| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.89 | these main parcels of dispatch effected many nicer | these maine parcels of dispatch, affected many nicer |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.15 | Which lay nice manners by, I put you to | Which lay nice manners by, I put you to |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.179 | Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives | Were nice and lucky, men did ransome liues |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.14 | lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: | Ladies, which is nice: nor the Louers, which is all these: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.209 | Their nicely gawded cheeks to th' wanton spoil | their nicely gawded Cheekes, to th'wanton spoyle |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.90 | Of silver, each on one foot standing, nicely | Of Siluer, each on one foote standing, nicely |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.178 | Nice longing, slanders, mutability; | Nice-longing, Slanders, Mutability; |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.157 | Command into obedience: fear and niceness – | Command, into obedience. Feare, and Nicenesse |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.48 | On the nice hazard of one doubtful hour? | On the nice hazard of one doubtfull houre, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.145 | Are thrice themselves. Hence, therefore, thou nice crutch! | Are thrice themselues. Hence therefore thou nice crutch, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.40 | To hold your honour more precise and nice | To hold your Honor more precise and nice |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.189 | Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason, | Yea, euery idle, nice, and wanton Reason, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.15 | Or nicely charge your understanding soul | Or nicely charge your vnderstanding Soule, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.94 | When articles too nicely urged be stood on. | When Articles too nicely vrg'd, be stood on. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.265 | O Kate, nice customs curtsy to great kings. | O Kate, nice Customes cursie to great Kings. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.270 | upholding the nice fashion of your country in denying | vpholding the nice fashion of your Countrey, in denying |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.17 | But in these nice sharp quillets of the law, | But in these nice sharpe Quillets of the Law, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.58 | Why, brother, wherefore stand you on nice points? | Why Brother, wherefore stand you on nice points? |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.8 | That every nice offence should bear his comment. | That euery nice offence should beare his Comment. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.138 | Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up. | Makes nice of no vilde hold to stay him vp: |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.102 | That stretch their duties nicely. | That stretch their duties nicely. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.142 | What safe and nicely I might well delay | What safe, and nicely I might well delay, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.21 | these betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed | these betraie nice wenches that would be betraied |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.95 | as the traveller doth of Venice: | as the traueiler doth of Venice, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.219 | We'll not be nice. Take hands. We will not dance. | Wee'll not be nice, take hands, we will not dance. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.222 | More measure of this measure! Be not nice. | More measure of this measure, be not nice. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.232 | Nay then, two treys, an if you grow so nice, | Nay then two treyes, an if you grow so nice |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.325 | This is the ape of form, Monsieur the Nice, | This is the Ape of Forme, Monsieur the nice, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.174.1 | Too nice and yet too true. | too nice, and yet too true. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.162 | Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes, | Lay by all nicetie, and prolixious blushes |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.115 | more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two | more then any man in all Venice, his reasons are two |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.180 | Try what my credit can in Venice do, | Try what my credit can in Venice doe, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.42 | The rate of usance here with us in Venice. | The rate of vsance here with vs in Venice. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.14 | By nice direction of a maiden's eyes. | By nice direction of a maidens eies: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.23 | Why, all the boys in Venice follow him, | Why all the boyes in Venice follow him, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.104 | company to Venice that swear he cannot choose but | company to Venice, that sweare hee cannot choose but |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.118 | Venice I can make what merchandise I will. Go, Tubal, | Venice, I can make what merchandize I will: goe Tuball, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.220.2 | Venice | |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.238 | Your hand, Salerio. What's the news from Venice? | Your hand Salerio, what's the newes from Venice? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.304 | And then away to Venice to your friend! | And then away to Venice to your friend: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.28 | With us in Venice, if it be denied, | With vs in Venice, if it be denied, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.54 | Which trades to Venice. Waste no time in words | Which trades to Venice; waste no time in words, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.102 | There is no force in the decrees of Venice. | There is no force in the decrees of Venice; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.201 | Which if thou follow, this strict court of Venice | Which if thou follow, this strict course of Venice |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.215 | It must not be. There is no power in Venice | It must not be, there is no power in Venice |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.227.1 | No, not for Venice! | No not for Venice. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.308 | Are by the laws of Venice confiscate | Are by the Lawes of Venice confiscate |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.309 | Unto the state of Venice. | Vnto the state of Venice. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.345 | It is enacted in the laws of Venice, | It is enacted in the Lawes of Venice, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.432 | The dearest ring in Venice will I give you, | The dearest ring in Venice will I giue you, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.16 | And with an unthrift love did run from Venice | And with an Vnthrift Loue did runne from Venice, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.251 | Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly. | Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.75 | Despite his nice fence and his active practice, | Despight his nice fence, and his actiue practise, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.106 | What tell'st thou me of robbing? This is Venice: | What tell'st thou me of Robbing? / This is Venice : |
| Othello | Oth II.i.22 | That their designment halts. A noble ship of Venice | That their designement halts. A Noble ship of Venice, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.256 | from Venice. Watch you tonight: for the command, I'll | from Venice. Watch you to night: for the Command, Ile |
| Othello | Oth II.i.294 | If this poor trash of Venice, whom I leash | If this poore Trash of Venice, whom I trace |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.358 | at all, and a little more wit, return again to Venice. | at all, and a little more Wit, returne againe to Venice. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.15 | Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet, | Or feede vpon such nice and waterish diet, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.200 | In Venice they do let God see the pranks | In Venice, they do let Heauen see the prankes |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.137 | Either from Venice, or some unhatched practice | Either from Venice, or some vnhatch'd practise |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.213.1 | I warrant, something from Venice. | I warrant something from Venice, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.216 | The Duke and Senators of Venice greet you. | The Duke, and the Senators of Venice greet you. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.242 | My lord, this would not be believed in Venice, | My Lord, this would not be beleeu'd in Venice, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.262 | And will return to Venice. – Hence, avaunt! | And will returne to Venice. Hence, auaunt: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.88 | I took you for that cunning whore of Venice | I tooke you for that cunning Whore of Venice, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.169 | The messengers of Venice stay the meat. | The Messengers of Venice staies the meate, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.219 | Sir, there is especial commission come from Venice | Sir, there is especiall Commission come from Venice |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.222 | return again to Venice. | returne againe to Venice. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.36 | I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot | I know a Lady in Venice would haue walk'd barefoot |
| Othello | Oth V.i.91 | What! Of Venice? | What, of Venice? |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.6 | Inflame too nicely; nor let pity, which | enflame too nicelie, nor let pittie which |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.84 | Can sick men play so nicely with their names? | Can sicke men pIay so nicely with their names? |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.97 | To Italy, and there at Venice gave | To Italy, and there at Venice gaue |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.174 | But the respects thereof are nice and trivial, | But the respects thereof are nice, and triuiall, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.154 | How nice the quarrel was, and urged withal | How nice the Quarrell was, and vrg'd withall |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.ii.18 | The letter was not nice, but full of charge, | The Letter was not nice, but full of charge, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.307 | Give me thy hand, Kate, I will unto Venice, | Giue me thy hand Kate, I will vnto Venice |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.315 | I will to Venice – Sunday comes apace. | I will to Venice, sonday comes apace, |
| 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 III.i.78 | Old fashions please me best. I am not so nice | Old fashions please me best, I am not so nice |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.83 | Your ships are stayed at Venice, and the Duke, | Your ships are staid at Venice, and the Duke |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.15 | I told him that your father was at Venice, | I told him that your father was at Venice, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.135 | That nice-preserved honesty of yours. | That nice-preserued honesty of yours. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.250 | As to prenominate in nice conjecture | As to prenominate in nice coniecture |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.14 | Nay, that's certain. They that dally nicely with | Nay that's certaine: they that dally nicely with |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.82 | Whom I affect; but she is nice, and coy, | Whom I affect: but she is nice, and coy, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.19.2 | That's but a niceness. | That's but a nicenesse, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.77 | To marry us, for here they are nice and foolish. | To marry us, for here they are nice, and foolish; |