| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.177 | Smile upon this contract, whose ceremony | Smile vpon this Contract: whose Ceremonie |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.24 | pity his distress in my similes of comfort, and leave him | pittie his distresse in my smiles of comfort, and leaue him |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.162 | Dissolve my life! The next Caesarion smite, | Dissolue my life, the next Casarian smile, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.9 | Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say | Euen till I shrinke with cold, I smile, and say |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.44 | coming a-night to Jane Smile, and I remember the | comming a night to Iane Smile, and I remember the |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.394 | inconstant, full of tears, full of smiles; for every passion | inconstant, ful of teares, full of smiles; for euerie passion |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.104 | A scattered smile, and that I'll live upon. | A scattred smile, and that Ile liue vpon. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.105 | Sir, I shall tell you. With a kind of smile, | Sir, I shall tell you with a kinde of Smile, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.107 | For look you, I may make the belly smile | For looke you I may make the belly Smile, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.3 | Where senators shall mingle tears with smiles; | Where Senators shall mingle teares with smiles, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.115 | That babies lulls asleep! The smiles of knaves | That Babies lull a-sleepe: The smiles of Knaues |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.50 | Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you come. | Bid me farewell, and smile. I pray you come: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.22 | Smiled at their lack of skill, but found their courage | Smil'd at their lacke of skill, but found their courage |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.13 | Smile to't before: if winterly, thou need'st | Smile too't before: if Winterly, thou need'st |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.53 | Was that it was, for not being such a smile; | Was that it was, for not being such a Smile: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.54 | The smile mocking the sigh, that it would fly | The Smile, mocking the Sigh, that it would flye |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.54 | Occasion smiles upon a second leave. | Occasion smiles vpon a second leaue. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.108 | That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain. | That one may smile, and smile and be a Villaine; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.79 | Thou hast the most unsavoury similes, and art | Thou hast the most vnsauoury smiles, and art |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.40 | Took it in snuff. And still he smiled and talked. | Tooke it in Snuffe. And still he smil'd and talk'd: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.243 | Unto this king of smiles, this Bolingbroke – | Vnto this King of Smiles, this Bullingbrooke: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.10 | Under the smile of safety, wounds the world; | (Vnder the smile of Safety) wounds the World: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.131 | Who knows on whom fortune would then have smiled? | Who knowes, on whom Fortune would then haue smil'd? |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.5 | shall serve, there shall be smiles – but that shall be as it | shall serue, there shall be smiles, but that shall be as it |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.14 | the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his | the Sheets, and play with Flowers, and smile vpon his |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.59 | Saw his heroical seed, and smiled to see him, | Saw his Heroicall Seed, and smil'd to see him |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.33 | Bids them good morrow with a modest smile, | Bids them good morrow with a modest Smyle, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vi.21 | He smiled me in the face, raught me his hand, | He smil'd me in the face, raught me his hand, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.4 | Now we are victors, upon us he smiles. | Now we are Victors, vpon vs he smiles. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.92 | He beckons with his hand and smiles on me, | He beckens with his hand, and smiles on me: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.32 | We mourn, France smiles; we lose, they daily get; | We mourne, France smiles: We loose, they dayly get, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.4 | Young Talbot's valour makes me smile at thee. | Young Talbots Valour makes me smile at thee. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.27 | Poor boy! He smiles, methinks, as who should say | Poore Boy, he smiles, me thinkes, as who should say, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.76 | And thou that smiled'st at good Duke Humphrey's death | And thou that smil'dst at good Duke Humfries death, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.100 | Whose smile and frown, like to Achilles' spear, | Whose Smile and Frowne, like to Achilles Speare |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.iii.6 | Smile, gentle heaven, or strike, ungentle death! | Smile gentle heauen, or strike vngentle death, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.46 | He smiles, and says his Edward is installed; | He Smiles, and sayes, his Edward is instaul'd; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.182 | Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, | Why I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.91 | Methinks these peers of France should smile at that. | Me thinkes these Peeres of France should smile at that. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.168 | Smiles at her news, while Warwick frowns at his. | Smiles at her newes, while Warwicke frownes at his. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.22 | And who durst smile when Warwick bent his brow? | And who durst smile, when Warwicke bent his Brow? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.187 | I stood not in the smile of heaven, who had | I stood not in the smile of Heauen, who had |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.368 | There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, | There is betwixt that smile we would aspire too, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.412 | Upon my smiles. Go get thee from me, Cromwell; | Vpon my smiles. Go get thee from me Cromwel, |
| Henry VIII | H8 epilogue.11 | For such a one we showed 'em. If they smile, | For such a one we shew'd 'em: If they smile, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.204 | Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort | Seldome he smiles, and smiles in such a sort |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.206 | That could be moved to smile at anything. | That could be mou'd to smile at any thing. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.279 | again. But those that understood him smiled at one another, | againe. But those that vnderstood him, smil'd at one another, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.82 | Hide it in smiles and affability: | Hide it in Smiles, and Affabilitie: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.24 | For look, he smiles, and Caesar doth not change. | For looke he smiles, and Casar doth not change. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.267 | That mothers shall but smile when they behold | That Mothers shall but smile, when they behold |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.50 | And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, | And some that smile haue in their hearts I feare |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.117 | If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; | If we do meete againe, why we shall smile; |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.120 | If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; | If we do meete againe, wee'l smile indeede; |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.165 | Who smiles upon the basest weed that grows | Who smiles vpon the basest weed that growes, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.103 | (aside) Why, there it goes! That very smile of hers | Why there it goes, that verie smile of hers, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.61 | I'll smile and tell him that this open scar | Ile smile and tell him that this open scarre, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.21 | Speak, thou that wooest death with thy careless smile, | Speake thou that wooest death with thy careles smile |
| King John | KJ III.iv.34 | Come, grin on me, and I will think thou smilest | Come,grin on me, and I will thinke thou smil'st, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.134 | The King doth smile at; and is well prepared | The King doth smile at, and is well prepar'd |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.100 | Nay, and thou canst not smile as the wind sits, thou'lt | nay, & thou canst not smile as the wind sits, thou'lt |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.80 | Smile you my speeches as I were a fool? | Smoile you my speeches, as I were a Foole? |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.171 | Fortune, good night: smile once more; turn thy wheel. | Fortune goodnight, / Smile once more, turne thy wheele. |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.5 | He smiled at it. I told him you were coming. | He smil'd at it. I told him you were comming, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.18 | Sunshine and rain at once; her smiles and tears | |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.19 | Were like a better way; those happy smilets | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.301 | Affliction may one day smile again, and till then sit | affliction may one day smile againe, and vntill then sit |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.331 | This is the flower that smiles on everyone, | This is the flower that smiles on euerie one, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.465 | That smiles his cheek in years, and knows the trick | That smiles his cheeke in yeares, and knowes the trick |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.843 | To enforce the pained impotent to smile. | To enforce the pained impotent to smile. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.137 | There's daggers in men's smiles. The nea'er in blood, | there's Daggers in mens smiles; / The neere in blood, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.122 | For the blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me, | For the Blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles vpon me, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.167 | But who knows nothing is once seen to smile; | But who knowes nothing, is once seene to smile: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.22 | But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, | But Swords I smile at, Weapons laugh to scorne, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.187 | When men were fond, I smiled and wondered how. | When men were fond, I smild, and wondred how. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.163 | Do you not smile at this, Lord Angelo? | Doe you not smile at this, Lord Angelo? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.231.2 | I did but smile till now. | I did but smile till now, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.55 | That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile | That they'll not shew their teeth in way of smile, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.46 | and smiles not. I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher | and smiles not, I feare hee will proue the weeping Phylosopher |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.195 | O that your frowns would teach my smiles such skill! | O that your frownes would teach my smiles such skil. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.44 | I jest to Oberon, and make him smile | I iest to Oberon, and make him smile, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.13 | I am. I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no | I am: I must bee sad when I haue cause, and smile at no |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.15 | If such a one will smile and stroke his beard, | If such a one will smile and stroke his beard, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.206 | The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief; | The rob'd that smiles, steales something from the Thiefe, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.209 | We lose it not so long as we can smile; | We loose it not so long as we can smile: |
| Othello | Oth II.i.166 | great a fly as Cassio. Ay, smile upon her, do. I will | great a Fly as Cassio. I smile vpon her, do: I will |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.100 | As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad; | As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad: |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.102 | Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures, and light behaviour | Poore Cassio's smiles, gestures, and light behauiours |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.108 | Until our stars that frown lend us a smile. | Vntill our Starres that frowne, lend vs a smile. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.28 | Wooing poor craftsmen with the craft of smiles | Wooing poore Craftes-men, with the craft of soules, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.9 | Plays fondly with her tears and smiles in meeting, | Playes fondly with her teares, and smiles in meeting; |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.32 | His face still combating with tears and smiles, | His face still combating with teares and smiles |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.48 | Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, | Smile in mens faces, smooth, deceiue, and cogge, |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.107 | They smile at me who shortly shall be dead. | They smile at me, who shortly shall be dead. |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.9 | Are at my service, like enforced smiles; | Are at my seruice, like enforced Smiles; |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.115 | These English woes shall make me smile in France. | These English woes, shall make me smile in France. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.275 | He smiled and said, ‘ The better for our purpose.’ | He smil'd and said, the better for our purpose. |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.20 | Smile, heaven, upon this fair conjunction, | Smile Heauen vpon this faire Coniunction, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.188 | The grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night. Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles. From forth daies path. and Titans burning wheeles: Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.1 | Now, ere the sun advance his burning eye | The gray ey'd morne smiles on the frowning night, / Checkring the Easterne Cloudes with streaks of light: / And fleckled darknesse like a drunkard reeles, / From forth daies path, and Titans burning wheeles: / Now ere the Sun aduance his burning eye, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.1 | So smile the heavens upon this holy act, | So smile the heauens vpon this holy act, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.23 | And smilest upon the stroke that murders me. | And smilest vpon the stroke that murders me. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.8 | For Venus smiles not in a house of tears. | For Venus smiles not in a house of teares. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.4 | To move the heavens to smile upon my state, | To moue the heauens to smile vpon my state, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.97 | If you should smile, he grows impatient. | If you should smile, he growes impatient. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.3 | To smile at scapes and perils overblown. | To smile at scapes and perils ouerblowne: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.153 | Thou wast that did preserve me. Thou didst smile, | Thou was't that did preserue me; Thou didst smile, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.9 | Do not smile at me that I boast her off, | Doe not smile at me, that I boast her of, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.11 | But rather one that smiles and still invites | But rather one that smiles, and still inuites |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.52 | Then they could smile and fawn upon his debts, | Then they could smile, and fawne vpon his debts, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.120 | Whose dimpled smiles from fools exhaust their mercy; | Whose dimpled smiles from Fooles exhaust their mercy; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.45 | Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile | Thou rather shalt inforce it with thy smile, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.267 | In pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny. | In pleasing smiles such murderous Tyrannie. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.119 | Look how the black slave smiles upon the father, | Looke how the blacke slaue smiles vpon the father; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.40 | Buried this sigh in wrinkle of a smile; | Buried this sigh, in wrinkle of a smile: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.32 | smile, make Hector angry? | smile, make Hector angry? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.125 | O, he smiles valiantly. | Oh he smiles valiantly. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.206 | As smiles upon the forehead of this action | As smiles vpon the fore-head of this action, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.72 | To send their smiles before them to Achilles; | To send their smiles before them to Achilles: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.168 | Grasps in the comer: the welcome ever smiles, | Graspes in the commer: the welcome euer smiles, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.37 | You smile and mock me, as if I meant naughtily. | You smile and mocke me, as if I meant naughtily. |
| 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. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.66 | my familiar smile with an austere regard of control . . . | my familiar smile with an austere regard of controll. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.168 | my love, let it appear in thy smiling, thy smiles | my loue, let it appeare in thy smiling, thy smiles |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.169 | become thee well. Therefore in my presence still smile, dear | become thee well. Therefore in my presence still smile, deero |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.171 | Jove, I thank thee! I will smile. I will do everything that | Ioue I thanke thee, I will smile, I wil do euery thing that |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.193 | a fashion she detests; and he will smile upon | a fashion shee detests: and hee will smile vpon |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.123 | Why, then, methinks 'tis time to smile again. | Why then me thinkes 'tis time to smile agen: |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.74 | dropped to betray him. He does smile his face into more | dropt, to betray him: He does smile his face into more |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.78 | will strike him. If she do, he'll smile, and take it for a | will strike him: if shee doe, hee'l smile, and take't for a |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.11 | No, madam, he does nothing but smile. Your | No Madam, he does nothing but smile: your |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.31 | God comfort thee! Why dost thou smile so, and | God comfort thee: Why dost thou smile so, and |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.56 | Mayst smile at this. Thou shalt not choose but go; | Mayst smile at this: Thou shalt not choose but goe: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.373 | barren rascal, an you smile not, he's gagged ’? And thus | barren rascall, and you smile not he's gag'd: and thus |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.63 | When inward joy enforced my heart to smile. | When inward ioy enforc'd my heart to smile? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.158 | Bestow thy fawning smiles on equal mates; | Bestow thy fawning smiles on equall mates, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.164 | With our discourse to make your grace to smile. | With our discourse, to make your Grace to smile. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.66 | Dimpled her cheeks with smiles. Hercules our kinsman – | Dimpled her Cheeke with smiles: Hercules our kinesman |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.93 | And with the same breath smiled and kissed her hand. | And with the same breath smil'd, and kist her hand. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.30 | Of all this sprightly sharpness not a smile. | Of all this sprightly sharpenes, not a smile; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.135 | Nor takes none; he's round-faced, and when he smiles | Nor takes none; he's round fac'd, and when he smiles |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.128 | And smile with Palamon; for whom an hour, | And smile with Palamon; for whom an houre, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK epilogue.4 | And let me look upon ye. No man smile? | And let me looke upon ye: No man smile? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.116 | As now they are, and making practised smiles | As now they are, and making practis'd Smiles |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.196 | Sir Smile, his neighbour. Nay, there's comfort in't | Sir Smile, his Neighbor:) nay, there's comfort in't, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.101 | The pretty dimples of his chin and cheek; his smiles; | The pretty dimples of his Chin, and Cheeke; his Smiles: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.788 | rascals, whose miseries are to be smiled at, their offences | Rascals, whose miseries are to be smil'd at, their offences |