| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.14 | your old ling and your Isbels o'th' court. The brains of | your old Ling and your Isbels a'th Court: the brains of |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.187 | I know his brains are forfeit to the next tile that falls. | I know his braines are forfeite to the next tile that fals. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.24 | Keep his brain fuming. Epicurean cooks | Keepe his Braine fuming. Epicurean Cookes, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.97 | It's monstrous labour when I wash my brain | it's monstrous labour when I wash my braine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.11 | Take from his heart, take from his brain, from's time, | Take from his heart, take from his Braine, from's time, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.197 | A diminution in our captain's brain | A diminution in our Captaines braine, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.21 | A brain that nourishes our nerves, and can | A Braine that nourishes our Nerues, and can |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.38 | They have the gift to know it: and in his brain, | They haue the gift to know it: and in his braiue, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.88 | love-cause. Troilus had his brains dashed out with a | loue cause: Troilous had his braines dash'd out with a |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.3 | I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain | I warrant you, with pure loue, & troubled brain, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.34 | Like Turk to Christian; women's gentle brain | Like Turke to Christian: womens gentle braine |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.134 | Even to the court, the heart, to th' seat o'th' brain; | Euen to the Court, the Heart, to th' seate o'th' Braine, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.89 | conversation would infect my brain, being the herdsmen | conuersation would infect my Braine, being the Heardsmen |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.30 | But yet a brain that leads my use of anger | But yet a braine, that leades my vse of Anger |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.28 | brain go not together. She's a good sign, but I have | Braine go not together. Shee's a good signe, but I haue |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.53 | Bears all down with her brain, and this her son | Beares all downe with her Braine, and this her Sonne, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.115 | Could have knocked out his brains, for he had none: | Could haue knock'd out his Braines, for he had none: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.301 | Which the brain makes of fumes. Our very eyes | Which the Braine makes of Fumes. Our very eyes, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.65 | To taint his nobler heart and brain | To taint his Nobler hart & braine, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.147 | Tongue, and brain not: either both, or nothing, | Tongue, and braine not: either both, or nothing, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.164 | that you are paid too much: purse and brain, both | that you are payed too much: Purse and Braine, both |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.165 | empty: the brain the heavier for being too light; the | empty: the Brain the heauier, for being too light; the |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.14 | To you, the liver, heart, and brain of Britain, | To you (the Liuer, Heart, and Braine of Britaine) |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.196 | Of hope, not longing, mine Italian brain | Of hope, not longing; mine Italian braine, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.76 | Without more motive, into every brain | |
| 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.46 | And I do think – or else this brain of mine | And I do thinke, or else this braine of mine |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.358 | of brains. | of Braines. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.586 | About, my brains. Hum – I have heard | About my Braine. / I haue heard, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.175 | Whereon his brains still beating puts him thus | Whereon his Braines still beating, puts him thus |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.237.2 | Sleep rock thy brain, | Sleepe rocke thy Braine, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.138 | This is the very coinage of your brain. | This is the very coynage of your Braine, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.11 | And in this brainish apprehension kills | And in his brainish apprehension killes |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.156 | O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt | Oh heate drie vp my Braines, teares seuen times salt, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.56 | Cudgel thy brains no more about it, for | Cudgell thy braines no more about it; for |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.30 | Or I could make a prologue to my brains | Ere I could make a Prologue to my braines, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.17 | shallow cowardly hind, and you lie. What a lack-brain is | shallow cowardly Hinde, and you Lye. What a lacke-braine is |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.24 | rascal I could brain him with his lady's fan. Is there not | Rascall, I could braine him with his Ladies Fan. Is there not |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.223 | clay-brained guts, thou knotty-pated fool, thou whoreson, | Clay-brayn'd Guts, thou Knotty-pated Foole, thou Horson |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.391 | tickle-brain. | Tickle-braine. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.19 | A hare-brained Hotspur, governed by a spleen. | A haire-brain'd Hotspurre, gouern'd by a Spleene: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.7 | brain of this foolish-compounded clay, man, is not able | braine of this foolish compounded Clay-man, is not able |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.117 | and perturbation of the brain. I have read the cause of | and perturbation of the braine. I haue read the cause of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.19 | Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains | Seale vp the Ship-boyes Eyes, and rock his Braines, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.96 | ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish | ascends me into the Braine, dryes me there all the foolish, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.110 | And now my sight fails, and my brain is giddy. | And now my Sight fayles, and my Braine is giddie. |
| 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 V | H5 III.vii.130 | of England, to mope with his fat-brained followers so far | of England, to mope with his fat-brain'd followers so farre |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.275 | Enjoys it, but in gross brain little wots | Enioyes it; but in grosse braine little wots, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.15 | Remaineth none but mad-brained Salisbury, | Remayneth none but mad-brayn'd Salisbury, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.37 | Let's leave this town; for they are hare-brained slaves, | Let's leaue this Towne, / For they are hayre-brayn'd Slaues, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.109 | And make a quagmire of your mingled brains. | And make a Quagmire of your mingled braines. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.83 | That many have their giddy brains knocked out. | That many haue their giddy braynes knockt out: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.111 | Good Lord, what madness rules in brain-sick men, | Good Lord, what madnesse rules in braine-sicke men, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.99 | And buzz these conjurations in her brain. | And buzze these Coniurations in her brayne. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.51 | Did instigate the bedlam brain-sick Duchess | Did instigate the Bedlam braine-sick Duchesse, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.339 | My brain, more busy than the labouring spider, | My Brayne, more busie then the laboring Spider, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.11 | my brain-pan had been cleft with a brown bill; and | my braine-pan had bene cleft with a brown Bill; and |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.163 | Thou mad misleader of thy brain-sick son! | Thou mad misleader of thy brain-sicke sonne, |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.20 | Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring | Our owne Braines, and the Opinion that we bring |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.113 | Is in his brain; he bites his lip, and starts, | Is in his braine: He bites his lip, and starts, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.187 | Your brain and every function of your power, | Your Braine, and euery Function of your power, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.217 | No new device to beat this from his brains? | No new deuice to beate this from his Braines? |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.232 | Which busy care draws in the brains of men; | Which busie care drawes, in the braines of men; |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.51 | There comes a hare-brained nation, decked in pride, | There comes a hare braind Nation deckt in pride, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.188 | Wherewith the chamber of thy brain is fenced, | Wherewith the chamber of this braine is fenst, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.2 | Is touched corruptibly, and his pure brain, | Is touch'd, corruptibly: and his pure braine |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.57 | write this? a heart and brain to breed it in? When came | write this? A heart and braine to breede it in? When came |
| King Lear | KL I.v.8 | If a man's brains were in's heels, were't not in | If a mans braines were in's heeles, wert not in |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.23 | Lest my brain turn, and the deficient sight | Least my braine turne, and the deficient sight |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.194.1 | I am cut to the brains. | I am cut to'th'Braines. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.163 | That hath a mint of phrases in his brain; | That hath a mint of phrases in his braine: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.300 | Other slow arts entirely keep the brain, | Other slow Arts intirely keepe the braine: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.304 | Lives not alone immured in the brain, | Liues not alone emured in the braine: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.836 | To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain, | To weed this Wormewood from your fruitfull braine, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.149 | Give me your favour. My dull brain was wrought | Giue me your fauour: / My dull Braine was wrought |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.58 | And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you | And dasht the Braines out, had I so sworne / As you |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.65 | That memory, the warder of the brain, | That Memorie, the Warder of the Braine, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.39 | Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? | Proceeding from the heat-oppressed Braine? |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.46 | So brain-sickly of things. Go get some water, | So braine-sickly of things: Goe get some Water, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.78 | That, when the brains were out, the man would die, | That when the Braines were out, the man would dye, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.42 | Raze out the written troubles of the brain, | Raze out the written troubles of the Braine, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.53 | shall beat out my brains with billets. I will not consent | shall beat out my braines with billets: I will not consent |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.393 | That brained my purpose; but peace be with him. | That brain'd my purpose: but peace be with him, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.17 | mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the | mine owne teaching: the braine may deuise lawes for the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.27 | Has Page any brains? Hath he any eyes? Hath he | Has Page any braines? Hath he any eies? Hath he |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.6 | if I be served such another trick, I'll have my brains | if I be seru'd such another tricke, Ile haue my braines |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.71 | Brainford, has a gown above. | Brainford, has a gowne aboue. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.81 | Brainford. He swears she's a witch, forbade her my | Brainford; he sweares she's a witch, forbad her my |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.92 | go dress him like the witch of Brainford. | go dresse him like the witch of Brainford. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.149 | No, nor nowhere else but in your brain. | No, nor no where else but in your braine. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.160 | Why, it is my maid's aunt of Brainford. | Why it is my maids Aunt of Brainford. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.204 | the figures out of your husband's brains. If they can | the figures out of your husbands braines: if they can |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.24 | Brainford? | Brainford? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.108 | Brainford. But that my admirable dexterity of wit, my | Braineford, but that my admirable dexteritie of wit, my |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.134 | Have I laid my brain in the sun and dried it, | Haue I laid my braine in the Sun, and dri'de it, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.4 | Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, | Louers and mad men haue such seething braines, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.233 | and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a | and sentences, and these paper bullets of the braine awe a |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.87 | A halting sonnet of his own pure brain, | A halting sonnet of his owne pure braine, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.102 | be beaten with brains, 'a shall wear nothing handsome | be beaten with braines, a shall weare nothing handsome |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.323 | in our wills. If the beam of our lives had not one scale | in our Wills. If the braine of our liues had not one Scale |
| Othello | Oth II.i.126 | It plucks out brains and all. But my muse labours, | it pluckes out Braines and all. But my Muse labours, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.31 | unhappy brains for drinking. I could well wish courtesy | vnhappie Braines for drinking. I could well wish Curtesie |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.283 | their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel | their Braines? that we should with ioy, pleasance, reuell |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.113 | As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain | As if thou then hadd'st shut vp in thy Braine |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.271 | Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain? | Are his wits safe? Is he not light of Braine? |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.229 | knocking out his brains. | knocking out his braines. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.6 | My brain I'll prove the female to my soul, | My Braine, Ile proue the Female to my Soule, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.60 | Were red-hot steel, to sear me to the brains! | Were red hot Steele, to seare me to the Braines, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.332 | The petty rebel, dull-brained Buckingham, | The petty Rebell, dull-brain'd Buckingham, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.30 | Nay, I do bear a brain. But, as I said, | nay I doe beare a braine. But as I said, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.71 | Through lovers' brains, and then they dream of love; | through Louers braines: and then they dreame of Loue. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.97 | Which are the children of an idle brain, | Which are the children of an idle braine, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.33 | But where unbruised youth with unstuffed brain | But where vnbrused youth with vnstuft braine |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.54 | As with a club dash out my desperate brains? | As (with a club) dash out my desperate braines. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.10 | Unto a mad-brain rudesby, full of spleen, | Vnto a mad-braine rudesby, full of spleene, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.162 | The mad-brained bridegroom took him such a cuff | This mad-brain'd bridegroome tooke him such a cuffe, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.6 | them. If th' other two be brained like us, the state totters. | them, if th' other two be brain'd like vs, the State totters. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.89 | I'th' afternoon to sleep. There thou mayst brain him, | I'th afternoone to sleepe: there thou maist braine him, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.159 | Bear with my weakness; my old brain is troubled. | Beare with my weakenesse, my old braine is troubled: |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.59 | To an unsettled fancy, cure thy brains, | To an vnsetled fancie, Cure thy braines |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.194 | To knock out an honest Athenian's brains. | To knocke out an honest Athenians braines. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.15 | With it beat out his brains. Piety and fear, | With it, beate out his Braines, Piety, and Feare, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.172 | Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brained war, | Of contumelious, beastly, mad-brain'd warre: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.76 | Scornedst our brains' flow and those our droplets which | Scornd'st our Braines flow, and those our droplets, which |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.71 | Whate'er I forge to feed his brain-sick humours | What ere I forge to feede his braine-sicke fits, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.132 | And on the ragged stones beat forth our souls, | And on the ragged stones beat forth our braines, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.312 | I have a young conception in my brain; | I haue a young conception in my braine, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.327 | But that Achilles, were his brain as barren | But that Achilles, were his braine as barren |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.381 | If the dull brainless Ajax come safe off, | If the dull brainlesse Aiax come safe off, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.43 | hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows; an | hast no more braine then I haue in mine elbows: An |
| 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.i.100 | great catch if he knock out either of your brains: he | great catch, if he knocke out either of your braines, he |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.123 | Because Cassandra's mad. Her brain-sick raptures | Because Cassandra's mad, her brainsicke raptures |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.251 | As green as Ajax', and your brain so tempered, | As greene as Aiax, and your braine so temper'd, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.253 | no arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning; | no Arithmatique but her braine to set downe her reckoning: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.302 | will be in him when Hector has knocked out his brains, | will be in him when Hector has knockt out his braines, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.45 | With too much blood and too little brain, | With too much bloud, and too little Brain, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.46 | these two may run mad; but if with too much brain and | these two may run mad: but if with too much braine, and |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.49 | one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as | one that loues Quailes, but he has not so much Braine as |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.38 | That live in her; when liver, brain, and heart, | That liue in her. When Liuer, Braine, and Heart, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.38 | drink to my niece till his brains turn o'the toe like a | drinke to my Neece. till his braines turne o'th toe, like a |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.52 | motley in my brain. Good madonna, give me leave to | motley in my braine: good Madona, giue mee leaue to |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.80 | ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look | ordinary foole, that has no more braine then a stone. Looke |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.108 | son should be a fool; whose skull Jove cram with brains, | sonne should be a foole: whose scull, Ioue cramme with braines, |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.118 | brains. I will fetch you light, and paper, and ink. | brains / I will fetch you light, and paper, and inke. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.275.1 | To knock thy brains out with my shackles. | To knocke thy braines out with my Shackles. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.39 | How her brain coins! | How her braine coynes? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.145 | And that to the infection of my brains | (And that to the infection of my Braines, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.6 | And level of my brain, plot-proof; but she | And leuell of my braine: plot-proofe: but shee, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.139 | The bastard brains with these my proper hands | The Bastard-braynes with these my proper hands |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.63 | brains of nineteen and two-and-twenty hunt this | braines of nineteene, and two and twenty hunt this |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.679 | Aside, aside! Here is more matter for a hot brain. Every | Aside, aside, here is more matter for a hot braine: Euery |