| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.5 | smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure. | smell somewhat strong of her strong displeasure. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.145 | Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms; | Mewling, and puking in the Nurses armes: |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.177 | homewards. – Good sir, go with us. | homewards: good sir, goe with vs. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.118 | And therefore homeward did they bend their course. | And therefore homeward did they bend their course. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.135 | And coasting homeward came to Ephesus, | And coasting homeward, came to Ephesus: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.5 | And from the mart he's somewhere gone to dinner. | And from the Mart he's somewhere gone to dinner: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.121 | Be something scanter of your maiden presence. | Be somewhat scanter of your Maiden presence; |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.288 | The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. | The Cat will Mew, and Dogge will haue his day. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.123 | I had rather be a kitten and cry ‘ mew ’ | I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.226 | Thou whoreson little tidy Bartholomew boar-pig, when | thou whorson little tydie Bartholmew Bore-pigge, when |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.79 | somewhat. | somwhat. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.303 | summered and warm kept, are like flies at Bartholomew-tide, | Summer'd, and warme kept, are like Flyes at Bartholomew-tyde, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.14 | Somewhat too sudden, sirs, the warning is, | Somewhat too sodaine Sirs, the warning is, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.394.2 | That's somewhat sudden. | That's somewhat sodain. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.40 | somewhat near the door, he should be a brazier by his | somewhat neere the doore, he should be a Brasier by his |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.31 | But somewhat better than the Scot could speak. | But somewhat better then the Scot could speake, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.57 | The steps of wrong, should move you to mew up | The steppes of wrong, should moue you to mew vp |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.68 | Marry, your manhood! Mew! | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.4 | blood; ripe as the pomewater, who now hangeth like a | blood, ripe as a Pomwater, who now hangeth like a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.351 | Then homeward every man attach the hand | Then homeward euery man attach the hand |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.836 | To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain, | To weed this Wormewood from your fruitfull braine, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.28 | Wracked as homeward he did come. | Wrackt, as homeward he did come. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.1 | Thrice the brinded cat hath mewed. | Thrice the brinded Cat hath mew'd. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.94 | Nips youth i'th' head, and follies doth enew | Nips youth i'th head, and follies doth emmew |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.84 | This gentleman told somewhat of my tale. | This Gentleman told somewhat of my Tale. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.89.1 | That's somewhat madly spoken. | That's somewhat madly spoken. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iii.13 | These foolish drops do something drown my manly | these foolish drops doe somewhat drowne my manly |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.114 | to your content. Here is a letter will say somewhat. | to your content: here is a Letter will say somewhat: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.71 | For aye to be in shady cloister mewed, | For aye to be in shady Cloister mew'd, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.123 | Thou givest me somewhat to repair myself, | Thou giuest me somewhat to repaire my selfe: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.44 | And liberal largess are grown somewhat light, | And liberall Largesse, are growne somewhat light, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.116 | Well, somewhat we must do. (To the Queen) Come, cousin, | Well, somewhat we must do: Come Cozen, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.38 | This day should Clarence closely be mewed up | This day should Clarence closely be mew'd vp: |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.132 | More pity that the eagles should be mewed, | More pitty, that the Eagles should be mew'd, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.116 | And fall somewhat into a slower method, | And fall something into a slower method. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.138 | And for his meed, poor lord, he is mewed up. | And for his meede, poore Lord, he is mewed vp: |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.54 | Somewhat against our meaning, have prevented; | Something against our meanings, haue preuented; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.27 | For I had then laid wormwood to my dug, | for I had then laid Worme-wood to my Dug |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.31 | When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple | when it did tast the Worme-wood on the nipple |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.16 | Enter Juliet somewhat fast. She embraces Romeo | Enter Iuliet. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iv.11 | Tonight she's mewed up to her heaviness. | To night, she is mewed vp to her heauinesse. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.103 | Sirrah, go you to Barthol'mew my page, | Sirra go you to Bartholmew my Page, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.87.2 | Why will you mew her up, | Why will you mew her vp |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.180 | And therefore has he closely mewed her up, | And therefore has he closely meu'd her vp, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.100 | In countenance somewhat doth resemble you. | In count'nance somewhat doth resemble you. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.15 | Somewhat too early for new-married ladies. | Somewhat to earely for new married Ladies. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.9 | Fear her not, Lucius; somewhat doth she mean. | Feare not Lucius, somewhat doth she meane: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.11 | Somewhither would she have thee go with her. | Some whether would she haue thee goe with her. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.41 | He thinks with Jove in heaven, or somewhere else, | He thinkes with Ioue in heauen, or somewhere else: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.43 | An her hair were not somewhat darker than | And her haire were not somewhat darker then |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.9 | I prithee, vent thy folly somewhere else; thou | I prethee vent thy folly some-where else, thou |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.6 | I'll wear a boot to make it somewhat rounder. | Ile weare a Boote, to make it somewhat rounder. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.44 | And somewhat better than your rank I'll use you. | aud somewhat better than your rancke Ile use you. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.94 | He's somewhat bigger than the knight he spoke of, | Hee's somewhat bigger, then the Knight he spoke of, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.24 | Do even drag me homeward; which to hinder | Doe euen drag me home-ward: which to hinder, |