| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.78.1 | And write to her a love-line. | And write to her a loue-line. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.197 | I must tell thee, sirrah, I write man, to which | I must tell thee sirrah, I write Man: to which |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.286 | And wherefore I am fled; write to the King | And wherefore I am fled: Write to the King |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.39 | The great prerogative and rite of love, | The great prerogatiue and rite of loue, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.10 | Let me see what he writes, and when he | Let me see what he writes, and when he |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.59 | ‘ then ’ I write a ‘ never.’ | (then) I write a Neuer. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.8 | Write, write, that from the bloody course of war | Write, write, that from the bloodie course of warre, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.24 | She might have been o'erta'en; and yet she writes | She might haue beene ore-tane: and yet she writes |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.29 | Of greatest justice. Write, write, Rynaldo, | Of greatest Iustice. Write, write Rynaldo |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.65 | I warrant, good creature, wheresoe'er she is, | I write good creature, wheresoere she is, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.I.29 | Grants scarce distinction. Thou wilt write to Antony? | graunts scarce distinction: thou wilt write to Anthony. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.17 | Think, speak, cast, write, sing, number – hoo! – | Thinke speake, cast, write, sing, number: hoo, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.46 | Where I will write. All may be well enough. | where I will write; all may be well enough. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.28 | Ourselves alone. I'll write it. Follow me. | Our selues alone: Ile write it: Follow me. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.v.13 | Detain no jot, I charge thee. Write to him – | Detaine no iot I charge thee: write to him, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.59 | Treason is not inherited, my lord, | Treason is not inherited my Lord, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.133 | Will I ‘ Rosalinda ’ write, | Will I Rosalinda write, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.135 | The quintessence of every sprite | The quintessence of euerie sprite, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.36 | O, that's a brave man! He writes brave verses, | O that's a braue man, hee writes braue verses, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.134 | I'll write to him a very taunting letter, | Ile write to him a very tanting Letter, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.136.2 | I'll write it straight: | Ile write it strait: |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.20 | Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well, | Why writes she so to me? well Shepheard, well, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.23.1 | Phebe did write it. | Phebe did write it. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.40 | She Phebes me; mark how the tyrant writes: | She Phebes me: marke how the tyrant writes. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.42 | other; for all your writers do consent that ‘ ipse ’ is he. | other. For all your Writers do consent, that ipse is hee: |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.194 | Proceed, proceed. We'll begin these rites | Proceed, proceed: wee'l begin these rights, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.199 | We talk with goblins, owls, and sprites. | We talke with Goblins, Owles and Sprights; |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.73 | Where, ere we do repose us, we will write | Where ere we doe repose vs, we will write |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.122 | Titus Lartius writes they fought together, | Titus Lartius writes, they fought together, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.191 | To see inherited my very wishes | To see inherited my very Wishes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.229 | peace as far as day does night. It's spritely walking, | peace as farre as day do's night: It's sprightly walking, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.30 | Known but by letter; thither write, my queen, | Knowne but by Letter; thither write (my Queene) |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iv.2 | And question'dst every sail: if he should write, | And questioned'st euery Saile: if he should write, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.81 | merit for the gift. The other is not a thing for sale, | merite for the guift. The other is not a thing for sale, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.208.2 | I will write. | I will write: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.24 | To note the chamber: I will write all down: | To note the Chamber, I will write all downe, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.ii.43 | Why should I write this down, that's riveted, | Why should I write this downe, that's riueted, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.138.2 | I am sprited with a fool, | I am sprighted with a Foole, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.105.2 | She writes so to you? Doth she? | She writes so to you? doth shee? |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.183 | Not half so old as that. I'll write against them, | Not halfe so old as that. Ile write against them, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.1 | How? Of adultery? Wherefore write you not | How? of Adultery? Wherefore write you not |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.62 | T' inherit such a haven. But, first of all, | T' inherite such a Hauen. But first of all, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.105 | I'll write to my lord she's dead: O Innogen, | Ile write to my Lord she's dead: Oh Imogen, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.316 | Hast here cut off my lord. To write, and read | Hath heere cut off my Lord. To write, and read, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.304 | More of thee merited than a band of Clotens | More of thee merited, then a Band of Clotens |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.429 | Appeared to me, with other spritely shows | Appear'd to me, with other sprightly shewes |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.110 | He writes | |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.349 | writers do them wrong to make them exclaim against | Writers do them wrong, to make them exclaim against |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.214 | The great man down, you mark his favourite flies. | The great man downe, you marke his fauourites flies, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.404 | My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites. | My Tongue and Soule in this be Hypocrites. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.43 | Calls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose | Cals Vertue Hypocrite, takes off the Rose |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.215 | No noble rite nor formal ostentation – | No Noble rite, nor formall ostentation, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.215 | And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken | And with such maimed rites? This doth betoken, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.228 | Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, | Yet heere she is allowed her Virgin Rites, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.34 | A baseness to write fair, and laboured much | A basenesse to write faire; and laboured much |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.383 | I have some rights of memory in this kingdom, | I haue some Rites of memory in this Kingdome, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.393 | The soldiers' music and the rites of war | The Souldiours Musicke, and the rites of Warre |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.21 | good friends. What a frosty-spirited rogue is this! Why, | good Friends. What a Frosty-spirited rogue is this? Why, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.405 | the name of pitch. This pitch – as ancient writers do report – | the Name of Pitch: this Pitch (as ancient Writers doe report) |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.137 | I'll haste the writer, and withal | Ile haste the Writer; and withall, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.31 | He writes me here that inward sickness – | He writes me here, that inward sicknesse, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.39 | For, as he writes, there is no quailing now, | For, as he writes, there is no quailing now, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.86 | Of all the favourites that the absent King | Of all the Fauorites, that the absent King |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iv.40 | Therefore make haste – I must go write again | Therefore make hast, I must go write againe |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.97 | For doing these fair rites of tenderness. | For doing these fayre Rites of Tendernesse. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.v.2 | Ill-spirited Worcester, did not we send grace, | Ill-spirited Worcester, did we not send Grace, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.51 | I would think thee a most princely hypocrite. | I would thinke thee a most Princely hypocrite. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.56 | hypocrite indeed. And what accites your most worshipful | Hypocrite indeede. And what accites your most worshipful |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.102 | how he writes – | he writes. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.ii.25 | As a false favourite doth his prince's name, | As a false Fauorite doth his Princes Name, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.116 | he did naturally inherit of his father he hath like lean, | hee did naturally inherite of his Father, hee hath, like leane, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.104 | But wet her fair words still in foulest terms? | But write her faire words still in foulest Letters? |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.64 | Eight hundred five. Besides, their writers say, | Eight hundred fiue. Besides, their Writers say, |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.65 | Thy spirits are most tall. | spirites are most tall. |
| Henry V | H5 III.iv.34 | Oui. Sauf votre honneur, en vérité, vous prononcez | Ouy. Sauf vostre honneur en verite vous pronouncies |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.21 | And shall our quick blood, spirited with wine, | And shall our quick blood, spirited with Wine, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.22 | Ay, I praise God, and I have merited some love | I, I prayse God, and I haue merited some loue |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.289 | And on it have bestowed more contrite tears | And on it haue bestowed more contrite teares, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.121 | Do we all holy rites: | Doe we all holy Rights: |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.330 | having any occasion to write for matter of grant, shall | hauing any occasion to write for matter of Graunt, shall |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.113 | I must not yield to any rites of love, | I must not yeeld to any rights of Loue, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.56 | Out, tawny coats! Out, scarlet hypocrite! | Out Tawney-Coates, out Scarlet Hypocrite. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.67 | It is the worst, and all, my lord, he writes. | It is the worst, and all (my Lord) he writes. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.190 | This factious bandying of their favourites, | This factious bandying of their Fauourites, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.74 | Writes not so tedious a style as this. | Writes not so tedious a Stile as this. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.66 | I'll call for pen and ink, and write my mind. | Ile call for Pen and Inke, and write my minde: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.31 | As the Spirit speaks, Bolingbroke writes the answer | |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.24 | And so will I, and write home for it straight. | And so will I, and write home for it straight. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.80 | The clerk of Chartham; he can write and read and | The Clearke of Chartam: hee can write and |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.87 | Nay, he can make obligations, and write court-hand. | Nay, he can make Obligations, and write Court hand. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.92 | They use to write it on the top of letters. 'Twill go | They vse to writ it on the top of Letters: 'Twill go |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.94 | Let me alone. Dost thou use to write thy name? | Let me alone: Dost thou vse to write thy name? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.ii.98 | that I can write my name. | that I can write my name. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.200 | And that I'll write upon thy burgonet, | And that Ile write vpon thy Burgonet, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.56 | On him, his sons, his favourites, and his friends. | On him, his sonnes, his fauorites, and his friends. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.169 | Write up his title with usurping blood. | Write vp his Title with vsurping blood. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.193 | Whom I unnaturally shall disinherit. | Whom I vnnaturally shall dis-inherite. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.225 | And disinherited thine only son. | And dis-inherited thine onely Sonne. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.226 | Father, you cannot disinherit me; | Father, you cannot dis-inherite me: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.250 | Whereby my son is disinherited. | Whereby my Sonne is dis-inherited. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.271 | I'll write unto them and entreat them fair. | Ile write vnto them, and entreat them faire; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.56 | Write in the dust this sentence with thy blood: | Write in the dust this Sentence with thy blood, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.46 | We write in water. May it please your highness | We write in Water. May it please your Highnesse |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.128.1 | I caused you write yet sent away? | I caus'd you write, yet sent away? |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.126 | Mark him and write his speeches in their books, | Marke him, and write his Speeches in their Bookes, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.143 | Write them together, yours is as fair a name; | Write them together: Yours, is as faire a Name: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.241 | Have all true rites and lawful ceremonies, | Haue all true Rites, and lawfull Ceremonies, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.278 | Caesar did write for him to come to Rome. | Casar did write for him to come to Rome. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.36 | A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds | A barren spirited Fellow; one that feeds |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.6 | You wronged yourself to write in such a case. | You wrong'd your selfe to write in such a case. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.v.77 | With all respect and rites of burial. | Withall Respect, and Rites of Buriall. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.143 | Let them be soldiers of a lusty spirit, | Let them be Souldiers of a lustie spirite, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.54 | And hath a lusty and persuasive spirit. | And hath a lustie and perswasiue spirite: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.69 | And when thou writ'st of tears, encouch the word | And when thou writest of teares, encouch the word, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.95.2 | Write I to a woman? | Writ I to a woman? |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.105 | Write on, while I peruse her in my thoughts. | Write on while I peruse her in my thoughts, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.125 | If not, write but in letters capital | If not, write but in letters Capitall my mistres name, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.184 | Give me the pen and paper; I will write. | Giue me the pen and paper I will write, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.383 | That thus have housed my spirit in his form, | That thus haue housd my spirite in his forme, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.393 | The poets write that great Achilles' spear | The Poets write that great Achilles speare, |
| King John | KJ II.i.539 | The rites of marriage shall be solemnized. | The rights of marriage shallbe solemniz'd. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.57 | write this? a heart and brain to breed it in? When came | write this? A heart and braine to breede it in? When came |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.142 | I promise you, the effects he writes of succeed | I promise you, the effects he writes of, succeede |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.26 | That I may speak. I'll write straight to my sister | Ile write straight to my Sister |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.41 | A spirit, a spirit! He says his name's Poor Tom. | A spirite, a spirite, he sayes his name's poore Tom. |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.28 | But love, dear love, and our aged father's right. | But loue, deere loue, and our ag'd Fathers Rite: |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.19 | Why should she write to Edmund? Might not you | Why should she write to Edmund? |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.36 | About it; and write happy when th' hast done. | About it, and write happy, when th'hast done, |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.45 | As we shall find their merits and our safety | As we shall find their merites, and our safety |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.300 | Have more than merited. All friends shall taste | Haue more then merited. All Friends shall |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.117 | And to the strictest decrees I'll write my name. | And to the strictest decrees Ile write my name. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.153 | So to the laws at large I write my name, | So to the Lawes at large I write my name, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.241 | There did I see that low-spirited swain, that base minnow | There did I see that low spirited Swaine, that base Minow |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.177 | sure I shall turn sonnet. Devise, wit; write, pen; for I | sure I shall turne Sonnet. Deuise Wit, write Pen, for I |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.201 | Well, I will love, write, sigh, pray, sue, and groan; | Well, I will loue, write, sigh, pray, shue, grone, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.55 | These numbers will I tear, and write in prose. | These numbers will I teare, and write in prose. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.179 | When shall you see me write a thing in rhyme? | When shall you see me write a thing in rime? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.322 | Never durst poet touch a pen to write | Neuer durst Poet touch a pen to write, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.419 | Write ‘ Lord have mercy on us ’ on those three. | Write Lord haue mercie on vs, on those three, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.76 | As from your graves rise up and walk like sprites | As from your Graues rise vp, and walke like Sprights, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.100 | That writes them all alike. And so of men. | That writes them all alike: and so of men. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.27 | Shall raise such artificial sprites | Shall raise such Artificiall Sprights, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.126 | Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites | Come Sisters, cheere we vp his sprights, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.7 | write upon't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again return | write vpon't, read it, afterwards Seale it, and againe re-turne |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.55 | Matters of needful value. We shall write to you, | Matters of needfull value: We shall write to you |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.16 | Let's write ‘ good Angel ’ on the devil's horn, | Let's write good Angell on the Deuills horne |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.202 | uprighteously do a poor wronged lady a merited benefit, | vprighteously do a poor wronged Lady a merited benefit; |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.91 | Now will I write letters to Varrius – | Now wil I write Letters to Angelo, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.41 | An hypocrite, a virgin-violator, | An hypocrite, a virgin violator, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.32 | which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. | which your Prophet the Nazarite coniured the diuell into: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.6 | Straight shall our nuptial rites be solemnized; | Straight shall our nuptiall rights be solemniz'd: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.118 | Than to live still, and write mine epitaph. | Then to liue still, and write mine Epitaph. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.164 | You hear the learn'd Bellario, what he writes, | You heare the learn'd Bellario what he writes, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.9 | master parson, who writes himself Armigero – in any | (Master Parson) who writes himselfe Armigero, in any |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.88 | He writes | |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.196 | occasions. But whatsoever I have merited – either in my | occasions: but whatsoeuer I haue merited, either in my |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.61 | he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he | he dances, he has eies of youth: he writes verses, hee |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.i.38 | thus declined: Singulariter, nominativo, hic, haec, hoc. | thus declined. Singulariter nominatiuo hic haec, hoc. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.69 | And Honi soit qui mal y pense write | And, Hony Soit Qui Mal-y-Pence, write |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.33 | Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite | Or else you are that shrew'd and knauish spirit |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.16 | Write me a prologue, and let the prologue seem to say | Write me a Prologue, and let the Prologue seeme to say, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.132 | The rite of May, and hearing our intent | The right of May; and hearing our intent, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.212 | Peter Quince to write a ballad of this dream. It shall be | PeterQuince to write a ballet of this dreame, it shall be |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.371 | Every one lets forth his sprite | Euery one lets forth his spright, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.383 | Every elf and fairy sprite | Euerie Elfe and Fairie spright, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.142 | detain us longer. I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but | detaine vs longer: I dare sweare hee is no hypocrite, but |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.245 | great letters as they write ‘ Here is good horse to hire,’ | great Letters as they write, heere is good horse to hire: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.316 | By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady. | By my troth a pleasant spirited Lady. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.331 | till love have all his rites. | till Loue haue all his rites. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.131 | scorn, write to him that I love him?’ | scorne, write to him that I loue him? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.133 | write to him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and | write to him, for shee'll be vp twenty times a night, and |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.144 | to write to one that she knew would flout her. | to write, to one that shee knew would flout her: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.9 | Forbid the sun to enter – like favourites, | Forbid the sunne to enter: like fauourites, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.12 | for they can write and read. | for they can write and reade. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.15 | man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes | is the gift of Fortune, but to write and reade, comes |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.v.58 | the learned writer to set down our excommunication, | the learned writer to set downe our excommunication, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.54 | Out on thee! Seeming! I will write against it. | Out on thee seeming, I will write against it, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.205 | Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites | Hang mournfull Epitaphes, and do all rites, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.12 | Pray, write down, Borachio. Yours, sirrah? | Pray write downe Borachio. Yours sirra. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.15 | Write down Master Gentleman Conrade. | Write downe Master gentleman Conrade: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.18 | Write down, that they hope they serve God – | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.19 | and write God first, for God defend but God should go | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.39 | Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is | Write down, Prince Iohn a villaine: why this is |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.69 | write down the Prince's officer coxcomb. Come, bind | write downe the Princes Officer Coxcombe: come, binde |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.73 | not suspect my years? O that he were here to write me | not suspect my yeeres? O that hee were heere to write mee |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.51 | If he could right himself with quarrelling, | If he could rite himselfe with quarrelling, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.200 | you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be looked to. | you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be lookt to. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.4 | Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of | Will you then write me a Sonnet in praise of |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.24 | Exit Margaret | Exit Margarite. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.23 | Yearly will I do this rite. | yeerely will I do this right. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.68 | When, after that the holy rites are ended, | When after that the holy rites are ended, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.22 | From men of royal siege, and my demerits | From Men of Royall Seige. And my demerites |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.45.2 | Write from us: wish him | Write from vs, / To him, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.254 | The rites for which I love him are bereft me, | The Rites for why I loue him, are bereft me: |
| Othello | Oth II.i.115.1 | You shall not write my praise. | You shall not write my praise. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.116 | What wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst praise me? | What would'st write of me, if thou should'st praise me? |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.51 | Three else of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits – | Three else of Cyprus, Noble swelling Spirites, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.185 | Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw | Nor from mine owne weake merites, will I draw |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.71 | Made to write ‘ whore ’ upon? What committed! | Made to write Whore vpon? What commited, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.123 | When what is done is like an hypocrite, | When what is done, is like an hipocrite, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.17 | Even ripe for marriage-rite. This maid | Euen right for marriage sight : this Maid |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.75 | By that, and all the rites of knighthood else, | By that, and all the rites of Knight-hood else, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.85 | It must be great that can inherit us | It must be great that can inherite vs, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.186 | Nor never write, regreet, nor reconcile | Nor euer write, regreete, or reconcile |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.88 | Ye favourites of a King. Are we not high? | Ye Fauorites of a King: are wee not high? |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.147 | Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. | Write Sorrow on the Bosome of the Earth. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.57 | His issue disinherited should be. | His issue disinherited should be. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.46 | With that sour ferryman which poets write of, | With that sowre Ferry-man which Poets write of, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vi.5 | Eleven hours I have spent to write it over, | Eleuen houres I haue spent to write it ouer, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.428 | I go. Write to me very shortly, | I go, write to me very shortly, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.102 | God give us leisure for these rites of love! | God giue vs leysure for these rites of Loue. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.146 | Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite, | Where and what time thou wilt performe the right, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.10 | Any man that can write may answer a letter. | Any man that can write, may answere a Letter. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.ii.8 | Lovers can see to do their amorous rites | Louers can see to doe their Amorous rights, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.ii.27 | But I will write again to Mantua, | But I will write againe to Mantua, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.20 | To cross my obsequies and true love's rite? | To crosse my obsequies, and true loues right? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.288 | And here he writes that he did buy a poison | And heere he writes, that he did buy a poyson |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.6 | To speak the ceremonial rites of marriage! | To speake the ceremoniall rites of marriage? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.41 | I am sure, sweet Kate, this kindness merits thanks. | I am sure sweet Kate, this kindnesse merites thankes. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.380 | And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. | and sweete Sprights beare the burthen. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.114 | These be fine things, an if they be not sprites. | These be fine things, and if they be not sprights: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.17 | With full and holy rite be ministered, | With full and holy right, be ministred, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.152 | And write in thee the figures of their love, | And write in thee the figures of their loue, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.38 | Are not inherited. Then, dear countryman, | Are not inherited, then deere Countryman, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.81 | Stand gracious to the rites that we intend. | Stand gracious to the Rites that we intend. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.146 | Our Roman rites. Alarbus' limbs are lopped, | Our Romaine rightes, Alarbus limbs are lopt, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.340 | There shall we consummate our spousal rites. | There shall we Consummate our Spousall rites. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iv.3 | Write down thy mind, bewray thy meaning so, | Write downe thy mind, bewray thy meaning so, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.12 | For these two, tribunes, in the dust I write | For these, Tribunes, in the dust I write |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.195 | More hath it merited, that let it have. | More hath it merited: That let it haue. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.69.1 | He writes his name with his staff, and guides it with | He writes his Name with his staffe, and guides it with |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.72 | Write thou, good niece, and here display at last | Write thou good Neece, and heere display at last, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.76.2 | her stumps, and writes | her stumps and writes. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.102 | And with a gad of steel will write these words, | And with a Gad of steele will write these words, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iii.105 | Give me pen and ink. (Writes) | Giue me pen and inke. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.13 | And now he writes to heaven for his redress. | And now he writes to heauen for his redresse. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.195 | No funeral rite, nor man in mourning weed, | No Funerall Rite, nor man in mournfull Weeds: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.191 | My spritely brethren, I propend to you | My spritely brethren, I propend to you |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.127 | And underwrite in an observing kind | And vnder write in an obseruing kinde |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.31 | with a sprite. I'll fetch her. It is the prettiest villain; she | with a sprite: Ile fetch her; it is the prettiest villaine, she |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.96 | Writes me that man – how dearly ever parted, | Writes me, that man, how dearely euer parted, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.56 | Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out | Nay, her foote speakes, her wanton spirites looke out |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.259 | Write loyal cantons of contemned love | Write loyall Cantons of contemned loue, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.125 | Do't, knight, I'll write thee a challenge; or I'll | Doo't knight, Ile write thee a Challenge: or Ile |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.152 | feelingly personated. I can write very like my lady, your | feelingly personated. I can write very like my Ladie your |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.40 | Go, write it in a martial hand. Be curst and | Go, write it in a martial hand, be curst and |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.47 | in thy ink, though thou write with a goose pen, no | in thy inke, though thou write with a Goose-pen, no |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.309 | Did he write this? | Did he write this? |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.330 | Write from it if you can, in hand or phrase, | Write from it if you can, in hand, or phrase, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.42 | Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud | Yet Writers say; as in the sweetest Bud, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.45 | And writers say, as the most forward bud | And Writers say; as the most forward Bud |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.56 | There is no news, my lord, but that he writes | There is no newes (my Lord) but that he writes |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.82 | Last night she enjoined me to write some | Last night she enioyn'd me, / To write some |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.107 | No, madam; so it stead you, I will write, | No (Madam) so it steed you, I will write |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.122 | Please you, I'll write your ladyship another. | Please you, Ile write your Ladiship another. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.133 | That my master, being scribe, to himself should write the letter? | That my master being scribe, / To himselfe should write the Letter? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.144 | What need she, when she hath made you write to | What need she, / When shee hath made you write to |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.159 | Herself hath taught her love himself to write unto her lover. | Her self hath taught her Loue himself, to write vnto her louer. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.ii.75 | Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears | Write till your inke be dry: and with your teares |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.55 | To such a favourite's glass? What canon is there | To such a Favorites glasse: What Cannon is there |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.74.2 | Clear-spirited cousin, | Cleere spirited Cozen |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.2 | A several laund. This is a solemn rite | A severall land. This is a solemne Right |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.55.2 | Can he write and read too? | Can he write and reade too. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK prologue.19 | From me the witless chaff of such a writer | From me the witles chaffe of such a wrighter |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.26.1 | Of sprites and goblins. | of Sprights, and Goblins. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.28 | To fright me with your sprites. You're powerful at it. | To fright me with your Sprights: you're powrefull at it. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.47 | How merited to be so; since he came, | How merited to be so: Since he came, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.557 | Things known betwixt us three – I'll write you down, | Things knowne betwixt vs three, Ile write you downe, |