| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.178 | break-promise, and the most hollow lover, and the most | breake-promise, and the most hollow louer, and the most |
| 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 I.viii.7.1 | Holloa me like a hare. | hollow me like a Hare. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.218 | And who in want a hollow friend doth try | And who in want a hollow Friend doth try, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.157 | All-hallown summer! | Alhollown Summer. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.105 | And hid his crisp head in the hollow bank, | And hid his crispe-head in the hollow banke, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.5 | And by his hollow whistling in the leaves | And by his hollow whistling in the Leaues, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.75 | With hollow poverty and emptiness. | With hollow Pouerty, and Emptinesse. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.159 | And hollow pampered jades of Asia, | and hollow-pamper'd Iades of Asia, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.6 | His eye is hollow, and he changes much. | His eye is hollow, and hee changes much. |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.21 | A nest of hollow bosoms, which he fills | A nest of hollow bosomes, which he filles |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.161 | hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon | hollow: but a good Heart, Kate, is the Sunne and the Moone, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.137 | Ay, but, I fear me, with a hollow heart. | I, but I feare me with a hollow Heart. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.121 | The hollow passage of my poisoned voice, | The hollow passage of my poyson'd voyce, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.43 | By crying comfort from a hollow breast, | By crying comfort from a hollow breast, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.66 | For it is known we were but hollow friends; | For it is knowne we were but hollow Friends: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.138 | I rather wish you foes than hollow friends. | I rather wish you foes, then hollow friends. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.104 | But cardinal sins and hollow hearts I fear ye. | But Cardinall Sins, and hollow hearts I feare ye: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.ii.23 | But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, | But hollow men, like Horses hot at hand, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.127 | Read, Lod'wick, read. | Fill thou the emptie hollowes of mine eares, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.128 | Fill thou the empty hollows of mine ears | With the sweete hearing of thy poetrie. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.99 | Let creeping serpents, hid in hollow banks, | Let creeping serpents hide in hollow banckes, |
| King John | KJ III.i.95 | Yea, faith itself to hollow falsehood change! | Yea, faith it selfe to hollow falshood change. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.84 | And he will look as hollow as a ghost, | And he will looke as hollow as a Ghost, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.154.1 | Reverb no hollowness. | Reuerbe no hollownesse. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.112 | have seen the best of our time. Machinations, hollowness, | haue seene the best of our time. Machinations, hollownesse, |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.2 | And by the happy hollow of a tree | And by the happy hollow of a Tree, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.55 | as things that are hollow. Thy bones are hollow. | as things that are hollow; thy bones are hollow; |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iii.23.1 | Or hollowly put on. | Or hollowly put on. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.267 | To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow | To view with hollow eye, and wrinkled brow |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.43 | Leave holloaing, man! Here. | Leaue hollowing man, heere. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.153 | jealous as Ford, that searched a hollow walnut for his | iealous as Ford, that search'd a hollow Wall-nut for his |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.444 | Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell! | Arise blacke vengeance, from the hollow hell, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.78 | Is hushed within the hollow mine of earth | Is hush'd within the hollow Myne of Earth |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.51 | Our cheeks and hollow eyes do witness it. | Our cheekes and hollow eyes doe witnesse it. |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.67 | Hath stuffed the hollow vessels with their power, | That stuff't the hollow vessels with their power, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.59 | Not with the empty hollowness, but weight. | Not with the emptie hollownes, but weight: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.9 | Did grace our hollow parting with a tear. | Did grace our hollow parting with a teare. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.83 | Whose hollow womb inherits naught but bones. | Whose hollow wombe inherits naught but bones. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.270 | Not so. Even through the hollow eyes of death | Not so: euen through the hollow eyes of death, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.140 | And lie full low, graved in the hollow ground. | And lye full low, grau'd in the hollow ground. |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.160 | All murdered. For within the hollow crown | All murther'd. For within the hollow Crowne |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.54 | As may be hollowed in thy treacherous ear | |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.80 | Sent back like Hallowmas or shortest of day. | Sent back like Hollowmas, or short'st of day. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.38 | Deep, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile | Deepe, hollow, treacherous, and full of guile, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.435 | Throng many doubtful, hollow-hearted friends, | Throng many doubtfull hollow-hearted friends, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.128 | Thy dear love sworn but hollow perjury, | Thy deare Loue sworne but hollow periurie, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.3 | That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear. | That pier'st the fearefull hollow of thine eare, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.4 | Holding thy ear close to the hollow ground. | Holding thy eare close to the hollow ground, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.45 | And fetch shrill echoes from the hollow earth. | And fetch shrill ecchoes from the hollow earth. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.316 | Even now, we heard a hollow burst of bellowing | (Euen now) we heard a hollow burst of bellowing |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.70 | If I speak true! If hollowly, invert | If I speake true: if hollowly, inuert |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.139.4 | which, to a strange, hollow, and confused noise, they | which to a strange hollow and confused noyse, they |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.15 | To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, | To set a glosse on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, |
| 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 II.iii.249 | Into this gaping hollow of the earth? | Into this gaping hollow of the earth? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.84 | Is torn from forth that pretty hollow cage, | Is torne from forth that pretty hollow cage, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.10 | Beats in this hollow prison of my flesh, | Beats in this hollow prison of my flesh, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.35 | There's not a hollow cave or lurking place, | Ther's not a hollow Caue or lurking place, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.80 | Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions. | Hollow vpon this Plaine, so many hollow Factions. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.169 | Strained purely from all hollow bias-drawing, | Strain'd purely from all hollow bias drawing: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.91 | Lo, how hollow the fiend speaks within him. Did | Lo, how hollow the fiend speakes within him; did |