| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.20 | Wilt thou needs be a beggar? | Wilt thou needes be a begger? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.10 | make a leg, put off's cap, kiss his hand, and say nothing, | make a legge, put off's cap, kisse his hand, and say nothing, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.11 | has neither leg, hands, lip, nor cap; and indeed such a | has neither legge, hands, lippe, nor cap; and indeed such a |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.65 | Most fruitfully. I am there before my legs. | Most fruitfully, I am there, before my legges. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.244 | He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For | He will steale sir an Egge out of a Cloister: for |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.37 | You beg a single penny more. Come, you shall | you begge a single peny more: Come you shall |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.40 | You beg more than ‘ word ’ then. Cox my passion! | You begge more then word then. Cox my passion, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.12 | But first I beg my pardon – the young lord | But first I begge my pardon: the yong Lord |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.332 | The King's a beggar, now the play is done. | THe Kings a Begger, now the Play is done, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.15 | There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. | There's beggery in the loue that can be reckon'd |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.65 | Shall die a beggar. Ink and paper, Charmian. | shall dye a Begger. Inke and paper Charmian. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.6 | Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers | Begge often our owne harmes, which the wise Powres |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.203 | It beggared all description. She did lie | It beggerd all discription, she did lye |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.72.1 | Thy modesty can beg. | Thy modestie can begge. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.59 | My grieved ear withal; whereon I begged | My greeued eare withall: whereon I begg'd |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.66 | What you require of him? For he partly begs | What you require of him: for he partly begges |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.132.2 | Cried he? And begged 'a pardon? | Cried he? and begg'd a Pardon? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.8 | The beggar's nurse and Caesar's. | The beggers Nurse, and Casars. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.16 | Would have a queen his beggar, you must tell him | Would haue a Queece his begger, you must tell him, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.18 | No less beg than a kingdom. If he please | No lesse begge then a Kingdome: If he please |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.48.1 | Worth many babes and beggars! | Worth many Babes and Beggers. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.82 | His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm | His legges bestrid the Ocean, his rear'd arme |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.199 | by the leg. | by the legge. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.2 | I care not for my spirits, if my legs were | I care not for my spirits, if my legges were |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.12 | melancholy out of a song, as a weasel sucks eggs. More, | melancholly out of a song, / As a Weazel suckes egges: More, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.26 | the beggarly thanks. Come, sing; and you that will not, | the beggerly thankes. Come sing; and you that wil not |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.36 | egg all on one side. | Egge, all on one side. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.76 | married under a bush like a beggar? Get you to church, | married vnder a bush like a begger? Get you to church, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.204 | not furnished like a beggar; therefore to beg will not | not furnish'd like a Begger, therefore to begge will not |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.41 | This fool-begged patience in thee will be left. | This foole-beg'd patience in thee will be left. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.12 | That love I begged for you, he begged of me. |
That loue I begg'd for you, he begg'd of me. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.35 | nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a beggar wont her | nay I beare it on my shoulders, as a begger woont her |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.36 | brat, and I think when he hath lamed me, I shall beg | brat: and I thinke when he hath lam'd me, I shall begge |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.115 | Our steed the leg, the tongue our trumpeter, | Our Steed the Legge, the Tongue our Trumpeter, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.79 | Refused most princely gifts, am bound to beg | refus'd most Princely gifts, / Am bound to begge |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.86.2 | O, well begged! | Oh well begg'd: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.64 | thing. You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs. | thing: you are ambitious, for poore knaues cappes and legges: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.228.1 | To th' people, beg their stinking breaths. | To th' People, begge their stinking Breaths. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.68 | the poor with begging. | the poore with begging. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.80 | voices begged. I have your alms. Adieu. | voyces begg'd: I haue your Almes, Adieu. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.115 | To beg of Hob and Dick that does appear | To begge of Hob and Dicke, that does appeere |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.158.1 | He mocked us when he begged our voices. | He mock'd vs, when he begg'd our Voyces. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.74.1 | Which they have given to beggars. | Which they haue giuen to Beggers. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.117 | The glasses of my sight! A beggar's tongue | The Glasses of my sight: A Beggars Tongue |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.124 | To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour | To begge of thee, it is my more dis-honor, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.56 | From these old arms and legs, by the good gods, | From these old armes and legges, by the good Gods |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.21 | Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends | Some tricke not worth an Egge, shall grow deere friends |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.72 | Thou took'st a beggar, wouldst have made my throne | Thou took'st a Begger, would'st haue made my / Throne, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.21 | taking a beggar without less quality. But how comes | taking a Begger without lesse quality. But how comes |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.115 | The beggary of his change: but 'tis your graces | The Beggery of his change: but 'tis your Graces' |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.118 | But brats and beggary – in self-figured knot, | But Brats and Beggery) in selfe-figur'd knot, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.96 | Be pale, I beg but leave to air this jewel: see! | Be pale, I begge but leaue to ayre this Iewell: See, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.29 | Like eggshells moved upon their surges, cracked | Like Egge-shels mou'd vpon their Surges, crack'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.11 | Your legs are young: I'll tread these flats. Consider, | Your legges are yong: Ile tread these Flats. Consider, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.120 | beggar Posthumus, thou canst not in the course of | Begger Posthumus, thou canst not in the course of |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.8 | Where they should be relieved. Two beggars told me | Where they should be releeu'd. Two Beggers told me, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.14 | Is worse in kings than beggars. My dear lord, | Is worse in Kings, then Beggers. My deere Lord, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.20 | To have begged or bought what I have took: good troth, | To haue begg'd, or bought, what I haue took: good troth |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.309 | I know the shape of's leg: this is his hand: | I know the shape of's Legge: this is his Hand: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.92 | A leg of Rome shall not return to tell | A legge of Rome shall not returne to tell |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.10.1 | But beggary and poor looks. | But beggery, and poore lookes. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.101 | I do not bid thee beg my life, good lad, | I do not bid thee begge my life, good Lad, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.262 | Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs | Then are our Beggers bodies; and our Monarchs |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.263 | and outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall | and out-stretcht Heroes the Beggers Shadowes: shall |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.272 | Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks. | Begger that I am, I am euen poore in thankes; |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.160 | We beg your hearing patiently. | We begge your hearing Patientlie. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.155 | Virtue itself of vice must pardon beg, | Vertue it selfe, of Vice must pardon begge, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.173 | I'll blessing beg of you. For this same lord, | Ile blessing begge of you. For this same Lord, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.194 | Unpeg the basket on the house's top. | Vnpegge the Basket on the houses top: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.23 | fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service – | fat King, and your leane Begger is but variable seruice |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.30 | progress through the guts of a beggar. | Progresse through the guts of a Begger. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.53 | Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.93 | Wherein necessity, of matter beggared, | Where in necessitie of matter Beggard, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.44 | kingdom. Tomorrow shall I beg leave to see your kingly | Kingdome. To morrow shall I begge leaue to see your Kingly |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.103 | That he could nothing do but wish and beg | That he could nothing doe but wish and begge, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.84 | Such-a-one's horse when 'a meant to beg it, might it | such a ones Horse, when he meant to begge it; might it |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.21 | be prologue to an egg and butter. | be Prologue to an Egge and Butter. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.115 | and a cold capon's leg? | and a cold Capons legge? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.60 | are up already, and call for eggs and butter. They will | are vp already, and call for Egges and Butter. They will |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.79 | ease our legs. | ease our Legges. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.183 | Jack, then am I no two-legg'd creature. | Iack, then am I no two-legg'd Creature. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.381 | Well, here is my leg. | Well, heere is my Legge. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.22 | Yet such extenuation let me beg | Yet such extenuation let me begge, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.39 | betwixt the legs as if they had gyves on, for indeed I had | betwixt the Legges, as if they had Gyues on; for indeede, I had |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.67 | exceeding poor and bare, too beggarly. | exceeding poore and bare, too beggarly. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.62 | To sue his livery, and beg his peace | To sue his Liuerie, and begge his Peace, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.81 | Nor moody beggars starving for a time | Nor moody Beggars, staruing for a time |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.131 | come on, how then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or | come on? How then? Can Honour set too a legge? No: or |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.35 | Did you beg any? God forbid! | Did you begge any? God forbid. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.72 | What! A young knave, and begging! Is there | What? a yong knaue and beg? Is there |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.76 | to beg than to be on the worst side, were it worse than | to begge, then to be on the worst side, were it worse then |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.23 | He had no legs that practised not his gait; | He had no Legges, that practic'd not his Gate: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.239 | Because their legs are both of a bigness, and 'a | Because their Legges are both of a bignesse: and hee |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.244 | smooth like unto the sign of the leg, and breeds no bate | smooth, like vnto the Signe of the Legge; and breedes no bate |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.35 | And countenanced by boys and beggary; | And countenanc'd by Boyes, and Beggerie: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.23 | couple of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any | couple of short-legg'd Hennes: a ioynt of Mutton, and any |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.37 | And never shall you see that I will beg | And neuer shall you see, that I will begge |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.7 | Barren, barren, barren; beggars all, beggars | Barren, barren, barren: Beggers all, beggers |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.3 | and my speech, to beg your pardons. If you look for a | And my speech, to Begge your Pardons. If you looke for a |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.18 | you command me to use my legs? And yet that were | you command me to use my Legges? And yet that were |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.171 | Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs, | Comes sneaking, and so sucks her Princely Egges, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.147 | I thought upon one pair of English legs | I thought, vpon one payre of English Legges |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.131 | hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs, | hath a heauie Reckoning to make, when all those Legges, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.249 | Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggar's knee, | Canst thou, when thou command'st the beggers knee, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.41 | Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggared host, | Bigge Mars seemes banqu'rout in their begger'd Hoast, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.129 | My lord, most humbly on my knee I beg | My Lord, most humbly on my knee I begge |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.157 | the man that has but two legs that shall find himself | the man, that ha's but two legges, that shall find himselfe |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.34 | manhood, what an arrant, rascally, beggarly, lousy knave | Manhood, what an arrant rascally, beggerly, lowsie Knaue |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.5 | Gower: the rascally, scauld, beggarly, lousy, pragging | Gower; the rascally, scauld, beggerly, lowsie, pragging |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.158 | but a ballad. A good leg will fall; a straight back will | but a Ballad; a good Legge will fall, a strait Backe will |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.38 | And I will chain these legs and arms of thine | And I will chayne these Legges and Armes of thine, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.15 | To tear the Garter from thy craven's leg, | To teare the Garter from thy Crauens legge, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.72 | I should have begged I might have been employed. | I should haue begg'd I might haue bene employd. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.v.32 | Here on my knee I beg mortality | Here on my knee I begge Mortalitie, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.131 | that could restore this cripple to his legs again? | That could restore this Cripple to his Legges againe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.143 | Well, sir, we must have you find your legs. | Well Sir, we must haue you finde your Legges. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.92 | I care not whither, for I beg no favour; | I care not whither, for I begge no fauor; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.190 | Before his legs be firm to bear his body. | Before his Legges be firme to beare his Body. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.221 | Make thee beg pardon for thy passed speech, | Make thee begge pardon for thy passed speech, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.101 | And to conclude, reproach and beggary | And to conclude, Reproach and Beggerie, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.51 | 'A must needs, for beggary is valiant. | A must needs, for beggery is valiant. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.134 | Was by a beggar-woman stolen away; | Was by a begger-woman stolne away, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.47 | Thy leg a stick compared with this truncheon; | Thy legge a sticke compared with this Truncheon, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.154 | Hath clapped his tail between his legs and cried; | Hath clapt his taile, betweene his legges and cride, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.127 | That beggars mounted run their horse to death. | That Beggers mounted, runne their Horse to death. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.104 | Your legs did better service than your hands. | Your legges did better seruice then your hands. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.154 | But when he took a beggar to his bed | But when he tooke a begger to his bed, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.42 | Ay, but she's come to beg, Warwick to give; | I, but shee's come to begge, Warwicke to giue: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.27 | I think he means to beg a child of her. | I thinke he meanes to begge a Child of her. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.63 | That love which virtue begs and virtue grants. | That loue which Vertue begges, and Vertue graunts. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.159 | To shape my legs of an unequal size; | To shape my Legges of an vnequall size, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.23 | Call Edward king, and at his hands beg mercy? | Call Edward King, and at his hands begge Mercy, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.71 | I came into the world with my legs forward. | I came into the world with my Legges forward. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.28 | Made it a fool and beggar. The two Kings, | Made it a Foole, and Begger. The two Kings |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.122 | Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book | Not wake him in his slumber. A Beggers booke, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.82 | I have been begging sixteen years in court, | I haue beene begging sixteene yeares in Court |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.83 | Am yet a courtier beggarly, nor could | (Am yet a Courtier beggerly) nor could |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.182 | Bestow your counsels on me. She now begs | Bestow your Councels on me. She now begges |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.2 | My legs, like loaden branches bow to th' earth, | My Legges like loaden Branches bow to'th'Earth, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.136 | Walk under his huge legs, and peep about | Walke vnder his huge legges, and peepe about |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.32 | And therefore think him as a serpent's egg | And therefore thinke him as a Serpents egge, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.30 | When beggars die, there are no comets seen; | When Beggers dye, there are no Comets seen, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.82 | Hath begged that I will stay at home today. | Hath begg'd, that I will stay at home to day. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.57 | To beg enfranchisement for Publius Cimber. | To begge infranchisement for Publius Cymber. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.164 | O Antony, beg not your death of us. | O Antony! Begge not your death of vs: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.261 | To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue – | To begge the voyce and vtterance of my Tongue) |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.135 | Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, | Yea, begge a haire of him for Memory, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.301 | That I was forward to have begged of thee. | That I was forwarde to haue begd of thee, |
| King John | KJ I.i.240 | Sir Robert never holp to make this leg. | Sir Robert neuer holpe to make this legge. |
| King John | KJ II.i.570 | Of kings, of beggars, old men, young men, maids – | Of kings, of beggers, old men, yong men, maids, |
| King John | KJ II.i.592 | Like a poor beggar raileth on the rich. | Like a poore begger, raileth on the rich. |
| King John | KJ II.i.593 | Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail | Well, whiles I am a begger, I will raile, |
| King John | KJ II.i.596 | To say there is no vice but beggary. | To say there is no vice, but beggerie: |
| King John | KJ V.vii.42 | I beg cold comfort; and you are so strait | I begge cold comfort: and you are so straight |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.153 | they'll be snatching. Nuncle, give me an egg and | Nunckle, giue me an egge, and |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.156 | Why, after I have cut the egg i'the middle and eat | Why after I haue cut the egge i'th'middle and eate |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.157 | up the meat, the two crowns of the egg. When thou | vp the meate, the two Crownes of the egge: when thou |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.244 | By her that else will take the thing she begs, | By her, that else will take the thing she begges, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.14 | proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, | proud, shallow, beggerly, three-suited-hundred pound, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.19 | composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and | composition of a Knaue, Begger, Coward, Pandar, and |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.14 | Of Bedlam beggars, who, with roaring voices, | Of Bedlam beggers, who with roaring voices, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.150 | Age is unnecessary; on my knees I beg | Age is vnnecessary: on my knees I begge, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.259 | O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars | O reason not the need: our basest Beggers |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.30 | So beggars marry many. | so Beggers marry many. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.105 | Go thou. I'll fetch some flax and whites of eggs | |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.29.2 | Is it a beggar-man? | Is it a Beggar-man? |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.30 | Madman and beggar too. | Madman, and beggar too. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.51 | Thou'dst shivered like an egg; but thou dost breathe, | Thou'dst shiuer'd like an Egge: but thou do'st breath: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.65 | Up – so. How is't? Feel you your legs? You stand. | Vp, so: How is't? Feele you your Legges? You stand. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.68.2 | A poor unfortunate beggar. | A poore vnfortunate Beggar. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.156 | beggar? | Beggar? |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.189 | Led him, begged for him, saved him from despair, | Led him, begg'd for him, sau'd him from dispaire. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.105 | Beggar? | Begger? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.69 | beggar Zenelophon, and he it was that might rightly | Begger Zenelophon: and he it was that might rightly |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.74 | see? To overcome. To whom came he? To the beggar. | did he see? to ouercome. To whom came he? to the Begger. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.75 | What saw he? The beggar. Who overcame he? The beggar. | What saw he? the Begger. Who ouercame he? the Begger. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.77 | captive is enriched. On whose side? The beggar's. The | captiue is inricht: On whose side? the Beggers. The |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.80 | the comparison, thou the beggar, for so witnesseth thy | the comparison) thou the Begger, for so witnesseth thy |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.184.1 | A leg, a limb – | a legge, a limme. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.69 | purse of wit, thou pigeon-egg of discretion. O, an the | purse of wit, thou Pidgeon-egge of discretion. O & the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.62 | How I would make him fawn, and beg, and seek, | How I would make him fawne, and begge, and seeke, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.210 | Thou biddest me beg; this begging is not strange. | Thou bidst me begge, this begging is not strange. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.217.2 | But your legs should do it. | But your legges should doe it. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.637 | His leg is too big for Hector's. | His legge is too big for Hector. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.644 | A gilt nutmeg. | A gilt Nutmegge. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.59 | Speak then to me who neither beg nor fear | Speake then to me, who neyther begge, nor feare |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.37 | for him, though he took up my legs sometime, yet I | for him, though he tooke vp my Legges sometime, yet I |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.90.1 | And beggared yours for ever? | and begger'd / Yours for euer? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.17 | Lizard's leg and howlet's wing, | Lizards legge, and Howlets wing: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.83.2 | What, you egg, | What you Egge? |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.33 | And more I beg not. | And more I begge not. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.35 | Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms | Becomes as aged, and doth begge the almes |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.89 | the state, and usurp the beggary he was never born to. | the State, and vsurpe the beggerie hee was neuer borne to: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.119 | Who? Not the Duke? Yes, your beggar of fifty, | Who, not the Duke? Yes, your beggar of fifty: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.172 | yet, and I say to thee, he would mouth with a beggar, | yet (and I say to thee) hee would mouth with a beggar, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.11 | which now peaches him a beggar. Then have we here | which now peaches him a beggar. Then haue we heere, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.19 | Lean, rent, and beggared by the strumpet wind. | Leane, rent, and begger'd by the strumpet winde? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.42 | a beggar that was used to come so smug upon the mart! | a begger that was vsd to come so smug vpon the Mart: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.437 | You teach me how a beggar should be answered. | You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.164 | A prating boy that begged it as a fee; | A prating boy that begg'd it as a Fee, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.180 | Unto the judge that begged it, and indeed | Vnto the Iudge that beg'd it, and indeede |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.182 | That took some pains in writing, he begged mine, | That tooke some paines in writing, he begg'd mine, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.212 | And begged the ring, the which I did deny him, | And beg'd the Ring; the which I did denie him, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.221 | Had you been there I think you would have begged | Had you bene there, I thinke you would haue beg'd |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.27 | With eggs, sir? | With Egges, Sir? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.21 | Hence, you longlegged spinners, hence! | Hence you long leg'd Spinners, hence: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.57 | And she in mild terms begged my patience, | And she in milde termes beg'd my patience, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.53 | Of learning, late deceased in beggary. | of learning, late deceast in beggerie. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.13 | With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and | With a good legge, and a good foot vnckle, and |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.27 | not marriage honourable in a beggar? Is not your lord | not marriage honourable in a beggar? is not your Lord |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.130 | Took up a beggar's issue at my gates, | Tooke vp a beggars issue at my gates, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.24 | hath legs. | hath legges. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.194 | But I'll set down the pegs that make this music, | But Ile set downe the peggs that make this Musicke, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.181 | Those legs that brought me to a part of it. | Those legges, that brought me to a part of it. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.119 | He called her whore: a beggar in his drink | He call'd her whore: a Begger in his drinke: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.157 | To beggarly divorcement – love him dearly, | To beggerly diuorcement) Loue him deerely, |
| Othello | Oth V.i.72.1 | My leg is cut in two. | My Legge is cut in two. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.227.1 | He begged of me to steal it. | He begg'd of me, to steale't. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.62 | He asks of you that never used to beg. | Hee askes of you, that neuer vs'd to begge. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.63 | No, friend, cannot you beg? Here's | No friend, cannot you begge? Heer's |
| Pericles | Per II.i.64 | them in our country of Greece gets more with begging | them in our countrey of Greece, / Gets more with begging, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.90 | Why, are your beggars whipped then? | Why, are you Beggers whipt then? |
| Pericles | Per II.i.92 | all your beggars were whipped, I would wish no better | all your Beggers were whipt, I would wish no better |
| Pericles | Per II.i.137 | To beg of you, kind friends, this coat of worth, | To begge of you (kind friends) this Coate of worth, |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.22 | your resorters stand upon sound legs. How now, wholesome | your resorters stand vpon sound legges, how now? wholsome |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.140 | I did confess it, and exactly begged | I did confesse it, and exactly begg'd |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.189 | Or with pale beggar-fear impeach my height | Or with pale beggar-feare impeach my hight |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.89 | Why have those banished and forbidden legs | Why haue these banish'd, and forbidden Legges, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.113 | Than for his lineal royalties, and to beg | Then for his Lineall Royalties, and to begge |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.175 | You make a leg, and Bolingbroke says ‘ Ay.’ | You make a Legge, and Bullingbrooke sayes I. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.7 | My legs can keep no measure in delight | My Legges can keepe no measure in Delight, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.301 | How to lament the cause. I'll beg one boon, | How to lament the cause. Ile begge one Boone, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.308 | Being so great, I have no need to beg. | Being so great, I haue no neede to begge. |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.114 | And beg thy pardon ere he do accuse thee. | And begge thy pardon, ere he do accuse thee, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.77 | A beggar begs that never begged before. | A Begger begs, that neuer begg'd before. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.79 | And now changed to ‘ The Beggar and the King.’ | And now chang'd to the Begger, and the King. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.25 | Nor shall not be the last; like seely beggars, | Nor shall not be the last. Like silly Beggars, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.33 | Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar; | Then Treason makes me wish my selfe a Beggar, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.42 | And spurn upon thee, beggar, for thy boldness. | And spurne vpon thee Begger for thy boldnesse. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.178 | And humbly beg the death upon my knee. | And humbly begge the death vpon my knee, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.251 | My dukedom to a beggarly denier | My Dukedome, to a Beggerly denier! |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.88 | came hither on my legs. | came hither on my Legges. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.122 | Faith, some certain dregs of conscience | Some certaine dregges of conscience |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.142 | restore a purse of gold that by chance I found. It beggars | restore a Pursse of Gold that (by chance) I found: It beggars |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.263 | Would not entreat for life? As you would beg | Would not intreat for life, as you would begge |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.270 | A begging prince what beggar pities not? | A begging Prince, what begger pitties not. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.39 | Be he unto me! This do I beg of God, | Be he vnto me: This do I begge of heauen, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.132 | Yet none of you would once beg for his life. | Yet none of you, would once begge for his life. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.112 | A beggar, brother? | A Begger, Brother? |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.119 | In weightier things you'll say a beggar nay. | In weightier things you'le say a Begger nay. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.114 | Betwixt thy begging and my meditation. | |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.53 | Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. | Delay leds impotent and Snaile-pac'd Beggery: |
| Richard III | R3 V.i.22 | And given in earnest what I begged in jest. | And giuen in earnest, what I begg'd in iest. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.330 | These famished beggars, weary of their lives, | These famish'd Beggers, weary of their liues, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.14 | When King Cophetua loved the beggar maid. | When King Cophetua lou'd the begger Maid, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.32 | They are but beggars that can count their worth. | They are but beggers that can count their worth, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.22 | quarrels as an egg is full of meat; and yet thy head hath | quarrels, as an egge is full of meat, and yet thy head hath |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.23 | been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling. Thou | bin beaten as addle as an egge for quarreling: thou |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.45 | A beggarly account of empty boxes, | A beggerly account of emptie boxes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.56 | Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut. | Being holy day, the beggers shop is shut. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.71 | Contempt and beggary hangs upon thy back. | Contempt and beggery hangs vpon thy backe: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.0 | Enter Christopher Sly and the Hostess | Enter Begger and Hostes, Christophero Sly. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.39 | Would not the beggar then forget himself? | Would not the begger then forget himselfe? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.121 | No better than a poor and loathsome beggar. | No better then a poore and loathsome begger: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.9 | backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes | backes: no more stockings then legges: nor no more shooes |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.64 | To comb your noddle with a three-legged stool, | To combe your noddle with a three-legg'd stoole, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.55 | near-legged before, and with a half-cheeked | neere leg'd before, and with a halfe-chekt |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.83 | legs, and not presume to touch a hair of my master's | legges, and not presume to touch a haire of my Masters |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.123 | The rest were ragged, old, and beggarly. | The rest were ragged, old, and beggerly, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.4 | Beggars that come unto my father's door | Beggers that come vnto my fathers doore, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.31 | When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, | when they will not giue a doit to relieue a lame Begger, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.32 | they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legged like a | they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian: Leg'd like a |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.40 | will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past. | will here shrowd till the dregges of the storme be past. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.59 | four legs. For it hath been said, ‘ As proper a man as | foure legges: for it hath bin said; as proper a man as |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.88 | Four legs and two voices – a most delicate | Foure legges and two voyces; a most delicate |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.102 | thee by the lesser legs. If any be Trinculo's legs, these | thee by the lesser legges: if any be Trinculo's legges, these |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.142 | Mine heir from forth the beggars of the world, | Mine heyre from forth the Beggers of the world, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.194 | To show him what a beggar his heart is, | To shew him what a Begger his heart is, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.237 | I doubt whether their legs be worth the sums | I doubt whether their Legges be worth the summes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.238 | That are given for 'em. Friendship's full of dregs. | that are giuen for 'em. / Friendships full of dregges, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.239 | Methinks false hearts should never have sound legs. | Me thinkes false hearts, should neuer haue sound legges. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.5 | If I want gold, steal but a beggar's dog | If I want Gold, steale but a beggers Dogge, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.77 | What charitable men afford to beggars. | What charitable men affoord to Beggers. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.44 | me I was so unfortunate a beggar. | me, I was so vnfortunate a Beggar. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.80 | Senators of Athens, together with the common leg of people – | Senators of Athens, together with the common legge of People, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.13 | A dedicated beggar to the air, | A dedicated Beggar to the Ayre, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.9 | Raise me this beggar and deject that lord – | Raise me this Begger, and deny't that Lord, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.11 | The beggar native honour. | The Begger Natiue Honor. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.243 | Wert thou not beggar. Willing misery | Wert thou not Beggar: willing misery |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.274 | To some she-beggar and compounded thee | To some shee-Begger, and compounded thee |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.358 | be welcome. I had rather be a beggar's dog than | be welcome. / I had rather be a Beggers Dogge, / Then |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.490 | I beg of you to know me, good my lord, | I begge of you to know me, good my Lord, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.532 | Ere thou relieve the beggar. Give to dogs | Ere thou releeue the Begger. Giue to dogges |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.310 | That saidst I begged the empire at thy hands. | That said'st, I beg'd the Empire at thy hands. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.170 | For 'tis not life that I have begged so long. | For 'tis not life that I haue beg'd so long, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.172 | What begg'st thou then, fond woman? Let me go! | What beg'st thou then? fond woman let me go? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.41 | As begging hermits in their holy prayers. | As begging Hermits in their holy prayers. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.18 | have no legs. | haue no legges. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.133 | I esteem an addle egg. | I esteeme an addle egge. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.134 | If you love an addle egg as well as you love an | If you loue an addle egge as well as you loue an |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.92 | Beggar the estimation which you prized | Begger the estimation which you priz'd, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.105 | his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure. | His legge are legs for necessitie, not for flight. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.143 | As misers do by beggars, neither gave to me | as mysers doe by beggars, / Neither gaue to me |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.269 | professes not answering; speaking is for beggars; he | professes not answering; speaking is for beggers: he |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.48.3 | Why, beg then. | Why begge then? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.126 | And this is Trojan; the sinews of this leg | And this is Troian: the sinewes of this Legge, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.33 | Finch-egg! | Finch Egge. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.53 | in a chain, hanging at his brother's leg – to what form | in a chaine, hanging at his Brothers legge, to what forme |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.125 | the excellent constitution of thy leg it was formed under | the excellent constitution of thy legge, it was form'd vnder |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.132 | No, sir, it is legs and thighs. Let me see thee | No sir, it is leggs and thighes: let me see thee |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.19 | I had rather than forty shillings I had such a leg, and so | I had rather then forty shillings I had such a legge, and so |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.150 | his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure of his eye, | his legge, the manner of his gate, the expressure of his eye, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.160 | my yellow stockings of late, she did praise my leg being | my yellow stockings of late, shee did praise my legge being |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.8 | So thou mayst say the king lies by a beggar, if a | So thou maist say the Kings lyes by a begger, if a |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.9 | beggar dwell near him; or the Church stands by thy | begger dwell neer him: or the Church stands by thy |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.52 | I understand you, sir; 'tis well begged. | I vnderstand you sir, tis well begg'd. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.53 | The matter, I hope, is not great, sir, begging but a | The matter I hope is not great sir; begging, but a |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.54 | beggar – Cressida was a beggar. My lady is within, sir. | begger: Cressida was a begger. My Lady is within sir. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.76 | Taste your legs, sir; put them to motion. | Taste your legges sir, put them to motion. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.77 | My legs do better under-stand me, sir, than I | My legges do better vnderstand me sir, then I |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.3 | For youth is bought more oft than begged or borrowed. | For youth is bought more oft, then begg'd, or borrow'd. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.26 | legs. It did come to his hands; and commands shall be | legges: It did come to his hands, and Commaunds shall be |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.169 | this letter move him not, his legs cannot. I'll give't him. | this Letter moue him not, his legges cannot: Ile giu't him. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.60 | When your young nephew Titus lost his leg. | When your yong Nephew Titus lost his legge; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.24 | to speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. You were | to speake puling, like a beggar at Hallow-Masse: You were |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.156 | Rinsing our holy begging in our eyes | Wrinching our holy begging in our eyes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.97 | When that his action's dregged with mind assured | When that his actions dregd, with minde assurd |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.74 | He wrestle? He roast eggs! Come, let's be gone, lads. | He wrastle? he rost eggs. Come lets be gon Lads. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.143 | Was begged and banished, this is he contemns thee | Was begd and banish'd, this is he contemnes thee |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.238 | For now I am set a-begging, sir, I am deaf | (For now I am set a begging Sir, I am deafe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.266 | No, never, Duke; 'tis worse to me than begging | No, never Duke: Tis worse to me than begging |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.9 | Begged with such handsome pity that the Duke | Begd with such hansom pitty, that the Duke |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.26 | Why, as it should be; they that never begged | Why, as it should be; they that nev'r begd |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.76 | He kept him 'tween his legs, on his hind hooves | He kept him tweene his legges, on his hind hoofes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.78 | That Arcite's legs, being higher than his head, | That Arcites leggs being higher then his head |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.130 | Almost as like as eggs. Women say so, | Almost as like as Egges; Women say so, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.161 | Will you take eggs for money? | Will you take Egges for Money? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.87 | Betwixt the prince and beggar. I have said | Betwixt the Prince and Begger:) I haue said |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.148 | So to esteem of us; and on our knees we beg, | So to esteeme of vs: and on our knees we begge, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.45 | none, that's out of my note; nutmegs, seven; a race or | none: that's out of my note: Nutmegges, seuen; a Race or |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.46 | two of ginger, but that I may beg; four pound of prunes, | two of Ginger, but that I may begge: Foure pound of Prewyns, |