| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.18 | To recompense your love. Doubt not but heaven | To recompence your loue: Doubt not but heauen |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.75 | Yet fortune cannot recompense me better | Yet fortune cannot recompence me better |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.341 | one another as halfpence are, every one fault seeming | one another, as halfe pence are, euerie one fault seeming |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.97 | But do not look for further recompense | But doe not looke for further recompence |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.55 | O, sixpence, that I had o' Wednesday last | Oh sixe pence that I had a wensday last, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.103 | Unfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispense. | Vnfeeling fools can with such wrongs dispence: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.123 | Do so. – This jest shall cost me some expense. | Do so, this iest shall cost me some expence. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.67 | then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second | then reiourne the Controuersie of three-pence to a second |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.121 | Was not our recompense, resting well assured | Was not our recompence, resting well assur'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.91 | If you swear still, your recompense is still | If you sweare still, your recompence is still |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.9 | What company, at what expense; and finding | What company, at what expence: and finding |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.24 | life than ‘ Eight shillings and sixpence,’ and ‘ You are | life, then Eight shillings and six pence, and, You are |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.25 | sixpence out of it. And yet he'll be crowing as if he had | six pence out of it; and yet he will be crowing, as if he had |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.237 | Seven groats and two pence. | Seuen groats, and two pence. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.89 | Well, there is sixpence to preserve thee. | Well, there is six pence to preserue thee. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.49 | if I be enforced, if you do not all show like gilt twopences | if I be enforc'd, if you do not all shew like gilt two-pences |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.43 | bore it twelve leagues, and sold it for three halfpence. | bore it twelue Leagues, and sold it for three halfepence. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.63 | mettle enough in his belly. Hold, there is twelve pence | mettell enough in his belly: Hold, there is twelue-pence |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.76 | A third thinks, without expense at all, | A third thinkes, without expence at all, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.116 | Then will I think upon a recompense. | Then will I thinke vpon a recompence. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.19 | Pay recompense, if you will grant my suit. | Pay recompence, if you will graunt my suite. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.92 | For your expenses and sufficient charge, | For your expences and sufficient charge, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.140 | That you will clear yourself from all suspense; | That you will cleare your selfe from all suspence, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.36 | 'Tis strange: a threepence bowed would hire me, | Tis strange; a threepence bow'd would hire me |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.89 | How tastes it? Is it bitter? Forty pence, no. | How tasts it? Is it bitter? Forty pence, no: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.108 | To his own portion! And what expense by th' hour | To his owne portion? And what expence by'th'houre |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.21 | That so expense of victuals may be saved. | That so expence of victuals may be saued. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.34 | If honour may dispense for thee with death, | Ifhonor may dispence for thee with death, |
| King John | KJ I.i.153 | Yet sell your face for fivepence and 'tis dear. | Yet sell your face for fiue pence and 'tis deere: |
| King John | KJ V.iv.15 | He means to recompense the pains you take | He meanes to recompence the paines you take, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.99 | To have th' expense and waste of his revenues. | To haue th'expence and wast of his Reuenues: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.58 | Ay, that is study's godlike recompense. | I, that is studies god-like recompence. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.145 | We must of force dispense with this decree. | We must of force dispence with this Decree, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.167 | remuneration – elevenpence farthing better. Most sweet | remuneration, a leuenpence-farthing better: most sweete |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.520 | Anointed, I implore so much expense of thy | Annointed, I implore so much expence of thy |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.18 | That swiftest wing of recompense is slow | That swiftest Wing of Recompence is slow, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.99 | We shall not spend a large expense of time | We shall not spend a large expence of time, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.90 | some threepence; your honours have seen such dishes; | some three pence; your honours haue seene such dishes) |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.100 | Master Froth, I could not give you threepence again. | Master Froth, I could not giue you three pence againe. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.230 | ten year, I'll rent the fairest house in it after threepence | ten yeare, ile rent the fairest house in it after three pence |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.253 | him to her recompense, and here, by this, is your brother | him to her recompence; and heere, by this is your brother |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.513 | duke. Good my lord, do not recompense me in making | Duke, good my Lord do not recompence me, in making |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.144 | else – of seven groats in mill-sixpences, and two Edward | else, of seauen groates in mill-sixpences, and two Edward |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.145 | shovel-boards, that cost me two shillings and twopence | Shouelboords, that cost me two shilling and two pence |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.44 | What is it? Dispense with trifles. What is it? | what is it? dispence with trifles: what is it? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.14 | Didst thou not share? Hadst thou not fifteen pence? | Didst not thou share? hadst thou not fifteene pence? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.136 | yet look after thee? Wilt thou, after the expense of so | yet looke after thee? wilt thou after the expence of so |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.5 | And that, my state being galled with my expense, | And that my state being gall'd with my expence, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.55 | Besides, I'll make a present recompense. | Besides, Ile make a present recompence. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.69 | And Honi soit qui mal y pense write | And, Hony Soit Qui Mal-y-Pence, write |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.249 | If I have thanks it is a dear expense. | If I haue thankes, it is a deere expence: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.180 | It pays the hearing double recompense. | It paies the hearing double recompence. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.18 | O, sweet Bully Bottom! Thus hath he lost sixpence | O sweet bully Bottome: thus hath he lost sixepence |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.19 | a day during his life. He could not have scaped sixpence | a day, during his life; he could not haue scaped sixpence |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.20 | a day. An the Duke had not given him sixpence a day for | a day. And the Duke had not giuen him sixpence a day for |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.22 | it. Sixpence a day in Pyramus, or nothing. | it. Sixpence a day in Piramus, or nothing. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.34 | not for him. Therefore I will even take sixpence in | not for him: therefore I will euen take sixepence in |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.142 | O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence; | O she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.83 | No, truly, but in friendly recompense. | No truly, but in friendly recompence. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.86 | He held them sixpence all too dear; | He held them Six pence all to deere, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.20 | That horse and sail and high expense | That horse and sayle and hie expence, |
| Pericles | Per III.iv.17 | My recompense is thanks, that's all; | My recompence is thanks, thats all, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.46.1 | At whose expense 'tis done. | at whose expence tis done. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.19 | His banners sable, trimmed with rich expense; | His banners Sable, trim'd with rich expence, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.49 | It shall be still thy true love's recompense. | It shall be still thy true Loues recompence, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.62 | Shall be your love and labour's recompense. | Shall be your loue, and labours recompence. |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.8 | The heads of Salisbury, Spencer, Blunt, and Kent. | The heads of Salsbury, Spencer, Blunt, and Kent: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.21 | me not. If she say I am not fourteen pence on the score | me not: if she say I am not xiiii.d. on the score |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.15 | ‘ When we for recompense have praised the vile, | When we for recompence haue prais'd the vild, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.1 | No care, no stop, so senseless of expense | No care, no stop, so senselesse of expence, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.131 | That I might so have rated my expense | That I might so haue rated my expence |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.88 | Men must learn now with pity to dispense, | Men must learne now with pitty to dispence, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.34 | dinner will not recompense this long stay. Feast your | dinner will not recompence this long stay: Feast your |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.148 | Together with a recompense more fruitful | Together, with a recompence more fruitfull |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.4 | As honour, loss of time, travail, expense, | (As honour, losse of time, trauaile, expence, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.3 | To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind | To call for recompence: appeare it to your minde, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.75 | no fox, but he will not pass his word for twopence that | no Fox, but he wil not passe his word for two pence that |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.274 | My master, not myself, lacks recompense. | My Master, not my selfe, lackes recompence. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.7 | recompense for your love to lay any of them on you. | recompence for your loue, to lay any of them on you. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.24 | thee sixpence for thy leman, hadst it? | thee sixe pence for thy Lemon, hadst it? |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.30 | Come on, there is sixpence for you. Let's have a | Come on, there is sixe pence for you. Let's haue a |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.42 | thee. Hold, there's expenses for thee! | thee. Hold there's expences for thee. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.30 | some of your coats, for twopence. | some of your coats for two pence. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.5 | This is to give a dog, and in recompense desire | This is to giue a dogge, and in recompence desire |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.362 | In recompense whereof, he hath married her. | In recompence whereof, he hath married her: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.v.8 | you presently; where, for one shot of five pence, thou | you presently; where, for one shot of fiue pence, thou |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.153 | Then, bootless toil must recompense itself | Then, booteles toyle must recompence it selfe, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.24.1 | Well done, a noble recompense. | Well done, a noble recompence. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.149 | As recompense of our dear services | (As recompence of our deare seruices |