| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.143 | Yet I express to you a mother's care. | Yet I expresse to you a mothers care, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.52 | cold an adieu. Be more expressive to them, for they | cold an adieu: be more expressiue to them; for they |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.50 | Scorned a fair colour or expressed it stolen, | Scorn'd a faire colour, or exprest it stolne, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.329 | Resolvedly more leisure shall express. | Resoluedly more leasure shall expresse: |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.334 | That you express content; which we will pay | That you expresse Content: which we will pay, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.10 | The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. | The faire, the chaste, and vnexpressiue shee. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.381 | Neither rhyme nor reason can express how | Neither rime nor reason can expresse how |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.1 | I pray you, daughter, sing, or express yourself | I pray you daughter sing, or expresse your selfe |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.74 | Wave thus to express his disposition, | Waue thus to expresse his disposition, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.132 | The Senate's courtesy? Let deeds express | The Senates Courtesie? Let deeds expresse |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.55 | Ere he express himself or move the people | Ere he expresse himselfe, or moue the people |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.13 | Could best express how slow his soul sailed on, | Could best expresse how slow his Soule sayl'd on, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.112 | Express impatience, lest you stir up mine. | Expresse Impatience, least you stirre vp mine: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.71 | But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy; | But not exprest in fancie; rich, not gawdie: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.185 | May do t' express his love and friending to you, | May doe t' expresse his loue and friending to you, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.305 | and moving how express and admirable, in action how | and mouing how expresse and admirable? in Action, how |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.6 | We shall express our duty in his eye. | We shall expresse our dutie in his eye, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.112 | To whom expressly I bring greeting too. | To whom expressely I bring greeting to. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.105 | off: and we give express charge, that in our marches | off: and we giue expresse charge, that in our Marches |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.1 | Kill the poys and the luggage? 'Tis expressly | Kill the poyes and the luggage, 'Tis expressely |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.20 | From him I have express commandment | From him I haue expresse commandement, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.64 | Let me have your express opinions | Let me haue your expresse opinions, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.18 | I can express no kinder sign of love | I can expresse no kinder signe of Loue |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.25 | As I in justice and true right express it. | As I in iustice, and true right expresse it. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.235 | Bearing the King's will from his mouth expressly? | Bearing the Kings will from his mouth expressely? |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.190 | Be this a token to express my joy, | Be this a token to expresse my ioy, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.142 | The sums I have collected shall express. | The summes I haue collected shall expresse: |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.234 | As bid me tell my tale in express words, | As bid me tell my tale in expresse words: |
| King Lear | KL I.i.36 | Meantime we shall express our darker purpose. | Meane time we shal expresse our darker purpose. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.17 | Who should express her goodliest. You have seen | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.62 | When I to feast expressly am forbid; | When I to fast expressely am forbid. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.223 | Proud with his form, in his eye pride expressed. | Proud with his forme, in his eie pride expressed. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.120 | That shall express my true love's fasting pain. | That shall expresse my true-loues fasting paine. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.412 | Henceforth my wooing mind shall be expressed | Henceforth my woing minde shall be exprest |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.44 | Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry. | Expresseth his full Tilth, and husbandry. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.136 | If you be one, as you are well expressed | If you be one (as you are well exprest |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.148 | My words express my purpose. | My words expresse my purpose. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.162 | and an express command, under penalty, to deliver his | and an expresse command, vnder penaltie, to deliuer his |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.145 | Expressed in the condition, let the forfeit | Exprest in the condition, let the forfeite |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.183 | Expressed and not expressed. But when this ring | Exprest, and not exprest: but when this ring |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.68 | Past all expressing. It is very meet | Past all expressing, it is very meete |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.257 | It is not so expressed, but what of that? | It is not so exprest: but what of that? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.304 | The words expressly are ‘a pound of flesh'. | The words expresly are a pound of flesh: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.67 | Th' expressure that it bears, green let it be, | Th' expressure that it beares: Greene let it be, |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.28 | An old thing 'twas; but it expressed her fortune, | An old thing 'twas: but it express'd her Fortune, |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.8 | It pleaseth you, my royal father, to express | It pleaseth you (my royall Father) to expresse |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.44 | In glittering golden characters express | in glittring gold? characters expres |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.86 | Tybalt, Mercutio, the Prince expressly hath | Tibalt, Mercutio, the Prince expresly hath |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.120 | For your physicians have expressly charged, | For your Physitians haue expressely charg'd, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.77 | sure of it. To express the like kindness, myself, that have | sure of it, to expresse / The like kindnesse my selfe, that haue |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.157 | And I expressly am forbid to touch it, | And I expressely am forbid to touch it: |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.38 | Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing, | Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound expressing |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.79 | To climb his happiness, would be well expressed | To climbe his happinesse, would be well exprest |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.84 | might express some part of our zeals, we should think | might expresse some part of our zeales, we should thinke |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.37 | Am sent expressly to your lordship. | Am sent expressely to your Lordship. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.74 | These well express in thee thy latter spirits. | These well expresse in thee thy latter spirits: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.425 | That hath expressed himself in all his deeds | That hath expre'st himselfe in all his deeds, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.114 | Who in his circumstance expressly proves | Who in his circumstance, expresly proues |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.204 | Than breath or pen can give expressure to. | Then breath or pen can giue expressure to: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.165 | With that which here his passion doth express? | With that which here his passion doth expresse? |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.13 | the rather to express myself. You must know of me | the rather to expresse my selfe: you must know of mee |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.150 | his leg, the manner of his gait, the expressure of his eye, | his legge, the manner of his gate, the expressure of his eye, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.229 | Stand for express will, all the world must perish. | Stand for expresse will, all the world must perish. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.8 | To the contrary I have express commandment. | To the contrary I haue expresse commandment. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.26 | Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it, | Being counted Falsehood, shall (as I expresse it) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.25 | cannot be able to express it. | cannot be able to expresse it. |