| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.217 | Of rare and proved effects, such as his reading | Of rare and prou'd effects, such as his reading |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.19 | (reading the letter aloud) | A Letter. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.74 | (reading) | |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.4.1 | (reading) | Letter. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.3 | something in't that stings his nature, for on the reading | som thing in't that stings his nature: for on the reading |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.128 | (reading) | |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.156 | (reading) | |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.172 | Well, that's set down. (reading) You | Well that's set downe: you |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.206 | (reading) | |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.218 | (reading) | |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.139.1 | (reading the letter) | A Letter. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.1.1 | Enter Octavius Caesar, reading a letter, Lepidus, and | Enter Octauius reading a Letter, Lepidus, and |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.i.1.2 | army, Caesar reading a letter | Army, Casar reading a Letter. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.119 | Peace, here comes my sister, reading. Stand | Peace, here comes my sister reading, stand |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.255 | reading them ill-favouredly. | reading them ill-fauouredly. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.19 | like an engine, and the ground shrinks before his treading. | like an Engine, and the ground shrinkes before his Treading. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.44 | Screwed to my memory? She hath been reading late, | Screw'd to my memorie. She hath bin reading late, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.1 | Enter Pisanio, with a letter | Enter Pisanio reading of a Letter. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.17 | (reading) | |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.253 | Of no esteem. I, dreading that her purpose | Of no esteeme. I dreading, that her purpose |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.168.1 | Enter Hamlet | Enter Hamlet reading on a Booke. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.168 | But look where sadly the poor wretch comes reading. | But looke where sadly the poore wretch / Comes reading. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.1 | Enter Hotspur alone, reading a letter | Enter Hotspurre solus, reading a Letter. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.11 | To punish my mistreadings. Tell me else, | To punish my Mistreadings. Tell me else, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.103 | (reading the letter) | Letter. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.14 | That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading, | That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.135 | Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught. | Till by broad spreading, it disperse to naught. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.14 | Whose top branch overpeered Jove's spreading tree | Whose top-branch ouer-peer'd Ioues spreading Tree, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.1 | Enter the Lord Chamberlain, reading this letter | Enter Lord Chamberlaine, reading this letter. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.61.1 | The King draws the curtain and sits reading pensively | the King drawes the Curtaine and sits reading pensiuely. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.106 | Enter the King, reading of a schedule, and Lovell | Enter King, reading of a Scedule. |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.iii.1 | Enter Artemidorus reading a paper | Enter |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.272 | Where I left reading? Here it is, I think. | Where I left reading? Heere it is I thinke. |
| King John | KJ III.i.164 | Dreading the curse that money may buy out, | Dreading the curse that money may buy out, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.149 | With many hundreds treading on his heels; | With many hundreds treading on his heeles: |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.31 | What paper were you reading? | What Paper were you reading? |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.46 | (reading) | reads. |
| 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.ii.166.1 | (reading) | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.109.2 | (reading) | reads. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.94 | How well he's read, to reason against reading. | How well hee's read, to reason against reading. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.119 | (reading) | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.216.1 | (reading) | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.63.1 | (reading) | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.105.1 | (reading) | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.130 | I will overglance the superscript: (reading) | I will ouerglance the superscript. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.24 | (reading) | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.42 | What, Longaville, and reading! Listen, ear! | What Longauill, and reading: listen eare. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.54 | (reading) O sweet Maria, empress of my love! – | O sweet Maria, Empresse of my Loue, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.58 | (reading) | He reades the Sonnet. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.99 | (reading) | Dumane reades his Sonnet. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.534 | (reading) | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.37 | Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading | Cupid at the Flight: and my Vnckles foole reading |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.138 | O, when she had writ it and was reading it | O when she had writ it, & was reading it |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.20 | make no boast of it; and for your writing and reading, | make no boast of it, and for your writing and reading, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.163 | Trust not my reading nor my observations, | Trust not my reading, nor my obseruations, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.3 | (reading from a scroll) | Epitaph. |
| Pericles | Per II.v.1.1 | Enter Simonides, reading of a letter, at one door. The | Enter the King reading of a letter at one doore, the |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.50 | The weeds which his broad-spreading leaves did shelter, | The Weeds that his broad-spreading Leaues did shelter, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.25 | Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light. | Earth-treading starres, that make darke heauen light, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.70.1 | (reading the epitaph) | reades the Epitaph. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.93 | I'll interrupt his reading – | Ile interrupt his reading: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.95.1 | What are you reading? | What are you reading? |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.85 | reading aloud to him! | reading aloud to him. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.44.1 | Enter Proteus, reading a letter | |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.51 | How now? What letter are you reading there? | How now? What Letter are you reading there? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.370 | Now will he be swinged for reading my letter. | Now will he be swing'd for reading my Letter; |