Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.48 | Her heart inform her tongue – the swan's-down feather | Her heart informe her tougue. / The Swannes downe feather |
As You Like It | AYL I.iii.73 | And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans | And wheresoere we went, like Iunos Swans, |
Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.141 | In a great pool, a swan's nest: prithee think | In a great Poole, a Swannes-nest, prythee thinke |
Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.56 | So doth the swan her downy cygnets save, | So doth the Swan her downie Signets saue, |
Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.19 | We budged again; as I have seen a swan | We bodg'd againe, as I haue seene a Swan |
King John | KJ V.vii.21 | I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan | I am the Symet to this pale faint Swan, |
The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.44 | Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end, | Then if he loose he makes a Swan-like end, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.6 | beast. You were also, Jupiter, a swan for the love of | beast. / You were also (Iupiter) a Swan, for the loue of |
Othello | Oth V.ii.245 | Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan. | Hearke, canst thou heare me? I will play the Swan, |
Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.86 | And I will make thee think thy swan a crow. | And I will make thee thinke thy Swan a Crow. |
Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.101 | Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, | Can neuer turne the Swans blacke legs to white, |