| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.57 | A prophet I, madam, and I speak the truth the | A Prophet I Madam, and I speake the truth the |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.127 | It is the show and seal of nature's truth, | It is the show, and seale of natures truth, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.176 | That truth should be suspected. Speak, is't so? | That truth should be suspected, speake, ist so? |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.215 | I will tell truth, by grace itself I swear. | I will tell truth, by grace it selfe I sweare: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.ii.34 | should speak truth of it. Here it is, and all that belongs | should speake truth of it: heere it is, and all that belongs |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.30 | been truth, sir. | beene truth sir. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.29 | known truth to pass a thousand nothings with, should | known truth to passe a thousand nothings with, should |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.54 | Ay, surely, mere the truth, I know his lady. | I surely meere the truth, I know his Lady. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.31 | This is the first truth that e'er thine own | This is the first truth that ere thine own |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.21 | 'Tis not the many oaths that makes the truth, | Tis not the many oathes that makes the truth, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.ii.56 | Now will I charge you in the band of truth, | Now will I charge you in the band of truth, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.148 | true – ‘ or thereabouts ’ set down, for I'll speak truth. | true, or thereabouts set downe, for Ile speake truth. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.149 | He's very near the truth in this. | He's very neere the truth in this. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.154 | I humbly thank you, sir. A truth's a truth, the | I humbly thanke you sir, a truth's a truth, the |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.248 | would think truth were a fool. Drunkenness is his best | would thinke truth were a foole: drunkennesse is his best |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.207 | Whose nature sickens but to speak a truth. | Whose nature sickens: but to speake a truth, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.230.2 | I have spoke the truth. | I haue spoke the truth. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.323 | To make the even truth in pleasure flow. | To make the euen truth in pleasure flow: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.109 | With such full licence as both truth and malice | With such full License, as both Truth and Malice |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.98 | Work without it. Truth is that Fulvia, | Worke without it. Truth is, that Fuluia, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.112 | That truth should be silent I had almost | That trueth should be silent, I had almost |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.139 | Would then be nothing. Truths would be tales, | Would then be nothing. Truth's would be tales, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.140 | Where now half-tales be truths. Her love to both | Where now halfe tales be truth's: her loue to both, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.126 | Me to proclaim the truth, and I am come, | Me to proclaime the truth, and I am come |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.144 | To myself nothing. Speak the truth, Seleucus. | To my selfe nothing. Speake the truth Seleucus. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.11 | thy father for mine; so wouldst thou, if the truth of | thy father for mine; so wouldst thou, if the truth of |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.70 | To the last gasp with truth and loyalty. | To the last gaspe with truth and loyaltie, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.19 | Nay, certainly, there is no truth in him. | Nay certainly there is no truth in him. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.115 | If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter. | If there be truth in sight, you are my daughter. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.116 | If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind. | If there be truth in sight, you are my Rosalind. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.127 | If truth holds true contents. | If truth holds true contents. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.37 | Against my soul's pure truth why labour you | Against my soules pure truth, why labour you, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.141 | I long to know the truth hereof at large. | I long to know the truth heereof at large. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.211 | But she tells to your highness simple truth. | But she tels to your Highnesse simple truth. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.255 | My lord, in truth, thus far I witness with him: | My Lord, in truth, thus far I witnes with him: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.195 | Would the nobility lay aside their ruth | Would the Nobility lay aside their ruth, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.90 | In truth, la, go with me, and I'll tell you excellent | In truth la go with me, and Ile tell you excellent |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.13.2 | Though thou speak'st truth, | Though thou speakest truth, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.42 | He did inform the truth – but for our gentlemen. | He did informe the truth: but for our Gentlemen, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.120 | For truth to o'erpeer. Rather than fool it so, | For Truth to o're-peere. Rather then foole it so, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.57 | Of no allowance to your bosom's truth. | Of no allowance, to your bosomes truth. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.121 | Lest I surcease to honour mine own truth | Least I surcease to honor mine owne truth, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.18.1 | And power i'th' truth o'th' cause. | And power i'th Truth a'th Cause. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.193 | to say the truth on't. Before Corioles he scotched him | to say the Troth on't before Corioles, he scotcht him, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.144 | And so did I, and, to say the truth, so | And so did I: and to say the truth, so |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.5 | Will vouch the truth of it. Him I accuse | Will vouch the truth of it. Him I accuse: |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.22 | Mine honour for his truth; who being so heightened, | Mine Honor for his truth: who being so heighten'd, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.107 | By th' very truth of it, I care not for you, | By th'very truth of it, I care not for you, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.62 | Being so near the truth, as I will make them, | Being so nere the Truth, as I will make them, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.109 | Where there is beauty: truth, where semblance: love, | Where there is Beauty: Truth, where semblance: Loue, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.7 | She's punished for her truth; and undergoes, | She's punish'd for her Truth; and vndergoes |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.12 | Upon the love and truth and vows which I | Vpon the Loue, and Truth, and Vowes; which I |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.107 | That place them on the truth of girls and boys. | That place them on the truth of Gyrles, and Boyes. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.134 | Winnow the truth from falsehood. On, speak to him. | Winnow the truth from falshood. One speake to him. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.156 | To his confine. And of the truth herein | To his Confine. And of the truth heerein, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.98 | What is between you? Give me up the truth. | What is betweene you, giue me vp the truth? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.63 | Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, | Your bait of falshood, takes this Cape of truth; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.117 | Doubt truth to be a liar. | Doubt Truth to be a Lier, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.158 | Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed | Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeede |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.23 | Will you ha' the truth on't? If this had | Will you ha the truth on't: if this had |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.166 | speak more or less than truth, they are villains and the | speake more or lesse then truth, they are villaines, and the |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.226 | truth the truth? | truth, the truth? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.299 | would swear truth out of England but he would make | would sweare truth out of England, but hee would make |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.55 | By telling truth. Tell truth, and shame the devil. | By telling truth. Tell truth, and shame the Deuill. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.58 | O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil! | Oh, while you liue, tell truth, and shame the Deuill. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.109 | There's neither faith, truth, nor womanhood in | There's neyther Faith, Truth, nor Woman-hood in |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.112 | prune, nor no more truth in thee than in a drawn fox – | Prune; nor no more truth in thee, then in a drawne Fox: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.152 | truth, nor honesty in this bosom of thine. It is all filled | Truth, nor Honesty, in this bosome of thine: it is all fill'd |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.1 | Well said, my noble Scot! If speaking truth | Well said, my Noble Scot, if speaking truth |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.43 | herald's coat without sleeves. And the shirt to say the truth | Heralds Coat, without sleeues: and the Shirt, to say the truth, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.96 | To speak a truth. If he be slain – | To speake a truth. If he be slaine, say so: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.188 | I hear for certain, and do speak the truth, | I heare for certaine, and do speake the truth: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.210 | I knew of this before, but, to speak truth, | I knew of this before. But to speake truth, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.137 | Well, the truth is, Sir John, you | Wel, the truth is (sir Iohn) you |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.161 | say of wax, my growth would approve the truth. | say of wax, my growth would approue the truth. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.192 | I will not. The truth is, I am only old in judgement and | I will not: the truth is, I am onely olde in iudgement and |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.104 | She hath been in good case, and the truth is, poverty | She hath bin in good case, & the truth is, pouerty |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.116 | Yea, in truth, my lord. | Yes in troth my Lord. |
| 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 IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.56 | i' good truth, as rheumatic as two dry toasts; you cannot | (in good troth) as Rheumatike as two drie Tostes, you cannot |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.104 | Do I? Yea, in very truth, do I, an 'twere an | Doe I? yea, in very truth doe I, if it were an |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.217 | crowns for you. In very truth, sir, I had as lief be | Crownes for you: in very truth, sir, I had as lief be |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.39 | If truth and upright innocency fail me, | If Troth, and vpright Innocency fayle me, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.50 | For, by my faith, it very well becomes you. | For (to speake truth) it very well becomes you: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.102 | Let King Cophetua know the truth thereof. | Let King Couitha know the truth thereof. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.117 | Harry the Fifth's the man. I speak the truth – | Harry the Fift's the man, I speake the truth. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.38 | For Doll is in. Pistol speaks naught but truth. | for Dol is in. Pistol, speakes nought but troth. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.17 | Suits not in native colours with the truth; | Sutes not in natiue colours with the truth: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.72 | To find his title with some shows of truth, | To find his Title with some shewes of truth, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.73 | Though in pure truth it was corrupt and naught, | Though in pure truth it was corrupt and naught, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.103 | That, though the truth of it stands off as gross | That though the truth of it stands off as grosse |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.36 | good truth, the poet makes a most excellent description | good truth, the Poet makes a most excellent description |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.14 | For thou art framed of the firm truth of valour. | For thou art fram'd of the firme truth of valour. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.58 | Yes, verily and in truth you shall take it, or I | Yes verily, and in truth you shall take it, or I |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.2 | Dare no man answer in a case of truth? | Dare no man answer in a Case of Truth? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.5 | Then say at once if I maintained the truth; | Then say at once, if I maintain'd the Truth: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.20 | The truth appears so naked on my side | The truth appeares so naked on my side, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.29 | If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, | If he suppose that I haue pleaded truth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.32 | But dare maintain the party of the truth, | But dare maintaine the partie of the truth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.46 | Then, for the truth and plainness of the case, | Then for the truth, and plainnesse of the Case, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.64.1 | The truth on our side. | The truth on our side. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.70 | Ay, sharp and piercing, to maintain his truth, | I, sharpe and piercing to maintaine his truth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iv.20 | Long since we were resolved of your truth, | Long since we were resolued of your truth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.30 | To say the truth, this fact was infamous, | To say the truth, this fact was infamous, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.94 | When stubbornly he did repugn the truth | When stubbornly he did repugne the truth, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.159 | To say the truth, it is your policy | To say the truth, it is your policie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.161 | And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen | And ruthlesse slaughters as are dayly seene |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.28 | Father, the Duke hath told the truth; | Father, the Duke hath told the truth; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.101 | The truth and innocence of this poor fellow, | The truth and innocence of this poore fellow, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.34 | The ruthless flint doth cut my tender feet, | The ruthlesse Flint doth cut my tender feet, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.120 | I say no more than truth, so help me God! | I say no more then truth, so helpe me God. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.203 | The map of honour, truth, and loyalty; | The Map of Honor, Truth, and Loyaltie: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.iii.9 | And to speak truth, thou deservest no less. | And to speake truth, thou deseru'st no lesse. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.31 | Ay, to such mercy as his ruthless arm | I, to such mercy, as his ruthlesse Arme |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.156 | See, ruthless Queen, a hapless father's tears; | See, ruthlesse Queene, a haplesse Fathers Teares: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.61 | The ruthless Queen gave him to dry his cheeks | The ruthlesse Queene gaue him, to dry his Cheekes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.127 | I cannot judge; but, to conclude with truth, | I cannot iudge: but to conclude with truth, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.95 | O that my death would stay these ruthful deeds! | O that my death would stay these ruthfull deeds: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.120 | Tell me for truth the measure of his love | Tell me for truth, the measure of his Loue |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.159 | Both full of truth, I make King Lewis behold | (Both full of Truth) I make King Lewis behold |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.69 | Suggest but truth to my divining thoughts, | suggest but truth / To my diuining thoughts, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.26 | In sign of truth, I kiss your highness' hand. | In signe of truth, I kisse your Highnesse Hand. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.viii.29 | And thus I seal my truth and bid adieu. | And thus I seale my truth, and bid adieu. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.25 | And what is Edward but a ruthless sea? | And what is Edward, but a ruthlesse Sea? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.36 | More than with ruthless waves, with sands and rocks. | More then with ruthlesse Waues, with Sands and Rocks. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.33 | (aside) To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master, | To say the truth, so Iudas kist his master, |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.9 | May here find truth too. Those that come to see | May heere finde Truth too. Those that come to see |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.18 | To rank our chosen truth with such a show | To ranke our chosen Truth with such a show |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.177.2 | On my soul, I'll speak but truth. | On my Soule, Ile speake but truth. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.105 | That never knew what truth meant. I now seal it, | That neuer knew what Truth meant: I now seale it; |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.154 | Is found a truth now, for it grows again | Is found a truth now: for it growes agen |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.39.2 | No, in truth. | No in truth. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.84.1 | At all a friend to truth. | At all a Friend to truth. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.98 | As you have done my truth. If he know | As you haue done my Truth. If he know |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.39 | Out with it boldly. Truth loves open dealing. | Out with it boldly: Truth loues open dealing. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.47 | If you speak truth, for their poor mistress' sake. | If you speake truth, for their poore Mistris sake; |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.65 | Both of his truth and him – which was too far – | Both of his truth and him (which was too farre) |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.74 | In truth I know not. I was set at work | In truth I know not. I was set at worke, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.272 | That in the way of loyalty and truth | That in the way of Loyaltie, and Truth, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.302.1 | When the King knows my truth. | When the King knowes my Truth. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.397 | For truth's sake, and his conscience, that his bones, | For Truths-sake, and his Conscience; that his bones, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.430 | Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. | (Out of thy honest truth) to play the Woman. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.448 | Thy God's, and truth's. Then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, | Thy Gods, and Truths. Then if thou fall'st (O Cromwell) |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.38 | He would say untruths, and be ever double | He would say vntruths, and be euer double |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.74 | With thy religious truth and modesty, | With thy Religious Truth, and Modestie, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.114 | Thy truth and thy integrity is rooted | Thy Truth, and thy Integrity is rooted |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.122 | The good I stand on is my truth and honesty. | The good I stand on, is my Truth and Honestie: |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.130 | The justice and the truth o'th' question carries | The Iustice and the Truth o'th'question carries |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.71 | That's the plain truth. Your painted gloss discovers, | That's the plaine truth; your painted glosse discouers |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.16 | Let none think flattery, for they'll find 'em truth. | Let none thinke Flattery; for they'l finde 'em Truth. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.28 | Shall still be doubled on her. Truth shall nurse her, | Shall still be doubled on her. Truth shall Nurse her, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.v.47 | And so stand fixed. Peace, plenty, love, truth, terror, | And so stand fix'd. Peace, Plenty, Loue, Truth,Terror, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.19 | Remorse from power; and, to speak truth of Caesar, | Remorse from Power: And to speake truth of Casar, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.67 | To be afeard to tell greybeards the truth? | To be afear'd to tell Gray-beards the truth: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.186 | Then like a Roman bear the truth I tell; | Then like a Roman, beare the truth I tell, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.77 | And truth hath pulled the vizard from his face, | And trueth hath puld the visard from his face, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.170 | And tottering sink into the ruthless flood, | And tottering sink into the ruthlesse floud, |
| King John | KJ I.i.61 | But for the certain knowledge of that truth | But for the certaine knowledge of that truth, |
| King John | KJ I.i.105 | But truth is truth. Large lengths of seas and shores | But truth is truth, large lengths of seas and shores |
| King John | KJ I.i.169 | Madam, by chance but not by truth; what though? | Madam by chance, but not by truth, what tho; |
| King John | KJ III.i.273 | The truth is then most done not doing it. | The truth is then most done not doing it: |
| King John | KJ III.i.282 | And makest an oath the surety for thy truth | And mak'st an oath the suretie for thy truth, |
| King John | KJ III.i.283 | Against an oath! The truth thou art unsure | Against an oath the truth, thou art vnsure |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.26 | Makes sound opinion sick and truth suspected, | Makes sound opinion sicke, and truth suspected, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.130 | That thou for truth givest out are landed here? | That thou for truth giu'st out are landed heere? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.154 | Foreknowing that the truth will fall out so. | Fore-knowing that the truth will fall out so. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.144 | The life, the right and truth, of all this realm | The life, the right, and truth of all this Realme |
| King John | KJ V.iv.29 | That I must die here, and live hence by truth? | That I must dye heere, and liue hence, by Truth? |
| King Lear | KL I.i.108 | Let it be so! Thy truth then be thy dower! | Let it be so, thy truth then be thy dowre: |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.110 | Truth's a dog must to kennel; he must be whipped | Truth's a dog must to kennell, hee must bee whipt |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.97 | An honest mind and plain – he must speak truth! | An honest mind and plaine, he must speake truth, |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.43 | Be simple-answered, for we know the truth. | Be simple answer'd, for we know the truth. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.5 | All my reports go with the modest truth, | All my reports go with the modest truth, |
| King Lear | KL V.i.8 | Tell me but truly – but then speak the truth – | Tell me but truly, but then speake the truth, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.102.1 | My truth and honour firmly. | My truth and honor firmely. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.75 | To seek the light of truth, while truth the while | To seeke the light of truth, while truth the while |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.298 | I suffer for the truth, sir; for true it is I was | I suffer for the truth sir: for true it is, I was |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.65 | Was there with him, if I have heard a truth. | Was there with him, as I haue heard a truth. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.48 | The thickest and the tallest! It is so – truth is | The thickest, & the tallest: it is so, truth is |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.49 | truth. | truth. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.64 | true that thou art beauteous; truth itself that | true that thou art beauteous, truth it selfe that |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.66 | beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on | beautious, truer then truth it selfe: haue comiseration on |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.362.2 | Ay, in truth, my lord; | I in truth, my Lord. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.706 | The naked truth of it is, I have no shirt. I go | The naked truth of it is, I haue no shirt, / I go |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.51 | Things that do sound so fair? – I'the name of truth, | Things that doe sound so faire? i'th' name of truth |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.123 | The instruments of darkness tell us truths; | The Instruments of Darknesse tell vs Truths, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.126.2 | Two truths are told, | Two Truths are told, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.132 | Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. | Commencing in a Truth? I am Thane of Cawdor. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.21.1 | To you they have showed some truth. | To you they haue shew'd some truth. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.6 | Of many kings. If there come truth from them, | Of many Kings. If there come truth from them, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.117 | To thy good truth and honour. Devilish Macbeth | To thy good Truth, and Honor. Diuellish Macbeth, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.130 | No less in truth than life. My first false speaking | No lesse in truth then life. My first false speaking |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.2 | perceive no truth in your report. When was it she last | perceiue no truth in your report. When was it shee last |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.44 | That lies like truth. ‘ Fear not, till Birnan Wood | That lies like truth. Feare not, till Byrnane Wood |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.80 | Away. Let's go learn the truth of it. | Away: let's goe learne the truth of it. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.132 | truth, I had as lief have the foppery of freedom as | truth, I had as lief haue the foppery of freedome, as |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.39 | Do not believe it. Fewness and truth, 'tis thus: | Doe not beleeue it: fewnes, and truth; tis thus, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.121 | Why, very well. I hope here be truths. He, sir, | Why very well: I hope here be truthes: he Sir, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.127 | Why, very well then. I hope here be truths. | Why very well then: I hope here be truthes. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.166 | of natures. She, having the truth of honour in her, hath | of natures. She (hauing the truth of honour in her) hath |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.208 | do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my | do any thing that appeares not fowle in the truth of my |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.108 | Why, what a ruthless thing is this in him, for the | Why, what a ruthlesse thing is this in him, for the |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.216 | There is scarce truth enough alive to make | There is scarse truth enough aliue to make |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.vi.2 | I would say the truth, but to accuse him so, | I would say the truth, but to accuse him so |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.45 | Nay, it is ten times true, for truth is truth | Nay, it is ten times true, for truth is truth |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.66 | To make the truth appear where it seems hid, | To make the truth appeare, where it seemes hid, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.113 | Confess the truth, and say by whose advice | Confesse the truth, and say by whose aduice |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.224 | As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue, | As there is sence in truth, and truth in vertue, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.54 | man. In truth, I know it is a sin to be a mocker, but he, | man, in truth I know it is a sinne to be a mocker, but he, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.72 | son. (He kneels) Give me your blessing. Truth will come | son, giue me your blessing, truth will come |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.74 | but in the end truth will out. | but in the end truth will out. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.121 | To be brief, the very truth is that the Jew | To be briefe, the verie truth is, that the Iew |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.34 | Promise me life and I'll confess the truth. | Promise me life, and ile confesse the truth. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.100 | The seeming truth which cunning times put on | The seeming truth which cunning times put on |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.211 | That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, | That malice beares downe truth. And I beseech you |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.189 | Even so void is your false heart of truth. | Euen so voide is your false heart of truth. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.74 | Hear the truth of it. He came of an errand to me from | heare the truth of it. He came of an errand to mee, from |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.134 | In truth, sir, and she is pretty, and | In truth Sir, and shee is pretty, and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.57 | truth of his words. But they do no more adhere and keep | truth of his words: but they doe no more adhere and keep |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.160 | Do you think there is truth in them? | Doe you thinke there is truth in them? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.101 | truth. | truth. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.36 | This tale of Herne the Hunter for a truth. | This tale of Herne the Hunter, for a truth. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.59.2 | And till he tell the truth, | And till he tell the truth, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.61.2 | The truth being known, | The truth being knowne, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.212 | You do amaze her. Hear the truth of it. | You do amaze her: heare the truth of it, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.215 | The truth is, she and I, long since contracted, | The truth is, she and I (long since contracted) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.200 | Or rather do I not in plainest truth | Or rather doe I not in plainest truth, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.42 | And – to speak truth – I have forgot our way. | And to speake troth I haue forgot our way: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.136 | for that. And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep | for that: and yet to say the truth, reason and loue keepe |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.92 | Then fate o'errules, that, one man holding truth, | Then fate ore-rules, that one man holding troth, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.125 | In their nativity all truth appears. | In their natiuity all truth appeares. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.129 | When truth kills truth, O devilish-holy fray! | When truth kils truth, O diuelish holy fray! |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.127 | But wonder on, till truth make all things plain. | But wonder on, till truth make all things plaine. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.160 | That I am that same wall; the truth is so. | That I am that same Wall; the truth is so. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.181 | No, in truth sir, he should not. ‘Deceiving me' is | No in truth sir, he should not. Deceiuing me, / Is |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.44 | truth of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called | truths of Heroes disloyaltie, that iealousie shall be cal'd |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.216 | conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of this | conference was sadly borne, they haue the truth of this |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.225 | 'tis a truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; so, | 'tis a truth, I can beare them witnesse: and vertuous, tis so, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.59 | Why, you speak truth. I never yet saw man, | Why you speake truth, I neuer yet saw man, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.69 | And never gives to truth and virtue that | And neuer giues to Truth and Vertue, that |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.7 | Yes, in truth it is, sir. | Yes in truth it is sir. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.33 | O, what authority and show of truth | O what authoritie and shew of truth |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.162 | Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool; | Against her maiden truth. Call me a foole, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.188 | I know not. If they speak but truth of her, | I know not: if they speake but truth of her, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.206 | moreover they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they | moreouer they haue spoken vntruths, secondarily they |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.7 | shall come over it; for, in most comely truth, thou | shall come ouer it, for in most comely truth thou |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.21 | Signor Leonato, truth it is, good signor, | Signior Leonato, truth it is good Signior, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.58 | And give us truth who 'tis that is arrived. | And giue vs truth who 'tis that is arriu'd. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.213 | Thou dost deliver more or less than truth, | Thou dost deliuer more, or lesse then Truth, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.217 | Yet, I persuade myself, to speak the truth | Yet I perswade my selfe, to speake the truth |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.404 | Which lead directly to the door of truth, | Which leade directly to the doore of Truth, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.185 | With nought but truth. I have wasted myself | With naught but truth: I haue wasted my selfe |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.68.1 | Let him confess a truth. | Let him confesse a truth. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.129 | She said so: I must needs report the truth. | She said so: I must needs report the truth. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.188 | 'Tis a strange truth. | 'Tis a strange Truth. |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.123 | That time of both this truth shall ne'er convince, | That time of both this truth shall nere conuince, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.122 | For the crowned truth to dwell in. I will believe thee, | for the crownd truth to dwell in, I wil beleeue thee |
| Pericles | Per V.i.202 | For truth can never be confirmed enough, | for truth can neuer be confirm'd inough, |
| Pericles | Per epilogue.V.iii.8 | A figure of truth, of faith, of loyalty. | A figure of trueth, of faith, of loyaltie: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.19 | Both to defend my loyalty and truth | Both to defend my loyalty and truth, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.96 | Go I to fight. Truth hath a quiet breast. | Go I to fight: Truth, hath a quiet brest. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.183 | You never shall, so help you truth and God, | You ueuer shall (so helpe you Truth, and Heauen) |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.8 | For they breathe truth that breathe their words in pain. | For they breath truth, that breath their words in paine. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.101 | So my untruth had not provoked him to it – | (So my vntruth had not prouok'd him to it) |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.106 | Rue even for ruth here shortly shall be seen | Rue, eu'n for ruth, heere shortly shall be seene, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.116 | Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth: | Yet best beseeming me to speake the truth. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.171 | Found truth in all but one; I, in twelve thousand, none. | Found truth in all, but one; I, in twelue thousand, none. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.19 | From which awaked the truth of what we are | From which awak'd, the truth of what we are, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.44 | I am in Parliament pledge for his truth | I am in Parliament pledge for his truth, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.73 | O wonderful, when devils tell the truth! | O wonderfull, when diuels tell the truth! |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.52 | But thus his simple truth must be abused | But thus his simple truth must be abus'd, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.76 | Methinks the truth should live from age to age, | Me thinkes the truth should liue from age to age, |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.91 | They, for their truth, might better wear their heads | They, for their truth, might better wear their Heads, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.3 | For truth, for duty, and for loyalty. | For Truth, for Dutie, and for Loyaltie. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.237 | In saying so you shall but say the truth. | In saying so, you shall but say the truth. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.5 | To do this piece of ruthless butchery, | To do this peece of ruthfull Butchery, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.30 | But where, to say the truth, I do not know. | But where (to say the truth) I do not know. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.274 | He said the truth. And what said Surrey then? | He said the truth: and what said Surrey then? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.67 | And, to say truth, Verona brags of him | And to say truth, Verona brags of him, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.98 | In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond, | In truth faire Mountague I am too fond: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.175 | This is the truth, or let Benvolio die. | This is the truth, or let Benuolio die. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.33 | That is no slander, sir, which is a truth. | That is no slaunder sir, which is a truth, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.1 | If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, | If I may trust the flattering truth of sleepe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.75 | Come, go along and see the truth hereof, | Come goe along and see the truth hereof, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.100 | Who having into truth, by telling of it, | Who hauing into truth, by telling of it, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.60 | No. He doth but mistake the truth totally. | No: he doth but mistake the truth totally. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.139 | The truth you speak doth lack some gentleness, | The truth you speake doth lacke some gentlenesse, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.156 | Their eyes do offices of truth, their words | Their eies doe offices of Truth: Their words |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.16 | Religion to the gods, peace, justice, truth, | Religion to the Gods, Peace, Iustice, Truth, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.75 | I am sure you have. Speak truth; y' are honest men. | I am sure you haue, speake truth, y'are honest men. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.128 | The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and dull. | The Woods are ruthlesse, dreadfull, deafe, and dull: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.53 | Forced in the ruthless, vast, and gloomy woods? | Forc'd in the ruthlesse, vast, and gloomy woods? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.75 | That we may know the traitors and the truth. | That we may know the Traytors and the truth. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.66 | Ruthful to hear, yet piteously performed; | Ruthfull to heare, yet pittiously preform'd, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.114 | That my report is just and full of truth. | That my report is iust and full of truth: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.127 | Now have you heard the truth, what say you, Romans? | Now you haue heard the truth, what say you Romaines? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.65 | I speak no more than truth. | I speake no more then truth. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.97 | Faith, to say truth, brown and not brown. | Faith to say truth, browne and not browne. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.98 | To say the truth, true and not true. | To say the truth, true and not true. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.301 | I'll pawn this truth with my three drops of blood. | Ile pawne this truth with my three drops of blood. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.190 | Is this in way of truth; yet ne'ertheless, | Is this in way of truth: yet nere the lesse, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.73 | it not, in truth, la. Nay, I care not for such words; no, | it not in truth la. Nay, I care not for such words, no, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.95 | for his truth, and what truth can speak truest, not truer | for his truth; and what truth can speake truest, not truer |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.163 | That my integrity and truth to you | That my integritie and truth to you, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.167 | I am as true as truth's simplicity, | I am as true, as truths simplicitie, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.168 | And simpler than the infancy of truth. | And simpler then the infancie of truth. |
| 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 III.ii.174 | Want similes, truth tired with iteration – | Wants similes, truth tir'd with iteration, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.178 | Yet, after all comparisons of truth, | Yet after all comparisons of truth, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.179 | As truth's authentic author to be cited, | (As truths authenticke author to be cited) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.182 | If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, | If I be false, or swerue a haire from truth, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.30.1 | A hateful truth. | A hatefull truth. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.103 | I with great truth catch mere simplicity; | I, with great truth, catch meere simplicitie; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.105 | With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare. | With truth and plainnesse I doe weare mine bare: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.106 | Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit | Feare not my truth; the morrall of my wit |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.47.1 | O withered truth! | O withered truth! |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.121 | Shall I not lie in publishing a truth? | Shall I not lye, in publishing a truth? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.182 | Let all untruths stand by thy stained name, | Let all vntruths stand by thy stained name, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.48 | Spur them to ruthful work, rein them from ruth! | Spur them to ruthfull worke, reine them from ruth. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.147 | By maidhood, honour, truth, and everything, | By maid-hood, honor, truth, and euery thing, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.155 | I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth. | I haue one heart, one bosome, and one truth, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.33 | And having sworn truth, ever will be true. | And hauing sworne truth, euer will be true. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.ii.18 | For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it. | For truth hath better deeds, then words to grace it. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.149 | Then speak the truth by her; if not divine, | Then speake the truth by her; if not diuine, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.81 | To bear a hard opinion of his truth; | To beare a hard opinion of his truth: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.85 | One, lady, if you knew his pure heart's truth, | One (Lady) if you knew his pure hearts truth, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.66 | Witness good bringing up, fortune, and truth; | Witnesse good bringing vp, fortune, and truth: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.22 | For, to say truth, it were an endless thing, | For to say Truth, it were an endlesse thing, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.443 | Have uttered truth; which if you seek to prove, | Haue vttred Truth: which if you seeke to proue, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.167 | Relish a truth like us, inform yourselves | Rellish a truth, like vs: informe your selues, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.193 | Come up to th' truth. So have we thought it good | Come vp to th' truth. So haue we thought it good |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.199 | If the good truth were known. | If the good truth, were knowne. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.200 | The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords. | The truth of this appeare: Prepare you Lords, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.84 | Those of your fact are so – so past all truth; | (Those of your Fact are so) so past all truth; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.136.1 | Hast thou read truth? | Hast thou read truth? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.138 | There is no truth at all i'th' oracle! | There is no truth at all i'th' Oracle: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.155 | Whom I proclaim a man of truth, of mercy: | (Whom I proclaime a man of Truth, of Mercy:) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.231 | When most the truth; which I receive much better | When most the truth: which I receyue much better, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.649 | The truth of your own seeming, that you may – | The truth of your owne seeming, that you may |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.55.2 | Thou speak'st truth. | Thou speak'st truth: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.30 | Most true, if ever truth were pregnant | Most true, if euer Truth were pregnant |