| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.10 | In Nature's infinite book of secrecy | In Natures infinite booke of Secrecie, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.16 | Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, | Findes tongues in trees, bookes in the running brookes, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.5 | O Rosalind, these trees shall be my books | O Rosalind, these Trees shall be my Bookes, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.87 | O sir, we quarrel in print, by the book, as | O sir, we quarrel in print, by the booke: as |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.88 | you have books for good manners. I will name you the | you haue bookes for good manners: I will name you the |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.291 | In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam | In Ioues owne Booke, like an vnnaturall Dam |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.15 | The book of his good acts whence men have read | The booke of his good Acts, whence men haue read |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.26 | Yet keeps his book uncrossed: no life to ours. | Yet keepes his Booke vncros'd: no life to ours. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.133 | What fairies haunt this ground? A book? O rare one, | What Fayeries haunt this ground? A Book? Oh rare one, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.171 | is pen, book, and counters; so the acquittance | is Pen, Booke, and Counters; so the Acquittance |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.100 | All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past | All sawes of Bookes, all formes, all presures past, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.103 | Within the book and volume of my brain, | Within the Booke and Volume of my Braine, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.136 | If I had played the desk or table-book, | If I had playd the Deske or Table-booke, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.168.1 | Enter Hamlet | Enter Hamlet reading on a Booke. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.44 | We will bestow ourselves. (to Ophelia) Read on this book, | We will bestow our selues: Reade on this booke, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.186 | And now I will unclasp a secret book, | And now I will vnclaspe a Secret booke, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.48 | O Lord, sir, I'll be sworn upon all the books in | O Lord sir, Ile be sworne vpon all the Books in |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.217 | By that time will our book I think be drawn | By that time will our Booke, I thinke, be drawne. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.258 | By this our book is drawn – we'll but seal, | By this our Booke is drawne: wee'le but seale, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.100 | shillings? I put thee now to thy book-oath. Deny it if | I put thee now to thy Book-oath, deny it if |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.43 | the devil's book as thou and Falstaff, for obduracy and | the Diuels Booke, as thou, and Falstaffe, for obduracie and |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.31 | He was the mark and glass, copy and book, | He was the Marke, and Glasse, Coppy, and Booke, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.261 | lisping to his master's old tables, his note-book, his | lisping to his Masters old Tables, his Note-Booke, his |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.45 | O God, that one might read the book of fate, | Oh Heauen, that one might read the Book of Fate, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.134 | we have a number of shadows fill up the muster-book. | wee haue a number of shadowes to fill vppe the Muster-Booke. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.50 | Turning your books to graves, your ink to blood, | Turning your Bookes to Graues, your Inke to Blood, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.91 | That you should seal this lawless bloody book | That you should seale this lawlesse bloody Booke |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.17 | How deep you were within the books of God? | How deepe you were within the Bookes of Heauen? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.45 | And I beseech your grace, let it be booked with the rest | and I beseech your Grace, let it be book'd, with the rest |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.98 | For in the book of Numbers is it writ, | For in the Booke of Numbers is it writ, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.71 | To book our dead, and then to bury them, | To booke our dead, and then to bury them, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.56 | Unless my study and my books be false, | Vnlesse my Studie and my Bookes be false, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.101 | I'll note you in my book of memory | Ile note you in my Booke of Memorie, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.22 | And fitter is my study and my books | And fitter is my studie, and my Bookes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.98 | Blotting your names from books of memory, | Blotting your names from Bookes of memory, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.257 | Whose bookish rule hath pulled fair England down. | Whose bookish Rule, hath pull'd faire England downe. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.4 | Such as by God's book are adjudged to death. | Such as by Gods Booke are adiudg'd to death. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.85 | H'as a book in his pocket with red letters in't. | Ha's a Booke in his pocket with red Letters in't |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.31 | whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books | whereas before, our Fore-fathers had no other Bookes |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.67 | Because my book preferred me to the King, | Because my Booke preferr'd me to the King. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.13 | Enter King Henry, disguised, with a prayer-book | Enter the King with a Prayer booke. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.1 | Good day, my lord. What! At your book so hard? | Good day, my Lord, what at your Booke so hard? |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.122 | Not wake him in his slumber. A beggar's book | Not wake him in his slumber. A Beggers booke, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.126 | Mark him and write his speeches in their books, | Marke him, and write his Speeches in their Bookes, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.97 | Set in a notebook, learned, and conned by rote, | Set in a Note-booke, learn'd, and con'd by roate |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.250 | Look, Lucius, here's the book I sought for so; | Looke Lucius, heere's the booke I sought for so: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.158 | Now to forget thy study and thy books, | Now to forget thy study and thy bookes, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.306 | O, that a man might hold the heart's close book | O that a man might hold the hartes close booke, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.196 | And print thy valiant deeds in honour's book. | And print thy valiant deeds in honors booke, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.105 | Commends this book, full fraught with prayers, | Commends this booke full fraught with prayers, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.114 | Haply he cannot pray without the book: | Happily he cannot praie without the booke, |
| King John | KJ I.i.196 | And then comes answer like an Absey book: | And then comes answer like an Absey booke: |
| King John | KJ II.i.485 | Can in this book of beauty read ‘ I love,’ | Can in this booke of beautie read, I loue: |
| King John | KJ III.iii.12 | Bell, book, and candle shall not drive me back | Bell, Booke, & Candle, shall not driue me back, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.94 | books, and defy the foul fiend. | Bookes, and defye the foule Fiend. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.74 | As painfully to pore upon a book | As painefully to poare vpon a Booke, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.87 | Save base authority from others' books. | Saue base authoritie from others Bookes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.213 | On Navarre and his book-men, for here 'tis abused. | On Nauar and his bookemen, for heere 'tis abus'd. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.101.1 | To the prince and his book-mates. | To the Prince and his Booke-mates. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.24 | Sir, he hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book. | Sir hee hath neuer fed of the dainties that are bred in a booke. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.34 | You two are book-men – can you tell me by your wit | You two are book-men: Can you tell by your wit, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.109 | Study his bias leaves and makes his book thine eyes, | Studie his byas leaues, and makes his booke thine eyes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.248 | O, who can give an oath? Where is a book? | O who can giue an oth? Where is a booke? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.295 | And in that vow we have forsworn our books; | And in that vow we haue forsworne our Bookes: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.328 | They are the books, the arts, the academes, | They are the Bookes, the Arts, the Achademes, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.16 | He draws out his table-book | Draw out his Table-booke. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.45 | Yes, yes! He teaches boys the horn-book. What is | Yes, yes, he teaches boyes the Horne-booke: What is |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.42 | Fair as a text B in a copy-book. | Faire as a text B. in a Coppie booke. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.60 | Your face, my thane, is as a book where men | Your Face, my Thane, is as a Booke, where men |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.148 | I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the | Ile be supposd vpon a booke, his face is the |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.148 | swear upon a book, I shall have good fortune! Go to, | sweare vpon a booke, I shall haue good fortune; goe too, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.179 | Wear prayer books in my pocket, look demurely, | Weare prayer bookes in my pocket, looke demurely, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.155 | Antonio the merchant. We turned o'er many books together. | Anthonio the Merchant: We turn'd ore many Bookes together: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.134 | Fery goot. I will make a prief of it in my notebook, | Ferry goo't, I will make a priefe of it in my note-booke, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.183 | I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book | I had rather then forty shillings I had my booke |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.186 | on myself, must I? You have not the Book of Riddles | on my selfe, must I? you haue not the booke of Riddles |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.188 | Book of Riddles? Why, did you not lend it to | Booke of Riddles? why did you not lend it to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.141 | book she loves you. Have not your worship a wart | booke shee loues you: haue not your Worship a wart |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.35.1 | He takes a book and reads it | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.37 | student from his book, and it is wonderful. | Studient from his booke, and it is wonderfull. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.15 | profits nothing in the world at his book. I pray you, | profits nothing in the world at his Booke: I pray you |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.128 | Love's stories written in love's richest book. | Loues stories, written in Loues richest booke. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.72 | I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books. | I see (Lady) the Gentleman is not in your bookes. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.286 | And tire the hearer with a book of words. | And tire the hearer with a booke of words: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.3 | In my chamber-window lies a book; bring it | In my chamber window lies a booke, bring it |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.165 | The tenor of my book; trust not my age, | The tenure of my booke: trust not my age, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.32 | whole bookful of these quondam carpet-mongers, | whole booke full of these quondam carpet-mongers, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.24 | More than a spinster – unless the bookish theoric, | More then a Spinster. Vnlesse the Bookish Theoricke: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.67 | And you of her, the bloody book of law | And you of her; the bloodie Booke of Law, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.101 | And his unbookish jealousy must construe | And his vnbookish Ielousie must conserue |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.70 | Was this fair paper, this most goodly book, | Was this faire Paper? This most goodly Booke |
| Pericles | Per I.i.16 | Her face the book of praises, where is read | Her face the booke of prayses, where is read, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.95 | Who has a book of all that monarchs do, | Who has a booke of all that Monarches doe, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.202 | My name be blotted from the book of life, | My name be blotted from the booke of Life, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.235 | Marked with a blot, damned in the book of heaven. | Mark'd with a Blot, damn'd in the Booke of Heauen. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.273 | When I do see the very book indeed | When I doe see the very Booke indeede, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.27 | Made him my book, wherein my soul recorded | Made him my Booke, wherein my Soule recorded |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.46 | And look you get a prayer-book in your hand | And looke you get a Prayer-Booke in your hand, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.97 | And see, a book of prayer in his hand – | And see a Booke of Prayer in his hand, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.14 | A book of prayers on their pillow lay, | A Booke of Prayers on their pillow lay, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.279 | Then he disdains to shine; for by the book | Then he disdaines to shine: for by the Booke |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.59 | Perhaps you have learned it without book. But | Perhaps you haue learn'd it without booke: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.88 | This precious book of love, this unbound lover, | This precious Booke of Loue, this vnbound Louer, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.92 | That book in many's eyes doth share the glory, | That Booke in manies eyes doth share the glorie, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.7 | Nor no without-book prologue, faintly spoke | |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.110.2 | You kiss by th' book. | You kisse by'th'booke. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.156 | Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books; | Loue goes toward Loue as school-boyes frõ thier books |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.102 | by the book of arithmetic! Why the devil came you between | by the booke of Arithmeticke, why the deu'le came you betweene |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.83 | Was ever book containing such vile matter | Was euer booke containing such vile matter |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.82 | One writ with me in sour misfortune's book. | One, writ with me in sowre misfortunes booke. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.82 | My books and instruments shall be my company, | My bookes and instruments shall be my companie, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.193 | Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends, | Keepe house, and ply his booke, welcome his friends, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.144 | All books of love, see that at any hand – | All bookes of Loue, see that at any hand, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.168 | And other books – good ones, I warrant ye. | And other bookes, good ones, I warrant ye. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.39.4 | with his boy, Biondello, bearing a lute and books | with his boy bearing a Lute and Bookes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.100 | And this small packet of Greek and Latin books. | And this small packet of Greeke and Latine bookes: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.101 | Biondello steps forward with the lute and the books | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.102 | (opening one of the books) | |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.106 | (to Hortensio) Take you the lute, (to Lucentio) and you the set of books. | Take you the Lute, and you the set of bookes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.222 | A herald, Kate? O, put me in thy books! | A Herald Kate? Oh put me in thy bookes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.80 | Mistress, your father prays you leave your books, | Mistresse, your father prayes you leaue your books, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.160 | That all-amazed the priest let fall the book, | That all amaz'd the Priest let fall the booke, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.163 | That down fell priest and book, and book and priest. | That downe fell Priest and booke, and booke and Priest, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.166 | Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me | Knowing I lou'd my bookes, he furnishd me |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.127 | Here, kiss the book. (He gives him wine) | Here, kisse the Booke. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.139 | Come, swear to that. Kiss the book. I will | Come, sweare to that: kisse the Booke: I will |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.94 | At nothing can be more. I'll to my book, | At nothing can be more: Ile to my booke, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.90 | Having first seized his books; or with a log | Hauing first seiz'd his bookes: Or with a logge |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.93 | First to possess his books, for without them | First to possesse his Bookes; for without them |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.96 | As rootedly as I. Burn but his books. | As rootedly as I. Burne but his Bookes, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.57 | I'll drown my book. | Ile drowne my booke. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.26 | A picture, sir. When comes your book forth? | A Picture sir: when comes your Booke forth? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.199 | Pays interest for't. His land's put to their books. | payes interest for't; / His Land's put to their Bookes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.1.2 | and the boy flies from her with his books under his | and the Boy flies from her with his bookes vnder his |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.5 | He drops his books | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.25 | Which made me down to throw my books and fly, | Which made me downe to throw my bookes, and flie |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.30 | Lavinia turns over the books dropped by Lucius | |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.31 | Some book there is that she desires to see. | Some booke there is that she desires to see, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.37 | Why lifts she up her arms in sequence thus? | What booke? / Why lifts she vp her armes in sequence thus? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.41 | Lucius, what book is that she tosseth so? | Lucius what booke is that she tosseth so? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.18 | thou learn a prayer without book. Thou canst strike, | yu learn a prayer without booke: Thou canst strike, canst |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.239 | O, like a book of sport thou'lt read me o'er; | O like a Booke of sport thou'lt reade me ore: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.25 | word without book, and hath all the good gifts of nature. | word without booke, & hath all the good gifts of nature. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.14 | To thee the book even of my secret soul. | To thee the booke euen of my secret soule. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.142 | state without book and utters it by great swathes; the | State without booke, and vtters it by great swarths. The |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.19 | And on a love-book pray for my success? | And on a loue-booke pray for my successe? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.20 | Upon some book I love I'll pray for thee. | Vpon some booke I loue, I'le pray for thee. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.33 | Shall raze you out o'th' book of trespasses | Shall raze you out o'th Booke of Trespasses |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.42 | He'll eat a hornbook ere he fail. Go to, | Hee'l eate a hornebooke ere he faile: goe too, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.70 | pretty one. Sure, some scape. Though I am not bookish, | prettie one) sure some Scape; Though I am not bookish, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.119 | sheep, let me be unrolled, and my name put in the book | sheepe, let me be vnrold, and my name put in the booke |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.595 | glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape, | Glasse, Pomander, Browch, Table-booke, Ballad, Knife, Tape, |