| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.158 | your old virginity, is like one of our French withered | your old virginity, is like one of our French wither'd |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.159 | pears: it looks ill, it eats drily; marry, 'tis a withered | peares, it lookes ill, it eates drily, marry 'tis a wither'd |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.160 | pear; it was formerly better; marry, yet 'tis a withered | peare: it was formerly better, marry yet 'tis a wither'd |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.54 | jowl horns together like any deer i'th' herd. | ioule horns together like any Deare i'th Herd. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.128 | The horned herd! For I have savage cause, | The horned Heard, for I haue sauage cause, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.64 | O, withered is the garland of the war, | Oh wither'd is the Garland of the Warre, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.52 | The flux of company.’ Anon a careless herd, | The Fluxe of companie: anon a carelesse Heard |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.40 | Alas, poor shepherd, searching of thy wound, | Alas poore Shepheard searching of they would, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.55 | Jove, Jove! This shepherd's passion | Ioue, Ioue, this Shepherds passion, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.68 | I prithee, shepherd, if that love or gold | I prethee Shepheard, if that loue or gold |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.75 | But I am shepherd to another man, | But I am shepheard to another man, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.11 | And how like you this shepherd's life, Master | And how like you this shepherds life Mr Touchstone? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.13 | Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself, it is | Truely Shepheard, in respect of it selfe, it is |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.14 | a good life; but in respect that it is a shepherd's life, it | a good life; but in respect that it is a shepheards life, it |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.21 | Hast any philosophy in thee, shepherd? | Has't any Philosophie in thee shepheard? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.31 | ever in court, shepherd? | euer in Court, Shepheard? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.42 | state, shepherd. | state shepheard. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.48 | courtiers were shepherds. | Courtiers were shepheards. |
| 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.80 | himself will have no shepherds. I cannot see else how | himselfe will haue no shepherds, I cannot see else how |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.154 | How now? Back, friends. – Shepherd, go off a little. | How now backe friends: Shepheard, go off a little: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.156 | Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable | Come Shepheard, let vs make an honorable |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.324 | With this shepherdess, my sister, here in the | With this Shepheardesse my sister: heere in the |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.43 | After the shepherd that complained of love, | After the Shepheard that complain'd of loue, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.45 | Praising the proud disdainful shepherdess | Praising the proud disdainfull Shepherdesse |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.49 | You foolish shepherd, wherefore do you follow her, | You foolish Shepheard, wherefore do you follow her |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.63 | So take her to thee, shepherd. Fare you well. | So take her to thee Shepheard, fare you well. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.76 | Will you go, sister? – Shepherd, ply her hard. – | Will you goe Sister? Shepheard ply her hard: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.77 | Come, sister. – Shepherdess, look on him better, | Come Sister: Shepheardesse, looke on him better |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.81 | Dead Shepherd, now I find thy saw of might, | Dead Shepheard, now I find thy saw of might, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.20 | Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well, | Why writes she so to me? well Shepheard, well, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.41 | Art thou god to shepherd turned, | Read. Art thou god, to Shepherd turn'd? |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.66 | Alas, poor shepherd! | Alas poore Shepheard. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.156 | Dyed in this blood, unto the shepherd youth | Died in this bloud, vnto the Shepheard youth, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.12 | here live and die a shepherd. | heere liue and die a Shepherd. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.76 | You are there followed by a faithful shepherd; | you are there followed by a faithful shepheard, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.78 | Good shepherd, tell this youth what 'tis to love. | Good shepheard, tell this youth what 'tis to loue |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.14 | You'll give yourself to this most faithful shepherd? | You'l giue your selfe to this most faithfull Shepheard. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.22 | Or else, refusing me, to wed this shepherd; | Or else refusing me to wed this shepheard : |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.26 | I do remember in this shepherd boy | I do remember in this shepheard boy, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.31 | You shames of Rome! You herd of – Boils and plagues | You Shames of Rome: you Heard of Byles and Plagues |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.25 | The shepherd knows not thunder from a tabor | The Shepherd knowes not Thunder frõ a Taber, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.89 | conversation would infect my brain, being the herdsmen | conuersation would infect my Braine, being the Heardsmen |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.203 | Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed | are smother'd vp, / Leades fill'd, and Ridges hors'd |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.33.2 | Are these your herd? | Are these your Heard? |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.113 | Does of the shepherds. For his best friends, if they | Doe's of the Shepheards: For his best Friends, if they |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.80 | A neat-herd's daughter, and my Leonatus | A Neat-heards Daughter, and my Leonatus |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.81.1 | Our neighbour-shepherd's son! | Our Neighbour-Shepheards Sonne. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.71 | Much under him; of him I gathered honour, | Much vnder him; of him, I gather'd Honour, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.286 | You were as flowers, now withered: even so | You were as Flowres, now wither'd: euen so |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.185 | violets, but they withered all when my father died. They | Violets, but they wither'd all when my Father dyed: They |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.170 | That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, | That liberall Shepheards giue a grosser name; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.36 | The goats ran from the mountains, and the herds | The Goates ranne from the Mountaines, and the Heards |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.171 | costermongers' times that true valour is turned bear-herd; | Costor-mongers, that true valor is turn'd Beare-heard. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.7 | now take my leave of these six dry, round, old, withered | now take my leaue of these sixe drie, round, old-wither'd |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.253 | Look, whe'er the withered elder hath not | Looke, if the wither'd Elder hath not |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.122 | Unfathered heirs and loathly births of nature. | Vnfather'd Heires, and loathly Births of Nature: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.228 | From this bare withered trunk. Upon thy sight | From this bare, wither'd Trunke. Vpon thy sight |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.292 | Who twice a day their withered hands hold up | Who twice a day their wither'd hands hold vp |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.72 | Dauphin, I am by birth a shepherd's daughter, | Dolphin, I am by birth a Shepheards Daughter, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.100 | My lord, my lord, the French have gathered head. | My Lord, my Lord, the French haue gather'd head. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.184 | I fear we should have seen deciphered there | I feare we should haue seene decipher'd there |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.46 | A little herd of England's timorous deer, | A little Heard of Englands timorous Deere, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.1.1 | Enter Richard Duke of York, Warwick, a Shepherd, | Enter Yorke, Warwicke, Shepheard, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.37 | Not me begotten of a shepherd swain, | Not me, begotten of a Shepheard Swaine, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.73 | Till they have snared the shepherd of the flock, | Till they haue snar'd the Shepheard of the Flock, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.102 | Which he had thought to have murdered wrongfully. | Which he had thought to haue murther'd wrongfully. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.191 | Thus is the shepherd beaten from thy side, | Thus is the Shepheard beaten from thy side, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.260 | Ay, to be murdered by his enemies. | I, to be murther'd by his Enemies. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.14 | As doth a lion in a herd of neat; | As doth a Lyon in a Heard of Neat, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.3 | What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails, | What time the Shepheard blowing of his nailes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.43 | To shepherds looking on their silly sheep | To Shepheards, looking on their silly Sheepe, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.47 | And to conclude, the shepherd's homely curds, | And to conclude, the Shepherds homely Curds, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.7 | Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. | Will scarre the Heard, and so my shoot is lost: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.156 | To shrink mine arm up like a withered shrub; | To shrinke mine Arme vp like a wither'd Shrub, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.7 | So flies the reckless shepherd from the wolf; | So flies the wreaklesse shepherd from ye Wolfe: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.9.1 | A noise within, crying ‘ Room for the Queen!’ | A noyse within crying roome for the Queene, vsher'd by the |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.64.2 | habited like shepherds, ushered by the Lord Chamberlain. | habited like Shepheards, vsher'd by the Lord Chamberlaine. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.51 | That they had gathered a wise council to them | That they had gather'd a wise Councell to them |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.262 | common herd was glad he refused the crown, he | common Heard was glad he refus'd the Crowne, he |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.297 | Being so fathered, and so husbanded? | Being so Father'd, and so Husbanded? |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.41 | And place the true shepherd of our commonwealth? | And place the true shepheard of our comonwealth, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.119 | No father, king, or shepherd of thy realm, | No father, king, or shepheard of thy realme, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.41 | Sleepest or wakest thou, jolly shepherd? | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.892 | When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, | When Shepheards pipe on Oaten strawes, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.902 | And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, | And Dicke the Sphepheard blowes his naile; |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.39 | So withered and so wild in their attire, | So wither'd, and so wilde in their attyre, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.140 | That function is smothered in surmise, | That Function is smother'd in surmise, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.52 | Pale Hecat's offerings; and withered Murder, | Pale Heccats Offrings: and wither'd Murther, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.42 | ‘ Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor | Glamis hath murther'd Sleepe, and therefore Cawdor |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.84.1 | Our royal master's murdered! | Our Royall Master's murther'd. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.97.1 | Your royal father's murdered. | Your Royall Father's murther'd. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.65 | For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered, | For them, the gracious Duncan haue I murther'd, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.27 | Fathered he is, and yet he's fatherless. | Father'd he is, / And yet hee's Father-lesse. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.206 | Were on the quarry of these murdered deer | Were on the Quarry of these murther'd Deere |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.197 | calls up the shepherd. Put not yourself into amazement | calles vp the Shepheard; put not your selfe into amazement, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.81 | The skilful shepherd peeled me certain wands, | The skilfull shepheard pil'd me certaine wands, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.18 | With overweathered ribs and ragged sails, | With ouer-wither'd ribs and ragged sailes, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.71 | For do but note a wild and wanton herd | For doe but note a wilde and wanton heard |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.16 | An old cloak makes a new jerkin; a withered servingman | an old Cloake, makes a new Ierkin: a wither'd Seruingman, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.152 | Old, cold, withered, and of intolerable entrails? | Old, cold, wither'd, and of intollerable entrailes? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.184 | More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear | More tuneable then Larke to shepheards eare, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.266 | Of feathered Cupid seel with wanton dullness | Of feather'd Cupid, seele with wanton dulnesse |
| Pericles | Per V.ii.15 | In feathered briefness sails are filled, | In fetherd briefenes sayles are fild, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.134 | To crop at once a too-long withered flower. | To crop at once a too-long wither'd flowre. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.8 | The bay trees in our country are all withered, | The Bay-trees in our Countrey all are wither'd, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.160 | All murdered. For within the hollow crown | All murther'd. For within the hollow Crowne |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.214 | Have done thy charm, thou hateful withered hag! | Haue done thy Charme, yu hateful wither'd Hagge. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.40 | But smothered it within my panting bulk, | But smother'd it within my panting bulke, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.145 | My grandam told me he was murdered there. | My Grandam told me he was murther'd there. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.69 | Is like a blasted sapling, withered up; | Is like a blasted Sapling, wither'd vp: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.163 | And in the vapour of my glory smothered. | And in the vapour of my Glory smother'd. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.70 | Untimely smothered in their dusky graves. | Vntimely smother'd in their dusky Graues. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.134 | My damned son that thy two sweet sons smothered. | My damned Son, that thy two sweet Sonnes smother'd. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.205 | Methought the souls of all that I had murdered | Me thought, the Soules of all that I had murther'd |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.231 | Methought their souls whose bodies Richard murdered | Me thought their Soules, whose bodies Rich. murther'd, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.76 | Dove-feathered raven! Wolvish-ravening lamb! | Rauenous Doue-feather'd Rauen, / Woluish-rauening Lambe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.19 | bear-herd, and now by present profession a tinker? Ask | Beare-heard, and now by present profession a Tinker. Aske |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.233.1 | Yet you are withered. | Yet you are wither'd. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.464 | The fresh-brook mussels, withered roots, and husks | The fresh-brooke Mussels, wither'd roots, and huskes |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.321.1 | Of a whole herd of lions. | Of a whole heard of Lyons. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.42 | With those that have offended. Like a shepherd | With those that haue offended, like a Shepheard, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.63 | The Goths have gathered head, and with a power | The Gothes haue gather'd head, and with a power |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.48 | The herd hath more annoyance by the breese | The Heard hath more annoyance by the Brieze |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.297 | And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn; | And in my Vantbrace put this wither'd brawne, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.75 | An if the shepherd be a while away. | And if the Shepheard be awhile away. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.76 | You conclude that my master is a shepherd then, | You conclude that my Master is a Shepheard then, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.83 | True; and thy master a shepherd. | True: and thy Master a Shepheard. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.86 | The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep | The Shepheard seekes the Sheepe, and not the Sheepe |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.87 | the shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master | the Shepheard; but I seeke my Master, and my Master |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.89 | The sheep for fodder follow the shepherd; the | The Sheepe for fodder follow the Shepheard, the |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.90 | shepherd for food follows not the sheep. Thou for | Shepheard for foode followes not the Sheepe: thou for |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.89 | A fox to be the shepherd of thy lambs. | A Foxe, to be the Shepheard of thy Lambs; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iv.5 | View us their mortal herd, behold who err, | View us their mortall Heard, behold who erre, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.132 | And we in herds thy game, I give thee thanks | And we in heards thy game; I give thee thankes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.170 | Thou here dischargest me; I shall be gathered; | Thou here dischargest me, I shall be gather'd, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.2 | The shepherd's note since we have left our throne | The Shepheards Note, since we haue left our Throne |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.58 | Enter an old Shepherd | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.27 | Be known when 'tis brought forth. A shepherd's daughter, | Be knowne when 'tis brought forth. A shepherds daughter |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.38 | most homely shepherd – a man, they say, that from very | most homely shepheard: a man (they say) that from very |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.47 | what we are, have some question with the shepherd; | what we are) haue some question with the shepheard; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.1.1 | Enter Florizel and Perdita | Enter Florizell, Perdita, Shepherd, Clowne, Polixenes, Camillo,Mopsa, Dorcas, Seruants, Autolicus. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.2 | Does give a life: no shepherdess, but Flora | Do's giue a life: no Shepherdesse, but Flora |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.55.1 | Enter Shepherd, with Polixenes and Camillo, disguised; | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.77.2 | Shepherdess – | Shepherdesse, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.114.1 | Become your time of day – (to the Shepherdesses) | Become your time of day: and yours, and yours, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.149 | Do plainly give you out an unstained shepherd, | Do plainly giue you out an vnstain'd Shepherd |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.168.1 | Music. A dance of Shepherds and Shepherdesses | Heere a Daunce of Shepheards and Shephearddesses. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.168 | Pray, good shepherd, what fair swain is this | Pray good Shepheard, what faire Swaine is this, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.322 | Master, there is three carters, three shepherds, | Mayster, there is three Carters, three Shep-herds, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.323 | three neat-herds, three swine-herds, that have made | three Neat-herds, three Swine-herds yt haue made |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.333 | see these four threes of herdsmen. | see these foure-threes of Heardsmen. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.340.1 | He lets in the herdsmen, who perform their satyrs' | Heere a Dance of twelue Satyres. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.340 | (to Shepherd) | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.342 | He's simple and tells much. (To Florizel) How now, fair shepherd! | He's simple, and tels much. How now (faire shepheard) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.432 | Worthy enough a herdsman – yea, him too, | Worthy enough a Heardsman: yea him too, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.604 | and words; which so drew the rest of the herd to me | and Words, which so drew the rest of the Heard to me, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.679.1 | Enter Clown and Shepherd | Enter Clowne and Shepheard. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.743 | (aside to Shepherd) | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.763 | have married a shepherd's daughter. | haue marryed a Shepheards Daughter. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.764 | If that shepherd be not in hand-fast, let him | If that Shepheard be not in hand-fast, let him |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.810 | O, that's the case of the shepherd's son. | Oh, that's the case of the Shepheards Sonne: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.812 | (aside to Shepherd) | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.821 | (aside to Shepherd) | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.824 | Exeunt Shepherd and Clown | |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.184.1 | A shepherd's daughter. | A Shepheards Daughter. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.4 | heard the old shepherd deliver the manner how he | heard the old Shepheard deliuer the manner how he |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.7 | I heard the shepherd say: he found the child. | I heard the Shepheard say, he found the Child. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.53 | her; now he thanks the old shepherd, which stands by | her. Now he thanks the old Shepheard (which stands by, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.62 | avouches the shepherd's son, who has not only his | auouches the Shepheards Sonne; who ha's not onely his |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.68 | master's death, and in the view of the shepherd: so that | Masters death, and in the view of the Shepheard: so that |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.115 | at that time overfond of the shepherd's daughter – so he | at that time ouer-fond of the Shepheards Daughter (so he |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.122 | Enter Shepherd and Clown | Enter Shepheard and Clowne. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.133 | Will wing me to some withered bough, and there | Will wing me to some wither'd bough, and there |