| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.143 | idle, made of self-love which is the most inhibited sin in | ydle, made of selfe-loue, which is the most inhibited sinne in |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.49 | An idle lord, I swear. | An idle Lord, I sweare. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.27 | This is not well, rash and unbridled boy, | This is not well rash and vnbridled boy, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.26 | In most rich choice, yet, in his idle fire, | In most rich choice: yet in his idle fire, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.210 | foolish idle boy, but for all that very ruttish. I pray you, | foolish idle boy: but for all that very ruttish. I pray you |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.131 | My idleness doth hatch. How now, Enobarbus! | My idlenesse doth hatch. How now Enobarbus. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.92 | Holds idleness your subject, I should take you | Holds Idlenesse your subiect, I should take you |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.93.1 | For idleness itself. | For Idlenesse it selfe. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.94 | To bear such idleness so near the heart | To beare such Idlenesse so neere the heart |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.76.1 | Thrives in our idleness. | Thriues in our Idlenesse. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.50 | If idle talk will once be necessary – | If idle talke will once be necessary |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.32 | idleness. | idlenesse. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.49 | I will weary you then no longer with idle | I will wearie you then no longer with idle |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.13 | O, know he is the bridle of your will. | Oh, know he is the bridle of your will. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.14 | There's none but asses will be bridled so. | There's none but asses will be bridled so. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.187 | Usurping ivy, briar, or idle moss, | Vsurping Iuie, Brier, or idle Mosse, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.218 | And shrive you of a thousand idle pranks. – | And shriue you of a thousand idle prankes: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.127 | God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk! | God helpe poore soules, how idlely doe they talke. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.97 | I'th' midst o'th' body, idle and unactive, | I'th midd'st a th' body, idle and vnactiue, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.71 | play the idle housewife with me this afternoon. | play the idle Huswife with me this afternoone. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.110 | With shunless destiny; aidless came off, | With shunlesse destinie: aydelesse came off, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.138 | Or looked upon this love with idle sight? | Or look'd vpon this Loue, with idle sight, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.100 | They are coming to the play. I must be idle. Get | They are comming to the Play: I must be idle. Get |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.12 | Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. | Come, come, you answer with an idle tongue. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.13 | Go, go, you question with a wicked tongue. | Go, go, you question with an idle tongue. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.194 | The unyoked humour of your idleness. | The vnyoak'd humor of your idlenesse: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.39 | What, standest thou idle here? Lend me thy sword. | What, stand'st thou idle here? Lend me thy sword, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.28 | you should talk so idly! Tell me, how many good young | you should talke so idlely? Tell me how many good yong |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.122 | marry his sister Nell. Repent at idle times as thou mayst, | marrie his Sister Nell. Repent at idle times as thou mayst, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.189 | Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason, | Yea, euery idle, nice, and wanton Reason, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.123 | From every region, apes of idleness! | From eu'ry Region, Apes of Idlenesse. |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.49 | Mine was not bridled. | Mine was not bridled. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.29 | Took stand for idle speculation: | Tooke stand for idle speculation: |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.51 | Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems | Conceiues by idlenesse, and nothing teemes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.198 | In what we can to bridle and suppress | In what we can, to bridle and suppresse |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.47 | To every idle rascal follower. | To euery idle Rascall follower. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.99 | I'll bridle it. He shall die, an it be but for pleading so | Ile bridle it: he shall dye, and it bee but for pleading so |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.19 | This is it that makes me bridle passion | This is it that makes me bridle passion, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.i.1 | Hence! home, you idle creatures, get you home: | HEnce: home you idle Creatures, get you home: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.117 | And every man hence to his idle bed; | And euery man hence, to his idle bed: |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.68 | That they pass by me as the idle wind, | That they passe by me, as the idle winde, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.198 | I am awaked from this idle dream. – | I am awaked from this idle dreame, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.65 | Upon the left his hot unbridled son, | Vpon the lefte is hot vnbridled sonne, |
| King John | KJ III.iii.46 | And strain their cheeks to idle merriment, | And straine their cheekes to idle merriment, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.145 | Possessed with rumours, full of idle dreams, | Possest with rumors, full of idle dreames, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.153 | Thou idle dreamer, wherefore didst thou so? | Thou idle Dreamer, wherefore didst thou so? |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.70 | Nor conversant with ease and idleness, | Nor conuersant with Ease, and Idlenesse, |
| King John | KJ V.i.72 | Mocking the air with colours idly spread, | Mocking the ayre with colours idlely spred, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.4 | Doth by the idle comments that it makes | Doth by the idle Comments that it makes, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.49 | to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged | to finde an idleand fond bondage, in the oppression of aged |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.17 | Not to be overruled. Idle old man, | |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.5 | Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow | Darnell, and all the idle weedes that grow |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.21 | That on th' unnumbered idle pebble chafes | That on th'vnnumbred idle Pebble chafes |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.296 | These oaths and laws will prove an idle scorn. | These oathes and lawes will proue an idle scorne. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.168 | And critic Timon laugh at idle toys! | And Critticke Tymon laugh at idle toyes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.854 | Will hear your idle scorns, continue then, | Will heare your idle scornes; continue then, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.9 | And held in idle price to haunt assemblies | And held in idle price, to haunt assemblies |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.11 | Could I, with boot, change for an idle plume | Could I, with boote, change for an idle plume |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.263 | To draw with idle spiders' strings | To draw with ydle Spiders strings |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.34 | Upon the heavy middle of the night, | vpon the / Heauy midle of the night, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.63 | Make thee the father of their idle dream, | Make thee the father of their idle dreame, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.12 | Ay; and as idle as she may hang together, for want | I, and as idle as she may hang together for want |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.34 | The superstitious idle-headed eld | The superstitious idle-headed-Eld |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.168 | And maidens call it ‘ love in idleness.’ | And maidens call it, Loue in idlenesse. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.168 | Never did mockers waste more idle breath. | Neuer did mockers wast more idle breth. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.166 | As the remembrance of an idle gaud | as the remembrance of an idle gaude, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.417 | And this weak and idle theme, | And this weake and idle theame, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.95 | Mine's not an idle cause; the Duke himself, | Mine's not an idle Cause. The Duke himselfe, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.139 | Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, | Wherein of Antars vast, and Desarts idle, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.321 | have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, | haue it sterrill with idlenesse, or manured with Industry, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.261 | than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false | then in Reputation. Reputation is an idle, and most false |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.4 | I think you'll turn a child again. | I thinke youle turne a chidle agen. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.66 | Which waste of idle hours hath quite thrown down. | Which waste and idle houres, hath quite thrown downe. |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.25 | Are idly bent on him that enters next, | Areidlely bent on him that enters next, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.31 | And hate the idle pleasures of these days. | And hate the idle pleasures of these dayes. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.103 | You said that idle weeds are fast in growth. | You said, that idle Weeds are fast in growth: |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.105.2 | And therefore is he idle? | And therefore is he idle? |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.75 | Not sleeping, to engross his idle body, | Not sleeping, to engrosse his idle Body, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.97 | Which are the children of an idle brain, | Which are the children of an idle braine, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.19 | That idles in the wanton summer air, | That ydles in the wanton Summer ayre, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.12 | Heaven cease this idle humour in your honour! | Heauen cease this idle humor in your Honor. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.82 | O, yes, my lord, but very idle words, | Oh yes my Lord, but verie idle words, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.148 | I found the effect of love in idleness, | I found the effect of Loue in idlenesse, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.157 | While she did call me rascal fiddler | While she did call me Rascall, Fidler, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.i.1 | Fiddler, forbear, you grow too forward, sir. | Fidler forbeare, you grow too forward Sir, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.72 | away, how her bridle was burst, how I lost my crupper | away, how her bridle was burst: how I lost my crupper, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.387 | Cry cock-a-diddle-dow! | cry cockadidle-dowe. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.157 | No occupation: all men idle, all, | No occupation, all men idle, all: |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.170 | None, man, all idle – whores | None (man) all idle; Whores |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.20.2 | A thing slipped idly from me. | A thing slipt idlely from me. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.152 | Ladies, there is an idle banquet attends you, | Ladies, there is an idle banquet attends you, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.27 | No, gods, I am no idle votarist. | No Gods, I am no idle Votarist, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.18 | Away with slavish weeds and servile thoughts! | Away with slauish weedes, and idle thoughts, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.171 | My hand hath been but idle; let it serve | My hand hath bin but idle, let it serue |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.135 | idle head you would eat chickens i'th' shell. | idle head, you would eate chickens i'th' shell. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.120 | My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown | My thoughts were like vnbrideled children grow |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.303 | I know not; but I am sure, none, unless the fiddler | I know not: but I am sure none, vnlesse the Fidler |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.27 | No! Why art thou then exasperate, thou idle | No? why art thou then exasperate, thou idle, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.59 | Well, sir, for want of other idleness, I'll bide your | Well sir, for want of other idlenesse, Ile bide your |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iii.47 | I think, is not for idle markets, sir. | I thinke is not for idle Markets, sir. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.122 | Go, hang yourselves all. You are idle, shallow | Go hang your selues all: you are ydle shallowe |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.8 | Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. | Weare out thy youth with shapelesse idlenesse. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.157 | Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply; | Or else for want of idle time, could not againe reply, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.62 | And though myself have been an idle truant, | And though my selfe haue beene an idle Trewant, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.179 | Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle | Fancies too weake for Boyes, too greene and idle |