| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.30 | And wore us out of act. It much repairs me | And wore vs out of act: It much repaires me |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.144 | Where hope is coldest and despair most fits. | Where hope is coldest, and despaire most shifts. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.72 | whipped them not, and our crimes would despair if they | whipt them not, and our crimes would dispaire if they |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.29 | to pare her nails now. Wherein have you played the | to paire her nailes now. Wherein haue you played the |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.37 | Is to do thus – when such a mutual pair | Is to do thus: when such a mutuall paire, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.39 | The discontents repair, and men's reports | The discontents repaire, and mens reports |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.v.12 | Then, world, thou hast a pair of chaps, no more; | Then would thou hadst a paire of chaps no more, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.12 | When vantage like a pair of twins appeared, | When vantage like a payre of Twinnes appear'd |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.19 | Which my despair proclaims. Let that be left | Which my dispaire proclaimes. Let them be left |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.358 | A pair so famous. High events as these | A payre so famous: high euents as these |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.14 | He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana. A nun | Hee hath bought a paire of cast lips of Diana: a Nun |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.36 | degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage | degrees, haue they made a paire of staires to marriage, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.36 | couples are coming to the ark. Here comes a pair of | couples are comming to the Arke. Here comes a payre of |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.99 | A sunny look of his would soon repair. | A sunnie looke of his, would soone repaire. |
| 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 V.i.80 | Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair, | Kinsman to grim and comfortlesse dispaire, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.74 | cause is calling both the parties knaves. You are a pair of | Cause, is calling both the parties Knaues. You are a payre of |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.148 | Repair to th' Senate House. | Repayre to th'Senate-house. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.253.1 | Repair to th' Capitol. | Repaire to th'Capitoll. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.127 | Fan you into despair! Have the power still | Fan you into dispaire: Haue the power still |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.16 | A pair of tribunes that have wracked for Rome | A paire of Tribunes, that haue wrack'd for Rome, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.3 | Bid them repair to th' market-place, where I, | Bid them repayre to th' Market place, where I |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.63 | That shouldst repair my youth, thou heap'st | That should'st repayre my youth, thou heap'st |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.68 | Past hope, and in despair, that way past grace. | Past hope, and in dispaire, that way past Grace. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.12 | Repairs itself by rest. Our Tarquin thus | Repaires it selfe by rest: Our Tarquine thus |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.57 | Hath too much mangled; whose repair, and franchise, | Hath too much mangled; whose repayre, and franchise, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.61 | Where is she gone? Haply, despair hath seized her: | Where is she gone? Haply dispaire hath seiz'd her: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.61.1 | Despairing died. | Dispayring, dyed. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.357.1 | A pair of worthier sons. | A payre of worthier Sonnes. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.185 | And let him, for a pair of reechy kisses, | And let him for a paire of reechie kisses, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.22 | King have the letters I have sent, and repair thou to me | King haue the Letters I hauesent, and repaire thou to me |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.107 | double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair | double ones too, then the length and breadth of a paire |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.212 | forestall their repair hither and say you are not fit. | forestall their repaire hither, and say you are not fit. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.68 | hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows. For if I hang, old | hang, Ile make a fat payre of Gallowes. For, if I hang, old |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.47 | show it a fair pair of heels, and run from it? | show it a faire paire of heeles, and run from it? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.40 | Hope gives not so much warrant, as despair | Hope giues not so much warrant, as Dispaire |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.14 | thy face tomorrow! Or to take note how many pair of | thy face to morrow? Or to take note how many paire of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.220 | canvass thee between a pair of sheets. | canuas thee betweene a paire of Sheetes. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.7 | To line and new repair our towns of war | To lyne and new repayre our Townes of Warre |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.147 | I thought upon one pair of English legs | I thought, vpon one payre of English Legges |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.76 | command you, in his highness' name, to repair to your | command you, in his Highnesse Name, to repayre to your |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.17 | Despairing of his own arm's fortitude, | Dispairing of his owne armes fortitude, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.ii.30 | Like to a pair of loving turtle-doves | Like to a payre of louing Turtle-Doues, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.28 | But now the arbitrator of despairs, | But now, the Arbitrator of Despaires, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.90 | Environ you, till mischief and despair | Inuiron you, till Mischeefe and Dispaire, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.103 | To call them both a pair of crafty knaves. | To call them both a payre of craftie Knaues. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.65 | Gives light in darkness, comfort in despair! | Giues Light in Darknesse, Comfort in Despaire. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.23 | And from his bosom purge this black despair. | And from his bosome purge this blacke dispaire. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.iii.5 | Repairs him with occasion? This happy day | Repaires him with Occasion. This happy day |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.iii.22 | Being opposites of such repairing nature. | Being opposites of such repayring Nature. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.178 | Base, fearful, and despairing Henry! | Base, fearefull, and despayring Henry. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.9 | Our hap is loss, our hope but sad despair; | Our hap is losse, our hope but sad dispaire, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.7 | Impairing Henry, strengthening misproud York. | Impairing Henry, strength'ning misproud Yorke; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.12 | Why, say, fair Queen, whence springs this deep despair? | Why say, faire Queene, whence springs this deepe despaire? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.193 | And to repair my honour lost for him, | And to repaire my Honor lost for him, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.215 | Unless thou rescue him from foul despair? | Vnlesse thou rescue him from foule dispaire? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.17 | And I the rather wean me from despair | And I the rather waine me from dispaire |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.15 | For hither will our friends repair to us. | For hither will our friends repaire to vs. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.20 | That we could hear no news of his repair? | That we could heare no newes of his repayre. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.27 | Fears, and despairs – and all these for his marriage. | Feares, and despaires, and all these for his Marriage. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.3 | Not for delights, times to repair our nature | Not for delights: Times to repayre our Nature |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.147 | Repair to Pompey's Porch, where you shall find us. | Repaire to Pompeyes Porch, where you shall finde vs. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.152 | That done, repair to Pompey's Theatre. | That done, repayre to Pompeyes Theater. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.62 | Repair to France within these forty days, | Repaire to France within these forty daies, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.27 | Belike you then despair of ill success, | Be like you then dispaire of ill successe, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.12 | You wretched patterns of despair and woe, | You wretched patterns of dispayre and woe, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.48 | Lo, to repair thy life I give to thee | Lo, to repaire thy life, I giue to thee, |
| King John | KJ II.i.554 | Some speedy messenger bid her repair | Some speedy Messenger bid her repaire |
| King John | KJ III.i.297 | But in despair die under their black weight. | But in despaire, dye vnder their blacke weight. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.113 | Even in the instant of repair and health, | Euen in the instant of repaire and health, |
| 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.iii.126 | To this most cruel act, do but despair; | To this most cruell Act: do but dispaire, |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.75 | And I'll repair the misery thou dost bear | And Ile repayre the misery thou do'st beare |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.33 | Why I do trifle thus with his despair | Why I do trifle thus with his dispaire, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.28 | Repair those violent harms that my two sisters | Repaire those violent harmes, that my two Sisters |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.189 | Led him, begged for him, saved him from despair, | Led him, begg'd for him, sau'd him from dispaire. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.252 | To lay the blame upon her own despair, | To lay the blame vpon her owne dispaire, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.226 | All senses to that sense did make their repair, | All sences to that sence did make their repaire, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.188 | Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, | Still a repairing: euer out of frame, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.67 | So pair-taunt-like would I o'ersway his state | So pertaunt like would I o'resway his state, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.292 | Therefore change favours, and, when they repair, | Therefore change Fauours, and when they repaire, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.152 | The mere despair of surgery, he cures, | The meere dispaire of Surgery, he cures, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.52.2 | Despair thy charm, | Dispaire thy Charme, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.27 | Well, there went but a pair of | Well: there went but a paire of |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.42 | No, none, but only a repair i'th' dark, | No: none but onely a repaire ith' darke, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.108 | To make her heavenly comforts of despair | To make her heauenly comforts of dispaire, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.109 | As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair, | As doubtfull thoughts, and rash imbrac'd despaire: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.141 | Repair thy wit, good youth, or it will fall | Repaire thy wit good youth, or it will fall |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.20 | beard like a glover's paring-knife? | Beard, like a Glouers pairing-knife? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.6 | what I can to get you a pair of horns. | what I can to get you a paire of hornes. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.179 | Wherein it doth impair the seeing sense | Wherein it doth impaire the seeing sense, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.66 | May all to Athens back again repair | May all to Athens backe againe repaire, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.90 | There shall the pairs of faithful lovers be | There shall the paires of faithfull Louers be |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.36 | that plays the lion pare his nails, for they shall hang out | that playes the Lion, paire his nailes, for they shall hang out |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.125 | impaired, but all disordered. Who is next? | impaired, but all disordered. Who is next? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.254 | the meantime, good Signor Benedick, repair to Leonato's, | the meane time, good Signior Benedicke, repaire to Leonatoes, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.253 | Here stand a pair of honourable men, | Here stand a paire of honourable men, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.344 | Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes | Plies Desdemona, to repaire his Fortune, |
| Othello | Oth III.ii.4.1 | Repair there to me. | Repaire there to mee. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.123 | Thou givest me somewhat to repair myself, | Thou giuest me somewhat to repaire my selfe: |
| Pericles | Per II.i.162 | Of a pair of bases. | of a paire of Bases. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.164 | have my best gown to make thee a pair, and I'll bring | haue / My best Gowne to make thee a paire; / And Ile bring |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.106 | hither; here he does but repair it. I know he will come in | hither, here he does but repaire it, I knowe hee will come in |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.29 | Call it not patience, Gaunt. It is despair. | Call it not patience (Gaunt) it is dispaire, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.216 | Bid him repair to us to Ely House | Bid him repaire to vs to Ely house, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.47 | And driven into despair an enemy's hope, | and driuen into dispaire an enemies hope, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.67.1 | Despair not, madam. | Dispaire not Madam. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.68 | I will despair and be at enmity | I will dispaire, and be at enmitie |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.35 | Then with directions to repair to Ravenspurgh. | Then with direction to repaire to Rauenspurgh. |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.66 | And bids me speak of nothing but despair. | And bids me speake of nothing but despaire: |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.205 | Of that sweet way I was in to despair. | Of that sweet way I was in, to despaire: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.152 | My subjects for a pair of carved saints, | My Subiects, for a payre of carued Saints, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.167 | Till they have fretted us a pair of graves | Till they haue fretted vs a payre of Graues, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.85 | By such despair I should accuse myself. | By such dispaire, I should accuse my selfe. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.86 | And by despairing shouldst thou stand excused | And by dispairing shalt thou stand excused, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.212 | And presently repair to Crosby House; | And presently repayre to Crosbie House: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.344 | When you have done, repair to Crosby Place. | When you haue done, repayre to Crosby place; |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.36 | I'll join with black despair against my soul | Ile ioyne with blacke dispaire against my Soule, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.272 | A pair of bleeding hearts; thereon engrave | A paire of bleeding hearts: thereon ingraue |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.319 | Repaired with double riches of content. | Repayr'd with double Riches of Content. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.121 | At Tewkesbury; despair therefore, and die! | At Teukesbury: Dispaire therefore, and dye. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.127 | Think on the Tower, and me; despair, and die! | Thinke on the Tower, and me: Dispaire, and dye, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.128 | Harry the Sixth bids thee despair, and die! | Harry the sixt, bids thee dispaire, and dye. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.136 | And fall thy edgeless sword; despair, and die! | And fall thy edgelesse Sword, dispaire and dye. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.141 | Rivers, that died at Pomfret; despair, and die! | Riuers, that dy'de at Pomfret: dispaire, and dye. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.142 | Think upon Grey, and let thy soul despair! | Thinke vpon Grey, and let thy soule dispaire. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.144 | Let fall thy lance; despair, and die! | Let fall thy Lance, dispaire and dye. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.149 | Think on Lord Hastings; despair, and die! | Thinke on Lord Hastings: dispaire, and dye. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.155 | Thy nephews' souls bid thee despair, and die! | Thy Nephewes soule bids thee dispaire and dye. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.164 | And fall thy edgeless sword; despair, and die! | And fall thy edgelesse Sword, dispaire and dye: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.173 | Fainting, despair; despairing, yield thy breath! | Fainting dispaire; dispairing yeeld thy breath. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.201 | I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; | I shall dispaire, there is no Creature loues me; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.222 | To merit bliss by making me despair. | To merit blisse by making me dispaire: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.104 | They pray: grant thou, lest faith turn to despair. | They pray (grant thou) least faith turne to dispaire. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.13 | Played for a pair of stainless maidenhoods. | Plaid for a paire of stainlesse Maidenhoods, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.64 | Let me dispute with thee of thy estate. | Let me dispaire with thee of thy estate, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.2 | A pair of stocks, you rogue! | A paire of stockes you rogue. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.43 | ‘ regia,’ presume not – ‘ celsa senis,’ despair not. | regia presume not, Celsa senis, despaire not. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.44 | an old jerkin; a pair of old breeches thrice turned; a | an old ierkin, a paire of old breeches thrice turn'd; a |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.45 | pair of boots that have been candle-cases, one buckled, | paire of bootes that haue beene candle-cases, one buckled, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.58 | burst and new-repaired with knots; one girth six times | burst, and now repaired with knots: one girth sixe times |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.117 | Could I repair what she will wear in me | Could I repaire what she will weare in me, |
| The Tempest | Tem epilogue.15 | And my ending is despair, | And my ending is despaire, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.28 | I prithee but repair to me next morning. | I prythee but repaire to me next morning. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.69 | If I might beseech you, gentlemen, to repair | If I might beseech you Gentlemen, to repayre |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.91 | Then why should he despair that knows to court it | Then why should he dispaire that knowes to court it |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.124 | Bid him repair to me and bring with him | Bid him repaire to me, and bring with him |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.144 | A pair of cursed hellhounds and their dam. | A payre of cursed hell-hounds and their Dam. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.2 | That I repair to Rome, I am content. | That I repair to Rome, I am content. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.82 | To whom the foragers shall all repair, | To whom the Forragers shall all repaire, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.13 | What a pair of spectacles is here! Let me | What a paire of spectacles is here? let me |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.103 | Nor dignifies an impair thought with breath; | Nor dignifies an impaire thought with breath: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.48 | Would not a pair of these have bred, sir? | Would not a paire of these haue bred sir? |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.128 | Like a mad lad – ‘ Pare thy nails, dad? | Like a mad lad, paire thy nayles dad, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.93 | Why, lady, Love hath twenty pair of eyes. | Why Lady, Loue hath twenty paire of eyes. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.118 | To cast up with a pair of anchoring hooks, | To cast vp, with a paire of anchoring hookes, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.247 | And manage it against despairing thoughts. | And manage it, against despairing thoughts: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.45 | Love doth to her eyes repair, | Loue doth to her eyes repaire, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.11 | Repair me with thy presence, Silvia; | Repaire me, with thy presence, Siluia: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.18 | Like to a pair of lions, smeared with prey, | Like to a paire of Lions, smeard with prey, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.26 | They are famed to be a pair of absolute men. | They are fam'd to be a paire of absolute men. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.21 | Be by a pair of kings backed, in a field | Be by a paire of Kings backt, in a Field |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.89 | been her companions and playferes, and let them repair | beene her / Companions, and play-pheeres, and let them repaire |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.198 | As mine, against their will. Should all despair | (As mine) against their will. Should all despaire |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.208 | To nothing but despair. A thousand knees, | To nothing but dispaire. A thousand knees, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.154 | Your hand, my Perdita: so turtles pair, | Your hand (my Perdita:) so Turtles paire |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.249 | and a pair of sweet gloves. | and a paire of sweet Gloues. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.31 | What holier than, for royalty's repair, | What holyer, then for Royalties repayre, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.116 | Jewel of children, seen this hour, he had paired | (Iewell of Children) seene this houre, he had payr'd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.146 | By us, a pair of kings. Let's from this place. | By Vs, a paire of Kings. Let's from this place. |