| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.255 | This is hard and undeserved measure, my | This is hard and vndeserued measure my |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.295 | Why, these balls bound, there's noise in it. 'Tis hard: | Why these bals bound, ther's noise in it. Tis hard |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.30 | be once heard and thrice beaten. (Aloud) God save you, | bee once hard, and thrice beaten. God saue you |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.63 | 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife | 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.28 | too often at my door. I find my tongue is too foolhardy, | too often at my doore: I finde my tongue is too foole-hardie, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.52 | Hardly serve. | Hardly serue. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.7 | More womanly than he; hardly gave audience, or | More Womanly then he. Hardly gaue audience / Or |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.228 | Whom ne'er the word of ‘ No’ woman heard speak, | Whom nere the word of no woman hard speake, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.20 | They are his shards, and he their beetle. So – | They are his Shards, and he their Beetle, so: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.111 | But when we in our viciousness grow hard – | But when we in our viciousnesse grow hard |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.16 | Against the flint and hardness of my fault, | Against the flint and hardnesse of my fault, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.74 | How hardly I was drawn into this war, | How hardly I was drawne into this Warre, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.117.2 | Take to you no hard thoughts. | Take to you no hard thoughts, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.46 | Indeed, there is Fortune too hard for Nature, | Indeed there is fortune too hard for nature, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.171 | I beseech you, punish me not with your hard | I beseech you, punish mee not with your harde |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.41 | I have by hard adventure found mine own. | I haue by hard aduenture found mine owne. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.56 | Besides, our hands are hard. | Besides, our hands are hard. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.172 | that I was an Irish rat, which I can hardly remember. | that I was an Irish Rat, which I can hardly remember. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.178 | O Lord, Lord, it is a hard matter for friends to | O Lord, Lord, it is a hard matter for friends to |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.304 | Marry, he trots hard with a young maid | Marry he trots hard with a yong maid, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.307 | pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven year. | pace is so hard, that it seemes the length of seuen yeare. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.26 | No, truly, unless thou wert hard-favoured: | No truly, vnlesse thou wert hard fauour'd: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.4 | Whose heart th' accustomed sight of death makes hard, | Whose heart th'accustom'd sight of death makes hard |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.75 | 'Tis at the tuft of olives here hard by. – | 'Tis at the tufft of Oliues, here hard by: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.76 | Will you go, sister? – Shepherd, ply her hard. – | Will you goe Sister? Shepheard ply her hard: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.93 | Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard. | Vnkindnesse blunts it more then marble hard. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.58.1 | Master, knock the door hard. | Master, knocke the doore hard. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.128 | hard in the palm of the hand. | hard in the palme of the hand. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.34 | One whose hard heart is buttoned up with steel, |
On whose hard heart is button'd vp with steele: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.46 | Foolhardiness, not I. | Foole-hardinesse, not I. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.80 | A shield as hard as his. A certain number, | A Shield, as hard as his. A certaine number |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.7 | That we shall hardly in our ages see | That we shall hardly in our ages see |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.25 | Heart-hardening spectacles. Tell these sad women | Heart-hardning spectacles. Tell these sad women, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.190 | He was ever too hard for him, I have heard him say so | he was euer too hard for him, I haue heard him say so |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.192 | He was too hard for him, directly | He was too hard for him directly, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.69 | here's water to quench it. I was hardly moved to come | heere's water to quench it. I was hardly moued to come |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.91 | May hang upon your hardness. Therefore hear us. | May hang vpon your hardnesse, therefore heare vs. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.24 | Shall from this practice but make hard your heart: | Shall from this practise, but make hard your heart: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.107 | Made hard with hourly falsehood – falsehood, as | Made hard with hourely falshood (falshood as |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.34 | As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard. | As slippery as the Gordian-knot was hard. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.46.1 | The stone's too hard to come by. | The Stones too hard to come by. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.41 | We have yet many among us can gripe as hard as | We haue yet many among vs, can gripe as hard as |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.8 | We house i'th' rock, yet use thee not so hardly | We house i'th'Rocke, yet vse thee not so hardly |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.20 | The sharded beetle in a safer hold | The sharded-Beetle, in a safer hold |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.47 | As hard to leave as keep: whose top to climb | As hard to leaue, as keepe: whose top to climbe |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.79 | How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature! | How hard it is to hide the sparkes of Nature? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.16 | And he's at some hard point. Speak, man, thy tongue | And hee's at some hard point. Speake man, thy Tongue |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.163 | Exposing it – but, O, the harder heart! | Exposing it (but oh the harder heart, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.21 | Plenty and peace breeds cowards: hardness ever | Plentie, and Peace breeds Cowards: Hardnesse euer |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.22 | Of hardiness is mother. Ho! Who's here? | Of Hardinesse is Mother. Hoa? who's heere? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.8 | Finds the down-pillow hard. Now peace be here, | Findes the Downe-pillow hard. Now peace be heere, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.42 | I should woo hard, but be your groom in honesty: | I should woo hard, but be your Groome in honesty: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.27 | The certainty of this hard life, aye hopeless | The certainty of this heard life, aye hopelesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.44 | Like fragments in hard voyages became | Like Fragments in hard Voyages became |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.75 | Like hardiment Posthumus hath | Like hardiment Posthumus hath |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.289 | Pluck a hard sentence: prithee, valiant youth, | Plucke a hard sentence: Prythee valiant youth |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.432 | Is so from sense in hardness, that I can | Is so from sense in hardnesse, that I can |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.60 | Upon his will I sealed my hard consent. | |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.179 | Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon. | Indeed my Lord, it followed hard vpon. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.83 | As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve. | As hardy as the Nemian Lions nerue: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.87 | He took me by the wrist and held me hard. | He tooke me by the wrist, and held me hard; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.107 | What, have you given him any hard words of late? | What haue you giuen him any hard words of late? |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.208 | Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.109 | scarcely lie in this box, and must th' inheritor himself | hardly lye in this Boxe; and must the Inheritor himselfe |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.227 | Shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her. | Shardes, Flints, and Peebles, should be throwne on her: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.179 | Yea, but I doubt they will be too hard for | But I doubt they will be too hard for |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.100 | In changing hardiment with great Glendower. | In changing hardiment with great Glendower: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.264.3 | True, who bears hard | True, who beares hard |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.74 | Here, hard by, stand close. | Heere hard by: Stand close. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.515 | Hark how hard he fetches breath. Search | Harke, how hard he fetches breath: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.23 | Their courage with hard labour tame and dull, | Their courage with hard labour tame and dull, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.36 | Outrode me. After him came spurring hard | Out-rod me. After him, came spurring head |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.27 | How ill it follows, after you have laboured so hard, | How ill it followes, after you haue labour'd so hard, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.41 | Very hardly, upon such a subject. | Very hardly, vpon such a subiect. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.112 | She is pistol-proof, sir; you shall not hardly | She is Pistoll-proofe (Sir) you shall hardly |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.317 | be acquainted with him if I return, and't shall go hard | be acquainted with him, if I returne: and it shall goe hard, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.79 | That can hardly be, Master Shallow. Do not | That can hardly be, M. Shallow, do not |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.30 | 'a be killed with your hard opinions; for Oldcastle died | he be kill'd with your hard Opinions: For Old-Castle dyed |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.221 | The name of hardiness and policy. | The name of hardinesse and policie. |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.8 | Disguise fair nature with hard-favoured rage; | Disguise faire Nature with hard-fauour'd Rage: |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.16 | Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit | Hold hard the Breath, and bend vp euery Spirit |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.11 | And the fleshed soldier, rough and hard of heart, | And the flesh'd Souldier, rough and hard of heart, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.226 | We must bear all. O hard condition, | We must beare all. / O hard Condition, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.86 | What is this castle called that stands hard by? | What is this Castle call'd that stands hard by. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.179 | wife about her husband's neck, hardly to be shook off. | Wife about her Husbands Necke, hardly to be shooke off; |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.294 | lord, a hard condition for a maid to consign to. | Lord) a hard Condition for a Maid to consigne to. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.160 | And hardly keeps his men from mutiny, | And hardly keepes his men from mutinie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.87 | Again, in pity of my hard distress, | Againe, in pitty of my hard distresse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.40 | That hardly we escaped the pride of France. | That hardly we escap't the Pride of France. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.23 | O thou whose wounds become hard-favoured Death, | O thou whose wounds become hard fauoured death, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.226 | While all is shared and all is borne away, | While all is shar'd, and all is borne away, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.37 | Have done, for more I hardly can endure. | Haue done, for more I hardly can endure. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.70 | Are hardly attained and hardly understood. | are hardly attain'd, / And hardly vnderstood. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.99 | Because thy flinty heart, more hard than they, | Because thy flinty heart more hard then they, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.20 | brave mind than a hard hand. | braue minde, then a hard hand. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.93 | hard with you. | hard with you. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.106 | brother are hard by, with the King's forces. | brother are hard by, with the Kings Forces. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ix.45 | For he is fierce and cannot brook hard language. | For he is fierce, and cannot brooke hard Language. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.92 | Knowing how hardly I can brook abuse? | Knowing how hardly I can brooke abuse? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.51 | She is hard by with twenty thousand men; | She is hard by, with twentie thousand men: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.14 | And when the hardiest warriors did retire, | And when the hardyest Warriors did retyre, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.151 | That hardly can I check my eyes from tears. | That hardly can I check my eyes from Teares. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.167 | Hard-hearted Clifford, take me from the world; | Hard-hearted Clifford, take me from the World, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.55 | Hew down and fells the hardest-timbered oak. | Hewes downe and fells the hardest-tymber'd Oake. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.200 | Then Clifford, were thy heart as hard as steel, | Then Clifford, were thy heart as hard as Steele, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.77 | What! Not an oath? Nay, then the world goes hard | What, not an Oath? Nay then the world go's hard |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.50 | He plies her hard; and much rain wears the marble. | Hee plyes her hard, and much Raine weares the Marble. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.70 | The harder matched, the greater victory; | The harder matcht, the greater Victorie, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.78 | Hard-favoured Richard; Richard, where art thou? | Hard fauor'd Richard? Richard, where art thou? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.1 | Good day, my lord. What! At your book so hard? | Good day, my Lord, what at your Booke so hard? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.6 | For hardy and undoubted champions; | For hardy and vndoubted Champions: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.52.1 | Too hard an exclamation. | Too hard an exclamation. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.105 | Hardly conceive of me – let it be noised | Hardly conceiue of me. Let it be nois'd, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.11.2 | Hearts of most hard temper | Hearts of most hard temper |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.101 | Our hard-ruled King. Again, there is sprung up | Our hard rul'd King. Againe, there is sprung vp |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.117 | Strikes his breast hard, and anon he casts | Strikes his brest hard, and anon, he casts |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.57 | My mind's not on't; you are too hard for me. | My mindes not on't, you are too hard for me. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.36 | O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, | O you hard hearts, you cruell men of Rome, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.75 | That I do fawn on men and hug them hard, | That I do fawne on men, and hugge them hard, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.173 | Under these hard conditions as this time | Vnder these hard Conditions, as this time |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.310 | Caesar doth bear me hard, but he loves Brutus. | Casar doth beare me hard, but he loues Brutus. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.215 | Caius Ligarius doth bear Caesar hard, | Caius Ligarius doth beare Casar hard, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iv.9 | How hard it is for women to keep counsel! | How hard it is for women to keepe counsell. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.157 | I do beseech ye, if you bear me hard, | I do beseech yee, if you beare me hard, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.74 | From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash | From the hard hands of Peazants, their vile trash |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.64 | Ye will not hence till you have shared the spoils. | Ye will not hence, till you haue shard the spoyles. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.93 | Hot hounds and hardy chase them at the heels. | Hot hunds and hardie chase them at the heeles. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.44 | And lofty Poland, nurse of hardy men, | And lofty Poland, nurse of hardie men, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.117.1 | A table and provisions brought in; the battle heard afar off | The battell hard a farre off. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.72 | Your treasure shared before your weeping eyes. | Your treasure sharde before your weeping eies, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.13 | Good news, my lord; the Prince is hard at hand, | Good newes my Lord the prince is hard at hand, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.24 | That, having hardly passed a dangerous gulf, | That hauing hardely past a dangerous gulfe, |
| King John | KJ III.i.310 | Made hard with kneeling, I do pray to thee, | made hard with kneeling, / I doe pray to thee, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.67 | Are you more stubborn-hard than hammered iron? | Are you more stubborne hard, then hammer'd Iron? |
| King John | KJ V.vi.42 | Myself, well mounted, hardly have escaped. | My selfe, well mounted, hardly haue escap'd. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.153 | Pray do not, sir. I have watched and travelled hard. | Pray do not Sir, I haue watch'd and trauail'd hard, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.237 | Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible. | Hold amity? 'Tis hard, almost impossible. |
| King Lear | KL III.i.27 | Or the hard rein which both of them have borne | Or the hard Reine which both of them hath borne |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.61 | Gracious my lord, hard by here is a hovel; | Gracious my Lord, hard by heere is a Houell, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.63 | Repose you there while I to this hard house – | Repose you there, while I to this hard house, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.64 | More harder than the stones whereof 'tis raised; | (More harder then the stones whereof 'tis rais'd, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.142 | T' obey in all your daughters' hard commands; | T'obey in all your daughters hard commands: |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.77 | these hard hearts? You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred. | these hard-hearts. You sir, I entertaine for one of my hundred; |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.98 | Stand in hard cure. (To the Fool) Come, help to bear thy master. | |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.32.2 | Hard, hard! O filthy traitor! | Hard, hard: O filthy Traitor. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.4 | With hardokes, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, | With Hardokes, Hemlocke, Nettles, Cuckoo flowres, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.174 | Pull off my boots. Harder, harder – so. | Pull off my Bootes: harder, harder, so. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.241 | try whether your costard or my ballow be the harder. | try whither your Costard, or my Ballow be the harder; |
| King Lear | KL V.i.61 | And hardly shall I carry out my side, | And hardly shall I carry out my side, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.47 | O, these are barren tasks, too hard to keep, | O, these are barren taskes, too hard to keepe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.65 | Or, having sworn too hard-a-keeping oath, | Or hauing sworne too hard a keeping oath, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.169 | had a very good wit. Cupid's butt-shaft is too hard for | had a very good witte. Cupids Butshaft is too hard for |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.244.2 | You are too hard for me. | You are too hard for me. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.1 | Was that the King that spurred his horse so hard | Was that the King that spurd his horse so hard, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.139 | She's too hard for you at pricks, sir. Challenge her to bowl. | She's too hard for you at pricks, sir challenge her to boule. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.796 | If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weeds, | If frosts, and fasts, hard lodging, and thin weeds |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.4 | Who like a good and hardy soldier fought | Who like a good and hardie Souldier fought |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.62 | Whereto the rather shall his day's hard journey | (Whereto the rather shall his dayes hard Iourney |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.42 | The shard-borne beetle, with his drowsy hums, | The shard-borne Beetle, with his drowsie hums, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.142 | Is the initiate fear that wants hard use. | Is the initiate feare, that wants hard vse: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.139.1 | 'Tis hard to reconcile. | 'Tis hard to reconcile. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.62 | Profit again should hardly draw me here. | Profit againe should hardly draw me heere. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.145 | I can hardly believe that, since you know not what | I can hardly beleeue that, since you know not what |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.51 | Friar, not I. I have been drinking hard all | Friar, not I: I haue bin drinking hard all |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.24 | by the will of a dead father. Is it not hard, Nerissa, that I | by the will of a dead father: it is not hard Nerrissa, that I |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.158 | Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect | Whose owne hard dealings teaches them suspect |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.25 | my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience to offer to | my conscience is a kinde of hard conscience, to offer to |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.40 | By God's sonties, 'twill be a hard way to hit! Can | Be Gods sonties 'twill be a hard waie to hit, can |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.66 | shall go hard but I will better the instruction. | shall goe hard but I will better the instruction. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.102 | Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee; | Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.290 | It will go hard with poor Antonio. | It will goe hard with poore Anthonio. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.33 | That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh | That I shall hardly spare a pound of flesh |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.78 | You may as well do anything most hard | You may as well do any thing most hard, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.79 | As seek to soften that – than which what's harder? – | As seeke to soften that, then which what harder? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.145.2 | He attendeth here hard by | He attendeth heere hard by |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.81 | Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage | Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.42 | the action of her familiar style; and the hardest voice | the action of her familier stile, & the hardest voice |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.9 | Robert, be ready here hard by in the brew-house. And | Robert) be ready here hard-by in the Brew-house, & |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.36 | Hard by, at street end. He will be here | Hard by, at street end; he wil be here |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.103 | shoulders. Your master is hard at door. If he bid you | shoulders: your Master is hard at doore: if hee bid you |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.iii.13 | They are all couched in a pit hard by | They are all couch'd in a pit hard by |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.35 | Of strong prevailment in unhardened youth – | Of strong preuailment in vnhardned youth) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.195 | You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant! | You draw me, you hard-hearted Adamant, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.43 | Well, it shall be so. But there is two hard things: | Well, it shall be so; but there is two hard things, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.198 | Is all the counsel that we two have shared – | Is all the counsell that we two haue shar'd, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.72 | Hard-handed men that work in Athens here, | Hard handed men, that worke in Athens heere, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.118 | I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart, for, | I could finde in my heart that I had not a hard heart, for |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.272 | Any hard lesson that may do thee good. | Any hard Lesson that may do thee good. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.298 | men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing for God's | men grow hard-harted and will lend nothing for Gods |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.38 | ‘ horn ’ – a hard rhyme; for ‘ school ’, ‘ fool ’ – a babbling | horne, a hard time: for schoole foole, a babling |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.10 | I did full hard forbear him. But I pray, sir, | I did full hard forbeare him. But I pray you Sir, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.231 | I find in hardness; and do undertake | I finde in hardnesse: and do vndertake |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.351 | barbarian and a super-subtle Venetian not too hard | Barbarian, and super-subtle Venetian be not too hard |
| Othello | Oth II.i.253 | mutualities so marshal the way, hard at hand comes the | mutabilities so marshall the way, hard at hand comes the |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.283 | Let me but bind it hard, within this hour | Let me but binde it hard, within this houre |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.419 | Cry ‘ O sweet creature!’ and then kiss me hard, | Cry, oh sweet Creature: then kisse me hard, |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.34 | Well, my good lady. (Aside) O, hardness to dissemble! | Well my good Lady. Oh hardnes to dissemble! |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.93 | Shared dangers with you – | Shar'd dangers with you. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.30 | For deathlike dragons here affright thee hard. | For Death like Dragons heere affright thee hard: |
| Pericles | Per II.i.119 | hardly come out. Ha, bots on't, 'tis come at last, and 'tis | hardly come out. / Ha bots on't, tis come at last; & tis |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.43 | Or daring-hardy as to touch the lists | Or daring hardie as to touch the Listes, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.7 | Making the hard way sweet and delectable. | Making the hard way sweet and delectable: |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.2 | And hardly kept our countrymen together, | And hardly kept our Countreymen together, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.111 | With hard bright steel, and hearts harder than steel. | With hard bright Steele, and hearts harder then Steele: |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.164 | Wherewith I reigned? I hardly yet have learned | Wherewith I reign'd? I hardly yet haue learn'd |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.14 | Why should hard-favoured grief be lodged in thee | Why should hard-fauor'd Griefe be lodg'd in thee, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.42 | Open the door, secure foolhardy King. | Open the doore, secure foole-hardy King: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.86 | O King, believe not this hard-hearted man. | O King, beleeue not this hard-hearted man, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.120 | Ah, my sour husband, my hard-hearted lord! | Ah my sowre husband, my hard-hearted Lord, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.16 | ‘ It is as hard to come as for a camel | It is as hard to come, as for a Camell |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.21 | Of this hard world, my ragged prison walls, | Of this hard world, my ragged prison walles: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.339 | How now, my hardy, stout, resolved mates! | How now my hardy stout resolued Mates, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.58 | Have aught committed that is hardly borne | Haue ought committed that is hardly borne, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.92 | Are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence, | Are at their Beades, 'tis much to draw them thence, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.47 | And Buckingham, backed with the hardy Welshmen, | And Buckingham backt with the hardy Welshmen |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.228 | Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart | Till it was whetted on thy stone-hard heart, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.341 | Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood! | Spurre your proud Horses hard, and ride in blood, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.2 | In penalty alike; and 'tis not hard, I think, | In penalty alike, and 'tis not hard I thinke, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.63 | The orchard walls are high and hard to climb, | The Orchard walls are high, and hard to climbe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.4 | Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, | Why that same pale hard-harted wench, that Rosaline |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.79 | Who knocks so hard? Whence come you? What's your will? | Who knocks so hard? / Whence come you? what's your will? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.124 | Ay, it stands so that I may hardly tarry so long. But I | I, it stands so that I may hardly tarry so long: / But I |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.170 | That mortal ears might hardly endure the din? | That mortal eares might hardly indure the din. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.183 | Well have you heard, but something hard of hearing; | Well haue you heard, but something hard of hearing: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.80 | My life, sir? How, I pray? For that goes hard. | My life sir? how I pray? for that goes hard. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.104 | It shall go hard if Cambio go without her. | It shall goe hard if Cambio goe without her. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.343 | In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me | In this hard Rocke, whiles you doe keepe from me |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.16 | Work not so hard. I would the lightning had | Worke not so hard: I would the lightning had |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.20 | Is hard at study. Pray now, rest yourself. | Is hard at study; pray now rest your selfe, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.69 | And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard, | And thy Sea-marge stirrile, and rockey-hard, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.152 | And what remains will hardly stop the mouth | And what remaines will hardly stop the mouth |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.216 | After distasteful looks and these hard fractions, | After distastefull lookes; and these hard Fractions |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.63 | And he that's once denied will hardly speed. | And he that's once deny'de, will hardly speede. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.76.2 | Hard fate! He might have died in war. | Hard fate: he might haue dyed in warre. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.270 | Hath made thee hard in't. Why shouldst thou hate men? | Hath made thee hard in't. Why should'st yu hate Men? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.155 | O be to me, though thy hard heart say no, | Oh be to me though thy hard hart say no, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.45 | A stone is soft as wax, tribunes, more hard than stones. | A stone is as soft waxe, / Tribunes more hard then stones: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.60 | Hard as the palm of ploughman! This thou tell'st me, | Hard as the palme of Plough-man. This thou tel'st me; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.25 | The hard and soft, seem all affined and kin; | The hard and soft, seeme all affin'd, and kin. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.316 | Blunt wedges rive hard knots; the seeded pride | Blunt wedges riue hard knots: the seeded Pride |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.48 | Should have hare-hearts, would they but fat their thoughts | Should haue hard hearts, wold they but fat their thoghts |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.77 | thinking it harder for our mistress to devise imposition | thinking it harder for our Mistresse to deuise imposition |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.114 | Why was my Cressid then so hard to win? | Why was my Cressid then so hard to win? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.115 | Hard to seem won; but I was won, my lord, | Hard to seeme won: but I was won my Lord |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.28 | For this popped Paris in his hardiment, | For thus pop't Paris in his hardiment. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.45.2 | That were hard to compass, | That were hard to compasse, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.102 | none of me; the Count himself, here hard by, woos her. | none of me: the Connt himselfe here hard by, wooes her. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.233 | O, sir, I will not be so hard-hearted. I will give | O sir, I will not be so hard-hearted: I will giue |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.9 | thing more, that you be never so hardy to come again in | thing more, that you be neuer so hardie to come againe in |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.41 | It is too hard a knot for me t' untie. | It is too hard a knot for me t'vnty. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.153 | niece; on a forgotten matter we can hardly make | Neece, on a forgotten matter wee can hardly make |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.112 | Under your hard construction must I sit, | Vnder your hard construction must I sit, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.77 | hardly forbear hurling things at him; I know my lady | hardly forbeare hurling things at him, I know my Ladie |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.58 | Orsino's is returned. I could hardly entreat him back. He | Orsino's is return'd, I could hardly entreate him backe: he |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.85 | It shall go hard but I'll prove it by another. | It shall goe hard but ile proue it by another. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.132 | Truly, sir, I think you'll hardly win her. | Truely Sir, I thinke you'll hardly win her. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.137 | being so hard to me that brought your mind, I fear she'll | being so hard to me, that brought your minde; / I feare / she'll |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.138 | prove as hard to you in telling your mind. Give her no | proue as hard to you in telling your minde. / Giue her no |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.139 | token but stones, for she's as hard as steel. | token but stones, for she's as hard as steele. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.30 | hardly think you my master. | hardly thinke you my Master. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.46 | Is she not hard-favoured, sir? | Is she not hard-fauour'd, sir? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.103 | Now trust me, madam, it came hardly off; | Now trust me (Madam) it came hardly-off: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.47 | Now, daughter Silvia, you are hard beset. | Now, daughter Siluia, you are hard beset. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.81 | To bear a hard opinion of his truth; | To beare a hard opinion of his truth: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.2 | him, look you, it goes hard – one that I brought up of a | him (looke you) it goes hard: one that I brought vp of a |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.204 | To ask you anything, nor be so hardy | To aske you any thing, nor be so hardy |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.2 | And our prime cousin, yet unhardened in | And our prime Cosen, yet unhardned in |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.25 | Her charitable heart, now hard and harsher | Her charitable heart now hard, and harsher |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.64 | The hardy youths strive for the games of honour, | The hardy youthes strive for the Games of honour |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.138 | Is our inheritance; no hard oppressor | Is our Inheritance: no hard Oppressour |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.176.3 | Or were they all hard-hearted? | Or were they all hard hearted? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.106 | Yet pardon me hard language; when I spur | Yet pardon me hard language, when I spur |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.76 | I spurred hard to come up, and under me | I spurd hard to come up, and under me |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.80 | Which shows him hardy, fearless, proud of dangers; | Which shewes him hardy, fearelesse, proud of dangers: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.104 | Hard-haired and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, | Hard hayr'd, and curld, thicke twind like Ivy tops, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.95 | He was kept down with hard meat and ill lodging; | He was kept downe with hard meate, and ill lodging |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.130 | Make hardly one the winner. – Wear the garland | Make hardly one the winner: weare the Girlond |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK epilogue.5 | Then it goes hard, I see. He that has | Then it goes hard I see; He that has |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.146.1 | And hardening of my brows. | And hardning of my Browes.) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.153 | To harder bosoms! Looking on the lines | To harder bosomes? Looking on the Lynes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.5 | You'll kiss me hard, and speak to me as if | You'le kisse me hard, and speake to me, as if |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.111.1 | Hardly one subject. | Hardly one Subiect. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.51 | That way inclining, hardened be the hearts | That way enclining, hardned be the hearts |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.276 | against the hard hearts of maids. It was thought she was | against the hard hearts of maids: it was thought she was |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.466 | You do not purpose to him – and as hardly | You do not purpose to him:) and as hardly |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.143 | Ay, or else 'twere hard luck, being in so | I: or else 'twere hard luck, being in so |