| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.9 | sirrah. The complaints I have heard of you I do not all | sirra: the complaints I haue heard of you I do not all |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.163 | Both suffer under this complaint we bring, | Both suffer vnder this complaint we bring, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.28 | by nature nor art may complain of good breeding, or | by Nature, nor Art, may complaine of good breeding, or |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.43 | After the shepherd that complained of love, | After the Shepheard that complain'd of loue, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.37 | As much or more we should ourselves complain. | As much, or more, we should our selues complaine: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.113 | Complain unto the Duke of this indignity. | Complaine vnto the Duke of this indignity. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.121 | The former agents, if they did complain, | The former Agents, if they did complaine, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.207 | They vented their complainings; which being answered, | They vented their Complainings, which being answer'd |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.47 | the first complaint, hasty and tinder-like upon too | the first complaint, hasty and Tinder-like vppon, to |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.375 | Thou mov'st no less with thy complaining than | Thou mou'st no lesse with thy complaining, then |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.431 | The complaints I hear of thee are grievous. | The complaints I heare of thee, are grieuous. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.114 | Whereof you did complain, which, by mine honour, | Whereof you did complaine; which, by mine Honor, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.35 | There is many complaints, Davy, against that | There are many Complaints Dauy, against that |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.26 | Are every one a woe, a sore complaint | Are euery one, a Woe, a sore Complaint, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.57 | Together with the pitiful complaints | Together with the pittifull complaints |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.87 | What is that wrong whereof you both complain? | What is that wrong, wherof you both complain |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.95 | As for the Duke of York, this late complaint | As for the Duke of Yorke, this late Complaint |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.173 | On the complaint o'th' tenants. Take good heed | On the complaint o'th'Tenants; take good heed |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.1 | If you will now unite in your complaints | If you will now vnite in your Complaints, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.48 | Given ear to our complaint, of his great grace | Giuen eare to our Complaint, of his great Grace, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.99 | Grievous – complaints of you; which, being considered, | Greeuous complaints of you; which being consider'd, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.322 | Each buzz, each fancy, each complaint, dislike, | Each buz, each fancie, each complaint, dislike, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.302 | Let us complain to them what fools were here, | Let vs complaine to them what fooles were heare, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.113 | complain of? Come me to what was done to her. | complaine of? Come me to what was done to her. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.235 | you before me again upon any complaint whatsoever; | you before me againe vpon any complaint whatsoeuer; |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.171 | To whom should I complain? Did I tell this, | To whom should I complaine? Did I tell this, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.11 | of complaints, and to deliver us from devices hereafter, | of Complaints, and to deliuer vs from deuices heereafter, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.24 | Till you have heard me in my true complaint | Till you haue heard me, in my true complaint, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.114.1 | Thou cam'st here to complain. | Thou cam'st heere to complaine. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.153 | Being come to knowledge that there was complaint | Being come to knowledge, that there was complaint |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.249 | Hath set the women on to this complaint. | Hath set the women on to this Complaint; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.103 | Now, Master Shallow, you'll complain of me | Now, Master Shallow, you'll complaine of me to |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.22 | Full of vexation come I, with complaint | Full of vexation, come I, with complaint |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.19 | Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know – | Shall out-tongue his Complaints. 'Tis yet to know, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.42 | Where then, alas, may I complain myself? | Where then (alas may I) complaint my selfe? ? |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.18 | And what I want it boots not to complain. | And what I want, it bootes not to complaine. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.76 | Humbly complaining to her deity | Humbly complaining to her Deitie, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.43 | Who is it that complains unto the King | Who is it that complaines vnto the King, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.61 | But you must trouble him with lewd complaints. | But you must trouble him with lewd complaints. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.67 | I am not barren to bring forth complaints. | I am not barren to bring forth complaints: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.87 | Poor heart, adieu! I pity thy complaining. | Poore heart adieu, I pittie thy complaining. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.chorus.7 | But to his foe supposed he must complain, | But to his foe suppos'd he must complaine, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.26 | or shall I complain on thee to our mistress, whose hand | or shall I complaine on thee to our mistris, whose hand |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.39 | Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought. | Speechlesse complaynet, I will learne thy thought: |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.38 | are as lustrous as ebony. And yet complainest thou of | are as lustrous as Ebony: and yet complainest thou of |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.127 | He couples it to his complaining names. | He couples it, to his complaining Names; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.86 | Will well become such sweet complaining grievance. | Will well become such sweet complaining grieuance: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.5 | And to the nightingale's complaining notes | And to the Nightingales complaining Notes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.705 | complaint may be to the flight of my master. | Complaint may be to the flight of my Master. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.832 | complaint they have to the King concerns him nothing, | Complaint they haue to the King, concernes him nothing, |