| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.11 | could not have owed her a more rooted love. | could not haue owed her a more rooted loue. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.6.1 | As nothing can unroot you. | As nothing can vnroote you. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.2 | plants are ill-rooted already; the least wind i'th' world | Plants are ill rooted already, the least winde i'th'world |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.105.1 | My very heart at root. | My very heart at roote. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.31 | Under an oak whose antick root peeps out | Vnder an oake, whose anticke roote peepes out |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.178 | A curse begnaw at very root on's heart | A Curse begin at very root on's heart, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.106 | A root of ancient envy. If Jupiter | A roote of Ancient Enuy. If Iupiter |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.28 | I cannot delve him to the root: his father | I cannot delue him to the roote: His Father |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.164 | Were deeply rooted, and shall make your lord | Were deeply rooted, and shall make your Lord, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.49 | But his neat cookery! He cut our roots in characters, | But his neate Cookerie? Arui. He cut our Rootes in Charracters, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.57 | That grief and patience, rooted in him both, | That greefe and patience rooted in them both, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.60 | His perishing root, with the increasing vine! | His perishing roote, with the encreasing Vine. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.33 | That roots itself in ease on Lethe wharf, | That rots it selfe in ease, on Lethe Wharfe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.87 | Which should not find a ground to root upon | Which should not finde a ground to roote vpon, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.205 | His foes are so enrooted with his friends | His foes are so en-rooted with his friends, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.39 | As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots | As Gardeners doe with Ordure hide those Roots |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.46 | Doth root upon, while that the coulter rusts | Doth root vpon; while that the Culter rusts, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.85 | Spring crestless yeomen from so deep a root? | Spring Crestlesse Yeomen from so deepe a Root? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.31 | Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; | Now 'tis the Spring, and Weeds are shallow-rooted, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.48 | I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares. | Ile plant Plantagenet, root him vp who dares: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iii.32 | And till I root out their accursed line | And till I root out their accursed Line, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.165 | We set the axe to thy usurping root; | We set the Axe to thy vsurping Roote: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.49 | But set his murdering knife unto the root | But set his murth'ring knife vnto the Roote, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.125 | Whereof the root was fixed in virtue's ground, | Whereof the Root was fixt in Vertues ground, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.69 | Must by the roots be hewn up yet ere night. | Must by the Roots be hew'ne vp yet ere Night. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.87 | We should take root here where we sit, | We should take roote here, where we sit; |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.97 | And though we leave it with a root, thus hacked, | And though we leaue it with a roote thus hackt, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.357 | His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, | His Greatnesse is a ripening, nippes his roote, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.53 | And we must root him out. From your affairs | And we must root him out. From your Affaires |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.114 | Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted | Thy Truth, and thy Integrity is rooted |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.420 | When poison hath encompassed the root; | When poyson hath encompassed the roote: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.47 | Sweet flow'ring peace, the root of happy life, | Sweete flowring peace the roote of happie life, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.83 | Or have we eaten on the insane root | Or haue we eaten on the insane Root, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.5 | But that myself should be the root and father | But that my selfe should be the Roote, and Father |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.25 | Root of hemlock digged i'the dark, | Roote of Hemlocke, digg'd i'th' darke: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.95 | Unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! Good! | Vnfixe his earth-bound Root? Sweet boadments, good: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.85 | Sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root | stickes deeper: growes with more pernicious roote |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.41 | Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, | Plucke from the Memory a rooted Sorrow, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.50 | And that's a good root. | And that's a good roote. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.22 | take true root but by the fair weather that you make | take root, but by the faire weather that you make |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.420 | As if he plucked up kisses by the roots, | As if he pluckt vp kisses by the rootes, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.31 | Which fence the roots they grow by and defend them, | Which fence the rootes they grow by and defend them, |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.82 | seeds and roots of shame and iniquity. O, you have | seeds and rootes of shame and iniquitie. O you haue |
| Pericles | Per V.i.91 | But time hath rooted out my parentage, | but time hath rooted out my parentage, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.13 | Or seven fair branches springing from one root. | Or seuen faire branches springing from one roote: |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.18 | One flourishing branch of his most royal root, | One flourishing branch of his most Royall roote |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.37 | You thus employed, I will go root away | You thus imploy'd, I will goe root away |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.52 | Are plucked up, root and all, by Bolingbroke – | Are pull'd vp, Root and all, by Bullingbrooke: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.227 | Thou elvish-marked, abortive, rooting hog! | Thou eluish mark'd, abortiue rooting Hogge, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.41 | Why grow the branches when the root is gone? | Why grow the Branches, when the Roote is gone? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.122 | That westward rooteth from this city side, | That West-ward rooteth from this City side: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.464 | The fresh-brook mussels, withered roots, and husks | The fresh-brooke Mussels, wither'd roots, and huskes |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.96 | As rootedly as I. Burn but his books. | As rootedly as I. Burne but his Bookes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.70 | Rich men sin, and I eat root. | Richmen sin, and I eat root. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.132 | As this pomp shows to a little oil and root. | As this pompe shewes to a little oyle and roote. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.23 | Destruction fang mankind. Earth, yield me roots. | Destruction phang mankinde; Earth yeeld me Rootes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.28 | Roots, you clear heavens! Thus much of this will make | Roots you cleere Heauens. Thus much of this will make |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.187 | From forth thy plenteous bosom, one poor root. | From foorth thy plenteous bosome, one poore roote: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.193 | Never presented. – O, a root! Dear thanks! – | Neuer presented. O, a Root, deare thankes: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.284 | He eats a root | |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.419 | Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots; | Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.72 | Can you eat roots, and drink cold water? No? | Can you eate Roots, and drinke cold water, no? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.131 | Be as a cantherizing to the root o'th' tongue, | Be as a Cantherizing to the root o'th'Tongue, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.163 | Who like a boar too savage doth root up | Who like a Bore too sauage, doth root vp |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.49 | And rape, I fear, was root of thy annoy. | And rape I feare was roote of thine annoy. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.176 | I'll make you feed on berries and on roots, | Ile make you feed on berries, and on rootes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.53 | or my heart will be blown up by the root. | or my heart will be blowne vp by the root. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.160 | Disdain to root the summer-swelling flower | Disdaine to roote the Sommer-swelling flowre, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.104 | How oft hast thou with perjury cleft the root! | How oft hast thou with periury cleft the roote? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.59 | Their intertangled roots of love. But I | Their intertangled rootes of love, but I |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.28 | Will take more root within him. Let him do | Will take more root within him: Let him doe |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.75 | Disroot his rider whence he grew, but that | Dis-roote his Rider whence he grew, but that |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.23 | and there rooted betwixt them then such an affection, | and there rooted betwixt them then such an affection, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.89 | The root of his opinion, which is rotten | The Root of his Opinion, which is rotten, |