| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.26 | Though time seem so adverse and means unfit. | Though time seeme so aduerse, and meanes vnfit: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.43 | I'll give you a verse to this note, that I made | Ile giue you a verse to this note, / That I made |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.1 | Hang there, my verse, in witness of my love, | Hang there my verse, in witnesse of my loue, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.109 | This is the very false gallop of verses. Why do you infect | This is the verie false gallop of Verses, why doe you infect |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.159 | Didst thou hear these verses? | Didst thou heare these verses? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.161 | some of them had in them more feet than the verses | some of them had in them more feete then the Verses |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.163 | That's no matter: the feet might bear the verses. | That's no matter: the feet might beare ye verses. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.165 | themselves without the verse, and therefore stood lamely | themselues without the verse, and therefore stood lamely |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.166 | in the verse. | in the verse. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.254 | I pray you, mar no moe of my verses with | I pray you marre no moe of my verses with |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.375 | in good sooth, are you he that hangs the verses on the | in good sooth, are you he that hangs the verses on the |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.10 | When a man's verses cannot be understood, | When a mans verses cannot be vnderstood, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.36 | O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, | O that's a braue man, hee writes braue verses, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.38 | them bravely, quite traverse, athwart the heart of his | them brauely, quite trauers athwart the heart of his |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.28 | Nay then, God buy you, an you talk in blank verse. | Nay then God buy you, and you talke in blanke verse. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.58 | three year old, conversed with a magician, most profound | three yeare old conuerst with a Magitian, most profound |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.15 | To admit no traffic to our adverse towns. | To admit no trafficke to our aduerse townes: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.169 | Did you converse, sir, with this gentlewoman? | Did you conuerse sir with this gentlewoman: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.48 | trivial motion; one that converses more with the buttock | triuiall motion: One, that conuerses more with the Buttocke |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.53 | palate adversely, I make a crooked face at it. I cannot | Palat aduersly, I make a crooked face at it, I can |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.19 | some bald, but that our wits are so diversely coloured. | some bald; but that our wits are so diuersly Coulord; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.42 | Your party in converse, him you would sound, | your party in conuerse; him you would sound, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.325 | freely, or the blank verse shall halt for't. What players | freely; or the blanke Verse shall halt for't: what Players |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.437 | thy companion. Why dost thou converse with that trunk of | thy Companion: Why do'st thou conuerse with that Trunke of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.264 | Hold, Wart, traverse. Thas! Thas! Thas! | Hold Wart, Trauerse: thus, thus, thus. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.chorus.3 | Fills the wide vessel of the universe. | Fills the wide Vessell of the Vniuerse. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.132 | Marry, if you would put me to verses, or to | Marry, if you would put me to Verses, or to |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.27 | By magic verses have contrived his end? | By Magick Verses haue contriu'd his end. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.54 | Combat with adverse planets in the heavens! | Combat with aduerse Planets in the Heauens; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.25 | Well, let them practise and converse with spirits. | Well, let them practise and conuerse with spirits. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.29 | If I were covetous, ambitious, or perverse, | If I were couetous, ambitious, or peruerse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.129 | To bear with their perverse objections, | To beare with their peruerse Obiections: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.190 | Honour and virtue, and conversed with such | Honor and Vertue, and conuers't with such, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.17.2 | sheet and verses written on her back and pinned on and | Sheet, and |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.368 | Hath he conversed with the enemy, | Hath he conuersed with the Enemie, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.30 | Tear him for his bad verses, tear him | Teare him for his bad verses, teare him |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.iii.31 | for his bad verses! | for his bad Verses. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.265 | Sole reigning Adam on the universe, | Sole ragning Adam on the vniuerse, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.35 | As wilful stubbornness hath made perverse. | As wilfull stubbornnes hath made peruerse. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.50 | The feeble handful on the adverse part. | The feeble handfull on the aduerse part. |
| King John | KJ II.i.57 | Hath put himself in arms. The adverse winds, | Hath put himselfe in Armes, the aduerse windes |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.172 | When adverse foreigners affright my towns | When aduerse Forreyners affright my Townes |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.15 | to converse with him that is wise and says little, to fear | to conuerse with him that is wise and saies little, to feare |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.114.2 | Berowne and Rosaline converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.101 | as Horace says in his – What, my soul, verses? | as Horrace sayes in his, What my soule verses. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.103 | Let me hear a staff, a stanze, a verse. Lege, | Let me heare a staffe, a stanze, a verse, Lege |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.148 | colourable colours. But to return to the verses: did | colourable colours. But to returne to the Verses, Did |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.156 | those verses to be very unlearned, neither savouring of | those Verses to be very vnlearned, neither sauouring of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.6 | strange without heresy. I did converse this quondam | strange without heresie: I did conuerse this quondam |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.34 | Nay, I have verses too, I thank Berowne; | Nay, I haue Verses too, I thanke Berowne, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.50 | Some thousand verses of a faithful lover; | Some thousand Verses of a faithfull Louer. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.230 | They converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.238.1 | They converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.242.1 | They converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.256 | They converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.522.2 | converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.730 | In the converse of breath. Your gentleness | In the conuerse of breath (your gentlenesse |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.812 | The King and the Princess converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.822 | They converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.826.1 | They converse apart | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.840 | Visit the speechless sick, and still converse | Visite the speechlesse sicke, and still conuerse |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.vi.6 | He speak against me on the adverse side, | He speake against me on the aduerse side, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.68 | proper man's picture, but, alas, who can converse with a | proper mans picture, but alas who can conuerse with a |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.12 | That do converse and waste the time together, | That do conuerse and waste the time together, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.22 | traverse, to see thee here, to see thee there, to see thee | trauerse, to see thee heere, to see thee there, to see thee |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.23 | pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy distance, | passe thy puncto, thy stock, thy reuerse, thy distance, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.61 | he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he | he dances, he has eies of youth: he writes verses, hee |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.31 | With feigning voice verses of feigning love, | With faining voice, verses of faining loue, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.46 | Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will | Grow this to what aduerse issue it can, I will |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.179 | Prove you that any man with me conversed | Proue you that any man with me conuerst, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.34 | blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned over | blanke verse, why they were neuer so truely turned ouer |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.365 | womb of time, which will be delivered. Traverse! Go, | Wombe of Time, which wilbe deliuered. Trauerse, go, |
| Othello | Oth III.i.37 | Out of the way, that your converse and business | Out of the way, that your conuerse and businesse |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.82 | Of thy adverse pernicious enemy! | Of thy amaz'd pernicious enemy. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.88 | Is Clarence dead? The order was reversed. | Is Clarence dead? The Order was reuerst. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.28 | I will converse with iron-witted fools | I will conuerse with Iron-witted Fooles, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.191 | My prayers on the adverse party fight, | My Prayers on the aduerse party fight, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.13 | Which they upon the adverse faction want. | Which they vpon the aduerse Faction want. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.96 | I'll frown, and be perverse, and say thee nay, | Ile frowne and be peruerse, and say thee nay, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.60 | Displant a town, reverse a prince's doom, | Displant a Towne, reuerse a Princes Doome, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.136 | Without a sudden calm will overset | Without a sudden calme will ouer set |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.16 | It stains the glory in that happy verse | It staines the glory in that happy Verse, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.82 | Why, thy verse swells with stuff so fine and smooth | Why thy Verse swels with stuffe so fine and smooth, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.7 | Have wandered with our traversed arms, and breathed | Haue wander'd with our trauerst Armes, and breath'd |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.24 | Unbind my sons, reverse the doom of death, | Vnbinde my sonnes, reuerse the doome of death, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.1.3 | bundle of weapons and verses writ upon them | bundle of weapons, and verses writ vpon them. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.22 | O, 'tis a verse in Horace, I know it well; | O 'tis a verse in Horace, I know it well. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.24 | Ay, just – a verse in Horace, right you have it. | I iust, a verse in Horace: right, you haue it, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.180 | ‘ As true as Troilus ’ shall crown up the verse, | As true as Troylus, shall crowne vp the Verse, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.21 | nothing, for we may live to have need of such a verse. | nothing, for we may liue to haue neede of such a Verse: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.40 | loathed? What verse for it? What instance for it? – Let | loath'd? What Verse for it? what instance for it? let |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.7 | Come, but one verse. | Come, but one verse. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.82 | Into the danger of this adverse town; | Into the danger of this aduerse Towne, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.110 | What, to perverseness? You uncivil lady, | What to peruersenesse? you vnciuill Ladie |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.31 | Hear sweet discourse, converse with noblemen, | Heare sweet discourse, conuerse with Noblemen, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.61 | We have conversed and spent our hours together; | We haue conuerst, and spent our howres together, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.223 | Which, unreversed, stands in effectual force – | (Which vn-reuerst stands in effectuall force) |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.28 | Ay, and perversely she persevers so. | I, and peruersly, she perseuers so: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.101 | Nor was not to be, equalled; thus your verse | Nor was not to be equall'd, thus your Verse |