| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.65 | Under thy own life's key. Be checked for silence, | Vnder thy owne lifes key. Be checkt for silence, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.282 | any lackey; marry, in coming on he has the cramp. | any Lackey; marrie in comming on, hee ha's the Crampe. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.46 | Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, | Goes too, and backe, lacking the varrying tyde |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.287 | (to Celia) I will speak to him like a saucy lackey, | I wil speake to him like a sawcie Lacky. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.141 | than an ape, more giddy in my desires than a monkey; | then an ape, more giddy in my desires, then a monkey: |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.152 | and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with | and 'twill out at the key-hole: stop that, 'twill flie with |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.104 | Give her this key, and tell her in the desk | Giue her this key, and tell her in the Deske |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.311 | Knows not my feeble key of untuned cares? | Knowes not my feeble key of vntun'd cares? |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.4 | Your gaoler shall deliver you the keys | Your Gaoler shall deliuer you the keyes |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.39 | It cannot be i'th' eye: for apes and monkeys, | It cannot be i'th'eye: for Apes, and Monkeys |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.7 | By th' sure physician, Death; who is the key | By'th'sure Physitian, Death; who is the key |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.86 | And you yourself shall keep the key of it. | And you your selfe shall keepe the key of it. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.27 | God's body! The turkeys in my pannier | The Turkies in my Pannier |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.48 | To thick-eyed musing, and curst melancholy? | To thicke-ey'd musing, and curst melancholly? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.152 | That were his lackeys. I cried ‘ Hum,’ and ‘ Well, go to!’ | That were his Lacqueyes: / I cry'd hum, and well, goe too, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.38 | of keys at their girdles; and if a man is through with | of Keyes at their girdles: and if a man is through with |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.303 | the very genius of famine, yet lecherous as a monkey, | the very Genius of Famine: |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.96 | Thou that didst bear the key of all my counsels, | Thou that didst beare the key of all my counsailes, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.108 | saw it but his lackey. 'Tis a hooded valour, and when it | saw it, but his Lacquey: 'tis a hooded valour, and when it |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.265 | But, like a lackey, from the rise to set, | But like a Lacquey, from the Rise to Set, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.24 | That our superfluous lackeys, and our peasants, | That our superfluous Lacquies, and our Pesants, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.73 | lackeys, with the luggage of our camp. The French | Lackies with the luggage of our camp, the French |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.14 | Why, here he comes, swelling like a turkey-cock. | Why heere hee comes, swelling like a Turky-cock. |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.15 | 'Tis no matter for his swellings nor his turkey-cocks. | 'Tis no matter for his swellings, nor his Turky-cocks. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.2 | And when you have done so, bring the keys to me. | And when you haue done so, bring the Keyes to me. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.32 | Enter the Porter with keys | Enter Porter with Keyes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.112 | These counties were the keys of Normandy. | These Counties were the Keyes of Normandie: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.37 | What! Fear not, man, but yield me up the keys; | What, feare not man, but yeeld me vp the Keyes, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vii.38 | (He takes his keys) | Takes his Keyes. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.17 | 'Mong boys, grooms, and lackeys. But their pleasures | 'Mong Boyes, Groomes, and Lackeyes. / But their pleasures |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.233 | But likewise Spain, Turkey, and what countries else | But likewise Spain, Turkie, and what countries els |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.167 | There's my key. If you do stir abroad, go armed. | there's my key: if you do stirre abroad, goe arm'd. |
| King Lear | KL II.i.118 | Thus out of season, threading dark-eyed night – | Thus out of season, thredding darke ey'd night, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.8 | the heads, dogs and bears by the neck, monkeys by the | the heads, Dogges and Beares by'th'necke, Monkies by'th' |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.51 | Ne'er turns the key to the poor. | nere turns the key to th'poore. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.63 | Thou shouldst have said, ‘ Good porter, turn the key; | Thou should'st haue said, good Porter turne the Key: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.4 | Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years, take this key, | Sweete Ayer, go tendernesse of yeares: take this Key, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.2 | hell-gate, he should have old turning the key. | Hell Gate, hee should haue old turning the Key. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.18 | That had he Duncan's sons under his key – | That had he Duncans Sonnes vnder his Key, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.59 | Now God help thee, poor monkey! But how wilt | Now God helpe thee, poore Monkie: / But how wilt |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.8 | Turn you the key, and know his business of him. | Turne you the key, and know his businesse of him; |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.i.30 | That makes his opening with this bigger key. | That makes his opening with this bigger Key: |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.13 | Copperspur, and Master Starve-lackey, the rapier and | Copperspurre, and M Starue-Lackey the Rapier and |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.459.1 | Give up your keys. | Giue vp your keyes. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.120 | Shall I bend low, and in a bondman's key, | Shall I bend low, and in a bond-mans key |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.12 | There are my keys. But wherefore should I go? | There are my Keyes: but wherefore should I go? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.59 | Lies all within. Deliver me the key. | Lies all within. Deliuer me the key: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.51 | I will assume desert. Give me a key for this, | I will assume desert; giue me a key for this, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.109 | daughter for a monkey. | daughter for a Monkie. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.113 | monkeys. | Monkies. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.261 | her as the key of the cuckoldy rogue's coffer – and | her as the key of the Cuckoldly-rogues Coffer, & |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.152 | dream. Here, here, here be my keys. Ascend my chambers. | dreame: heere, heere, heere bee my keyes, ascend my Chambers, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.18 | But I will wed thee in another key: | But I will wed thee in another key, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.181 | On meddling monkey or on busy ape – | On medling Monkey, or on busie Ape) |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.206 | Both warbling of one song, both in one key, | Both warbling of one song, both in one key; |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.173 | carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take you to go | Carpenter: Come, in what key shall a man take you to goe |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.295 | Deformed; they say he wears a key in his ear and a lock | Deformed, they say he weares a key in his eare and a lock |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.400 | Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys, | Were they as prime as Goates, as hot as Monkeyes, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.128 | This is the monkey's own giving out. She is | This is the Monkeys owne giuing out: / She is |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.265 | You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus. Goats and monkeys! | You are welcome Sir to Cyprus. / Goates, and Monkeys. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.21 | A closet lock and key of villainous secrets; | A Closset Locke and Key of Villanous Secrets, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.93 | I pray you turn the key, and keep our counsel. | I pray you turne the key, and keepe our counsaile. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.35 | Then give me leave that I may turn the key | Then giue me leaue, that I may turne the key, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.5 | Poor key-cold figure of a holy king, | Poore key-cold Figure of a holy King, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.96 | There lies the Duke asleep, and there the keys. | There lies the Duke asleepe, and there the Keyes. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.305 | ‘ Jockey of Norfolk, be not so bold, | Iockey of Norfolke, be not so bold, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.318 | A scum of Britains and base lackey peasants, | A scum of Brittaines, and base Lackey Pezants, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iv.1 | Hold, take these keys and fetch more spices, Nurse. | Hold, / Take these keies, and fetch more spices Nurse. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.346 | Fine linen, Turkey cushions bossed with pearl, | Fine Linnen, Turky cushions bost with pearle, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.63 | O sir, his lackey, for all the world caparisoned | Oh sir, his Lackey, for all the world Caparison'd |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.68 | and not like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. | & not like a Christian foot-boy, or a gentlemans Lacky. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.83 | Or else new formed 'em; having both the key | Or els new form'd 'em; hauing both the key, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.45 | Thou liest, thou jesting monkey, thou. | Thou lyest, thou iesting Monkey thou: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.69 | And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard, | And thy Sea-marge stirrile, and rockey-hard, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.255 | Into baboon and monkey. | into Baboon and Monkey. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.53 | And with an accent tuned in selfsame key | And with an accent tun'd in selfe-same key, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.33 | Hence, broker-lackey! Ignomy and shame | Hence broker, lackie, ignomy, and shame |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.30 | O, peace! Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock | Oh peace: Contemplation makes a rare Turkey Cocke |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.36 | The key whereof myself have ever kept; | The key whereof, my selfe haue euer kept: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.111 | Ay, but the doors be locked, and keys kept safe, | I, but the doores be lockt, and keyes kept safe, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.94 | Speak't in a woman's key, like such a woman | Speak't in a womans key: like such a woman |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.v.8 | That are quick-eyed pleasure's foes; | That are quick-eyd pleasures foes; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.30 | To have my wife as jealous as a turkey; | To have my wife as jealous as a Turkey: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.72 | A hundred black-eyed maids, that love as I do, | A hundred blacke eyd Maides, that love as I doe |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.464 | The keys of all the posterns. Please your highness | The Keyes of all the Posternes: Please your Highnesse |
| 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 |