Music Reference ID Work Character RSC Line Number RSC Text Norton Oxford Line Number Norton Oxford Text F1 Character F1 Text First Edition Character First Edition Text Third Edition Text Through Line Number Q1 Q2 Q3 Arden Line Number Arden Text Oxford Line Number Oxford Text Cambridge Line Number Cambridge Text Comments
911 Love's Labours Lost Spring 5.2.869 [^sings^] ‘When daisies pied and violets blue . . . for thus ^sings^ he: | Cuckoo. The Song. When Dasies pied, and Violets blew,… | for thus sings he, | Cuckow. 2859 5.2.881 THE SONG | … 5.2.874 THE SONG | (sings)… 5.2.858 The Song |
912 Love's Labours Lost Spring 5.2.878 When shepherds ^pipe on oaten straws^, | And ^merry larks^ are ploughmen’s clocks . . . The cuckoo then on every tree | Mocks married men, for thus ^sings^ he: | Cuckoo! When Shepheards pipe on Oaten strawes, | And merrie Larkes are Ploughmens clockes:… | ...for thus sings he, | Cuckow. 2869 5.2.891 5.2.884 5.2.868
913 Love's Labours Lost Winter 5.2.887 [^sings^] ‘When icicles hang by the wall . . . Then nightly ^sings^ the staring owl: | Tu-whit, tu-whoo—a ^merry note^. . . . Then nightly ^sings^ the staring owl: | Tu-whit, tu-whoo!—a ^merry note^. Winter When Isicles hang by the wall,… | Then nightly sings the staring Owle | Tu-whit to-who. | A merrie note,… | Then nightly sings the staring Owle | Tu-whit to-who. | A merrie note,… 2879 5.2.900 [ SD absent] 5.2.893 5.2.877 [SD absent]
914 Love's Labours Lost Armado 5.2.903 The words of Mercury are harsh after the ^songs of Apollo^. Brag. The Words of Mercurie, | Are harsh after the songs of Apollo: 2897 Epigraph: | The vvordes of Mercurie, are harsh after the songes of Apollo. 5.2.918 5.2.911 5.2.895
915 Macbeth SD 1.2 ^Alarum^ within. Enter King [Duncan], Malcolm . . . SD Alarum within. Enter King Malcome, Donalbaine, Lenox… 15 1.2 1.2 1.2
916 Macbeth SD 1.3.28 ^Drum ^ within SD Drum within. 127 1.3.29 1.3.29 1.3.27
917 Macbeth Third Witch 1.3.29 A ^drum, a drum ^— | Macbeth doth come. [Witch] 3 A Drumme, a Drumme: | Macbeth doth come. 128 1.3.30 1.3.30 1.3.29
918 Macbeth Macbeth; Banquo 1.3.85 And Thane of Cawdor too. Went it not so? | To th’self-same ^tune ^ and words. Macb.; Banq. And Thane of Cawdor too: went it not so? | Toth' selfe-same tune· and words: who's here? 190 1.3.87 1.3.87 1.3.85 Possible reference to a ballad.
919 Macbeth SD 1.4 ^Flourish ^. Enter King [Duncan], Lennox . . . SD Flourish. Enter King, Lenox, Malcolme, Donalbaine, and Attendants. 278 1.4 1.4 1.4
920 Macbeth SD 1.6 ^Hautboys ^ and torches. Enter King [Duncan], Malcolm, . . . SD Hoboyes, and Torches. Enter King, Malcolme, Donalbaine… 431 1.6 1.6 - 1.6