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991 Merchant of Venice Portia 3.4.66 And speak between the change of man and boy | With a ^reed voice^ Portia. And speake betweene the change of man and boy, | With a reede voyce, 1793 3.4.66 3.4.66 3.4.66
992 Merchant of Venice Shylock 4.1.47 Some that are mad if they behold a cat, | And others when the ^bagpipe sings^ i’th’nose | Cannot contain their urine Iew. Some that are mad, if they behold a Cat: | And others, when the bag-pipe sings i' th nose, | Cannot containe their Vrine for affection. 1953 4.1.48 4.1.47 4.1.48
993 Merchant of Venice Shylock 4.1.55 Why he a ^woollen bagpipe^ Iew. Why he a woollen bag-pipe: 1961 4.1.56 4.1.55 4.1.56
994 Merchant of Venice Lancelot 5.1.39 ^Sola, sola! Wo, ha, ho! Sola, sola^! Clo. Sola, sola: wo ha ho, sola, sola. 2452 5.1.39 5.1.39 5.1.39 In f1, clowne repeats sola numerous times in following lines
995 Merchant of Venice Lancelot 5.1.46 Tell him there’s a post come from my master with his | ^horn^ full of good news. Clo. Tel him ther's a Post come from my Master, with | his horne full of good newes, 2458 5.1.46 5.1.46 5.1.46
996 Merchant of Venice Lorenzo 5.1.52 And bring your ^music^ forth into the ^air^. | How ^sweet^ the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! | Here will we sit, and let the ^sounds of music | Creep in our ears^. Soft stillness and the night | Become the ^touches of sweet harmony^. Loren. And bring your musique foorth into the ayre. | How sweet the moone-light sleepes vpon this banke, | Heere will we sit, and let the sounds of musicke | Creepe in our eares soft stilnes, and the night | Become the tutches of sweet harmonie: 2465 5.1.53 5.1.53 5.1.53
997 Merchant of Venice Lorenzo 5.1.59 There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st | But in his ^motion^ like an ^angel sings^, | ^Still choiring^ to the young-eyed cherubins. | Such ^harmony^ is in immortal souls, | But whilst this muddy vesture of decay | Doth grossly close it in, we cannot ^hear it^. Loren. There's not the smallest orbe which thou beholdst | But in his motion like an Angell sings, | Still quiring to the young eyed Cherubins; | Such harmonie is in immortall soules, | But whilst this muddy vesture of decay | Doth grosly close it in, we cannot heare it: 2472 5.1.60 5.1.60 5.1.60
998 Merchant of Venice SD 5.1.64. [Enter ^Musicians^] - - - 5.1.65 5.1.65 5.1.65 [Enter Stephano with musicians]
999 Merchant of Venice Lorenzo 5.1.65 [To the ^Musicians^] Come, ho, and wake Diana with a ^hymn^. | With ^sweetest touches^ pierce your mistress’ ear, | And draw her home with ^music^. Loren. Come hoe, and wake Diana with a hymne, | With sweetest tutches pearce your Mistresse eare, | And draw her home with musicke. 2478 5.1.66 Come ho!... 5.1.66 (To the Musicians)… 5.1.66
1000 Merchant of Venice SD 5.1.67. [The ^Musicians] play^ SD Play musicke. 2482 Musicke plays… 5.1.68 Music 5.1.68 Music plays 5.1.68 Music plays