| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.37 | Were in his pride or sharpness; if they were, | Were in his pride, or sharpnesse; if they were, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.118 | With sharp constraint of hunger; better 'twere | With sharpe constraint of hunger: better 'twere, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.18 | Ah, what sharp stings are in her mildest words! | Ah what sharpe stings are in her mildest words? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.33 | Though little he do feel it, set down sharply. | Though little he do feele it, set downe sharpely. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.33 | And be as sweet as sharp. We must away; | And be as sweet as sharpe: we must away, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.14 | And therefore, goaded with most sharp occasions | And therefore goaded with most sharpe occasions, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.25 | Sharpen with cloyless sauce his appetite, | Sharpen with cloylesse sawce his Appetite, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.34 | Thou must not take my former sharpness ill. | Thou must not take my former sharpenesse ill, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.142 | Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am, | Proud and disdainfull, harping on what I am, |
| 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 |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.303 | With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate | With thy sharpe teeth this knot intrinsicate, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.189 | Thy sting is not so sharp | thy sting is not so sharpe, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.92 | If voluble and sharp discourse be marred, | If voluble and sharpe discourse be mar'd, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.48 | Alas, how fiery and how sharp he looks! | Alas how fiery, and how sharpe he lookes. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.241 | A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, | A needy-hollow-ey'd-sharpe-looking-wretch; |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.251 | Harp on that still – but by our putting on. | (Harpe on that still) but by our putting on: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.62.1 | More sharp than this is. | More sharpe then this is. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.19 | Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle: | Of space, had pointed him sharpe as my Needle: |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.31 | That have a sharper known, well corresponding | That haue a sharper knowne. Well corresponding |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.35 | Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue | Whose edge is sharper then the Sword, whose tongue |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.87 | Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor | Do feele the Treason sharpely, yet the Traitor |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.39 | Forbear sharp speeches to her. She's a lady | Forbeare sharpe speeches to her. Shee's a Lady |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.12.1 | By a sharp torture. | By a sharpe Torture. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.187 | How say you by that? Still harping on | How say you by that? Still harping on |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.39 | Though inclination be as sharp as will. | Though inclination be as sharpe as will: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.118 | Where being but young I framed to the harp | Where, being but young, I framed to the Harpe |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.16 | nose was as sharp as a pen, and 'a babbled of green | Nose was as sharpe as a Pen, and a Table of greene |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.37 | Let him greet England with our sharp defiance. | Let him greet England with our sharpe defiance. |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.39 | More sharper than your swords, hie to the field! | More sharper then your Swords, high to the field: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.117 | Instead whereof, sharp stakes plucked out of hedges | In stead whereof, sharpe Stakes pluckt out of Hedges |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.17 | But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, | But in these nice sharpe Quillets of the Law, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.70 | Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth, | I, sharpe and piercing to maintaine his truth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.84 | I feel such sharp dissension in my breast, | I feele such sharpe dissention in my breast, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.156 | Sharp Buckingham unburdens with his tongue | Sharpe Buckingham vnburthens with his tongue, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.347 | You put sharp weapons in a madman's hands. | You put sharpe Weapons in a mad-mans hands. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.363 | Were almost like a sharp-quilled porpentine; | Were almost like a sharpe-quill'd Porpentine: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.110 | Hath a sharp edge – it's long, and't may be said | Hath a sharpe edge: It's long, and't may be saide |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.14 | Many sharp reasons to defeat the law. | Many sharpe reasons to defeat the Law. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.44 | To the sharp'st kind of justice. Please you, sir, | To the sharp'st kinde of Iustice. Please you, Sir, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.224 | Of the good Queen, but the sharp thorny points | Of the good Queene; but the sharpe thorny points |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.92.2 | Sharp enough, | Sharpe enough, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.74 | By your good favour, too sharp. Men so noble, | By your good fauour, too sharpe; Men so Noble, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.108 | (drawing his sword) Lorraine, behold the sharpness of this steel. | Lorraine behold the sharpnes of this steele: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.4 | The lively spirit sharply to solicit | The liuely spirirt sharpely to solicit, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.184 | Or else, by heaven, this sharp-pointed knife | Or else by heauen, this sharpe poynted knyfe, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.26 | Endured the penalty of sharp revenge. | Indurde the penaltie of sharpe reuenge. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.165 | With hope of sharp unheard-of dire revenge. | With hope of sharpe vnheard of dyre reuenge, |
| King John | KJ II.i.380 | Your sharpest deeds of malice on this town. | Your sharpest Deeds of malice on this Towne. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.82 | By heaven, I think my sword's as sharp as yours. | By heauen, I thinke my sword's as sharpe as yours. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.285 | How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is | How sharper then a Serpents tooth it is, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.37 | Here stood he in the dark, his sharp sword out, | Here stood he in the dark, his sharpe Sword out, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.130 | Sharp-toothed unkindness like a vulture here – | Sharpe-tooth'd vnkindnesse, like a vulture heere, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.206 | Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her? | Necessities sharpe pinch. Returne with her? |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.45 | Through the sharp hawthorn blow the cold winds. | through the sharpe Hauthorne blow the windes. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.58 | By those that feel their sharpness. | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.49 | Is a sharp wit matched with too blunt a will, | Is a sharp wit match'd with too blunt a Will: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.3 | dinner have been sharp and sententious, pleasant | dinner haue beene sharpe & sententious: pleasant |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.251 | Look how you butt yourself in these sharp mocks. | Looke how you but your selfe in these sharpe mockes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.398 | Thrust thy sharp wit quite through my ignorance, | Thrust thy sharpe wit quite through my ignorance. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.405 | Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song. | Nor woo in rime like a blind-harpers songue, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vi.23 | And his great love, sharp as his spur, hath holp him | And his great Loue (sharpe as his Spurre) hath holp him |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.3 | Harpier cries! 'Tis time, 'tis time!. | Harpier cries, 'tis time, 'tis time. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.73 | Thou hast harped my fear aright. But one word more – | Thou hast harp'd my feare aright. But one word more. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.115 | Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt | Thou rather with thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.161 | Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite, | Fit thy consent to my sharpe appetite, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.64 | Harp not on that, nor do not banish reason | Harpe not on that; nor do not banish reason |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.126 | Of thy sharp envy. Can no prayers pierce thee? | Of thy sharpe enuy. Can no prayers pierce thee? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.171 | what he gets more of her than sharp words, let it lie on | what hee gets more of her, then sharpe words, let it lye on |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.162 | And to that place the sharp Athenian law | And to that place, the sharpe Athenian Law |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.45 | By an Athenian eunuch to the harp.’ | By an Athenian Eunuch, to the Harpe. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.ii.16 | A good sharp fellow; I will send for him, and | A good sharpe fellow, I will send for him, and |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.248 | conference with this harpy. You have no employment | conference, with this Harpy: you haue no employment |
| Pericles | Per I.i.56 | I wait the sharpest blow, Antiochus. | I wayte the sharpest blow (Antiochus) |
| Pericles | Per I.i.73 | (Aside) Sharp physic is the last. But O you powers | Sharpe Phisicke is the last: But ô you powers! |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.45 | So sharp are hunger's teeth that man and wife | So sharpe are hungers teeth, that man and wife, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.23 | Or when she would with sharp needle wound | Or when she would with sharpe needle wound, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.28 | And it pierces and sharpens the stomach. | And it perces and sharpens the stomacke, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.140 | If fires be hot, knives sharp, or waters deep, | If fires be hote, kniues sharpe, or waters deepe, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.46.2 | Thou art like the harpy, | Thou art like the Harpie, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.9 | Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur? | Findes brotherhood in thee no sharper spurre? |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.162 | Than an unstringed viol or a harp, | Then an vnstringed Vyall, or a Harpe, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.322 | Shall feel this day as sharp to them as thorn. | Shall feele this day as sharpe to them as Thorne. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.174 | Lo, here I lend thee this sharp-pointed sword, | Loe heere I lend thee this sharpe-pointed Sword, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.132 | With what a sharp-provided wit he reasons! | With what a sharpe prouided wit he reasons: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.125 | Thy woes will make them sharp and pierce like mine. | Thy woes will make them sharpe, And pierce like mine. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.364 | Harp not on that string, madam; that is past. | Harpe not on that string Madam, that is past. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.365 | Harp on it still shall I till heart-strings break. | Harpe on it still shall I, till heart-strings breake. |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.16 | By this one bloody trial of sharp war. | By this one bloody tryall of sharpe Warre. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.79 | sharp sauce. | sharpe sawce. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.45 | Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife, | Had'st thou no poyson mixt, no sharpe ground knife, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.28 | Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. | Straining harsh Discords, and vnpleasing Sharpes. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.41 | Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. | Sharpe miserie had worne him to the bones: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.176 | My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, | My Faulcon now is sharpe, and passing emptie, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.254 | To run upon the sharp wind of the north, | To run vpon the sharpe winde of the North, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.88 | His word is more than the miraculous harp. | His word is more then the miraculous Harpe. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.54.1 | Thunder and lightning. Enter Ariel, like a harpy, | Thunder and Lightning. Enter Ariell (like a Harpey) |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.84 | Bravely the figure of this harpy hast thou | Brauely the figure of this Harpie, hast thou |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.180 | Toothed briars, sharp furzes, pricking goss, and thorns, | Tooth'd briars, sharpe firzes, pricking gosse, & thorns, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.23 | One of their kind, that relish all as sharply | One of their kinde, that rellish all as sharpely, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.138 | How sharp the point of this remembrance is! – | (How sharp the point of this remembrance is) |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.153 | In hollow bones of man; strike their sharp shins, | In hollow bones of man, strike their sharpe shinnes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.140 | With opportunity of sharp revenge | With opportunitie of sharpe reuenge |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.413 | But if we live, we'll be as sharp with you. | But if we liue, weele be as sharpe with you. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.90 | He dies upon my scimitar's sharp point | He dies vpon my Semitars sharpe point, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.62 | 'Tis true, 'tis true, witness my knife's sharp point. | 'Tis true, 'tis true, witnesse my kniues sharpe point. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.33 | No marvel though you bite so sharp at reasons, | No maruel though you bite so sharp at reasons, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.22 | Too subtle-potent, tuned too sharp in sweetness, | Too subtile, potent, and too sharpe in sweetnesse, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.76 | Now she sharpens – well said, whetstone! | Now she sharpens: well said Whetstone. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ix.10 | Great Troy is ours, and our sharp wars are ended. | Great Troy is ours, and our sharpe wars are ended. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.5 | More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth, | (More sharpe then filed steele) did spurre me forth, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.177 | swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood | swaggering accent sharpely twang'd off, giues manhoode |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.91.2 | No, madam; it is too sharp. | No (Madam) tis too sharpe. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.67 | But you, Sir Thurio, are not sharp enough; | But you sir Thurio, are not sharpe enough: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.1 | Roses, their sharp spines being gone, | ROses their sharpe spines being gon, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.118 | Extremity that sharpens sundry wits | Extremity that sharpens sundry wits |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.30 | Of all this sprightly sharpness not a smile. | Of all this sprightly sharpenes, not a smile; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.132 | Which yields compassion where he conquers; sharp | Which yeelds compassion where he conquers: sharpe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.42 | Is like an engine bent or a sharp weapon | Is like an Engyn bent, or a sharpe weapon |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.70 | At the sharp rowel, which he frets at rather | At the sharpe Rowell, which he freats at rather |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.86 | Whose sting is sharper than the sword's; and will not – | Whose sting is sharper then the Swords; and will not |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.776 | few, the sharpest too easy. | few, the sharpest too easie. |