| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.4.2 | An untimely ague | An vntimely Ague |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.113 | As that same ague which hath made you lean. | As that same Ague which hath made you leane. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.4 | Till famine and the ague eat them up. | Till Famine and the Ague eate them vp: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.23 | Would blow me to an ague when I thought | Would blow me to an Ague, when I thought |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.190 | This ague-fit of fear is overblown. | This ague fit of feare is ouer-blowne, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.65 | legs, who hath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devil | legs; who hath got (as I take it) an Ague: where the diuell |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.92 | I will help his ague. Come! (Caliban drinks) Amen! I | I will helpe his Ague: Come: Amen, I |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.133 | How does thine ague? | how do's thine Ague? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.232 | And danger, like an ague, subtly taints | And danger like an ague subtly taints |
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| ague | fever, sickness, shaking [as caused by a fever] |
| agued | shivering, shaking [as with a fever] |
| ague-fit | feverish fit, fit of shaking |
| ague-proof | immune to fevers, resistant to sickness |
| bandy | band together, make a league, fight |
| coleagued | joined, supported, in league |
| colleagued, coleagued | joined, supported, in league |
| combination | alliance, league, treaty |
| compact | allied, in league, in collusion |
| competitor | partner, associate, colleague |
| confederate | ally, enter into a league, conspire |
| confederate | acting as an ally, in league |
| consorted | conspiring, associated, in league together |
| cross | afflict, plague, go against |
| fellow | fellow-servant, colleague |
| grind | torment, afflict, plague |
| inflict | afflict, trouble, plague |
| league | compact, alliance, treaty, bond of friendship |
| league | [measure of distance] c.3 miles [c.5 km] |
| league | join, link, intertwine |
| league | bind together, ally, confederate |
| leaguer | military camp |
| murrain | plague, pestilence |
| murrion | infected with plague [murrain], diseased |
| packed | in league, acting as an accomplice |
| pestered | afflicted, troubled, plagued |
| pestilence | plague, epidemic, fatal disease |
| plague | calamity, affliction, scourge |
| plague | torment, vex, trouble |
| pox | venereal disease; also: plague, or any other disease displaying skin pustules |
| punish | afflict, plague, torment |
| south | south wind [believed to bring storms, and plague-carrying mists] |
| still-vexed | always beset, perpetually plagued |
| sweat | sweating-sickness [type of plague] |
| torture | torment, afflict, plague |
| vengeance | fie on, a plague on |
| wanion, with a | with a vengeance, with a plague |
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| colleague | competitor |
| colleague | fellow |
| infected with plague | murrion |
| league | combination |
| league, enter into a | confederate |
| league, in | colleagued, coleagued |
| league, in | confederate |
| league, in | packed |
| league, in | compact |
| league, in | consorted |
| league, make a | bandy |
| perpetually plagued | still-vexed |
| plague | punish |
| plague | pox |
| plague | pestilence |
| plague | cross |
| plague | inflict |
| plague | grind |
| plague | torture |
| plague | murrain |
| plague | sweat |
| plague on, a | vengeance |
| plague, infected with | murrion |
| plague, with a | wanion, with a |
| plagued | pestered |
| plagued, perpetually | still-vexed |
| together, in league | consorted |
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Words Families
7
result(s).
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| Word Family | Word Family Group | Words |
| AGUE | BASIC | ague n, agued adj |
| AGUE | EVENT | ague-fit n |
| AGUE | PEOPLE | Agueface n |
| AGUE | STATE | ague-proof adj |
| FIT [seizure] | TYPE | ague-fit n |
| PROOF | DISEASE | ague-proof adj |
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