| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.142 | Oft expectation fails, and most oft there | Oft expectation failes, and most oft there |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.181 | Expecting absent friends. As thou lovest her | Expecting absent friends. As thou lou'st her, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.30 | Expected. Since he went from Egypt 'tis | Expected. Since he went from Egypt, 'tis |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.47 | Should have borne men, and expectation fainted, | Should haue borne men, and expectation fainted, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ii.43 | Where rather I'll expect victorious life | Where rather Ile expect victorious life, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.iv.23 | And at the port expect you. | and at the Port expect you. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vii.3 | Exceeds what we expected. | Exceeds what we expected. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.60 | Master, if you do, expect spoon-meat, | Master, if do expect spoon-meate, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.19 | When it was less expected. He replied, | When it was lesse expected. He replyed |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.2 | of a crescent note, expected to prove so worthy as | of a Cressent note, expected to proue so woorthy, as |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.57 | A day's work in him. What shalt thou expect, | A dayes worke in him. What shalt thou expect |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.38.2 | He was expected then, | He was expected then, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.25 | as I expect my revenge. That part thou, Pisanio, | as I expect my Reuenge. That part, thou (Pisanio) |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.28 | Our expectation that it would be thus | Our expectation that it would be thus |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.341.2 | When expect you them? | When expect you them? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.153 | Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state, | Th'expectansie and Rose of the faire State, |
| 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 III.ii.36 | The hope and expectation of thy time | The hope and expectation of thy time |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.23 | Conjecture, expectation, and surmise | Coniecture, Expectation, and Surmise |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.65 | The utmost man of expectation, | The vtmost man of expectation: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.104 | Thou hast sealed up my expectation. | Thou hast seal'd vp my expectation. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.31 | You stand in coldest expectation. | You stand in coldest expectation. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.126 | To mock the expectation of the world, | To mocke the expectation of the World; |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.123 | Do all expect that you should rouse yourself, | Doe all expect, that you should rowse your selfe, |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.8 | For now sits expectation in the air, | For now sits Expectation in the Ayre, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.20 | As were a war in expectation. | As were a Warre in expectation. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.44 | Our expectation hath this day an end. | Our expectation hath this day an end: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.131 | Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days, | Expect Saint Martins Summer, Halcyons dayes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.12 | Renowned Talbot doth expect my aid, | Renowned Talbot doth expect my ayde, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.145 | And here I will expect thy coming. | And heere I will expect thy comming. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.1 | Come, my masters, the Duchess, I tell you, expects | Come my Masters, the Duchesse I tell you expects |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.328 | At Bristow I expect my soldiers; | At Bristow I expect my Souldiers, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.12 | Expect your highness' doom of life or death. | Expect your Highnesse doome of life, or death. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.10 | And do expect him here some two hours hence. | And doe expect him here some two howres hence. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.94 | Would you expect? You are strangely troublesome. | Would you expect? You are strangely troublesome: |
| Henry VIII | H8 epilogue.8 | All the expected good we're like to hear | All the expected good w'are like to heare. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.41 | The livelong day, with patient expectation, | The liue-long day, with patient expectation, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.290 | Good; I will expect you. | Good, I will expect you. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.62 | And still in danger he'll expect the like; | And still in danger hele expect the like, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.6 | Silence attends some wonder, and expecteth | Silence attends some wonder, and expecteth |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.144 | Stood famous Edward, still expecting when | Stood famous Edward still expecting when |
| King John | KJ II.i.80 | By how much unexpected, by so much | By how much vnexpected, by so much |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.7 | Fresh expectation troubled not the land | Fresh expectation troubled not the Land |
| King John | KJ V.iii.10 | That was expected by the Dauphin here | That was expected by the Dolphin heere, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.64 | Devoured by the unexpected flood. | Deuoured by the vnexpected flood. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.23 | In expectation of them. O dear father, | In expectation of them. O deere Father, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.84 | Titles. For thyself? Me. Thus, expecting thy reply, I | titles, for thy selfe mee. Thus expecting thy reply, I |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.5 | expectation of plenty. Come in time! Have napkins enow | expectation of Plentie: Come in time, haue Napkins enow |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.10 | The rest that are within the note of expectation, | The rest, that are within the note of expectation, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.109.1 | When it is least expected. | When it is least expected. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.155 | This bond expires – I do expect return | This bond expires, I doe expect returne |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.20 | doth expect your reproach. | Doth expect your reproach. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.34 | We all expect a gentle answer, Jew. | We all expect a gentle answer Iew? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.49 | Sweet soul, let's in, and there expect their coming. | sweet soule / Let's in, and there expect their comming. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.275 | Than you expect. Unseal this letter soon, | Then you expect: vnseale this letter soone, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.16 | expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how. | expectation, then you must expect of me to tell you how. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.208 | never trust my expectation. | neuer trust my expectation. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.283 | Tomorrow then I will expect your coming; | To morrow then I will expect your comming, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.41 | For every minute is expectancy | For euery Minute is expectancie |
| Othello | Oth II.i.271 | expectation of our prosperity. | expectation of our prosperitie. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.189 | and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden respect | and return'd me expectations and comforts of sodaine respect, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.59 | For comfort is too far for us to expect. | for comfort is too farre for vs to expect. |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.94 | With bloody veins expecting overthrow, | With bloody veines expecting ouerthrow, |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.5 | Were more than you expect, or more than's fit, | Were more then you expect, or more then's fit, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.34 | Expect him here. When he shall come and find | expect him here, when he shall come and find |
| Pericles | Per V.i.70 | Expect even here, where is a kingly patient, | Expect euen here, where is a kingly patient, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.3 | I every day expect an embassage | I, euery day expect an Embassage |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.35 | With hate in those where I expect most love! | With hate in those where I expect most loue, |
| Richard III | R3 II.iii.35 | Untimely storms makes men expect a dearth. | Vntimely stormes, makes men expect a Dearth: |
| Richard III | R3 II.iii.37 | 'Tis more than we deserve or I expect. | 'Tis more then we deserue, or I expect. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.39 | Anon expect him here; but if she be obdurate | Anon expect him here: but if she be obdurate |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.438 | And there they hull, expecting but the aid | And there they hull, expecting but the aide |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.110 | That thou expects not nor I looked not for. | That thou expects not, nor I lookt not for. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.88 | I cannot tell, except they are busied about a | I cannot tell, expect they are busied about a |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.42.1 | And they expect it from me. | And they expect it from me. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.513 | Expecting in return twenty for one? | Expecting in returne twenty for one? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.23 | o'th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance | o'th'Time; / It opens the eyes of Expectation. / Performance, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.ii.14 | No talk of Timon, nothing of him expect. | No talke of Timon, nothing of him expect, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.96 | Expecting ever when some envious surge | Expecting euer when some enuious surge, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.20 | Now expectation, tickling skittish spirits | Now Expectation tickling skittish spirits, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.70 | Speak, Prince of Ithaca; and be't of less expect | Speak Prince of Ithaca, and be't of lesse expect: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.83 | What honey is expected? Degree being vizarded, | What Hony is expected? Degree being vizarded, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.16 | I am giddy; expectation whirls me round. | I am giddy; expectation whirles me round, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.116 | So please you, save the thanks this prince expects. | So please you saue the thankes this Prince expects: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.146 | There is expectance here from both the sides | There is expectance here from both the sides, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.156 | To the expecters of our Trojan part; | To the expecters of our Troian part: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vi.21.1 | Had I expected thee. | Had I expected thee: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.54 | Expects my coming, there to see me shipped. | Expects my comming, there to see me ship'd. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.14 | To drop on such a mistress, expectation | To drop on such a Mistris, expectation |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.105 | Lo, where our sister is in expectation, | Lo, where our Sister is in expectation, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.450 | My people did expect my hence departure | My people did expect my hence departure |