| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.101 | No slander; they steal hearts. | No slander, they steale hearts. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.55 | fortune, and prevents the slander of his wife. | fortune, and preuents the slander of his wife. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.105 | For slander lives upon succession, | For slander liues vpon succession: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.65 | Free from these slanders and this open shame. | Free from these slanders, and this open shame. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.74 | Thither where more attends you, and you slander | Thether, where more attends you, and you slander |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.2 | After the slander of most stepmothers, | After the slander of most Step-Mothers, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.178 | Nice longing, slanders, mutability; | Nice-longing, Slanders, Mutability; |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.34 | Hath cut her throat already. No, 'tis slander, | Hath cut her throat alreadie? No, 'tis Slander, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.40 | This viperous slander enters. What cheer, madam? | This viperous slander enters. What cheere, Madam? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.77 | The low Posthumus, slanders so her judgement | The low Posthumus, slanders so her iudgement, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.223 | The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, | The leafe of Eglantine, whom not to slander, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.272 | Fear not slander, censure rash. | Feare not Slander, Censure rash. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.133 | Have you so slander any moment leisure | Haue you so slander any moment leisure, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.197 | Slanders, sir. For the satirical rogue says here | Slanders Sir: for the Satyricall slaue saies here, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.40 | And what's untimely done. So haply slander, | And what's vntimely done. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.111 | Then let not him be slandered with revolt. | Then let him not be sland'red with Reuolt. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.129 | Thou sayest true, Hostess, and he slanders | Thou say'st true Hostesse, and he slanders |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.8 | Do me no slander, Douglas. By my life, | Doe me no slander, Dowglas: by my Life, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.6 | Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, | Vpon my Tongue, continuall Slanders ride, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.78 | on. But you must learn to know such slanders of the | on: but you must learne to know such slanders of the |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.68 | So shall my name with slander's tongue be wounded, | So shall my name with Slanders tongue be wounded, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.200 | That slanders me with murder's crimson badge. | That slanders me with Murthers Crimson Badge. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.209 | Is slander to your royal dignity. | Is slander to your Royall Dignitie. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.139 | Stabbed Julius Caesar; savage islanders | Stab'd Iulius Casar. Sauage Islanders |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.47 | And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with cowardice | And bite thy tongue, that slanders him with Cowardice, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.153.2 | But that slander, sir, | But that slander Sir, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.20 | To ease ourselves of divers slanderous loads, | To ease our selues of diuers sland'rous loads, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.41 | Beauty a slander but in her fair face. | Beauty a slander but in her faire face, |
| King John | KJ I.i.74 | But once he slandered me with bastardy. | But once he slanderd me with bastardy: |
| King John | KJ II.i.25 | And coops from other lands her islanders, | And coopes from other lands her Ilanders, |
| King John | KJ II.i.173 | Thou monstrous slanderer of heaven and earth! | Thou monstrous slanderer of heauen and earth. |
| King John | KJ II.i.175 | Call not me slanderer. Thou and thine usurp | Call not me slanderer, thou and thine vsurpe |
| King John | KJ III.i.44 | Ugly and slanderous to thy mother's womb, | Vgly, and slandrous to thy Mothers wombe, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.256 | And you have slandered nature in my form, | And you haue slander'd Nature in my forme, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.103 | Have I not heard these islanders shout out | Haue I not heard these Islanders shout out |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.89 | When slanders do not live in tongues, | When Slanders do not liue in Tongues; |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.43 | To do it slander. And to behold his sway | To do in slander: And to behold his sway |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.173 | your action of slander, too. | your action of slander too. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.110 | That you have slandered so? | That you haue slander'd so? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.178 | Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue? | Can tie the gall vp in the slanderous tong? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.257 | Determined upon these slanderers. | Well determin'd vpon these Slanderers. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.287 | slander Lord Angelo? They have confessed you did. | slander Lord Angelo? they haue confes'd you did. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.321 | Slander to th' state. Away with him to prison. | Slander to th' State: / Away with him to prison. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.516 | Thy slanders I forgive, and therewithal | Thy slanders I forgiue, and therewithall |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.521 | Slandering a prince deserves it. | Slandering a Prince deserues it. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.22 | Slander her love, and he forgave it her. | Slander her Loue, and he forgaue it her. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.153 | And one that is as slanderous as Satan? | And one that is as slanderous as Sathan? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.124 | only his gift is in devising impossible slanders. None but | onely his gift is, in deuising impossible slanders, none but |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.43 | To slander music any more than once. | To slander musicke any more then once. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.44 | It is the witness still of excellency | It is the witnesse still of excellency, / To slander Musicke any more then once. / Prince. It is the witnesse still of excellencie, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.84 | And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders | And truly Ile deuise some honest slanders, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.152 | villainy, which did confirm any slander that Don John | villanie, which did confirme any slander that Don Iohn |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.209 | Change slander to remorse; that is some good. | Change slander to remorse, that is some good, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.298 | hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? | hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.301 | uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour – O God, that | vncouered slander, vnmittigated rancour? O God that |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.307 | Sweet Hero! She is wronged, she is slandered, | Sweet Hero, she is wrong'd, shee is slandered, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.68 | Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart, | Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.88 | And she is dead, slandered to death by villains, | And she is dead, slander'd to death by villaines, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.95 | That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander, | That lye, and cog, and flout, depraue, and slander, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.207 | are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; | are slanders, sixt and lastly, they haue belyed a Ladie, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.224 | man how Don John your brother incensed me to slander | man, how Don Iohn your brother incensed me to slander |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.3 | Done to death by slanderous tongues | Done to death by slanderous tongues, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.66 | She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived. | Shee died my Lord, but whiles her slander liu'd. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.112 | O, fie upon thee, slanderer! | Oh, fie vpon thee, Slanderer |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.277 | Your dinner, and the generous islanders | Your dinner, and the generous Islanders |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.365 | If thou dost slander her and torture me, | If thou dost slander her, and torture me, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.18.1 | Is foul as slander. | Is foule as Slander. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.132 | Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else. | Haue not deuis'd this Slander: I will be hang'd else. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.61 | Call him a slanderous coward, and a villain; | Call him a slanderous Coward, and a Villaine: |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.113 | Till I have told this slander of his blood | Till I haue told this slander of his blood, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.171 | Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear, | Pierc'd to the soule with slanders venom'd speare: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.241 | A partial slander sought I to avoid, | |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.24 | With the attainder of his slanderous lips. | With th'Attaindor of his sland'rous Lippes. |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.35 | A deed of slander with thy fatal hand | A deede of Slaughter, with thy fatall hand, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.97 | I was provoked by her slanderous tongue | I was prouoked by her sland'rous tongue, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.26 | The envious slanders of her false accusers; | The enuious slanders of her false Accusers: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.230 | Thou slander of thy heavy mother's womb! | Thou slander of thy heauie Mothers Wombe, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.244 | O, do not slander him, for he is kind. | O do not slander him, for he is kinde. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iii.12 | And, for more slander to thy dismal seat, | And for more slander to thy dismall Seat, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.208 | Slander myself as false to Edward's bed, | Slander my Selfe, as false to Edwards bed: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.112 | With Tybalt's slander – Tybalt, that an hour | With Tibalts slaunder, Tybalt that an houre |
| 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 IV.i.35 | Thy face is mine, and thou hast slandered it. | Thy face is mine, and thou hast slaundred it. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.247 | O slanderous world! Kate like the hazel-twig | Oh sland'rous world: Kate like the hazle twig |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.35 | fish, but an islander that hath lately suffered by a | fish, but an Islander, that hath lately suffered by a |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.30 | If I should say I saw such islanders? – | If I should say I saw such Islands; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.150 | Which, slanderer, he imitation calls – | (Which Slanderer, he imitation call's) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.193 | A slave whose gall coins slanders like a mint – | A slaue, whose Gall coines slanders like a Mint, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.88 | that you deem cannon bullets. There is no slander | that you deeme Cannon bullets: There is no slander |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.31 | The best way is to slander Valentine, | The best way is, to slander Valentine, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.38 | Then you must undertake to slander him. | Then you must vndertake to slander him. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.43 | Your slander never can endamage him; | Your slander neuer can endamage him; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.19 | The crow, the slanderous cuckoo, nor | The Crow, the slaundrous Cuckoe, nor |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.85 | His hopeful son's, his babe's, betrays to slander, | His hopefull Sonnes, his Babes, betrayes to Slander, |