| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vi.27 | life, and in the highest compulsion of base fear, offer to | life, and in the highest compulsion of base feare, offer to |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.24 | But take the highest to witness. Then, pray you, tell me: | But take the high'st to witnesse: then pray you tell me, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.30 | Thou blushest, Antony, and that blood of thine | Thou blushest Anthony, and that blood of thine |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.64 | The roughest berry on the rudest hedge. | The roughest Berry, on the rudest Hedge. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.26 | As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest band | As my thoughts make thee, and as my farthest Band |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.296 | If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world | If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.50 | or, clown, thou perishest; or, to thy better understanding, | or Clowne thou perishest: or to thy better vnderstanding, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.24 | Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, | Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.133 | Five summers have I spent in farthest Greece, | Fiue Sommers haue I spent in farthest Greece, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.v.24 | Than those she placeth highest. So farewell. | Then those she placeth highest: So farewell. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.viii.11.1 | Wrench up thy power to th' highest. | Wrench vp thy power to th' highest. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.35 | My best and freshest men; served his designments | My best and freshest men, seru'd his designements |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.85 | But tell the traitor in the highest degree | But tell the Traitor in the highest degree |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.122 | Let us with care perform his great behest. | Let vs with care performe his great behest. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.18 | Fixed on the summit of the highest mount, | Fixt on the Somnet of the highest Mount, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.64 | On some great sudden hest. O, what portents are these? | On some great sodaine hast. O what portents are these? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.159 | Come, brother, let us to the highest of the field, | Come Brother, let's to the highest of the field, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.96 | And if thou vanquishest, thy words are true; | And if thou vanquishest, thy words are true, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.43 | Laughest thou, wretch? Thy mirth shall turn to moan. | Laughest thou Wretch? / Thy mirth shall turne to moane. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.18 | Thou antic Death, which laughest us here to scorn, | Thou antique Death, which laugh'st vs here to scorn, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.22 | That smoothest it so with King and commonweal! | That smooth'st it so with King and Common-weale. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.308 | And, in the number, thee that wishest shame! | And in the number, thee, that wishest shame. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.223 | I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, | I haue touch'd the highest point of all my Greatnesse, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.74 | Th' estate of my poor Queen. Leave me alone, | Th'estate of my poore Queene. Leaue me alone, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.120.1 | As who goes farthest. | As who goes farthest. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.285 | Now I have taken heart, thou vanishest. | Now I haue taken heart, thou vanishest. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.439 | The freshest summer's day doth soonest taint | The freshest summers day doth soonest taint, |
| King John | KJ I.i.22 | The farthest limit of my embassy. | The farthest limit of my Embassie. |
| King John | KJ III.i.121 | And soothest up greatness. What a fool art thou, | And sooth'st vp greatnesse. What a foole art thou, |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.31 | You are my guests. Do me no foul play, friends. | you are my Ghests: / Do me no foule play, Friends. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.46 | Which is the greatest lady, the highest? | Which is the greatest Lady, the highest? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.132 | you may cry ‘ Well done, Hercules! Now thou crushest | you may cry, Well done Hercules, now thou crushest |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.65 | And shape his service wholly to my hests, | And shape his seruice wholly to my deuice, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.147 | Time and the hour runs through the roughest day. | Time, and the Houre, runs through the roughest Day. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.23 | Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither | Then wishest should be vndone. High thee hither, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.106 | be ready at the farthest by five of the clock. See these | be readie at the farthest by fiue of the clocke: see these |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.69 | Come from the farthest step of India | Come from the farthest steepe of India? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.244 | will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the furthest inch | will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the furthest inch |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.93 | Or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge | Or heere, or elsewhere to the furthest Verge |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.24 | Made him a man; and though thou livest and breathest | Made him a man: and though thou liu'st, and breath'st, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.41 | I fear our happiness is at the highest. | I feare our happinesse is at the height. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.197 | Perjury, perjury, in the highest degree. | Periurie, in the high'st Degree, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.135 | Should in the farthest East begin to draw | Should in the farthest East begin to draw |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.83 | As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, | As that vast-shore-washet with the farthest Sea, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.19 | To you and your behests, and am enjoined | To you and your behests, and am enioyn'd |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.73 | Travel you farrer on, or are you at the farthest? | Trauaile you farre on, or are you at the farthest? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.74 | Sir, at the farthest for a week or two, | Sir at the farthest for a weeke or two, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.274 | Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee, | Refusing her grand hests, she did confine thee |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.37.1 | I have broke your hest to say so! | I haue broke your hest to say so. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.65 | Which spongy April at thy hest betrims, | Which spungie Aprill, at thy hest betrims; |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.101.2 | Highest queen of state, | Highest Queene of State, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.114 | Spring come to you at the farthest | Spring come to you at the farthest, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.12 | Athens again, and flourish with the highest. Therefore | Athens againe, / And flourish with the highest: / Therefore, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.48 | 'Tis thou that riggest the bark and ploughest the foam, | 'Tis thou that rigg'st the Barke, and plow'st the Fome, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.8 | And overlooks the highest-peering hills, | And ouer-lookes the highest piering hills: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.22 | And climb the highest promontory top. | And clime the highest Pomontary top. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.6 | Grow in the veins of actions highest reared, | Grow in the veines of actions highest rear'd. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.16 | Why sigh'st thou without breaking?’ | why sighest thou without breaking? |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.50 | Misprision in the highest degree! Lady, cucullus | Misprision in the highest degree. Lady, Cucullus |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.119 | Fool, I'll requite it in the highest degree. I | Foole, Ile requite it in the highest degree: I |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.40 | Since I have known frights, fury, friends' behests, | Since I have knowne frights, fury, friends, beheastes, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.420 | Turn then my freshest reputation to | Turne then my freshest Reputation to |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.13 | To th' freshest things now reigning, and make stale | To th' freshest things now reigning, and make stale |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.698 | Indeed, brother-in-law was the farthest off you | Indeed Brother in Law was the farthest off you |