| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.16 | A nursery to our gentry, who are sick | A nursserie to our Gentrie, who are sicke |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.8 | The beggar's nurse and Caesar's. | The beggers Nurse, and Casars. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.309.1 | That sucks the nurse asleep? | That suckes the Nurse asleepe. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.40 | Which I did store to be my foster-nurse | Which I did store to be my foster Nurse, |
| 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.i.162 | her fault her husband's occasion, let her never nurse her | her fault her husbands occasion, let her neuer nurse her |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.98 | I will attend my husband, be his nurse, | I will attend my husband, be his nurse, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.198 | Are spectacled to see him. Your prattling nurse | Are spectacled to see him. Your pratling Nurse |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.110 | The country, our dear nurse, or else thy person, | The Countrie our deere Nurse, or else thy person |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.97 | Counsel o'th' war. But at his nurse's tears | Counsaile a'th' warre: But at his Nurses teares |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.59 | I'th' swathing-clothes the other, from their nursery | I'th'swathing cloathes, the other from their Nursery |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.104 | Thou wast their nurse, they took thee for their mother, | Thou was't their Nurse, they took thee for their mother, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.88 | So feat, so nurse-like: let his virtue join | So feate, so Nurse-like: let his vertue ioyne |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.341 | Your highness knows. Their nurse, Euriphile – | your Highnesse knowes: Their Nurse Euriphile |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.6 | Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, | Natures soft Nurse, how haue I frighted thee, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.35 | Dear nurse of arts, plenties, and joyful births, | Deare Nourse of Arts, Plentyes, and ioyfull Births, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.46 | Of the most bloody nurser of his harms. | Of the most bloody Nursser of his harmes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.133 | The elder of them, being put to nurse, | The elder of them being put to nurse, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.1.2 | queen, George, Richard, Hastings, a nurse carrying | Clarence, Richard, Hastings, Nurse, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.92 | Have their free voices. Rome, the nurse of judgement, | Haue their free voyces. Rome (the Nurse of Iudgement) |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.28 | Shall still be doubled on her. Truth shall nurse her, | Shall still be doubled on her. Truth shall Nurse her, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.302 | But O, thou world, great nurse of flattery, | But O thou world great nurse of flatterie, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.44 | And lofty Poland, nurse of hardy men, | And lofty Poland, nurse of hardie men, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.124 | On her kind nursery. (To Cordelia) Hence and avoid my sight! – | On her kind nursery. Hence and avoid my sight: |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.12 | Our foster-nurse of nature is repose, | Our foster Nurse of Nature, is repose, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.30 | The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart | The Baby beates the Nurse, and quite athwart |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.271 | Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. | Pardon is still the nurse of second woe: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.15 | Are nursed by baseness. Thou'rt by no means valiant, | Are nurst by basenesse: Thou'rt by no meanes valiant, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.127 | A Bohemian born, but here nursed up and | A Bohemian borne: But here nurst vp & |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.ii.3 | which is in the manner of his nurse, or his dry nurse, | which is in the manner of his Nurse; or his dry-Nurse; |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.64 | to the nurse and bid her still it. | to the nurse, and bid her still it. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.65 | How if the nurse be asleep and will | How if the nurse be asleepe and will |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.15.6 | Lychorida, a nurse. The King shows her the letter; | Lichorida a nurse, the King shewes her the letter, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.43 | Lychorida her nurse she takes, | Lichorida her Nurse she takes, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.42 | Lychorida, our nurse, is dead, | Lichorida our nurse is dead, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.24 | You have a nurse of me. Lord, how your favour's | Haue you a nurse of me? Lord how your fauours |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.53 | My father, as nurse says, did never fear, | My father, as nurse ses, did neuer feare, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.14 | That she is dead. Nurses are not the Fates. | That shee is dead. Nurses are not the fates |
| Pericles | Per V.i.159 | As my good nurse Lychorida hath oft | as my good Nurse Licherida hath oft |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.8 | Was nursed with Cleon, whom at fourteen years | was nurst with Cleon, who at fourteene yeares |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.170 | I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, | I am too old to fawne vpon a Nurse, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.307 | My mother and my nurse that bears me yet! | My Mother, and my Nurse, which beares me yet: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.51 | This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, | This Nurse, this teeming wombe of Royall Kings, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.112 | An if I were thy nurse thy tongue to teach, | And if I were thy Nurse, thy tongue to teach, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.87 | Pour all your tears! I am your sorrow's nurse, | Power all your teares, I am your sorrowes Nurse, |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.32 | Grandam, his nurse. | Grandam, his Nursse. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.33 | His nurse? Why, she was dead ere thou wast born. | His Nurse? why she was dead, ere yu wast borne. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.101 | Rude ragged nurse, old sullen playfellow | Rude ragged Nurse, old sullen Play-fellow, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.1 | Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse | Enter Capulets Wife and Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.1 | Nurse, where's my daughter? Call her forth to me. | Nurse wher's my daughter? call her forth to me. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.8 | This is the matter – Nurse, give leave awhile. | This is the matter: Nurse giue leaue awhile, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.9 | We must talk in secret. – Nurse, come back again. | we must talke in secret. Nurse come backe againe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.59 | And stint thou too, I pray thee, Nurse, say I. | And stint thou too, I pray thee Nurse, say I. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.61 | Thou wast the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. | thou wast the prettiest Babe that ere I nurst, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.68 | An honour! Were not I thine only nurse, | An houre, were not I thine onely Nurse, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.102 | up, you called, my young lady asked for, the Nurse | vp, you cal'd, my young Lady askt for, the Nurse |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.17.1 | Enter Capulet, his wife, Juliet, Tybalt, Nurse, and all | Enter all the Guests and Gentlewomen |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.115 | I nursed her daughter that you talked withal. | I Nur'st her Daughter that you talkt withall: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.127 | Exeunt all but Juliet and Nurse | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.128 | Come hither, Nurse. What is yond gentleman? | Come hither Nurse, / What is yond Gentleman: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.137.1 | Nurse calls within | Cals within. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.137 | Anon, good Nurse! – Sweet Montague, be true. | Anon good Nurse, sweet Mountague be true: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.99 | Enter Nurse and her man, Peter | Enter Nurse and her man. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.144 | A gentleman, Nurse, that loves to hear himself | A Gentleman Nurse, that loues to heare himselfe |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.168 | Nurse, commend me to thy lady and mistress. I | Nurse commend me to thy Lady and Mistresse, I |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.172 | What wilt thou tell her, Nurse? Thou dost not | What wilt thou tell her Nurse? thou doest not |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.183 | And stay, good Nurse, behind the abbey wall. | And stay thou good Nurse behind the Abbey wall, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.191 | What sayest thou, my dear Nurse? | What saist thou my deare Nurse? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.203 | Ay, Nurse. What of that? Both with an ‘ R.’ | I Nurse, what of that? Both with an R |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.211 | Exeunt | Exit Nurse and Peter. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.1 | The clock struck nine when I did send the Nurse. | The clocke strook nine, when I did send the Nurse, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.18 | Enter Nurse and Peter | Enter Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.18 | O God, she comes! O honey Nurse, what news? | O God she comes, O hony Nurse what newes? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.21 | Now, good sweet Nurse – O Lord, why lookest thou sad? | Now good sweet Nurse: / O Lord, why lookest thou sad? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.28 | Nay, come, I pray thee speak. Good, good Nurse, speak. | Nay come I pray thee speake, good good Nurse speake. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.54 | Sweet, sweet, sweet Nurse, tell me, what says my love? | Sweet sweet, sweet Nurse, tell me what saies my Loue? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.78 | Hie to high fortune! Honest Nurse, farewell. | Hie to high Fortune, honest Nurse, farewell. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.31 | Enter Nurse, wringing her hands, with the ladder of cords | Enter Nurse with cords. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.31.2 | O here comes my Nurse, | O here comes my Nurse: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.34 | Now, Nurse, what news? What, hast thou there the cords | Now Nurse, what newes? what hast thou there? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.127 | Where is my father and my mother, Nurse? | Where is my Father and my Mother Nurse? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.136 | Come, cords. Come, Nurse. I'll to my wedding bed, | Come Cord, come Nurse, Ile to my wedding bed, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.143 | Exit Juliet with Nurse | Exit. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.72 | Knock | Enter Nurse, and knockes. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.82 | Enter Nurse | Enter Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.92.1 | Nurse – | Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.108.3 | He offers to stab himself, and the Nurse snatches the | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.155 | Go before, Nurse. Commend me to thy lady, | Goe before Nurse, commend me to thy Lady, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.163 | The Nurse begins to go in and turns back again | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.164 | Exit Nurse | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.37 | Enter Nurse hastily | Enter Madam and Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.38 | Nurse? | Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.40 | Exit Nurse | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.126 | Enter Capulet and Nurse | Enter Capulet and Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.205 | O God! – O Nurse, how shall this be prevented? | O God! / O Nurse, how shall this be preuented? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.213.1 | Some comfort, Nurse. | Some comfort Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.235 | Exit Nurse | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.92 | Let not the Nurse lie with thee in thy chamber. | Let not thy Nurse lie with thee in thy Chamber: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.1.1 | Enter Capulet, Lady Capulet, Nurse, and two or three | Enter Father Capulet, Mother, Nurse, and |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.33 | Nurse, will you go with me into my closet | Nurse will you goe with me into my Closet, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.37 | Go, Nurse, go with her. We'll to church tomorrow. | Go Nurse, go with her, / Weele to Church to morrow. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.37 | Exeunt Juliet and Nurse | Exeunt Iuliet and Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.1.1 | Enter Juliet and Nurse | Enter Iuliet and Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.1 | Ay, those attires are best. But, gentle Nurse, | I those attires are best, but gentle Nurse |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.10 | And let the Nurse this night sit up with you. | And let the Nurse this night sit vp with you, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.13 | Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse | Exeunt. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.18 | Nurse! – What should she do here? | Nurse, what should she do here? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.1 | Enter Lady Capulet and Nurse, with herbs | Enter Lady of the house, and Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.1 | Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse. | Hold, / Take these keies, and fetch more spices Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.12 | Exeunt Lady Capulet and Nurse | Exit Lady and Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.24 | Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, Nurse, I say! | Nurse, wife, what ho? what Nurse I say? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.25.1 | Enter Nurse | Enter Nurse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.1.1 | Nurse goes to curtains | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.95.1 | Exeunt all except the Nurse, casting | Exeunt |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.99 | Exit Nurse | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.266 | Her nurse is privy; and if aught in this | her Nurse is priuy: / And if ought in this |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.131 | And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy. | And melancholly is the Nurse of frenzie, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.2 | To see fair Padua, nursery of arts, | To see faire Padua, nurserie of Arts, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.335 | A loving nurse, a mother to his youth. | A louing Nurse, a Mother to his youth. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.28 | Be unto us as is a nurse's song | Be vnto vs, as is a Nurses Song |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.74 | And they have nursed this woe in feeding life; | And they haue nur'st this woe, / In feeding life: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.51 | Enter Nurse with a blackamoor child | Enter Nurse with a blackeaMoore childe. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.82 | What, must it, nurse? Then let no man but I | What, must it Nurse? Then let no man but I |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.85 | Nurse, give it me; my sword shall soon dispatch it. | Nurse giue it me, my sword shall soone dispatch it. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.103 | (To Nurse) Tell the Empress from me I am of age | Tell the Empresse from me, I am of age |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.134 | (to Nurse) | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.139 | (To Nurse) But say again, how many saw the child? | But say againe, how many saw the childe? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.161.1 | Hark ye, lords, (pointing to the Nurse) | Harke ye Lords, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.166 | The midwife and the Nurse well made away, | The Midwife and the Nurse well made away, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.170 | Exeunt Chiron and Demetrius with the Nurse's body | Exeunt. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.84 | To save my boy, to nurse and bring him up, | To saue my Boy, to nourish and bring him vp, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.319 | Or, shedding, breed a nursery of like evil | Or shedding breed a Nursery of like euil |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.58 | That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse, | That (like a testie Babe) will scratch the Nurse, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.243 | Time is the nurse and breeder of all good; | Time is the Nurse, and breeder of all good; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.32 | Directing in his head – his mind nurse equal | Directing in his head, his minde, nurse equall |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.56 | (To Hermione) Give me the boy. I am glad you did not nurse him; | Giue me the Boy, I am glad you did not nurse him: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.182 | Where chance may nurse or end it. Take it up. | Where Chance may nurse, or end it: take it vp. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.186 | To be thy nurses! Wolves and bears, they say, | To be thy Nurses. Wolues and Beares, they say, |