| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.203 | I am so full of businesses I cannot answer thee | I am so full of businesses, I cannot answere thee |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.62 | Helena addresses the Lords | She addresses her to a Lord. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.5 | Nothing acquainted with these businesses, | Nothing acquainted with these businesses, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.84 | I have tonight dispatched sixteen businesses a | I haue to night dispatch'd sixteene businesses, a |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.245 | rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes | rapes and rauishments he paralels Nessus. Hee professes |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.4.2 | Gods and goddesses, | Gods, & Goddesses, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.51 | to reason of such goddesses and hath sent this natural | to reason of such goddesses, hath sent this Naturall |
| As You Like It | AYL II.ii.11 | Confesses that she secretly o'erheard | Confesses that she secretly ore-heard |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.5 | Some other give me thanks for kindnesses. | Some other giue me thankes for kindnesses; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.318 | All these old witnesses, I cannot err, | All these old witnesses, I cannot erre. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.7 | Lead their successes as we wish our own, | Leade their successes, as we wish our owne, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.42 | In our well-found successes to report | In our well-found Successes, to report |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.54 | where each of us fell in praise of our country mistresses; | where each of vs fell in praise of our Country-Mistresses. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.48 | Where folly now possesses? Do thou work: | Where Folly now possesses? Do thou worke: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.22 | He is one of the noblest note, to whose kindnesses | He is one of the Noblest note, to whose kindnesses |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.295 | But, soft! No bedfellow! O gods and goddesses! | But soft; no Bedfellow? Oh Gods, and Goddesses! |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.65 | With windlasses and with assays of bias, | With windlesses, and with assaies of Bias, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.66 | I take your princely word for these redresses. | I take your Princely word, for these redresses. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.3 | Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, | Brandish your crystall Tresses in the Skie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iv.6 | To your obedience fifty fortresses, | To your obedience, fiftie Fortresses, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.17 | Of divers witnesses, which the Duke desired | Of diuers witnesses, which the Duke desir'd |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.55 | To taint that honour every good tongue blesses, | To taint that honour euery good Tongue blesses; |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.14 | crowned with an earl's coronet. Collars of Esses | Crowned with an Earles Coronet. Collars of Esses. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.18 | of marshalship, a coronet on his head. Collars of Esses | of Marshalship, a Coronet on his head. Collars of Esses. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.25 | 10. Certain Ladies or Countesses, with plain circlets | 10 Certaine Ladies or Countesses, with plaine Circlets |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.53 | It is, and all the rest are countesses. | It is, and all the rest are Countesses. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.62 | The burgesses of Calais, mighty prince, | The Burgesses of Callis mighty king, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.66 | It was delivered me at Crécy's field | It was deliuered me at Cresses field, |
| King John | KJ II.i.274 | And if not that, I bring you witnesses, | And if not that, I bring you Witnesses |
| King John | KJ III.iv.61 | Bind up those tresses! O, what love I note | Binde vp those tresses: O what loue I note |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.158 | A thousand businesses are brief in hand, | A thousand businesses are briefe in hand, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.74 | Which the most precious square of sense possesses, | Which the most precious square of sense professes, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.117 | Or he that makes his generation messes | Or he that makes his generation messes |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.205 | Would not 'scape censure, nor the redresses sleep; | Would not scape censure, nor the redresses sleepe, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.126 | Your needful counsel to our businesses, | Your needfull counsaile to our businesses, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.61 | mowing, who since possesses chambermaids and | |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.21 | A mistress's command. Wear this; (giving a favour) spare speech. | A Mistresses command. Weare this; spare speech, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.225 | By her is poisoned; she confesses it. | By her is poyson'd: she confesses it. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.64 | When mistresses from common sense are hid; | When Mistresses from common sense are hid. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.268 | Your mistresses dare never come in rain, | Your mistresses dare neuer come in raine, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.286 | Madam, and pretty mistresses, give ear: | Madam, and prettie mistresses giue eare, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.188.1 | To doff their dire distresses. | To doffe their dire distresses. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.37 | The day almost itself professes yours, | The day almost it selfe professes yours, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.51 | Stands at a guard with envy, scarce confesses | Stands at a guard with Enuie: scarce confesses |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.63 | plucked down in the suburbs, and now she professes a | pluckt downe in the Suborbs: and now shee professes a |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.232 | He professes to have received no sinister measure | He professes to haue receiued no sinister measure |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.199 | chambers, and in the coffers, and in the presses, heaven | chambers, and in the coffers, and in the presses: heauen |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.107 | John Falstaff from my two mistresses. What a beast am | Iohn Falstaffe from my two Mistresses: what a beast am |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.117 | witness; bear it coldly but till midnight, and let the | witnesses, beare it coldly but till night, and let the |
| Othello | Oth I.i.144 | Belief of it oppresses me already. | Beleefe of it oppresses me alreadie. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.258 | Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, | Though that her Iesses were my deere heart-strings, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.180 | Throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth | Throw your vilde gesses in the Diuels teeth, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.199 | I will chop her into messes! Cuckold me! | I will chop her into Messes: Cuckold me? |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.177 | For what thou professest, a baboon, could he speak, | for what thou professest, a Baboone could he |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.1.1 | Enter on one side Thaisa and virgin priestesses of | |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.123.2 | addresses the combatants | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.93 | That presses them and learns them first to bear, | That presses them, and learnes them first to beare, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.19 | Ah, my mistresses, which of you all | Ah my Mistresses, which of you all |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.110 | But O, it presses to my memory | But oh, it presses to my memory, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.313 | Amen, say we. We will be witnesses. | Amen say we, we will be witnesses. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.91 | the priest, clerk, and some sufficient honest witnesses. | the Priest, Clarke, and some sufficient honest witnesses: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.202 | What a strange drowsiness possesses them! | What a strange drowsines possesses them? |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.240 | Professes to persuade – the King his son's alive, | Professes to perswade) the King his sonne's aliue, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.21 | kindnesses from him, as money, plate, jewels, and suchlike | kindnesses from him, as Money, Plate, Iewels, and such like |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.383.1 | He addresses the gold | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.77 | Grave witnesses of true experience, | Graue witnesses of true experience, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.269 | professes not answering; speaking is for beggars; he | professes not answering; speaking is for beggers: he |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.43 | patched: virtue that transgresses is but patched with | patch'd: vertu that transgresses, is but patcht with |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.342 | As to upbraid you with those kindnesses | As to vpbraid you with those kindnesses |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.135 | If I do feign, you witnesses above, | If I do feigne, you witnesses aboue |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.6 | Tune my distresses, and record my woes. | Tune my distrestes, and record my woes. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.1.3 | after Hymen, a nymph, encompassed in her tresses, | After Hymen, a Nimph, encompast in her Tresses, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.1.7 | holding a garland over her head, her tresses likewise | holding a Garland over her head (her Tresses likewise |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.32 | For us and our distresses! This good deed | For us, and our distresses: This good deede |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.63 | Not Juno's mantle fairer then your tresses, | Not Iunos Mantle fairer then your Tresses, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.63 | A most unbounded tyrant, whose successes | A most unbounded Tyrant, whose successes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.55 | Your question's with your equal, who professes | Your question's with your equall, who professes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.83 | Was knee-deep where she sat; her careless tresses | Was knee deepe where she sat; her careles Tresses, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.227 | Of headpiece extraordinary? Lower messes | Of Head-peece extraordinarie? Lower Messes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.39.1 | That presses him from sleep. | That presses him from sleepe. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.53 | And I beseech you hear me, who professes | And I beseech you heare me, who professes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.14 | made me businesses which none without thee can | made me Businesses, (which none (without thee) can |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.92 | He hath been since an ape-bearer; then a process-server, | he hath bene since an Ape-bearer, then a Processe-seruer |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.72 | The hostess-ship o'th' day. (To Camillo) You're welcome, sir. | The Hostesseship o'th' day: you're welcome sir. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.114.1 | Become your time of day – (to the Shepherdesses) | Become your time of day: and yours, and yours, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.168.1 | Music. A dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses | Heere a Daunce of Shepheards and Shephearddesses. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.210 | over as they were gods or goddesses; you would think a | ouer, as they were Gods, or Goddesses: you would thinke a |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.281 | Five justices' hands at it, and witnesses more | Fiue Iustices hands at it, and witnesses more |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.387.1 | Contract us 'fore these witnesses. | Contract vs fore these Witnesses. |