| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.65 | They blindfold him | |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.303 | He removes the blindfold | |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.34 | mightily misplaced, and the bountiful blind woman doth | mightily misplaced, and the bountifull blinde woman doth |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.198 | madness, that blind rascally boy that abuses everyone's | madnesse, that blinde rascally boy, that abuses euery ones |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.8 | Muffle your false love with some show of blindness. | Muffle your false loue with some shew of blindnesse: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.255 | The blind to hear him speak. Matrons flung gloves, | the blind to heare him speak: Matrons flong Gloues, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.118 | Will you be put in mind of his blind fortune, | Will you be put in minde of his blinde Fortune, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.302 | Are sometimes like our judgements, blind. Good faith, | Are sometimes like our Iudgements, blinde. Good faith |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.192 | blindness! I am sure hanging's the way of winking. | blindnesse: I am sure hanging's the way of winking. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.52 | jest unless by chance, as the blind man catcheth a hare. | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.78 | That thus hath cozened you at hoodman-blind? | That thus hath cousend you at hoodman-blinde? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.91 | Make blind itself with foolish tenderness. | Make blinde it selfe with foolish tendernesse. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.281 | Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us. | Yea strike the Dolphin blinde to looke on vs, |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.34 | The blind and bloody soldier with foul hand | The blind and bloody Souldier, with foule hand |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.27 | That goddess blind, | that Goddesse blind, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.30 | is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify | is painted blinde, with a Muffler afore his eyes, to signifie |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.31 | to you that Fortune is blind; and she is painted also | to you, that Fortune is blinde; and shee is painted also |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.290 | he must appear naked and blind. Can you blame | hee must appeare naked, and blinde. Can you blame |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.293 | naked blind boy in her naked seeing self? It were, my | naked blinde Boy in her naked seeing selfe? It were (my |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.295 | Yet they do wink and yield, as love is blind | Yet they doe winke and yeeld, as Loue is blind |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.304 | blind, though they have their eyes, and then they | blinde, though they haue their eyes, and then they |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.309 | latter end, and she must be blind too. | latter end, and she must be blinde to. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.312 | love for my blindness, who cannot see many a fair | Loue for my blindnesse, who cannot see many a faire |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.10 | His brandished sword did blind men with his beams; | His brandisht Sword did blinde men with his beames, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.21 | That any purblind eye may find it out. | That any purblind eye may find it out. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.24 | That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye. | That it will glimmer through a blind-mans eye. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.61 | Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine | Forsooth, a blinde man at Saint Albones Shrine, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.74 | What, hast thou been long blind and now restored? | What, hast thou beene long blinde, and now restor'd? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.75 | Born blind, an't please your grace. | Borne blinde, and't please your Grace. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.96.2 | How long hast thou been blind? | How long hast thou beene blinde? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.125 | in Christendom. If thou hadst been born blind, thou | in Christendome. / If thou hadst beene borne blinde, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.62 | I would be blind with weeping, sick with groans, | I would be blinde with weeping, sicke with grones, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.112 | And called them blind and dusky spectacles | And call'd them blinde and duskie Spectacles, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.14 | He hath no eyes; the dust hath blinded them. | He hath no eyes, the dust hath blinded them. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.78 | Be blind with tears, and break o'ercharged with grief. | Be blinde with teares, and break ore-charg'd with griefe |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.19 | That blind priest, like the eldest son of fortune, | That blinde Priest, like the eldest Sonne of Fortune, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.69 | That poets term the wanton warrior blind; | That Poets tearme, the wanton warriour blinde: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.58 | Then Bayard-like, blind overweening Ned, | Then Bayardlike, blinde ouerweaning Ned, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.264 | Upon thy feature; for my rage was blind, | Vpon thy feature, for my rage was blinde, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.47 | Do make their children blind, | do make their Children blind, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.67 | noses are led by their eyes, but blind men; and there's | noses, are led by their eyes, but blinde men, and there's |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.160 | You nimble lightnings, dart your blinding flames | You nimble Lightnings, dart your blinding flames |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.46 | 'Tis the time's plague when madmen lead the blind. | 'Tis the times plague, / When Madmen leade the blinde: |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.37 | If you do chance to hear of that blind traitor, | If you do chance to heare of that blinde Traitor, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.138 | squiny at me? No, do thy worst, blind Cupid; I'll not | squiny at me? No, doe thy worst blinde Cupid, Ile not |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.76 | Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look. | Doth falsely blinde the eye-sight of his looke: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.83 | And give him light that it was blinded by. | And giue him light that it was blinded by. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.176 | This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, | This wimpled, whyning, purblinde waiward Boy, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.222 | Bows not his vassal head and, strucken blind, | Bowes not his vassall head, and strooken blinde, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.226 | That is not blinded by her majesty? | That is not blinded by her maiestie? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.310 | A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind. | A Louers eyes will gaze an Eagle blinde. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.405 | Nor woo in rhyme, like a blind harper's song. | Nor woo in rime like a blind-harpers songue, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.16 | Adder's fork, and blindworm's sting, | Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.475.1 | Enter Barnardine and Provost, Claudio blindfold, | Enter Barnardine and Prouost, Claudio, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.i.36 | And so may I, blind Fortune leading me, | And so may I, blinde fortune leading me |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.32 | father who, being more than sand-blind, high-gravel-blind, | Father, who being more then sand-blinde, high grauel blinde, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.68 | Alack, sir, I am sand-blind! I know you not. | Alacke sir I am sand blinde, I know you not. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.36 | But love is blind, and lovers cannot see | But loue is blinde, and louers cannot see |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.112 | He knows me as the blind man knows the cuckoo, | He knowes me as the blinde man knowes the / Cuckow |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.9 | little remorse as they would have drowned a blind | little remorse, as they would haue drown'de a blinde |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.235 | And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. | And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blinde. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.11 | Newts and blindworms, do no wrong, | Newts and blinde wormes do no wrong, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.233 | at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind | at the doore of a brothel-house for the signe of blinde |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.182 | Ho! Now you strike like the blind man; 'twas | Ho now you strike like the blindman, 'twas |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.63 | Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense, | (Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,) |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.333 | and blind puppies. I have professed me thy friend, and | and blind Puppies. I haue profest me thy Friend, and |
| Pericles | Per I.i.101 | To stop the air would hurt them. The blind mole casts | To stop the Ayre would hurt them, the blind Mole castes |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.224 | And blindfold death not let me see my son. | And blindfold death, not let me see my sonne. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.16 | For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, | For sorrowes eye, glazed with blinding teares, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.244 | And yet salt water blinds them not so much | And yet salt-Water blindes them not so much, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.166 | Thy beauty hath, and made them blind with weeping. | Thy Beauty hath, and made them blinde with weeping. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.255 | And art you yet to your own souls so blind | And are you yet to your owne soules so blinde, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.26 | Dead life, blind sight, poor mortal-living ghost, | Dead life, blind sight, poore mortall liuing ghost, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.62 | Into the blind cave of eternal night. | Into the blinde Caue of eternall night. |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.24 | The brother blindly shed the brother's blood, | The Brother blindely shed the Brothers blood; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.232 | He that is strucken blind cannot forget | He that is strooken blind, cannot forget |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.12 | One nickname for her purblind son and heir, | One Nickname for her purblind Sonne and her, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.32 | Blind is his love and best befits the dark. | Blind is his Loue, and best befits the darke. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.33 | If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark. | If Loue be blind, Loue cannot hit the marke, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.16 | the blind bow-boy's butt-shaft. And is he a man to | the blind Bowe-boyes but-shaft, and is he a man to |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.9 | By their own beauties; or, if love be blind, | And by their owne Beauties: or if Loue be blind, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.90 | Her and her blind boy's scandalled company | Her, and her blind-Boyes scandald company, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.194 | Pray you, tread softly, that the blind mole may not | Pray you tread softly, that the blinde Mole may not |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.52 | Come, let us go and make thy father blind, | Come, let vs goe, and make thy father blinde, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.53 | For such a sight will blind a father's eye. | For such a sight will blinde a fathers eye. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.268 | And make them blind with tributary tears. | And make them blinde with tributarie teares. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.48 | Killed her for whom my tears have made me blind. | Kil'd her for whom my teares haue made me blind. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.29 | many hands and no use, or purblind Argus, all eyes | many hands and no vse; or purblinded Argus, all eyes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.69 | Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds | Blinde feare, that seeing reason leads, findes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.70 | safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: | safe footing, then blinde reason, stumbling without feare: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.185 | And blind oblivion swallowed cities up, | And blinde obliuion swallow'd Cities vp; |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.226 | Whom the blind waves and surges have devoured. | Whom the blinde waues and surges haue deuour'd: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.67 | Because Love is blind. O, that you had mine eyes, | Because Loue is blinde: O that you had mine eyes, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iii.12 | grandam, having no eyes, look you, wept herself blind | Grandam hauing no eyes, looke you, wept her selfe blinde |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.91 | Nay, then, he should be blind; and, being blind, | Nay then he should be blind, and being blind |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.210 | There is no reason but I shall be blind. | There is no reason, but I shall be blinde. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.46 | To help him of his blindness; | To helpe him of his blindnesse: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.4 | four of his blind brothers and sisters went to it. I have | foure of his blinde brothers and sisters went to it: I haue |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.193 | If this fond Love were not a blinded god? | If this fond Loue, were not a blinded god. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.92 | And in their songs curse ever-blinded fortune, | And in their Songs, curse ever-blinded fortune |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.76 | Some blind priest for the purpose, that will venture | Some blind Priest for the purpose, that will venture |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.146.1 | That two must needs be blind for't. | That two must needes be blinde fort. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.228 | Perchance are to this business purblind? Say. | Perchance are to this Businesse purblind? say. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.291 | Blind with the pin and web but theirs, theirs only, | Blind with the Pin and Web, but theirs; theirs onely, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.830 | will bring these two moles, these blind ones, aboard | will bring these two Moales, these blind-ones, aboord |