Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.18 | Whose dear perfection hearts that scorned to serve | Whose deere perfection, hearts that scorn'd to serue, |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.236 | That she did make defect perfection, | That she did make defect, perfection, |
Hamlet | Ham I.v.79 | With all my imperfections on my head. | With all my imperfections on my head; |
Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.29 | For her perfections. But my revenge will come. | For her perfections. But my reuenge will come. |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.27 | Would turn their own perfection to abuse, | Would turne their owne Perfection, to Abuse, |
Henry V | H5 I.chorus.23 | Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts: | Peece out our imperfections with your thoughts: |
Henry V | H5 III.vii.45 | perfection of a good and particular mistress. | perfection of a good and particular Mistresse. |
Henry V | H5 V.ii.69 | Whose want gives growth to th' imperfections | Whose want giues growth to th'imperfections |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.12 | The chief perfections of that lovely dame, | The cheefe perfections of that louely Dame, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.86 | All her perfections challenge sovereignty. | All her perfections challenge Soueraigntie, |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.158 | That her perfections emulates the sun, | That her perfections emulats the sunne, |
King John | KJ II.i.440 | Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. | Whose fulnesse of perfection lyes in him. |
King Lear | KL I.i.296 | alone the imperfections of long-ingraffed condition, but | alone the imperfections of long ingraffed condition, but |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.6 | Of all perfections that a man may owe, | Of all perfections that a man may owe, |
Measure for Measure | MM III.i.261 | trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection. | trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection. |
The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.108 | To their right praise and true perfection! | To their right praise, and true perfection: |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.179 | imperfection. But, good Sir John, as you have one | imperfection: but (good Sir Iohn) as you haue one |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.62 | This hateful imperfection of her eyes. | This hatefull imperfection of her eyes. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.45 | To put a strange face on his own perfection. | To put a strange face on his owne perfection, |
Othello | Oth I.iii.100 | That will confess perfection so could err | That will confesse Perfection so could erre |
Othello | Oth II.iii.25 | She is indeed perfection. | She is indeed perfection. |
Pericles | Per I.i.12 | To knit in her their best perfections. | To knit in her, their best perfections. |
Pericles | Per I.i.80 | For he's no man on whom perfections wait | For hee's no man on whom perfections waite, |
Richard III | R3 I.ii.75 | Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman, | Vouchsafe (diuine perfection of a Woman) |
Richard III | R3 IV.iv.66 | Matched not the high perfection of my loss. | Matcht not the high perfection of my losse. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.46 | Retain that dear perfection which he owes | Retaine that deare perfection which he owes, |
The Tempest | Tem II.i.172 | I would with such perfection govern, sir, | I would with such perfection gouerne Sir: |
Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.90 | Is your perfection. This is Timon's last, | Is your perfection. This is Timons last, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.84 | never perform; vowing more than the perfection of | neuer performe: vowing more then the perfection of |
Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.90 | bare till merit crown it; no perfection in reversion shall | bare till merit crowne it: no perfection in reuersion shall |
Twelfth Night | TN I.i.40 | Her sweet perfections – with one self king! | Her sweete perfections with one selfe king: |
Twelfth Night | TN I.v.285 | Methinks I feel this youth's perfections, | Me thinkes I feele this youths perfections |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.41 | To die, even when they to perfection grow. | To die, euen when they to perfection grow. |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.64 | To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection, | To cloath mine age with Angel-like perfection: |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.195 | Her true perfection, or my false transgression, | Her true perfection, or my false transgression? |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.209 | But when I look on her perfections, | But when I looke on her perfections, |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.13 | Of such divine perfection as Sir Proteus. | Of such diuine perfection as Sir Protheus. |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.177 | And feed upon the shadow of perfection. | And feed vpon the shadow of perfection. |
The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.57 | A linguist, and a man of such perfection | A Linguist, and a man of such perfection, |