| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.108 | Rail thou in Fulvia's phrase, and taunt my faults | Raile thou in Fuluia's phrase, and taunt my faults |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.41 | Crack thy frail case! Apace, Eros, apace! | Cracke thy fraile Case. Apace Eros, apace; |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.43 | No, let me speak, and let me rail so high | No, let me speake, and let me rayle so hye, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.123 | Been laden with like frailties which before | Bene laden with like frailties, which before |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.349 | This is an aspic's trail; and these fig leaves | This is an Aspickes traile, / And these Figge-leaues |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.58 | so; thou hast railed on thyself. | so, thou hast raild on thy selfe. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.57 | I'll go sleep, if I can; if I cannot, I'll rail against all the | Ile go sleepe if I can: if I cannot, Ile raile against all the |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.16 | And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, | And rail'd on Lady Fortune in good termes, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.270 | will rail against our mistress the world, and all our | will raile against our Mistris the world, and all our |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.12 | That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things, | That eyes that are the frailst, and softest things, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.43 | Can a woman rail thus? | Can a woman raile thus? |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.44 | Call you this railing? | Call you this railing? |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.47 | Did you ever hear such railing? | Did you euer heare such railing? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.72 | Did not her kitchen-maid rail, taunt, and scorn me? | Did not her Kitchen maide raile, taunt, and scorne me? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.71 | It seems his sleeps were hindered by thy railing, | It seemes his sleepes were hindred by thy railing, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.152 | Trail your steel pikes. Though in this city he | Traile your steele Pikes. Though in this City hee |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.88 | estimations, the one is but frail and the other casual; | Estimations, the one is but fraile, and the other Casuall;. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.93 | or loss of that, you term her frail: I do nothing | or losse of that, you terme her fraile, I do nothing |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.56.1 | With winds that sailors rail at. | With windes, that Saylors raile at. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.146 | Let me not think on't. Frailty, thy name is woman. | Let me not thinke on't: Frailty, thy name is woman. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.47 | Hunts not the trail of policy so sure | Hunts not the traile of Policie, so sure |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.111 | How cheerfully on the false trail they cry! | How cheerefully on the false Traile they cry, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.154 | As a tired horse, a railing wife, | As a tyred Horse, a rayling Wife, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.166 | frailty. You confess then, you picked my pocket? | frailty. You confesse then you pickt my Pocket? |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.41 | That railed against our person. We consider | That rayl'd against our person: We consider |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.152 | My ransom is this frail and worthless trunk; | My Ransome, is this frayle and worthlesse Trunke; |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.13 | He bounds from the earth, as if his entrails were hairs – | he bounds from the Earth, as if his entrayles were hayres: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.40 | Trail'st thou the puissant pike? | Trayl'st thou the puissant Pyke? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.28 | Called the brave Lord Ponton de Santrailles; | Call'd the braue Lord Ponton de Santrayle, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.64 | I speak not to that railing Hecate, | I speake not to that rayling Hecate, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.172 | My liege, his railing is intolerable. | My Liege, his rayling is intollerable. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.87 | What! Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails | What, hath thy fierie heart so parcht thine entrayles, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.81 | That I in all despite might rail at him, | That I (in all despight) might rayle at him, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.155 | She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe | Shee did corrupt frayle Nature with some Bribe, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.38 | Take that, the likeness of this railer here. | Take that, the likenesse of this Rayler here. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.148 | I, her frail son, amongst my brethren mortal, | I her fraile sonne, among'st my Brethren mortall, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.11 | In our own natures frail, and capable | In our owne natures fraile, and capable |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.12 | Of our flesh; few are angels; out of which frailty | Of our flesh, few are Angels; out of which frailty |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.47 | wife of small wit near him, that railed upon me till her | Wife of small wit, neere him, that rail'd vpon me, till her |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.88 | You i'th' camlet, get up o'th' rail; | You i'th'Chamblet, get vp o'th'raile, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.39 | Plucking the entrails of an offering forth, | Plucking the intrailes of an Offering forth, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.96.1 | In our own proper entrails. | In our owne proper Entrailes. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.98 | Or railing execrations of despite. | Or rayling execrations of despight, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.120 | But one, that tears her entrails with thy hands, | But one that teares her entrailes with thy handes, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.12 | When railing crows outscold our adversaries? | When railing crowes outscolde our aduersaries |
| King John | KJ II.i.587 | And why rail I on this commodity? | And why rayle I on this Commoditie? |
| King John | KJ II.i.592 | Like a poor beggar raileth on the rich. | Like a poore begger, raileth on the rich. |
| King John | KJ II.i.593 | Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail | Well, whiles I am a begger, I will raile, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.3 | Which some suppose the soul's frail dwelling-house, | (Which some suppose the soules fraile dwelling house) |
| King John | KJ V.vii.23 | And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings | And from the organ-pipe of frailety sings |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.23 | Why, what a monstrous fellow art thou thus to rail | Why, what a monstrous Fellow art thou, thus to raile |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.117 | Tripped me behind; being down, insulted, railed, | Tript me behind: being downe, insulted, rail'd, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.153 | rails upon yon simple thief. Hark in thine ear – change | railes vpon yond simple theefe. Hearke in thine eare: Change |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.123 | And when we have our naked frailties hid | And when we haue our naked Frailties hid, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.5 | In the poisoned entrails throw: | In the poysond Entrailes throw |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.121.1 | We are all frail. | We are all fraile. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.124 | Nay, women are frail too. | Nay, women are fraile too. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.128 | In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail, | In profiting by them: Nay, call vs ten times fraile, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.188 | frailty hath examples for his falling, I should wonder at | frailty hath examples for his falling, I should wonder at |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.235 | himself, by the instruction of his frailty, many deceiving | himselfe (by the instruction of his frailty) manie deceyuing |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.45 | He hates our sacred nation and he rails | He hates our sacred Nation, and he railes |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.139 | Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond, | Till thou canst raile the seale from off my bond |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.216 | on his wife's frailty, yet I cannot put off my opinion so | on his wiues frailty; yet, I cannot put-off my opinion so |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.46 | think what a man is. Let her consider his frailty, and | thinke what a man is: Let her consider his frailety, and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.21 | so rails against all married mankind, so curses all | so railes against all married mankinde; so curses all |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.186 | no trail, never trust me when I open again. | no traile, neuer trust me when I open againe. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.152 | Old, cold, withered, and of intolerable entrails? | Old, cold, wither'd, and of intollerable entrailes? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.362 | And sometime rail thou like Demetrius; | And sometime raile thou like Demetrius; |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.143 | railed at herself, that she should be so immodest | raild at her self, that she should be so immodest |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.230 | on me, because I have railed so long against marriage; | on mee, because I haue rail'd so long against marriage: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.350 | canst. If sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt an erring | canst: If Sanctimonie, and a fraile vow, betwixt an erring |
| Othello | Oth II.i.151 | She that in wisdom never was so frail | She that in wisedome neuer was so fraile, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.162 | Faith I must: she'll rail in the street else. | I must, shee'l rayle in the streets else. |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.98 | I think it doth. Is't frailty that thus errs? | I thinke it doth. Is't Frailty that thus erres? |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.100 | Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? | Desires for Sport? and Frailty, as men haue? |
| Pericles | Per I.i.43 | My frail mortality to know itself, | My frayle mortalitie to know it selfe; |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.196 | Banished this frail sepulchre of our flesh, | Banish'd this fraile sepulchre of our flesh, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.90 | Forgiveness, horse! Why do I rail on thee, | Forgiuenesse horse: Why do I raile on thee, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.23 | And throw them in the entrails of the wolf? | And throw them in the intrailes of the Wolfe? |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.151 | Rail on the Lord's anointed. Strike, I say! | Raile on the Lords Annointed. Strike I say. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.229 | To revel in the entrails of my lambs. | To reuell in the Intrailes of my Lambes. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.496 | Or else his head's assurance is but frail. | Or else his Heads assurance is but fraile. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.119 | Why railest thou on thy birth, the heaven, and earth? | Why rayl'st thou on thy birth? the heauen and earth? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.85 | And rail upon the hostess of the house, | And raile vpon the Hostesse of the house, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.110 | nothing; an he begin once, he'll rail in his rope-tricks. | nothing; and he begin once, hee'l raile in his rope trickes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.170 | Say that she rail, why then I'll tell her plain | Say that she raile, why then Ile tell her plaine, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.170 | And rails, and swears, and rates, that she, poor soul, | and railes, and sweares, and rates, that shee (poore soule) |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.192 | And if she chance to nod I'll rail and brawl, | And if she chance to nod, Ile raile and brawle, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.295 | And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till | And peg-thee in his knotty entrailes, till |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.181 | Which entered their frail shins. At last I left them | Which entred their fraile shins: at last I left them |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.244 | too, there would be none left to rail upon thee, and then | too, there would be none left to raile vpon thee, and then |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.248 | Nay, an you begin to rail on society once, I am | Nay, and you begin to raile on Societie once, I am |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.65 | he that has no house to put his head in? Such may rail | hee that has no house to put his head in? Such may rayle |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.147 | And entrails feed the sacrificing fire, | And intrals feede the sacrifising fire, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.230 | And shows the ragged entrails of this pit. | And shewes the ragged intrailes of the pit: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.35 | That I might rail at him to ease my mind! | That I might raile at him to ease my mind. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.191 | Makes factious feasts, rails on our state of war | Makes factious Feasts, railes on our state of Warre |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.16 | I shall sooner rail thee into wit and holiness; | I shal sooner rayle thee into wit and holinesse: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.30 | Thou grumblest and railest every hour on | Thou grumblest & railest euery houre on |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.91 | proclamation, and he rails upon me. | Proclamation, and he rayles vpon me. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.3 | thus? He beats me, and I rail at him: O, worthy | thus? he beates me, and I raile at him: O worthy |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.5 | beat him whilst he railed at me. 'Sfoot, I'll learn to | beate him, whil'st he rail'd at me: Sfoote, Ile learne to |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.23 | come in and rail. | come in and raile. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.95 | When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, | When we will tempt the frailtie of our powers, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.28 | No, no, I am a rascal, a scurvy railing knave, | No, no: I am a rascall: a scuruie railing knaue: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.22 | Along the field I will the Trojan trail. | Along the field, I will the Troian traile. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.89 | in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail; nor no | in an allow'd foole, though he do nothing but rayle; nor no |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.90 | railing in a known discreet man, though he do nothing | rayling, in a knowne discreet man, though hee do nothing |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.31 | Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we, | Alas, O frailtie is the cause, not wee, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.348.1 | Inhabits our frail blood – | Inhabites our fraile blood. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.4 | Forsworn my company, and railed at me, | Forsworne my company, and rail'd at me, |