| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.187 | If I break time, or flinch in property | If I breake time, or flinch in property |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.122 | If ye pinch me like a pasty I can say no more. | If ye pinch me like a Pasty, I can say no more. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.59 | Am I not an inch of fortune better than she? | Am I not an inch of Fortune better then she? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.60 | Well, if you were but an inch of fortune | Well, if you were but an inch of fortune |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.40 | I would I had thy inches. Thou shouldst know | I would I had thy inches, thou should'st know |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.28 | That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black | That am with Phobus amorous pinches blacke, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.6 | As they pinch one another by the | As they pinch one another by the |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.294 | The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, | The stroke of death is as a Louers pinch, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.190 | and hose in my disposition? One inch of delay more is a | and hose in my disposition? One inch of delay more, is a |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.201 | They'll suck our breath, or pinch us black and blue. | They'll sucke our breath, or pinch vs blacke and blew. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.169 | Of such enchanting presence and discourse, | Of such inchanting presence and discourse, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.38.1 | Enter Adriana, Luciana, the Courtesan, and a schoolmaster called Pinch | Enter Adriana, Luciana, Courtizan, and a Schoole-master, call'd Pinch |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.45 | Good Doctor Pinch, you are a conjurer. | Good Doctor Pinch, you are a Coniurer, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.51 | He strikes Pinch | |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.128.1 | Exeunt Pinch and his assistants carrying off | Exeunt. Manet Offic. Adri. Luci. Courtizan |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.238 | They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, | They brought one Pinch, a hungry leane-fac'd Villaine; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.295 | You are not Pinch's patient, are you, sir? | You are not Pinches patient, are you sir? |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.69 | party and party, if you chance to be pinched with the | party and party, if you chaunce to bee pinch'd with the |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.38.1 | They'll give him death by inches. | They'l giue him death by Inches. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.61.2 | There cannot be a pinch in death | There cannot be a pinch in death |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.19 | As many inches as you have oceans. | As many Inches, as you haue Oceans |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.38 | In this our pinching cave shall we discourse | In this our pinching Caue, shall we discourse |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.52 | By inches waste you. In which time, she purposed | By inches waste you. In which time, she purpos'd |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.252 | not. Let the galled jade wince. Our withers are unwrung. | not: let the gall'd iade winch: our withers are vnrung. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.184 | Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse, | Pinch Wanton on your cheeke, call you his Mouse, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.190 | you to my lady's table and tell her, let her paint an inch | you to my Ladies Chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.226 | Save how to gall and pinch this Bolingbroke. | Saue how to gall and pinch this Bullingbrooke, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.117 | Not an inch further. But hark you, Kate. | Not an inch further. But harke you Kate, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.26 | Is with a kind of colic pinched and vexed | Is with a kinde of Collick pincht and vext, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.233 | one, and the pox pinches the other; and so both the | one, and the pox pinches the other; and so both the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.85 | goblet, sitting in my Dolphin chamber, at the | Goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber at the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.107 | That you should have an inch of any ground | That you should haue an ynch of any ground |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.35 | very extremest inch of possibility; I have foundered ninescore | very extremest ynch of possibilitie. I haue fowndred nine |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.30 | When thou dost pinch thy bearer, thou dost sit | When thou do'st pinch thy Bearer, thou do'st sit |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.1.5 | Winchester; and the Duke of Somerset; with heralds | Winchester, and the Duke of Somerset. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.172 | Exeunt all but Winchester | Exit. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.19 | The Cardinal of Winchester forbids. | The Cardinall of Winchester forbids: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.23 | Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate, | Arrogant Winchester, that haughtie Prelate, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.29.1 | Enter to the Protector at the Tower gates Winchester | Enter to the Protector at the Tower Gates, Winchester |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.53 | Winchester goose! I cry a rope, a rope! | Winchester Goose, I cry, a Rope, a Rope. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.88.2 | Winchester with their servingmen | |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.118 | Called for the truce of Winchester and Gloucester; | Call'd for the Truce of Winchester and Gloucester: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.1.1 | Flourish. Enter the King, Exeter, Gloucester, Winchester, | Flourish. Enter King, Exeter, Gloster, Winchester, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.1.4 | Winchester snatches it, tears it | Winchester snatches it, teares it. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.64 | Else would I have a fling at Winchester. | Else would I haue a fling at Winchester. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.65 | Uncles of Gloucester and of Winchester, | Vnckles of Gloster, and of Winchester, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.86.1 | Enter Servingmen of Gloucester and Winchester in | Enter in skirmish with bloody Pates. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.108 | Can you, my lord of Winchester, behold | Can you, my Lord of Winchester, behold |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.113 | Yield, my Lord Protector, yield, Winchester, | Yeeld my Lord Protector, yeeld Winchester, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.123 | Behold, my lord of Winchester, the Duke | Behold my Lord of Winchester, the Duke |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.127 | Here, Winchester, I offer thee my hand. | Here Winchester, I offer thee my Hand. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.133 | For shame, my lord of Winchester, relent; | For shame my Lord of Winchester relent; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.164 | As will the rest, so willeth Winchester. | As will the rest, so willeth Winchester. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iv.1.1 | Enter the King, Gloucester, Winchester, Richard | Enter the King, Gloucester, Winchester, Yorke, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.1.1 | Enter the King, Gloucester, Winchester, Richard | Enter King, Glocester, Winchester, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.49 | Not rascal-like to fall down with a pinch, | Not Rascall-like to fall downe with a pinch, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.28.1 | Enter Winchester, in cardinal's habit, and three | Enter Winchester, and three |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.28 | What, is my lord of Winchester installed, | What, is my Lord of Winchester install'd, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.39 | Which by my lord of Winchester we mean | Which by my Lord of Winchester we meane |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.50 | Exeunt all but Winchester and the Legate | Exeunt. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.56 | Now Winchester will not submit, I trow, | Now Winchester will not submit, I trow, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.42 | Fell banning hag! Enchantress, hold thy tongue! | Fell banning Hagge, Inchantresse hold thy tongue. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.94 | Enter Winchester with attendants | Enter Cardinall. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.120 | Speak, Winchester; for boiling choler chokes | Speake Winchester, for boyling choller chokes |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.55 | Uncle of Winchester, I pray read on. | Vnckle of Winchester, I pray read on. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.66 | Be full expired. Thanks, uncle Winchester, | Be full expyr'd. Thankes Vncle Winchester, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.137 | My Lord of Winchester, I know your mind; | My Lord of Winchester I know your minde. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.210 | Main chance, father, you meant; but I meant Maine, | Main-chance father you meant, but I meant Maine, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.8 | Enchased with all the honours of the world? | Inchac'd with all the Honors of the world? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.41 | Beldam, I think we watched you at an inch. | Beldam I thinke we watcht you at an ynch. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.16 | Who having pinched a few and made them cry, | Who hauing pincht a few, and made them cry, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.1 | Not for that neither. Here's the pang that pinches: | Not for that neither; here's the pang that pinches. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.231 | To Asher House, my lord of Winchester's, | To Asher-house, my Lord of Winchesters, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.37.22 | Bishops of London and Winchester | Bishops of London, and Winchester. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.101 | Stokesley and Gardiner, the one of Winchester, | Stokeley and Gardiner, the one of Winchester, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.i.103.2 | He of Winchester | He of Winchester |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.1.1 | Enter Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, a Page with a | Enter Gardiner Bishop of Winchester, a Page with a |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.58 | Ah, my good Lord of Winchester, I thank you; | Ah my good Lord of Winchester: I thanke you, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.73 | My Lord of Winchester, you are a little, | My Lord of Winchester, y'are a little, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.123 | Bishop of Winchester. But know I come not | Bishop of Winchester. But know I come not |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.170 | Once more, my Lord of Winchester, I charge you | Once more my Lord of Winchester, I charge you |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.7 | As if her cheeks by some enchanted power | As if her cheekes by some inchaunted power, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.66 | To bring thee hither an enchanted pen | To bring thee hither an inchanted pen, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.80 | I will not stir, nor winch, nor speak a word, | I will not stirre, nor winch, nor speake a word, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.206 | Necessity's sharp pinch! Return with her? | Necessities sharpe pinch. Returne with her? |
| King Lear | KL III.i.13 | The lion and the belly-pinched wolf | |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.54 | ride on a bay trotting horse over four-inched bridges to | ride on a Bay trotting Horse, ouer foure incht Bridges, to |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.107.2 | Ay, every inch a king. | I, euery inch a King. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.165 | Doth ravish like enchanting harmony; | Doth rauish like inchanting harmonie: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.233 | That all eyes saw his eyes enchanted with gazes. | That all eyes saw his eies inchanted with gazes. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.188 | It is not so. Ask them how many inches | It is not so. Aske them how many inches |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.193 | How many inches doth fill up one mile. | How many inches doth fill vp one mile? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.64 | Till he disbursed at Saint Colm's Inch | Till he disbursed, at Saint Colmes ynch, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.43 | Enchanting all that you put in. | Inchanting all that you put in. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.13 | Medea gathered the enchanted herbs | Medea gathered the inchanted hearbs |
| 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; |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.60 | Let the supposed fairies pinch him sound | Let the supposed Fairies pinch him, sound, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.44 | To pinch her by the hand, and, on that token, | To pinch her by the hand, and on that token, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.45 | There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. | There pinch the Maids as blew as Bill-berry, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.54 | Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides, and shins. | Pinch them armes, legs, backes, shoulders, sides, & shins. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.92 | And, as you trip, still pinch him to your time. | And as you trip, still pinch him to your time. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.99 | Pinch him, fairies, mutually, | Pinch him (Fairies) mutually: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.100 | Pinch him for his villainy. | Pinch him for his villanie. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.101 | Pinch him, and burn him, and turn him about, | Pinch him, and burne him, and turne him about, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.103.1 | During this song they pinch Falstaff; and Doctor | |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.123 | The finch, the sparrow, and the lark, | The Finch, the Sparrow, and the Larke, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.244 | will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the furthest inch | will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the furthest inch |
| Pericles | Per III.i.34 | To herald thee from the womb. Poor inch of nature! | To harould thee from the wombe: |
| Pericles | Per V.i.108 | My queen's square brows, her stature to an inch, | My Queenes square browes, her stature to an inch, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.223 | My inch of taper will be burnt and done, | My inch of Taper, will be burnt, and done, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.83 | an inch narrow to an ell broad! | an ynch narrow, to an ell broad. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.12 | law. I'll not budge an inch, boy. Let him come, and | Law. Ile not budge an inch boy: Let him come, and |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.364 | What, have I pinched you, Signor Gremio? | What, haue I pincht you Signior Gremio? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.23 | Away, you three-inch fool! I am no beast. | Away you three inch foole, I am no beast. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.24 | Am I but three inches? Why, thy horn is a foot, | Am I but three inches? Why thy horne is a foot |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.41 | incharitable dog! | incharitable Dog. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.328 | All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched | All exercise on thee: thou shalt be pinch'd |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.329 | As thick as honey-comb, each pinch more stinging | As thicke as hony-combe, each pinch more stinging |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.288 | Whom I with this obedient steel, three inches of it, | Whom I with this obedient steele (three inches of it) |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.3 | By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me, | By ynch-meale a disease: his Spirits heare me, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.4 | And yet I needs must curse. But they'll nor pinch, | And yet I needes must curse. But they'll nor pinch, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.145 | I'll show thee every fertile inch o'th' island, and | Ile shew thee euery fertill ynch o'th Island: and |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.233 | From toe to crown he'll fill our skins with pinches, | From toe to crowne hee'l fill our skins with pinches, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.261 | With aged cramps, and more pinch-spotted make them | With aged Cramps, & more pinch-spotted make them, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.74 | Thou art pinched for't now, Sebastian. Flesh and blood, | Thou art pinch'd for't now Sebastian. Flesh, and bloud, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.77 | Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong – | (Whose inward pinches therefore are most strong) |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.112 | Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me, | Or some inchanted triflle to abuse me, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.276.2 | I shall be pinched to death. | I shall be pincht to death. |
| The Tempest | Tem epilogue.14 | Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; | Spirits to enforce: Art to inchant, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.86 | Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear. | Sweet varied notes inchanting euery eare. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.i.48 | what thou art by inches, thou thing of no bowels, thou! | what thou art by inches, thou thing of no bowels thou. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.31 | With spans and inches so diminutive | With spannes and inches so diminutiue, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.18 | That it enchants my sense. What will it be, | That it inchants my sence: what will it be |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.103 | you, you'll give him me. Be true to my lord; if he flinch, | you, youle giue him me: be true to my Lord, if he flinch, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.111 | Even to his inches, and with private soul | Euen to his inches: and with priuate soule, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.33 | Finch-egg! | Finch Egge. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.55 | Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss. | Some galled Goose of Winchester would hisse: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.152 | And pinched the lily-tincture of her face, | And pinch'd the lilly-tincture of her face, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.156 | Rinsing our holy begging in our eyes | Wrinching our holy begging in our eyes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.20 | And I'll clip my yellow locks, an inch below mine ee; | And ile clip my yellow lockes; an inch below mine eie. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.53.1 | A fire-ill take her; does she flinch now? | A fire ill take her; do's she flinch now? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.55 | And to say true, I stole it. Do I pinch you? | And to say true, I stole it; doe I pinch you? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.80 | Within an inch o'th' pyramid, that the cry | Within an inch o'th Pyramid, that the cry |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.133 | Their lives but pinch 'em; let it here be done. | Their lives but pinch 'em; Let it here be done: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.115 | But to be paddling palms and pinching fingers, | But to be padling Palmes, and pinching Fingers, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.186 | Inch-thick, knee-deep, o'er head and ears a forked one! | Ynch-thick, knee-deepe; ore head and eares a fork'd one. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.51 | Remain a pinched thing; yea, a very trick | Remaine a pinch'd Thing; yea, a very Trick |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.137 | For every inch of woman in the world, | For euery ynch of Woman in the World, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.446 | Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther, | Being now awake, Ile Queene it no inch farther, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.606 | pinched a placket, it was senseless; 'twas nothing to | pinch'd a Placket, it was sence-lesse; 'twas nothing to |