| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.229 | this rhyme in's forehead. | this rime in's forehead. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.215 | Will catch at us like strumpets, and scald rhymers | Will catch at vs like Strumpets, and scald Rimers |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.92 | I'll rhyme you so eight years together, | Ile rime you so, eight yeares together; |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.171 | I was never so berhymed since Pythagoras' time | I was neuer so berimd since Pythagoras time |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.379 | But are you so much in love as your rhymes | But are you so much in loue, as your rimes |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.381 | Neither rhyme nor reason can express how | Neither rime nor reason can expresse how |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.49 | When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason? | when in the why and the wherefore, is neither rime nor reason. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.55 | Than to work any. Will you rhyme upon't, | Then to worke any. Will you Rime vpon't, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.63.1 | You have put me into rhyme. | You haue put me into Rime. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.294 | You might have rhymed. | You might haue Rim'd. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.155 | fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme themselves | fellowes of infinit tongue, that can ryme themselues |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.157 | out again. What! A speaker is but a prater, a rhyme is | out againe. What? a speaker is but a prater, a Ryme is |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.131 | Ha, ha! How vilely doth this cynic rhyme! | Ha, ha, how vildely doth this Cynicke rime? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.150 | To whom he sung, in rude harsh-sounding rhymes, | To whom he sung in rude harsh sounding rimes, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.99.2 | Something then in rhyme. | Something then in rime. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.102 | A dangerous rhyme, master, against the reason of white | A dangerous rime master against the reason of white |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.176 | Assist me, some extemporal god of rhyme, for I am | Assist me some extemporall god of Rime, for I am |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.178 | Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, | Regent of Loue-rimes, Lord of folded armes, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.13 | hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy; and | hath taught mee to Rime, and to be mallicholie: and |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.14 | here is part of my rhyme, and here my melancholy. | here is part of my Rime, and heere my mallicholie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.56 | O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose; | O Rimes are gards on wanton Cupids hose, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.137 | I heard your guilty rhymes, observed your fashion, | I heard your guilty Rimes, obseru'd your fashion: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.179 | When shall you see me write a thing in rhyme? | When shall you see me write a thing in rime? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.6 | Nothing but this? Yes, as much love in rhyme | Nothing but this: yes as much loue in Rime, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.64 | And spend his prodigal wits in bootless rhymes, | And spend his prodigall wits in booteles rimes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.405 | Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song. | Nor woo in rime like a blind-harpers songue, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.91 | About him, fairies, sing a scornful rhyme, | About him (Fairies) sing a scornfull rime, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.125 | received belief, in despite of the teeth of all rhyme and | receiu'd beleefe, in despight of the teeth of all rime and |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.28 | Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes, | Thou, thou Lysander, thou hast giuen her rimes, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.36 | it in rhyme, I have tried; I can find out no rhyme to | it rime, I haue tried, I can finde out no rime to |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.37 | ‘ lady ’ but ‘ baby ’ – an innocent rhyme; for ‘ scorn ’, | Ladie but babie, an innocent time: for scorne, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.38 | ‘ horn ’ – a hard rhyme; for ‘ school ’, ‘ fool ’ – a babbling | horne, a hard time: for schoole foole, a babling |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.39 | rhyme; very ominous endings. No, I was not born under | time: verie ominous endings, no, I was not borne vnder |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.12 | When wit's more ripe, accept my rhymes, | When Witts more ripe, accept my rimes; |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.48 | Post on the lame feet of my rhyme, | Post one the lame feete of my rime, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.142.2 | A rhyme I learnt even now | A rime, I learne euen now |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.9 | Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied. | Speake but one rime, and I am satisfied: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.40 | wench – marry, she had a better love to berhyme her – | wench, marrie she had a better Loue to berime her: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.172 | Approve their truths by Troilus; when their rhymes, | Approue their truths by Troylus, when their rimes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.20 | There was never a truer rhyme. Let us cast away | there was neuer a truer rime; let vs cast away |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.79 | Some love of yours hath writ to you in rhyme. | Some loue of yours, hath writ to you in Rime. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.69 | By wailful sonnets, whose composed rhymes | By walefull Sonnets, whose composed Rimes |