Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.25 | I robbed his wound of it. Behold it stained | I robb'd his wound of it: behold it stain'd |
As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.98.1 | This handkercher was stained. | This handkercher was stain'd. |
The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.145 | And tear the stained skin off my harlot brow, | And teare the stain'd skin of my Harlot brow, |
The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.155 | I live unstained, thou undishonoured. | I liue distain'd, thou vndishonoured. |
Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.57 | That have a father killed, a mother stained, | |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.64 | Stained with the variation of each soil | Strain'd with the variation of each soyle, |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.106 | Bloodstained with these valiant combatants. | Blood-stained with these Valiant Combatants. |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.12 | Where stained nobility lies trodden on, | Where stain'd Nobility lyes troden on, |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.114 | Th' unstained sword that you have used to bear, | Th' vnstained Sword that you haue vs'd to beare: |
Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.24 | But to stand stained with travel, and sweating | But to stand stained with Trauaile, and sweating |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.78 | Pricked on by public wrongs sustained in France, | Prickt on by publike Wrongs sustain'd in France, |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.57 | And wash away thy country's stained spots. | And wash away thy Countries stayned Spots. |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.44 | Stained with the guiltless blood of innocents, | Stain'd with the guiltlesse blood of Innocents, |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.65 | Till I be crowned, and that my sword be stained | till I be Crown'd, / And that my Sword be stayn'd |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.16 | My tear-stained eyes to see her miseries. | My teare-stayn'd eyes, to see her Miseries. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.259 | Before his chaps be stained with crimson blood, | Before his Chaps be stayn'd with Crimson blood, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.79 | Look, York, I stained this napkin with the blood | Looke Yorke, I stayn'd this Napkin with the blood |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.153 | Would not have touched, would not have stained with blood; | would not haue toucht, / Would not haue stayn'd with blood: |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.21 | That stained their fetlocks in his smoking blood, | That stain'd their Fetlockes in his smoaking blood, |
King John | KJ II.i.16 | But with a heart full of unstained love. | But with a heart full of vnstained loue, |
King John | KJ II.i.357 | Cry havoc, Kings! Back to the stained field, | Cry hauocke kings, backe to the stained field |
King John | KJ III.i.236 | Heaven knows, they were besmeared and overstained | Heauen knowes they were besmear'd and ouer-staind |
King John | KJ IV.ii.6 | The faiths of men ne'er stained with revolt; | The faiths of men, nere stained with reuolt: |
King John | KJ IV.iii.24 | We will not line his thin bestained cloak | We will not lyne his thin-bestained cloake |
King Lear | KL I.i.134 | By you to be sustained, shall our abode | By you to be sustain'd, shall our abode |
Macbeth | Mac II.ii.13 | Enter Macbeth, carrying two bloodstained daggers | Enter Macbeth. |
Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.55.1 | As she that he hath stained? | As she that he hath staind? |
The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.136 | Forget the shames that you have stained me with, | Forget the shames that you haue staind me with, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.275 | What, stained with blood! | what staind with blood! |
Othello | Oth V.i.36 | Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust's blood be spotted. | Thy Bed lust-stain'd, shall with Lusts blood bee spotted. |
Richard II | R2 III.i.14 | And stained the beauty of a fair queen's cheeks | And stayn'd the beautie of a faire Queenes Cheekes, |
Richard II | R2 V.v.110 | Hath with the King's blood stained the King's own land. | Hath with the Kings blood, stain'd the Kings own land. |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.82 | Profaners of this neighbour-stained steel, – | Prophaners of this Neighbor-stained Steele, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.111 | In my behalf – my reputation stained | In my behalfe, my reputation stain'd |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.95 | Now I have stained the childhood of our joy | Now I haue stain'd the Childhood of our ioy, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.88 | To live an unstained wife to my sweet love. | To liue an vnstained wife to my sweet Loue. |
The Tempest | Tem I.ii.415 | Was in the wrack; and, but he's something stained | Was in the wracke: and but hee's something stain'd |
The Tempest | Tem II.i.67 | stained with salt water. | stain'd with salte water. |
Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.210 | From this unhallowed and blood-stained hole? | From this vnhallow'd and blood-stained Hole? |
Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.125 | How they are stained like meadows yet not dry | How they are stain'd in meadowes, yet not dry |
Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.169 | Here stands the spring whom you have stained with mud, | Here stands the spring whom you haue stain'd with mud, |
Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.38 | Because she was enforced, stained, and deflowered? | Because she was enfor'st, stain'd, and deflowr'd? |
Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.153 | These sorrowful drops upon thy bloodstained face, | These sorrowfull drops vpon thy bloud-slaine face, |
Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.182 | Let all untruths stand by thy stained name, | Let all vntruths stand by thy stained name, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.25.1 | Enter three Queens in black, with veils stained, with | Enter 3. Queenes in Blacke, with vailes staind, with |
The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.149 | Do plainly give you out an unstained shepherd, | Do plainly giue you out an vnstain'd Shepherd |