| Original text | Modern text | Key line |
| Though this Island seeme to be desert. | Though this island seem to be desert – | Tem II.i.37 |
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| Vninhabitable, and almost inaccessible. | Uninhabitable, and almost inaccessible – | Tem II.i.40 |
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| Yet | Yet – | Tem II.i.42 |
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| It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate | It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate | Tem II.i.44 |
| temperance. | temperance. | Tem II.i.45 |
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| The ayre breathes vpon vs here most sweetly. | The air breathes upon us here most sweetly. | Tem II.i.49 |
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| Tunis was neuer grac'd before with such a | Tunis was never graced before with such a | Tem II.i.76 |
| Paragon to their Queene. | paragon to their queen. | Tem II.i.77 |
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| Widdow Dido said you? You make me study of | ‘ Widow Dido,’ said you? You make me study of | Tem II.i.83 |
| that: She was of Carthage, not of Tunis. | that. She was of Carthage, not of Tunis. | Tem II.i.84 |
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| Carthage? | Carthage? | Tem II.i.86 |
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| Follow, I pray you. | Follow, I pray you. | Tem III.iii.111.2 |