| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.213 | Which we ascribe to heaven. The fated sky | Which we ascribe to heauen: the fated skye |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.20 | As it hath fated her to be my motive | As it hath fated her to be my motiue |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.169 | I will oppose his fate. Our force by land | I will oppose his Fate. Our force by Land, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.34 | And drink carouses to the next day's fate, | And drinke Carowses to the next dayes Fate |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.135 | Nay, good my fellows, do not please sharp fate | Nay good my Fellowes, do not please sharp fate |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.141 | Hapless Egeon, whom the fates have marked | Haplesse Egeon whom the fates haue markt |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.122 | As harbingers preceding still the fates | |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.134 | If thou art privy to thy country's fate, | If thou art priuy to thy Countries Fate |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.81.2 | My fate cries out | My fate cries out, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.221 | Our wills and fates do so contrary run | Our Willes and Fates do so contrary run, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.155 | down, dogs! Down, faitours! Have we not Hiren here? | downe Dogges, downe Fates: haue wee not Hiren here? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.45 | O God, that one might read the book of fate, | Oh Heauen, that one might read the Book of Fate, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.64 | The native mightiness and fate of him. | The Natiue mightinesse and fate of him. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.25 | And of buxom valour, hath, by cruel fate, | and of buxome valour, hath by cruell Fate, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vi.8 | Till with thy warlike sword, despite of fate, | Till with thy Warlike Sword,despight of Fate, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.31 | What fates await the Duke of Suffolk? | What fates await the Duke of Suffolke? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.63 | Tell me what fate awaits the Duke of Suffolk? | Tell me what fate awaits the Duke of Suffolke? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.59 | What fates impose, that men must needs abide; | What Fates impose, that men must needs abide; |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.75 | 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake | 'Tis but the fate of Place, and the rough Brake |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.85 | For any suit of pounds; and you – O fate! – | For any suit of pounds: and you, (oh fate) |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.138 | Men at some time are masters of their fates; | Men at sometime, are Masters of their Fates. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iii.15 | If not, the Fates with traitors do contrive. | If not, the Fates with Traitors do contriue. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.98.2 | Fates, we will know your pleasures. | Fates, we will know your pleasures: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.147 | Can overthrow the limit of our fate, | Can ouerthrow the limit of our fate, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.65 | Hang fated o'er men's faults light on thy daughters! | Hang fated o're mens faults, light on thy Daughters. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.68 | That he should be my fool, and I his fate. | That he shold be my foole, and I his fate. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.27 | Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem | Which Fate and Metaphysicall ayde doth seeme |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.118 | What should be spoken here where our fate, | What should be spoken here, / Where our Fate |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.70 | Rather than so, come fate into the list | Rather then so, come Fate into the Lyst, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.136 | Than is his father's, must embrace the fate | Then is his Fathers, must embrace the fate |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.30 | He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear | He shall spurne Fate, scorne Death, and beare |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.83 | And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live; | And take a Bond of Fate: thou shalt not liue, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.148 | Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed. | Repreeue thee from thy fate, it should proceede. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.57 | Fates and Destinies and such odd sayings, the Sisters | fates and destinies, and such odde sayings, the sisters |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.95 | lunatic knave would have searched it; but Fate, | Lunatique Knaue would haue search'd it: but Fate |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.225 | Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate. | Money buyes Lands, and wiues are sold by fate. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.34 | The foolish Fates. | the foolish Fates. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.92 | Then fate o'errules, that, one man holding truth, | Then fate ore-rules, that one man holding troth, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.194 | And I like Helen till the Fates me kill. | And like Helen till the Fates me kill. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.277 | O Fates, come, come, | O Fates! come, come: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.113 | O Fate! Take not away thy heavy hand. | O Fate! take not away thy heauy hand, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.187.1 | Succeeds in unknown fate. | Succeedes in vnknowne Fate. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.166 | Who certain of his fate loves not his wronger, | Who certaine ofhis Fate, loues not his wronger: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.273 | Even then this forked plague is fated to us | Euen then, this forked plague is Fated to vs, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.422 | Over my thigh, and sighed and kissed, and then | And sigh, and kisse, and then cry cursed Fate, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.423 | Cried ‘ Cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor!’ | That gaue thee to the Moore. |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.64 | And bid me, when my fate would have me wive, | And bid me (when my Fate would haue me Wiu'd) |
| Othello | Oth V.i.34 | And your unblest fate hies. Strumpet, I come! | And your vnblest Fate highes: Strumpet I come: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.263 | Who can control his fate? –'Tis not so now. | Who can controll his Fate? 'Tis not so now. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.102 | And make us weep to hear your fate, fair creature, | and make vs weepe. / To heare your fate, faire creature, |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.8 | That the strict fates had pleased you had brought her hither, | that the strict fates had pleas'd, you had brought her hither |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.14 | That she is dead. Nurses are not the Fates. | That shee is dead. Nurses are not the fates |
| Pericles | Per V.i.71 | If that thy prosperous and artificial feat | If that thy prosperous and artificiall fate, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.119 | This day's black fate on more days doth depend. | This daies blacke Fate, on mo daies doth depend, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.30 | is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his | is perfect Gallowes: stand fast good Fate to his |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.129 | Fated to th' purpose, did Antonio open | Fated to th' purpose, did Anthonio open |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.62 | Are ministers of Fate. The elements, | Are ministers of Fate, the Elements |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.14 | He is a man, setting his fate aside, | He is a Man (setting his Fate aside) |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.76.2 | Hard fate! He might have died in war. | Hard fate: he might haue dyed in warre. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.42 | Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. | Is like that mirth, Fate turnes to sudden sadnesse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.27 | If to my sword his fate be not the glory, | (If to my sword his fate be not the glory) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.26 | Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate. | Mine honour keepes the weather of my fate: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.52 | Not fate, obedience, nor the hand of Mars | Not fate, obedience, nor the hand of Mars, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vi.25 | Or bring him off. Fate, hear me what I say! | Or bring him off: Fate heare me what I say; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.300 | Fate, show thy force; ourselves we do not owe. | Fate, shew thy force, our selues we do not owe, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.4 | over me. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps | ouer me; the malignancie of my fate, might perhaps |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.142 | upon 'em. Thy fates open their hands, let thy blood and | vppon em. Thy fates open theyr hands, let thy blood and |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.165.1 | Of fate in wedlock. | Of Fate in wedlocke. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.102 | With him stand to the mercy of our fate, | With him stand to the mercy of our Fate, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.41 | Yet fate hath brought them off. Their knot of love, | Yet fate hath brought them off: Their knot of love |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.56 | I will be true, my stars, my fate, etc. | I will be true, my stars, my fate, &c. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.27 | Since fate, against thy better disposition, | Since Fate (against thy better disposition) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.20 | Should pass this way, as you did. O, the Fates! | Should passe this way, as you did: Oh the Fates, |