| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.39 | Clock to itself, knew the true minute when | Clocke to it selfe, knew the true minute when |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.166 | Hath told the thievish minutes how they pass, | Hath told the theeuish minutes, how they passe: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.46 | There's not a minute of our lives should stretch | There's not a minute of our liues should stretch |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.i.20 | Which he achieved by th' minute, lost his favour. | Which he atchiu'd by'th'minute, lost his fauour. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.81 | Each minute some. | each minute, some. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.295 | sighing every minute and groaning every hour would | sighing euerie minute, and groaning euerie houre wold |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.40 | divide a minute into a thousand parts, and break but a | diuide a minute into a thousand parts, and breake but a |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.41 | part of the thousandth part of a minute in the affairs of | part of the thousand part of a minute in the affairs of |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.176 | if you break one jot of your promise, or come one minute | if you breake one iot of your promise, or come one minute |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.180 | With every minute you do change a mind | With euery Minute you do change a Minde, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.182 | One vice, but of a minute old, for one | One Vice, but of a minute old, for one |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.51 | Should by the minute feed on life and ling'ring | Should by the minute feede on life, and ling'ring, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.27 | With us to watch the minutes of this night, | With vs, to watch the minutes of this Night, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.9 | The perfume and suppliance of a minute, | The suppliance of a minute? No more. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.7 | Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, | vnlesse houres were cups of Sacke, and minutes Capons, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.7 | What news, Lord Bardolph? Every minute now | What newes Lord Bardolfe? Eu'ry minute now |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.83 | Of every minute's instance, present now, | Of euery Minutes instance (present now) |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.54 | That walked about me every minute while; | That walkt about me euery Minute while: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.338 | And think it but a minute spent in sport. | And thinke it but a minute spent in sport. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.25 | Thereby to see the minutes how they run: | Thereby to see the Minutes how they runne: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.38 | So minutes, hours, days, months, and years, | So Minutes, Houres, Dayes, Monthes, and Yeares, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.121 | His hour of speech a minute – he, my lady, | His houre of speech, a minute: He, (my Lady) |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.149 | His confessor, who fed him every minute | His Confessor, who fed him euery minute |
| King John | KJ III.iv.134 | One minute, nay, one quiet breath, of rest. | One minute, nay one quiet breath of rest. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.46 | And like the watchful minutes to the hour, | And like the watchfull minutes, to the houre, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.180 | Or groan for Joan? Or spend a minute's time | Or grone for Ioane? or spend a minutes time, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.782 | Now, at the latest minute of the hour, | Now at the latest minute of the houre, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.116 | That every minute of his being thrusts | That euery minute of his being, thrusts |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.176.1 | Each minute teems a new one. | Each minute teemes a new one. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.18 | Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach. | Now minutely Reuolts vpbraid his Faith-breach: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.25 | The good humour is to steal at a minute's rest. | The good humor is to steale at a minutes rest. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.297 | minute too late. Fie, fie, fie! Cuckold, cuckold, cuckold! | mynute too late: fie, fie, fie: Cuckold, Cuckold, Cuckold. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.2 | minute draws on. Now, the hot-blooded gods assist | Minute drawes-on: Now the hot-bloodied-Gods assist |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.176.1 | In forty minutes! | in forty minutes. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.2 | Then for the third part of a minute hence: | Then for the third part of a minute hence, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.118 | The tedious minutes I with her have spent. | The tedious minutes I with her haue spent. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.41 | For every minute is expectancy | For euery Minute is expectancie |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.167 | But O, what damned minutes tells he o'er, | But oh, what damned minutes tels he ore, |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.24 | With whom each minute threatens life or death. | with whome eache minute threatens life or death. |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.44 | Where's hourly trouble, for a minute's ease. | Where's howerly trouble, for a minuts ease) |
| Pericles | Per V.i.158 | Who died the minute I was born, | who died the minute I was borne, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.213 | The minute I began. | the minute I began. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.226 | But not a minute, King, that thou canst give. | But not a minute (King) that thou canst giue; |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.51 | My thoughts are minutes, and with sighs they jar | My Thoughts, are minutes; and with Sighes they iarre, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.58 | Show minutes, times, and hours. But my time | Shew Minutes, Houres, and Times: but my Time |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.145 | talk and will speak more in a minute than he will stand | talke, and will speake more in a minute, then he will stand |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.5 | That one short minute gives me in her sight. | That one short minute giues me in her sight: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.45 | For in a minute there are many days. | For in a minute there are many dayes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.257 | But when I came, some minute ere the time | But when I came (some Minute ere the time |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.37 | The very minute bids thee ope thine ear. | The very minute byds thee ope thine eare, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.141 | Against my life. The minute of their plot | Against my life: the minute of their plot |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.97 | Cap-and-knee slaves, vapours, and minute-jacks! | Cap and knee-Slaues, vapours, and Minute Iackes. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.14 | Even in a minute. So full of shapes is fancy | Euen in a minute; so full of shapes is fancie, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.93 | No interim, not a minute's vacancy, | No intrim, not a minutes vacancie, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.103.1 | Who hath bounded our last minute. | Who hath bounded our last minute. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.290 | Hours minutes? Noon midnight? And all eyes | Houres, Minutes? Noone, Mid-night? and all Eyes |