Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.32 | When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds. The messengers! | When shrill-tongu'd Fuluia scolds. The Messengers. |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.12 | Didst hear her speak? Is she shrill-tongued or low? | Didst heare her speake? Is she shrill tongu'd or low? |
Hamlet | Ham I.i.152 | Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat | Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding Throate |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.25 | welcome,’ with this shrill addition, ‘ Anon, anon, sir! | welcome: with this shril addition, Anon, Anon sir, |
Henry V | H5 III.chorus.9 | Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give | Heare the shrill Whistle, which doth order giue |
Henry V | H5 III.iii.35 | Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters; | Desire the Locks of your shrill-shriking Daughters: |
Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.16 | I hear a tongue shriller than all the music | I heare a Tongue shriller then all the Musicke |
King Lear | KL IV.vi.58 | Look up a-height. The shrill-gorged lark so far | Looke vp a height, the shrill-gorg'd Larke so farre |
Othello | Oth III.iii.348 | Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, | Farewell the neighing Steed, and the shrill Trumpe, |
Richard II | R2 V.iii.74 | What shrill-voiced suppliant makes this eager cry? | What shrill-voic'd Suppliant, makes this eager cry? |
The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.45 | And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth. | And fetch shrill ecchoes from the hollow earth. |
Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.156 | Nor sound his quillets shrilly. Hoar the flamen, | Nor sound his Quillets shrilly: Hoare the Flamen, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.18 | Replying shrilly to the well-tuned horns, | Replying shrilly to the well tun'd-Hornes, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.84 | How poor Andromache shrills her dolour forth! | How poore Andromache shrils her dolour forth; |
Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.33 | Is as the maiden's organ, shrill and sound, | Is as the maidens organ, shrill, and sound, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.56 | I heard a voice, a shrill one; and attentive | I heard a voyce, a shrill one, and attentive |