| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.40 | makes fair gifts fairer; for where an unclean mind | makes faire gifts fairer: for where an vncleane mind |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.144 | his sword clean, nor believe he can have everything in | his sword cleane, nor beleeue he can haue euerie thing in |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.ii.20 | not a musk-cat, that has fallen into the unclean fishpond | not a Muscat, that ha's falne into the vncleane fish-pond |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.60 | Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, | Cleanse the foule bodie of th'infected world, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.47 | kiss your hands; that courtesy would be uncleanly if | kisse your hands; that courtesie would be vncleanlie if |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.65 | very uncleanly flux of a cat. Mend the instance, shepherd. | verie vncleanly fluxe of a Cat. Mend the instance Shepheard. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.403 | way will I take upon me to wash your liver as clean as a | way wil I take vpon mee to wash your Liuer as cleane as a |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.33 | foul slut were to put good meat into an unclean dish. | foule slut, were to put good meate into an vncleane dish. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.70 | cleanliest shift is to kiss. | cleanliest shift is to kisse. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.134 | Roaming clean through the bounds of Asia, | Roming cleane through the bounds of Asia, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.107 | nothing like so clean kept. For why? She sweats a man | nothing like so cleane kept: for why? she sweats a man |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.60 | And keep their teeth clean. So, here comes a brace. | And keepe their teeth cleane: So, heere comes a brace, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.302.2 | This is clean kam. | This is cleane kamme. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.20 | Ere clean it o'erthrow Nature, makes it valiant. | Ere cleane it o're-throw Nature, makes it valiant. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.444 | cleanly, but to carve a capon and eat it? Wherein cunning, | cleanly, but to carue a Capon, and eat it? wherein Cunning, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.164 | cleanly as a nobleman should do. | cleanly, as a Nobleman should do. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.96 | goes abroad by advice. Your lordship, though not clean | goes abroad by aduise. Your Lordship (though not clean |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.199 | And therefore will he wipe his tables clean, | And therefore will hee wipe his Tables cleane, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.28 | besom that must sweep the court clean of such filth | Beesome that must sweepe the Court cleane of such filth |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iii.29 | Out of a foreign wisdom, renouncing clean | Out of a forreigne wisedome, renouncing cleane |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.35 | Clean from the purpose of the things themselves. | Cleane from the purpose of the things themselues. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.7 | Uncleanly scruples! Fear not you. Look to't! | Vncleanly scruples feare not you: looke too't. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.112 | Th' uncleanly savours of a slaughter-house; | Th'vncleanly sauours of a Slaughter-house, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.636 | I think Hector was not so clean-timbered. | I thinke Hector was not so cleane timber'd. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.61 | Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather | Cleane from my Hand? no: this my Hand will rather |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.42 | What, will these hands ne'er be clean? – No more o' that, | What will these hands ne're be cleane? No more o'that |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.44 | Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff | Cleanse the stufft bosome, of that perillous stuffe |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.78 | fornication, adultery, and all uncleanliness there. | fornication, adultery, and all vncleanlinesse there. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.54 | Give up your body to such sweet uncleanness | Giue vp your body to such sweet vncleannesse |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.56 | And, fairy-like, to pinch the unclean knight, | And Fairy-like to pinch the vncleane Knight; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.ii.35 | In any case, let Thisbe have clean linen; and let not him | In any case let Thisby haue cleane linnen: and let not him |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.139 | Hath drops too few to wash her clean again | Hath drops too few to wash her cleane againe, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.354 | It is clean out of the way. Seek thou rather to be hanged | it is cleane out of the way. Seeke thou rather to be hang'd |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.138 | But some uncleanly apprehensions | Wherein vncleanly Apprehensions |
| Richard II | R2 III.i.10 | By you unhappied and disfigured clean. | By you vnhappied, and disfigur'd cleane: |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.54 | Is pointing still in cleansing them from tears. | Is pointing still, in cleansing them from teares. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.61 | Clean overblown, themselves the conquerors | Cleane ouer-blowne, themselues the Conquerors, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.361 | Would thou wert clean enough to spit upon! | Would thou wert cleane enough / To spit vpon. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.132 | Let's hew his limbs till they be clean consumed. | Let's hew his limbes till they be cleane consum'd. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.94 | And borne her cleanly by the keeper's nose? | And borne her cleanly by the Keepers nose? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.275 | virtue in a maid with clean hands. | vertue in a maid with cleane hands. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.114 | Are as a man would wish 'em, strong and clean; | Are as a man would wish 'em, strong, and cleane, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.123 | We must be neat – not neat but cleanly, captain. | We must be neat; not neat, but cleanly, Captaine: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.238 | Hast cleansed my bosom, I from thee departed | Hast cleans'd my Bosome: I, from thee departed |