Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.320 | reason in the law of nature but I may snap at him. Let | reason, in the Law of Nature, but I may snap at him. Let |
Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.56 | sweet touch, a quick venue of wit! Snip, snap, quick | sweet tutch, a quicke venewe of wit, snip snap, quick |
The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.45 | Goodly Lord, what a wit-snapper are you! | Goodly Lord, what a witte-snapper are you, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.2 | Speak, breathe, discuss; brief, short, quick, snap. | speake, breathe, discusse: breefe, short, quicke, snap. |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.114 | We had like to have had our two noses snapped | Wee had likt to haue had our two noses snapt |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.25 | am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up | am) lytter'd vnder Mercurie, was likewise a snapper-vp |