Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.171 | Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire, | Whose beard they haue sindg'd off with brands of fire, |
Hamlet | Ham I.i.161 | This bird of dawning singeth all night long. | The Bird of Dawning singeth all night long: |
Hamlet | Ham V.i.278 | Singeing his pate against the burning zone, | Sindging his pate against the burning Zone, |
Henry VIII | H8 I.i.141 | That it do singe yourself. We may outrun | That it do sindge your selfe. We may out-runne |
King Edward III | E3 II.i.111 | The nightingale sings of adulterate wrong, | The nightingale singes of adulterate wrong, |
King Lear | KL III.ii.6 | Singe my white head! And thou all-shaking thunder, | Sindge my white head. And thou all-shaking Thunder, |
The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.79 | Thus hath the candle singed the moth. | Thus hath the candle sing'd the moath: |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.24 | unskilful singer – he kept not time. | vnskilfull Singer, he kept not time. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.49 | Tearing the Thracian singer in their rage. | Tearing the Thracian singer, in their rage? |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.77 | And an ill singer, my lord. | And an ill singer, my Lord. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.78 | Ha, no, no, faith; thou singest well enough | Ha, no, no faith, thou singst well enough |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.137 | O, I cry you mercy! You are the singer. I will say | O I cry you mercy, you are the Singer. / I will say |
Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.121 | A cousin-german to great Priam's seed; | A cousen german to great Priams seede: |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.114 | (She sings) | Singes |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.152.1 | (She sings) | Singes. |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.185 | pipe; no, the bagpipe could not move you. He sings | Pipe: no, the Bag-pipe could not moue you: hee singes |