| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.93 | His arched brows, his hawking eye, his curls, | His arched browes, his hawking eie, his curles |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.36 | Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor | Blisse in our browes bent: none our parts so poore, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.66 | The barks of trees thou browsed'st. On the Alps | The barkes of Trees thou brows'd. On the Alpes, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.32 | Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow; | Would stand and make his eyes grow in my brow, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.32.2 | Brown, madam; and her forehead | Browne Madam: and her forehead |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.14 | Reprove the brown for rashness, and they them | Reproue the browne for rashnesse, and they them |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.20 | Do something mingle with our younger brown, yet ha' we | Do somthing mingle with our yonger brown, yet ha we |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.150 | Made to his mistress' eyebrow; then, a soldier, | Made to his Mistresse eye-brow. Then, a Soldier, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.208 | brow and true maid. | brow, and true maid. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.55 | of a married man more honourable than the bare brow | of a married man, more honourable then the bare brow |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.7 | Something browner than Judas's. Marry, his | Something browner then Iudasses: / Marrie his |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.46 | 'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, | 'Tis not your inkie browes, your blacke silke haire, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.10 | By the stern brow and waspish action | By the sterne brow, and waspish action |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.89 | And browner than her brother'. Are not you | And browner then her brother: are not you |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.145 | And tear the stained skin off my harlot brow, | And teare the stain'd skin of my Harlot brow, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.14 | returned his brows bound with oak. I tell thee, daughter, | return'd, his browes bound with Oake. I tell thee Daughter, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.35 | Though you were born in Rome.’ His bloody brow | Though you were borne in Rome; his bloody brow |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.39 | His bloody brow? O Jupiter, no blood! | His bloody Brow? Oh Iupiter, no blood. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.119 | On's brows, Menenius. He comes the third | On's Browes: Menenius, hee comes the third |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.96 | Was brow-bound with the oak. His pupil age | Was Brow-bound with the Oake. His Pupill age |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.18 | that our heads are some brown, some black, some abram, | that our heads are some browne, some blacke, some Abram, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.66 | Prepare thy brow to frown. Know'st thou me yet? | Prepare thy brow to frowne: knowst yu me yet? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.61 | His brows within a golden crown, and called | His browes within a golden Crowne, and call'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.11 | There is cold meat i'th' cave, we'll browse on that, | There is cold meat i'th'Caue, we'l brouz on that |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.4 | To be contracted in one brow of woe, | To be contracted in one brow of woe: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.89 | And with his other hand thus o'er his brow | And with his other hand thus o're his brow, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.7.1 | Out of his brows. | Out of his Lunacies. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.56 | See what a grace was seated on this brow: | See what a grace was seated on his Brow, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.121 | Even here between the chaste unsmirched brows | Euen heere betweene the chaste vnsmirched brow |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.282 | Here, Hamlet, take my napkin. Rub thy brows. | Heere's a Napkin, rub thy browes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.84 | See riot and dishonour stain the brow | See Ryot and Dishonor staine the brow |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.18 | The moody frontier of a servant brow. | The moody Frontier of a seruant brow, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.60 | That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow | That beds of sweate hath stood vpon thy Brow, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.71 | Why then your brown bastard is your only | Why then your browne Bastard is your onely |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.83 | This seeming brow of justice, did he win | This seeming Brow of Iustice, did he winne |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.60 | Yea, this man's brow, like to a title-leaf, | Yea, this mans brow, like to a Title-leafe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.150 | Now bind my brows with iron, and approach | Now binde my Browes with Iron and approach |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.109 | cause the false way. It is not a confident brow, nor the | cause, the false way. It is not a confident brow, nor the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.28 | As he whose brow with homely biggen bound | As hee whose Brow (with homely Biggen bound) |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.76 | sad brow, will do with a fellow that never had the ache | sadde brow) will doe, with a Fellow, that neuer had the Ache |
| Henry V | H5 III.i.11 | Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it | Like the Brasse Cannon: let the Brow o'rewhelme it, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.125 | As by his smoothed brows it doth appear; | As by his smoothed Browes it doth appeare: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.34 | See how the ugly witch doth bend her brows | See how the vgly Witch doth bend her browes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.3 | Why doth the great Duke Humphrey knit his brows, | Why doth the Great Duke Humfrey knit his browes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.15 | He knits his brow and shows an angry eye, | He knits his Brow, and shewes an angry Eye, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.155 | And Suffolk's cloudy brow his stormy hate; | And Suffolks cloudie Brow his stormie hate; |
| 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.99 | That gold must round engirt these brows of mine, | That Gold, must round engirt these browes of mine, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.iii.4 | And, like a gallant in the brow of youth, | And like a Gallant, in the brow of youth, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.20 | Thou smiling while he knit his angry brows; | Thou smiling, while he knit his angry browes. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.82 | The widow likes him not; she knits her brows. | The Widow likes him not, shee knits her Browes. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.19 | The wrinkles in my brows, now filled with blood, | The Wrinckles in my Browes, now fill'd with blood, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.22 | And who durst smile when Warwick bent his brow? | And who durst smile, when Warwicke bent his Brow? |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.2 | That bear a weighty and a serious brow, | That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.295 | Worse than the sacring bell, when the brown wench | Worse then the Sacring Bell, when the browne Wench |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.182 | The angry spot doth glow on Caesar's brow, | The angry spot doth glow on Casars brow, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.78 | Sham'st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night, | Sham'st thou to shew thy dang'rous Brow by Night, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.308 | All the charactery of my sad brows. | All the Charractery of my sad browes: |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.82 | Put on my brows this wreath of victory, | Put on my Browes this wreath of Victorie, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.85 | But hold thee, take this garland on thy brow; | But hold thee, take this Garland on thy Brow, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.19 | Artois, and all, look underneath the brows. | Artoyes, and all looke vnderneath the browes. |
| King John | KJ II.i.38 | Against the brows of this resisting town. | Against the browes of this resisting towne, |
| King John | KJ II.i.100 | These eyes, these brows, were moulded out of his; | These eyes, these browes, were moulded out of his; |
| King John | KJ II.i.505 | Hanged in the frowning wrinkle of her brow | Hang'd in the frowning wrinkle of her brow, |
| King John | KJ III.i.247 | And make a riot on the gentle brow | And make a ryot on the gentle brow |
| King John | KJ III.iv.30 | And put my eyeballs in thy vaulty brows, | And put my eye-balls in thy vaultie browes, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.42 | I knit my handkercher about your brows – | I knit my hand-kercher about your browes |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.90 | Why do you bend such solemn brows on me? | Why do you bend such solemne browes on me? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.192 | With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes. | With wrinkled browes, with nods, with rolling eyes. |
| King John | KJ V.i.49 | Threaten the threatener, and outface the brow | Threaten the threatner, and out-face the brow |
| King John | KJ V.ii.54 | Lift up thy brow, renowned Salisbury, | Lift vp thy brow (renowned Salisburie) |
| King John | KJ V.vi.17 | Why, here walk I in the black brow of night | Why heere walke I, in the black brow of night |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.281 | Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, | Let it stampe wrinkles in her brow of youth, |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.52 | Who hast not in thy brows an eye discerning | Who hast not in thy browes an eye-discerning |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.91 | Bring up the brown bills. – O, well flown, bird! I'the | Bring vp the browne Billes. O well flowne Bird: i'th' |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.193 | A whitely wanton with a velvet brow, | A whitly wanton, with a veluet brow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.17 | Where fair is not, praise cannot mend the brow. | Where faire is not, praise cannot mend the brow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.118 | You still wrangle with her, Boyet, and she strikes at the brow. | You still wrangle with her Boyet, and shee strikes at the brow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.183 | A gait, a state, a brow, a breast, a waist, | a gate, a state, a brow, a brest, a waste, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.225 | Dares look upon the heaven of her brow | Dares looke vpon the heauen of her brow, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.256 | O, if in black my lady's brows be decked, | O if in blacke my Ladies browes be deckt, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.263 | Paints itself black, to imitate her brow. | Paints it selfe blacke, to imitate her brow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.392 | Help! Hold his brows! He'll swoon. Why look you pale? | Helpe hold his browes, hee'l sound: why looke you pale? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.739 | And though the mourning brow of progeny | And though the mourning brow of progenie |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.87 | And wears upon his baby brow the round | And weares vpon his Baby-brow, the round |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.113 | Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first. | Thou other Gold-bound-brow, is like the first: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.23 | Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, | Though all things foule, would wear the brows of grace |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.208 | What, man! Ne'er pull your hat upon your brows. | What man, ne're pull your hat vpon your browes: |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.3 | have all the world drink brown and white bastard. | haue all the world drinke browne & white bastard. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.173 | though she smelt brown bread and garlic. Say that I | though she smelt browne-bread and Garlicke: say that I |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.150 | More of him anon. There is written in your brow, | More of him anon: There is written in your brow |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.5 | a commodity of brown paper and old ginger, ninescore-and-seventeen | a commoditie of browne paper, and olde Ginger, nine score |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.78 | What damned error but some sober brow | What damned error, but some sober brow |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.267 | To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow | To view with hollow eye, and wrinkled brow |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.44 | Mistress Anne Page? She has brown hair, and | Mistris Anne Page? she has browne haire, and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.52 | hast the right arched beauty of the brow that becomes | hast the right arched-beauty of the brow, that becomes |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.55 | A plain kerchief, Sir John. My brows | A plaine Kerchiefe, Sir Iohn: My browes |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.364 | Till o'er their brows death-counterfeiting sleep | Till ore their browes, death-counterfeiting, sleepe |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.387 | And must for aye consort with black-browed night. | And must for aye consort with blacke browd night. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.11 | Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt. | Sees Helens beauty in a brow of Egipt. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.162 | high praise, too brown for a fair praise, and too little for | hie praise, too browne for a faire praise, and too little for |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.171 | this with a sad brow? Or do you play the flouting Jack, | this with a sad brow? Or doe you play the flowting iacke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.13 | hair were a thought browner; and your gown's a most | haire were a thought browner: and your gown's a most |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.12 | as the skin between his brows. | as the skin betweene his browes. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.53 | The town is empty; on the brow o'th' sea | The Towne is empty; on the brow o'th'Sea |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.112 | And didst contract and purse thy brow together, | And didd'st contract, and purse thy brow together, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.52 | An angry brow, dread lord. | An angrie brow, dread Lord. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.108 | My queen's square brows, her stature to an inch, | My Queenes square browes, her stature to an inch, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.16 | And frowning brow to brow, ourselves will hear | And frowning brow to brow, our selues will heare |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.330 | I see your brows are full of discontent, | I see your Browes are full of Discontent, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.5 | Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, | Now are our browes bound with Victorious Wreathes, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.174 | When thou didst crown his warlike brows with paper | When thou didst Crown his Warlike Brows with Paper, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.59 | Of golden metal that must round my brow | Of Golden Mettall, that must round my Brow, |
| Richard III | R3 V.v.6 | Have I plucked off, to grace thy brows withal. | Haue I pluck'd off, to grace thy Browes withall. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.230 | These happy masks that kiss fair ladies' brows, | These happy maskes that kisse faire Ladies browes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.39 | For even the day before she broke her brow. | for euen the day before she broke her brow, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.53 | And yet, I warrant, it had upon it brow | and yet I warrant it had vpon it brow, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.32 | Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me. | Here are the Beetle-browes shall blush for me. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.20 | Come, gentle night. Come, loving, black-browed night. | Come gentle night, come louing blackebrow'd night. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.92 | Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit. | Vpon his brow shame is asham'd to sit; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.20 | 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow. | 'Tis but the pale reflexe of Cinthias brow. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.39 | In tattered weeds, with overwhelming brows, | In tattred weeds, with ouerwhelming browes, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.248 | Is straight and slender, and as brown in hue | Is straight, and slender, and as browne in hue |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.133 | brown thread. I said a gown. | browne thred: I said a gowne. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.135 | Fie, fie, unknit that threatening unkind brow, | Fie, fie, vnknit that thretaning vnkinde brow, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.62 | for an acre of barren ground. Long heath, brown furze, | for an Acre of barren ground: Long heath, Browne firrs, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.94 | swore th' other day that Troilus, for a brown favour | swore th'other day, that Troylus for a browne fauour |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.95 | – for so 'tis, I must confess – not brown neither – | (for so 'tis I must confesse) not browne neither. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.96 | No, but brown. | No, but browne. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.97 | Faith, to say truth, brown and not brown. | Faith to say truth, browne and not browne. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.30 | policy I hate. I had as lief be a Brownist as a politician. | policie I hate: I had as liefe be a Brownist, as a Politician. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.239 | My father had a mole upon his brow. | My father had a moale vpon his brow. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.62 | How angerly I taught my brow to frown, | How angerly I taught my brow to frowne, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.81 | Whether my brows may not be girt with garlands, | Whether my browes may not be girt with garlands? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.101 | And do the deed with a bent brow. Most certain | And doe the deede with a bent brow, most crtaine |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.39 | A pretty brown wench 'tis. There was a time | A pretty broune wench t'is-There was a time |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.18 | A shining constellation. What a brow, | A shining constellation: What a brow, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.42 | Has this brown manly face! O love, this only | Has this browne manly face? O Love, this only |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.79 | Nearer a brown than black, stern and yet noble, | Nearer a browne, than blacke; sterne, and yet noble, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.45 | Has a most menacing aspect; his brow | Has a most menacing aspect, his brow |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.119 | My bosom likes not, nor my brows! Mamillius, | My Bosome likes not, nor my Browes. Mamillius, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.146.1 | And hardening of my brows. | And hardning of my Browes.) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.149 | As if you held a brow of much distraction. | as if you held a Brow of much distraction: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.8 | Your brows are blacker; yet black brows, they say, | Your Browes are blacker (yet black-browes they say |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.13.1 | What colour are your eyebrows? | What colour are your eye-browes? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.15.1 | That has been blue, but not her eyebrows. | That ha's beene blew, but not her eye-browes. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.66 | anywhere I have them, 'tis by the seaside, browsing of | any where I haue them, 'tis by the sea-side, brouzing of |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.595 | glass, pomander, brooch, table-book, ballad, knife, tape, | Glasse, Pomander, Browch, Table-booke, Ballad, Knife, Tape, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.647 | And pluck it o'er your brows, muffle your face, | And pluck it ore your Browes, muffle your face, |