Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.142 | You ne'er oppressed me with a mother's groan, | You nere opprest me with a mothers groane, |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.2 | Caesar himself has work, and our oppression | Casar himselfe ha's worke, and our oppression |
As You Like It | AYL II.iv.71 | Here's a young maid with travail much oppressed | Here's a yong maid with trauaile much oppressed, |
As You Like It | AYL II.vii.133 | Oppressed with two weak evils, age and hunger, | Opprest with two weake euils, age, and hunger, |
Hamlet | Ham I.ii.203 | By their oppressed and fear-surprised eyes | By their opprest and feare-surprized eyes, |
Hamlet | Ham II.ii.575 | To make oppression bitter, or ere this | To make Oppression bitter, or ere this, |
Hamlet | Ham III.i.71 | Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, | The Oppressors wrong, the poore mans Contumely, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.61 | Useth the sparrow – did oppress our nest, | Vseth the Sparrow, did oppresse our Nest |
Henry V | H5 II.ii.172 | His subjects to oppression and contempt, | His Subiects to oppression, and contempt, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.58 | Of such as your oppression feeds upon, | Of such as your oppression feedes vpon, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.155 | Free from oppression or the stroke of war, | Free from oppression, or the stroke of Warre, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.45 | Nor much oppressed them with great subsidies, | Nor much opprest them with great Subsidies, |
Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.208 | How under my oppression I did reek | How vnder my oppression I did reeke |
King John | KJ II.i.177 | Of this oppressed boy. This is thy eldest son's son, | Of this oppressed boy; this is thy eldest sonnes sonne, |
King John | KJ II.i.245 | In the relief of this oppressed child | In the releefe of this oppressed childe, |
King John | KJ III.i.13 | Oppressed with wrongs, and therefore full of fears, | Opprest with wrongs, and therefore full of feares, |
King John | KJ III.i.88 | This day of shame, oppression, perjury. | This day of shame, oppression, periury. |
King John | KJ III.i.106 | And our oppression hath made up this league. | And our oppression hath made vp this league: |
King Lear | KL I.ii.49 | to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged | to finde an idleand fond bondage, in the oppression of aged |
King Lear | KL II.iv.103 | When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind | When Nature being opprest, commands the mind |
King Lear | KL III.vi.95.2 | Oppressed nature sleeps. | |
King Lear | KL V.iii.5 | For thee, oppressed King, I am cast down; | For thee oppressed King I am cast downe, |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.228 | commend the black oppressing humour to the most wholesome | commend the blacke oppressing humour to the most wholesome |
Macbeth | Mac II.i.39 | Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? | Proceeding from the heat-oppressed Braine? |
Othello | Oth I.i.144 | Belief of it oppresses me already. | Beleefe of it oppresses me alreadie. |
Pericles | Per I.i.103 | By man's oppression, and the poor worm doth die for't. | By mans oppression, and the poore Worme doth die for't: |
Pericles | Per Chorus.III.29 | The mutiny he there hastes t' oppress; | The mutanie, hee there hastes t'oppresse, |
Richard II | R2 I.iv.14 | To counterfeit oppression of such grief | To counterfeit oppression of such greefe, |
Richard II | R2 III.ii.180 | To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, | To feare the Foe, since feare oppresseth strength, |
Richard II | R2 III.iv.31 | Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight. | Stoupe with oppression of their prodigall weight: |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.184.2 | At thy good heart's oppression. | At thy good hearts oppression. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.24 | Too great oppression for a tender thing. | Too great oppression for a tender thing. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.126 | And doleful dumps the mind oppress, | |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.70 | Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes. | Need and opression starueth in thy eyes, |
The Tempest | Tem III.iii.16 | For, now they are oppressed with travel, they | For now they are oppress'd with trauaile, they |
Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.163 | When all our offices have been oppressed | When all our Offices haue beene opprest |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.506 | For by oppressing and betraying me | For, by oppressing and betraying mee, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.241 | Why dost thou so oppress me with thine eye? | Why doest thou so oppresse me with thine eye? |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.138 | Is our inheritance; no hard oppressor | Is our Inheritance: no hard Oppressour |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.22 | Against another, arm oppressed by arm, | Against another: Arme opprest by Arme: |