| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.52 | flowery way that leads to the broad gate and the great | flowrie way that leads to the broad gate, and the great |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.324 | (To Diana) If thou beest yet a fresh uncropped flower | If thou beest yet a fresh vncropped flower, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.215 | Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, | Swell with the touches of those Flower-soft hands, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.51 | Where souls do couch on flowers, we'll hand in hand, | Where Soules do couch on Flowers, wee'l hand in hand, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iii.29 | How that a life was but a flower, | How that a life was but a Flower, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.32.2 | Flower of warriors, | Flower of Warriors, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.v.3 | And make triumphant fires; strew flowers before them. | And make triumphant fires, strew Flowers before them: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.1 | Whiles yet the dew's on ground, gather those flowers; | Whiles yet the dewe's on ground, / Gather those Flowers, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.22 | On chaliced flowers that lies; | on chalic'd Flowres that lyes: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.218.2 | With fairest flowers | With fayrest Flowers |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.221 | The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor | The Flower that's like thy face. Pale-Primrose, nor |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.228 | Yea, and furred moss besides. When flowers are none, | Yea, and furr'd Mosse besides. When Flowres are none |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.283 | Here's a few flowers, but 'bout midnight more: | Heere's a few Flowres, but 'bout midnight more: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.286 | You were as flowers, now withered: even so | You were as Flowres, now wither'd: euen so |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.296 | These flowers are like the pleasures of the world; | These Flowres are like the pleasures of the World; |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.98 | Upon your never-withering banks of flowers: | Vpon your neuer-withering bankes of Flowres. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.6 | lies him down upon a bank of flowers. She, seeing him | Layes him downe vpon a Banke of Flowers. She seeing him |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.38 | Larded all with sweet flowers, | Larded with sweet flowers: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.169 | Of crowflowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples, | Of Crow-flowers, Nettles, Daysies, and long Purples, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.240 | She scatters flowers | |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.8 | Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs | Nor bruise her Flowrets with the Armed hoofes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.11 | nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. | Nettle, Danger; we plucke this Flower, Safety. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.76 | When, like the bee tolling from every flower, | When, like the Bee, culling from euery flower |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.14 | the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his | the Sheets, and play with Flowers, and smile vpon his |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.14 | Your fresh fair virgins, and your flowering infants. | Your fresh faire Virgins, and your flowring Infants. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.208 | my fair flower-de-luce? | my faire Flower-de-Luce. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.80 | Cropped are the flower-de-luces in your arms; | Cropt are the Flower-de-Luces in your Armes |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.99 | Decked with five flower-de-luces on each side, | Deckt with fine Flower-de-Luces on each side, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.129 | That you on my behalf would pluck a flower. | That you on my behalfe would pluck a Flower. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.56 | And hath detained me all my flowering youth | And hath detayn'd me all my flowring Youth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.106 | Pronouncing that the paleness of this flower | Pronouncing that the palenesse of this Flower, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.228 | Or as the snake rolled in a flowering bank, | Or as the Snake, roll'd in a flowring Banke, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.11 | On which I'll toss the flower-de-luce of France. | On which Ile tosse the Fleure-de-Luce of France. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.71 | The flower of Europe for his chivalry; | The flowre of Europe, for his Cheualrie, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.6 | To his music plants and flowers | To his Musicke, Plants and Flowers |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.24 | wrought with flowers, bearing the Queen's train | wrought with Flowers bearing the Queenes Traine. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.26 | of gold without flowers | of Gold, without Flowers. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.169 | With maiden flowers, that all the world may know | With Maiden Flowers, that all the world may know |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.50 | And do you now strew flowers in his way, | And do you now strew Flowers in his way, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.15 | Your gracious self, the flower of Europe's hope, | Your gratious selfe the flower of Europes hope: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.199 | The flowers of solace in a ground of shame. | The flowers of solace in a ground of shame, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.284 | To bear the comb of virtue from this flower, | To beare the combe of vertue from his flower, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.69 | Like to a meadow full of sundry flowers | Like to a meddow full of sundry flowers, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.33 | Which now hath hid the airy floor of heaven | Which now hath hid the airie flower of heauen, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.4 | With hardokes, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, | With Hardokes, Hemlocke, Nettles, Cuckoo flowres, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.80 | Enter Lear fantastically dressed with wild flowers | Enter Lear. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.133 | He gives flowers | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.170 | Take that of me, my friend, (giving flowers) who have the power | take that of me my Friend, who haue the power |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.182.1 | He takes off his coronet of flowers | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.189.1 | He throws down his flowers and stamps on them | Enter a Gentleman. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.124 | smelling out the odoriferous flowers of fancy, the jerks | smelling out the odoriferous flowers of fancy? the ierkes |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.356 | Forerun fair Love, strewing her way with flowers. | Fore-runne faire Loue, strewing her way with flowres. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.331 | This is the flower that smiles on everyone, | This is the flower that smiles on euerie one, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.653.1 | I am that flower – | I am that Flower. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.63 | Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, | Your Hand, your Tongue: looke like th' innocent flower, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.172 | Expire before the flowers in their caps, | Expire before the Flowers in their Caps, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.30 | To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds. | To dew the Soueraigne Flower, and drowne the Weeds: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.167 | Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, | Doe as the Carrion do's, not as the flowre, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.86 | From flowery tenderness? If I must die, | From flowrie tendernesse? If I must die, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.19 | And dull to all proceedings. A deflowered maid, | And dull to all proceedings. A deflowred maid, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.62 | With juice of balm and every precious flower. | With iuyce of Balme; and euery precious flowre, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.70 | In emerald tufts, flowers purple, blue, and white, | In Emrold-tuffes, Flowres purple, blew, and white, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.73 | Fairies use flowers for their charactery. | Fairies vse Flowres for their characterie. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.27 | Crowns him with flowers, and makes him all her joy. | Crownes him with flowers, and makes him all her ioy. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.166 | It fell upon a little western flower, | It fell vpon a little westerne flower; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.169 | Fetch me that flower – the herb I showed thee once. | Fetch me that flower; the hearb I shew'd thee once, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.247 | Hast thou the flower there? Welcome, wanderer. | Hast thou the flower there? Welcome wanderer. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.254 | Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight. | Lul'd in these flowers, with dances and delight: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.33.2 | He squeezes the flower on Titania's eyes | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.75 | This flower's force in stirring love. | This flowers force in stirring loue. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.86 | He squeezes the flower on Lysander's eyes | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.75 | Thisbe, the flowers of odious savours sweet – | Thisby, the flowers of odious sauors sweete. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.122 | What angel wakes me from my flowery bed? | What Angell wakes me from my flowry bed? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.150 | And sing while thou on pressed flowers dost sleep; | And sing, while thou on pressed flowers dost sleepe: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.194 | And when she weeps, weeps every little flower, | And when she weepes, weepe euerie little flower, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.102 | Flower of this purple dye, | Flower of this purple die, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.105 | He squeezes the flower on Demetrius's eyes | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.204 | Have with our needles created both one flower, | Haue with our needles, created both one flower, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.1 | Come, sit thee down upon this flowery bed | Come, sit thee downe vpon this flowry bed, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.51 | With a coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers. | With coronet of fresh and fragrant flowers. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.54 | Stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes | Stood now within the pretty flouriets eyes, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.72 | Dian's bud o'er Cupid's flower | Dians bud, or Cupids flower, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.284 | Since lion vile hath here deflowered my dear? | Since Lion vilde hath heere deflour'd my deere: |
| Pericles | Per I.i.134 | On sweetest flowers, yet they poison breed. | On sweetest Flowers, yet they Poyson breed. |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.94 | See how she 'gins to blow into life's flower again. | See how she ginnes to blow into lifes flower againe. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.13.1 | Enter Marina with a basket of flowers | Enter Marina with a Basket of flowers. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.14 | To strew thy green with flowers. The yellows, blues, | to strowe thy greene with Flowers, the yellowes, blewes, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.26 | Come, give me your flowers. On the sea-margent | Come giue me your flowers, ere the sea marre it, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.290 | The flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more | |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.134 | To crop at once a too-long withered flower. | To crop at once a too-long wither'd flowre. |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.19 | And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower | And when they from thy Bosome pluck a Flower, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.97 | Shall ill become the flower of England's face, | Shall ill become the flower of Englands face, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.39 | The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers. | The Soyles fertilitie from wholesome flowers. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.44 | Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up, | Is full of Weedes, her fairest Flowers choakt vp, |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.15 | Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. | Because sweet Flowres are slow, and Weeds make hast. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.10 | My unblown flowers, new-appearing sweets! | My vnblowed Flowres, new appearing sweets: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.78 | Verona's summer hath not such a flower. | Veronas Summer hath not such a flower. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.79 | Nay, he's a flower; in faith, a very flower. | Nay hee's a flower, infaith a very flower. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.122 | May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet. | May proue a beautious Flower when next we meete: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.4 | With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers. | With balefull weedes, and precious Iuiced flowers, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.19 | Within the infant rind of this weak flower | Within the infant rin'd of this weake flower, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.57 | Pink for flower. | Pinke for flower. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.59 | Why, then is my pump well-flowered. | Why then is my Pump well flowr'd. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.43 | He is not the flower of courtesy, but, I'll warrant him, as | he is not the flower of curtesie, but Ile warrant him as |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.73 | O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! | O Serpent heart, hid with a flowring face. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.29 | Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. | Vpon the swetest flower of all the field. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.37 | Flower as she was, deflowered by him. | Flower as she was, deflowred by him. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.89 | Our bridal flowers serve for a buried corse; | Our Bridall flowers serue for a buried Coarse: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.1.1 | Enter Paris and his Page, with flowers and sweet water | Enter Paris and his Page. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.9 | Give me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go. | Giue me those flowers. Do as I bid thee, go. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.12 | Sweet flower, with flowers thy bridal bed I strew – | Sweet Flower with flowers thy Bridall bed I strew: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.281 | He came with flowers to strew his lady's grave, | He came with flowres to strew his Ladies graue, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.54 | Full of rose-water and bestrewed with flowers, | Full of Rose-water, and bestrew'd with Flowers, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.240 | But slow in speech, yet sweet as springtime flowers. | But slow in speech: yet sweet as spring-time flowers. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.78 | Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers | Who, with thy saffron wings, vpon my flowres |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.191 | And let my spleenful sons this trull deflower. | And let my spleenefull Sonnes this Trull defloure. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.201 | As fresh as morning dew distilled on flowers? | As fresh as mornings dew distil'd on flowers, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.26 | But sure some Tereus hath deflowered thee, | But sure some Tereus hath defloured thee, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.71 | As flowers with frost, or grass beat down with storms. | As flowers with frost, or grasse beat downe with stormes: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.15 | Led by their master to the flowered fields, | Led by their Maister to the flowred fields, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.38 | Because she was enforced, stained, and deflowered? | Because she was enfor'st, stain'd, and deflowr'd? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.9 | And to the field goes he; where every flower | And to the field goe's he; where euery flower |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.187 | one of the flowers of Troy, I can tell you, but mark | one of the flowers of Troy I can you, but marke |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.261 | And cull their flower, Ajax shall cope the best. | And cull their flowre, Aiax shall cope the best. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.41 | Away before me to sweet beds of flowers! | Away before me, to sweet beds of Flowres, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.47 | so beauty's a flower. The lady bade take away the fool; | so beauties a flower; The Lady bad take away the foole, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.38 | For women are as roses whose fair flower, | For women are as Roses, whose faire flowre |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.58 | Not a flower, not a flower sweet | Not a flower, not a flower sweete |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.160 | Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower | Disdaine to roote the Sommer-swelling flowre, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.1.2 | a white robe before, singing and strewing flowers; | a white Robe before singing, and strewing Flowres: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.16 | He strews flowers | Strew Flowers. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.66 | No more arraignment; the flower that I would pluck | No more arraignement, the flowre that I would plncke |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.173.1 | What flower is this? | What Flowre is this? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.181.1 | Canst not thou work such flowers in silk, wench? | Canst not thou work: such flowers in silke wench? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.189.2 | Of all flowers | Of all Flowres. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.203 | The sun grows high, let's walk in. Keep these flowers; | The Sun grows high, lets walk in, keep these flowers, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.289 | And fruit, and flowers more blessed that still blossom | And fruite, and flowers more blessed that still blossom |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.52 | To flowery May, in Dian's wood. Wait well, sir, | To flowry May, in Dians wood: waite well Sir |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.9 | That makes the stream seem flowers – thou, O jewel | That makes the streame seeme flowers; thou o Iewell |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.78 | And she must gather flowers to bury you, | And she must gather flowers to bury you, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.85 | Thousand fresh water flowers of several colours, | Thousand fresh water flowers of severall cullors. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.25 | pick flowers with Proserpine. Then will I make Palamon | picke flowers with Proserpine, then will I make / Palamon |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.82 | flowers as the season is mistress of, and thereto make | flowers, as the / Season is mistres of, and thereto make |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.45 | The queen of flowers. Our intercession, then, | The Queene of Flowers: our intercession then |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.137.4 | flowers; one before her carrying a silver hind, in | flowers: One before her carrying a silver Hynde, in |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.167 | Both these brave knights, and I a virgin flower | Both these brave Knights, and I a virgin flowre |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.169 | The flower is fallen, the tree descends! O mistress, | The flowre is falne, the Tree descends: O Mistris |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.73 | Give me those flowers there, Dorcas. Reverend sirs, | Giue me those Flowres there (Dorcas.) Reuerend Sirs, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.79.1 | With flowers of winter. | With flowres of Winter. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.81 | Of trembling winter, the fairest flowers o'th' season | Of trembling winter, the fayrest flowres o'th season |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.103 | Desire to breed by me. Here's flowers for you: | Desire to breed by me. Here's flowres for you: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.106 | And with him rises weeping; these are flowers | And with him rises, weeping: These are flowres |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.113 | I would I had some flowers o'th' spring, that might | I would I had some Flowres o'th Spring, that might |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.117 | For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall | For the Flowres now, that (frighted) thou let'st fall |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.127 | The flower-de-luce being one: O, these I lack | (The Flowre-de-Luce being one.) O, these I lacke, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.132 | But quick and in mine arms. Come, take your flowers. | But quicke, and in mine armes. Come, take your flours, |