| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.102 | That they take place when virtue's steely bones | That they take place, when Vertues steely bones |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.140 | Of honoured bones indeed. What should be said? | Of honour'd bones indeed, what should be saide? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.27 | Full surfeits and the dryness of his bones | Full surfets, and the drinesse of his bones, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.75 | In verity you did. My bones bear witness, | In veritie you did, my bones beares witnesse, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.178 | Hence, rotten thing! or I shall shake thy bones | Hence rotten thing, or I shall shake thy bones |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.47 | Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death, | Why thy Canoniz'd bones Hearsed in death, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.84 | If thou canst mutine in a matron's bones, | If thou canst mutine in a Matrons bones, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.214 | No trophy, sword, nor hatchment o'er his bones, | No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.77 | Cain's jawbone, that did the first murder! This might be | Caines Iaw-bone, that did the first murther: It might be |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.90 | see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding but | see't. Did these bones cost no more the breeding, but |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.93 | Put your bonnet to his right use. 'Tis for the head. | put your Bonet to his right vse, 'tis for the head. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.319 | Here comes lean Jack, here comes bare-bone. How now | Heere comes leane Iacke, heere comes bare-bone. How now |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.41 | everlasting bonfire-light! Thou hast saved me a thousand | euer-lasting Bone-fire-Light: thou hast saued me a thousand |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.44 | stolen from my host at Saint Alban's, or the red-nose | stolne from my Host of S. Albones, or the Red-Nose |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.19 | black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and Will | blacke George Bare, and Francis Pick-bone, and Will |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.71 | Their brains with care, their bones with industry; | Their braines with care, their bones with industry. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iv.28 | Goodman death, goodman bones! | Goodman death, goodman Bones. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.229 | Or lay these bones in an unworthy urn, | Or lay these bones in an vnworthy Vrne, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.37 | Yon island carrions, desperate of their bones, | Yond Iland Carrions, desperate of their bones, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.91 | Bid them achieve me, and then sell my bones. | Bid them atchieue me, and then sell my bones. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.98 | And those that leave their valiant bones in France, | And those that leaue their valiant bones in France, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.67 | That I have fined these bones of mine for ransom? | That I haue fin'd these bones of mine for ransome? |
| 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 III.i.195 | Till bones and flesh and sinews fall away, | Till bones and flesh and sinewes fall away, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.47 | Hew them to pieces, hack their bones asunder, | Hew them to peeces, hack their bones assunder, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.83 | When from Saint Albans we do make return, | When from Saint Albones we doe make returne, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iii.188 | By these ten bones, my lords, he did speak them | By these tenne bones, my Lords, hee did speake them |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.71 | The King is now in progress towards Saint Albans; | The King is now in progresse towards Saint Albones, |
| 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.66.1 | Enter the Mayor of Saint Albans and his brethren, | Enter the Maior of Saint Albones, and his Brethren, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.107 | Saint Alban. | Saint Albones. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.129 | is impossible. My lords, Saint Alban here hath done a | is impossible. / My Lords, Saint Albone here hath done a |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.133 | My masters of Saint Albans, have you not | My Masters of Saint Albones, / Haue you not |
| 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 VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.125 | Would he were wasted, marrow, bones, and all, | Would he were wasted, Marrow, Bones, and all, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.4 | That Warwick's bones may keep thine company. | That Warwickes Bones may keepe thine companie. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.397 | For truth's sake, and his conscience, that his bones, | For Truths-sake, and his Conscience; that his bones, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.22 | Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; | Is come to lay his weary bones among ye: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.77 | The good is oft interred with their bones; | The good is oft enterred with their bones, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.41 | Night hangs upon mine eyes; my bones would rest, | Night hangs vpon mine eyes, my Bones would rest, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.78 | Within my tent his bones tonight shall lie, | Within my Tent his bones to night shall ly, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.170 | The pillars of his hearse shall be their bones; | The pillers of his hearse shall be his bones, |
| King John | KJ I.i.78 | Fair fall the bones that took the pains for me! – | (Faire fall the bones that tooke the paines for me) |
| King John | KJ II.i.41 | We'll lay before this town our royal bones, | Wee'll lay before this towne our Royal bones, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.29 | And I will kiss thy detestable bones | And I will kisse thy detestable bones, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.10 | Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones! | Heauen take my soule, and England keep my bones. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.148 | Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty | Now for the bare-pickt bone of Maiesty, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.158 | On her ingrateful top! Strike her young bones, | On her ingratefull top: strike her yong bones |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.66 | Thy flesh and bones. Howe'er thou art a fiend, | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.27 | Laus Deo, bone intelligo. | Laus deo, bene intelligo. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.28 | Bone? ‘ Bone ’ for ‘ bene ’! Priscian a little | Bome boon for boon prescian, a little |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.332 | To show his teeth as white as whale's bone; | To shew his teeth as white as Whales bone. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.613 | The carved bone face on a flask. | The caru'd-bone face on a Flaske. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.659 | chucks, beat not the bones of the buried. When he | chuckes, beat not the bones of the buried: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.57 | Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums | Haue pluckt my Nipple from his Bonelesse Gummes, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.35.1 | And guardian of their bones. | And Guardian of their Bones. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.93 | Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold. | Thy bones are marrowlesse, thy blood is cold: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.32 | I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked. | Ile fight, till from my bones, my flesh be hackt. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.55 | as things that are hollow. Thy bones are hollow. | as things that are hollow; thy bones are hollow; |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.64 | When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones. | When it lies starkely in the Trauellers bones, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.49 | with a bone in his mouth than to either of these. | with a bone in his mouth, then to either of these: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.112 | The Jew shall have my flesh, blood, bones, and all, | The Iew shall haue my flesh, blood, bones, and all, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.29 | the tongs and the bones. | the tongs and the bones. Musicke Tongs, Rurall Musicke. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.272 | And sing it to her bones, sing it tonight. | And sing it to her bones, sing it to night: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.22 | Now, unto thy bones good night! | Now vnto thy bones good night, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.135 | A halter pardon him and hell gnaw his bones! | A halter pardon him: / And hell gnaw his bones. |
| Pericles | Per III.i.61 | Where, for a monument upon thy bones, | Where for a monument vpon thy bones, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.83 | Whose hollow womb inherits naught but bones. | Whose hollow wombe inherits naught but bones. |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.154 | Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. | Which serues as Paste, and Couer to our Bones: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.79 | For well we know no hand of blood and bone | For well wee know, no Hand of Blood and Bone |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.106 | That stands upon your royal grandsire's bones, | That stands vpon your Royall Grandsires Bones, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.33 | And mocked the dead bones that lay scattered by. | And mock'd the dead bones that lay scattred by. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.33 | Then would I hide my bones, not rest them here. | Then would I hide my bones, not rest them heere, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.66 | Her whip, of cricket's bone; the lash, of film; | her Whip of Crickets bone, the Lash of Philome, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.35 | O, their bones, their bones! | O their bones, their bones. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.26 | Fie, how my bones ache! What a jaunce have I! | Fie how my bones ake, what a iaunt haue I had? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.27 | I would thou hadst my bones, and I thy news. | I would thou had'st my bones, and I thy newes: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.63 | Is this the poultice for my aching bones? | Is this the Poultis for my aking bones? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.82 | O'ercovered quite with dead men's rattling bones, | Orecouered quite with dead mens ratling bones, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.40 | Where for this many hundred years the bones | Where for these many hundred yeeres the bones |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.53 | And, in this rage, with some great kinsman's bone | And in this rage, with some great kinsmans bone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.41 | Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. | Sharpe miserie had worne him to the bones: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.370 | Fill all thy bones with aches, make thee roar, | Fill all thy bones with Aches, make thee rore, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.398 | Of his bones are coral made; | Of his bones are Corrall made: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.2 | My old bones aches. Here's a maze trod indeed, | My old bones akes: here's a maze trod indeede |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.283 | last that I fear me will never out of my bones. I shall | last, That I feare me will neuer out of my bones: I shall |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.106 | Only in bone, that none may look on you! | Onely in bone, that none may looke on you. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.117.2 | I feel't upon my bones. | I feel't vpon my bones. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.153 | In hollow bones of man; strike their sharp shins, | In hollow bones of man, strike their sharpe shinnes, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.531 | But let the famished flesh slide from the bone | But let the famisht flesh slide from the Bone, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.102 | Before this earthy prison of their bones, | Before this earthly prison of their bones, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.372 | Not I, till Mutius' bones be buried. | Not I tell Mutius bones be buried. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.390 | There lie thy bones, sweet Mutius, with thy friends, | There lie thy bones sweet Mutius with thy friends |
| 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, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.185 | Hark, villains, I will grind your bones to dust, | Harke Villaines, I will grin'd your bones to dust, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.197 | Let me go grind their bones to powder small, | Let me goe grin'd their Bones to powder small, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.55 | Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece, | Thou great Commander, Nerue, and Bone of Greece, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.391 | Must tarre the mastiffs on, as 'twere their bone. | Must tarre the Mastiffes on, as 'twere their bone. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.69 | his brain more than he has beat my bones. I will buy | his Braine more then he has beate my bones: I will buy |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.18 | camp – or rather, the Neapolitan bone-ache – for that, | Camp, or rather the bone-ach, for that |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.172 | High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, | High birth, vigor of bone, desert in seruice, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.21 | discoveries! | discoueries. Q addition 'rawe eies, durtrottē liuers, whissing lungs, bladders full of impostume. Sciaticaes lime-kills ith' palme, incurable bone-ach, and the riueled fee simple of the tetter take' |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.105 | such an ache in my bones that unless a man were curst | such an ache in my bones; that vnlesse a man were curst, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.12 | Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone. – | Here lyes thy heart, thy sinewes, and thy bone. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.35 | A goodly medicine for mine aching bones! – | A goodly medcine for mine aking bones: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.51 | Though not for me, yet for your aching bones. | Though not for me, yet for your aking bones: |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.45 | And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, | And the free maides that weaue their thred with bones, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.61 | My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. | My poore corpes, where my bones shall be throwne: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.43 | He will not suffer us to burn their bones, | He will not suffer us to burne their bones, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.49 | That does good turns to th' world; give us the bones | That does good turnes to'th world; give us the Bones |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.7 | The bones of your dead lords, and honour them | The bones of your dead Lords, and honour them |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.87.1 | Chi passa o' th' bells and bones. | Quipassa, o'th bels and bones. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.17 | How will it shake the bones of that good man, | How will it shake the bones of that good man, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.29 | Worth two hours' travail. To his bones sweet sleep; | Worth two houres travell. To his bones sweet sleepe: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.93 | out his shoulder bone, how he cried to me for help, and | out his shoulder-bone, how he cride to mee for helpe, and |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.6 | desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the penitent King, | desire to lay my bones there. Besides, the penitent King |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.453 | To lie close by his honest bones; but now | To lye close by his honest bones; but now |