| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.75 | With sprightly fire and motion; whose simple touch | With sprightly fire and motion, whose simple touch |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.232 | thee, in what motion age will give me leave. | thee, in what motion age will giue me leaue. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.i.13 | By self-unable motion; therefore dare not | By selfe vnable motion, therefore dare not |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.262 | going to bed and of other motions, as promising her | going to bed, and of other motions, as promising her |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.47.1 | To rot itself with motion. | To rot it selfe with motion. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.14 | I see it in my motion, have it not in my | I see it in my motion: haue it not in my |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.19 | Her motion and her station are as one. | her motion, & her station are as one. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.60 | Where none will sweat but for promotion, | Where none will sweate, but for promotion, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.60 | Made daily motions for our home return. | Made daily motions for our home returne: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.24 | We in your motion turn, and you may move us. | We in your motion turne, and you may moue vs. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.48 | trivial motion; one that converses more with the buttock | triuiall motion: One, that conuerses more with the Buttocke |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.51 | Your loving motion toward the common body | Your louing motion toward the common Body, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.107 | He was a thing of blood, whose every motion | He was a thing of Blood, whose euery motion |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.118 | Make motion through my lips, and my armed knees, | Make motion through my Lips, and my Arm'd knees |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.103 | Takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye, | Takes prisoner the wild motion of mine eye, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.85.1 | Motion and breath left out. | Motion, and Breath left out. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.172 | The woman's part in me – for there's no motion | The Womans part in me, for there's no motion |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.188 | Hath Cadwal now to give it motion? Hark! | Hath Cadwal now to giue it motion? Hearke. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.31 | The want is but to put those powers in motion | The want is, but to put those Powres in motion, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.217 | Itself to motion like as it would speak. | It selfe to motion, like as it would speake: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.73 | Else could you not have motion. But sure that sense | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.100 | He swore had neither motion, guard, nor eye, | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.156 | When in your motion you are hot and dry – | when in your motion you are hot and dry, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.223 | To keep his anger still in motion. | To keepe his anger still in motion. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.62 | And in thy face strange motions have appeared, | And in thy face strange motions haue appear'd, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.64 | Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere, | Two Starres keepe not their motion in one Sphere, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.222 | motion. | |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.358 | When tempest of commotion, like the south | When Tempest of Commotion, like the South, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.255 | discharge you, with the motion of a pewterer's hammer, | discharge you, with the motion of a Pewterers Hammer: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.36 | I say, if damned commotion so appeared | I say, if damn'd Commotion so appeare, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.33 | or a bullet? Have I in my poor and old motion the | or a Bullet? Haue I, in my poore and olde Motion, the |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.185 | Setting endeavour in continual motion; | Setting endeuour in continual motion: |
| Henry V | H5 III.chorus.2 | In motion of no less celerity | In motion of no lesse celeritie |
| Henry V | H5 IV.ii.48 | Lies foul with chawed grass, still and motionless; | Lyes foule with chaw'd-grasse, still and motionlesse. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.63 | One that still motions war and never peace, | One that still motions Warre, and neuer Peace, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.7 | How doth your grace affect their motion? | How doth your Grace affect their motion? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.29 | And when he please to make commotion, | And when he please to make Commotion, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.358 | To make commotion, as full well he can, | To make Commotion, as full well he can, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.244 | Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion. | Yes, I agree, and thanke you for your Motion. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.153 | From sincere motions – by intelligence, | From sincere motions, by Intelligence, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.86 | In fear our motion will be mocked or carped at, | In feare our motion will be mock'd, or carp'd at, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.233 | Meanwhile must be an earnest motion | Meane while, must be an earnest motion |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.112 | Stood here observing him. Some strange commotion | Stood heere obseruing him. Some strange Commotion |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.22 | The high promotion of his grace of Canterbury, | The high promotion of his Grace of Canterbury, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.28 | Commotions, uproars, with a general taint | Commotions, vprores, with a generall Taint |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.64 | And the first motion, all the interim is | And the first motion, all the Interim is |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.70 | Unshaked of motion; and that I am he, | Vnshak'd of Motion: and that I am he, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.33 | His corporal motion governed by my spirit. | His corporall Motion, gouern'd by my Spirit, |
| King John | KJ I.i.212 | But from the inward motion – to deliver | But from the inward motion to deliuer |
| King John | KJ II.i.453 | More free from motion, no, not death himself | More free from motion, no not death himselfe |
| King John | KJ II.i.492 | In titles, honours, and promotions, | In titles, honors, and promotions, |
| King John | KJ II.i.578 | This sway of motion, this commodity, | This sway of motion, this commoditie, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.184 | The other four in wondrous motion. | The other foure, in wondrous motion. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.255 | The dreadful motion of a murderous thought; | The dreadfull motion of a murderous thought, |
| King John | KJ V.i.47 | Govern the motion of a kingly eye. | Gouerne the motion of a kinglye eye: |
| King John | KJ V.vii.49 | O, I am scalded with my violent motion | Oh, I am scalded with my violent motion |
| King Lear | KL II.i.49 | To his unnatural purpose, in fell motion | To his vnnaturall purpose, in fell motion |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.109 | That this remotion of the Duke and her | That this remotion of the Duke and her |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.68 | shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions. | shapes, obiects, Ideas, apprehensions, motions, reuolutions. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.305 | But with the motion of all elements | But with the motion of all elements, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.216 | The music plays; vouchsafe some motion to it. | The musick playes, vouchsafe some motion to it. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.403 | Nor to the motion of a schoolboy's tongue, | Nor to the motion of a Schoole-boies tongue. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.121 | Nor our strong sorrow upon the foot of motion. | Nor our strong Sorrow / Vpon the foot of Motion. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.59 | The wanton stings and motions of the sense, | The wanton stings, and motions of the sence; |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.123 | This sensible warm motion to become | This sensible warme motion, to become |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.105 | That I know to be true. And he is a motion generative. | that I know to bee true: and he is a motion generatiue, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.532 | I have a motion much imports your good, | I haue a motion much imports your good, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.118 | Seem they in motion? Here are severed lips | Seeme they in motion? Here are seuer'd lips |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.61 | But in his motion like an angel sings, | But in his motion like an Angell sings, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.86 | The motions of his spirit are dull as night, | The motions of his spirit are dull as night, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.51 | motion if we leave our pribbles and prabbles, and desire | motion, if we leaue our pribbles and prabbles, and desire |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.199 | Give ear to his motions. Master Slender, I will | Giue eare to his motions; (Mr. Slender) I will |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.95 | motions. Shall I lose my parson? My priest? My Sir | Motions. Shall I loose my Parson? my Priest? my Sir |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.31 | out his wife's inclination. He gives her folly motion and | out his wiues inclination: he giues her folly motion and |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.59 | foot would give an excellent motion to thy gait in a | foote, would giue an excellent motion to thy gate, in a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.62 | motions. If it be my luck, so; if not, happy man be his | motions: if it be my lucke, so; if not, happy man bee his |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.193 | You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart. | you sway the motion of Demetrius hart. |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.75 | That weakens motion. I'll have't disputed on; | That weakens Motion. Ile haue't disputed on, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.95 | Of spirit so still and quiet that her motion | Of Spirit so still, and quiet, that her Motion |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.327 | our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts: | our raging Motions, our carnall Stings, or vnbitted Lusts: |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.168 | Holds his soul light: he dies upon his motion. | Holds his soule light: He dies vpon his Motion. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.154 | Motion as well? Speak on. Where were you born? | Motion well, speake on, where were you borne? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.79 | Held in contempt, while great promotions | Held in contempt, while great Promotions |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.314 | To high promotions and great dignity. | To high Promotions, and great Dignity. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.13 | She would be as swift in motion as a ball. | She would be as swift in motion as a ball, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.59 | Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here, | Vile earth to earth resigne, end motion here, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.71 | The most you sought was her promotion, | The most you sought was her promotion, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.277 | O excellent motion! Fellows, let's be gone. | Oh excellent motion: fellowes let's be gon. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.278 | The motion's good indeed, and be it so. | The motions good indeed, and be it so, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.39 | Incite them to quick motion, for I must | Incite them to quicke motion, for I must |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.3 | Which makes it five-and-twenty. Still in motion | Which makes it fiue and twenty. Still in motion |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.102 | What? All in motion? Henceforth be no feast | What? All in Motion? Henceforth be no Feast, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.344 | safety were remotion, and thy defence absence. What | safety were remotion, and thy defence absence. What |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.246 | Tell me, Andronicus, doth this motion please thee? | Tell me Andronicus doth this motion please thee? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.98 | Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors, | Commotion in the Windes? Frights, changes, horrors, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.173 | Kingdomed Achilles in commotion rages, | Kingdom'd Achilles in commotion rages, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.183 | Since things in motion sooner catch the eye | Since things in motion begin to catch the eye, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.18 | Unstaid and skittish in all motions else, | Vnstaid and skittish in all motions else, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.97 | No motion of the liver, but the palate, | No motion of the Liuer, but the Pallat, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.76 | Taste your legs, sir; put them to motion. | Taste your legges sir, put them to motion. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.270 | motion that it is inevitable; and on the answer, he pays | motion that it is ineuitable: and on the answer, he payes |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.280 | I'll make the motion. Stand here, make a good | Ile make the motion: stand heere, make a good |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.89 | O excellent motion! O exceeding puppet! | Oh excellent motion; oh exceeding Puppet: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.98 | Then a dove's motion when the head's plucked off; | Then a Doves motion, when the head's pluckt off: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.105.2 | 'Tis in motion; | Tis in motion |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.62 | Toward my seat, and in that motion might | Toward my Seat, and in that motion might |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.357 | Promotion follows. If I could find example | Promotion followes: If I could find example |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.93 | a bailiff; then he compassed a motion of the Prodigal | (a Bayliffe) then hee compast a Motion of the Prodigall |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.67 | The fixture of her eye has motion in't | The fixure of her Eye ha's motion in't, |