Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.30.2 | Ah, thou spell! Avaunt! | Ah, thou Spell! Auaunt. |
Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.92 | 'Tis a spell, you see, of much power. | 'Tis a spell you see of much power: |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.2 | Now help, ye charming spells and periapts; | Now helpe ye charming Spelles and Periapts, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.31 | Unchain your spirits now with spelling charms, | Vnchaine your spirits now with spelling Charmes, |
Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.1 | Is't possible the spells of France should juggle | Is't possible the spels of France should iuggle |
Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.20 | His spell in that is out. The King hath found | His spell in that is out: the King hath found |
Macbeth | Mac III.i.87 | That you can let this go? Are you so gospelled, | that you can let this goe? / Are you so Gospell'd, |
Macbeth | Mac III.v.18 | Your vessels and your spells provide, | Your Vessels, and your Spels prouide, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.165 | by charms, by spells, by th' figure; and such daubery as | by Charmes, by Spels, by th'Figure, & such dawbry as |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.17 | Nor spell nor charm | nor spell, nor charme, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.28 | Nor spell nor charm | |
Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.61 | But she would spell him backward. If fair-faced, | But she would spell him backward: if faire fac'd, |
Othello | Oth I.iii.61 | By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks; | By Spels, and Medicines, bought of Mountebanks; |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.84 | Thy love did read by rote, that could not spell. | Thy Loue did read by rote, that could not spell: |
The Tempest | Tem IV.i.127 | Or else our spell is marred. | Or else our spell is mar'd. |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.61 | For you are spell-stopped. | For you are Spell-stopt. |
The Tempest | Tem V.i.253.1 | Untie the spell. | Vntye the Spell: |
The Tempest | Tem epilogue.8 | In this bare island by your spell; | In this bare Island, by your Spell, |
The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.105 | You hear my spell is lawful. (To Leontes) Do not shun her | You heare my Spell is lawfull: doe not shun her, |