| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.27 | He was excellent indeed, madam. The King very | He was excellent indeed Madam, the King very |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.44 | There was excellent command: to charge in with our | There was excellent command, to charge in with our |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.205 | Excellently. | Excellently. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.280 | evil. He excels his brother for a coward, yet his brother | euill. He excels his Brother for a coward, yet his Brother |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.40.2 | Excellent falsehood! | Excellent falshood: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.27 | Good now, some excellent fortune! Let me | Good now some excellent Fortune: Let mee |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.33 | O, excellent! I love long life better than figs. | Oh excellent, I loue long life better then Figs. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.79 | Of excellent dissembling, and let it look | Of excellent dissembling, and let it looke |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.14 | Indeed, he plied them both with excellent praises. | Indeed he plied them both with excellent praises. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.25.2 | Excellent. | Excellent. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.112 | Three proper young men, of excellent growth | Three proper yong men, of excellent growth |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.173 | fair and excellent ladies anything. But let your fair eyes | faire and excellent Ladies anie thing. But let your faire eies, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.200 | O excellent young man! | Oh excellent yong man. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.10 | An excellent colour: your chestnut was ever the | An excellent colour: / Your Chessenut was euer the |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.26 | ‘ So so ’ is good, very good, very excellent | So, so, is good, very good, very excellent |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.109 | I know a wench of excellent discourse, | I know a wench of excellent discourse, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.90 | In truth, la, go with me, and I'll tell you excellent | In truth la go with me, and Ile tell you excellent |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.174 | is excellent. | is excellent. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.71 | I have beheld, I could not believe she excelled many: | I haue beheld, I could not beleeue she excelled many: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.44 | Sluttery, to such neat excellence opposed | Sluttery to such neate Excellence, oppos'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.16 | very excellent good-conceited thing; after, a wonderful | very excellent good conceyted thing; after a wonderful |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.198 | Most vilely: for my vantage, excellent. | Most vildely: for my vantage excellent. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.139 | So excellent a king, that was to this | So excellent a King, that was to this |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.112 | In her excellent white bosom, these, et cetera. | in her excellent white bosome, these. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.174 | Excellent well. You are a fishmonger. | Excellent, excellent well: y'are a Fishmonger. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.224 | My excellent good friends. | My excellent good friends? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.299 | me a sterile promontory. This most excellent canopy, | me a sterrill Promontory; this most excellent Canopy |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.438 | an excellent play, well digested in the scenes, set down | an excellent Play; well digested in the Scoenes, set downe |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.103 | Excellent, i'faith; of the chameleon's dish. I eat | Excellent Ifaith, of the Camelions dish: I eate |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.367 | and it will discourse most eloquent music. Look you, | and it will discourse most excellent Musicke. Looke you, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.375 | the top of my compass. And there is much music, excellent | the top of my Compasse: and there is much Musicke, excellent |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.130 | We'll put on those shall praise your excellence | Wee'l put on those shall praise your excellence, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.182 | Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. | Horatio, a fellow of infinite Iest; of most excellent fancy, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.107 | an absolute gentleman, full of most excellent differences, | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.135 | You are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes | Sir, you are not ignorant of what excellence Laertes |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.138 | with him in excellence. But to know a man well were to | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.20 | friends, and full of expectation. An excellent plot, very | Friends, and full of expectation: An excellent plot, very |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.383 | O Jesu, this is excellent sport, i'faith. | This is excellent sport, yfaith. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.32 | Yes, faith, and let it be an excellent good thing. | Yes: and let it be an excellent good thing. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.20 | excellent stratagem. | excellent stratagem. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.23 | excellent good temperality. Your pulsidge beats as | excellent good temperalitie: your Pulsidge beates as |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.145 | which was an excellent good word before it was | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.79 | excellent thing. | excellent thing. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.107 | Ha, ha, ha! Most excellent, i'faith! Things | Ha, ha, ha, most excellent. Things |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.100 | tongue, which is the birth, becomes excellent wit. The | Tongue, which is the Birth, becomes excellent Wit. The |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.101 | second property of your excellent sherris is the warming | second propertie of your excellent Sherris, is, the warming |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.118 | with excellent endeavour of drinking good, and good | with excellent endeauour of drinking good, and good |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.113 | Hath got the voice in hell for excellence. | Hath got the voyce in hell for excellence: |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.56 | Excellent, madame! | Excellent, Madame. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.3 | I assure you, there is very excellent services | I assure you, there is very excellent Seruices |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.11 | the bridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline. | the Bridge most valiantly, with excellent discipline. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.36 | good truth, the poet makes a most excellent description | good truth, the Poet makes a most excellent description |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.37 | of it: Fortune is an excellent moral. | of it: Fortune is an excellent Morall. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.3 | You have an excellent armour; but let my horse | You haue an excellent Armour: but let my Horse |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.25 | excellent horse. | excellent Horse. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.110 | Excellent Pucelle, if thy name be so, | Excellent Puzel, if thy name be so, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.4 | They humbly sue unto your excellence | They humbly sue vnto your Excellence, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.94 | Lord Regent, I do greet your excellence | Lord Regent, I do greete your Excellence |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.38 | Although in glorious titles he excel. | Although in glorious Titles he excell. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.3 | As procurator to your excellence, | As Procurator to your Excellence, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.159 | ‘ Jesu maintain your royal excellence!’ | Iesu maintaine your Royall Excellence, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.117 | To be Protector of his excellence? | To be Protector of his Excellence? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.230 | That for the beauty thinks it excellent. | That for the beautie thinkes it excellent. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.32 | Of her that loves him with that excellence | Of her that loues him with that excellence, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.46 | A prince most prudent, of an excellent | A Prince most Prudent; of an excellent |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.62 | So excellent in art, and still so rising, | So excellent in Art, and still so rising, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.103 | When they excelled this excellence they have, | When they exceld this excellence they haue, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.6 | Gobin de Grace, if please your excellence. | Gobin de Graie if please your excellence, |
| King John | KJ II.i.439 | And she a fair divided excellence, | And she a faire diuided excellence, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.66 | And breathing to this breathless excellence | And breathing to his breathlesse Excellence |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.118 | This is the excellent foppery of the world, that | This is the excellent foppery of the world, that |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.271 | Gentle and low – an excellent thing in woman. | Gentle, and low, an excellent thing in woman. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.72 | do excel thee in my rapier as much as thou didst me in | doe excell thee in my rapier, as much as thou didst mee in |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.168 | excellent strength; yet was Solomon so seduced, and he | excellent strength: Yet was Salomon so seduced, and hee |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.38 | O queen of queens, how far dost thou excel, | O Queene of Queenes, how farre dost thou excell, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.330 | Else none at all in aught proves excellent. | Else none at all in ought proues excellent. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.131 | An excellent device! So if any of the audience hiss, | An excellent deuice: so if any of the audience hisse, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.37 | The smallest scruple of her excellence | The smallest scruple of her excellence, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.107 | And he, that suffers. O, 'tis excellent | And hee, that suffers: Oh, it is excellent |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.243 | O noble judge! O excellent young man! | O noble Iudge, O excellent yong man. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.218 | excellent breeding, admirable discourse, of great | excellent breeding, admirable discourse, of great |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.233 | the excellency of her honour that the folly of my soul | the excellency of her honor, that the folly of my soule |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.91 | Ay, dat is very good, excellent. | I, dat is very good, excellant. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.59 | foot would give an excellent motion to thy gait in a | foote, would giue an excellent motion to thy gate, in a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.165 | Is there not a double excellency in this? | Is there not a double excellency in this? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.68 | That will be excellent. I'll go buy them vizards. | That will be excellent, / Ile go buy them vizards. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.247.1 | O excellent! | O excellent! |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.213 | themselves, they may pass for excellent men. Here come | themselues, they may passe for excellent men. Here com |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.47 | it; he is a very valiant trencher-man, he hath an excellent | it: he's a very valiant Trencher-man, hee hath an excellent |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.6 | He were an excellent man that were made just | Hee were an excellent man that were made iust |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.109 | your excellent wit? Can virtue hide itself? Go to, mum, | your excellent wit? can vertue hide it selfe? goe to, mumme, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.299 | father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by | father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.325 | She were an excellent wife for Benedick. | She were an excellent wife for Benedick. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.32 | good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall | good discourse: an excellent Musitian, and her haire shal |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.44 | It is the witness still of excellency | It is the witnesse still of excellency, / To slander Musicke any more then once. / Prince. It is the witnesse still of excellencie, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.86 | pray thee, get us some excellent music; for tomorrow | pray thee get vs some excellent musick: for to morrow |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.160 | She's an excellent sweet lady, and, out of all suspicion, | shee's an excellent sweet Lady, and (out of all suspition,) |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.89 | Having so swift and excellent a wit | Hauing so swift and excellent a wit |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.98 | Indeed, he hath an excellent good name. | Indeed he hath an excellent good name. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.99 | His excellence did earn it ere he had it. | His excellence did earne it ere he had it: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.12 | I like the new tire within excellently, if the | I like the new tire within excellently, if the |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.21 | graceful and excellent fashion, yours is worth ten on't. | gracefull and excellent fashion, yours is worth ten on't. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.55 | These gloves the Count sent me; they are an excellent | These gloues the Count sent mee, they are an excellent |
| Othello | Oth II.i.63 | One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, | One that excels the quirkes of Blazoning pens, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.171 | to play the sir in. Very good: well kissed, an excellent | to play the Sir, in. Very good: well kiss'd, and excellent |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.70 | 'Fore God, an excellent song. | 'Fore Heauen: an excellent Song. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.111 | Excellent well. | Excellent well. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.90 | Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul, | Excellent wretch: Perdition catch my Soule |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.212.1 | Excellent good! | Excellent good: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.11 | Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, | Thou cunning'st Patterne of excelling Nature, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.102 | Are excellent in making ladies trip, | Are excellent in making Ladyes trippe; |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.103 | And that their measures are as excellent. | And that their Measures are as excellent. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.40 | That excellent complexion which did steal | that excellent complexion, which did steale |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.44 | She has a good face, speaks well, and has excellent | Shee has a good face, speakes well, and has excellent |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.159 | O excellent device! And make a sop | O excellent deuice; and make a sop |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.53 | That excellent grand tyrant of the earth | That excellent grand Tyrant of the earth, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.51 | Your plantain leaf is excellent for that. | Your Plantan leafe is excellent for that. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.9 | Many for many virtues excellent, | Many for many vertues excellent: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.40 | his face be better than any man's, yet his leg excels all | his face be better then any mans, yet his legs excels all |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.224 | For it excels your first; or if it did not, | For it excels your first: or if it did not, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.65 | It will be pastime passing excellent, | It wil be pastime passing excellent, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.87 | 'Tis very true, thou didst it excellent. | 'Tis verie true, thou didst it excellent: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.250 | 'Tis a very excellent piece of work, madam lady. | 'Tis a verie excellent peece of worke, Madame Ladie: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.277 | O excellent motion! Fellows, let's be gone. | Oh excellent motion: fellowes let's be gon. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.173.1 | T' excel the Golden Age. | T'Excell the Golden Age. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.111 | Excellent. | Excellent. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.40.1 | Of excellent dumb discourse. | Of excellent dumbe discourse. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.243 | this country. ‘ Steal by line and level ’ is an excellent | this / Country: Steale by line and leuell, is an excellent |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.30 | So 'tis. This comes off well and excellent. | So 'tis, this comes off well, and excellent. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.28 | Excellent! Your lordship's a goodly villain. The | Excellent: Your Lordships a goodly Villain: the |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.215 | And call it excellent. Thou wast told thus. | And call it excellent: thou wast told thus: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.19 | will promise him an excellent piece. | will promise him / An excellent Peece. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.29 | Excellent workman! Thou canst not paint | Excellent Workeman, / Thou canst not paint |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.7 | A very excellent piece of villainy. | A very excellent peece of villany: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.182 | Here, here, here's an excellent place; here | Heere, heere, here's an excellent place, heere |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.164 | Cries ‘ Excellent! 'Tis Agamemnon just. | Cries excellent, 'tis Agamemnon iust. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.169 | Yet god Achilles still cries ‘ Excellent! | Yet god Achilles still cries excellent, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.25 | The thing he means to kill more excellently. | The thing he meanes to kill, more excellently. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.79 | Valour and pride excel themselves in Hector; | Valour and pride excell themselues in Hector; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.92 | Then hadst thou had an excellent head of hair. | Then hadst thou had an excellent head of haire. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.97 | Excellent, it hangs like flax on a distaff; and I | Excellent, it hangs like flax on a distaffe: & I |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.113 | What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight? | What is thy excellence in a galliard, knight? |
| 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.133 | caper. Ha! Higher! Ha! Ha! Excellent! | caper. Ha, higher: ha, ha, excellent. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.166 | for besides that it is excellently well penned, I have | for besides that it is excellently well pend, I haue |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.226 | Excellently done – if God did all. | Excellently done, if God did all. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.10 | extravagancy. But I perceive in you so excellent a touch | extrauagancie. But I perceiue in you so excellent a touch |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.18 | By my troth, the fool has an excellent breast. | By my troth the foole has an excellent breast. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.28 | Excellent! Why, this is the best fooling, | Excellent: Why this is the best fooling, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.43 | Excellent good, i'faith. | Excellent good, ifaith. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.144 | with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith that all | with excellencies, that it is his grounds of faith, that all |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.155 | Excellent! I smell a device. | Excellent, I smell a deuice. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.108 | Excellent wench, say I! | Excellent Wench, say I. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.125 | excellent at faults. | excellent at faults. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.198 | To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent | To the gates of Tartar, thou most excellent |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.81 | But we are prevented. (To Olivia) Most excellent, | but we are preuented. Most excellent |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.20 | should then have accosted her, and with some excellent | should then haue accosted her, and with some excellent |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.185 | letter, being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror | Letter being so excellently ignorant, will breed no terror |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.23 | Why, this is excellent. | Why this is excellent. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.89 | O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet! | Oh excellent motion; oh exceeding Puppet: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.132 | O excellent device! Was there ever heard a better, | Oh excellent deuise, was there euer heard a better? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.49 | That Silvia is excelling; | That Siluia is excelling; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.50 | She excels each mortal thing | She excels each mortall thing |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.80 | That you shall say my cunning drift excels. | That you shall say, my cunning drift excels. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.53 | Most parlously in our behalfs. He's excellent i'th' woods; | most parlously in our behalfes: hees excellent i'th woods, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.77 | The best men called it excellent; and run | The best men calld it excellent, and run |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.148.2 | 'Twas an excellent dance, | Twas an excellent dance, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.162 | In service of so excellent a beauty, | In service of so excellent a Beutie, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.286 | I cannot, sir, they are both too excellent; | I cannot Sir, they are both too excellent |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.420 | Of excellent witchcraft, who of force must know | Of excellent Witchcraft, whom of force must know |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.16 | Excels whatever yet you looked upon, | Excells what euer yet you look'd vpon, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.30 | So much the more our carver's excellence, | So much the more our Caruers excellence, |