| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.141 | itself to the very paring, and so dies with feeding | it selfe to the very payring, and so dies with feeding |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.217 | That makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye? | That makes me see, and cannot feede mine eye? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.36 | Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life | Feeds Beast as Man; the Noblenesse of life |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.26 | For so he calls me. Now I feed myself | (For so he cals me:) Now I feede my selfe |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.26 | That sleep and feeding may prorogue his honour | That sleepe and feeding may prorogue his Honour, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.242 | The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry | The appetites they feede, but she makes hungry, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.109.1 | By one that looks on feeders? | By one that lookes on Feeders? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.53 | In feeding them with those my former fortunes, | In feeding them with those my former Fortunes |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.187 | Yourself shall give us counsel. Feed and sleep. | Your selfe shall giue vs counsell: Feede, and sleepe: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.269 | not worth the feeding. | not worth the feeding. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.11 | are fair with their feeding, they are taught their manage, | are faire with their feeding, they are taught their mannage, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.17 | to take from me: he lets me feed with his hinds, bars me | to take from me: hee lets mee feede with his Hindes, barres mee |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.89 | Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their | Which he will put on vs, as Pigeons feed their |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.43 | Take that, and He that doth the ravens feed, | Take that, and he that doth the Rauens feede, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.70 | Bring us where we may rest ourselves and feed. | Bring vs where we may rest our selues, and feed: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.80 | Besides, his cote, his flocks, and bounds of feed | Besides his Coate, his Flockes, and bounds of feede |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.83 | That you will feed on. But what is, come see, | That you will feed on: but what is, come see, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.96 | I will your very faithful feeder be, | I will your very faithfull Feeder be, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.106 | Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table. | Sit downe and feed, & welcom to our table |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.169 | And let him feed. | and let him feede. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.52 | The sight of lovers feedeth those in love. | The sight of Louers feedeth those in loue: |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.135 | Feed yourselves with questioning, | Feede your selues with questioning: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.101 | And feeds from home. Poor I am but his stale. | And feedes from home; poore I am but his stale. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.186 | Would feed on one another? What's their seeking? | Would feede on one another? What's their seeking? |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.51 | And so shall starve with feeding. (To Virgilia) Come, let's go. | And so shall sterue with Feeding: Come, let's go, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.56 | With wine and feeding, we have suppler souls | With Wine and Feeding, we haue suppler Soules |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.46 | Not so allured to feed. | Not so allur'd to feed. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.138 | To feed again, though full. You do remember | To feede againe, though full. You do remember |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.51 | Should by the minute feed on life and ling'ring | Should by the minute feede on life, and ling'ring, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.69 | To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered? | To feed & cloath thee. Why shold the poor be flatter'd? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.104 | the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so. | the Ayre promise-cramm'd, you cannot feed Capons so. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.10 | That live and feed upon your majesty. | That liue and feede vpon your Maiestie. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.67 | Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, | Could you on this faire Mountaine leaue to feed, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.22 | To keep it from divulging let it feed | To keepe it from divulging, let's it feede |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.35 | Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more. | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.90 | Feeds on his wonder, keeps himself in clouds, | Keepes on his wonder, keepes himselfe in clouds, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.157 | Than feed on cates and have him talk to me | Then feede on Cates, and haue him talke to me, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.180 | Advantage feeds him fat while men delay. | Aduantage feedes him fat, while men delay. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.62 | Grew by our feeding to so great a bulk | Grew by our Feeding, to so great a builke, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.14 | And we shall feed like oxen at a stall, | And we shall feede like Oxen at a stall, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.10 | Full of high feeding, madly hath broke loose | Full of high Feeding) madly hath broke loose, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.156 | To feed contention in a lingering act; | To feede Contention in a ling'ring Act: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.95 | Thou, beastly feeder, art so full of him | Thou (beastly Feeder) art so full of him, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.139 | Where sups he? Doth the old boar feed | Where suppes he? Doth the old Bore, feede |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.174 | Then feed and be fat, my fair Calipolis! | Then feed, and be fat (my faire Calipolis.) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.65 | The tutor and the feeder of my riots; | The Tutor and the Feeder of my Riots: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.25 | Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; | Nor care I who doth feed vpon my cost: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.58 | Of such as your oppression feeds upon, | Of such as your oppression feedes vpon, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.48 | Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders, | Feedes in the bosome of such great Commanders, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.14 | Where I was wont to feed you with my blood, | Where I was wont to feed you with my blood, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.303 | If wind and fuel be brought to feed it with. | If Wind and Fuell be brought, to feed it with: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.14 | and now the word ‘ sallet ’ must serve me to feed on. | and now the word Sallet must serue me to feed on. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.82 | Leaving thy trunk for crows to feed upon. | Leauing thy trunke for Crowes to feed vpon. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.92 | Thou wouldst be fee'd, I see, to make me sport; | Thou would'st be fee'd, I see, to make me sport: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.26 | Unreasonable creatures feed their young; | Vnreasonable Creatures feed their young, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.56 | A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us. | A hand as fruitfull as the Land that feeds vs, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.148 | Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, | Vpon what meate doth this our Casar feede, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.36 | A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds | A barren spirited Fellow; one that feeds |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.81 | Gorging and feeding from our soldiers' hands, | Gorging and feeding from our Soldiers hands, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.85 | And brought in matter that should feed this fire; | And brought in matter that should feed this fire; |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.128 | Then 'tis like the breath of an unfee'd lawyer: you | Then 'tis like the breath of an vnfeed Lawyer, you |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.206 | No sheep, sweet lamb, unless we feed on your lips. | No Sheepe (sweet Lamb) vnlesse we feed on your lips. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.34 | 'Tis given with welcome. To feed were best at home; | 'Tis giuen, with welcome: to feede were best at home: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.57 | Feed, and regard him not. – Are you a man? | Feed, and regard him not. Are you a man? |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.131 | I keep a servant fee'd. I will tomorrow – | I keepe a Seruant Feed. I will to morrow |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.41 | As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time | As those that feed, grow full: as blossoming Time |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.44 | I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. | I will feede fat the ancient grudge I beare him. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.14 | But yet I'll go in hate to feed upon | But yet Ile goe in hate, to feede vpon |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.44 | The patch is kind enough, but a huge feeder, | The patch is kinde enough, but a huge feeder: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.48 | To bait fish withal. If it will feed nothing else, | To baite fish withall, if it will feede nothing else, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.49 | it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me and hindered | it will feede my reuenge; he hath disgrac'd me, and hindred |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.263 | To feed my means. Here is a letter, lady; | To feede my meanes. Heere is a Letter Ladie, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.190 | observance, engrossed opportunities to meet her, fee'd | obseruance: Ingross'd opportunities to meete her: fee'd |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.161 | Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, | Feede him with Apricocks, and Dewberries, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.113 | such meet food to feed it as Signor Benedick? Courtesy | such meete foode to feede it, as Signior Benedicke? Curtesie |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.15 | Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet, | Or feede vpon such nice and waterish diet, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.78 | Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm, | Or feede on nourishing dishes, or keepe you warme, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.165 | The meat it feeds on. That cuckold lives in bliss | The meate it feeds on. That Cuckold liues in blisse, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.182 | To say my wife is fair, loves company, | To say my wife is faire, feeds well, loues company, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.65 | I am no viper, yet I feed | I am no Viper, yet I feed |
| Pericles | Per I.i.133 | And both like serpents are, who, though they feed | And both like Serpents are; who though they feed |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.29 | And not so much to feed on as delight; | And not so much to feede on as delight, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.86 | men must comfort you, men must feed you, men stir | men must comfort you, men must feed you, men stir |
| Pericles | Per V.i.112 | Who starves the ears she feeds, and makes them hungry | Who starues the eares shee feedes, and makes them hungrie, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.37 | With eager feeding food doth choke the feeder. | With eager feeding, food doth choake the feeder: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.79 | The pleasure that some fathers feed upon | The pleasure that some Fathers feede vpon, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.12 | Feed not thy sovereign's foe, my gentle earth, | Feed not thy Soueraignes Foe, my gentle Earth, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.64 | To feed my humour wish thyself no harm. | To feed my humor, wish thy selfe no harme. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.133 | They do consume the thing that feeds their fury. | They do consume the thing that feedes their furie. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.161 | Than feed it with such overroasted flesh. | Then feede it with such ouer-rosted flesh: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.24 | A dish that I do love to feed upon. | A dish that I do loue to feede vpon. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.32 | That feed'st me with the very name of meat. | That feed'st me with the verie name of meate. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.167 | To feed my innocent people. | To feed my innocent people. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.50.2 | I will stand to and feed, | I will stand to, and feede, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.256 | Sir, you have saved my longing, and I feed | Sir, you haue sau'd my longing, and I feed |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.202 | Happier is he that has no friend to feed | Happier is he that has no friend to feede, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.164 | With riotous feeders, when our vaults have wept | With riotous Feeders, when our Vaults haue wept |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.180 | Teems and feeds all; whose selfsame mettle, | Teemes and feeds all: whose selfesame Mettle |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.296 | Where feedest thou a-days, Apemantus? | Where feed'st thou a-dayes Apemantus? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.308 | On what I hate I feed not. | On what I hate, I feed not. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.443 | That feeds and breeds by a composture stolen | That feeds and breeds by a composture stolne |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.47 | Than where swine feed! | then where Swine feede? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.94 | Know his gross patchery, love him, feed him, | Know his grosse patchery, loue him, feede him, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.147 | And entrails feed the sacrificing fire, | And intrals feede the sacrifising fire, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.74 | And they have nursed this woe in feeding life; | And they haue nur'st this woe, / In feeding life: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.176 | I'll make you feed on berries and on roots, | Ile make you feed on berries, and on rootes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.177 | And feed on curds and whey, and suck the goat, | And feed on curds and whay, and sucke the Goate, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.29 | And feed his humour kindly as we may, | And feede his humour kindely as we may, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.43 | He doth me wrong to feed me with delays. | He doth me wrong to feed me with delayes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.93 | The other rotted with delicious feed. | The other rotted with delicious foode. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.71 | Whate'er I forge to feed his brain-sick humours | What ere I forge to feede his braine-sicke fits, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.53 | Will't please you eat? Will't please your highness feed? | Wilt please you eat, / Wilt please your Hignesse feed? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.222 | My lord, you feed too much on this dislike. | My L. you feede too much on this dislike. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.158 | To feed for aye her lamp and flames of love; | To feede for aye her lampe and flames of loue. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.49 | Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. | Feede arrogance, and are the proud mans fees. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.110 | My love with words and errors still she feeds, | My loue with words and errors still she feedes; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.273 | I am no fee'd post, lady; keep your purse. | I am no feede poast, Lady; keepe your purse, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.111 | Feed on her damask cheek. She pined in thought, | Feede on her damaske cheeke: she pin'd in thought, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.42 | Whiles you beguile the time, and feed your knowledge | Whiles you beguile the time, and feed your knowledge |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.106 | Injurious wasps, to feed on such sweet honey, | Iniurious Waspes, to feede on such sweet hony, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.164 | can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my | can feed on the ayre, I am one that am nourish'd by my |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.26 | That hath more mind to feed on your blood than | That hath more minde to feed on your bloud, then |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.177 | And feed upon the shadow of perfection. | And feed vpon the shadow of perfection. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.295 | Fit for the gods to feed on; youth and pleasure | Fit for the Gods to feed on: youth and pleasure |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.10 | And let in life into thee; thou shalt feed | And let in life into thee; thou shalt feede |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.119 | You talk of feeding me to breed me strength; | You talke of feeding me to breed me strength |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.19 | And then they fed on him; so much for that. | And then they feed on him: So much for that, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.87 | That feeds the lake with waters, or as Iris | That feedes the lake with waters, or as Iris |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.11 | In every mess have folly, and the feeders | In euery Messe, haue folly; and the Feeders |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.171 | To have a worthy feeding; but I have it | To haue a worthy Feeding; but I haue it |