| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.142 | You ne'er oppressed me with a mother's groan, | You nere opprest me with a mothers groane, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.51 | grief; in fine, made a groan of her last breath, and now | greefe: in fine, made a groane of her last breath, & now |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.10 | flesh and cost me the dearest groans of a mother I | flesh and cost mee the deerest groanes of a mother, I |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.28 | Though you in swearing shake the throned gods – | (Though you in swearing shake the Throaned Gods) |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.31 | Then in the midst a tearing groan did break | Then in the midd'st a tearing grone did breake |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.36 | The wretched animal heaved forth such groans | The wretched annimall heau'd forth such groanes |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.295 | sighing every minute and groaning every hour would | sighing euerie minute, and groaning euerie houre wold |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.4 | Have I heard groan and drop. Then know me not, | Haue I heard groane, and drop: Then know me not, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.41 | with the easy groans of old women, the virginal palms of | with the easie groanes of old women, the Virginall Palms of |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.69 | Could not find death where I did hear him groan, | Could not finde death, where I did heare him groane, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.6 | Groan so in perpetuity than be cured | Groane so in perpetuity, then be cur'd |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.120 | to reckon my groans. But that I love thee best, O most best, | toreckon my grones; but that I loue thee best, oh most Best |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.258 | It would cost you a groaning to take off mine | It would cost you a groaning, to take off my |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.23 | Did the king sigh, but with a general groan. | Did the King sighe, but with a generall grone. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.296 | Till fields, and blows, and groans applaud our sport! | Till fields, and blowes, and grones, applaud our sport. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.72 | What horse? A roan, a crop-ear is it not? | What Horse? A Roane, a crop eare, is it not. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.73.2 | That roan shall by my throne. | That Roane shall be my Throne. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.105 | today?’ ‘ Give my roan horse a drench,’ says he, and | to day? Giue my Roane horse a drench (sayes hee) and |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.107 | The dead men's blood, the prived maidens' groans, | The dead-mens Blood, the priuy Maidens Groanes, |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.54 | And in a captive chariot into Rouen | And in a Captiue Chariot, into Roan |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.64 | Prince Dauphin, you shall stay with us in Rouen. | Prince Dolphin, you shall stay with vs in Roan. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.65 | Is Paris lost? is Rouen yielded up? | Is Paris lost? is Roan yeelded vp? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.104 | Here Salisbury lifteth himself up and groans | Here Salisbury lifteth himselfe vp,and groanes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.104 | Hear, hear how dying Salisbury doth groan. | Heare, heare, how dying Salisbury doth groane, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.1 | These are the city gates, the gates of Rouen, | These are the Citie Gates, the Gates of Roan, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.11 | And we be lords and rulers over Rouen. | And we be Lords and Rulers ouer Roan, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.17 | Now, Rouen, I'll shake thy bulwarks to the ground. | Now Roan, Ile shake thy Bulwarkes to the ground. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.19 | And once again we'll sleep secure in Rouen. | And once againe wee'le sleepe secure in Roan. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.27 | That joineth Rouen unto her countrymen, | That ioyneth Roan vnto her Countreymen, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.91 | Here will I sit, before the walls of Rouen, | Here will I sit, before the Walls of Roan, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.124 | What, all amort? Rouen hangs her head for grief | What all amort? Roan hangs her head for griefe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.133 | But see his exequies fulfilled in Rouen. | But see his Exequies fulfill'd in Roan. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.2 | Nor grieve that Rouen is so recovered. | Nor grieue that Roan is so recouered: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.33 | To see my tears and hear my deep-fet groans. | To see my teares, and heare my deepe-set groanes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.221 | His fortunes I will weep, and 'twixt each groan | His fortunes I will weepe, and 'twixt each groane, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.60 | Might liquid tears or heart-offending groans | Might liquid teares, or heart-offending groanes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.62 | I would be blind with weeping, sick with groans, | I would be blinde with weeping, sicke with grones, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.310 | Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's groan, | Would curses kill, as doth the Mandrakes grone, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.41 | Clifford groans and then dies | Clifford grones |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.43 | A deadly groan, like life and death's departing. | A deadly grone, like life and deaths departing. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.46 | I well might hear, delivered with a groan, | I well might heare, deliuered with a groane, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.106 | And with that blood will make 'em one day groan for't. | And with that bloud will make 'em one day groane for't. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.6 | So many courses of the sun enthroned, | So many courses of the Sun enthroaned, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.199 | Many a groaning throe. Thus hulling in | Many a groaning throw: thus hulling in |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.61 | And groaning underneath this age's yoke, | And groaning vnderneath this Ages yoake, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.124 | Did lose his lustre; I did hear him groan; | Did loose his Lustre: I did heare him grone: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.23 | Horses did neigh, and dying men did groan, | Horsses do neigh, and dying men did grone, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.275 | With carrion men, groaning for burial. | With Carrion men, groaning for Buriall. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.22 | To groan and sweat under the business, | To groane and swet vnder the Businesse, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.94 | And him that sent thee like the lazy drone | And him that sent thee like the lazy droane, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.68 | Talking of grief, to make thee ready groan, | Talking of griefe, to make thee ready grone, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.101 | Of such estate, that hers is as a throne, | Of such estate, that hers is as a throane, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.63 | In a deep march of penetrable groans; | In a deepe march of penytrable grones, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.172 | His knell, the groaning cries of dying men; | His knell the groning cryes of dying men, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.47 | Such groans of roaring wind and rain I never | Such groanes of roaring Winde, and Raine, I neuer |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.118 | I would you heard it groan. | I would you heard it grone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.179 | Th' anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, | Th'annointed soueraigne of sighes and groanes: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.201 | Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue, and groan; | Well, I will loue, write, sigh, pray, shue, grone, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.19 | comes one with a paper. God give him grace to groan! | comes one with a paper, God giue him grace to grone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.162 | Of sighs, of groans, of sorrow, and of teen! | Of sighes, of grones, of sorrow, and of teene: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.180 | Or groan for Joan? Or spend a minute's time | Or grone for Ioane? or spend a minutes time, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.841 | With groaning wretches; and your task shall be | With groaning wretches: and your taske shall be, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.853 | Deafed with the clamours of their own dear groans, | Deaft with the clamors of their owne deare grones, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.168 | Where sighs and groans and shrieks that rent the air | Where sighes, and groanes, and shrieks that rent the ayre |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.15 | What shall be done, sir, with the groaning Juliet? | What shall be done Sir, with the groaning Iuliet? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.82 | Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. | Then my heart coole with mortifying grones. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.16 | And, sorry wag, cry ‘ hem!’ when he should groan, | And sorrow, wagge, crie hem, when he should grone, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.17 | Help us to sigh and groan, | helpe vs to sigh and grone. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.42 | Two or three groan. It is a heavy night. | Two or three groane. 'Tis heauy night; |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.56 | That I do groan withal. Thou art to die. | That I do grone withall. Thou art to dye. |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.39 | Had princes sit like stars about his throne, | Had Princes sit like Starres about his Throane, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.103 | but he made a groan at it, and swore he would see | but he made a groane at it, and swore he would see |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.70 | And what hear there for welcome but my groans? | And what heare there for welcome, but my grones? |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.138 | And future ages groan for this foul act. | And future Ages groane for his foule Act. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.89 | Go count thy way with sighs, I mine with groans. | Goe, count thy Way with Sighes; I, mine with Groanes. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.91 | Twice for one step I'll groan, the way being short, | Twice for one step Ile groane, ye Way being short, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.100 | That I may strive to kill it with a groan. | That I may striue to kill it with a groane. |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.103 | Hadst thou groaned for him as I have done | Hadst thou groan'd for him as I haue done, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.56 | Are clamorous groans which strike upon my heart, | Are clamorous groanes, that strike vpon my heart, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.57 | Which is the bell. So sighs, and tears, and groans | Which is the bell: so Sighes, and Teares, and Grones, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.78 | When Bolingbroke rode on roan Barbary, | When Bullingbrooke rode on Roane Barbary, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.303 | Of all one pain, save for a night of groans | Of all one paine, saue for a night of groanes |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.200.1 | What, shall I groan and tell thee? | What shall I grone and tell thee? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.200.2 | Groan! Why, no. | Grone, why no: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.chorus.3 | That fair for which love groaned for and would die, | That faire, for which Loue gron'd for and would die, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.70 | Thy old groans yet ring in mine ancient ears. | Thy old grones yet ringing in my auncient eares: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.86 | Why, is not this better now than groaning for | Why is not this better now, then groning for |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.93 | For 'tis a throne where honour may be crowned | For 'tis a throane where Honour may be Crown'd |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.73 | Not I; unless the breath of heartsick groans | Not I, / Vnlesse the breath of Hartsicke groanes |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.156 | Under my burden groaned, which raised in me | Vnder my burthen groan'd, which rais'd in me |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.280 | And left thee there, where thou didst vent thy groans | And left thee there: where thou didst vent thy groanes |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.287 | What torment I did find thee in. Thy groans | What torment I did finde thee in; thy grones |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.78.1 | Religion groans at it. | Religion grones at it. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.129 | T' appease their groaning shadows that are gone. | T'appease their groaning shadowes that are gone. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.15 | Wound it with sighing, girl, kill it with groans, | Wound it with sighing girle, kil it with grones: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.123 | O heavens, can you hear a good man groan | O heauens! Can you heare a good man grone |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.123 | O ho, groans out for ha, ha, ha! – Heigh ho! | O ho grones out for ha ha ha----hey ho. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.7 | Sit, gods, upon your thrones, and smile at Troy! | Sit gods vpon your throanes, and smile at Troy. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.50 | Or if you cannot weep, yet give some groans, | Or if you cannot weepe, yet giue some grones; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.245 | With groans that thunder love, with sighs of fire. | With groanes that thunder loue, with sighes of fire. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.29 | To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; | To be in loue; where scorne is bought with grones: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.129 | With bitter fasts, with penitential groans, | With bitter fasts, with penitentiall grones, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.230 | Sad sighs, deep groans, nor silver-shedding tears, | Sad sighes, deepe grones, nor siluer-shedding teares |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.231.1 | Groan under such a mastery. | Grone under such a Mastry. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.10 | In their best-tempered pieces keep enthroned | In their best temperd peices, keepe enthroand |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.35.2 | Made her groan a month for't – | Made her groane a moneth for't; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.245 | The goodly mothers that have groaned for these, | The goodly Mothers that have groand for these, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.76.1 | Take't up, I say! Give't to thy crone. | Take't vp, I say: giue't to thy Croane. |