| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.92 | the black gown of a big heart. I am going, forsooth. The | the blacke-Gowne of a bigge heart: I am going forsooth, the |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.38 | Almost to bursting, and the big round tears | Almost to bursting, and the big round teares |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.162 | For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, | For his shrunke shanke, and his bigge manly voice, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.186 | That dost not bite so nigh | that dost not bight so nigh |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.112 | She is too big, I hope, for me to compass. | She is too bigge I hope for me to compasse, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.57 | A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, | A Carbuncle intire: as big as thou art |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.128 | With as big heart as thou. Do as thou list. | With as bigge heart as thou. Do as thou list, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.128 | I'll run away till I am bigger, but then I'll fight. | Ile run away / Till I am bigger, but then Ile fight. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.39 | Big of this gentleman – our theme – deceased | Bigge of this Gentleman (our Theame) deceast |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.140 | Another stain, as big as hell can hold, | Another staine, as bigge as Hell can hold, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.55 | That had a court no bigger than this cave, | That had a Court no bigger then this Caue, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.77 | An arm as big as thine? A heart as big? | An arme as bigge as thine? A heart, as bigge: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.78 | Thy words I grant are bigger: for I wear not | Thy words I grant are bigger: for I weare not |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.178 | Or such ambiguous giving out, to note | Or such ambiguous giuing out to note, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.58 | If that the devil and mischance look big | If that the Deuill and Mischance looke bigge |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.21 | with hearts in their bellies no bigger than pins' heads, | with Hearts in their Bellyes no bigger then Pinnes heads, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.13 | Whiles the big year, swollen with some other grief, | Whil'st the bigge yeare, swolne with some other griefes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.8 | To look with forehead bold and big enough | To looke with forhead bold and big enough |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.239 | Because their legs are both of a bigness, and 'a | Because their Legges are both of a bignesse: and hee |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.252 | stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man? Give me | stature, bulke, and bigge assemblance of a man? giue mee |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.28 | As he whose brow with homely biggen bound | As hee whose Brow (with homely Biggen bound) |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.41 | Big Mars seems bankrupt in their beggared host, | Bigge Mars seemes banqu'rout in their begger'd Hoast, |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.43 | question too, and ambiguities. | question too, and ambiguities. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.111 | The execution of my big-swollen heart | The execution of my big-swolne heart |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.119 | Shall lessen this big look. | Shall lessen this bigge looke. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.39 | The spoons will be the bigger, sir. There is a fellow | The Spoones will be the bigger Sir: There is a fellow |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.282 | Thy heart is big; get thee apart and weep. | Thy heart is bigge: get thee a-part and weepe: |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.ii.45 | That, big with child, was every day in arms, | That big with child was euery day in armes, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.162 | Besides, I met Lord Bigot and Lord Salisbury, | Besides I met Lord Bigot, and Lord Salisburie |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.11.1 | Enter Pembroke, Salisbury, and Bigot | Enter Pembroke, Salisbury, & Bigot. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.103.1 | Lord Bigot, I am none. | Lord Bigot, I am none. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.115 | Exeunt Pembroke, Salisbury, and Bigot | Ex.Lords. |
| King John | KJ V.ii.1.2 | Salisbury, Bigot, and soldiers | Bigot, Souldiers. |
| King John | KJ V.iv.1.1 | Enter Salisbury, Pembroke, and Bigot | Enter Salisbury, Pembroke, and Bigot. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.1 | Enter Prince Henry, Salisbury, and Bigot | Enter Prince Henry, Salisburie, and Bigot. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.10 | Exit Bigot | |
| King John | KJ V.vii.28.1 | King John is brought in by Bigot and other attendants | Iohn brought in. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.16 | Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. | Me thinkes he seemes no bigger then his head. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.206 | Whilst I was big in clamour, came there in a man, | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.125 | for that Worthy's thumb; he is not so big as the end of | for that Worthies thumb, hee is not so big as the end of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.546 | I Pompey am, Pompey surnamed the Big – | I Pompey am, Pompey surnam'd the big. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.637 | His leg is too big for Hector's. | His legge is too big for Hector. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.30 | That makes his opening with this bigger key. | That makes his opening with this bigger Key: |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.41 | be too little for your thief, your true man thinks it big | be too little for your theefe, your true man thinkes it bigge |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.42 | enough. If it be too big for your thief, your thief | enough. If it bee too bigge for your Theefe, your Theefe |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.46 | And even there, his eye being big with tears, | And euen there his eye being big with teares, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.125 | He's too big to go in there. What shall I | He's too big to go in there: what shall I |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.66 | woman's gown big enough for him. Otherwise he might | womans gowne bigge enough for him: otherwise he might |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.73 | big as he is; and there's her thrummed hat and her | big as he is: and there's her thrum'd hat, and her |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.129 | And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind; | And grow big bellied with the wanton winde: |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.346 | Farewell the plumed troops and the big wars | Farewell the plumed Troopes, and the bigge Warres, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.26 | With sighs shot through, and biggest tears o'ershowered, | With sighes shot through, and biggest teares ore-showr'd. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.101 | Whose compass is no bigger than thy head, | Whose compasse is no bigger then thy head, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.114 | Strive to speak big and clap their female joints | Striue to speake bigge, and clap their female ioints |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.188 | To base declension and loathed bigamy. | To base declension, and loath'd Bigamie. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.54 | A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone, | a bumpe as big as a young Cockrels stone? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.96 | No less? Nay, bigger! Women grow by men. | No lesse, nay bigger: women grow by men. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.55 | In shape no bigger than an agate stone | in shape no bigger then Agat-stone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.68 | Not half so big as a round little worm | not halfe so bigge as a round little Worme, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.217 | Till we can clear these ambiguities | Till we can cleare these ambiguities, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.227 | Nay, look not big, nor stamp, nor stare, nor fret, | Nay, looke not big, nor stampe, nor stare, nor fret, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.68 | Away with it! Come, let me have a bigger. | Away with it, come let me haue a bigger. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.69 | I'll have no bigger. This doth fit the time, | Ile haue no bigger, this doth fit the time, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.169 | My mind hath been as big as one of yours, | My minde hath bin as bigge as one of yours, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.335 | To name the bigger light, and how the less, | To name the bigger Light, and how the lesse |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.81 | The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning! | The bigger bulke it shewes. Hence bashfull cunning, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.33 | This eye shoots forth! How big imagination | This eye shootes forth? How bigge imagination |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.222 | Threat'ning the welkin with his big-swoll'n face? | Threatning the welkin with his big-swolne face? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.47 | No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size, | No big-bon'd-men, fram'd of the Cyclops size, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.173 | Full of protest, of oath, and big compare, | Full of protest, of oath and big compare; |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.95 | So big to hold so much, they lack retention. | So bigge, to hold so much, they lacke retention. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.34 | the bigger. I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter | the bigger, I am indeede not her foole, but hir corrupter |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.45 | the sheet were big enough for the bed of Ware in England, | the sheete were bigge enough for the bedde of Ware in England, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.54 | offered her mine own, who is a dog as big as ten of | offer'd her mine owne, who is a dog / As big as ten of |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.215 | More bigger-looked. (To Hippolyta) Since that our theme is haste, | More bigger look't; since that our Theame is haste |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.94 | He's somewhat bigger than the knight he spoke of, | Hee's somewhat bigger, then the Knight he spoke of, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.61 | With that she's big with: for 'tis Polixenes | With that shee's big-with, for 'tis Polixenes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.102 | The centre is not big enough to bear | The Centre is not bigge enough to beare |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.103 | had but looked big and spit at him, he'd have run. | had but look'd bigge, and spit at him, hee'ld haue runne. |