| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.167 | Your salt tears' head. Now to all sense 'tis gross: | Your salt teares head, now to all sence 'tis grosse: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.i.21 | Salt Cleopatra, soften thy waned lip! | Salt Cleopatra soften thy wand lip, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.17 | Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he | did hang a salt fish on his hooke which he |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.135 | stood in her chin, by the salt rheum that ran between | stood in her chin by the salt rheume that ranne betweene |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.22 | Thy tears are salter than a younger man's | Thy teares are salter then a yonger mans, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.48 | The trumpets, sackbuts, psalteries, and fifes, | The Trumpets, Sack-buts, Psalteries, and Fifes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.vi.93 | For certain drops of salt, your city Rome – | For certaine drops of Salt, your City Rome: |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.80 | in other terms, you shall find us in our salt-water | in other tearmes, you shall finde vs in our Salt-water- |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.154 | Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears | Ere yet the salt of most vnrighteous Teares |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.165 | Neptune's salt wash and Tellus' orbed ground, | Neptunes salt Wash, and Tellus Orbed ground: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.156 | O heat, dry up my brains! Tears seven times salt | Oh heate drie vp my Braines, teares seuen times salt, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.59 | This villainous saltpetre should be digged | That villanous Salt-peter should be digg'd |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.98 | some relish of the saltness of time; and I most humbly | some rellish of the saltnesse of Time, and I most humbly |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.210 | As many fresh streams meet in one salt sea, | As many fresh streames meet in one salt sea; |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.8 | merits – he is come to me and prings me pread and salt | merits: hee is come to me, and prings me pread and sault |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.50 | Our isle be made a nourish of salt tears, | Our Ile be made a Nourish of salt Teares, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.96 | With tears as salt as sea through thy unkindness. | With teares as salt as Sea, through thy vnkindnesse. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.143 | Upon his face an ocean of salt tears, | Vpon his face an Ocean of salt teares, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.45.2 | The salt in them is hot. | The salt in them is hot. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.196 | Why, this would make a man a man of salt, | Why, this would make a man, a man of Salt |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.55 | Now, by the salt wave of the Mediterraneum, a | Now by the salt waue of the mediteranium, a |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.24 | Of the ravined salt sea shark, | Of the rauin'd salt Sea sharke: |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.398 | Whose salt imagination yet hath wronged | Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.20 | The luce is the fresh fish. The salt fish is an | The Luse is the fresh-fish, the salt-fish, is an |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.265 | Hang him, mechanical salt-butter rogue! I will | Hang him, mechanicall-salt-butter rogue; I wil |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.iii.43 | churchmen, Master Page, we have some salt of our | Church-men (M. Page) wee haue some salt of our |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.98 | How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt tears – | How came her eyes so bright? Not with salt teares. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.393 | Turns into yellow gold his salt green streams. | Turnes into yellow gold, his salt greene streames. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.140 | And salt too little which may season give | And salt too little, which may season giue |
| Othello | Oth II.i.233 | humane seeming for the better compassing of his salt | Humaine seeming, for the better compasse of his salt, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.401 | As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross | As salt as Wolues in pride, and Fooles as grosse |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.51 | I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me; | I haue a salt and sorry Rhewme offends me: |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.44 | Her salt tears fell from her and softened the stones – | Her salt teares fell from her, and softned the stones, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.244 | And yet salt water blinds them not so much | And yet salt-Water blindes them not so much, |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.105 | How now! What means death in this rude assault? | How now? what meanes Death in this rude assalt? |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.153 | Those eyes of thine from mine have drawn salt tears, | Those eyes of thine, from mine haue drawne salt Teares; |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.67 | How much salt water thrown away in waste | How much salt water throwne away in wast, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.134 | Sailing in this salt flood. The winds, thy sighs, | Sayling in this salt floud, the windes thy sighes, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.155 | When I have decked the sea with drops full salt, | When I haue deck'd the sea with drops full salt, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.253 | Of the salt deep, | Of the salt deepe; |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.67 | stained with salt water. | stain'd with salte water. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.86 | Make use of thy salt hours. Season the slaves | Make vse of thy salt houres, season the slaues |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.442 | The moon into salt tears. The earth's a thief, | The Moone into Salt teares. The Earth's a Theefe, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.214 | Upon the beached verge of the salt flood, | Vpon the Beached Verge of the salt Flood, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.20 | Drown the lamenting fool in sea-salt tears. | Drowne the lamenting foole, in Sea salt teares. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.255 | the spice and salt that season a man? | the Spice, and salt that seasons a man? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.371 | Than in the pride and salt scorn of his eyes | Then in the pride and salt scorne of his eyes |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.47 | Distasted with the salt of broken tears. | Distasting with the salt of broken teares. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.27 | drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to | drown'd already sir with salt water, though I seeme to |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.375 | Tempests are kind, and salt waves fresh in love! | Tempests are kinde, and salt waues fresh in loue. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.66 | Notable pirate, thou salt-water thief, | Notable Pyrate, thou salt-water Theefe, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.350 | cover of the salt hides the salt, and therefore it is more | couer of the salt, hides the salt, and therefore it is more |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.351 | than the salt; the hair that covers the wit is more than | then the salt; the haire that couers the wit, is more then |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.325 | Saltiers, and they have a dance which the wenches say | Saltiers, and they haue a Dance, which the Wenches say |