| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.164 | Moist Hesperus hath quenched her sleepy lamp, | Moist Hesperus hath quench'd her sleepy Lampe: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.22 | two hours in a sleep, and then to return and swear the | two houres in a sleepe, and then to returne & swear the |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.249 | virtue, for he will be swine-drunk, and in his sleep he | vertue, for he will be swine-drunke, and in his sleepe he |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.322 | But I will eat and drink and sleep as soft | But I will eate, and drinke, and sleepe as soft |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.66 | While shameful hate sleeps out the afternoon. | While shamefull hate sleepes out the afternoone. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.5 | That I might sleep out this great gap of time | That I might sleepe out this great gap of time: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.26 | That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour | That sleepe and feeding may prorogue his Honour, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.182 | Ay, sir, we did sleep day out of countenance | I Sir, we did sleepe day out of countenaunce: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iv.1.2 | Sleep a little. | Sleepe a little. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.25.2 | Let's do so. But he sleeps. | Let's do so, but he sleepes. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.27.1 | Was never yet for sleep. | Was neuer yet for sleepe. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.30 | Demurely wake the sleepers. Let us bear him | demurely wake the sleepers: / Let vs beare him |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.36 | And we must sleep. (To Mardian) That thou depart'st hence safe | And we must sleepe: That thou depart'st hence safe |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.7 | Which sleeps, and never palates more the dung, | Which sleepes, and neuer pallates more the dung, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.51 | I'll not sleep neither. This mortal house I'll ruin, | Ile not sleepe neither. This mortall house Ile ruine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.77 | O, such another sleep, that I might see | Oh such another sleepe, that I might see |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.187 | Yourself shall give us counsel. Feed and sleep. | Your selfe shall giue vs counsell: Feede, and sleepe: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.309.1 | That sucks the nurse asleep? | That suckes the Nurse asleepe. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.344 | By external swelling: but she looks like sleep, | By externall swelling: but she lookes like sleepe, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.57 | I'll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll rail against all the | Ile go sleepe if I can: if I cannot, Ile raile against all the |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.93 | dinners and suppers and sleeping-hours excepted: it is | dinners, and suppers, and sleeping hours excepted: it is |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.310 | that hath not the gout: for the one sleeps easily because | that hath not the Gowt : for the one sleepes easily because |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.320 | With lawyers in the vacation: for they sleep | With Lawiers in the vacation: for they sleepe |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.145 | sleep. | sleepe. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.203 | And I'll sleep. | And Ile sleepe. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.5 | sleep. | sleepe: |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.108 | Lay sleeping on his back. About his neck | Lay sleeping on his back; about his necke |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.117 | When that the sleeping man should stir; for 'tis | When that the sleeping man should stirre; for 'tis |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.14 | And then return and sleep within mine inn; | And then returne and sleepe within mine Inne, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.192 | Or sleep I now, and think I hear all this? | Or sleepe I now, and thinke I heare all this? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.223 | Sleeping or waking? mad or well-advised? | Sleeping or waking, mad or well aduisde: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.32 | with beating. I am waked with it when I sleep, raised | with beating: I am wak'd with it when I sleepe, rais'd |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.71 | It seems his sleeps were hindered by thy railing, | It seemes his sleepes were hindred by thy railing, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.210 | Ne'er may I look on day nor sleep on night | Nere may I looke on day, nor sleepe on night, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.19 | Shall fly out of itself. Nor sleep nor sanctuary, | Shall flye out of it selfe, nor sleepe, nor sanctuary, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.215 | During his power go sleep. | during his power, goe sleepe. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.85 | Were I as patient as the midnight sleep, | Were I as patient as the midnight sleep, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.115 | That babies lulls asleep! The smiles of knaves | That Babies lull a-sleepe: The smiles of Knaues |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.19 | Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep | Whose Passions, and whose Plots haue broke their sleep |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.2 | here? I think our fellows are asleep. | heere? I thinke our Fellowes are asleepe. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.127 | We have been down together in my sleep, | We haue beene downe together in my sleepe, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.231 | lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of | Lethargie, mull'd, deafe, sleepe, insensible, a getter of |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.7 | I prithee call me. Sleep hath seized me wholly. | I prythee call me: Sleepe hath ceiz'd me wholly. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.11.1 | Sleeps. Iachimo comes from the trunk | Sleepes. Iachimo from the Trunke. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.31 | O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her, | O sleepe, thou Ape of death, lye dull vpon her, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.2 | Whose roof's as low as ours! Stoop, boys: this gate | Whose Roofe's as lowe as ours: Sleepe Boyes, this gate |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.43 | To weep 'twixt clock and clock? If sleep charge Nature, | To weepe 'twixt clock and clock? If sleep charge Nature, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.26.2 | 'Tis not sleepy business, | 'Tis not sleepy businesse, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.215.2 | Why, he but sleeps: | Why, he but sleepes: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.294 | I have gone all night: faith, I'll lie down and sleep. | I haue gone all night: 'Faith, Ile lye downe, and sleepe. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.356 | Or dead, or sleeping on him? But dead rather: | Or dead, or sleeping on him? But dead rather: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.358 | With the defunct, or sleep upon the dead. | With the defunct, or sleepe vpon the dead. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.30.0 | (sleeps) | |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.30.6 | circle Posthumus round as he lies sleeping | circle Posthumus round as he lies sleeping. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.123 | Sleep, thou hast been a grandsire, and begot | Sleepe, thou hast bin a Grandsire, and begot |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.174 | Indeed sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache: | Indeed Sir, he that sleepes, feeles not the Tooth-Ache: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.175 | but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a | but a man that were to sleepe your sleepe, and a |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.3 | And convoy is assistant, do not sleep | And Conuoy is assistant; doe not sleepe, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.35 | 'Tis given out that, sleeping in my orchard, | It's giuen out, that sleeping in mine Orchard, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.59 | Brief let me be. Sleeping within my orchard, | Briefe let me be: Sleeping within mine Orchard, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.74 | Thus was I sleeping by a brother's hand | Thus was I, sleeping, by a Brothers hand, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.499 | sleeps. Say on. Come to Hecuba. | sleepes. Say on; come to Hecuba. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.60 | And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep – | And by opposing end them: to dye, to sleepe |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.61 | No more – and by a sleep to say we end | No more; and by a sleepe, to say we end |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.64 | Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep – | Deuoutly to be wish'd. To dye to sleepe, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.65 | To sleep – perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub. | To sleepe, perchance to Dreame; I, there's the rub, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.66 | For in that sleep of death what dreams may come | For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.7 | asleep, leaves him. Anon comes in another man; takes | a-sleepe, leaues him. Anon comes in a Fellow, takes |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.8 | off his crown, kisses it, and pours poison in the sleeper's | off hisCrowne, kisses it, and powres poyson in the Kings |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.237.1 | The tedious day with sleep. | The tedious day with sleepe. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.237.2 | Sleep rock thy brain, | Sleepe rocke thy Braine, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.238 | The Player-King sleeps. Exit the Player-Queen | Sleepes Exit |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.282 | For some must watch, while some must sleep. | For some must watch, while some must sleepe; |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.89 | When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage, | When he is drunke asleepe: or in his Rage, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.121 | And, as the sleeping soldiers in th' alarm, | And as the sleeping Soldiours in th'Alarme, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.23 | I am glad of it. A knavish speech sleeps in a | I am glad of it: a knauish speech sleepes in a |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.35 | Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.59 | And let all sleep, while to my shame I see | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.30 | Break not your sleeps for that. You must not think | Breake not your sleepes for that, / You must not thinke |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.5 | That would not let me sleep. Methought I lay | That would not let me sleepe; me thought I lay |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.3 | sack, and unbuttoning thee after supper, and sleeping | Sacke, and vnbuttoning thee after Supper, and sleeping |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.129 | Eastcheap. We may do it as secure as sleep. If you will | Eastcheape; we may doe it as secure as sleepe: if you will |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.219 | But I will find him when he lies asleep, | But I will finde him when he lyes asleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.10 | sleep, to drink. But I tell you, my lord fool, out of this | sleepe, to drinke: but I tell you (my Lord foole) out of this |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.43 | Thy stomach, pleasure, and thy golden sleep? | Thy stomacke, pleasure, and thy golden sleepe? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.59 | And thus hath so bestirred thee in thy sleep, | And thus hath so bestirr'd thee in thy sleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.513 | Falstaff! Fast asleep behind the arras, and snorting | Falstaffe? fast asleepe behinde the Arras, and snorting |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.528 | sleep till day. I'll to the court in the morning. We must | sleepe till day. Ile to the Court in the Morning: Wee must |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.210 | And on your eyelids crown the god of sleep, | And she will sing the Song that pleaseth you, And on your Eye-lids Crowne the God of Sleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.212 | Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep | Making such difference betwixt Wake and Sleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.96 | The other night I fell asleep here, behind the | The other Night I fell asleepe heere behind the |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.22 | And now their pride and mettle is asleep, | And now their pride and mettall is asleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.99 | Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, | Thy ignomy sleepe with thee in the graue, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.44 | sleep in security, for he hath the horn of abundance, and | sleep in Security, for he hath the horne of Abundance: and |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.112 | lethargy, an't please your lordship, a kind of sleeping in | Lethargie, a sleeping of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.156 | Wake not a sleeping wolf. | wake not a sleeping Wolfe. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.192 | Then death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days! | then Death rocke me asleepe, abridge my dolefull dayes: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.370 | men of merit are sought after; the undeserver may sleep, | men of Merit are sought after: the vndeseruer may sleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.5 | Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, | Are at this howre asleepe? O Sleepe, O gentle Sleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.9 | Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, | Why rather (Sleepe) lyest thou in smoakie Cribs, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.26 | Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose | Canst thou (O partiall Sleepe) giue thy Repose |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.39 | Whose dangerous eyes may well be charmed asleep | Whose dangerous eyes may well be charm'd asleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.61 | When I am sleeping with my ancestors. | When I am sleeping with my Ancestors. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.124 | Had found some months asleep and leaped them over. | Had found some Moneths asleepe, and leap'd them ouer. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.18 | The King your father is disposed to sleep. | The King, your Father, is dispos'd to sleepe. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.26 | To many a watchful night! Sleep with it now! | To many a watchfull Night: sleepe with it now, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.36 | This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep | This sleepe is sound indeede: this is a sleepe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.63 | My sleep my death? | My sleepe, my death? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.70 | Have broke their sleep with thoughts, | Haue broke their sleepes with thoughts, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.22 | How you awake our sleeping sword of war. | How you awake our sleeping Sword of Warre; |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.20 | sleep, and they may have their throats about them at | sleepe, and they may haue their throats about them at |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.117 | England, Though we seemed dead, we did but sleep. | England, Though we seem'd dead, we did but sleepe: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.261 | Can sleep so soundly as the wretched slave, | Can sleepe so soundly, as the wretched Slaue: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.267 | Sleeps in Elysium; next day after dawn | Sleepes in Elizium: next day after dawne, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.272 | Winding up days with toil, and nights with sleep, | Winding vp Dayes with toyle, and Nights with sleepe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.6 | When others sleep upon their quiet beds, | (When others sleepe vpon their quiet beds) |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.56 | Sleeping or waking must I still prevail, | Sleeping or waking, must I still preuayle, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.19 | And once again we'll sleep secure in Rouen. | And once againe wee'le sleepe secure in Roan. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.122 | I think her old familiar is asleep. | I thinke her old Familiar is asleepe. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.29 | That thus we die while remiss traitors sleep. | That thus we dye, while remisse Traitors sleepe. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.49 | Sleeping neglection doth betray to loss | Sleeping neglection doth betray to losse: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.41 | By bloody hands in sleeping on your beds! | By bloudy hands, in sleeping on your beds. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.247 | Watch thou, and wake when others be asleep, | Watch thou, and wake when others be asleepe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.89 | A hundred times and oftener, in my sleep, | a hundred times, and oftner, / In my sleepe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.263 | Sleeping or waking, 'tis no matter how, | Sleeping, or Waking, 'tis no matter how, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.197 | I wear no knife to slaughter sleeping men; | I weare no Knife, to slaughter sleeping men, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.226 | Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men! | Pernicious blood-sucker of sleeping men. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.255 | That if your highness should intend to sleep, | That if your Highnesse should intend to sleepe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.263 | The mortal worm might make the sleep eternal; | The mortall Worme might make the sleepe eternall. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.3 | They have the more need to sleep now then. | They haue the more neede to sleepe now then. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.56 | sleep in thy sheath, I beseech God on my knees thou | sleepe in thy Sheath, I beseech Ioue on my knees thou |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.49 | His wonted sleep under a fresh tree's shade, | His wonted sleepe, vnder a fresh trees shade, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.2 | The King by this is set him down to sleep. | The King by this, is set him downe to sleepe. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.163 | Have wished the sleeping of this business, never desired | Haue wish'd the sleeping of this busines, neuer desir'd |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.14 | Fall asleep, or hearing die. | Fall asleepe, or hearing dye. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.398 | When he has run his course and sleeps in blessings, | When he ha's run his course, and sleepes in Blessings, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.433 | And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention | And sleepe in dull cold Marble, where no mention |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.81 | She is asleep. Good wench, let's sit down quiet, | She is asleep: Good wench, let's sit down quiet, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.83.14 | by inspiration, she makes in her sleep signs of rejoicing, | by inspiration) she makes (in her sleepe) signes of reioycing, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.32.1 | Sleep in their graves. | Sleepe in their Graues. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.14 | To scatter 'em as 'tis to make 'em sleep | To scatter 'em, as 'tis to make 'em sleepe |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.39 | Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when | Nor shall this peace sleepe with her: But as when |
| Henry VIII | H8 epilogue.3 | And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear, | And sleepe an Act or two; but those we feare |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.192 | Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep a-nights. | Sleeke-headed men, and such as sleepe a-nights: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.4 | I would it were my fault to sleep so soundly. | I would it were my fault to sleepe so soundly. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.46 | Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake, and see thyself. | Brutus thou sleep'st; awake, and see thy selfe: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.48 | ‘ Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake.’ | Brutus, thou sleep'st: awake. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.229 | Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter. | Boy: Lucius: Fast asleepe? It is no matter, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.233.1 | Therefore thou sleep'st so sound. | Therefore thou sleep'st so sound. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.252 | It will not let you eat, nor talk, nor sleep; | It will not let you eate, nor talke, nor sleepe; |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.2 | Thrice hath Calphurnia in her sleep cried out, | Thrice hath Calphurnia, in her sleepe cryed out, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.241 | I'll have them sleep on cushions in my tent. | Ile haue them sleepe on Cushions in my Tent. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.244 | I pray you, sirs, lie in my tent and sleep; | I pray you sirs, lye in my Tent and sleepe, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.262 | It was well done, and thou shalt sleep again; | It was well done, and thou shalt sleepe againe: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.265.2 | Lucius falls asleep | |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.265 | This is a sleepy tune; O murderous slumber, | This is a sleepy Tune: O Murd'rous slumbler! |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.297 | Sleep again, Lucius. Sirrah Claudius! | Sleepe againe Lucius: Sirra Claudio, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.299 | Why did you so cry out, sirs, in your sleep? | Why did you so cry out sirs, in your sleepe? |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.32 | Strato, thou hast been all this while asleep; | Strato, thou hast bin all this while asleepe: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.175 | Which now lies fast asleep within my heart. | Which now lies fast a sleepe within my hart, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.16 | Far worse than is the quiet sleep of death. | Farre worse then is the quiet sleepe of death: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.13 | And speeches sleep through all the waking regions. | and speeches sleepe through all the waking regions. |
| King John | KJ II.i.216 | And but for our approach those sleeping stones, | And but for our approch, those sleeping stones, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.40 | And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy | And rowze from sleepe that fell Anatomy |
| King John | KJ IV.i.129 | And, pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure | And, pretty childe, sleepe doubtlesse, and secure, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.15 | Got 'tween asleep and wake? Well then, | Got 'tweene a sleepe, and wake? Well then, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.52 | father would sleep till I waked him, you should enjoy half | Father would sleepe till I wak'd him, you should enioy halfe |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.55 | Hum! Conspiracy! ‘ Sleep till I waked him, you should | Hum? Conspiracy? Sleepe till I wake him, you should |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.47 | Where's my Fool? Ho, I think the world's asleep. | wher's my Foole? Ho, I thinke the world's asleepe, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.205 | Would not 'scape censure, nor the redresses sleep; | Would not scape censure, nor the redresses sleepe, |
| King Lear | KL I.v.6 | I will not sleep, my lord, till I have delivered your | I will not sleepe my Lord, till I haue deliuered your |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.154 | Some time I shall sleep out, the rest I'll whistle. | Some time I shall sleepe out, the rest Ile whistle: |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.171 | He sleeps | |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.114 | Till it cry sleep to death. | Till it crie sleepe to death. |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.34 | And turn his sleep to wake. | and turne his sleepe to wake. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.27 | Nay, get thee in. I'll pray and then I'll sleep. | Nay get thee in; Ile pray, and then Ile sleepe. |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.41 | Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd? | |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.95.2 | Oppressed nature sleeps. | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.13 | Madam, sleeps still. | Madam sleepes still. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.21 | Ay, madam; in the heaviness of sleep | I Madam: in the heauinesse of sleepe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.42 | And then to sleep but three hours in the night, | And then to sleepe but three houres in the night, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.48 | Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep. | Not to see Ladies, study, fast, not sleepe. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.19 | Sleep shall neither night nor day | Sleepe shall neyther Night nor Day |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.61 | And we'll not fail. When Duncan is asleep – | And wee'le not fayle: when Duncan is asleepe, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.67 | A limbeck only. When in swinish sleep | A Lymbeck onely: when in Swinish sleepe, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.75 | When we have marked with blood those sleepy two | When we haue mark'd with blood those sleepie two |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.7 | And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, | And yet I would not sleepe: Mercifull Powers, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.51 | The curtained sleep. Witchcraft celebrates | The Curtain'd sleepe: Witchcraft celebrates |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.22 | There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried ‘ Murder!’ | There's one did laugh in's sleepe, / And one cry'd Murther, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.25.1 | Again to sleep. | againe to sleepe. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.35 | Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘ Sleep no more! | Me thought I heard a voyce cry, Sleep no more: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.36 | Macbeth does murder sleep – the innocent sleep, | Macbeth does murther Sleepe, the innocent Sleepe, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.37 | Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, | Sleepe that knits vp the rauel'd Sleeue of Care, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.41 | Still it cried ‘ Sleep no more ’ to all the house; | Still it cry'd, Sleepe no more to all the House: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.42 | ‘ Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor | Glamis hath murther'd Sleepe, and therefore Cawdor |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.43 | Shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more.’ | Shall sleepe no more: Macbeth shall sleepe no more. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.50.1 | The sleepy grooms with blood. | The sleepie Groomes with blood. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.53 | Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead | Giue me the Daggers: the sleeping, and the dead, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.26 | Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. | Marry, Sir, Nose-painting, Sleepe, and Vrine. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.33 | him in a sleep and giving him the lie, leaves him. | him in a sleepe, and giuing him the Lye, leaues him. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.73 | Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit, | Shake off this Downey sleepe, Deaths counterfeit, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.80.1 | The sleepers of the house? Speak, speak! | The sleepers of the House? speake, speake. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.17 | Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep | Ere we will eate our Meale in feare, and sleepe |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.23 | After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; | After Lifes fitfull Feuer, he sleepes well, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.140 | You lack the season of all natures, sleep. | You lacke the season of all Natures, sleepe. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.141 | Come, we'll to sleep. My strange and self-abuse | Come, wee'l to sleepe: My strange & self-abuse |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.13 | That were the slaves of drink, and thralls of sleep? | That were the Slaues of drinke, and thralles of sleepe? |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.34 | Give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights, | Giue to our Tables meate, sleepe to our Nights: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.8 | Sweltered venom, sleeping got, | Sweltred Venom sleeping got, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.85.1 | And sleep in spite of thunder. | And sleepe in spight of Thunder. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.8 | to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep. | to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleepe. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.10 | the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching. In | the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching. In |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.20 | upon my life, fast asleep. Observe her; stand close. | vp-on my life fast asleepe: obserue her, stand close. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.56 | known those which have walked in their sleep who have | knowne those which haue walkt in their sleep, who haue |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.17 | Of a poor worm. Thy best of rest is sleep, | Of a poore worme: thy best of rest is sleepe, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.33 | But as it were an after-dinner's sleep, | But as it were an after-dinners sleepe |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.63 | As fast locked up in sleep as guiltless labour | As fast lock'd vp in sleepe, as guiltlesse labour, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.140 | but as a drunken sleep; careless, reckless, and | but as a drunken sleepe, carelesse, wreaklesse, and |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.28 | sleepy. | sleepie. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.31 | executed, and sleep afterwards. | executed, and sleepe afterwards. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.44 | and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the | and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleepe the |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.85 | Sleep when he wakes? And creep into the jaundice | Sleepe when he wakes? and creep into the Iaundies |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.5 | And sleep, and snore, and rend apparel out... | And sleepe, and snore, and rend apparrell out. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.45 | Snail-slow in profit, and he sleeps by day | Snaile-slow in profit, but he sleepes by day |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.54 | How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! | How sweet the moone-light sleepes vpon this banke, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.109.2 | How the moon sleeps with Endymion, | how the Moone sleepes with Endimion, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.28 | any thinking? Sure, they sleep; he hath no use of them. | any thinking? Sure they sleepe, he hath no vse of them: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.129 | sleep? Master Ford, awake; awake, Master Ford! | sleepe? Master Ford awake, awake Master Ford: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.50 | That, ere she sleep, has thrice her prayers said, | That ere she sleepe has thrice her prayers said, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.52 | Sleep she as sound as careless infancy. | Sleepe she as sound as carelesse infancie, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.53 | But those as sleep and think not on their sins, | But those as sleepe, and thinke not on their sins, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.170 | The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid | The iuyce of it, on sleeping eye-lids laid, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.177 | I'll watch Titania when she is asleep, | Ile watch Titania, when she is asleepe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.253 | There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, | There sleepes Tytania, sometime of the night, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.7 | At our quaint spirits. Sing me now asleep; | At our queint spirits: Sing me now asleepe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.31 | Titania sleeps | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.32 | Exeunt Fairies | Shee sleepes. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.70 | Here is my bed: sleep give thee all his rest. | Heere is my bed, sleepe giue thee all his rest. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.72.1 | They sleep | They sleepe. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.80 | And here the maiden, sleeping sound | And heere the maiden sleeping sound, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.87 | Sleep his seat on thy eyelid. | Sleepe his seate on thy eye-lid. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.107 | Dead? – or asleep? I see no blood, no wound. | Deade or asleepe? I see no bloud, no wound, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.141 | She sees not Hermia. Hermia, sleep thou there, | She sees not Hermia: Hermia sleepe thou there, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.150 | And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep; | And sing, while thou on pressed flowers dost sleepe: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.168 | To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes. | To fan the Moone-beames from his sleeping eies. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.8 | While she was in her dull and sleeping hour, | While she was in her dull and sleeping hower, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.38 | I took him sleeping – that is finished too; | I tooke him sleeping (that is finisht to) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.47 | If thou hast slain Lysander in his sleep, | If thou hast slaine Lysander in his sleepe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.52 | From sleeping Hermia? I'll believe as soon | From sleeping Hermia? Ile beleeue as soone |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.70 | And hast thou killed him sleeping? O, brave touch! | And hast thou kill'd him sleeping? O braue tutch: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.85 | For debt that bankrupt sleep doth sorrow owe, | For debt that bankrout slip doth sorrow owe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.88 | He lies down and sleeps | Lie downe. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.364 | Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep | Till ore their browes, death-counterfeiting, sleepe |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.421.1 | He sleeps | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.431.1 | He lies down and sleeps | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.435 | And sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye, | And sleepe that sometime shuts vp sorrowes eie, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.437 | She lies down and sleeps | Sleepe. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.448 | She lies down and sleeps | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.449 | Sleep sound. | sleepe sound, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.464 | Exit | They sleepe all the Act. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.38 | an exposition of sleep come upon me. | an exposition of sleepe come vpon me. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.39 | Sleep thou, and I will wind thee in my arms. | Sleepe thou, and I will winde thee in my arms, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.44 | They sleep. Enter Puck | Enter Robin goodfellow and Oberon. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.81 | Than common sleep of all these five the sense. | Then common sleepe; of all these, fine the sense. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.82 | Music, ho! Music such as charmeth sleep. | Musicke, ho musicke, such as charmeth sleepe. Musick still. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.85 | And rock the ground whereon these sleepers be. | And rocke the ground whereon these sleepers be. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.100 | That I sleeping here was found | That I sleeping heere was found, Sleepers Lye still. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.126 | He sees the sleepers | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.127 | My lord, this is my daughter here asleep, | My Lord, this is my daughter heere asleepe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.144 | To sleep by hate, and fear no enmity? | To sleepe by hate, and feare no enmity. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.146 | Half sleep, half waking. But as yet, I swear, | Halfe sleepe, halfe waking. But as yet, I sweare, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.193 | That yet we sleep, we dream. Do not you think | That yet we sleepe, we dreame. Do not you thinke, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.203 | asleep! – I have had a most rare vision. I have had a | asleepe: I haue had a most rare vision. I had a |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.316 | Asleep, my love? | Asleepe my Loue? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.355 | I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn | I feare we shall out-sleepe the comming morne, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.15 | man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no | mans leisure: sleepe when I am drowsie, and tend on no |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.318 | my lord; she is never sad but when she sleeps, and not | my Lord, she is neuer sad, but when she sleepes, and not |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.37 | We will rather sleep than talk; we | We will rather sleepe than talke, wee |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.40 | watchman, for I cannot see how sleeping should offend; | watchman, for I cannot see how sleeping should offend: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.65 | How if the nurse be asleep and will | How if the nurse be asleepe and will |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.301 | Why, go to bed and sleep. | Why go to bed and sleepe. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.104 | I find it still when I have list to sleep. | I finde it still, when I haue leaue to sleepe. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.124 | 'Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep: | 'Tis euermore his prologue to his sleepe, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.329 | Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep | Shall euer medicine thee to that sweete sleepe |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.412 | I could not sleep. | I could not sleepe. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.414 | That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs: | that in their sleepes will mutter / Their Affayres: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.416 | In sleep I heard him say ‘ Sweet Desdemona, | In sleepe I heard him say, sweet Desdemona, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.96 | Faith, half asleep. | Faith, halfe a sleepe. |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.5 | The tomb where grief should sleep, can breed me quiet? | The tombe where griefe stould sleepe can breed me quiet, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.96 | Drew sleep out of mine eyes, blood from my cheeks, | Drew sleep out of mine eies, blood frõmy cheekes, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.1 | Now sleep y-slacked hath the rout, | Now sleepe yslacked hath the rout, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.162 | That e'er dull sleep did mock sad fools withal. | That ere duld sleepe did mocke sad fooles withall, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.203.1 | Though doubts did ever sleep. | Though doubts did euer sleepe. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.235 | He sleeps | |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.133 | Draws the sweet infant-breath of gentle sleep, | |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.8 | Awaked the sleeping rheum, and so by chance | Awak'd the sleepie rhewme, and so by chance |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.77 | For sleeping England long time have I watched. | For sleeping England long time haue I watcht, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.84 | Awake, thou coward majesty; thou sleepest. | Awake thou sluggard Maiestie, thou sleepest: |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.159 | Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed, | Some poyson'd by their Wiues, some sleeping kill'd, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.139 | Peace shall go sleep with Turks and infidels, | Peace shall goe sleepe with Turkes and Infidels, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.122 | Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleep | Your beauty, that did haunt me in my sleepe, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.224 | No sleep close up that deadly eye of thine, | No sleepe close vp that deadly Eye of thine, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.287 | And there awake God's gentle-sleeping peace. | And there awake Gods gentle sleeping peace. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.74 | My soul is heavy, and I fain would sleep. | My Soule is heauy, and I faine would sleepe. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.76.1 | Clarence sleeps | |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.96 | There lies the Duke asleep, and there the keys. | There lies the Duke asleepe, and there the Keyes. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.101 | What? Shall I stab him as he sleeps? | What, shall we stab him as he sleepes. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.107 | sleeping. | sleeping. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.142 | I shall not sleep in quiet at the Tower. | I shall not sleepe in quiet at the Tower. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.188 | Shall we hear from you, Catesby, ere we sleep? | Shall we heare from you, Catesby, ere we sleepe? |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.6 | Cannot my Lord Stanley sleep these tedious nights? | Cannot my Lord Stanley sleepe these tedious /Nights? |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.23 | I have been long a sleeper; but I trust | I haue beene long a sleeper: but I trust, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.75 | Not sleeping, to engross his idle body, | Not sleeping, to engrosse his idle Body, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.122 | Whiles, in the mildness of your sleepy thoughts, | Whiles in the mildnesse of your sleepie thoughts, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.83 | Did I enjoy the golden dew of sleep, | Did I enioy the golden deaw of sleepe, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.72 | Foes to my rest and my sweet sleep's disturbers, | Foes to my Rest, and my sweet sleepes disturbers, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.38 | The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom, | The Sonnes of Edward sleepe in Abrahams bosome, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.24 | When didst Thou sleep when such a deed was done? | When didst thou sleepe, when such a deed was done? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.118 | Forbear to sleep the nights, and fast the days; | Forbeare to sleepe the night, and fast the day: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.80.1 | King Richard withdraws into his tent, and sleeps | |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.118 | Sleeping and waking, O defend me still! | Sleeping, and waking, oh defend me still. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.119.1 | Sleeps | Sleeps. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.131 | Doth comfort thee in thy sleep; live, and flourish! | Doth comfort thee in sleepe: Liue, and flourish. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.156 | Sleep, Richmond, sleep in peace and wake in joy. | Sleepe Richmond, / Sleepe in Peace, and wake in Ioy, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.162 | Now fills thy sleep with perturbations. | Now filles thy sleepe with perturbations, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.165 | (To Richmond) Thou quiet soul, sleep thou a quiet sleep. | Ghost to Richm. Thou quiet soule, / Sleepe thou a quiet sleepe: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.228 | The sweetest sleep, and fairest-boding dreams | The sweetest sleepe, / And fairest boading Dreames, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.257 | You sleep in peace, the tyrant being slain; | You sleepe in peace, the Tyrant being slaine: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.321 | You sleeping safe, they bring to you unrest; | You sleeping safe, they bring you to vnrest: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.181 | Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! | Still waking sleepe, that is not what it is: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.52 | In bed asleep, while they do dream things true. | In bed a sleepe while they do dreame things true. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.58 | Over men's noses as they lie asleep. | ouer mens noses as they lie asleepe: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.80 | Tickling a parson's nose as 'a lies asleep; | tickling a Parsons nose as a lies asleepe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.88 | And sleeps again. This is that very Mab | & sleepes againe: this is that very Mab |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.40 | This field-bed is too cold for me to sleep. | This Field-bed is to cold for me to sleepe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.186 | Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast! | Sleepe dwell vpon thine eyes, peace in thy brest. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.187 | Would I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest! | Rom. Would I were sleepe and peace so sweet to rest, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.32 | And where care lodges, sleep will never lie. | And where Care lodges, sleepe will neuer lye: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.34 | Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. | Doth couch his lims, there, golden sleepe doth raigne; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.25 | because he hath wakened thy dog that hath lain asleep in | because he hath wakened thy Dog that hath laine asleepe in |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.99 | Soon sleep in quiet. O, how my heart abhors | Soone sleepe in quiet. O how my heart abhors |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.106 | And then awake as from a pleasant sleep. | And then awake, as from a pleasant sleepe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.5 | Sleep for a week. For the next night, I warrant, | Sleepe for a weeke, for the next night I warrant |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.8 | Marry, and amen! How sound is she asleep! | Marrie and Amen: how sound is she a sleepe? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.1 | If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, | If I may trust the flattering truth of sleepe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.18 | Her body sleeps in Capel's monument, | Her body sleepes in Capels Monument, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.137 | As I did sleep under this yew tree here, | As I did sleepe vnder this young tree here, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.152 | Of death, contagion, and unnatural sleep. | Of death, contagion, and vnnaturall sleepe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.244 | A sleeping potion; which so took effect | A sleeping Potion, which so tooke effect |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.14.1 | He falls asleep | Falles asleepe. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.31 | This were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly. | this were a bed but cold to sleep so soundly. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.36 | Or wilt thou sleep? We'll have thee to a couch | Or wilt thou sleepe? Wee'l haue thee to a Couch, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.69 | I do not sleep. I see, I hear, I speak. | I do not sleepe: I see, I heare, I speake: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.102 | I will not sleep, Hortensio, till I see her, | I wil not sleepe Hortensio til I see her, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.9 | Am starved for meat, giddy for lack of sleep, | Am staru'd for meate, giddie for lacke of sleepe: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.13 | As who should say, if I should sleep or eat, | As who should say. if I should sleepe or eate |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.43 | Ay, but not frighted me, therefore I'll sleep again. | I, but not frighted me, therefore Ile sleepe againe. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.185 | Thou art inclined to sleep. 'Tis a good dullness, | Thou art inclinde to sleepe: 'tis a good dulnesse, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.187 | Miranda sleeps | |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.232 | I have left asleep. And for the rest o'th' fleet, | I haue left asleep: and for the rest o'th' Fleet |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.413 | No, wench. It eats and sleeps and hath such senses | No wench, it eats, and sleeps, & hath such senses |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.191 | discretion so weakly. Will you laugh me asleep, for I | discretion so weakly: Will you laugh me asleepe, for I |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.193 | Go sleep, and hear us. | Go sleepe, and heare vs. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.194 | All sleep except Alonso, Sebastian, and Antonio | |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.194 | What, all so soon asleep? I wish mine eyes | What, all so soone asleepe? I wish mine eyes |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.201 | Alonso sleeps. Exit Ariel | |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.205 | Not myself disposed to sleep. | Not my selfe dispos'd to sleep. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.215 | It is a sleepy language, and thou speak'st | It is a sleepy Language; and thou speak'st |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.216 | Out of thy sleep. What is it thou didst say? | Out of thy sleepe: What is it thou didst say? |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.217 | This is a strange repose, to be asleep | This is a strange repose, to be asleepe |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.219.1 | And yet so fast asleep. | And yet so fast asleepe. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.220 | Thou let'st thy fortune sleep – die, rather; wink'st | Thou let'st thy fortune sleepe: die rather: wink'st |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.242.1 | And he that sleeps here swims. | As he that sleepes heere, swims. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.268 | As well as he that sleeps; lords that can prate | As well as he that sleepes: Lords, that can prate |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.272 | The mind that I do! What a sleep were this | The minde that I do; what a sleepe were this |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.148 | monster! When's god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle. | Monster, when's god's a sleepe he'll rob his Bottle. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.60 | Yea, yea, my lord, I'll yield him thee asleep, | Yea, yea my Lord, Ile yeeld him thee asleepe, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.89 | I'th' afternoon to sleep. There thou mayst brain him, | I'th afternoone to sleepe: there thou maist braine him, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.114 | Within this half-hour will he be asleep. | Within this halfe houre will he be asleepe, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.140 | That, if I then had waked after long sleep, | That if I then had wak'd after long sleepe, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.141 | Will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, | Will make me sleepe againe, and then in dreaming, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.158 | Is rounded with a sleep. Sir, I am vext. | Is rounded with a sleepe: Sir, I am vext, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.49 | Have waked their sleepers, oped, and let 'em forth | Haue wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.98 | There shalt thou find the mariners asleep | There shalt thou finde the Marriners asleepe |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.230 | I'd strive to tell you. We were dead of sleep | I'ld striue to tell you: we were dead of sleepe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.66 | Or a dog that seems a-sleeping, | Or a Dogge that seemes asleeping, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.44 | And not endure all threats? Sleep upon't, | And not endure all threats? Sleepe vpon't, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.293 | For here it sleeps, and does no hired harm. | For heere it sleepes, and do's no hyred harme. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.488 | But thorough lust and laughter. Pity's sleeping. | But thorow Lust and Laughter: pittie's sleeping: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.94 | And sleep in peace, slain in your country's wars. | And sleepe in peace, slaine in your Countries warres: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.158 | No noise, but silence and eternal sleep. | No noyse, but silence and Eternall sleepe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.176 | You that survive, and you that sleep in fame. | You that suruiue and you that sleepe in Fame: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.9 | I have been troubled in my sleep this night, | I haue bene troubled in my sleepe this night, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.29 | Of lullaby to bring her babe asleep. | Of Lullabie, to bring her Babe asleepe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.194 | Where I espied the panther fast asleep. | Where I espied the Panther fast asleepe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.197 | Well could I leave our sport to sleep awhile. | Well could I leaue our sport to sleepe a while. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.15 | That I may slumber an eternal sleep. | That I may slumber in eternall sleepe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.19 | Whose circling shadows kings have sought to sleep in, | Whose circkling shadowes, Kings haue sought to sleep in |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.50 | He would have dropped his knife and fell asleep, | He would haue dropt his knife and fell asleepe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.99 | And, when he sleeps, will she do what she list. | And when he sleepes will she do what she list. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.24 | In Saturninus' health, whom, if he sleep, | In Saturninus health; whom if he sleepe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.162 | Sung thee asleep, his loving breast thy pillow; | Sung thee asleepe, his Louing Brest, thy Pillow: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.10 | With wanton Paris sleeps – and that's the quarrel. | With wanton Paris sleepes, and that's the Quarrell. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.10 | Tamer than sleep, fonder than ignorance, | Tamer then sleepe, fonder then ignorance; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.254 | It is not Agamemnon's sleeping-hour. | It is not Agamemnons sleeping houre; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.47 | Let's shut our gates and sleep. Manhood and honour | Let's shut our gates and sleepe: Manhood and Honor |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.137 | Before a sleeping giant.’ Tell him so. | Before a sleeping Gyant: tell him so. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.262 | Go we to council. Let Achilles sleep; | Goe we to Counsaile, let Achilles sleepe; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.4 | To bed, to bed. Sleep kill those pretty eyes, | To bed, to bed: sleepe kill those pritty eyes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.33 | man – let it sleep? – A bugbear take him! | man) let it sleepe: a bug-beare take him. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.114.2 | Hector, thou sleep'st; | Hector, thou sleep'st, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.137 | speak with you. I told him you were asleep; he seems to | speak with you. I told him you were asleepe, he seems to |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.48 | left Olivia sleeping . . . | left Oliuia sleeping. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.62 | If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! | If it be thus to dreame, still let me sleepe. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.96 | heavens restore! Endeavour thyself to sleep and leave | heauens restore: endeauour thy selfe to sleepe, and leaue |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.80 | or sleep. | or sleepe. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.132 | Love hath chased sleep from my enthralled eyes, | Loue hath chas'd sleepe from my enthralled eyes, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.139 | Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep, | Now can I breake my fast, dine, sup, and sleepe, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.25 | Haply when they have judged me fast asleep, | Haply when they haue iudg'd me fast asleepe, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.321 | Item: She doth talk in her sleep. | Item, she doth talke in her sleepe. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.322 | It's no matter for that; so she sleep not in her | It's no matter for that; so shee sleepe not in her |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.132 | By my halidom, I was fast asleep. | By my hallidome, I was fast asleepe. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.12 | Joy seize on you again; peace sleep with him. | Ioy ceaze on you againe: peace sleepe with him. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.122 | A willing man dies sleeping and all's done. | A willing man dies sleeping, and all's done. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.328 | I'll shake 'em so, ye shall not sleep; | Ile shake 'em so, ye shall not sleepe, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.26 | To put my breast against; I shall sleep like a top else. | to put my breast / Against. I shall sleepe like a Top else. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.99 | A place prepared for those that sleep in honour, | A place prepar'd for those that sleepe in honour, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.129 | Die as discourse or sleep; only this fears me, | Die, as discourse, or sleepe: Onely this feares me, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.184 | For ere the sun set, both shall sleep for ever. | For ere the Sun set, both shall sleepe for ever. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.304 | Sleep till the hour prefixed, and hold your course. | Sleepe till the howre prefixt, and hold your course. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.35.1 | When did she sleep? | when did she sleepe? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.4 | sleeps little, altogether without appetite save often | sleepes / Little, altogether without appetite, save often |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.93 | may bring her to eat, to sleep, and reduce what's now | may bring her to eate, to sleepe, and reduce what's / Now |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.108.1 | And then we'll sleep together. | And then wee'l sleepe together. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.29 | Worth two hours' travail. To his bones sweet sleep; | Worth two houres travell. To his bones sweet sleepe: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.13 | rare – I know not what to say. We will give you sleepy | rare---I know not what to say--- Wee will giue you sleepie |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.328 | Which to preserve is sleep, which being spotted | (Which to preserue, is Sleepe; which being spotted, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.16 | Threw off his spirit, his appetite, his sleep, | Threw-off his Spirit, his Appetite, his Sleepe, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.33 | I come to bring him sleep. 'Tis such as you, | I come to bring him sleepe. 'Tis such as you |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.39.1 | That presses him from sleep. | That presses him from sleepe. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.111 | Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else | Vpon surmizes (all proofes sleeping else, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.59 | three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the | three and twenty, or that youth would sleep out the |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.30 | sleep out the thought of it. A prize! A prize! | sleepe out the thought of it. A prize, a prize. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.60 | have matter to rehearse, though credit be asleep and not | haue matter to rehearse, though Credit be asleepe, and not |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.20 | Still sleep mocked death. Behold, and say 'tis well! | Still Sleepe mock'd Death: behold, and say 'tis well. |