Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.126 | That never meat sweet-savoured in thy taste, | That neuer meat sweet-sauour'd in thy taste, |
Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.6 | Will make what's homely savoury: weariness | Will make what's homely, sauoury: Wearinesse |
Hamlet | Ham II.ii.441 | savoury, nor no matter in the phrase that might indict | sauouty; nor no matter in the phrase, that might indite |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.79 | Thou hast the most unsavoury similes, and art | Thou hast the most vnsauoury smiles, and art |
Henry V | H5 I.ii.251 | Says that you savour too much of your youth, | Sayes, that you sauour too much of your youth, |
Henry V | H5 I.ii.296 | His jest will savour but of shallow wit | His Iest will sauour but of shallow wit, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.80 | Unsavoury news! But how made he escape? | Vnsauorie newes: but how made he escape? |
King Edward III | E3 III.iv.51 | Will make him savour still of this exploit. | Will make him sauor still of this exployt. |
King John | KJ IV.iii.112 | Th' uncleanly savours of a slaughter-house; | Th'vncleanly sauours of a Slaughter-house, |
King Lear | KL I.iv.233 | This admiration, sir, is much o'the savour | This admiration Sir, is much o'th'sauour |
King Lear | KL IV.ii.39 | Filths savour but themselves. What have you done, | |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.156 | those verses to be very unlearned, neither savouring of | those Verses to be very vnlearned, neither sauouring of |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.13 | In those freckles live their savours. | In those freckles, liue their sauors, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.75 | Thisbe, the flowers of odious savours sweet – | Thisby, the flowers of odious sauors sweete. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.77 | ...odours savours sweet. | Odours sauors sweete, |
Pericles | Per II.iii.31 | All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury, | All Viands that I eate do seeme vnsauery, |
Pericles | Per IV.vi.108 | The very doors and windows savour vilely. | the very dores and windows sauor vilely, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.116 | Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide! | Come bitter conduct, come vnsauoury guide, |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.70 | I smell sweet savours and I feel soft things. | I smel sweet sauours, and I feele soft things: |
The Tempest | Tem II.ii.51 | She loved not the savour of tar nor of pitch, | She lou'd not the sauour of Tar nor of Pitch, |
Twelfth Night | TN V.i.118 | That sometime savours nobly? But hear me this: | That sometime sauours nobly) but heare me this: |
Twelfth Night | TN V.i.311 | This savours not much of distraction. | This sauours not much of distraction. |
The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.421 | A savour that may strike the dullest nostril | A sauour, that may strike the dullest Nosthrill |
The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.118 | Than your own weak-hinged fancy – something savours | Then your owne weake-hindg'd Fancy) something sauors |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.75 | Seeming and savour all the winter long: | Seeming, and sauour all the Winter long: |