| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.12 | to make such knaveries yours. | to make such knaueries yours. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.118 | Let me request you off. Our graver business | Let me request you of our grauer businesse |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.ix.22 | A master-leaver and a fugitive. | A Master leauer, and a fugitiue: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.254 | biting of it, what pain she felt; truly, she makes a very | byting of it, what paine she felt: Truely, she makes averie |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.72 | By my knavery – if I had it – then I were; | By my knauerie (if I had it) then I were: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.80 | That says his bravery is not on my cost, | That sayes his brauerie is not on my cost, |
| 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 |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.83 | Most dignifies the haver. If it be, | most dignifies the hauer: if it be, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.106 | His popular ‘ shall,’ against a graver bench | His popular Shall, against a grauer Bench |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.49 | A glass that feated them, and to the graver | A glasse that feated them: and to the grauer, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.136 | graver purpose I hope. | grauer purpose I hope. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.105 | Slaver with lips as common as the stairs | Slauuer with lippes as common as the stayres |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.19 | The natural bravery of your isle, which stands | The naturall brauery of your Isle, which stands |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.160 | no more tavern-bills, which are often the sadness of | no more Tauerne Bils, which are often the sadnesse of |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.203 | With tokens thus, and thus: averring notes | With Tokens thus, and thus: auerring notes |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.230 | O, yes, my lord. He wore his beaver up. | O yes, my Lord, he wore his Beauer vp. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.206 | And marshal me to knavery. Let it work. | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.19 | Ah, royal knavery! – an exact command, | Oh royall knauery: An exact command, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.79 | But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me | But sure the brauery of his griefe did put me |
| 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 1 | 1H4 I.ii.48 | Hostess of the tavern? | Hostesse of the Tauerne? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.55 | tavern. | Tauern. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.128 | world I say. I would I were a weaver: I could sing | world I say. I would I were a Weauer, I could sing |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.43 | night betwixt tavern and tavern. But the sack that thou | Night betwixt Tauerne and Tauerne: But the Sack that thou |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.156 | but tavern reckonings, memorandums of bawdy-houses, | but Tauerne Recknings, Memorandums of Bawdie-houses, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.203 | O, I could wish this tavern were my drum. | Oh, I could wish this Tauerne were my drumme. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.7 | The tongues of soothers, but a braver place | The Tongues of Soothers. But a Brauer place |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.104 | I saw young Harry with his beaver on, | I saw young Harry with his Beuer on, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.89 | I do not think a braver gentleman, | I do not thinke a brauer Gentleman, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.19 | The still-discordant wavering multitude, | The still discordant, wauering Multitude, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.28 | Enter Travers | Enter Trauers. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.28 | Here comes my servant Travers, whom I sent | Heere comes my Seruant Trauers, whom I sent |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.33 | Now, Travers, what good tidings comes with you? | Now Trauers, what good tidings comes frõ you? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.55 | Why should that gentleman that rode by Travers | Why should the Gentleman that rode by Trauers |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.1.1 | Enter the Hostess of the tavern with two officers, Fang | Enter Hostesse, with two Officers, Fang, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.354 | Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the taverns, | Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the Tauernes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.264 | Hold, Wart, traverse. Thas! Thas! Thas! | Hold Wart, Trauerse: thus, thus, thus. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.118 | Their armed staves in charge, their beavers down, | Their armed Staues in charge, their Beauers downe, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.42 | And faintly through a rusty beaver peeps. | And faintly through a rustie Beuer peepes. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.2 | against the law of arms: 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery, | against the Law of Armes, tis as arrant a peece of knauery |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.47 | jests, and gipes, and knaveries, and mocks: I have forgot | iests, and gypes, and knaueries, and mockes, I haue forgot |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.150 | tavern affords. | Tauerne affords. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.134 | A braver soldier never couched lance; | A brauer Souldier neuer couched Launce, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.138 | In France, amongst a fickle, wavering nation; | In France, amongst a fickle wauering Nation: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.105 | Hume's knavery will be the Duchess' wrack, | Humes Knauerie will be the Duchesse Wracke, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.28 | And Smith the weaver. | And Smith the Weauer. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.31.2 | the weaver, and a sawyer, with infinite numbers | the Weauer, and a Sawyer, with infinite numbers. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.122 | But is not this braver? Let them kiss one another; | But is not this brauer: / Let them kisse one another: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.27 | in slavery to the nobility. Let them break your backs with | in slauerie to the Nobility. Let them breake your backes with |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.12 | I cleft his beaver with a downright blow. | I cleft his Beauer with a down-right blow: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.8 | And two Northumberlands – two braver men | And two Northumberlands: two brauer men, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.67 | What heaven hath given him – let some graver eye | What Heauen hath giuen him: let some Grauer eye |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.33 | The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers, who, | The Spinsters, Carders, Fullers, Weauers, who |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.42.2 | And free us from his slavery. | And free vs from his slauery. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.32 | By holy Mary, Butts, there's knavery! | By holy Mary (Butts) there's knauery; |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.80 | Where wilt thou find a cavern dark enough | Where wilt thou finde a Cauerne darke enough, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.10 | With fearful bravery, thinking by this face | With fearefull brauery: thinking by this face |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.92 | Away, loose silks of wavering vanity! | A way loose silkes or wauering vanitie, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.59 | That in the crimson bravery of my blood | That in the crimson brauerie of my bloud, |
| King John | KJ II.i.72 | In brief, a braver choice of dauntless spirits | In briefe, a brauer choyse of dauntlesse spirits |
| King Lear | KL I.i.211 | T' avert your liking a more worthier way | T'auert your liking a more worthier way, |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.241 | Make it more like a tavern or a brothel | Makes it more like a Tauerne, or a Brothell, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.162 | not say me nay. Pauca verba. Away! The gentles are at | not say me nay: paucaverba. Away, the gentles are at |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.10 | Where youth and cost a witless bravery keeps. | Where youth, and cost, witlesse brauery keepes. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.65 | And wear my dagger with the braver grace, | And weare my dagger with the brauer grace, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.130 | Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith, | Thou almost mak'st me wauer in my faith; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.119 | Nym, and Pistol. They carried me to the tavern, and | Nym, and Pistoll. |
| 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 IV.iv.79 | honest knaveries. | honest knaueries. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.21 | weaver's beam, because I know also life is a shuttle. I | Weauers beame, because I know also, life is a Shuttle) I |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.156 | And given to fornications, and to taverns, and | And giuen to Fornications, and to Tauernes, and |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.1.2 | Bottom the weaver, and Flute the bellows-mender, | Bottome the Weauer, Flute the bellowes-mender, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.16 | Answer as I call you. Nick Bottom, the weaver? | Answere as I call you. Nick Bottome the Weauer. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.20 | the weaver. This will put them out of fear. | the Weauer; this will put them out of feare. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.106 | Why do they run away? This is a knavery of | Why do they run away? This is a knauery of |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.114 | I see their knavery! This is to make an ass of me, | I see their knauery; this is to make an asse of me, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.346 | Or else committest thy knaveries wilfully. | Or else committ'st thy knaueries willingly. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.121 | white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, | white-bearded fellow speakes it: knauery cannot sure |
| Othello | Oth I.i.101 | Upon malicious bravery dost thou come | Vpon malitious knauerie, dost thou come |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.137 | And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, | And sold to slauery. Of my redemption thence, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.365 | womb of time, which will be delivered. Traverse! Go, | Wombe of Time, which wilbe deliuered. Trauerse, go, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.388 | In double knavery. How? How? Let's see. | In double Knauery. How? How? Let's see. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.303 | Knavery's plain face is never seen till used. | Knaueries plaine face, is neuer seene, till vs'd. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.88 | But crave? Then I'll turn craver | But craue? Then Ile turne Crauer |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.105 | Even from the tongueless caverns of the earth | (Euen from the toonglesse cauernes of the earth) |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.128 | And that is the wavering commons; for their love | And that's the wauering Commons, for their loue |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.5 | Inquire at London 'mongst the taverns there; | Enquire at London, 'mongst the Tauernes there: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.50 | What, is my beaver easier than it was? | What, is my Beauer easier then it was? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.85 | But come, young waverer, come, go with me. | But come young wauerer, come goe with me, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.6 | he enters the confines of a tavern, claps me his sword | he enters the confines of a Tauerne, claps me his Sword |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.136 | Here's no knavery! See, to beguile the old folks, | Heere's no knauerie. See, to beguile the olde-folkes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.57 | With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery, | With Scarfes, and Fannes, & double change of brau'ry, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.58 | With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery. | With Amber Bracelets, Beades, and all this knau'ry. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.32 | Why, this is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's | why this is flat knauerie to take vpon you another mans |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.125 | And I to sound the depth of this knavery. | And I to sound the depth of this knauerie. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.440 | And his more braver daughter could control thee, | And his more brauer daughter, could controll thee |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.62 | This wooden slavery than to suffer | This wodden slauerie, then to suffer |
| 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 I.i.25 | A nobler man, a braver warrior, | A Nobler man, a brauer Warriour, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.296 | I'll hide my silver beard in a gold beaver, | Ile hide my Siluer beard in a Gold Beauer, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.71 | such knavery! All the argument is a whore and a | such knauerie: all the argument is a Cuckold and a |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.57 | out of one weaver? Shall we do that? | out of one Weauer? Shall we do that? |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.34 | More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, | More longing, wauering, sooner lost and worne, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.67 | knavery. If he may be conveniently delivered, I would | knauery. If he may bee conueniently deliuer'd, I would |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.149.1 | Were we from hence, would sever us. | Were we from hence, would seaver us. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.49 | And there again! Ha, boys, hey for the weavers! | and there againe: ha, Boyes, heigh for the weavers. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.73 | And truly what I think. Six braver spirits | And truly what I thinke: Six braver spirits |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.154.2 | There shall want no bravery. | There shall want no bravery. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.173 | And leave you to your graver steps. Hermione, | And leaue you to your grauer steps. Hermione, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.677 | more knavery to conceal it; and therein am I constant to | more knauerie to conceale it; and therein am I constant to |