| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.167 | Your salt tears' head. Now to all sense 'tis gross: | Your salt teares head, now to all sence 'tis grosse: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.173 | See it so grossly shown in thy behaviours | See it so grosely showne in thy behauiours, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.65 | If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine | If thou engrossest, all the greefes are thine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.36 | Engrossed by swift impress. In Caesar's fleet | Ingrost by swift Impresse. In Casars Fleete, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.28 | Most grossly by his own. | Most grossely by his owne. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.212 | Rank of gross diet, shall be enclouded, | Ranke of grosse dyet, shall we be enclowded, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.53 | Gross fools as he, | grosse fooles as he, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.180 | out of the gross band of the unfaithful. Therefore, | out of the grosse band of the vnfaithfull: therefore |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.178 | To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave, | To counterfeit thus grosely with your slaue, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.34 | Lay open to my earthy gross conceit, | Lay open to my earthie grosse conceit: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.68 | But, in the gross and scope of mine opinion, | But in the grosse and scope of my Opinion, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.136 | That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature | That growes to Seed: Things rank, and grosse in Nature |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.80 | 'A took my father grossly, full of bread, | He tooke my Father grossely, full of bread, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.46 | To do't. Examples gross as earth exhort me. | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.170 | That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, | That liberall Shepheards giue a grosser name; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.222 | them, gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Why, thou | them, grosse as a Mountaine, open, palpable. Why thou |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.496.1 | A gross fat man. | a grosse fat man. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.148 | To engross up glorious deeds on my behalf, | To engrosse vp glorious Deedes on my behalfe: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.130 | thee most grossly. | thee most grossely. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.82 | What is the gross sum that I owe thee? | What is the grosse summe that I owe thee? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.73 | But to be known and hated. So, like gross terms, | But to be knowne, and hated. So, like grosse termes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.72 | For this they have engrossed and pilled up | For this, they haue ingrossed and pyl'd vp |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.80 | Yields his engrossments to the ending father. | yeelds his engrossements, / To the ending Father. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.103 | That, though the truth of it stands off as gross | That though the truth of it stands off as grosse |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.107 | Working so grossly in a natural cause | Working so grossely in an naturall cause, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.132 | Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger, | Free from grosse passion, or of mirth, or anger, |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.24 | Be copy now to men of grosser blood, | Be Coppy now to men of grosser blood, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.49 | sont mots de son mauvais, corruptible, gros, et impudique, | sont le mots de son mauvais corruptible grosse & impudique, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.275 | Enjoys it, but in gross brain little wots | Enioyes it; but in grosse braine little wots, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.159 | O gross and miserable ignorance! | O grosse and miserable ignorance. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.84 | Hitting a grosser quality, is cried up | Hitting a grosser quality, is cride vp |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.143 | That line hath two faults, gross and palpable: | That loue hath two falts grosse and palpable, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.19 | To our gross judgement is inscrutable, | To our grosse iudgement is inscrutable, |
| King John | KJ III.i.163 | Are led so grossly by this meddling priest, | Are led so grossely by this medling Priest, |
| King John | KJ III.i.168 | Though you and all the rest, so grossly led, | Though you, and al the rest so grossely led, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.94 | That greatness should so grossly offer it. | That Greatnesse should so grossely offer it; |
| King Lear | KL I.i.291 | he hath now cast her off appears too grossly. | he hath now cast her off, appeares too grossely. |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.5 | He flashes into one gross crime or other | He flashes into one grosse crime, or other, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.14 | Show scarce so gross as beetles. Halfway down | Shew scarse so grosse as Beetles. Halfe way downe |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.29 | The grosser manner of these world's delights | The grosser manner of these worlds delights, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.30 | He throws upon the gross world's baser slaves. | He throwes vpon the grosse worlds baser slaues: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.45 | Then I am sure you know how much the gross sum | Then I am sure you know how much the grosse summe |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.315 | Love's tongue proves dainty Bacchus gross in taste. | Loues tongue proues dainty, Bachus grosse in taste, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.268 | Well-liking wits they have; gross, gross; fat, fat. | Wel-liking wits they haue, grosse, grosse, fat, fat. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.319 | And we that sell by gross, the Lord doth know, | And we that sell by grosse, the Lord doth know, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.13 | Of kerns and gallowglasses is supplied, | Of Kernes and Gallowgrosses is supply'd, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.154 | With character too gross is writ on Juliet. | With Character too grosse, is writ on Iuliet. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.87 | To our gross selves? Good, good my lord, bethink you: | To our grosse-selues? good, good my Lord, bethink you; |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.82 | To be received plain, I'll speak more gross: | To be receiued plaine, Ile speake more grosse: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.18 | And that thou oft provok'st, yet grossly fear'st | And that thou oft prouoakst, yet grosselie fearst |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.469 | Should slip so grossly, both in the heat of blood | Should slip so grosselie, both in the heat of bloud |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.52 | I cannot instantly raise up the gross | I cannot instantly raise vp the grosse |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.50 | To think so base a thought; it were too gross | To thinke so base a thought, it were too grose |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.80 | Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? | Hiding the grosenesse with faire ornament: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.158 | Is sum of something, which to term in gross, | Is sum of nothing: which to terme in grosse, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.65 | Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. | Doth grosly close in it, we cannot heare it: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.266 | Speak not so grossly. You are all amazed. | Speake not so grossely, you are all amaz'd; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.138 | thee. Let them say 'tis grossly done – so it be fairly done, | thee: let them say 'tis grossely done, so it bee fairely done, |
| 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 |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.38 | humidity, this gross watery pumpion. We'll teach him | humidity, this grosse-watry Pumpion; we'll teach him |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.177 | so gross in his jealousy till now. | so grosse in his iealousie till now. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.124 | powers, drove the grossness of the foppery into a | powers, droue the grossenesse of the foppery into a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.135 | that it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as | that it wants matter to preuent so grosse ore-reaching as |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.151 | And I will purge thy mortal grossness so | And I will purge thy mortall grossenesse so, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.357 | This palpable-gross play hath well beguiled | This palpable grosse play hath well beguil'd |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.157 | she, ‘ a great gross one.’ ‘ Nay,’ said I, ‘ a good wit.’ ‘ Just,’ | shee, a great grosse one: nay said I, a good wit: iust |
| Othello | Oth I.i.127 | To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor – | To the grosse claspes of a Lasciuious Moore: |
| Othello | Oth I.i.135 | I say again hath made a gross revolt, | I say againe, hath made a grosse reuolt, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.72 | Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense | Iudge me the world, if 'tis not grosse in sense, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.217 | To grosser issues, nor to larger reach | To grosser issues, nor to larger reach, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.392 | Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on? | Would you the super-vision grossely gape on? |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.401 | As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross | As salt as Wolues in pride, and Fooles as grosse |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.60.1 | In such gross kind? | In such grosse kinde? |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.309.3 | Most heathenish and most gross! | Most Heathenish, and most grosse. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.108 | In gross rebellion and detested treason. | In grosse Rebellion, and detested Treason: |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.112 | Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward here to die. | Whil'st my grosse flesh sinkes downward, heere to dye. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.105 | Of those gross taunts that oft I have endured. | Of those grosse taunts that oft I haue endur'd. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.46 | Weigh it but with the grossness of this age, | Weigh it but with the grossenesse of this Age, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vi.2 | Which in a set hand fairly is engrossed | Which in a set Hand fairely is engross'd, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vi.10 | Here's a good world the while! Who is so gross | Here's a good World the while. / Who is so grosse, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.75 | Not sleeping, to engross his idle body, | Not sleeping, to engrosse his idle Body, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.79 | Grossly grew captive to his honey words | Grossely grew captiue to his honey words, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.163 | as they say, it were a very gross kind of behaviour, | as they say, it were a very grosse kind of behauiour, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.115 | A dateless bargain to engrossing death! | A datelesse bargaine to ingrossing death: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.39.2 | You cannot make gross sins look clear: | You cannot make grosse sinnes looke cleare, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.94 | Know his gross patchery, love him, feed him, | Know his grosse patchery, loue him, feede him, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.142 | Toward thee forgetfulness too general-gross; | Toward thee, forgetfulnesse too generall grosse; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.325 | Whose grossness little characters sum up; | Whose grossenesse little charracters summe vp, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.156 | baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off gross acquaintance, I | baffle Sir Toby, I will wash off grosse acquaintance, I |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.68 | such impossible passages of grossness. He's in yellow | such impossible passages of grossenesse. Hee's in yellow |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.234 | But am in that dimension grossly clad | But am in that dimension grossely clad, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.46 | The circuit of my breast any gross stuff | The circuit of my breast, any grosse stuffe |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.301 | Pronounce thee a gross lout, a mindless slave, | Pronounce thee a grosse Lowt, a mindlesse Slaue, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.176 | Which was as gross as ever touched conjecture | (Which was as grosse, as euer touch'd coniecture, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.107.2 | A gross hag! | A grosse Hagge: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.195 | That could conceive a gross and foolish sire | That could conceiue a grosse and foolish Sire |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.208 | learnedly handle, though they come to him by th' gross; | learnedly handle, though they come to him by th' grosse: |