| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.32 | Should solder up the rift. | Should soader vp the Rift. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.39 | The thrifty hire I saved under your father, | The thriftie hire I saued vnder your Father, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.170 | What is the course and drift of your compact? | What is the course and drift of your compact? |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.116.2 | We know your drift. Speak what? | We know your drift. Speake what? |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.i.15 | And make them dread it, to the doers' thrift. | And make them dread it, to the dooers thrift. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.180 | Thrift, thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats | Thrift, thrift Horatio: the Funerall Bakt-meats |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.10 | By this encompassment and drift of question | By this encompassement and drift of question, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.37.2 | Marry, sir, here's my drift, | Marry Sir, heere's my drift, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.1 | And can you by no drift of conference | And can you by no drift of circumstance |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.72 | Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? | Where thrift may follow faining? Dost thou heare, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.193 | Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. | Are base respects of Thrift, but none of Loue. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.121 | And then this ‘ should ’ is like a spendthrift sigh, | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.150 | And that our drift look through our bad performance, | And that our drift looke through our bad performance, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.176 | For they are thrifty honest men, and such | For they are thrifty honest men, and such |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.46 | And yet the King not privy to my drift, | And yet the King not priuie to my Drift, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.107 | The ghostly father now hath done his shrift. | The Ghostly Father now hath done his Shrift. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.109 | Seems to flow from him! How, i'th' name of thrift, | Seemes to flow from him? How, i'th'name of Thrift |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.15 | Spendthrifts, and such that gape for nothing else | Spend thrifts, and such as gape for nothing else, |
| King John | KJ II.i.412 | Shall rain their drift of bullets on this town. | Shall raine their drift of bullets on this Towne. |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iv.28 | Thriftless ambition, that wilt raven up | Thriftlesse Ambition, that will rauen vp |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.38 | But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines | But like a thrifty goddesse, she determines |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.201 | shrift and advise him for a better place. Yet you are | shrift, and aduise him for a better place. Yet you are |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.v.4 | And hold you ever to our special drift, | And hold you euer to our speciall drift, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.175 | I have a mind presages me such thrift | I haue a minde presages me such thrift, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.47 | On me, my bargains, and my well-won thrift, | On me, my bargaines, and my well-worne thrift, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.87 | And thrift is blessing if men steal it not. | And thrift is blessing if men steale it not. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.173 | Of an unthrifty knave, and presently | Of an vnthriftie knaue: and presentlie |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.53 | A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. | A prouerbe neuer stale in thriftie minde. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.16 | And with an unthrift love did run from Venice | And with an Vnthrift Loue did runne from Venice, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.39 | I am about thrift. Briefly, I do mean to make love to | I am about thrift) briefely: I doe meane to make loue to |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.79 | French thrift, you rogues – myself and skirted page. | French-thrift, you Rogues, my selfe, and skirted Page. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.232 | O, understand my drift. She dwells so securely on | O, vnderstand my drift: she dwells so securely on |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.359 | drift. | drift. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.24 | His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift; | His Bed shall seeme a Schoole, his Boord a Shrift, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.121 | To upstart unthrifts? Wherefore was I born? | To vpstart Vnthrifts? Wherefore was I borne? |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.1 | Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son? | Can no man tell of my vnthriftie Sonne? |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.68 | As thriftless sons their scraping fathers' gold. | As thriftlesse Sonnes, their scraping Fathers Gold. |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.95 | Make a short shrift; he longs to see your head. | Make a short Shrift, he longs to see your Head. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.159 | To hear true shrift. Come, madam, let's away. | To heare true shrift. Come Madam let's away. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.51 | Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift. | Be plaine good Son, rest homely in thy drift, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.52 | Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift. | Ridling confession, findes but ridling shrift. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.177 | Some means to come to shrift this afternoon, | some meanes to come to shrift this afternoone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.66 | Have you got leave to go to shrift today? | Haue you got leaue to go to shrift to day? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.114 | Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift. | In the meane time against thou shalt awake, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.115 | And hither shall he come. And he and I | Shall Romeo by my Letters know our drift, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.15 | See where she comes from shrift with merry look. | See where she comes from shrift / With merrie looke. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.136 | O much I fear some ill unthrifty thing. | O much I feare some ill vnluckie thing. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.277 | Into a cloven pine; within which rift | Into a clouen Pyne, within which rift |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.26 | Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue! | Fie, what a spend-thrift is he of his tongue. |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.29 | The sole drift of my purpose doth extend | The sole drift of my purpose doth extend |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.45 | Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak | Haue I giuen fire, and rifted Ioues stowt Oke |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.46 | With amplest entertainment. My free drift | With amplest entertainment: My free drift |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.122 | That from my first have been inclined to thrift, | That from my first haue beene inclin'd to thrift, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.313 | thou ever know unthrift that was beloved after his | thou euer know vnthrift, that was beloued after his |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.113 | It is familiar – but at the author's drift, | It is familiar; but at the Authors drift, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.52 | oblique memorial of cuckolds, a thrifty shoeing-horn | oblique memoriall of Cuckolds, a thrifty shooing-horne |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.39 | What thriftless sighs shall poor Olivia breathe! | What thriftlesse sighes shall poore Oliuia breath? |
| 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.18 | To cross my friend in his intended drift | To crosse my friend in his intended drift, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.80 | That you shall say my cunning drift excels. | That you shall say, my cunning drift excels. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iii.100 | That drift winds force to raging. I did think | That drift windes, force to raging: I did thinke |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.311 | Their own particular thrifts, they would do that | (Their owne particular Thrifts) they would doe that |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.66 | Should rift to hear me; and the words that followed | Should rift to heare me, and the words that follow'd, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.109 | will be born. Our absence makes us unthrifty to our | will be borne: our Absence makes vs vnthriftie to our |