Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Henry V | H5 III.iii.35 | Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters; | Desire the Locks of your shrill-shriking Daughters: |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.44 | The owl shrieked at thy birth, an evil sign; | The Owle shriek'd at thy birth, an euill signe, |
Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.28 | Hooting and shrieking. When these prodigies | Howting, and shreeking. When these Prodigies |
Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.24 | And ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets. | And Ghosts did shrieke and squeale about the streets. |
Macbeth | Mac II.ii.3 | It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman | it was the Owle that shriek'd, / The fatall Bell-man, |
Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.168 | Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rent the air | Where sighes, and groanes, and shrieks that rent the ayre |
Macbeth | Mac V.v.11 | To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair | To heare a Night-shrieke, and my Fell of haire |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.277 | and shrieked at it, that it passed. But women, indeed, | and shrekt at it, that it past: But women indeede, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.71 | the Duchess and the ladies that they would shriek; and | the Dutchesse and the Ladies, that they would shrike, and |
Pericles | Per Chorus.III.51 | The lady shrieks and, well-a-near, | The Lady shreekes, and wel-a-neare, |
Richard II | R2 III.iii.183 | For night-owls shriek where mounting larks should sing. | For night-Owls shrike, where moũting Larks should sing. |
Richard III | R3 I.iv.54 | Dabbled in blood, and he shrieked out aloud, | Dabbel'd in blood, and he shriek'd out alowd |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.47 | And shrieks like mandrakes torn out of the earth, | And shrikes like Mandrakes torne out of the earth, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.190 | What should it be, that is so shrieked abroad? | What should it be that they so shrike abroad? |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.233 | Of roaring, shrieking, howling, jingling chains, | Of roring, shreeking, howling, gingling chaines, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.98.2 | What noise? What shriek is this? | What noyse? what shreeke is this? |
The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.35 | Thy wife Paulina more.’ And so, with shrieks, | Thy Wife Paulina more: and so, with shriekes |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.65 | You chose her; then I'd shriek, that even your ears | You chose her: then Il'd shrieke, that euen your eares |