baseness. Thou'rt by no means valiant, | Are nurst by basenesse: Thou'rt by no meanes valiant, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.25 | After the moon. If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, | After the Moone: If thou art rich, thou'rt poore, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.161 | Alack, how may I do it, having the hour limited, | Alacke, how may I do it? Hauing the houre limited, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.76 | Dispatch it presently; the hour draws on | Dispatch it presently, the houre drawes on |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.7 | And why should we proclaim it in an hour before | And why should wee proclaime it in an howre before |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.351 | your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour. Will't | your sheepe-biting face, and be hang'd an houre: Will't |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.455.1 | At an unusual hour? | At an vnusuall howre? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.479 | And squar'st thy life according. Thou'rt condemned, | And squar'st thy life according: Thou'rt condemn'd, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.25 | I should not see the sandy hour-glass run | I should not see the sandie houre-glasse runne, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.3 | All in an hour. | all in an houre. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.8 | 'Tis now but four of clock. We have two hours | 'Tis now but foure of clock, we haue two houres |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.26 | At Gratiano's lodging some hour hence. | at Gratianos lodging / Some houre hence. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.2.2 | His hour is almost past. | His houre is almost past. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.3 | And it is marvel he outdwells his hour, | And it is meruaile he out-dwels his houre, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.41 | Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you! | Faire thoughts & happy houres attend on you. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.19 | To the last hour of act, and then 'tis thought | To the last houre of act, and then 'tis thought |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.32.1 | For happy wedlock hours. | For happy wedlocke houres. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.153 | That you would wear it till your hour of death, | That you would weare it til the houre of death, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.303 | Or go to bed now, being two hours to day. | Or goe to bed, now being two houres to day, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.9 | Thou'rt an emperor – Caesar, Keisar, and Pheazar. | Thou'rt an Emperor (Cesar, Keiser and Pheazar) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.146 | maid as ever broke bread. We had an hour's talk of that | maid as euer broke bread: wee had an howres talke of that |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.156 | hour's talk with you. | houres talke with you. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.180 | How now, bully rook? Thou'rt a gentleman. | How now Bully-Rooke: thou'rt a Gentleman |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.37 | As my mother was the first hour I was born. | As my mother was the first houre I was borne. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.276 | hour is fixed, the match is made. Would any man have | howre is fixt, the match is made: would any man haue |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.294 | jealousy! Eleven o'clock the hour. I will prevent this, | iealousie: eleuen o'clocke the howre, I will preuent this, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.296 | Page. I will about it. Better three hours too soon than a | Page. I will about it, better three houres too soone, then a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.4 | 'Tis past the hour, sir, that Sir Hugh promised | 'Tis past the howre (Sir) that Sir Hugh promis'd |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.33 | seven, two, tree hours for him, and he is no come. | seuen, two tree howres for him, and hee is no-come. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.30 | Thou'rt a good boy. This secrecy of | Thou'rt a good boy: this secrecy of |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.42 | the period of my ambition. O this blessed hour! | the period of my ambition: O this blessed houre. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.61 | house the hour she appointed me. | house the houre she appointed me. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.120 | and nine is the hour, Master Brook. | and nine is the houre (Master Broome.) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.4 | Within a quarter of an hour. | Within a quarter of an houre. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.57 | And ask him why, that hour of fairy revel, | And aske him why that houre of Fairy Reuell, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.iii.23 | The hour draws on. To the Oak, to the | The houre drawes-on: to the Oake, to the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.221 | A thousand irreligious cursed hours | A thousand irreligious cursed houres |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.1 | Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour | NOw faire Hippolita, our nuptiall houre |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.57 | A merrier hour was never wasted there. | A merrier houre was neuer wasted there. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.8 | While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, | While she was in her dull and sleeping hower, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.199 | The sisters' vows, the hours that we have spent | The sisters vowes, the houres that we haue spent, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.432 | Abate thy hours, shine comforts from the East, | Abate thy houres, shine comforts from the East, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.25 | hour! | houre! |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.33 | To wear away this long age of three hours | To weare away this long age of three houres, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.37 | To ease the anguish of a torturing hour? | To ease the anguish of a torturing houre? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.253 | Well, you temporize with the hours. In | Well, you will temporize with the houres, in |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.4 | him but I am heart-burned an hour after. | him, but I am heart-burn'd an howre after. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.166 | This is an accident of hourly proof, | This is an accident of hourely proofe, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.308 | born in a merry hour. | born in a merry howre. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.30 | Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don | Goe then, finde me a meete howre, to draw on |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.84 | I talked with no man at that hour, my lord. | I talkt with no man at that howre my Lord. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.88 | Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night | Did see her, heare her, at that howre last night, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.180 | At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight | At houres vnmeete, or that I yesternight |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.279 | You have stayed me in a happy hour; I was | You haue stayed me in a happy howre, I was |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.163 | tongue: there's two tongues.’ Thus did she, an hour | tongue, there's two tongues: thus did shee an howre |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.74 | Question – why, an hour in clamour and a | Question, why an hower in clamour and a |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.13 | The Prince and Claudio promised by this hour | The Prince and Claudio promis'd by this howre |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.150 | Took once a pliant hour, and found good means | Tooke once a pliant houre, and found good meanes |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.295 | Come, Desdemona, I have but an hour | Come Desdemona, I haue but an houre |
| Othello | Oth II.ii.9 | full liberty of feasting from this present hour of five | full libertie of Feasting from this presenr houre of fiue, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.13 | Not this hour, Lieutenant; 'tis not yet ten o'th' clock. | Not this houre Lieutenant: 'tis not yet ten o'th'clocke. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.368 | Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. | Pleasure, and Action, make the houres seeme short. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.117 | And for I know thou'rt full of love and honesty, | And for I know thou'rt full of Loue, and Honestie, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.283 | Let me but bind it hard, within this hour | Let me but binde it hard, within this houre |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.335 | What sense had I of her stolen hours of lust? | What sense had I, in her stolne houres of Lust? |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.170 | Eightscore-eight hours? And lovers' absent hours | Eight score eight houres? And Louers absent howres |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.4 | An hour or more, not meaning any harm? | An houre, or more, not meaning any harme? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.83.1 | But half an hour! | But halfe an houre. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.99 | O insupportable! O heavy hour! | Oh insupportable! Oh heauy houre! |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.173 | I know thou didst not: thou'rt not such a villain. | I know thou did'st not: thou'rt not such a Villain. |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.3 | Be my so used a guest as not an hour | By me so vsde a guest, as not an houre |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.44 | Where's hourly trouble, for a minute's ease. | Where's howerly trouble, for a minuts ease) |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.21 | Rich tire about you, should at these early hours | rich tire about you, should at these early howers, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.80 | Death may usurp on nature many hours, | Death may vsurpe on Nature many howers, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.83 | Of some Egyptians who after four hours' death | of an Egiptian that had 9. howers lien dead, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.93 | She hath not been entranced above five hours. | She hath not been entranc'st aboue fiue howers: |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.45 | Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least. | walke halfe an houre Leonine, at the least, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.7 | Who, when they see the hours ripe on earth, | Who when they see the houres ripe on earth, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.150 | The sly slow hours shall not determinate | The slye slow houres shall not determinate |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.261 | To men in joy; but grief makes one hour ten. | To men in ioy, but greefe makes one houre ten. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.16 | Marry, would the word ‘ farewell ’ have lengthened hours | Marry, would the word Farwell, haue lengthen'd houres, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.177 | Accomplished with the number of thy hours; | Accomplish'd with the number of thy howers: |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.84 | Now comes the sick hour that his surfeit made. | Now comes the sicke houre that his surfet made, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.97 | An hour before I came the Duchess died. | An houre before I came, the Dutchesse di'de. |
| Richard II | R2 III.i.11 | You have in manner with your sinful hours | You haue in manner with your sinfull houres |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.157 | May hourly trample on their sovereign's head, | May howrely trample on their Soueraignes Head: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.66 | Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down. | Which waste and idle houres, hath quite thrown downe. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.42 | Now by my soul, I would it were this hour. | Now by my Soule, I would it were this houre. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.25 | Which our profane hours here have thrown down. | Which our prophane houres here haue stricken downe. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.57 | The time shall not be many hours of age | The time shall not be many houres of age, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.55 | Now, sir, the sound that tells what hour it is | Now sir, the sound that tels what houre it is, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.58 | Show minutes, times, and hours. But my time | Shew Minutes, Houres, and Times: but my Time |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.124 | So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom. | So I might liue one houre in your sweet bosome. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.207 | And after many lengthened hours of grief, | And after many length'ned howres of griefe, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.76 | Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, | Sorrow breakes Seasons, and reposing houres, |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.28 | That he could gnaw a crust at two hours old; | That he could gnaw a crust at two houres old, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.23 | Make haste. The hour of death is expiate. | Make haste, the houre of death is expiate. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.104 | Meet me within this hour at Baynard's Castle. | Meet me within this houre at Baynards Castle. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vi.5 | Eleven hours I have spent to write it over, | Eleuen houres I haue spent to write it ouer, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vi.8 | And yet within these five hours Hastings lived, | And yet within these fiue houres Hastings liu'd, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.167 | Which, mellowed by the stealing hours of time, | Which mellow'd by the stealing howres of time, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.28 | Let me but meet you, ladies, one hour hence, | Let me but meet you Ladies one howre hence, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.48 | (To Dorset) Take all the swift advantage of the hours. | Take all the swift aduantage of the howres: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.82 | For never yet one hour in his bed | For neuer yet one howre in his Bed |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.96 | And each hour's joy wracked with a week of teen. | And each howres ioy wrackt with a weeke of teene. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.174 | What comfortable hour canst thou name | What comfortable houre canst thou name, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.176 | Faith, none, but Humphrey Hour, that called your grace | Faith none, but Humfrey Hower, / That call'd your Grace |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.293 | Which after-hours give leisure to repent. | Which after-houres giues leysure to repent. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.330 | With the sweet silent hours of marriage joys; | With the sweet silent houres of Marriage ioyes: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.400 | Heaven and fortune bar me happy hours! | Heauen, and Fortune barre me happy houres: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.504 | And every hour more competitors | And euery houre more Competitors |
| Richard III | R3 V.i.8 | Do through the clouds behold this present hour, | Do through the clowds behold this present houre, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.31 | And by the second hour in the morning | And by the second houre in the Morning, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.86 | So much for that. The silent hours steal on | So much for that. The silent houres steale on, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.161 | That never slept a quiet hour with thee, | That neuer slept a quiet houre with thee, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.280 | He should have braved the east an hour ago. | He should haue brau'd the East an houre ago, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.prologue.12 | Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.118 | Madam, an hour before the worshipped sun | Madam, an houre before the worshipt Sun |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.161.2 | Ay me! sad hours seem long. | Aye me, sad houres seeme long: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.163 | It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? | It was: what sadnes lengthens Romeo's houres? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.12 | Faith, I can tell her age unto an hour. | Faith I can tell her age vnto an houre. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.67 | It is an honour that I dream not of. | It is an houre that I dreame not of. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.68 | An honour! Were not I thine only nurse, | An houre, were not I thine onely Nurse, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.168.2 | By the hour of nine. | By the houre of nine. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.184 | Within this hour my man shall be with thee | Within this houre my man shall be with thee, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.2 | In half an hour she promised to return. | In halfe an houre she promised to returne, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.11 | Is three long hours, yet she is not come. | I three long houres, yet she is not come. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.2 | That after-hours with sorrow chide us not! | That after houres, with sorrow chide vs not. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.31 | man should buy the fee-simple of my life for an hour | man should buy the Fee-simple of my life, for an houre |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.112 | With Tybalt's slander – Tybalt, that an hour | With Tibalts slaunder, Tybalt that an houre |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.195 | Else, when he is found, that hour is his last. | Else when he is found, that houre is his last. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.99 | When I, thy three-hours wife, have mangled it? | When I thy three houres wife haue mangled it. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.67 | An hour but married, Tybalt murdered, | An houre but married, Tybalt murdered, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iv.7 | I would have been abed an hour ago. | I would haue bin a bed an houre ago. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.44 | I must hear from thee every day in the hour, | I must heare from thee euery day in the houre, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.177 | Day, night; hour, tide, time; work, play; | Day, night, houre, ride, time, worke, play, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.105 | Thou shalt continue two-and-forty hours, | Thou shalt continue two and forty houres, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.44 | At some hours in the night spirits resort – | At some houres in the night, Spirits resort: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.44 | Most miserable hour that e'er time saw | Most miserable houre, that ere time saw |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.ii.24 | Within this three hours will fair Juliet wake. | Within this three houres will faire Iuliet wake, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.130.2 | Full half an hour. | Full halfe an houre. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.145 | And steeped in blood? Ah, what an unkind hour | And steept in blood? Ah what an vn knd houre |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.253 | At the prefixed hour of her waking | At the prefixed houre of her waking, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.268 | Be sacrificed, some hour before his time, | be sacrific'd, some houre before the time, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.103 | What, shall I be appointed hours, as though, belike, | What shall I be appointed houres, as though |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.7 | And when in music we have spent an hour, | And when in Musicke we haue spent an houre, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.19 | I'll not be tied to hours nor 'pointed times, | Ile not be tied to howres, nor pointed times, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.86 | your command at all hours. | your command at all houres. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.25 | ready in your cabin for the mischance of the hour, if it | readie in your Cabine for the mischance of the houre, if it |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.36.2 | The hour's now come. | The howr's now come |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.139.1 | That hour destroy us? | That howre destroy vs? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.174 | For vainer hours, and tutors not so careful. | For vainer howres; and Tutors, not so carefull. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.354 | Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour | Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each houre |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.366 | Fetch us in fuel – and be quick, thou'rt best, | Fetch vs in Fewell, and be quicke thou'rt best |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.403 | Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: | Sea-Nimphs hourly ring his knell. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.295.1 | We say befits the hour. | We say befits the houre. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.21.1 | He's safe for these three hours. | Hee's safe for these three houres. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.91.1 | Till half an hour hence. | Till halfe an houre hence. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.114 | Within this half-hour will he be asleep. | Within this halfe houre will he be asleepe, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.25.1 | At this hour reigning there. | At this houre reigning there. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.108 | Hourly joys be still upon you! | Hourely ioyes, be still vpon you, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.263 | Let them be hunted soundly. At this hour | Let them be hunted soundly: At this houre |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.4 | On the sixth hour, at which time, my lord, | On the sixt hower, at which time, my Lord |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.136 | How thou hast met us here, whom three hours since | How thou hast met vs heere, whom three howres since |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.186 | Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three hours. | Your eld'st acquaintance cannot be three houres: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.i.63 | To expel sickness, but prolong his hour! | To expell sicknesse, but prolong his hower. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.6 | Lord Timon's happy hours are done and past, and his | Lord Timons happie howres are done and past, and his |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.7 | Welcome, good brother. What do you think the hour? | Welcome good Brother. / What do you thinke the houre? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.70 | some other hour, I should derive much from't. For, | some other houre, I should deriue much from't. For |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.46 | If you had sent but two hours before – | If you had sent but two houres before. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.86 | Make use of thy salt hours. Season the slaves | Make vse of thy salt houres, season the slaues |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.438 | I should be author to dishonour you. | I should be Authour to dishonour you. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.17 | I have been broad awake two hours and more. | I haue bene awake two houres and more. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.251 | Brought hither in a most unlucky hour | Brought hither in a most vnluckie houre, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.256 | 'Tis not an hour since I left them there. | 'Tis not an houre since I left him there. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.54 | One hour's storm will drown the fragrant meads; | One houres storme will drowne the fragrant meades, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.190 | And that you'll say ere half an hour pass. | And that you'l say ere halfe an houre passe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.264 | Why dost thou laugh? It fits not with this hour. | Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this houre. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.102 | Although she lave them hourly in the flood. | Although she laue them hourely in the flood: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.158 | Oft have you heard me wish for such an hour, | Oft haue you heard me wish for such an houre, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.254 | It is not Agamemnon's sleeping-hour. | It is not Agamemnons sleeping houre; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.30 | Thou grumblest and railest every hour on | Thou grumblest & railest euery houre on |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.121 | That Hector, by the fifth hour of the sun, | That Hector by the fift houre of the Sunne, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.1 | After so many hours, lives, speeches spent, | After so many houres, liues, speeches spent, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.64 | Ere the first sacrifice, within this hour, | Ere the first sacrifice, within this houre, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iii.1 | It is great morning, and the hour prefixed | Itis great morning, and the houre prefixt |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.77 | Keep Hector company an hour or two. | Keepe Hector company an houre, or two. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.106.2 | What, shall I come? The hour? | What shall I come? the houre. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.185 | I have been seeking you this hour, my lord. | I haue beene seeking you this houre my Lord: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.23 | Not three hours' travel from this very place. | Not three houres trauaile from this very place: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.5 | your ill hours. | your ill houres. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.17 | myself and a sister, both born in an hour – if the | my selfe, and a sister, both borne in an houre: if the |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.19 | you, sir, altered that, for some hour before you took me | you sir, alter'd that, for some houre before you tooke me |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.12 | Thou'rt a scholar. Let us therefore eat and | Th'art a scholler; let vs therefore eate and |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.39 | Being once displayed, doth fall that very hour. | Being once displaid, doth fall that verie howre. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.17 | practising behaviour to his own shadow this half-hour. | practising behauiour to his own shadow this halfe houre: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.155 | open. I will be proud, I will read politic authors, I will | open, I will bee proud, I will reade politicke Authours, I will |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.43 | thou ‘ thou’-est him some thrice it shall not be amiss, and | thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amisse, and |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.49.1 | An hour. | For an houre. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.90.1 | Not half an hour before. | Not halfe an houre before. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.161 | I have travelled but two hours. | I haue trauail'd but two houres. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.195 | O, he's drunk, Sir Toby, an hour agone. His eyes | O he's drunke sir Toby an houre agone: his eyes |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.216 | How have the hours racked and tortured me | How haue the houres rack'd, and tortur'd me, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.355 | Taint the condition of this present hour, | Taint the condition of this present houre, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.ii.9 | And when that hour o'erslips me in the day | And when that howre ore-slips me in the day, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.ii.11 | The next ensuing hour some foul mischance | The next ensuing howre, some foule mischance |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.1 | Nay, 'twill be this hour ere I have done weeping; | Nay, 'twill bee this howre ere I haue done weeping: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.61 | We have conversed and spent our hours together; | We haue conuerst, and spent our howres together, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.177 | Ay, and we are betrothed; nay more, our marriage-hour, | I, and we are betroathd: nay more, our mariage howre, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.7 | Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat | Trenched in ice, which with an houres heate |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iii.1 | This is the hour that Madam Silvia | This is the houre that Madam Siluia |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.i.2 | And now it is about the very hour | And now it is about the very houre |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.i.4 | She will not fail, for lovers break not hours | She will not faile; for Louers breake not houres, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.183 | But one night with her, every hour in't will | But one night with her, every howre in't will |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.220.1 | Keep the feast full, bate not an hour on't. | Keepe the feast full, bate not an howre on't. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.60.1 | Laid up my hour to come. | Laide up my houre to come. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.264 | To be one hour at liberty, and grasp | To be one howre at liberty, and graspe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.35 | I'll ever dwell. Within this hour the hubbub | Ile ever dwell; within this houre the whoobub |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.49 | I'll come again some two hours hence, and bring | Ile come againe some two howres hence, and bring |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.41 | As learned authors utter, washed a tile; | As learned Authours utter, washd a Tile, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.1 | About this hour my cousin gave his faith | About this houre my Cosen gave his faith |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.112 | Too many hours to die in. Gentle cousin, | Too many howres to dye in, gentle Cosen: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.123 | Or I will make th' advantage of this hour | Or I will make th' advantage of this howre |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.221 | They'd fight about you, hourly bring your honour | The'yld fight about yov; howrely bring your honour |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.300.1 | I am friends again, till that hour. | I am friends againe, till that howre. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.304 | Sleep till the hour prefixed, and hold your course. | Sleepe till the howre prefixt, and hold your course. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.125 | And undone in an hour. All the young maids | And undon in an howre. All the young Maydes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.138.1 | In two hours, if his hand be in. | In two howres, if his hand be in. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.43 | From this hour is complexion. Lie there, Arcite; | From this howre is Complexion: Lye there Arcite, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.11 | Lay by your anger for an hour, and dove-like | Lay by your anger for an houre, and dove-like |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.4 | Within this half-hour she came smiling to me, | within this / Halfe houre she came smiling to me, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.10.1 | What hour my fit would take me. | What houre my fit would take me. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.40 | And has done this long hour, to visit you. | And has done this long houre, to visite you. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.49 | He'll dance the morris twenty mile an hour, | Hee'l dance the Morris twenty mile an houre, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.8 | The gout and rheum, that in lag hours attend | The Gowt and Rheume, that in lag howres attend |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.92 | Farewell; I have told my last hour. I was false, | Farewell: I have told my last houre; I was false, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.128 | And smile with Palamon; for whom an hour, | And smile with Palamon; for whom an houre, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.129 | But one hour since, I was as dearly sorry | But one houre since, I was as dearely sorry, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.29 | Worth two hours' travail. To his bones sweet sleep; | Worth two houres travell. To his bones sweet sleepe: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.211 | Go play, Mamillius. Thou'rt an honest man. | Goe play (Mamillius) thou'rt an honest man: |
| 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 I.ii.465 | To take the urgent hour. Come, sir, away. | To take the vrgent houre. Come Sir, away. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.135 | Within this hour bring me word 'tis done, | Within this houre bring me word 'tis done, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.194 | An hour since: Cleomenes and Dion, | An houre since: Cleomines and Dion, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.53 | The day frowns more and more. Thou'rt like to have | The day frownes more and more: thou'rt like to haue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.8 | To o'erthrow law, and in one self-born hour | To orethrow Law, and in one selfe-borne howre |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.458 | If I might die within this hour, I have lived | If I might dye within this houre, I haue liu'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.754 | shall know within this hour, if I may come to th' speech | shall know within this houre, if I may come to th' speech |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.116 | Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had paired | (Iewell of Children) seene this houre, he had payr'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.24 | wonder is broken out within this hour that ballad-makers | wonder is broken out within this houre, that Ballad-makers |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.133 | Ay, and have been so any time these four hours. | I, and haue been so any time these foure houres. |