| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iii.9 | Great Mars, I put myself into thy file; | Great Mars I put my selfe into thy file, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.164 | muster-file, rotten and sound, upon my life, amounts | muster file, rotten and sound, vppon my life amounts |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.199 | there or it is upon a file with the Duke's other letters in | there, or it is vpon a file with the Dukes other Letters, in |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.263 | to instruct for the doubling of files. I would do the | to instruct for the doubling of files. I would doe the |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.24 | Defiles the pitchy night; so lust doth play | Defiles the pitchy night, so lust doth play |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.298 | He knows himself my bed he hath defiled, | He knowes himselfe my bed he hath defil'd, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.3 | That o'er the files and musters of the war | That o're the Files and Musters of the Warre, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.i.12 | We mean to fight. Within our files there are, | We meane to fight. Within our Files there are, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.43 | The common file – a plague! Tribunes for them! – | The common file, (a plague-Tribunes for them) |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.22 | right-hand file? Do you? | right hand File, do you? |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.34 | Out of my files, his projects to accomplish, | Out of my Files, his proiects, to accomplish |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.30 | For three performers are the file when all | For three performers are the File, when all |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.406 | doth defile, so doth the company thou keepest. For, Harry, | doth defile; so doth the companie thou keepest: for Harry, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.10 | Our present musters grow upon the file | Our present Musters grow vpon the File |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.35 | Defile the locks of your shrill-shrieking daughters; | Desire the Locks of your shrill-shriking Daughters: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.191 | As, like to pitch, defile nobility, | As like to Pytch, defile Nobilitie; |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.75 | Who should attend on him? He makes up the file | Who should attend on him? He makes vp the File |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.42 | Pertains to th' state, and front but in that file | Pertaines to th'State; and front but in that File |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.171 | Yet filed with my abilities. Mine own ends | Yet fill'd with my Abilities: Mine owne ends |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iv.55 | still; when suddenly a file of boys behind 'em, loose | stil, when sodainly a File of Boyes behind 'em, loose |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.110 | When false opinion, whose wrong thoughts defile thee, | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.4 | that defiles. ‘ Defile ’ – a foul word! Well, set thee | that defiles; defile, a foule word: Well, set thee |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.10 | lofty, his discourse peremptory, his tongue filed, his | lofty, his discourse peremptorie: his tongue filed, his |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.64 | For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind, | For Banquo's Issue haue I fil'd my Minde, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.94 | All by the name of dogs. The valued file | All by the Name of Dogges: the valued file |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.101 | Now, if you have a station in the file, | Now, if you haue a station in the file, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.8 | For certain, sir, he is not. I have a file | For certaine Sir, he is not: I haue a File |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.130 | the greater file of the subject held the Duke to be wise. | the greater file of the subiect held the Duke to be wise. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.91 | And his soft couch defile. | And his soft couch defile. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.410 | I'll whip thee with a rod. He is defiled | Ile whip thee with a rod. He is defil'd |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.56 | they that touch pitch will be defiled. The most peaceable | they that touch pitch will be defil'd: the most peaceable |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.63 | One Hero died defiled, but I do live, | One Hero died, but I doe liue, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.37 | As houses are defiled for want of use, | As houses are defil'de for want of vse, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.62 | Hath held his current and defiled himself – | Hath had his current, and defil'd himselfe. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.228 | Ay, defiled land, my lord. | I, defil'd Land, my Lord. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.384 | 'Twixt natural son and sire, thou bright defiler | Twixt naturall Sunne and fire: thou bright defiler |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.ii.1 | Thou hast painfully discovered. Are his files | Thou hast painfully discouer'd: are his Files |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.123 | And she shall file our engines with advice | And she shall file our engines with aduise, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.5 | More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth, | (More sharpe then filed steele) did spurre me forth, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.7 | Till I provide him files and food, for yet | Till I provide him Fyles, and foode, for yet |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.85 | Will I file off; you shall have garments, and | Will I file off, you shall have garments, and |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.ii.8 | He had this file; what if I hallowed for him? | He had this File; what if I hallowd for him? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.1 | Enter Arcite, with meat, wine, and files | Enter Arcite, with Meate, Wine, and Files. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.2.2 | The same. I have brought you food and files; | The same: I have brought you foode and files, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.48 | There's all things needful; files, and shirts, and perfumes. | Ther's all things needfull, files and shirts, and, perfumes: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.161 | The file and quality I hold I may | The fyle and qualitie I hold, I may |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.607 | geld a codpiece of a purse; I would have filed keys off | gueld a Cod-peece of a Purse: I would haue fill'd Keyes of |