| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.82 | so all the year! We'd find no fault with the tithe-woman | so all the yeere, weed finde no fault with the tithe woman |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.110 | Have power to utter. O, then we bring forth weeds | Haue power to vtter. Oh then we bring forth weeds, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.45 | Provided that you weed your better judgements | Prouided that you weed your better iudgements |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.103 | Turn terror into sport. As weeds before | Turne terror into sport: as Weeds before |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.153 | His humble weeds. Will you dismiss the people? | his humble Weeds: / Will you dismisse the People? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.220 | With what contempt he wore the humble weed, | With what Contempt he wore the humble Weed, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.105 | Each word thou hast spoke hath weeded from my heart | Each word thou hast spoke, hath weeded from my heart |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.390 | With wild wood-leaves and weeds I ha' strewed his grave | With wild wood-leaues & weeds, I ha' strew'd his graue |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.i.23 | Of these Italian weeds, and suit myself | Of these Italian weedes, and suite my selfe |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.135 | Fie on't, ah, fie, 'tis an unweeded garden | Fie on't? Oh fie, fie, 'tis an vnweeded Garden |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.32 | And duller shouldst thou be than the fat weed | And duller should'st thou be then the fat weede |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.266 | Thou mixture rank, of midnight weeds collected, | Thou mixture ranke, of Midnight Weeds collected, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.152 | And do not spread the compost on the weeds | And do not spred the Compost or the Weedes, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.79 | Than settled age his sables and his weeds, | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.172 | There on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds | There on the pendant boughes, her Coronet weeds |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.174 | When down her weedy trophies and herself | When downe the weedy Trophies, and her selfe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.203 | He cannot so precisely weed this land | Hee cannot so precisely weede this Land, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.54 | Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds, | Most subiect is the fattest Soyle to Weedes: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.11 | Thus may we gather honey from the weed, | Thus may we gather Honey from the Weed, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.97 | So one by one we'll weed them all at last, | So one by one wee'le weed them all at last, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.31 | Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; | Now 'tis the Spring, and Weeds are shallow-rooted, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.21 | For what doth cherish weeds but gentle air? | For what doth cherrish Weeds, but gentle ayre? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.229 | Tell him my mourning weeds are laid aside, | Tell him, my mourning weeds are layde aside, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.104 | ‘ Tell him,’ quoth she, ‘ my mourning weeds are done, | Tell him (quoth she) / My mourning Weedes are done, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.52 | He be convented. He's a rank weed, Sir Thomas, | He be conuented. He's a ranke weed Sir Thomas, |
| 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.i.288 | Too strict a guardian for so fair a ward. | To stricke a gardion for so faire a weed, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.452 | Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds; | Lillies that fester, smel far worse then weeds, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.3 | Crowned with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, | Crown'd with ranke Fenitar, and furrow weeds, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.5 | Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow | Darnell, and all the idle weedes that grow |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.7 | These weeds are memories of those worser hours. | These weedes are memories of those worser houres: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.96 | He weeds the corn, and still lets grow the weeding. | Hee weedes the corne, and still lets grow the weeding. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.796 | If frosts and fasts, hard lodging and thin weeds, | If frosts, and fasts, hard lodging, and thin weeds |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.836 | To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain, | To weed this Wormewood from your fruitfull braine, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.30 | To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds. | To dew the Soueraigne Flower, and drowne the Weeds: |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.20 | The needful bits and curbs to headstrong weeds, | (The needfull bits and curbes to headstrong weedes,) |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.258 | To weed my vice and let his grow. | To weede my vice, and let his grow. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.256 | Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in. | Weed wide enough to rap a Fairy in. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.77 | Weeds of Athens he doth wear. | Weedes of Athens he doth weare: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.30 | Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds; | Come let vs hence, and put on other weedes, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.319 | lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with | Lettice: Set Hisope, and weede vp Time: Supplie it with |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.66 | That quicken even with blowing, O, thou weed, | That quicken euen with blowing. Oh thou weed: |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.13 | No, I will rob Tellus of her weed | No: I will rob Tellus of her weede |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.166 | Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away. | Which I haue sworne to weed, and plucke away. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.38 | The noisome weeds which without profit suck | The noysome Weedes, that without profit sucke |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.44 | Is full of weeds, her fairest flowers choked up, | Is full of Weedes, her fairest Flowers choakt vp, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.50 | The weeds which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter, | The Weeds that his broad-spreading Leaues did shelter, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.122 | A weeder-out of his proud adversaries, | A weeder out of his proud Aduersaries, |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.13 | ‘ Small herbs have grace; great weeds do grow apace.’ | Small Herbes haue grace, great Weeds do grow apace. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.15 | Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste. | Because sweet Flowres are slow, and Weeds make hast. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.103 | You said that idle weeds are fast in growth. | You said, that idle Weeds are fast in growth: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.4 | With baleful weeds and precious-juiced flowers. | With balefull weedes, and precious Iuiced flowers, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.39 | In tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows, | In tattred weeds, with ouerwhelming browes, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.21 | The union of your bed with weeds so loathly | The vnion of your bed, with weedes so loathly |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.73 | Hail, Rome, victorious in thy mourning weeds! | Haile Rome: / Victorious in thy Mourning Weedes: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.18 | Away with slavish weeds and servile thoughts! | Away with slauish weedes, and idle thoughts, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.43 | And were they but attired in grave weeds, | And were they but attired in graue weedes, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.195 | No funeral rite, nor man in mourning weed, | No Funerall Rite, nor man in mournfull Weeds: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.239 | To see great Hector in his weeds of peace, | To see great Hector in his weedes of peace; |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.252 | Where lie my maiden weeds; by whose gentle help | Where lye my maiden weeds: by whose gentle helpe, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.270 | And let me see thee in thy woman's weeds. | And let me see thee in thy womans weedes. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.42 | Gentle Lucetta, fit me with such weeds | Gentle Lucetta, fit me with such weedes |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.49 | But say this weed her love from Valentine, | But say this weede her loue from Valentine, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.15 | Walking in Thebes? Scars and bare weeds | Walking in Thebs? Skars, and bare weedes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.1 | These your unusual weeds to each part of you | These your vnvsuall weeds, to each part of you |