| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.106 | understood, he weeps like a wench that had shed her | vnderstood, hee weepes like a wench that had shed her |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.37 | names. Prithee, how many boys and wenches must I | names: Prythee how many Boyes and Wenches must I |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.231.2 | Royal wench! | Royall Wench: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.34 | Dost thou conjure for wenches, that thou callest for such store, | Dost thou coniure for wenches, that yu calst for such store, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.109 | I know a wench of excellent discourse, | I know a wench of excellent discourse, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.99 | wench, and all grease; and I know not what use to put | wench, & al grease, and I know not what vse to put |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.53 | wench; and thereof comes that the wenches say ‘ God | wench, and thereof comes, that the wenches say God |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.55 | wench.’ It is written they appear to men like angels of | wench: It is written, they appeare to men like angels of |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.57 | light wenches will burn. Come not near her. | light wenches will burne, come not neere her. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.230 | And do not play in wench-like words with that | And do not play in Wench-like words with that |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.10 | wench in flame-coloured taffeta, I see no reason why | Wench in Flame-coloured Taffata; I see no reason, why |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.40 | my Hostess of the tavern a most sweet wench? | my Hostesse of the Tauerne a most sweet Wench? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.148 | better wench in England! Go, wash thy face, and draw | better Wench in England. Go, wash thy face, and draw |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.133 | God send the wench no worse fortune! But I never | May the Wench haue no worse Fortune. But I neuer |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.369 | hostess; farewell, Doll. You see, my good wenches, how | Hostesse, farewell Dol. You see (my good Wenches) how |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.372 | wenches. If I be not sent away post, I will see you again | Wenches: if I be not sent away poste, I will see you againe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.93 | get wenches. They are generally fools and cowards – | get Wenches. They are generally Fooles, and Cowards; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.41 | To be the pillage of a giglot wench.’ | To be the pillage of a Giglot Wench: |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.1 | Take thy lute, wench. My soul grows sad with troubles; | Take thy Lute wench, / My Soule growes sad with troubles, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.148 | Alas, poor wenches, where are now your fortunes? | Alas (poore Wenches) where are now your Fortunes? |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.295 | Worse than the sacring bell, when the brown wench | Worse then the Sacring Bell, when the browne Wench |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.81 | She is asleep. Good wench, let's sit down quiet, | She is asleep: Good wench, let's sit down quiet, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.99.1 | She is going, wench. Pray, pray. | She is going Wench. Pray, pray. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.167 | Call in more women. When I am dead, good wench, | Call in more women. When I am dead, good Wench, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.269 | infirmity. Three or four wenches, where I stood, cried, | infirmitie. Three or foure Wenches where I stood, cryed, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.84 | No heretics burned but wenches' suitors – | No Heretiques burn'd, but wenches Sutors; |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.253 | With a wench. | With a Wench. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.271 | Sir, I confess the wench. | Sir I confesse the Wench. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.276 | with a wench. | with a Wench. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.58 | wench. If drawing my sword against the humour of | wench. If drawing my sword against the humour of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.118 | wench. | wench. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.121.2 | and Jaquenetta | and Wench. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.243.1 | Do you hear, my mad wenches? | Do you heare my mad wenches? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.21 | these betray nice wenches, that would be betrayed | these betraie nice wenches that would be betraied |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.125 | wench, as touching the hit it. | wench, as touching the hit it. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.361 | Light wenches may prove plagues to men forsworn; | Light Wenches may proue plagues to men forsworne, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.25 | So do not you, for you are a light wench. | So do not you, for you are a light Wench. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.82 | Arm, wenches, arm! Encounters mounted are | Arme Wenches arme, incounters mounted are, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.256 | The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen | The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.264 | Farewell, mad wenches. You have simple wits. | Farewell madde Wenches, you haue simple wits. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.321 | This gallant pins the wenches on his sleeve. | This Gallant pins the Wenches on his sleeue. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.414 | And, to begin: wench – so God help me, law! – | And to begin Wench, so God helpe me law, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.673 | poor wench is cast away. She's quick; the child brags | poore Wench is cast away: she's quick, the child brags |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.124 | O, to him, to him, wench; he will relent. | Oh, to him, to him wench: he will relent, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.166 | I was once before him for getting a wench with | I was once before him for getting a Wench with |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.154 | if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear. | if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gere: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.310.2 | A good wench! Give it me. | A good wench, giue it me. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.270 | Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starred wench, | Now: how dost thou looke now? Oh ill-Starr'd wench, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.16 | One daughter and a full-grown wench, | One daughter and a full growne wench, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.5 | wenchless. | wenchlesse. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.31 | Off goes his bonnet to an oyster-wench. | Off goes his bonnet to an Oyster-wench, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.155 | The readiest way to make the wench amends | The readiest way to make the Wench amends, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.4 | Ah, that same pale hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, | Why that same pale hard-harted wench, that Rosaline |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.14 | stabbed with a white wench's black eye; shot through the | stab'd with a white wenches blacke eye, runne through the |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.40 | wench – marry, she had a better love to berhyme her – | wench, marrie she had a better Loue to berime her: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.44 | gentle as a lamb. Go thy ways, wench. Serve God. What, | gentle a Lambe: go thy waies wench, serue God. What |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.143 | But, like a mishaved and sullen wench, | But like a mishaped and sullen wench, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.69 | That wench is stark mad or wonderful froward. | That wench is starke mad, or wonderfull froward. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.160 | Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench. | Now by the world, it is a lustie Wench, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.242 | Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will, | Nor bite the lip, as angry wenches will, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.165 | What said the wench when he rose up again? | What said the wench when he rose againe? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.237 | Fear not, sweet wench, they shall not touch thee, Kate. | Feare not sweet wench, they shall not touch thee Kate, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.95 | I cannot tarry. I knew a wench married in an | I cannot tarry: I knew a wench maried in an |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.179 | Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate. | Why there's a wench: Come on, and kisse mee Kate. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.47 | unstanched wench. | vnstanched wench. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.139.2 | Well demanded, wench. | Well demanded, wench: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.413 | No, wench. It eats and sleeps and hath such senses | No wench, it eats, and sleeps, & hath such senses |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.480 | Having seen but him and Caliban. Foolish wench! | (Hauing seene but him and Caliban:) Foolish wench, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.46 | Temperance was a delicate wench. | Temperance was a delicate wench. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.281 | Bear thou my hand, sweet wench, between thy teeth. | Beare thou my hand sweet wench betweene thy teeth: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.ii.89 | Thou must be gone, wench, thou must be | Thou must be gone wench, thou must be |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.71 | He loved me – O false wench! – Give't me again. | He lou'd me: O false wench: giue't me againe. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.33 | become of the wenching rogues? I think they have | become of the wenching rogues? I thinke they haue |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.39 | parish top. What, wench! Castiliano, vulgo – for here | parish top. What wench? Castiliano vulgo : for here |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.171 | Before me, she's a good wench. | Before me she's a good wench. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.108 | Excellent wench, say I! | Excellent Wench, say I. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.175 | I could marry this wench for this device. | I could marry this wench for this deuice. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.22 | young wench that had buried her grandam; to fast, like | yong wench that had buried her Grandam: to fast, like |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.59 | But tell me, wench, how will the world repute me | But tell me (wench) how will the world repute me |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.301 | What need a man care for a stock with a wench, | What neede a man care for a stock with a wench, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.178.2 | That's a good wench; | That's a good wench: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.181.1 | Canst not thou work such flowers in silk, wench? | Canst not thou work: such flowers in silke wench? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.184.1 | Rarely upon a skirt, wench? | Rarely upon a Skirt wench? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.35 | Take a new lesson out, and be a good wench. | Take a new lesson out, and be a good wench. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.39 | Under green tree; and ye know what wenches, ha! | under green Tree, / And yet know what wenches: ha? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iii.6 | What pushes are we wenches driven to | What pushes are we wenches driven to |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iii.12 | And so would any young wench, o' my conscience, | And so would any young wench o' my Conscience |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.14 | Find me, and then condemn me for't, some wenches, | Finde me, and then condemne me for't; some wenches, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.28 | Give me more wine. Here, Arcite, to the wenches | Giue me more wine; here Arcite to the wenches |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.39 | A pretty brown wench 'tis. There was a time | A pretty broune wench t'is-There was a time |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.1.2 | a bavian, and five wenches, with a Taborer | Baum. 2. or 3 wenches, with a Taborer. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.158 | Ye have danced rarely, wenches. | ye have danc'd rarely wenches. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.117.2 | Yes, wench, we know him. | Yes wench we know him. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.148 | Weep not till they weep blood, wench; it must be. | Weepe not, till they weepe blood; Wench it must be. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.155 | Poor wench, go weep, for whosoever wins | Poore wench goe weepe, for whosoever wins, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.71.1 | Why, a day's journey, wench. | Why a daies Iorney wench. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.72.1 | What shall we do there, wench? | What shall we doe there wench? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK epilogue.6 | Loved a young handsome wench, then, show his face – | Lov'd a yong hansome wench then, show his face: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.277 | As rank as any flax-wench that puts to | As ranke as any Flax-Wench, that puts to |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.61 | wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, | wenches with childe, wronging the Auncientry, stealing, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.310 | Wenches, I'll buy for you both. Pedlar, let's have the | Wenches Ile buy for you both: Pedler let's haue the |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.325 | Saltiers, and they have a dance which the wenches say | Saltiers, and they haue a Dance, which the Wenches say |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.602 | reasonable man, grew so in love with the wenches' song | reasonable man) grew so in loue with the Wenches Song, |