| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.20 | No, you shall paint when you are old. | No, you shall paint when you are old. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.116 | Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, | Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.3 | Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods | Then that of painted pompe? Are not these woods |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.266 | Not so; but I answer you right painted cloth, | Not so: but I answer you right painted cloath, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.68 | As it were sin to doubt – that love this painting | (As it were sinne to doubt) that loue this painting |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.109 | The mortal gate of th' city, which he painted | The mortall Gate of th' Citie, which he painted |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.26 | I paint him in the character. Mark what mercy | I paint him in the Character. Mark what mercy |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.6 | From th' inward of thee? One but painted thus | From th'inward of thee? One, but painted thus |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.51 | Whose mother was her painting – hath betrayed him: | (Whose mother was her painting) hath betraid him: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.478 | So as a painted tyrant Pyrrhus stood, | So as a painted Tyrant Pyrrhus stood, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.53 | Than is my deed to my most painted word. | Then is my deede, to my most painted word. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.143 | I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. | I haue heard of your pratlings too wel enough. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.107 | Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, | Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.190 | you to my lady's table and tell her, let her paint an inch | you to my Ladies Chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.25 | the painted cloth, where the glutton's dogs licked his | the painted Cloth, where the Gluttons Dogges licked his |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.80 | Such water-colours to impaint his cause, | Such water-colours, to impaint his cause: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.1 | INDUCTION Enter Rumour, painted full of tongues | INDVCTION Enter Rumour. |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.49 | With pennons painted in the blood of Harfleur! | With Penons painted in the blood of Harflew: |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.30 | is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify | is painted blinde, with a Muffler afore his eyes, to signifie |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.31 | to you that Fortune is blind; and she is painted also | to you, that Fortune is blinde; and shee is painted also |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.50 | Lest, bleeding, you do paint the white rose red, | Least bleeding, you doe paint the white Rose red, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.12 | With purple falchion, painted to the hilt | With Purple Faulchion, painted to the Hilt, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.26 | Was to them as a painting. Now this masque | Was to them, as a Painting. Now this Maske |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.71 | That's the plain truth. Your painted gloss discovers, | That's the plaine truth; your painted glosse discouers |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.63 | The skies are painted with unnumbered sparks, | The Skies are painted with vnnumbred sparkes, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.230 | O, were it painted, I would wipe it off | O were it painted I would wipe it of, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.82 | To paint thy vicious and deformed cause, | To painte thy vitious and deformed cause, |
| King John | KJ III.i.105 | Is cold in amity and painted peace, | Is cold in amitie, and painted peace, |
| King John | KJ III.i.237 | With slaughter's pencil, where revenge did paint | With slaughters pencill; where reuenge did paint |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.11 | To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, | To gilde refined Gold, to paint the Lilly; |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.253 | Not painted with the crimson spots of blood. | Not painted with the Crimson spots of blood, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.55 | Ay tailor, sir. A stone-cutter or a painter could not | A Taylor Sir, a Stone-cutter, or a Painter, could not |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.30 | Stewed in his haste, half breathless, panting forth | Stew'd in his haste, halfe breathlesse, painting forth |
| 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 III.i.19 | the old painting; and keep not too long in one tune, but a | the old painting, and keepe not too long in one tune, but a |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.16.2 | Nay, never paint me now! | Nay, neuer paint me now, |
| 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.257 | It mourns that painting and usurping hair | It mournes, that painting vsurping haire |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.261 | For native blood is counted painting now; | For natiue bloud is counted painting now: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.263 | Paints itself black, to imitate her brow. | Paints it selfe blacke, to imitate her brow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.573 | the painted cloth for this. Your lion, that holds his | the painted cloth for this: your Lion that holds his |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.641 | He's a god or a painter; for he makes faces. | He's a God or a Painter, for he makes faces. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.886 | Do paint the meadows with delight, | Do paint the Medowes with delight. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.55 | That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, | That feares a painted Deuill. If he doe bleed, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.26 | Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine. | Marry, Sir, Nose-painting, Sleepe, and Vrine. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.60 | This is the very painting of your fear. | This is the very painting of your feare: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.65 | Painted upon a pole, and underwrit, | Painted vpon a pole, and vnder-writ, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.75 | Does Bridget paint still, Pompey, ha? | Do's Bridget paint still, Pompey? Ha? |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.33 | Painting, sir, I have heard say, is a mystery, and | Painting Sir, I haue heard say, is a Misterie; and |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.35 | using painting, do prove my occupation a mystery. But | vsing painting, do proue my Occupation, a Misterie: but |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.121 | The painter plays the spider, and hath woven | The Painter plaies the Spider, and hath wouen |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.6 | standing-bed and truckle-bed. 'Tis painted about with | standing-bed and truckle-bed: 'tis painted about with |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.235 | And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. | And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blinde. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.167 | And pluck the wings from painted butterflies | And plucke the wings from painted Butterflies, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.296 | How low am I, thou painted maypole? Speak! | How low am I, thou painted May-pole? Speake, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.244 | in my forehead, and let me be vilely painted; and in such | in my forehead, and let me be vildely painted, and in such |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.52 | Yea, or to paint himself? For the which, I hear | Yea, or to paint himselfe? for the which I heare |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.98 | The word is too good to paint out her wickedness. | The word is too good to paint out her wickednesse, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.131 | reechy painting, sometime like god Bel's priests in the | rechie painting, sometime like god Bels priests in the |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.259 | Concerning this, sir – O, well-painted passion! – | Concerning this Sir, (oh well-painted passion) |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.179 | Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. | Men are but gilded loame, or painted clay. |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.16 | With painted imagery had said at once | With painted Imagery had said at once, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.240 | Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune! | Poore painted Queen, vain flourish of my fortune, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.83 | I called thee then poor shadow, painted queen, | I call'd thee then, poore Shadow, painted Queen, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.41 | and the painter with his nets. But I am sent to find those | and the Painter with his Nets. But I am sent to find those |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.5 | Bearing a Tartar's painted bow of lath, | Bearing a Tartars painted Bow of lath, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.86 | Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek | Else would a Maiden blush bepaint my cheeke, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.49 | Adonis painted by a running brook, | Adonis painted by a running brooke, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.55 | As lively painted as the deed was done. | As liuelie painted, as the deede was done. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.65 | And paint your face, and use you like a fool. | And paint your face, and vse you like a foole. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.174 | Because his painted skin contents the eye? | Because his painted skin contents the eye. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.143 | With colours fairer painted their foul ends. | With colours fairer, painted their foule ends. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.28 | and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but | and had but this fish painted; not a holiday-foole there but |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.1.1.1 | Enter Poet and Painter, Jeweller and Merchant, at | Enter Poet, Painter, Ieweller, Merchant, and Mercer, at |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.93 | A thousand moral paintings I can show | A thousand morall Paintings I can shew, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.158 | Go not away. (To Painter) What have you there, my friend? | Go not away. What haue you there, my Friend? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.159 | A piece of painting, which I do beseech | A peece of Painting, which I do beseech |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.160.2 | Painting is welcome. | Painting is welcome. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.161 | The painting is almost the natural man; | The Painting is almost the Naturall man: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.199 | Wrought he not well that painted it? | Wrought he not well that painted it. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.200 | He wrought better that made the painter, | He wrought better that made the Painter, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.ii.36 | But only painted, like his varnished friends? | But onely painted like his varnisht Friends: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.60 | With man's blood paint the ground gules, gules. | With mans blood paint the ground Gules, Gules: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.149 | Paint till a horse may mire upon your face. | Paint till a horse may myre vpon your face: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.353 | Yonder comes a poet and a painter. The | Yonder comes a Poet and a Painter: / The |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.1 | Enter Poet and Painter | Enter Poet, and Painter. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.29 | Excellent workman! Thou canst not paint | Excellent Workeman, / Thou canst not paint |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.107 | (To the Painter) If, where thou art, two villains shall not be, | If where thou art, two Villaines shall not be, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.111 | (To the Painter) You have work for me. There's payment. Hence! | You haue worke for me; there's payment, hence, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.126 | And with that quaint hope braves your mightiness. | And with that painted hope, braues your Mightinesse, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.97 | Ye white-limed walls, ye alehouse painted signs! | Ye white-limb'd walls, ye Ale-house painted signes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.93 | When with your blood you daily paint her thus. | When with your bloud you daily paint her thus. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.13 | From Cupid's shoulder pluck his painted wings, | From Cupids shoulder plucke his painted wings, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.46 | Good traders in the flesh, set this in your painted | Good traders in the flesh, set this in your painted |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.53 | That's because the one is painted, and the other | That's because the one is painted, and the other |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.55 | How painted? And how out of count? | How painted? and how out of count? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.56 | Marry, sir, so painted to make her fair, that no | Marry sir, so painted to make her faire, that no |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.184 | And yet the painter flattered her a little, | And yet the Painter flatter'd her a little, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.122 | The ground-piece of some painter, I would buy you | The ground-peece of some Painter, I would buy you |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.65 | Hung with the painted favours of their ladies, | (Hung with the painted favours of their Ladies) |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.193 | How modestly she blows, and paints the sun | How modestly she blowes, and paints the Sun, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.151 | And here's something to paint your pole withal. | And heer's something to paint your Pole withall. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.101 | No more than, were I painted, I would wish | No more then were I painted, I would wish |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.83 | With oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain? | With Oyly Painting: shall I draw the Curtaine. |