| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.124 | with the breach yourselves made you lose your city. It | with the breach your selues made, you lose your Citty. It |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.1 | Nay, come, for if they do approach the city, we | Nay come, / For if they do approach the Citty, / We |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.218 | Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast | Of the adiacent Wharfes. The Citty cast |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.8 | Enter the city, clip your wives, your friends, | Enter the Citty, clip your Wiues, your Friends, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.32 | Had our great palace the capacity | Had our great Pallace the capacity |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.36 | With brazen din blast you the city's ear; | With brazen dinne blast you the Citties eare, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.x.5 | Upon the hills adjoining to the city | Vpon the hilles adioyning to the Citty |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.23 | Being native burghers of this desert city, | Being natiue Burgers of this desert City, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.59 | The body of country, city, court, | The body of Countrie, Citie, Court, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.74 | What woman in the city do I name | What woman in the Citie do I name, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.75 | When that I say the city woman bears | When that I say the City woman beares |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.31 | And wander up and down to view the city. | And wander vp and downe to view the Citie. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.4 | How is the man esteemed here in the city? | How is the man esteem'd heere in the Citie? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.7 | Second to none that lives here in the city. | Second to none that liues heere in the Citie: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.324 | The Duke and all that know me in the city | The Duke, and all that know me in the City, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.45 | What shouts are these? The other side o'th' city is risen. | What showts are these? The other side a'th City is risen: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.183 | That in these several places of the city | That in these seuerall places of the Citie, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.188.1 | The city is well stored. | The Citie is well stor'd. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.216 | The rabble should have first unroofed the city | The rabble should haue first vnroo'st the City |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.100 | down before their city Corioles. They nothing doubt | down before their Citie Carioles, they nothing doubt |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.1.2 | Colours, with Captains, and Soldiers, as before the city | Colours, with Captaines and Souldiers, as before the City |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.23 | They fear us not, but issue forth their city. | They feare vs not, but issue forth their Citie. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.54.1 | To answer all the city. | To answer all the City. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.64 | They fight, and all enter the city | They fight, and all enter the City. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.v.12 | Convenient numbers to make good the city, | Conuenient Numbers to make good the City, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.33 | The treasure in this field achieved and city, | The Treasure in this field atchieued, and Citie, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.27 | Wash my fierce hand in's heart. Go you to th' city. | Wash my fierce hand in's heart. Go you to th' Citie, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.x.31 | 'Tis south the city mills – bring me word thither | ('Tis South the City Mils) bring me word thither |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.21 | you are censured here in the city – I mean of us o'th' | you are censured heere in the City, I mean of vs a'th' |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.241 | In human action and capacity | In humane Action, and Capacitie, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.109 | The mortal gate of th' city, which he painted | The mortall Gate of th' Citie, which he painted |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.119 | Both field and city ours he never stood | Both Field and Citie ours, he neuer stood |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.197 | To unbuild the city and to lay all flat. | To vnbuild the Citie, and to lay all flat. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.198.1 | What is the city but the people? | What is the Citie, but the People? |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.199 | The people are the city. | the People are the Citie. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.203 | That is the way to lay the city flat, | That is the way to lay the Citie flat, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.263 | That would depopulate the city and | That would depopulate the city, & |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.27 | Unless, by not so doing, our good city | Vnlesse by not so doing, our good Citie |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.101 | Even from this instant, banish him our city, | (Eu'n from this instant) banish him our Citie |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.134 | For you the city, thus I turn my back. | For you the City. Thus I turne my backe; |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.141 | Attend us through the city. | Attend vs through the City. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.1 | A goodly city is this Antium. City, | A goodly City is this Antium. Citty, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.44 | I'th' city of kites and crows. | I'th City of Kites and Crowes. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.45 | I'th' city of kites and crows? What | I'th City of Kites and Crowes? What |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.83 | To melt the city leads upon your pates, | To melt the Citty Leades vpon your pates, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.125.1 | Who did hoot him out o'th' city. | who did hoote / Him out o'th' Citty. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.44 | blow out the intended fire your city is ready to flame in | blow out the intended fire, your City is ready to flame in, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.181 | I am hushed until our city be afire, | I am husht vntill our City be afire, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.29 | shall our poor city find. And all this is 'long of you. | shall our poore City finde: and all this is long of you. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.53 | A city full; of tribunes such as you, | A City full: Of Tribunes such as you, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.60 | They are near the city? | They are neere the City. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.1 | Go tell the lords o'th' city I am here. | Go tell the Lords a'th' City, I am heere: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.6 | The city ports by this hath entered and | The City Ports by this hath enter'd, and |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.61 | Enter the Lords of the city | Enter the Lords of the City. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.93 | For certain drops of salt, your city Rome – | For certaine drops of Salt, your City Rome: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.94 | I say your city – to his wife and mother, | I say your City to his Wife and Mother, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.152 | Trail your steel pikes. Though in this city he | Traile your steele Pikes. Though in this City hee |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.19 | Arm me, Audacity, from head to foot, | Arme me Audacitie from head to foote, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.46 | To orderly solicits, and be friended | To orderly solicity, and be friended |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.45 | Did you but know the city's usuries, | Did you but know the Citties Vsuries, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.328 | delight in, the tragedians of the city. | delight in / the Tragedians of the City. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.334 | I was in the city? Are they so followed? | I was in the City? Are they so follow'd? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.341 | Absent thee from felicity awhile, | Absent thee from felicitie awhile, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.57 | Was parmacity for an inward bruise, | Was Parmacity, for an inward bruise: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.54 | sack a city. | Sacke a City. |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.15 | A city on th' inconstant billows dancing; | A Citie on th'inconstant Billowes dauncing: |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.19 | Before him through the city. He forbids it, | Before him, through the Citie: he forbids it, |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.33 | How many would the peaceful city quit | How many would the peacefull Citie quit, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.313 | French city for one fair French maid that stands in my | French Citie for one faire French Maid that stands in my |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.36 | They had such courage and audacity? | They had such courage and audacitie? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.11 | In yonder tower to overpeer the city, | In yonder Tower, to ouer-peere the Citie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.68 | For aught I see, this city must be famished | For ought I see, this Citie must be famisht, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.77 | Pity the city of London, pity us! | Pitty the Citie of London, pitty vs: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.1 | These are the city gates, the gates of Rouen, | These are the Citie Gates, the Gates of Roan, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.10 | Our sacks shall be a mean to sack the city, | Our Sacks shall be a meane to sack the City |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.17 | Exeunt into the city | Exeunt. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.5 | And thus he would: open your city gates, | And thus he would. Open your Citie Gates, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.5 | So, in the famous ancient city Tours, | So in the Famous Ancient City, Toures, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.48 | I tell thee, Pole, when in the city Tours | I tell thee Poole, when in the Citie Tours |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.47 | And therefore in this city will I stay, | And therefore in this Citty will I stay, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iv.53 | To spoil the city and your royal court. | To spoyle the City, and your Royall Court. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.v.5 | from the Tower to defend the city from the rebels. | from the Tower / To defend the City from the Rebels. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vi.1 | Now is Mortimer lord of this city. And here, sitting | Now is Mortimer Lord of this City, / And heere sitting |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vi.3 | of the city's cost, the Pissing Conduit run nothing | of the Cities cost / The pissing Conduit run nothing |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.126 | of the city until night; for with these borne before us, | of the Citie vntill night: / For with these borne before vs, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.67 | Ah, know you not the city favours them, | Ah, know you not the Citie fauours them, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.92 | Marched through the city to the palace gates. | Marcht through the Citie to the Pallace Gates. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.21 | Now, Warwick, wilt thou ope the city gates, | Now Warwicke, wilt thou ope the Citie Gates, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.60 | He leads his forces into the city | |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.64 | If not, the city being but of small defence, | If not, the Citie being but of small defence, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.68.1 | He leads his forces into the city | |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.73 | He leads his forces into the city | |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.31 | Saving your mincing, the capacity | (Sauing your mincing) the capacity |
| Henry VIII | H8 epilogue.5 | They'll say 'tis naught. Others to hear the city | They'l say tis naught. Others to heare the City |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.25 | With eager rods beyond their city, York; | With eager Rods beyond their Citie Yorke, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.31 | In peaceful wise upon their city walls, | In peacefull wise, vpon their Citie wals, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.45 | To yield her city for one little breach, | To yeeld her Citie for one little breach, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.171 | The mould that covers him, their city ashes; | The mould that couers him, their Citie ashes, |
| King John | KJ II.i.215 | Confronts your city's eyes, your winking gates; | Comfort yours Citties eies, your winking gates: |
| King John | KJ II.i.225 | To save unscratched your city's threatened cheeks, | To saue vnscratch'd your Citties threatned cheekes: |
| King John | KJ II.i.234 | Crave harbourage within your city walls. | Craues harbourage within your Citie walIes. |
| King John | KJ II.i.263 | Then tell us, shall your city call us lord | Then tell vs, Shall your Citie call vs Lord, |
| King John | KJ II.i.384 | The flinty ribs of this contemptuous city. | The flintie ribbes of this contemptuous Citie, |
| King John | KJ II.i.410 | Into this city's bosom. | Into this Cities bosome. |
| King John | KJ II.i.418 | Win you this city without stroke or wound, | Win you this Citie without stroke, or wound, |
| King John | KJ II.i.455.1 | As we to keep this city. | As we to keepe this Citie. |
| King John | KJ II.i.483 | To speak unto this city. What say you? | To speake vnto this Cittie: what say you? |
| King John | KJ II.i.489 | Except this city now by us besieged – | (Except this Cittie now by vs besiedg'd) |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.214 | Such is the simplicity of man to hearken after | Such is the simplicitie of man to harken after |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.22 | Twice-sod simplicity! Bis coctus! | Twice sod simplicitie, bis coctus, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.45 | God comfort thy capacity! I say, th' allusion | God comfort thy capacity, I say th'allusion |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.52 | The shape of Love's Tyburn, that hangs up simplicity. | The shape of Loues Tiburne, that hangs vp simplicitie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.247 | A wife of such wood were felicity. | A wife of such wood were felicitie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.52 | Vilely compiled, profound simplicity. | Vildly compiled, profound simplicitie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.78 | To prove, by wit, worth in simplicity. | To proue by Wit, worth in simplicitie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.376 | By light we lose light. Your capacity | By light we loose light; your capacitie |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.10 | Our city's institutions, and the terms | Our Cities Institutions, and the Termes |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.98 | in the city? | in the Citie? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.220 | the youth of the city? | the youth of the City? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.97 | A league below the city, and from thence, | A League below the Citie: and from thence, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.505 | Proclaim it, provost, round about the city, | Proclaime it Prouost round about the Citie, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.40 | But more, for that in low simplicity | But more, for that in low simplicitie |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.30 | Since that the trade and profit of the city | Since that the trade and profit of the citty |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.39 | Upon your charter and your city's freedom! | Vpon your Charter, and your Cities freedome. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.200 | description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it. | description the matter to you, if you be capacity of it. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.28 | You are a very simplicity 'oman. I pray you peace. | You are a very simplicity o'man: I pray you peace. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.171 | By the simplicity of Venus' doves, | By the simplicitie of Venus Doues, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.95 | There will we rehearse; for if we meet in the city | there we will rehearse: for if we meete in the Citie, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.215 | To leave the city and commit yourself | To leaue the Citty, and commit your selfe |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.104 | Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity | Loue therefore, and tongue-tide simplicity, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.105 | In least speak most, to my capacity. | In least, speake most, to my capacity. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.25 | of any man in the city; and though I be but a poor man, | of any man in the Citie, and though I bee but a poore man, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.8 | Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city, | Despise me / If I do not. Three Great-ones of the Cittie, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.63 | There's many a beast then in a populous city, | Ther's many a Beast then in a populous Citty, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.18 | Built up this city for his chiefest seat, | Buylt vp this Citie, for his chiefest Seat; |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.22 | A city on whom plenty held full hand, | A Cittie on whom plentie held full hand: |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.185 | I doubt not but this populous city will | I doubt not but this populous Cittie will |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.16 | Suppose him now at anchor. The city strived | Suppose him now at Anchor: the Citie striu'de |
| Pericles | Per epilogue.V.iii.13 | Of Pericles, to rage the city turn, | Of Pericles, to rage the Cittie turne, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.8 | And his enforcement of the city wives; | And his enforcement of the Citie Wiues, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.111 | That seems disgracious in the city's eye, | That seemes disgracious in the Cities eye, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.122 | That westward rooteth from this city side, | That West-ward rooteth from this City side: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.32 | All our whole city is much bound to him. | All our whole Cittie is much bound to him. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.ii.7 | Here in this city visiting the sick, | Here in this Citie visiting the sick, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.235 | Banished the new-made bridegroom from this city; | Banish'd the new-made Bridegroome from this Citie: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.89 | That, being a stranger in this city here, | That being a stranger in this Cittie heere, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.339 | First, as you know, my house within the city | First, as you know, my house within the City |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.111 | Till you have done your business in the city. | Til you haue done your businesse in the Citie: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.35 | cozen somebody in this city under my countenance. | cosen some bodie in this Citie vnder my countenance. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.116 | Scarcity and want shall shun you, | Scarcity and want shall shun you, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.230 | Imprisoned, and in scarcity of friends, | Imprison'd, and in scarsitie of Friends, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.68 | alike. Make not a City feast of it, to let the meat cool ere | alike. Make not a Citie Feast of it, to let the meat coole, ere |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.110 | Will o'er some high-viced city hang his poison | Will o're some high-Vic'd City, hang his poyson |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.352 | of the city? | of the Citie. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.ii.12 | His fellowship i'th' cause against your city, | His Fellowship i'th'cause against your City, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.19 | Transformed Timon to our city's love | Transformed Timon, to our Citties loue |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.30 | Into our city with thy banners spread. | Into our City with thy Banners spred, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.61 | Of regular justice in your city's bounds, | Of Regular Iustice in your Citties bounds, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.81 | Hereafter more. Bring me into your city, | Heereafter more. Bring me into your Citie, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.26 | Lives not this day within the city walls. | Liues not this day within the City Walles. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.78 | Why should you fear? Is not your city strong? | Why should you feare? Is not our City strong? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.15 | Their brave pavilions. Priam's six-gated city, | Their braue Pauillions. Priams six=gated City, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.302 | Now heavens forbid such scarcity of youth! | Now heauens forbid such scarsitie of youth. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.23 | For the capacity of my ruder powers. | For the capacitie of my ruder powers; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.167 | I am as true as truth's simplicity, | I am as true, as truths simplicitie, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.103 | I with great truth catch mere simplicity; | I, with great truth, catch meere simplicitie; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.211 | I wonder now how yonder city stands | I wonder now, how yonder City stands, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.10 | That, notwithstanding thy capacity | That notwithstanding thy capacitie, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.115 | this is evident to any formal capacity. There is no | this is euident to any formall capacitie. There is no |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.24 | That do renown this city. | That do renowne this City. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.36 | Most of our city did. Only myself stood out. | Most of our City did. Onely my selfe stood out, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.183 | good capacity and breeding; his employment between | good capacity, and breeding: his employment betweene |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.252 | Come I'll convey thee through the city gate; | Come, Ile conuey thee through the City-gate. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.91 | Let us into the city presently | Let vs into the City presently |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.3 | The crimes of nature, let us leave the city | The Crimes of nature; Let us leave the Citty |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.47 | Their best skill tender. Lead into the city, | Their best skill tender. Leade into the Citty, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.15 | This world's a city full of straying streets, | This world's a Citty full of straying Streetes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.36 | You tumble with audacity and manhood, | You tumble with audacity, and manhood, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.97 | She slipped away, and to the city made | She slipt away, and to the Citty made, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.50 | To hear there a proud lady and a proud city | To heare there a proud Lady, and a proud Citty |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.439 | Clear them o'th' city. For myself, I'll put | Cleare them o'th' Citie: For my selfe, Ile put |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.48 | from whose simplicity I think it not uneasy to get the | from whose simplicity, I thinke it not vneasie to get the |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.185 | Here in your city: I now came from him. | Here, in your Citie: I now came from him. |