| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.204 | acutely. I will return perfect courtier, in the which my | acutely: I will returne perfect Courtier, in the which my |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.4 | Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneel. | Ere I can perfect mine intents, to kneele. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.18 | Whose dear perfection hearts that scorned to serve | Whose deere perfection, hearts that scorn'd to serue, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.80.1 | Like perfect honour. | Like perfect Honor. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.236 | That she did make defect perfection, | That she did make defect, perfection, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.99 | So holy and so perfect is my love, | So holy, and so perfect is my loue, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.42 | I knew he was not in his perfect wits. | I knew he was not in his perfect wits. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.46 | Tiber in't; said to be something imperfect in favouring | Tiber in't: Said, to be something imperfect in fauouring |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.76 | Come, come, you are well understood to be a perfecter | Come, come, you are well vnderstood to bee a perfecter |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.158 | Deserves thy trust, and thy most perfect goodness | Deserues thy trust, and thy most perfect goodnesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.73 | Behoves me keep at utterance. I am perfect | Behooues me keepe at vtterance. I am perfect, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.67 | Before my perfect honour, swore to Cymbeline | Before my perfect Honor, swore to Cymbeline, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.118 | I am perfect what: cut off one Cloten's head, | I am perfect what: cut off one Clotens head, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.79 | With all my imperfections on my head. | With all my imperfections on my head; |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.29 | For her perfections. But my revenge will come. | For her perfections. But my reuenge will come. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.67 | And with such cozenage – is't not perfect conscience | And with such coozenage; is't not perfect conscience, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.34 | Thou art perfect. | Thou art perfect. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.196 | I am too perfect in, and but for shame | I am too perfect in: and but for shame, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.221 | Come, Kate, thou art perfect in lying down. | Come Kate, thou art perfect in lying downe: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.117 | liveth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect | liueth, is to be no counterfeit, but the true and perfect |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.27 | Would turn their own perfection to abuse, | Would turne their owne Perfection, to Abuse, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.84 | King Richard might create a perfect guess | King Richard might create a perfect guesse, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.153 | Our men more perfect in the use of arms, | Our Men more perfect in the vse of Armes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.74 | The Prince will, in the perfectness of time, | The Prince will, in the perfectnesse of time, |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.23 | Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts: | Peece out our imperfections with your thoughts: |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.69.1 | How things are perfected. | How things are perfected. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.69 | are perfect in the great commanders' names, and they | are perfit in the Great Commanders Names, and they |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.74 | perfectly in the phrase of war, which they trick up with | perfitly in the phrase of Warre; which they tricke vp with |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.45 | perfection of a good and particular mistress. | perfection of a good and particular Mistresse. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.69 | Whose want gives growth to th' imperfections | Whose want giues growth to th'imperfections |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.280 | perfectly I love her, and that is good English. | perfectly I loue her, and that is good English. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.12 | The chief perfections of that lovely dame, | The cheefe perfections of that louely Dame, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.50 | To choose for wealth and not for perfect love. | To choose for wealth, and not for perfect Loue. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.26 | Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun; | Three glorious Sunnes, each one a perfect Sunne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.4 | Can neither call it perfect day nor night. | Can neither call it perfect day, nor night. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.86 | All her perfections challenge sovereignty. | All her perfections challenge Soueraigntie, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.37 | From her shall read the perfect ways of honour, | From her shall read the perfect way of Honour, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.158 | That her perfections emulates the sun, | That her perfections emulats the sunne, |
| King John | KJ I.i.90 | And finds them perfect Richard. (to Robert Faulconbridge) Sirrah, speak. | And findes them perfect Richard: sirra speake, |
| King John | KJ II.i.440 | Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. | Whose fulnesse of perfection lyes in him. |
| King John | KJ III.i.189 | Therefore, since law itself is perfect wrong, | Therefore since Law it selfe is perfect wrong, |
| King John | KJ V.vi.6.2 | Thou hast a perfect thought. | Thou hast a perfect thought: |
| King Lear | KL I.i.296 | alone the imperfections of long-ingraffed condition, but | alone the imperfections of long ingraffed condition, but |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.73 | it to be fit that, sons at perfect age and fathers | it to be fit, that Sonnes at perfect age, and Fathers |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.3 | Something he left imperfect in the state, | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.5 | Why then your other senses grow imperfect | Why then your other Senses grow imperfect |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.63 | I fear I am not in my perfect mind. | I feare I am not in my perfect mind. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.6 | Of all perfections that a man may owe, | Of all perfections that a man may owe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.174 | Is this your perfectness? Be gone, you rogue! | Is this your perfectnesse? be gon you rogue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.500 | own part, I am, as they say, but to parfect one man in | owne part, I am (as they say, but to perfect one man in |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.556 | perfect. I made a little fault in ‘ Great.’ | perfect. I made a little fault in great. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.69 | Stay, you imperfect speakers! Tell me more! | Stay you imperfect Speakers, tell me more: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.2 | by the perfectest report they have more in them than mortal | by the perfect'st report, they haue more in them, then mortall |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.107.1 | Which in his death were perfect. | Which in his Death were perfect. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.129 | Acquaint you with the perfect spy o'the time, | Acquaint you with the perfect Spy o'th' time, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.20 | Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect, | Then comes my Fit againe: I had else beene perfect; |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.66 | Though in your state of honour I am perfect. | Though in your state of Honor I am perfect; |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.261 | trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection. | trust it will grow to a most prosperous perfection. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.140 | I'll perfect him withal, and he shall bring you | Ile perfect him withall, and he shal bring you |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.82.1 | Be perfect. | Be perfect. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.108 | To their right praise and true perfection! | To their right praise, and true perfection: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.179 | imperfection. But, good Sir John, as you have one | imperfection: but (good Sir Iohn) as you haue one |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.88 | beard, or your French-crown-colour beard, your perfect | beard, or your French-crowne colour'd beard, your perfect |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.100 | obscenely and courageously. Take pains; be perfect. | obscenely and couragiously. Take paines, be perfect, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.137 | O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine – | O Helen, goddesse, nimph, perfect, diuine, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.62 | This hateful imperfection of her eyes. | This hatefull imperfection of her eyes. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.282 | Silence is the perfectest herald of joy; I were | Silence is the perfectest Herault of ioy, I were |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.45 | To put a strange face on his own perfection. | To put a strange face on his owne perfection, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.31 | My parts, my title, and my perfect soul | My Parts, my Title, and my perfect Soule |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.99 | It is a judgement maimed and most imperfect | It is a iudgement main'd, and most imperfect. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.100 | That will confess perfection so could err | That will confesse Perfection so could erre |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.25 | She is indeed perfection. | She is indeed perfection. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.288 | to the devil wrath: one unperfectness shows me another, | to the diuell wrath, one vnperfectnesse, shewes me another |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.148 | From one that so imperfectly conjects, | From one, that so imperfectly conceits, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.144 | Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, | Of one entyre and perfect Chrysolite, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.12 | To knit in her their best perfections. | To knit in her, their best perfections. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.80 | For he's no man on whom perfections wait | For hee's no man on whom perfections waite, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.65 | Apollo, perfect me in the characters! | Apollo, perfect mee in the Characters: |
| Pericles | Per V.i.207 | Thou hast been godlike perfect, and thou art | Thou hast beene God-like perfit, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.75 | Vouchsafe, divine perfection of a woman, | Vouchsafe (diuine perfection of a Woman) |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.16 | So prosper I as I swear perfect love! | So prosper I, as I sweare perfect loue. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.89 | By heaven, we come to him in perfect love; | By Heauen, we come to him in perfit loue, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.66 | Matched not the high perfection of my loss. | Matcht not the high perfection of my losse. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.46 | Retain that dear perfection which he owes | Retaine that deare perfection which he owes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.12 | He does it under name of perfect love, | He does it vnder name of perfect loue: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.30 | is perfect gallows. Stand fast, good Fate, to his | is perfect Gallowes: stand fast good Fate to his |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.79 | Being once perfected how to grant suits, | Being once perfected how to graunt suites, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.172 | I would with such perfection govern, sir, | I would with such perfection gouerne Sir: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.47 | So perfect and so peerless, are created | So perfect, and so peerlesse, are created |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.85 | ourselves for ever perfect. | our selues for euer perfect. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.90 | Is your perfection. This is Timon's last, | Is your perfection. This is Timons last, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.40 | In thy dumb action will I be as perfect | In thy dumb action, will I be as perfect |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.84 | never perform; vowing more than the perfection of | neuer performe: vowing more then the perfection of |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.90 | bare till merit crown it; no perfection in reversion shall | bare till merit crowne it: no perfection in reuersion shall |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.206 | As perfectly is ours as yours, my lord; | As perfectly is ours, as yours, my Lord. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.3 | The grief is fine, full perfect, that I taste, | The griefe is fine, full perfect that I taste, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.40 | Her sweet perfections – with one self king! | Her sweete perfections with one selfe king: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.285 | Methinks I feel this youth's perfections, | Me thinkes I feele this youths perfections |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.41 | To die, even when they to perfection grow. | To die, euen when they to perfection grow. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.20 | And how he cannot be a perfect man, | And how he cannot be a perfect man, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.23 | And perfected by the swift course of time. | And perfected by the swift course of time: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.64 | To clothe mine age with angel-like perfection, | To cloath mine age with Angel-like perfection: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.195 | Her true perfection, or my false transgression, | Her true perfection, or my false transgression? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.209 | But when I look on her perfections, | But when I looke on her perfections, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.13 | Of such divine perfection as Sir Proteus. | Of such diuine perfection as Sir Protheus. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.177 | And feed upon the shadow of perfection. | And feed vpon the shadow of perfection. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.57 | A linguist, and a man of such perfection | A Linguist, and a man of such perfection, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.120 | For since the substance of your perfect self | For since the substance of your perfect selfe |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.186 | Her hair is auburn, mine is perfect yellow; | Her haire is Aburne, mine is perfect Yellow; |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.112 | But constant, he were perfect! That one error | But Constant, he were perfect; that one error |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.12 | Our haste does leave imperfect. So adieu, | Our hast does leave imperfect; So adiew |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.15.2 | You are perfect. | You are perfect. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.88.2 | Now I am perfect. | Now I am perfect. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.1 | Thou art perfect, then, our ship hath touched upon | Thou art perfect then, our ship hath toucht vpon |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.15 | To make a perfect woman, she you killed | To make a perfect Woman; she you kill'd, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.97 | would beguile Nature of her custom, so perfectly he is | would beguile Nature of her Custome, so perfectly he is |