| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.183 | Go not about; my love hath in't a bond | Goe not about; my loue hath in't a bond |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.225 | thy bondage. I have a desire to hold my acquaintance | thy bondage, I haue a desire to holde my acquaintance |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.258 | kernel out of a pomegranate. You are a vagabond and no | kernell out of a Pomgranat, you are a vagabond, and no |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.63 | 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife | 'Tis a hard bondage to become the wife |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.45 | Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, | Like to a Vagabond Flagge vpon the Streame, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.84 | I knew it for my bond. | I knew it for my Bond. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.149 | Hipparchus, my enfranched bondman, whom | Hiparchus, my enfranched Bondman, whom |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.265 | Are dearer than the natural bond of sisters. | Are deerer then the naturall bond of Sisters: |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.52 | translate thy life into death, thy liberty into bondage. | translate thy life into death, thy libertie into bondage: |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.139 | O blessed bond of board and bed; | O blessed bond of boord and bed: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.13 | I will discharge my bond, and thank you, too. | I will discharge my bond, and thanke you too. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.123 | Master, I am here entered in bond for you. | Master, I am heere entred in bond for you. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.141 | With him his bondman all as mad as he, | With him his bondman, all as mad as he, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.250 | Till, gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, | Till gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.288 | And is not that your bondman Dromio? | And is not that your bondman Dromio? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.289 | Within this hour I was his bondman, sir, | Within this houre I was his bondman sir, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.340 | Whoever bound him, I will loose his bonds, | Who euer bound him, I will lose his bonds, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.89 | Vagabond exile, flaying, pent to linger | Vagabond exile, Fleaing, pent to linger |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.25 | All bond and privilege of nature, break! | All bond and priuiledge of Nature breake; |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.48 | With bonds of death! Remain, remain thou here, | With bonds of death. Remaine, remaine thou heere, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.73.1 | Assured bondage?’ | assured bondage? |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.111 | Of no more bondage be to where they are made | Of no more bondage be, to where they are made, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.37 | And men in dangerous bonds pray not alike: | And men in dangerous Bondes pray not alike, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.6 | And keep their impious turbans on, without | And keepe their impious Turbonds on, without |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.44.1 | And sing our bondage freely. | And sing our Bondage freely. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.i.7 | No bond, but to do just ones. Gods, if you | No Bond, but to do iust ones. Gods, if you |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.3 | Most welcome bondage; for thou art a way, | Most welcome bondage; for thou art a way |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.28 | And cancel these cold bonds. O Innogen, | And cancell these cold Bonds. Oh Imogen, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.207 | But think her bond of chastity quite cracked, | But thinke her bond of Chastity quite crack'd, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.306.1 | They were not born for bondage. | They were not borne for bondage. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.403 | Save these in bonds, let them be joyful too, | Saue these in bonds, let them be ioyfull too, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.24 | Lost by his father, with all bands of law, | Lost by his Father: with all Bonds of Law |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.130 | Breathing like sanctified and pious bawds, | Breathing like sanctified and pious bonds, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.157 | If not, the end of life cancels all bonds, | If not, the end of Life cancells all Bands, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.100 | Wilt thou believe me, Hal, three or four bonds | Wilt thou beleeue me, Hal? Three or foure Bonds |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.31 | than Bardolph. He would not take his bond and | then Bardolfe: he wold not take his Bond & |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.35 | Lean raw-boned rascals! Who would e'er suppose | Leane raw-bon'd Rascals, who would e're suppose, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.20 | Coupled in bonds of perpetuity, | Coupled in bonds of perpetuitie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.111 | Your bondage happy, to be made a queen? | Your bondage happy, to be made a Queene? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.112 | To be a queen in bondage is more vile | To be a Queene in bondage, is more vile, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.125 | Have been as bondmen to thy sovereignty. | Haue beene as Bond-men to thy Soueraigntie. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.55 | out the burly-boned clown in chines of beef ere thou | out the burly bon'd Clowne in chines of Beefe, ere thou |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.40 | My bond to wedlock, or my love and duty | My bond to Wedlocke, or my Loue and Dutie |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.188 | Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty, | Should, notwithstanding that your bond of duty, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.34 | To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? | To grace in Captiue bonds his Chariot Wheeles? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.90 | Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius. | Cassius from Bondage will deliuer Cassius: |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.101 | So every bondman in his own hand bears | So euery Bond-man in his owne hand beares |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.113 | Before a willing bondman; then I know | Before a willing Bond-man: then I know |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.124 | To prick us to redress? What other bond | To pricke vs to redresse? What other Bond, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.280 | Within the bond of marriage, tell me, Brutus, | Within the Bond of Marriage, tell me Brutus, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.29 | so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for | so base, that would be a Bondman? If any, speak, for |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.44 | And make your bondmen tremble. Must I budge? | And make your Bondmen tremble. Must I bouge? |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.96 | Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed, | Check'd like a bondman, all his faults obseru'd, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.42 | And bowed like bondmen, kissing Caesar's feet; | And bow'd like Bondmen, kissing Casars feete; |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.56 | With Pindarus his bondman, on this hill. | With Pindarus his Bondman, on this Hill. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.54 | Free from the bondage you are in, Messala. | Free from the Bondage you are in Messala, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.339 | Or break thy oath or cancel all the bonds | Or breake thy oth or cancell all the bondes, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.120 | Hooped with a bond of iron round about. | Hoopt with a bond ofyron round about, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.183 | In captive bonds; whose diadem he brings | In captiue bonds, whose diadem he brings |
| King John | KJ III.iv.70 | I tore them from their bonds, and cried aloud, | I tore them from their bonds, and cride aloud, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.74 | And will again commit them to their bonds, | And will againe commit them to their bonds, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.93 | According to my bond, no more nor less. | According to my bond, no more nor lesse. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.49 | to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged | to finde an idleand fond bondage, in the oppression of aged |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.108 | discord; in palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt | discord; in Pallaces, Treason; and the Bond crack'd, 'twixt |
| King Lear | KL II.i.46 | Spoke with how manifold and strong a bond | Spoke with how manifold, and strong a Bond |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.173 | The offices of nature, bond of childhood, | The Offices of Nature, bond of Childhood, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.49 | Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond | Cancell and teare to pieces that great Bond, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.83 | And take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live; | And take a Bond of Fate: thou shalt not liue, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.71 | will pray, Pompey, to increase your bondage. If you | will pray (Pompey) to encrease your bondage if you |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.8.2 | You make my bonds still greater. | You make my bonds still greater. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.26 | I may take his bond. | I may take his bond. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.65 | Well then, your bond. And let me see; but hear you, | Well then, your bond: and let me see, but heare you, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.120 | Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, | Shall I bend low, and in a bond-mans key |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.142 | Your single bond, and, in a merry sport, | Your single bond, and in a merrie sport |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.149 | Content, in faith. I'll seal to such a bond | Content infaith, Ile seale to such a bond, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.151 | You shall not seal to such a bond for me; | You shall not seale to such a bond for me, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.155 | This bond expires – I do expect return | This bond expires, I doe expect returne |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.156 | Of thrice three times the value of this bond. | Of thrice three times the valew of this bond. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.168 | Yes, Shylock, I will seal unto this bond. | Yes Shylocke, I will seale vnto this bond. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.170 | Give him direction for this merry bond, | Giue him direction for this merrie bond, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.6 | To seal love's bonds new-made than they are wont | To steale loues bonds new made, then they are wont |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.viii.41 | And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me, | And for the Iewes bond which he hath of me, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.43 | Let him look to his bond. He was wont to call me usurer. | let him look to his bond, he was wont to call me Vsurer, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.44 | Let him look to his bond. He was wont to lend money | let him looke to his bond, he was wont to lend money |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.45 | for a Christian courtesy. Let him look to his bond. | for a Christian curtsie, let him looke to his bond. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.283 | Of forfeiture, of justice, and his bond. | Of forfeiture, of iustice, and his bond. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.299 | Pay him six thousand, and deface the bond. | Pay him sixe thousand, and deface the bond: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.316 | my creditors grow cruel, my estate is very low, my bond | my Creditors grow cruell, my estate is very low, my bond |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.4 | I'll have my bond! Speak not against my bond! | Ile haue my bond, speake not against my bond, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.5 | I have sworn an oath that I will have my bond. | I haue sworne an oath that I will haue my bond: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.12 | I'll have my bond. I will not hear thee speak. | Ile haue my bond, I will not heare thee speake, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.13 | I'll have my bond, and therefore speak no more. | Ile haue my bond, and therefore speake no more. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.17 | I'll have no speaking, I will have my bond. | Ile haue no speaking, I will haue my bond. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.37 | To have the due and forfeit of my bond. | To haue the due and forfeit of my bond. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.87 | I would not draw them. I would have my bond. | I would not draw them, I would haue my bond? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.139 | Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond, | Till thou canst raile the seale from off my bond |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.178.2 | Do you confess the bond? | Do you confesse the bond? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.204 | The penalty and forfeit of my bond. | The penaltie and forfeite of my bond. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.222 | I pray you let me look upon the bond. | I pray you let me looke vpon the bond. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.227.2 | Why, this bond is forfeit, | Why this bond is forfeit, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.231 | Take thrice thy money, bid me tear the bond. | Take thrice thy money, bid me teare the bond. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.239 | To alter me. I stay here on my bond. | To alter me: I stay heere on my bond. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.246 | Which here appeareth due upon the bond. | Which heere appeareth due vpon the bond. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.250 | So says the bond, doth it not, noble judge? | So sayes the bond, doth it not noble Iudge? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.256 | Is it so nominated in the bond? | It is not nominated in the bond? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.259 | I cannot find it; 'tis not in the bond. | I cannot finde it, 'tis not in the bond. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.303 | This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood; | This bond doth giue thee heere no iot of bloud, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.305 | Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh, | Then take thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.315 | I take this offer then. Pay the bond thrice | I take this offer then, pay the bond thrice, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.336 | He shall have merely justice and his bond. | He shall haue meerly iustice and his bond. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.42 | With ribands pendent, flaring 'bout her head; | With Ribonds-pendant, flaring 'bout her head; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.85 | For everlasting bond of fellowship – | For euerlasting bond of fellowship: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.267 | I would I had your bond; for I perceive | I would I had your bond: for I perceiue |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.268 | A weak bond holds you. I'll not trust your word. | A weake bond holds you; Ile not trust your word. |
| Othello | Oth I.i.46 | That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, | That (doting on his owne obsequious bondage) |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.99 | Bondslaves and pagans shall our statesmen be. | Bond-slaues, and Pagans shall our Statesmen be. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.349 | Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk | Where a malignant, and a Turbond-Turke |
| Pericles | Per I.i.25 | To compass such a boundless happiness! | To compasse such a bondlesse happinesse. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.89 | Cast off his chains of bondage and embrace | Cast off his chaines of bondage, and embrace |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.64 | With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. | With Inky blottes, and rotten Parchment bonds. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.114 | Thy state of law is bondslave to the law, | Thy state of Law, is bondslaue to the law, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.119 | A wandering vagabond, my rights and royalties | A wandring Vagabond; my Rights and Royalties |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.76 | And lies, and lies. There is my bond of faith | And Lyes, and Lyes: there is my Bond of Faith, |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.65 | 'Tis nothing but some bond that he is entered into | 'Tis nothing but some bond, that he is enter'd into |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.67 | Bound to himself? What doth he with a bond | Bound to himselfe? What doth he with a Bond |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.77 | Cancel his bond of life, dear God, I pray, | Cancell his bond of life, deere God I pray, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.317 | A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and runaways, | A sort of Vagabonds, Rascals, and Run-awayes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.160 | Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud, | Bondage is hoarse, and may not speake aloud, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.2 | To make a bondmaid and a slave of me. | To make a bondmaide and a slaue of mee, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.41 | Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage | Th' harmony of their tongues, hath into bondage |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.89 | As bondage e'er of freedom. Here's my hand. | As bondage ere of freedome: heere's my hand. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.148 | For 'tis a bond in men. Give him thy daughter. | For 'tis a Bond in men. Giue him thy Daughter, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.64 | To trust man on his oath or bond, | To trust man on his Oath or Bond. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.34 | I go, sir? Take the bonds along with you, | I go sir? / Take the Bonds along with you, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.35 | He gives the bonds to Caphis | |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.42 | With clamorous demands of broken bonds, | With clamorous demands of debt, broken Bonds, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.108 | For these base bondmen to the yoke of Rome. | For these bad bond-men to the yoake of Rome. |
| 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 I.iii.66 | Should with a bond of air, strong as the axle-tree | Should with a bond of ayre, strong as the Axletree |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.157 | Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of heaven. | Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of heauen; |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.159 | The bonds of heaven are slipped, dissolved, and loosed; | The bonds of heauen are slipt, dissolu'd, and loos'd, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.184 | thy bondslave? | thy bondslaue? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.20 | are very rascals, since bonds disgraced them. | are very Rascals, since bonds disgrac'd them. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.154 | A contract of eternal bond of love, | A Contract of eternall bond of loue, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.75 | His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles, | His words are bonds, his oathes are oracles, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.50 | By any generous bond to follow him | By any generous bond to follow him |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.34 | freedom out of bondage, making misery their mirth and | freedome out of Bondage, making misery their / Mirth, and |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.234 | will also be the bondage of certain ribbons and gloves. | will also be the bondage of certaine Ribbons and Gloues. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.570 | Prosperity's the very bond of love, | Prosperitie's the very bond of Loue, |