| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.204 | thee a vessel of too great a burden. I have now found | thee a vessell of too great a burthen. I haue now found |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.20 | Hath made me rig my navy, at whose burden | Hath made me rigge my Nauie. At whose burthen, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.168 | Welcome. Set down your venerable burden, | Welcome: set downe your venerable burthen, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.240 | I would sing my song without a burden. Thou | I would sing my song without a burthen, thou |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.312 | feels no pain, the one lacking the burden of lean and | feeles no paine: the one lacking the burthen of leane and |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.313 | wasteful learning, the other knowing no burden of | wasteful Learning; the other knowing no burthen of |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.ii.13 | This burden. | this burthen; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.56 | Of such a burden male, twins both alike. | Of such a burthen Male, twins both alike: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.108 | Her part, poor soul, seeming as burdened | Her part, poore soule, seeming as burdened |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.36 | But were we burdened with like weight of pain, | But were we burdned with like waight of paine, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.209 | As this is false he burdens me withal. | As this is false he burthens me withall. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.269 | And this is false you burden me withal. | And this is false you burthen me withall. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.344 | That bore thee at a burden two fair sons. | That bore thee at a burthen two faire sonnes? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.403 | My heavy burden ne'er delivered. | My heauie burthen are deliuered: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.244 | Only for bearing burdens, and sore blows | Onely for bearing Burthens, and sore blowes |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.54 | O, heavy burden! | Oh heauie burthen! |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.55 | Than a joint burden laid upon us all. | Then a ioynt burthen, laid vpon vs all. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.201 | Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate, | Their heauy burthens at his narrow gate: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.10 | Weak shoulders, overborne with burdening grief, | Weake Shoulders, ouer-borne with burthening Griefe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.156 | Sharp Buckingham unburdens with his tongue | Sharpe Buckingham vnburthens with his tongue, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.298 | Than bring a burden of dishonour home, | Then bring a burthen of dis-honour home, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.320 | And even now my burdened heart would break, | And euen now my burthen'd heart would breake |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.28 | burdens, take your houses over your heads, ravish your | burthens, take your houses ouer your heads, rauish your |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.81 | Nor can my tongue unload my heart's great burden; | Nor can my tongue vnloade my hearts great burthen, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.43 | Cannot vouchsafe this burden, 'tis too weak | Cannot vouchsafe this burthen, tis too weake |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.111 | The burden of my sorrows fall upon ye. | The burthen of my sorrowes, fall vpon ye. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.384 | O, 'tis a burden, Cromwell, 'tis a burden | O 'tis a burden Cromwel, 'tis a burden |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.3 | Willing to leave their burden. Reach a chair. | Willing to leaue their burthen: Reach a Chaire, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.70 | God safely quit her of her burden, and | God safely quit her of her Burthen, and |
| King John | KJ II.i.92 | With burden of our armour here we sweat. | With burden of our armor heere we sweat: |
| King John | KJ II.i.145 | But, ass, I'll take that burden from your back, | But Asse, Ile take that burthen from your backe, |
| King John | KJ III.i.90 | Pray that their burdens may not fall this day, | Pray that their burthens may not fall this day, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.41 | Unburdened crawl toward death. Our son of Cornwall – | Vnburthen'd crawle toward death. Our son of Cornwal, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.133 | To unburden all my plots and purposes | To vnburthen all my plots and purposes, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.95 | Why sweat they under burdens? Let their beds | Why sweate they vnder burthens? Let their beds |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.40 | burden. Do you sing it, and I'll dance it. | burden,) do you sing it and Ile dance it. |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.47 | Thy burden at the sea, and called Marina | thy burden at the Sea, and call'd Marina, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.200 | The clogging burden of a guilty soul. | The clogging burthen of a guilty soule. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.229 | Ere't be disburdened with a liberal tongue. | Er't be disburthen'd with a liberall tongue. |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.260 | His burdenous taxations notwithstanding – | (His burthenous taxations notwithstanding) |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.93 | And yet I bear a burden like an ass, | And yet I beare a burthen like an Asse, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.228 | To bear her burden, whe'er I will or no, | To beare her burthen, where I will or no. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.111 | Now thy proud neck bears half my burdened yoke, | Now thy proud Necke, beares halfe my burthen'd yoke, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.113 | And leave the burden of it all on thee. | And leaue the burthen of it all, on thee. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.168 | A grievous burden was thy birth to me; | A greeuous burthen was thy Birth to me, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.22 | Under love's heavy burden do I sink. | Vnder loues heauy burthen doe I sinke. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.23 | And, to sink in it, should you burden love – | And to sinke in it should you burthen loue, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.76 | But you shall bear the burden soon at night. | But you shall beare the burthen soone at night. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.67 | As wealth is burden of my wooing dance – | (As wealth is burthen of my woing dance) |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.202 | Alas, good Kate, I will not burden thee! | Alas good Kate, I will not burthen thee, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.156 | Under my burden groaned, which raised in me | Vnder my burthen groan'd, which rais'd in me |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.380 | And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. | and sweete Sprights beare the burthen. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.382 | (Burden, dispersedly) Bow-wow! | Burthen dispersedly. bowgh wawgh: |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.384 | (Burden, dispersedly) Bow-wow! | bowgh-wawgh. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.404 | (Burden) Ding-dong. | Burthen: ding dong. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.1.1 | Enter Caliban with a burden of wood. A noise of | Enter Caliban, with a burthen of Wood (a noyse of |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.113 | Plants with goodly burden bowing; | Plants, with goodly burthen bowing: |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.199 | Let us not burden our remembrances with | Let vs not burthen our remembrances, with |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.146 | Your poor thin roofs with burdens of the dead – | Your poore thin Roofes with burthens of the dead, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.268 | That never knew but better, is some burden. | That neuer knew but better, is some burthen: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.71 | That matter needless, of importless burden, | That matter needlesse of importlesse burthen |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.36 | This shall I undertake, and 'tis a burden | This shall I vndertake, and 'tis a burthen |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.85 | Heavy? Belike it hath some burden then? | Heauy? belike it hath some burden then? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.11 | I have forgot it quite; the burden on't was | I have forgot it quite; The burden o'nt, was |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.3 | Without a burden. Time as long again | Without a Burthen: Time as long againe |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.205 | My heart will be a burden to me. Leave me, | My heart will be a burthen to me. Leaue me, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.196 | which is strange; with such delicate burdens of dildos | (which is strange,) with such delicate burthens of Dildo's |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.262 | at a burden, and how she longed to eat adders' heads | at a burthen, and how she long'd to eate Adders heads, |