| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.6 | make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of | make foule the clearnesse of our deseruings, when of |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.313 | If she, my liege, can make me know this clearly | If she my Liege can make me know this clearly, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.113 | In our own filth drop our clear judgements, make us | In our owne filth, drop our cleare iudgements, make vs |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.122 | To make it clear, but do confess I have | To make it cleare, but do confesse I haue |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.160 | wrestler shall clear all. Nothing remains but that I | wrastler shall cleare all: nothing remaines, but that I |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.57 | Gaze where you should, and that will clear your sight. | Gaze when you should, and that will cleere your sight. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.62 | Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart, | Mine eies cleere eie, my deere hearts deerer heart; |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.45 | All other doubts, by time let them be cleared, | All other doubts, by time let them be cleer'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.96 | You do not understand yourself so clearly | You doe not vnderstand your selfe so cleerely, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.19 | clear of our ship. So I alone became their prisoner. They | cleare of our Shippe, so I alone became their Prisoner. They |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.19 | Quit all offences with as clear excuse | Quit all offences with as cleare excuse, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.50 | to me, and I in the clear sky of fame o'ershine | to me; and I, in the cleare Skie of Fame, o're-shine |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.86 | So that, as clear as is the summer's sun, | So, that as cleare as is the Summers Sunne, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.51 | Go, clear thy crystals. Yoke-fellows in arms, | Goe, cleare thy Chrystalls. Yoke-fellowes in Armes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.85 | With those clear rays which she infused on me | With those cleare Rayes, which shee infus'd on me, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.89 | See the coast cleared, and then we will depart. | See the Coast clear'd, and then we will depart. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.23 | So clear, so shining, and so evident, | So cleare, so shining, and so euident, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.42 | Thy father's charge shall clear thee from that stain. | Thy Fathers charge shal cleare thee from yt staine. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.106 | Yes, master, clear as day, I thank God and | Yes Master, cleare as day, I thanke God and |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.102 | As I am clear from treason to my sovereign. | As I am cleare from Treason to my Soueraigne. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.140 | That you will clear yourself from all suspense; | That you will cleare your selfe from all suspence, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.80 | Enter some rebels with the Clerk of Chartham | Enter a Clearke. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.80 | The clerk of Chartham; he can write and read and | The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.102 | Exit one with the Clerk | Exit one with the Clearke |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.66 | Large gifts have I bestowed on learned clerks, | Large gifts haue I bestow'd on learned Clearkes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.3 | Ring, bells, aloud; burn bonfires clear and bright, | Ring Belles alowd, burne Bonfires cleare and bright |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.28 | But severed in a pale clear-shining sky. | But seuer'd in a pale cleare-shining Skye. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.183 | That I am clear from this misdeed of Edward's, | That I am cleere from this misdeed of Edwards; |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.154 | And proofs as clear as founts in July when | And proofes as cleere as Founts in Iuly, when |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.226 | By darkening my clear sun. My lord, farewell. | By Darkning my cleere Sunne. My Lords farewell. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.167 | And thus far clear him. Now, what moved me to't, | And thus farre cleare him. / Now, what mou'd me too't, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.96 | This candle burns not clear; 'tis I must snuff it, | This Candle burnes not cleere, 'tis I must snuffe it, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.65 | Cast none away. That I shall clear myself, | Cast none away: That I shall cleere my selfe, |
| Henry VIII | H8 epilogue.4 | We've frighted with our trumpets; so, 'tis clear, | W'haue frighted with our Trumpets: so 'tis cleare, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.170 | Either to clear us of that scandalous crime, | Either to cleere vs of that scandalous cryme, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.122 | In this which he accounts so clearly won. | In this which he accounts so cleareIy wonne: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.108 | So foul a sky clears not without a storm; | So foule a skie, cleeres not without a storme, |
| King John | KJ V.v.7 | And wound our tottering colours clearly up, | And woon'd our tott'ring colours clearly vp, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.140 | As clears her from all blame. | As cleeres her from all blame. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.73 | Think that the clearest gods, who make them honours | Thinke that the cleerest Gods, who make them Honors |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.69.2 | Only look up clear: | Onely looke vp cleare: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.18 | So clear in his great office, that his virtues | So cleere in his great Office, that his Vertues |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.28 | My bosom franchised and allegiance clear, | My Bosome franchis'd, and Allegeance cleare, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.67 | A little water clears us of this deed; | A little Water cleares vs of this deed. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.132 | That I require a clearness; and with him, | That I require a clearenesse; and with him, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.61 | Were I from Dunsinane away and clear, | Were I from Dunsinane away, and cleere, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.203 | away, it is almost clear dawn. | away, it is almost cleere dawne. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.150 | Well, he in time may come to clear himself, | Well: he in time may come to cleere himselfe; |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.157 | And all probation will make up full clear, | And all probation will make vp full cleare |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.134 | How to get clear of all the debts I owe. | How to get cleere of all the debts I owe. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.42 | Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour | Were not deriu'd corruptly, and that cleare honour |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.318 | I should live, all debts are cleared between you and I if I | I should liue, all debts are cleerd betweene you and I, if I |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.143 | In faith, I gave it to the judge's clerk. | Infaith I gaue it to the Iudges Clearke, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.157 | Gave it a judge's clerk! No, God's my judge, | Gaue it a Iudges Clearke: but wel I know |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.158 | The clerk will ne'er wear hair on's face that had it! | The Clearke wil nere weare haire on's face that had it. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.163 | No higher than thyself, the judge's clerk, | No higher then thy selfe, the Iudges Clearke, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.181 | Deserved it too; and then the boy, his clerk | Deseru'd it too: and then the Boy his Clearke |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.109 | clear, why, I am glad of it. But if you have a friend here, | cleere, why I am glad of it: but if you haue a friend here, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.53 | Thou art clerkly, thou art clerkly, Sir John. Was | Thou are clearkly: thou art clearkly (Sir Iohn) was |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.29 | By fountain clear or spangled starlight sheen – | By fountaine cleere, or spangled star-light sheene, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.60 | Yet you, the murderer, look as bright, as clear, | Yet you the murderer looks as bright as cleare, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.93 | Where I have come, great clerks have purposed | Where I haue come, great Clearkes haue purposed |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.139 | Hath puddled his clear spirit; and in such cases | Hath pudled his cleare Spirit: and in such cases, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.100 | The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear | The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see cleare: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.142 | Then, lest my life be cropped to keep you clear, | Then least my life be cropt, to keepe you cleare, |
| Pericles | Per III.i.49 | ship be cleared of the dead. | Ship / Be cleard of the dead. |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.103 | Persever in that clear way thou goest, | perseuer in that cleare way thou goest |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.5 | Deep clerks she dumbs, and with her neele composes | Deepe clearks she dumb's, and with her neele compo-ses, |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.12 | Where, by her own most clear remembrance, she | where by her owne most cleere remembrance, shee |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.69 | The sun not yet thy sighs from heaven clears. | The Sun not yet thy sighes, from heauen cleares, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.217 | Till we can clear these ambiguities | Till we can cleare these ambiguities, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.172 | Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear | Say that she frowne, Ile say she lookes as cleere |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.83 | And a clear life ensuing. | And a cleere life ensuing. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.68 | Their clearer reason. O good Gonzalo, | Their cleerer reason. O good Gonzallo |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.231 | I cleared him with five talents. Greet him from me. | I cleer'd him with fiue Talents: Greet him from me, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.31 | end the villainies of man will set him clear. How fairly | end, the Villanies of man will set him cleere. How fairely |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.77.1 | And make a clear way to the gods. | And make a cleere way to the Gods. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.39.2 | You cannot make gross sins look clear: | You cannot make grosse sinnes looke cleare, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.28 | Roots, you clear heavens! Thus much of this will make | Roots you cleere Heauens. Thus much of this will make |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.266 | Clear up, fair queen, that cloudy countenance; | Cleere vp Faire Queene that cloudy countenance, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.128 | Till the fresh taste be taken from that clearness | Till the fresh taste be taken from that cleerenes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.152 | Your mind is the clearer, Ajax, and your | Your minde is the cleerer Aiax, and your |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.310 | Would the fountain of your mind were clear | Would the Fountaine of your minde were cleere |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.107 | Crack my clear voice with sobs, and break my heart | Cracke my cleere voyce with sobs, and breake my heart |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.165 | But that's no welcome: understand more clear, | But that's no welcome: vnderstand more cleere |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.223 | quarrel to me. My remembrance is very free and clear | quarrell to me: my remembrance is very free and cleere |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.4 | be clear of thee. | be cleere of thee. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.279 | From my remembrance clearly banished his. | From my remembrance, clearly banisht his. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.334 | Why you have given me such clear lights of favour? | Why you haue giuen me such cleare lights of fauour, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.31 | Of clear virginity, be advocate | Of cleere virginity, be Advocate |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.157.1 | To make petition clear. | To make petition cleere. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.74.2 | Clear-spirited cousin, | Cleere spirited Cozen |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.56 | To clear his own way with the mind and sword | To cleare his owne way, with the minde and Sword |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.18.3 | Palamon has cleared you, | Palamon has cleerd you, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.13 | For we are more clear spirits. My dear kinsmen, | For we are more cleare Spirits. My deare kinsemen. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.74 | Boldly ‘ Not guilty,’ the imposition cleared | Boldly, not guilty; the Imposition clear'd, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.343 | Go then; and, with a countenance as clear | Goe then; and with a countenance as cleare |
| 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 II.i.97 | When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that | When you shall come to clearer knowledge, that |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.143.1 | Can clear me in't. | Can cleare me in't. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.i.18 | Will clear or end the business. When the oracle, | Will cleare, or end the Businesse, when the Oracle |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.4 | Of us too much beloved. Let us be cleared | Of vs too much belou'd. Let vs be clear'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.616 | So soon as you arrive, shall clear that doubt. | So soone as you arriue, shall cleare that doubt. |