Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.128 | world I say. I would I were a weaver: I could sing | world I say. I would I were a Weauer, I could sing |
Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.87 | Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk. | Ill-weau'd Ambition, how much art thou shrunke? |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.340 | Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies. | Weaues tedious Snares to trap mine Enemies. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.28 | And Smith the weaver. | And Smith the Weauer. |
Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.31.2 | the weaver, and a sawyer, with infinite numbers | the Weauer, and a Sawyer, with infinite numbers. |
Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.33 | The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who, | The Spinsters, Carders, Fullers, Weauers, who |
King Lear | KL II.i.15 | This weaves itself perforce into my business. | This weaues it selfe perforce into my businesse, |
The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.21 | weaver's beam, because I know also life is a shuttle. I | Weauers beame, because I know also, life is a Shuttle) I |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.1.2 | Bottom the weaver, and Flute the bellows-mender, | Bottome the Weauer, Flute the bellowes-mender, |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.16 | Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver? | Answere as I call you. Nick Bottome the Weauer. |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.20 | the weaver. This will put them out of fear. | the Weauer; this will put them out of feare. |
Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.21 | Be't when she weaved the sleded silk | Beet when they weaude the sleded silke, |
Pericles | Per IV.vi.182 | Proclaim that I can sing, weave, sew, and dance, | proclaime that I can sing, weaue, sow, & dance, |
Richard II | R2 IV.i.228 | My weaved-up follies? Gentle Northumberland, | My weau'd-vp follyes? Gentle Northumberland, |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.57 | out of one weaver? Shall we do that? | out of one Weauer? Shall we do that? |
Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.45 | And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, | And the free maides that weaue their thred with bones, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.42 | Tied, weaved, entangled, with so true, so long, | Tide, weau'd, intangled, with so true, so long, |
The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.49 | And there again! Ha, boys, hey for the weavers! | and there againe: ha, Boyes, heigh for the weavers. |