| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.125 | Doth to our rose of youth rightly belong; | Doth to our Rose of youth righlie belong |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.173 | See it so grossly shown in thy behaviours | See it so grosely showne in thy behauiours, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.18 | Till we serve you; but when you have our roses, | Till we serue you: But when you haue our Roses, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.20 | To him again! Tell him he wears the rose | To him againe, tell him he weares the Rose |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.39 | Against the blown rose may they stop their nose | Against the blowne Rose may they stop their nose, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.65 | Th' inevitable prosecution of | Th'ineuitable prosecution of |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.21 | monster. Therefore, my sweet Rose, my dear Rose, | monster: therefore my sweet Rose, my deare Rose, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.72 | Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, | Rose at an instant, learn'd, plaid, eate together, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.107 | He that sweetest rose will find, | He that sweetest rose will finde, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.178 | To counterfeit thus grossly with your slave, | To counterfeit thus grosely with your slaue, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.389 | And thereupon these errors are arose. | And thereupon these errors are arose. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.83 | The violets, cowslips, and the primroses | The Violets, Cowslippes, and the Prime-Roses |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.221 | The flower that's like thy face, pale primrose, nor | The Flower that's like thy face. Pale-Primrose, nor |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.50 | Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads | Himselfe, the Primrose path of dalliance treads, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.1.2 | Enter the King and Queen, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, | Enter King, Queene, Rosincrane, and Guildensterne |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.1 | Welcome, dear Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. | Welcome deere Rosincrance and Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.33 | Thanks, Rosencrantz and gentle Guildenstern. | Thankes Rosincrance, and gentle Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.34 | Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz. | Thankes Guildensterne and gentle Rosincrance. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.39.1 | Exeunt Rosencrantz and | Exit. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.220 | Enter Guildenstern and Rosencrantz | Enter Rosincran and Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.225 | How dost thou, Guildenstern? Ah, Rosencrantz! | How do'st thou Guildensterne? Oh, Rosincrane; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.546 | Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Exeunt. Manet Hamlet. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.1.1 | Enter the King and Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, | Enter King, Queene, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosincrance, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.28 | Exeunt Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and lords | Exeunt. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.153 | Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state, | Th'expectansie and Rose of the faire State, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.56.1 | Enter Polonius, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern | Enter Polonius, Rosincrance, and Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.61 | Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Exeunt. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.102.3 | Enter the King and Queen, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosencrantz, | Enter King, Queene, Polonius, Ophelia, Rosincrance, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.286 | roses on my razed shoes, get me a fellowship in a cry of | Roses on my rac'd Shooes, get me a Fellowship in a crie of |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.304.1 | Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Enter Rosincrance and Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.1 | Enter the King, Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern | Enter King, Rosincrance, and Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.26 | Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Exeunt Gent. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.43 | Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose | Cals Vertue Hypocrite, takes off the Rose |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.1.1 | Enter the King and Queen, with Rosencrantz and | Enter King. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.4 | Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.33 | Enter Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Enter Ros. & Guild. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.37 | Exeunt Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | Exit Gent. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.ii.5 | Enter Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and attendants | Enter Ros. and Guildensterne. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.11.1 | Enter Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and all the rest | Enter Rosincrane. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.9.1 | Enter Hamlet, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.52 | Then up he rose and donned his clothes, | Then vp he rose, & don'd his clothes, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.159 | Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May, | Till our Scale turnes the beame. Oh Rose of May, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.176 | There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. | There's Rosemary, that's for Remembraunce. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.26 | will bring thee where I am. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern | will bring thee where I am. Rosincrance and Guildensterne, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.56 | So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to't. | So Guildensterne and Rosincrance, go too't. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.365 | That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead. | That Rosincrance and Guildensterne are dead: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.173 | To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, | To put downe Richard, that sweet louely Rose, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.13 | oats rose, it was the death of him. | oats rose, it was the death of him. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.146 | breath, and so was he, but we rose both at an instant, | breath, and so was he, but we rose both at an instant, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.25 | I warrant you, is as red as any rose, in good truth, la! | (I warrant you) is as red as any Rose: |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.291 | her, then, being a maid yet rosed over with the virgin | her then, being a Maid, yet ros'd ouer with the Virgin |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.30 | From off this briar pluck a white rose with me. | From off this Bryer pluck a white Rose with me. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.33 | Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me. | Pluck a red Rose from off this Thorne with me. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.36 | I pluck this white rose with Plantagenet. | I pluck this white Rose with Plantagenet. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.37 | I pluck this red rose with young Somerset, | I pluck this red Rose, with young Somerset, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.41 | The fewest roses are cropped from the tree | The fewest Roses are cropt from the Tree, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.48 | Giving my verdict on the white rose side. | Giuing my Verdict on the white Rose side. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.50 | Lest, bleeding, you do paint the white rose red, | Least bleeding, you doe paint the white Rose red, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.58 | In sign whereof I pluck a white rose too. | In signe whereof, I pluck a white Rose too. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.61 | Shall dye your white rose in a bloody red. | Shall dye your white Rose in a bloody red. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.62 | Meantime your cheeks do counterfeit our roses; | Meane time your cheeks do counterfeit our Roses: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.66 | Blush for pure shame to counterfeit our roses, | Blush for pure shame, to counterfeit our Roses, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.68 | Hath not thy rose a canker, Somerset? | Hath not thy Rose a Canker, Somerset? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.69 | Hath not thy rose a thorn, Plantagenet? | Hath not thy Rose a Thorne, Plantagenet? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.72 | Well, I'll find friends to wear my bleeding roses, | Well, Ile find friends to weare my bleeding Roses, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.107 | And, by my soul, this pale and angry rose, | And by my Soule, this pale and angry Rose, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.123 | Will I upon thy party wear this rose: | Will I vpon thy partie weare this Rose. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.126 | Shall send between the red rose and the white | Shall send betweene the Red-Rose and the White, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.91 | Upbraided me about the rose I wear, | Vpbraided me about the Rose I weare, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.152 | I see no reason, if I wear this rose, | I see no reason if I weare this Rose, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.153 | (He puts on a red rose) | |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.252 | Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose, | Then will I raise aloft the Milke-white-Rose, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.63 | Look pale as primrose with blood-drinking sighs, | Looke pale as Prim-rose with blood-drinking sighes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.1.2 | Montague, Warwick, and soldiers, with white roses | Mountague, Warwicke, and Souldiers. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.50.3 | red roses in their hats | |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.141 | He rose against him, being his sovereign, | He rose against him, being his Soueraigne, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.33 | Until the white rose that I wear be dyed | Vntill the White Rose that I weare, be dy'de |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.97 | The red rose and the white are on his face, | The Red Rose and the White are on his face, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.101 | Wither one rose, and let the other flourish; | Wither one Rose, and let the other flourish: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.82.1 | He takes his red rose out of his hat and throws it at | |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.152 | The Duke being at the Rose, within the parish | The Duke being at the Rose, within the Parish |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.71 | Had the full view of, such a noise arose | Had the full view of, such a noyse arose, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.82 | At length her grace rose, and with modest paces | At length, her Grace rose, and with modest paces |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.85 | Then rose again, and bowed her to the people; | Then rose againe, and bow'd her to the people: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.239 | You suddenly arose and walked about, | You sodainly arose, and walk'd about, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.20 | that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this | that Friend demand, why Brutus rose against Casar, this |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.166 | As lovingly as on the fragrant rose. – | As louinglie as on the fragrant rose, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.221 | Employ me how thou wilt in proof thereof. | Inploy me how thou wilt in prose therof, |
| King John | KJ I.i.142 | That in mine ear I durst not stick a rose | That in mine eare I durst not sticke a rose, |
| King John | KJ III.i.54 | And with the half-blown rose. But fortune, O, | And with the halfe-blowne Rose. But Fortune, oh, |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.16 | Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary; | Pins, Wodden-prickes, Nayles, Sprigs of Rosemarie: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.105 | At Christmas I no more desire a rose | At Christmas I no more desire a Rose, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.25 | To those fresh morning drops upon the rose, | To those fresh morning drops vpon the Rose, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.55 | These numbers will I tear, and write in prose. | These numbers will I teare, and write in prose. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.293 | Blow like sweet roses in this summer air. | Blow like sweet Roses, in this summer aire. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.295 | Fair ladies masked are roses in their bud; | Faire Ladies maskt, are Roses in their bud: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.297 | Are angels vailing clouds, or roses blown. | Are Angels vailing clouds, or Roses blowne. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.18 | go the primrose way to the everlasting bonfire. | goe the Primrose way to th' euerlasting Bonfire. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.16 | Hail, virgin, if you be, as those cheek-roses | Haile Virgin, (if you be) as those cheeke-Roses |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.50 | To think so base a thought; it were too gross | To thinke so base a thought, it were too grose |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.80 | Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? | Hiding the grosenesse with faire ornament: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.18 | There will we make our peds of roses, | There will we make our Peds of Roses: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.76 | But earthlier happy is the rose distilled, | But earthlier happie is the Rose distil'd, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.105 | Why should not I then prosecute my right? | Why should not I then prosecute my right? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.129 | How chance the roses there do fade so fast? | How chance the Roses there do fade so fast? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.215 | Upon faint primrose beds were wont to lie, | Vpon faint Primrose beds, were wont to lye, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.108 | Far in the fresh lap of the crimson rose, | Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson Rose, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.252 | With sweet muskroses and with eglantine. | With sweet muske roses, and with Eglantine; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.3 | Some to kill cankers in the muskrose buds, | Some to kill Cankers in the muske rose buds, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.87 | Of colour like the red rose on triumphant briar, | Of colour like the red rose on triumphant bryer, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.3 | And stick muskroses in thy sleek, smooth head, | And sticke muske roses in thy sleeke smoothe head, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.131 | No doubt they rose up early to observe | No doubt they rose vp early, to obserue |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.25 | I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose | I had rather be a canker in a hedge, then a rose |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.62 | Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin, | Patience, thou young and Rose-lip'd Cherubin, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.13 | That can thy light relume. When I have plucked thy rose, | That can thy Light re-Lume. / When I haue pluck'd thy Rose, |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.32 | see a rose. And she were a rose indeed, if she had but – | see a rose, and she were a rose indeed, if shee had but. |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.148 | Marry come up, my dish of chastity with rosemary and | Marry come vp my dish of chastitie with rosemary & |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.7 | That even her art sisters the natural roses; | That euen her art sisters the naturall Roses |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.244 | That will the King severely prosecute | That will the King seuerely prosecute |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.8 | My fair rose wither. Yet look up, behold, | My faire Rose wither: yet looke vp; behold, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.12 | Their lips were four red roses on a stalk, | Their lips were foure red Roses on a stalke, |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.19 | We will unite the White Rose and the Red. | We will vnite the White Rose, and the Red. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.43 | What's in a name? That which we call a rose | What? in a names that which we call a Rose, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.202 | Doth not rosemary and Romeo begin both with a letter? | Doth not Rosemarie and Romeo begin both with a letter? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.206 | the prettiest sententious of it, of you and rosemary, that | the prettiest sententious of it, of you and Rosemary, that |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.99 | The roses in thy lips and cheeks shall fade | The Roses in thy lips and cheekes shall fade |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.79 | Dry up your tears, and stick your rosemary | Drie vp your teares, and sticke your Rosemarie |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.95.2 | rosemary on her and shutting the curtains | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.47 | Remnants of packthread, and old cakes of roses | Remnants of packthred, and old cakes of Roses |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.54 | Full of rose-water and bestrewed with flowers, | Full of Rose-water, and bestrew'd with Flowers, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.173 | As morning roses newly washed with dew. | As morning Roses newly washt with dew: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.165 | What said the wench when he rose up again? | What said the wench when he rose againe? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.87 | For tubs and baths; bring down rose-cheeked youth | for Tubbes and Bathes, bring downe Rose-cheekt youth |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.24 | Doth rise and fall between thy rosed lips, | Doth rise and fall betweene thy Rosed lips, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.91 | That we will prosecute by good advice | That we will prosecute (by good aduise) |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.33 | Than prosecute the meanest or the best | Then prosecute the meanest or the best |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.8 | Before the sun rose he was harnessed light, | Before the Sunne rose, hee was harnest lyte, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.32 | Cerberus is at Proserpina's beauty, ay, that thou | Cerberus is at Proserpina's beauty. I, that thou |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.38 | For women are as roses whose fair flower, | For women are as Roses, whose faire flowre |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.138 | Here follows prose. | here followes prose: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.146 | (To Viola) Cesario, by the roses of the spring, | Cesario, by the Roses of the Spring, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.151 | The air hath starved the roses in her cheeks | The ayre hath staru'd the roses in her cheekes, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.1 | Roses, their sharp spines being gone, | ROses their sharpe spines being gon, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.7 | Primrose, first-born child of Ver, | Prim-rose first borne, child of Ver, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.190.1 | Methinks a rose is best. | Me thinkes a Rose is best. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.74 | With cherry lips, and cheeks of damask roses, | With cherry-lips, and cheekes of Damaske Roses, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.25 | pick flowers with Proserpine. Then will I make Palamon | picke flowers with Proserpine, then will I make / Palamon |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.96 | As 'twere a wreath of roses, yet is heavier | As t'wer a wreath of Roses, yet is heavier |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.163.2 | place ascends a rose tree, having one rose upon it | place ascends a Rose Tree, having one Rose upon it. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.165 | With sacred act advances: but one rose! | With sacred act advances: But one Rose, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.169.2 | rose falls from the tree | Rose fals from the Tree. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.74 | For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep | For you, there's Rosemary, and Rue, these keepe |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.116 | Your maidenheads growing. O Proserpina, | Your Maiden-heads growing: O Proserpina, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.122 | Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, | Or Cytherea's breath) pale Prime-roses, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.222 | Gloves as sweet as damask roses; | Gloues as sweete as Damaske Roses, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.108 | Of all professors else, make proselytes | Of all Professors else; make Proselytes |