| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.44 | Let us assay our plot, which, if it speed, | Let vs assay our plot, which if it speed, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.315 | Who cannot be crushed with a plot? | Who cannot be crush'd with a plot? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.49 | Under this plot; she dies for't. Eros, ho! | Vnder this plot: She dyes for't. Eros hoa? |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.38 | It is a purposed thing, and grows by plot, | It is a purpos'd thing, and growes by Plot, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.41.2 | Call't not a plot. | Call't not a Plot: |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.102 | Yet, were there but this single plot to lose, | Yet were there but this single Plot, to loose |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.19 | Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep | Whose Passions, and whose Plots haue broke their sleep |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.i.58 | A mother hourly coining plots, a wooer | A Mother hourely coyning plots: A Wooer, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.398 | Find out the prettiest daisied plot we can, | Finde out the prettiest Dazied-Plot we can, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iv.62 | Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.9 | When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us | When our deare plots do paule, and that should teach vs, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.389.1 | On plots and errors happen. | On plots, and errors happen. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.268 | Is ruminated, plotted, and set down, | Is ruminated, plotted, and set downe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.273 | Why, it cannot choose but be a noble plot; | Why, it cannot choose but be a Noble plot, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.53 | layest the plot how. | lay'st the plot, how. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.14 | whole plot too light, for the counterpoise of so great an | whole Plot too light, for the counterpoize of so great an |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.18 | this! By the Lord, our plot is a good plot, as ever was | this? I protest, our plot is as good a plot as euer was |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.19 | laid, our friends true and constant. A good plot, good | laid; our Friend true and constant: A good Plotte, good |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.20 | friends, and full of expectation. An excellent plot, very | Friends, and full of expectation: An excellent plot, very |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.22 | my Lord of York commends the plot, and the general | my Lord of Yorke commends the plot, and the generall |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.42 | We first survey the plot, then draw the model, | We first suruey the Plot, then draw the Modell, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.51 | The plot of situation and the model, | The plot of Situation, and the Modell; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.24 | That plotted thus our glory's overthrow? | That plotted thus our Glories ouerthrow? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.4 | The plot is laid; if all things fall out right, | The Plot is layd, if all things fall out right, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.89 | On any plot of ground in Christendom. | On any Plot of Ground in Christendome. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.3 | Too rashly plotted. All our general force | Too rashly plotted. All our generall force, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.55 | A pretty plot, well chosen to build upon! | A pretty Plot, well chosen to build vpon. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.60 | And in this private plot be we the first | And in this priuate Plot be we the first, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.147 | I know their complot is to have my life; | I know, their Complot is to haue my Life: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.153 | Will not conclude their plotted tragedy. | Will not conclude their plotted Tragedie. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.220 | These are the limbs o'th' plot: no more, I hope. | These are the limbs o'th'Plot: no more I hope. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.60 | To second all his plot. I do assure you | To second all his plot. I do assure you, |
| King John | KJ II.i.40 | To cull the plots of best advantages. | To cull the plots of best aduantages: |
| King John | KJ III.iv.146 | John lays you plots; the times conspire with you – | Iohn layes you plots: the times conspire with you, |
| King Lear | KL II.i.72 | To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practice; | To thy suggestion, plot, and damned practise: |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.87 | I have o'erheard a plot of death upon him. | I haue ore-heard a plot of death vpon him: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.271 | A plot upon her virtuous husband's life, | A plot vpon her vertuous Husbands life, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.v.2 | The provost knows our purpose and our plot. | The Prouost knowes our purpose and our plot, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.133 | To unburden all my plots and purposes | To vnburthen all my plots and purposes, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.290 | than my wife with herself. Then she plots, then she | then my wife with her selfe. Then she plots, then shee |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.34 | in the wind. And Falstaff's boy with her! Good plots! | in the winde; and Falstaffes boy with her: good plots, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.178 | I will lay a plot to try that, and we will | I will lay a plot to try that, and wee will |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.12 | But let our plot go forward. Let our wives | But let our plot go forward: Let our wiues |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.44 | What shall be done with him? What is your plot? | What shall be done with him? What is your plot? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.32 | Straight marry her. To this her mother's plot | Strait marry her: to this her Mothers plot |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.3 | for our rehearsal. This green plot shall be our stage, this | for our rehearsall. This greene plot shall be our stage, this |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.96 | Complotted and contrived in this land | Complotted, and contriued in this Land, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.100 | That he did plot the Duke of Gloucester's death, | That he did plot the Duke of Glousters death, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.189 | To plot, contrive, or complot any ill | To plot, contriue, or complot any ill, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.50 | This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, | This blessed plot, this earth, this Realme, this England, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.10 | In that dead time when Gloucester's death was plotted | In that dead time, when Glousters death was plotted, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.323 | You holy clergymen, is there no plot | You holy Clergie-men, is there no Plot |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.333 | A plot shall show us all a merry day. | a Plot / Shall shew vs all a merry day. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.18 | Thoughts tending to ambition, they do plot | Thoughts tending to Ambition, they do plot |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.32 | Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous, | Plots haue I laide, Inductions dangerous, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.192 | Lord Hastings will not yield to our complots? | Lord Hastings will not yeeld to our Complots? |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.200 | We may digest our complots in some form. | Wee may digest our complots in some forme. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.60 | That do conspire my death with devilish plots | That doe conspire my death with diuellish Plots |
| Richard III | R3 III.v.37 | This day had plotted, in the Council House, | This day had plotted, in the Councell-House, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.185 | Ay, marry, am I, sir – and now 'tis plotted. | I marry am I sir, and now 'tis plotted. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.ii.110 | the plot, Trinculo? | the plot Trinculo? |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.73 | Here on this grass-plot, in this very place, | Here on this grasse-plot, in this very place |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.88 | Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot | Doe now attend the Queene? since they did plot |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.141 | Against my life. The minute of their plot | Against my life: the minute of their plot |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.273 | For he's a bastard one – had plotted with them | (For he's a bastard one) had plotted with them |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.78 | I tell you, lords, you do but plot your deaths | I tell you Lords, you doe but plot your deaths, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.115 | And many unfrequented plots there are, | And many vnfrequented plots there are, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.47 | And give the King this fatal-plotted scroll. | And giue the King this fatall plotted Scrowle, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.77 | And wandered hither to an obscure plot, | And wandred hither to an obscure plot, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.265 | The complot of this timeless tragedy, | The complot of this timelesse Tragedie, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.134 | Plot some device of further misery | Plot some deuise of further miseries |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.68 | This sandy plot is plain; guide, if thou canst, | This sandie plot is plaine, guide if thou canst |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.65 | Complots of mischief, treason, villainies, | Complots of Mischiefe, Treason, Villanies |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.i.129 | Ravish a maid or plot the way to do it, | Rauish a Maid, or plot the way to do it, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.6 | To ruminate strange plots of dire revenge; | To ruminate strange plots of dire Reuenge, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.147 | To lay a complot to betray thy foes. | To lay a complot to betray thy Foes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.121 | Chief architect and plotter of these woes. | Chiefe Architect and plotter of these woes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.181 | Achievements, plots, orders, preventions, | Atchieuments, plots, orders, preuentions, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.75 | Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot. | Nay patience, or we breake the sinewes of our plot? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.181 | Plotted and 'greed on for my happiness. | Plotted, and 'greed on for my happinesse. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.43 | As thou hast lent me wit to plot this drift! | As thou hast lent me wit, to plot this drift. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.12 | Myself am one made privy to the plot. | My selfe am one made priuy to the plot. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.47 | There is a plot against my life, my crown. | There is a Plot against my Life, my Crowne; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.6 | And level of my brain, plot-proof; but she | And leuell of my braine: plot-proofe: but shee, |