| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.138 | murders itself, and should be buried in highways out of | murthers it selfe, and should be buried in highwayes out of |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.22 | Murder in healing wounds. Then, noble partners, | Murther in healing wounds. Then Noble Partners, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.14 | Should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers! | Should be called tyrants, butchers, murtherers. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.19 | Lie not, to say mine eyes are murderers! | Lye not, to say mine eyes are murtherers: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.107 | What, will you murder me? Thou, gaoler, thou, | What will you murther me, thou Iailor thou? |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.11 | Thy fortunes. How? That I should murder her, | Thy Fortunes. How? That I should murther her, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.312 | Murder in heaven! How – ? 'Tis gone. Pisanio, | Murther in heauen? How? 'tis gone. Pisanio, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.i.4 | Must murder wives much better than themselves | Must murther Wiues much better then themselues |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.211 | Egregious murderer, thief, any thing | Egregious murtherer, Theefe, any thing |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.25 | Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. | Reuenge his foule and most vnnaturall Murther. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.26 | Murder? | Murther? |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.27 | Murder most foul, as in the best it is, | Murther most foule, as in the best it is; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.459 | To their lord's murder; roasted in wrath and fire, | To their vilde Murthers, roasted in wrath and fire, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.535 | friend? Can you play The Murder of Gonzago? | Friend, can you play the murther of Gonzago? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.581 | That I, the son of a dear father murdered, | That I, the Sonne of the Deere murthered, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.591 | For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak | For Murther, though it haue no tongue, will speake |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.272 | choice Italian. You shall see anon how the murderer | choyce Italian. You shall see anon how the Murtherer |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.38 | A brother's murder. Pray can I not, | A Brothers murther. Pray can I not, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.52 | Can serve my turn? ‘ Forgive me my foul murder?’ | Can serue my turne? Forgiue me my foule Murther: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.54 | Of those effects for which I did the murder, | Of those effects for which I did the Murther. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.22 | What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? | What wilt thou do? thou wilt not murther me? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.77 | Cain's jawbone, that did the first murder! This might be | Caines Iaw-bone, that did the first murther: It might be |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.150 | To be deposed, and shortly murdered. | To be depos'd, and shortly murthered. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.161 | Of murderous subornation – shall it be | Of murtherous subornation? Shall it be, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.184 | Pray God you have not murdered some of | Pray Heauen, you haue not murthered some of |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.130 | God let me not live but I will murder your ruff | I will murther your Ruffe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.201 | Murder, I warrant now! Alas, alas, put up your naked | Murther I warrant now. Alas, alas, put vp your naked |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.79 | Are murdered for our pains. This bitter taste | are murthered for our paines. / This bitter taste |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.35 | see wilful adultery and murder committed. | see wilful adultery and murther committed. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.105 | Treason and murder ever kept together, | Treason, and murther, euer kept together, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.110 | Wonder to wait on treason and on murder: | Wonder to waite on treason, and on murther: |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.32 | Of heady murder, spoil, and villainy. | Of heady Murther, Spoyle, and Villany. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.158 | premeditated and contrived murder; some, of beguiling | premeditated and contriued Murther; some, of beguiling |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.17 | The fatal balls of murdering basilisks. | The fatall Balls of murthering Basiliskes: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.34 | Thou that contrived'st to murder our dead lord; | Thou that contriued'st to murther our dead Lord, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.116 | You see what mischief, and what murder too, | You see what Mischiefe, and what Murther too, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.63 | Murder not then the fruit within my womb, | Murther not then the Fruite within my Wombe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.27 | Harmless Richard was murdered traitorously. | Harmelesse Richard was murthered traiterously. |
| 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.128 | Unless it were a bloody murderer | Vnlesse it were a bloody Murtherer, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.131 | Murder indeed, that bloody sin, I tortured | Murther indeede, that bloodie sinne, I tortur'd |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.254 | Who being accused a crafty murderer, | Who being accus'd a craftie Murtherer, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.1.2 | the murder of the Duke of Gloucester | the Murther of Duke Humfrey. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.92 | Yet Aeolus would not be a murderer, | Yet Aeolus would not be a murtherer, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.181 | And we, I hope, sir, are no murderers. | And we I hope sir, are no murtherers. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.200 | That slanders me with murder's crimson badge. | That slanders me with Murthers Crimson Badge. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.216 | But that the guilt of murder bucklers thee | But that the guilt of Murther bucklers thee, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.95 | By shameful murder of a guiltless king | By shamefull murther of a guiltlesse King, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.71 | You cannot but forbear to murder me. | You cannot but forbeare to murther me: |
| 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 I.iii.8 | Ah, Clifford, murder not this innocent child, | Ah Clifford, murther not this innocent Child, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.122 | For I have murdered where I should not kill. | For I haue murthered where I should not kill. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.182 | Why, I can smile, and murder whiles I smile, | Why I can smile, and murther whiles I smile, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.193 | And set the murderous Machiavel to school. | And set the murtherous Macheuill to Schoole. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.52 | Canst thou not speak? O traitors! Murderers! | Can'st thou not speake? O Traitors, Murtherers! |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.58 | What's worse than murderer, that I may name it? | What's worse then Murtherer, that I may name it? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.79 | Thou art not here; murder is thy alms-deed; | Thou art not heere; Murther is thy Almes-deed: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.32 | If murdering innocents be executing, | If murthering Innocents be Executing, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.3 | ‘ Help, ho! They murder Caesar!’ Who's within? | Helpe, ho: They murther Casar. Who's within? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.223 | This murder had not come into my mind. | This murther had not come into my minde. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.37 | Murder, as hating what himself hath done, | Murther, as hating what himselfe hath done, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.47 | Of murder's arms. This is the bloodiest shame, | Of murthers Armes: This is the bloodiest shame, |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.51 | All murders past do stand excused in this. | All murthers past, do stand excus'd in this: |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.80 | Not till I sheathe it in a murderer's skin. | Not till I sheath it in a murtherers skin. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.90.1 | Thou art a murderer. | Thou art a Murtherer. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.102 | Second a villain and a murderer? | Second a Villaine, and a Murtherer? |
| King Lear | KL I.i.227 | It is no vicious blot, murder or foulness, | It is no vicious blot, murther, or foulenesse, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.43 | Persuade me to the murder of your lordship; | Perswade me to the murther of your Lordship, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.37 | Help, ho! Murder! Help! | Helpe, ho, murther, helpe. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.40 | Help, ho! Murder! Murder! | Helpe hoa, murther, murther. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.22 | They could not, would not do't; 'tis worse than murder | They could not, would not do't: 'tis worse then murther, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.274 | Of murderous lechers; and in the mature time | Of murtherous Letchers: and in the mature time, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.8 | That we must stand and play the murderer in? | That we must stand and play the murtherer in? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.138 | My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, | My Thought, whose Murther yet is but fantasticall, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vii.15 | Who should against his murderer shut the door, | Who should against his Murtherer shut the doore, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.52 | Pale Hecat's offerings; and withered Murder, | Pale Heccats Offrings: and wither'd Murther, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.22 | There's one did laugh in's sleep, and one cried ‘ Murder!’ | There's one did laugh in's sleepe, / And one cry'd Murther, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.36 | Macbeth does murder sleep – the innocent sleep, | Macbeth does murther Sleepe, the innocent Sleepe, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.42 | ‘ Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor | Glamis hath murther'd Sleepe, and therefore Cawdor |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.64 | Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope | Most sacrilegious Murther hath broke ope |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.71 | Ring the alarum bell! Murder and treason! | Ring the Alarum Bell: Murther, and Treason, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.83.1 | Would murder as it fell. | Would murther as it fell. |
| 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 II.iii.111 | For ruin's wasteful entrance; there the murderers, | For Ruines wastfull entrance: there the Murtherers, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.138.2 | This murderous shaft that's shot | This murtherous Shaft that's shot, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.65 | For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered, | For them, the gracious Duncan haue I murther'd, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.71 | Enter Servant and two Murderers | Enter Seruant, and two Murtherers. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iii.1 | Enter three Murderers | Enter three Murtherers. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.8 | Enter First Murderer | Enter first Murtherer. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.76 | Ay, and since too, murders have been performed | I, and since too, Murthers haue bene perform'd |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.80 | With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, | With twenty mortall murthers on their crownes, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.82.1 | Than such a murder is. | Then such a murther is. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.79 | Enter Murderers | Enter Murtherers. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.85 | Son dies. Exit Wife crying ‘ Murder ’ | Exit crying Murther. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.206 | Were on the quarry of these murdered deer | Were on the Quarry of these murther'd Deere |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.17 | His secret murders sticking on his hands; | His secret Murthers sticking on his hands, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.59 | Being a murderer, though he were my brother. | Being a Murtherer, though he were my brother. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.39 | That Angelo's a murderer, is't not strange? | That Angelo's a murtherer, is't not strange? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.41 | with him, away with him! Better shame than murder. | with him, away with him: Better shame, then murther. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.26 | He ‘ Murder!’ cries, and help from Athens calls. | He murther cries, and helpe from Athens cals. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.169 | How shall I murder him, Iago? | How shall I murther him, Iago. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.27 | I am maimed for ever. Help, ho! Murder, murder! | I am maym'd for euer: / Helpe hoa: Murther, murther. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.37 | What, ho! No watch? No passage? Murder, murder! | What hoa? no Watch? No passage? / Murther, Murther. |
| Othello | Oth V.i.48 | Who's there? Whose noise is this that cries on murder? | Who's there? / Who's noyse is this that cries on murther? |
| Othello | Oth V.i.64 | How silent is this town! Ho, murder, murder! | How silent is this Towne? Hoa, murther, murther. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.65 | A murder, which I thought a sacrifice. | A Murther, which I thought a Sacrifice. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.107 | O, my good lord, yonder's foul murder done. | Oh my good Lord, yonders foule Murthers done. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.116 | Not Cassio killed! Then murder's out of tune, | Not Cassio kill'd? Then Murther's out of tune, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.166 | The Moor hath killed my mistress! Murder! Murder! | The Moore hath kill'd my Mistris. Murther, murther. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.169 | That men must lay their murders on your neck. | That men must lay their Murthers on your necke. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.184 | My mistress here lies murdered in her bed. | My Mistris heere lyes murthered in her bed. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.139 | Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke. | Murther's as neere to Lust, as Flame to Smoake: |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.52 | With Leonine, a murderer. | With Leonine a murtherer. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.173 | Did seek to murder me; | Did seeke to murther me: |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.32 | Teaching stern murder how to butcher thee. | Teaching sterne murther how to butcher thee: |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.40 | In murders and in outrage boldly here; | In Murthers and in Out-rage bloody here: |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.44 | Then murders, treasons, and detested sins – | Then Murthers, Treasons, and detested sinnes |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.160 | All murdered. For within the hollow crown | All murther'd. For within the hollow Crowne |
| Richard II | R2 V.vi.40 | I hate the murderer, love him murdered. | I hate the Murtherer, loue him murthered. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.40 | Of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be. | Of Edwards heyres the murtherer shall be. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.197 | As ours by murder, to make him a king! | As ours by Murther, to make him a King. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.338.1 | Enter two Murderers | Enter two murtherers. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.84 | Enter two Murderers | Enter two Murtherers. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.176 | To murder me? | To murther me? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.200 | That thou shalt do no murder. Will you then | That thou shalt do no murther. Will you then |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.205 | For false forswearing and for murder too: | For false Forswearing, and for murther too: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.216 | He sends you not to murder me for this, | He sends you not to murther me for this: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.262 | If two such murderers as yourselves came to you, | If two such murtherers as your selues came to you, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.276 | Of this most grievous murder! | Of this most greeuous murther. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.277 | Enter First Murderer | Enter 1. Murtherer |
| 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.v.2 | Murder thy breath in middle of a word, | Murther thy breath in middle of a word, |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.38 | To murder me and my good Lord of Gloucester? | To murther me, and my good Lord of Gloster. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.55 | Whose unavoided eye is murderous. | Whose vnauoided Eye is murtherous. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.ii.61 | Murder her brothers, and then marry her – | Murther her Brothers, and then marry her, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.185 | Is there a murderer here? No. Yes, I am. | Is there a Murtherer heere? No; Yes, I am: |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.198 | Murder, stern murder, in the direst degree, | Murther, sterne murther, in the dyr'st degree, |
| 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 II.ii.70 | If they do see thee, they will murder thee. | If they do see thee, they will murther thee. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.138 | Tybalt, that murderer, which way ran he? | Tibalt that Murtherer, which way ran he? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.94 | Doth not she think me an old murderer, | Doth not she thinke me an old Murtherer, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.61 | To murder, murder our solemnity? | To murther, murther our solemnitie? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.81 | Doing more murder in this loathsome world, | Doing more murther in this loathsome world, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.225 | Doth make against me, of this direful murder. | Doth make against me of this direfull murther: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.232 | And do the murder first. If he awake, | And doe the murther first: if he awake, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.263 | Poor Bassianus here lies murdered. | Poore Bassianus heere lies murthered. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.279 | That should have murdered Bassianus here. | That should haue murthered Bassianus heere. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.300 | Some bring the murdered body, some the murderers. | Some bring the murthered body, some the murtherers, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.57 | By nature made for murders and for rapes. | By nature made for murthers and for rapes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.ii.87 | Stay, murderous villains, will you kill your brother? | Stay murtherous villaines, will you kill your brother? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.54 | That died by law for murder of our brother, | That dy'd by law for murther of our Brother, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.63 | For I must talk of murders, rapes, and massacres, | For I must talke of Murthers, Rapes, and Massacres, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.37 | Where bloody murder or detested rape | Where bloody Murther or detested Rape, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.83 | Rapine and Murder, you are welcome too. | Rapine and Murther, you are welcome too, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.93 | Show me a murderer, I'll deal with him. | Shew me a Murtherer, Ile deale with him. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.100 | Good Murder, stab him: he's a murderer. | Good Murder stab him, hee's a Murtherer. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.4 | He's dead; and at the murderer's horse's tail, | Hee's dead: and at the murtherers Horses taile, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.31 | If you will not murder me for my love, let me | If you will not murther me for my loue, let mee |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.72 | school i'the church. I have dogged him like his murderer. | Schoole i'th Church: I haue dogg'd him like his murtherer. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.27 | Some part of a good name, and many a murder | Some part of a good name, and many a murther |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.412 | I am appointed him to murder you. | I am appointed him to murther you. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.100 | Haled out to murder. Myself on every post | Hal'd out to murther. My selfe on euery Post |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.62.1 | To murder her I married. | To murther her I marryed. |