| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.193 | needs be born under Mars. | needes be borne vnder Mars. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.20 | Wilt thou needs be a beggar? | Wilt thou needes be a begger? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.29 | on by the flesh, and he must needs go that the devil | on by the flesh, and hee must needes goe that the diuell |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.183 | Thou this to hazard needs must intimate | Thou this to hazard, needs must intimate |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.213 | casement I need not open, for I look through thee. Give | casement I neede not open, for I look through thee. Giue |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.49.1 | May make it probable need. | May make it probable neede. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.67 | And my appointments have in them a need | And my appointments haue in them a neede |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.24 | the twigs that threatens them. I hope I need not to | the twigges that threatens them. I hope I neede not to |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.28 | You shall not need to fear me. | You shall not neede to feare me. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.79 | They shall be no more than needful there, | They shall bee no more then needfull there, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.90 | needs; the last was the greatest, but that I have not ended | needs: the last was the greatest, but that I haue not ended |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.269 | need not to ask you if gold will corrupt him to revolt. | neede not to aske you, if Gold will corrupt him to reuolt. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.3 | Shall be my surety; 'fore whose throne 'tis needful, | Shall be my suretie: for whose throne 'tis needfull |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.88 | You need but plead your honourable privilege. | You neede but pleade your honourable priuiledge. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.10 | Nay, you need not to stop your nose, sir. I | Nay you neede not to stop your nose sir: I |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.17 | Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth. | Then must thou needes finde out new Heauen, new Earth. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.105 | Were to remember that the present need | Were to remember: that the present neede, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.123 | Anticked us all. What needs more words? Good night. | Antickt vs all. What needs more words? goodnight. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.10 | Your presence needs must puzzle Antony, | Your presence needs must puzle Anthony, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.10 | Which has no need of you. Be gone. | Which has no neede of you. Be gone, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.49 | He needs as many, sir, as Caesar has, | He needs as many (Sir) as Casar ha's, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.50 | Or needs not us. If Caesar please, our master | Or needs not vs. If Casar please, our Master |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.35.1 | He needs must see himself. | He needes must see him selfe. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.25 | On all that need. Let me report to him | On all that neede. Let me report to him |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.46 | First, for his weeping into the needless stream: | First, for his weeping into the needlesse streame; |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.170.2 | So had you need; | So had you neede, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.198 | prologue. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis | Prologue. If it be true, that good wine needs no bush, 'tis |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.199 | true that a good play needs no epilogue. Yet to good | true, that a good play needes no Epilogue. Yet to good |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.60 | What needs all that, and a pair of stocks in the town? | What needs all that, and a paire of stocks in the towne? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.15 | Be secret-false – what need she be acquainted? | Be secret false: what need she be acquainted? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.190 | I see a man here needs not live by shifts, | I see a man heere needs not liue by shifts, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.241 | A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, | A needy-hollow-ey'd-sharpe-looking-wretch; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.391 | It shall not need. Thy father hath his life. | It shall not neede, thy father hath his life. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.42 | If I must not, I need not be barren of | If I must not, I neede not be barren of |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ii.21 | They needs must show themselves, which in the hatching, | They needs must shew themselues, which in the hatching |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.116 | Their needless vouches? Custom calls me to't. | Their needlesse Vouches: Custome calls me too't. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.200 | When he did need your loves, and do you think | When he did need your Loues: and doe you thinke, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.76 | We need not put new matter to his charge. | We neede not put new matter to his charge: |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.44.1 | I'th' absence of the needer. | Ith' absence of the needer. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.239 | need one another. The wars for my money. I hope to see | neede one another: / The Warres for my money. I hope to see |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.1 | We hear not of him, neither need we fear him. | We heare not of him, neither need we fear him, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.35 | In this so-never-needed help, yet do not | In this so neuer-needed helpe, yet do not |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.99 | Myself by with a needle, that I might prick | My selfe by with a Needle, that I might pricke |
| 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 II.iii.61 | Attend the queen and us; we shall have need | Attend the Queene, and vs, we shall haue neede |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.66.1 | You need it not. | You neede it not. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.13 | Smile to't before: if winterly, thou need'st | Smile too't before: if Winterly, thou need'st |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.33 | What shall I need to draw my sword? The paper | What shall I need to draw my Sword, the Paper |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.6 | To show less sovereignty than they, must needs | To shew lesse Soueraignty then they, must needs |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.13 | Is sorer than to lie for need: and falsehood | Is sorer, then to lye for Neede: and Falshood |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.8 | So needful for this present. It strikes me, past | So needfull for this present? It strikes me, past |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.10 | Who needs must know of her departure, and | Who needs must know of her departure, and |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.45 | The life o'th' need: having found the back-door open | The life o'th'need: hauing found the backe doore open |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.66 | with needless jealousy; | with needlesse ielousy, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.174 | As needful in our loves, fitting our duty? | As needfull in our Loues, fitting our Duty? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.125 | There needs no ghost, my lord, come from the grave | There needs no Ghost my Lord, come from the / Graue, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.180 | So grace and mercy at your most need help you. | So grace and mercy at your most neede helpe you: / Sweare. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.3 | The need we have to use you did provoke | The neede we haue to vse you, did prouoke |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.538 | need study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, | need study a speech of some dosen or sixteene lines, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.138 | Go, farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool. | Go, Farewell. Or if thou wilt needs Marry, marry a fool: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.180 | You need not tell us what Lord Hamlet said. | You neede not tell vs, what Lord Hamlet saide, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.94 | As Vulcan's stithy. Give him heedful note. | As Vulcans Stythe. Giue him needfull note, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.188 | Such love must needs be treason in my breast: | Such Loue, must needs be Treason in my brest: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.217 | For who not needs shall never lack a friend, | For who not needs, shall neuer lacke a Frend: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.19 | last swallowed. When he needs what you have gleaned, | last swallowed, when he needes what you haue glean'd, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.3.1 | Her mood will needs be pitied. | her moode will needs be pittied. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.77 | Yet needful too, for youth no less becomes | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.222 | This presence knows, and you must needs have heard, | This presence knowes, / And you must needs haue heard |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.19 | You have good leave to leave us. When we need | You haue good leaue to leaue vs. When we need |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.95 | Needs no more but one tongue for all those wounds, | Needs no more but one tongue. For all those Wounds, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.69 | When thou needest him, there thou shalt find him. | when thou need'st him, there thou shalt finde him. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.84 | Not shall we need his help these fourteen days. | Nor shall wee neede his helpe these foureteene dayes: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.174 | You must needs learn, lord, to amend this fault. | You must needes learne, Lord, to amend this fault: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.3 | For we shall presently have need of you. | For wee shall presently haue neede of you. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.24 | Which oft the ear of greatness needs must hear, | Which oft the Eare of Greatnesse needes must heare, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.15 | need to be. Virtuous enough. Swore little. Diced | need to be; vertuous enough, swore little, dic'd |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.22 | needs be out of all compass, out of all reasonable | needes bee out of of all compasse; out all reasonable |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.21 | Why, my good lord, you need not fear, | Why, my good Lord, you need not feare, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.34 | I hope no less, yet needful 'tis to fear, | I hope no lesse? Yet needfull 'tis to feare, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.128 | before his day. What need I be so forward with him that | before his day. What neede I bee so forward with him, that |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.34 | and as heavy too. God keep lead out of me, I need no | and as heauy too; heauen keepe Lead out of mee, I neede no |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.9 | Lead me, my lord? I do not need your help, | Lead me my Lord? I do not need your helpe; |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.20 | Can play upon it. But what need I thus | Can play vpon it. But what neede I thus |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.215 | Never so few, and never yet more need. | Neuer so few, nor neuer yet more need. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.74 | lack subjects? Do not the rebels need soldiers? Though | lack subiects? Do not the Rebels want Soldiers? Though |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.218 | If ye will needs say I am an old man, you should give | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.78.1 | Need not be dreaded. | Need not be dreaded. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.98 | Marry, the immortal part needs a physician, but | Marry, the immortall part needes a Physitian: but |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.146 | ill-sorted. Therefore captains had need look to't. | Therefore Captaines had neede looke to it. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.113 | one to do her husbandry and her drudgery. You need | one to doe her Husbandry, and her Drudgery; you need |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.95 | There is no need of any such redress, | There is no neede of any such redresse: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.112 | That need to be revived and breathed in me? | That need to be reuiu'd, and breath'd in me? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.70 | 'Tis needful that the most immodest word | 'Tis needfull, that the most immodest word |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.96 | That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honours | That thou wilt needes inuest thee with mine Honors, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.19 | Now, sir, a new link to the bucket must needs be | Sir, a new linke to the Bucket must needes bee |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.68 | And therefore we must needs admit the means | And therefore we must needes admit the meanes, |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.32 | honestly by the prick of their needles but it will be | honestly by the pricke of their Needles, but it will bee |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.20 | not think of God – I hoped there was no need to | not thinke of God; I hop'd there was no neede to |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.106 | He needs not; it is no hidden virtue in him. | Hee needes not, it is no hidden vertue in him. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.83 | Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy, | Thou needs must be englutted. Besides, in mercy |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.111 | I need not to be ashamed of your majesty, praised be | I need not to be ashamed of your Maiesty, praised be |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.61 | And, Captain, you must needs be friends with him. | And Captaine, you must needs be friends with him. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.190 | needs be granted to be much at one. But Kate, dost | needes be graunted to be much at one. But Kate, doo'st |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.203 | and thou must therefore needs prove a good soldier-breeder. | and thou must therefore needes proue a good Souldier-breeder: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.157 | So you had need, for Orleans is besieged; | So you had need, for Orleance is besieg'd, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.98 | I am prepared; here is my keen-edged sword, | I am prepar'd: here is my keene-edg'd Sword, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.18 | Never so needful on the earth of France, | Neuer so needfull on the earth of France, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.ii.17 | Now he is gone, my lord, you need not fear. | Now he is gone my Lord, you neede not feare. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.105 | And then I need not crave his courtesy. | And then I need not craue his curtesie. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.100 | They say ‘ A crafty knave does need no broker;’ | They say, A craftie Knaue do's need no Broker, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.116 | If he be old enough, what needs your grace | If he be old enough, what needs your Grace |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.148 | She's tickled now; her fume needs no spurs, | Shee's tickled now, her Fume needs no spurres, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.153 | Alas, sir, we did it for pure need. | Alas Sir, we did it for pure need. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.116 | Because I would not tax the needy commons, | Because I would not taxe the needie Commons, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.3 | They have the more need to sleep now then. | They haue the more neede to sleepe now then. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.7 | So he had need, for 'tis threadbare. Well, I | So he had need, for 'tis thred-bare. Well, I |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.51 | 'A must needs, for beggary is valiant. | A must needs, for beggery is valiant. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.56 | He need not fear the sword, for his coat is of | He neede not feare the sword, for his Coate is of |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.21 | you needs be hanged with your pardons about your | you needs be hang'd with your Pardons about your |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.191 | A subtle traitor needs no sophister. | A subtle Traitor needs no Sophister. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.65 | She shall not need; we'll meet her in the field. | Shee shall not neede, wee'le meete her in the field. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.67 | Ay, with five hundred, father, for a need. | I, with fiue hundred, Father, for a neede. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.125 | It needs not, nor it boots thee not, proud Queen; | It needes not, nor it bootes thee not, prowd Queene, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.165 | And in thy need such comfort come to thee | And in thy need, such comfort come to thee, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.146 | With aid of soldiers to this needful war. | With ayde of Souldiers to this needfull Warre. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.5 | And, spite of spite, needs must I rest a while. | And spight of spight, needs must I rest a-while. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.128 | And haste is needful in this desperate case. | And haste is needfull in this desp'rate case. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.43 | Nay, then I see that Edward needs must down. | Nay then I see, that Edward needs must downe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iii.59 | What fates impose, that men must needs abide; | What Fates impose, that men must needs abide; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.53 | And, Clarence, now then it is more than needful | And Clarence, now then it is more then needfull, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.46 | Lest in our need he might infect another | Least in our need he might infect another, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.49 | Let him depart before we need his help. | Let him depart, before we neede his helpe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.70 | I need not add more fuel to your fire, | I need not adde more fuell to your fire, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.119 | And must needs say a noble one; which makes me | And must needs say a Noble one; which makes me |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.43 | We had need pray, | We had need pray, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.100 | Your grace must needs deserve all strangers' loves, | Your Grace must needs deserue all strangers loues, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.131 | For he would needs be virtuous. That good fellow, | For he would needs be vertuous. That good Fellow, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.2.2 | What's the need? | What's the need? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.128 | What need you note it? Pray you keep your way; | What need you note it? pray you keep your way, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.231 | The Queen being absent, 'tis a needful fitness | The Queene being absent, 'tis a needfull fitnesse, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.422 | Must I then leave you? Must I needs forgo | Must I then leaue you? Must I needes forgo |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.93.1 | But I must needs to th' Tower, my lords? | But I must needs to th'Tower my Lords? |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.43 | line, they need no other penance. That fire-drake did I | Line, they need no other pennance: that Fire-Drake did I |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.55 | That needs must light on this ingratitude. | That needs must light on this Ingratitude. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.161 | Him and his worth and our great need of him | Him, and his worth, and our great need of him, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.123 | What need we any spur but our own cause | What neede we any spurre, but our owne cause |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.136 | Did need an oath; when every drop of blood | Did neede an Oath. When euery drop of blood |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.279 | I should not need, if you were gentle Brutus. | I should not neede, if you were gentle Brutus. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.47 | to need my death. | to need my death. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.139 | What needs a tongue to such a speaking eye, | What needs a tongue to such a speaking eie, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.53 | A thievish pirate, and a needy mate, | A theeuish pyrate, and a needie mate, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.87 | Or, coldly negligent, did need a spur, | Or coldly negligent did need a spurre, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.109 | That needs no further question; and I know | That needs no further question, and I knowe |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.6 | Thy ransom, man? Why need'st thou talk of that? | Thy ransome man: why needest thou talke of that? |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.34 | Is lawless, and I need not to obey. | Is lawlesse, and I need not to obey. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.55 | Do so, Villiers – and Charles, when he hath need, | Do so Villeirs, and Charles when he hath neede, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.23 | Coward, what flight? Thou liest, there needs no flight. | Coward what flight? thou liest there needs no flight. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.11 | What need we fight and sweat and keep a coil | What need we fight, and sweate, and keepe a coile, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.15 | Who now, of you or I, have need to pray? | Who now of you or I haue need to praie, |
| King John | KJ I.i.179 | For France, for France, for it is more than need. | For France, for France, for it is more then need. |
| King John | KJ I.i.263 | Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, | Needs must you lay your heart at his dispose, |
| King John | KJ III.i.211.1 | But from her need. | But from her need. |
| King John | KJ III.i.211.2 | O, if thou grant my need, | Oh, if thou grant my need, |
| King John | KJ III.i.213 | That need must needs infer this principle, | That need, must needs inferre this principle, |
| King John | KJ III.i.214 | That faith would live again by death of need. | That faith would liue againe by death of need: |
| King John | KJ III.i.215 | O then, tread down my need, and faith mounts up; | O then tread downe my need, and faith mounts vp, |
| King John | KJ III.i.216 | Keep my need up, and faith is trodden down. | Keepe my need vp, and faith is trodden downe. |
| King John | KJ III.i.320 | Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall from thee. | Thou shalt not need. England, I will fall frõ thee. |
| King John | KJ III.i.332 | Uncle, I needs must pray that thou mayst lose; | Vncle, I needs must pray that thou maist lose: |
| King John | KJ III.iv.139 | That John may stand, then Arthur needs must fall. | That Iohn may stand, then Arthur needs must fall, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.75 | Alas, what need you be so boisterous-rough? | Alas, what neede you be so boistrous rough? |
| King John | KJ IV.i.95 | Your vile intent must needs seem horrible. | Your vilde intent must needs seeme horrible. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.98 | Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes. | Must needes want pleading for a paire of eyes: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.79 | His passion is so ripe it needs must break. | His passion is so ripe, it needs must breake. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.178 | Go after him; for he perhaps shall need | Go after him: for he perhaps shall neede |
| King John | KJ V.ii.157 | Their needles to lances, and their gentle hearts | Their Needl's to Lances, and their gentle hearts |
| King John | KJ V.ii.175 | Whom he hath used rather for sport than need – | Whom he hath vs'd rather for sport, then neede) |
| King John | KJ V.v.5 | When with a volley of our needless shot, | When with a volley of our needlesse shot, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.110 | O, let us pay the time but needful woe, | Oh let vs pay the time: but needfull woe, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.33 | No? What needed then that terrible dispatch | No? what needed then that terrible dispatch |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.35 | hath not such need to hide itself. Let's see! Come! If it | hath not such neede to hide it selfe. Let's see: come, if it |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.36 | be nothing I shall not need spectacles. | bee nothing, I shall not neede Spectacles. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.146 | and nobles, needless diffidences, banishment of friends, | |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.104 | must needs wear my coxcomb. How now, nuncle! | must needs weare my Coxcombe. How now Nunckle? |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.187 | Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need | Thou wast a pretty fellow when thou hadst no need |
| King Lear | KL II.i.114 | Natures of such deep trust we shall much need; | Nature's of such deepe trust, we shall much need: |
| King Lear | KL II.i.126 | Your needful counsel to our businesses, | Your needfull counsaile to our businesses, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.143 | Are punished with. The King must take it ill | The King his Master, needs must take it ill |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.201 | Which shall be needful for your entertainment. | Which shall be needfull for your entertainement. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.218 | Which I must needs call mine. Thou art a boil, | Which I must needs call mine. Thou art a Byle, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.233 | Is it not well? What should you need of more? | Is it not well? What should you need of more? |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.256 | What need you five-and-twenty, ten, or five | What need you fiue and twenty? Ten? Or fiue? |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.258.2 | What need one? | What need one? |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.259 | O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars | O reason not the need: our basest Beggers |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.261 | Allow not nature more than nature needs – | Allow not Nature, more then Nature needs: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.264 | Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, | Why Nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.265 | Which scarcely keeps thee warm. But for true need, – | Which scarcely keepes thee warme, but for true need: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.266 | You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need! | You Heauens, giue me that patience, patience I need, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.286 | And must needs taste his folly. | And must needs taste his folly. |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.77.1 | I shall no leading need. | I shall no leading neede. |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.15 | I must needs after him, madam, with my letter. | I must needs after him, Madam,with my Letter. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.14 | Needs not the painted flourish of your praise. | Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.25 | Therefore to's seemeth it a needful course, | Therefore to's seemeth it a needfull course, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.199 | A toy, my liege, a toy. Your grace needs not fear it. | A toy my Liedge, a toy: your grace needes not feare it. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.237 | Fie, painted rhetoric! O, she needs it not! | Fie painted Rethoricke, O she needs it not, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.267 | Dark needs no candles now, for dark is light. | Dark needs no Candles now, for dark is light. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.287.2 | 'Tis more than need. | O 'tis more then neede. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.21 | We need more light to find your meaning out. | We need more light to finde your meaning out. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.545 | Well said, old mocker. I must needs be friends with thee. | Well said old mocker, / I must needs be friends with thee. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.32 | I had most need of blessing, and ‘ Amen ’ | I had most need of Blessing, and Amen |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.2 | He needs not our mistrust, since he delivers | He needes not our mistrust, since he deliuers |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.81 | Then live Macduff; what need I fear of thee? | Then liue Macduffe: what need I feare of thee? |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.36 | fie! A soldier and afeard? What need we fear who | fie, a Souldier, and affear'd? what need we feare? who |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.70 | More needs she the divine than the physician. | More needs she the Diuine, then the Physitian: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.29.2 | Or so much as it needs | Or so much as it needes, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.33.2 | 'Tis not needed yet. | 'Tis not needed yet. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.110 | Took off her life – this, and what needful else | Tooke off her life. This, and what need full else |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.55 | Matters of needful value. We shall write to you, | Matters of needfull value: We shall write to you |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.63 | Nor need you, on mine honour, have to do | Nor neede you (on mine honor) haue to doe |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.107 | clients. Though you change your place, you need not | Clients: though you change your place, you neede not |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.20 | The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds, | (The needfull bits and curbes to headstrong weedes,) |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.224 | the knaves, you need not to fear the bawds. | the knaues, you need not to feare the bawds. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.269.2 | It is but needful. | It is but needfull. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.24 | Let her have needful, but not lavish, means. | Let her haue needfull, but not lauish meanes, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.45 | You are too cold. If you should need a pin, | You are too cold: if you should need a pin, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.48.1 | Must he needs die? | Must he needs die? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iii.9 | I would do more than that, if more were needful. | I would do more then that, if more were needfull |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.30.1 | Must needs appear offence. | Must needs appear offence: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.2 | needs buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall | needes buy and sell men and women like beasts, we shall |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.135 | must, upon a warranted need, give him a better proclamation. | must vppon a warranted neede, giue him a better proclamation. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.92 | In brief, to set the needless process by, | In briefe, to set the needlesse processe by: |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.123 | On him so near us? This needs must be a practice. | On him so neere vs? This needs must be a practise: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.94 | You need not fear, lady, the having any of these | You neede not feare Lady the hauing any of these |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.111 | Well then, it now appears you need my help. | Well then, it now appeares you neede my helpe: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.29 | I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed | I must needes tell thee all, she hath directed |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.14 | There must be needs a like proportion | There must be needs a like proportion |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.18 | Must needs be like my lord. If it be so, | Must needs be like my Lord. If it be so, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.28 | Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo. Launcelot | Nay, you need not feare vs Lorenzo, Launcelet |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.202 | Must needs give sentence 'gainst the merchant there. | Must needes giue sentence 'gainst the Merchant there. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.85 | ne'er put my finger in the fire, and need not. | nere put my finger in the fire, and neede not. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.123 | mind, and the boy never need to understand anything; | minde, and the Boy neuer neede to vnderstand any thing; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.83 | wildly, and would needs speak with you presently. | wildely, and would needs speake with you presently. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.170 | I am half afraid he will have need of | I am halfe affraid he will haue neede of |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.90 | Till then, farewell, sir. She must needs go in; | Till then, farewell Sir, she must needs go in, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.ii.8 | That's good too. But what needs either your | That's good too: But what needes either your |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.187 | What need you tell me that? I think so, when I | What neede you tell me that? I think so, when I |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.82 | you must needs play Pyramus. | you must needs play Piramus. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.119 | That must needs be sport alone; | That must needs be sport alone: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.204 | Have with our needles created both one flower, | Haue with our needles, created both one flower, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.121 | Crook-kneed, and dewlapped like Thessalian bulls; | Crooke kneed, and dew-lapt, like Thessalian Buls, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.346 | No epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no | No Epilogue, I pray you; for your play needs no |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.348 | there needs none to be blamed. Marry, if he that writ it | there need none to be blamed. Marry, if hee that writ it |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.187 | an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck into a yoke, wear the | and thou wilt needes thrust thy necke into a yoke, weare the |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.295 | What need the bridge much broader than the flood? | What need ye bridge much broder then the flood? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.23 | yourself; it is needful that you frame the season for your | your selfe, it is needful that you frame the season for your |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.21 | let that appear when there is no need of such vanity. You | let that appeare when there is no need of such vanity, you |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.111 | have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price | haue neede of poore ones, poore ones may make what price |
| Othello | Oth I.i.103.2 | But thou must needs be sure | But thou must needs be sure, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.283 | With what else needful your good grace shall think | With what else needfull, your good Grace shall think |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.348 | purse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a more | purse. If thou wilt needs damne thy selfe, do it a more |
| Othello | Oth III.i.47 | And needs no other suitor but his likings | And needs no other Suitor, but his likings |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.187 | with her needle, an admirable musician! O, she will sing | with her Needle: an admirable Musitian. Oh she will sing |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.15 | It must needs wither. I'll smell it on the tree. | It needs must wither. Ile smell thee on the Tree. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.129 | She said so: I must needs report the truth. | She said so: I must needs report the truth. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.149 | What needs this iterance, woman? I say thy husband. | What needs this itterance, Woman? / I say, thy Husband. |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.10 | You shall not need, my fellow peers of Tyre, | You shall not neede my fellow-Peers of Tyre, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.77 | What need we fear? | What need wee leaue |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.95 | Are stored with corn to make your needy bread, | Are stor'd with Corne, to make your needie bread, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.II.16 | Are brought your eyes; what need speak I? | Are brought your eyes, what need speake I. |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.47 | He had need mean better than his outward show | He had need meane better, then his outward shew |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.1 | Most honoured Cleon, I must needs be gone. | Most honor'd Cleon, I must needs be gone, |
| Pericles | Per III.iii.23 | But if to that my nature need a spur, | but if to that, / My nature neede a spurre, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.23 | Or when she would with sharp needle wound | Or when she would with sharpe needle wound, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.257.1 | As our intents will need? | as our intents will neede. |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.68.1 | No needful thing omitted. | no needfull thing omitted. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.81 | I shall not need transport my words by you. | I shall not need transport my words by you, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.152 | I cannot mend it, I must needs confess, | I cannot mend it, I must needes confesse, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.4 | Needs must I like it well. I weep for joy | Needs must I like it well: I weepe for ioy |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.176 | Taste grief, need friends. Subjected thus, | Taste Griefe, need Friends: subiected thus, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.17 | For what I have I need not to repeat, | For what I haue, I need not to repeat; |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.308 | Being so great, I have no need to beg. | Being so great, I haue no neede to begge. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.17 | To thread the postern of a small needle's eye.’ | To thred the posterne of a Needles eye. |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.38 | They love not poison that do poison need; | They loue not poyson, that do poyson neede, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.75 | God grant we never may have need of you! | God grant we neuer may haue neede of you. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.76 | Meantime, God grants that I have need of you. | Meane time, God grants that I haue need of you. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.221 | He needs no indirect or lawless course | He needs no indirect, or lawlesse course, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.36 | When I have most need to employ a friend, | When I haue most need to imploy a Friend, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.141 | My Lord Protector needs will have it so. | My Lord Protector will haue it so. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.148 | An if they live, I hope I need not fear. | And if they liue, I hope I need not feare. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.87 | Pray God, I say, I prove a needless coward! | Pray God (I say) I proue a needlesse Coward. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.113 | Your friends at Pomfret, they do need the priest; | Your friends at Pomfret, they doe need the Priest, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.87 | O, now I need the priest that spake to me! | O now I need the Priest, that spake to me: |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.84 | Nay, for a need, thus far come near my person: | Nay, for a need, thus farre come neere my Person: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.103 | My lord, there needs no such apology. | My Lord, there needes no such Apologie: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.164 | But, God be thanked, there is no need of me, | But God be thank'd, there is no need of me, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.165 | And much I need to help you, were there need. | And much I need to helpe you, were there need: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.460 | What need'st thou run so many miles about, | What need'st thou runne so many miles about, |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.21 | Which in his dearest need will fly from him. | Which in his deerest neede will flye from him. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.41 | And give him from me this most needful note. | And giue him from me, this most needfull Note. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.34 | Shake, quoth the dovehouse! 'Twas no need, I trow, | Shake quoth the Doue-house, 'twas no neede I trow |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.7 | upon the table and says ‘ God send me no need of thee!’, | vpon the Table, and sayes, God send me no need of thee: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.9 | drawer, when indeed there is no need. | Drawer, when indeed there is no need. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.117 | And needly will be ranked with other griefs, | And needly will be rankt with other griefes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.16 | Therefore stay yet. Thou needest not to be gone. | Therefore stay yet, thou need'st not to be gone. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.105 | And joy comes well in such a needy time. | And ioy comes well, in such a needy time, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.175.1 | For here we need it not. | For here we need it not. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.216 | Or if he do, it needs must be by stealth. | Or if he do, it needs must be by stealth. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.34 | To help me sort such needful ornaments | To helpe me sort such needfull ornaments, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.3 | For I have need of many orisons | For I haue need of many Orysons, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.6 | What, are you busy, ho? Need you my help? | What are you busie ho? need you my help? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.13 | Go thee to bed, and rest. For thou hast need. | Get thee to bed and rest, for thou hast need. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.19 | My dismal scene I needs must act alone. | My dismall Sceane, I needs must act alone: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.9 | I must needs wake her. Madam, madam, madam! | I must needs wake her: Madam, Madam, Madam, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.13 | I must needs wake you. Lady! lady! lady! | I must needs wake you: Lady, Lady, Lady? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.42 | And in his needy shop a tortoise hung, | And in his needie shop a Tortoyrs hung, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.50 | ‘ An if a man did need a poison now | An if a man did need a poyson now, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.53 | O, this same thought did but forerun my need, | O this same thought did but fore-run my need, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.54 | And this same needy man must sell it me. | And this same needie man must sell it me. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.70 | Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes. | Need and opression starueth in thy eyes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.61 | I'faith, sir, you shall never need to fear. | I'faith sir, you shall neuer neede to feare, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.207 | So had you need. | So had you neede: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.25 | Go ply thy needle, meddle not with her. | Go ply thy Needle, meddle not with her. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.347 | Valance of Venice gold in needlework, | Vallens of Venice gold, in needle worke: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.8 | Nor never needed that I should entreat, | Nor neuer needed that I should intreate, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.119 | Marry, sir, with needle and thread. | Marrie sir with needle and thred. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.2 | I fly, Biondello. But they may chance to need | I flie Biondello; but they may chance to neede |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.21 | need none so long as I live. | neede none so long as I liue. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.87.1 | Nay, then she must needs come. | nay then shee must needes come. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.108 | And him he played it for, he needs will be | And him he plaid it for, he needes will be |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.44 | It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate | It must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.164 | Sword, pike, knife, gun, or need of any engine | Sword, Pike, Knife, Gun, or neede of any Engine |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.4 | And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch, | And yet I needes must curse. But they'll nor pinch, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.4 | I needs must rest me. | I needes must rest me. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.44 | Faith, sir, you need not fear. When we were boys, | Faith Sir, you neede not feare: when wee were Boyes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.105 | My friend when he must need me. I do know him | My Friend when he must neede me. I do know him |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.168 | We must needs dine together. (To Jeweller) Sir, your jewel | We must needs dine together: sir your Iewell |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.248 | You must needs dine with me. Go not you hence | You must needs dine with me: go not you hence |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.17 | But where there is true friendship there needs none. | But where there is true friendship, there needs none. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.68 | Or my friends if I should need 'em. | Or my friends if I should need 'em. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.93 | I, what need we have any friends if we should ne'er | I,) what need we haue any Friends; if we should nere |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.94 | have need of 'em? They were the most needless | haue need of 'em? They were the most needlesse |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.247 | What needs these feasts, pomps, and vainglories? | What needs these Feasts, pompes, and Vaine-glories? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.25 | Immediate are my needs, and my relief | Immediate are my needs, and my releefe |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.20 | part, I must needs confess, I have received some small | part, I must needes confesse, I haue receyued some small |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.1 | Must he needs trouble me in't? Hum! 'Bove all others? | Must he needs trouble me in't? Hum. / 'Boue all others? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.40 | I need not tell him that; he knows. You are | I need not tell him that, he knowes you are |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.12 | must needs appear. | must needs appeare. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.74 | each man enough, that one need not lend to another; for | each man enough, that one neede not lend to another. For |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.35 | Must thou needs stand for a villain in | Must thou needes / Stand for a Villaine in |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.85 | I must needs say you have a little fault. | I must needs say you haue a little fault, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.302 | No, Titus, no, the Emperor needs her not, | No Titus, no, the Emperour needs her not, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.15 | Your lordships, that, whenever you have need, | Your Lordships, wheneuer you haue need, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.162 | And you must needs bestow her funeral. | And you must needs bestow her funerall, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.42 | So that perforce you must needs stay a time. | So that perforce you must needs stay a time. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.39 | To use as you think needful of the man. | To vse, as you thinke neeedefull of the man. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.15 | have a cake out of the wheat must needs tarry the | haue a Cake out of the Wheate, must needes tarry the |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.92 | Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair, | Fooles on both sides, Helen must needs be faire, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.88 | He shall not need it, if he have his own. | He shall not neede it if he haue his owne. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.138 | hand, I must needs confess – | hand I must needs confesse. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.71 | That matter needless, of importless burden, | That matter needlesse of importlesse burthen |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.79 | As will stop the eye of Helen's needle, for | As will stop the eye of Helens Needle, for |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.86 | As you must needs, for you all cried ‘ Go, go!’; | (As you must needs, for you all cride, Go, go:) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.88 | As you must needs, for you all clapped your hands | (As you must needs) for you all clapt your hands, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.7 | needs praise him. | needes praise him. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.38 | Come, come, what need you blush? Shame's | Come, come, what neede you blush? / Shames |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.21 | nothing, for we may live to have need of such a verse. | nothing, for we may liue to haue neede of such a Verse: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.138 | To our own selves bend we our needful talk. | To our owne selues bend we our needefull talke. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.12 | Well said, adversity! And what need these | Well said aduersity, and what need these |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.5 | world needs to fear no colours. | world, needs to feare no colours. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.99 | Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone – | Farewell deere heart, since I must needs be gone. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.175 | Let's to bed, knight. Thou hadst need send for | Let's to bed knight: Thou hadst neede send for |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.98 | And he is yours, and his must needs be yours. | And he is yours, and his must needs be yours: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.3 | You must needs yield your reason, Sir Andrew. | You must needes yeelde your reason, Sir Andrew? |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.125 | Your need to sustain. | your neede to sustaine. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.17 | Nor needest thou much importune me to that | Nor need'st thou much importune me to that |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.144 | What need she, when she hath made you write to | What need she, / When shee hath made you write to |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.83 | For Valentine, I need not cite him to it. | For Valentine, I need not cite him to it, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.186 | Some necessaries that I needs must use; | Some necessaries, that I needs must vse, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.20 | If I keep them, I needs must lose myself; | If I keepe them, I needs must loose my selfe: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.53 | You must needs have them with a codpiece, madam. | You must needs haue thẽ with a cod-peece Madam |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.84 | To take a note of what I stand in need of | To take a note of what I stand in need of, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.301 | What need a man care for a stock with a wench, | What neede a man care for a stock with a wench, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.304 | A special virtue; for then she need not be | A speciall vertue: for then shee neede not be |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.61 | Partly that I have need of such a youth | Partly that I haue neede of such a youth, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.21 | She needs not, when she knows it cowardice. | She needes not, when she knowes it cowardize. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.44 | Be masters of our manners. What need I | Be Masters of our manners: what neede I |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.61 | Need not a plantain; that which rips my bosom | Neede not a plantin; That which rips my bosome |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.7 | His ocean needs not my poor drops, yet they | His Ocean needes not my poore drops, yet they |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.57 | More buckled with strong judgement, and their needs | More buckled with strong Iudgement. and their needes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.46 | You are a horseman, I must needs entreat you | You are a horseman, I must needs intreat you |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.99 | I'll bring you every needful thing; I pray you | Ile bring you every needfull thing: I pray you |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.25.1 | Your hunger needs no sauce, I see. | your hunger needs no sawce I see, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.48 | There's all things needful; files, and shirts, and perfumes. | Ther's all things needfull, files and shirts, and, perfumes: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.83 | Was knee-deep where she sat; her careless tresses | Was knee deepe where she sat; her careles Tresses, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.31 | You are the treasure, and must needs be by | You are the Treasure, and must needes be by |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.146.1 | That two must needs be blind for't. | That two must needes be blinde fort. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.32 | Our losses fall so thick we must needs leave. | Our losses fall so thicke, we must needs leave. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.23 | 'Twere needful I denied it. My affairs | 'Twere needfull I deny'd it. My Affaires |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.186 | Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and ears a forked one! | Ynch-thick, knee-deepe; ore head and eares a fork'd one. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.155 | We need no grave to bury honesty: | We neede no graue to burie honesty, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.161.2 | Why, what need we | Why what neede we |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.168 | We need no more of your advice. The matter, | We neede no more of your aduice: the matter, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.189 | Though I am satisfied, and need no more | Though I am satisfide, and neede no more |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.58.2 | You need not fear it, sir. | You neede not feare it (sir) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.35 | At each his needless heavings – such as you | At each his needlesse heauings: such as you |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.40 | No noise, my lord, but needful conference | No noyse (my Lord) but needfull conference, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.126 | A better guiding spirit! What needs these hands? | A better guiding Spirit. What needs these hands? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.11 | rest of thy services by leaving me now. The need I have | rest of thy seruices, by leauing me now: the neede I haue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.53 | Alack, poor soul! Thou hast need of more rags | Alacke poore soule, thou hast need of more rags |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.412 | Let him, my son: he shall not need to grieve | Let him (my sonne) he shall not need to greeue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.484 | I needs must think it honesty. Camillo, | I needs must thinke it honesty. Camillo, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.497 | And most opportune to our need I have | And most opportune to her neede, I haue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.503.1 | Or stronger for your need. | Or stronger for your neede. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.92.1 | By need and accident. What train? | By need, and accident. What Trayne? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.19 | of the one it must needs be. | of the one, it must needs be. |