| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.211 | That seeks not to find that her search implies, | That seekes not to finde that, her search implies, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.16 | The bravest questant shrinks, find what you seek, | The brauest questant shrinkes: finde what you seeke, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.74 | With true observance seek to eke out that | With true obseruance seeke to eeke out that |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.151 | To bring forth this discovery. Seek these suitors. | To bring forth this discou'rie, seeke these sutors: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.86 | Seek him, and bring him hither. Where's Alexas? | Seeke him, and bring him hither: wher's Alexias? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.32 | Nay, pray you seek no colour for your going, | Nay pray you seeke no colour for your going, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.165.1 | Or else he seeks out us. | Or else he seekes out vs. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.82 | Who seeks, and will not take when once 'tis offered, | Who seekes and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iv.21 | Let your best love draw to that point which seeks | Let your best loue draw to that point which seeks |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.199 | It eats the sword it fights with. I will seek | It eates the Sword it fights with: I will seeke |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vi.37 | I fight against thee? No, I will go seek | I fight against thee: No I will go seeke |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.46 | Of Caesar seek your honour, with your safety. O! | Of Casar seeke your Honour, with your safety. Oh. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.128 | A benefit in this change; but if you seek | A benefit in this change: but if you seeke |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.97 | No, let my father seek another heir. | No, let my Father seeke another heire: |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.100 | And do not seek to take your change upon you, | And doe not seeke to take your change vpon you, |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.105 | To seek my uncle in the Forest of Arden. | To seeke my Vncle in the Forrest of Arden. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.73 | At seventeen years many their fortunes seek, | At seauenteene yeeres, many their fortunes seeke |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.37 | Seeking the food he eats, | Seeking the food he eates, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.59 | And I'll go seek the Duke; his banquet is | And Ile go seeke the Duke, / His banket is |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.7 | Go, seek him, tell him I would speak with him. | Go seeke him, tell him I would speake with him. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.153 | Seeking the bubble reputation | Seeking the bubble Reputation |
| As You Like It | AYL III.i.3 | I should not seek an absent argument | I should not seeke an absent argument |
| As You Like It | AYL III.i.6 | Seek him with candle, bring him dead or living | Seeke him with Candle: bring him dead, or liuing |
| As You Like It | AYL III.i.8 | To seek a living in our territory. | To seeke a liuing in our Territorie. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.98 | Let him seek out Rosalind. | Let him seeke out Rosalinde: |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.277 | By my troth, I was seeking for a fool when I | By my troth, I was seeking for a Foole, when I |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.159 | Marry, to say she came to seek you there. You | Marry to say, she came to seeke you there: you |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.59 | Our master and mistress seeks you: come away, | Our Master and Mistresse seekes you: come away, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.75 | Forced me to seek delays for them and me. | Forst me to seeke delayes for them and me, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.152 | To seek thy health by beneficial help. | To seeke thy helpe by beneficiall helpe, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.36 | That in the ocean seeks another drop, | That in the Ocean seekes another drop, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.104 | I'll to the Centaur to go seek this slave. | Ile to the Centaur to goe seeke this slaue, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.2 | That in such haste I sent to seek his master? | That in such haste I sent to seeke his Master? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.3 | Is wandered forth in care to seek me out | Is wandred forth in care to seeke me out |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.38 | and ensconce it too, or else I shall seek my wit in my | and Insconce it to, or else I shall seek my wit in my |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.225 | I went to seek him. In the street I met him, | I went to seeke him. In the street I met him, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.186 | Would feed on one another? What's their seeking? | Would feede on one another? What's their seeking? |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.12 | was pleased to let him seek danger where he was like to | was pleas'd to let him seeke danger, where he was like to |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.17 | neither good nor harm. But he seeks their hate with | neyther good, nor harme: but hee seekes their hate with |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.19 | I wish I had a cause to seek him there, | I wish I had a cause to seeke him there, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.iii.95 | Envied against the people, seeking means | Enui'd against the people; seeking meanes |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.42 | O'er the vast world to seek a single man, | O're the vast world, to seeke a single man, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.122 | Than seek the end of one, thou shalt no sooner | Then seeke the end of one; thou shalt no sooner |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.20 | As, to seek through the regions of the earth | As to seeke through the Regions of the Earth |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.144 | For such an end thou seek'st, as base, as strange. | For such an end thou seek'st, as base, as strange: |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.133.2 | If you seek | If you seeke |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.72 | Which he to seek of me again, perforce, | Which he, to seeke of me againe, perforce, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.79 | us a day or two, or longer: if you seek us afterwards | vs, a day, or two, or longer: if you seek vs afterwards |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.50 | A pain that only seems to seek out danger | A paine that onely seemes to seeke out danger |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.160 | That possible strength might meet, would seek us through | That possible strength might meet, wold seek vs through |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.162 | We'll hunt no more today, nor seek for danger | Wee'l hunt no more to day, nor seeke for danger |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.20 | There wants no diligence in seeking him, | There wants no diligence in seeking him, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.33 | And meet the time, as it seeks us. We fear not | And meete the Time, as it seekes vs. We feare not |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.139 | unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced | vnknown, without seeking finde, and bee embrac'd |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.281 | To seek her on the mountains near to Milford; | To seeke her on the Mountaines neere to Milford, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.437 | unknown, without seeking find, and be embraced | vnknown, without seeking finde, and bee embrac'd |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.71 | Seek for thy noble father in the dust. | Seeke for thy Noble Father in the dust; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.101 | Come, go with me. I will go seek the King. | Goe with me, I will goe seeke the King, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.220 | You go to seek the Lord Hamlet. There he is. | You goe to seeke my Lord Hamlet; there hee is. |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.462.1 | Old grandsire Priam seeks.’ | Olde Grandsire Priam seekes. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.i.36 | Go seek him out. Speak fair. And bring the body | Go seeke him out, speake faire, and bring the body |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.1 | I have sent to seek him and to find the body. | I haue sent to seeke him, and to find the bodie: |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.33 | find him not there, seek him i'th' other place | finde him not there, seeke him i'th other place |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.37 | (to attendants) Go seek him there. | Go seeke him there. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.2 | when she wilfully seeks her own salvation? | that wilfully seekes her owne saluation? |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.114 | They are sheep and calves which seek out assurance | They are Sheepe and Calues that seek out assurance |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.306 | Treachery! Seek it out. | Treacherie, seeke it out. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.9 | go seek him. | go seek him. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.102 | And in conclusion drove us to seek out | And in conclusion, droue vs to seeke out |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.2 | Thou crossest me? What honour dost thou seek | yu crossest me? / What honor dost thou seeke |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.31 | Seek Percy and thyself about the field, | Seeke Percy and thy selfe about the Field: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.49 | Or it will seek me in another place | Or it will seeke me in another place, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.157 | i'faith. I beseek you now, aggravate your choler. | I beseeke you now, aggrauate your Choler. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.61 | The Prince hath ta'en it hence. Go, seek him out. | The Prince hath ta'ne it hence: / Goe seeke him out. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.98 | Thou seekest the greatness that will overwhelm thee. | Thou seek'st the Greatnesse, that will ouer-whelme thee. |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.15 | Seek to divert the English purposes. | Seeke to diuert the English purposes. |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.174 | Touching our person seek we no revenge, | Touching our person, seeke we no reuenge, |
| Henry V | H5 III.ii.51 | must leave them, and seek some better service. Their | must leaue them, and seeke some better Seruice: their |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.138 | And tell thy King I do not seek him now, | And tell thy King, I doe not seeke him now, |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.162 | We would not seek a battle as we are, | We would not seeke a Battaile as we are, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.126 | Ay, or more than we should seek after; for we know | I, or more then wee should seeke after; for wee know |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.279.1 | Seek through your camp to find you. | Seeke through your Campe to find you. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.vii.162 | Pray thee go seek him, and bring him to | Pray thee goe seeke him, and bring him to |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.65 | That seeks to overthrow religion, | That seekes to ouerthrow Religion, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.31 | Or how haps it I seek not to advance | Or how haps it, I seeke not to aduance |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.91 | And seek how we may prejudice the foe. | And seeke how we may preiudice the Foe. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.59 | But tell me whom thou seekest. | But tell me whom thou seek'st? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.52 | And not to seek a queen to make him rich. | And not to seeke a Queene to make him rich, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.241 | For that's the golden mark I seek to hit. | For that's the Golden marke I seeke to hit: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.75 | 'Tis that they seek; and they, in seeking that, | 'Tis that they seeke; and they, in seeking that, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.57 | Nor never seek prevention of thy foes. | Nor neuer seeke preuention of thy foes. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.208 | Do seek subversion of thy harmless life? | Doe seeke subuersion of thy harmelesse Life. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.86 | Did seem to say ‘ Seek not a scorpion's nest, | Did seeme to say, seeke not a Scorpions Nest, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.94 | Whom have I injured, that ye seek my death? | Whom haue I iniur'd, that ye seeke my death? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.19 | I seek not to wax great by others' waning, | I seeke not to waxe great by others warning, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.165 | And seek for sorrow with thy spectacles? | And seeke for sorrow with thy Spectacles? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.14 | Hold, Warwick! Seek thee out some other chase, | Hold Warwick: seek thee out some other chace |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.60 | In cruelty will I seek out my fame. | In cruelty, will I seeke out my Fame. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.34 | Unless he seek to thrust you out perforce. | Vnlesse he seeke to thrust you out perforce. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.190 | They seek revenge and therefore will not yield. | They seeke reuenge, and therefore will not yeeld. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.200 | To seek to put me down and reign thyself. | To seeke to put me downe, and reigne thy selfe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.205 | Accursed be he that seeks to make them foes! | Accurst be he that seekes to make them foes. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.45 | But that I seek occasion how to rise, | But that I seeke occasion how to rise, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.178 | My soul flies through these wounds to seek out Thee. | My Soule flyes through these wounds, to seeke out thee. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.165 | Why, therefore Warwick came to seek you out, | Why therefore Warwick came to seek you out, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.176 | Seeking a way and straying from the way, | Seeking a way, and straying from the way, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.177 | Is this th' alliance that he seeks with France? | Is this th' Alliance that he seekes with France? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.265 | But seek revenge on Edward's mockery. | But seeke Reuenge on Edwards mockery. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.80 | Unless they seek for hatred at my hands; | Vnlesse they seeke for hatred at my hands: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.3 | Now, Montague, sit fast; I seek for thee, | Now Mountague sit fast, I seeke for thee, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.2 | But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. | But chearely seeke how to redresse their harmes. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.73 | And seek their ruin that usurped our right? | And seeke their Ruine, that vsurp'd our Right? |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.114 | And never seek for aid out of himself. Yet see, | And neuer seeke for ayd out of himselfe: yet see, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.213 | Let him not seek't of us. By day and night! | Let him not seek't of vs: By day and night |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.38 | Seek me out, and that way I am wife in, | Seeke me out, and that way I am Wife in; |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.414 | To be thy lord and master. Seek the King – | To be thy Lord, and Master. Seeke the King |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.16.1 | That seeks dispatch by day. | That seekes dispatch by day. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.83 | Men's prayers then would seek you, not their fears. | Mens prayers then would seeke you, not their feares. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.110 | In seeking tales and informations | In seeking tales and Informations |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.64 | That you would have me seek into myself | That you would haue me seeke into my selfe, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.150 | To seek you at your house. Well, I will hie, | To seeke you at your house. Well, I will hie, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.81 | To mask thy monstrous visage? Seek none, conspiracy; | To maske thy monstrous Visage? Seek none Conspiracie, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.226.2 | That's all I seek, | That's all I seeke, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.205 | Revenge! About! Seek! Burn! Fire! Kill! Slay! Let | Reuenge / About, seeke, burne, fire, kill, slay, / Let |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.233 | Away then! Come, seek the conspirators. | Away then, come, seeke the Conspirators. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.197 | 'Tis better that the enemy seek us; | 'Tis better that the Enemie seeke vs, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.73 | Seek him, Titinius, whilst I go to meet | Seeke him Titinius, whilst I go to meet |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.79 | And I will seek for Pindarus the while. | And I will seeke for Pindarus the while: |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.79 | Yet seeks elsewhere: and basest theft is that | Yet seekes elsewhere and basest theft is that, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.70 | Seek out some habitation further off. | Seeke out som habitation further of, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.153 | To seek the thing it fears; and how disgraced | To seeke the thing it feares, and how disgrast, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.156 | Seek him, and he not them, to shame his glory. | Seeke him, and he not them, to shame his glorie, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.159 | Since for to live is but to seek to die, | Since for to liue is but to seeke to die, |
| King John | KJ I.i.226 | Is it Sir Robert's son that you seek so? | Is it Sir Roberts sonne that you seeke so? |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.15 | To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, | To seeke the beauteous eye of heauen to garnish, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.133 | To your proceedings? Do not seek to stuff | To your proceedings? Do not seeke to stuffe |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.164 | And others more, going to seek the grave | And others more, going to seeke the graue |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.169.2 | I will seek them out. | I will seeke them out. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.203 | Why seekest thou to possess me with these fears? | Why seek'st thou to possesse me with these feares? |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.74 | Lords, I am hot with haste in seeking you. | Lords, I am hot with haste, in seeking you, |
| King John | KJ V.i.57 | What, shall they seek the lion in his den, | What, shall they seeke the Lion in his denne, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.13 | Should seek a plaster by contemned revolt, | Should seeke a plaster by contemn'd reuolt, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.142 | To hug with swine, to seek sweet safety out | To hug with swine, to seeke sweet safety out |
| King John | KJ V.iv.13 | Seek out King John and fall before his feet; | Seeke out King Iohn, and fall before his feete: |
| King John | KJ V.vii.79 | Straight let us seek, or straight we shall be sought; | Straight let vs seeke, or straight we shall be sought, |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.28 | Why so earnestly seek you to put up that | Why so earnestly seeke you to put vp yt |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.78 | villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him; I'll | Villaine; worse then brutish: Go sirrah, seeke him: Ile |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.97 | loves him. Heaven and earth! Edmund, seek him out. | Edmond seeke him out: |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.101 | I will seek him, sir, presently, convey the business | I will seeke him Sir, presently: conuey the businesse |
| King Lear | KL II.i.76.1 | To make thee seek it.’ | To make thee seeke it. |
| King Lear | KL II.i.90 | What, did my father's godson seek your life? | What, did my Fathers Godsonne seeke your life? |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.167 | From this enormous state, seeking to give | From this enormous State, seeking to giue |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.74 | That sir which serves and seeks for gain, | That Sir, which serues and seekes for gaine, |
| King Lear | KL III.i.50 | I will go seek the King. | I will go seeke the King. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.23 | Prithee go in thyself: seek thine own ease. | Prythee go in thy selfe, seeke thine owne ease, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.121 | Who's there? What is't you seek? | Who's there? What is't you seeke? |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.145 | Yet have I ventured to come seek you out | Yet haue I ventured to come seeke you out, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.156 | His daughters seek his death. Ah, that good Kent, | His Daughters seeke his death: Ah, that good Kent, |
| King Lear | KL III.v.5 | brother's evil disposition made him seek his death; but | Brothers euill disposition made him seeke his death: but |
| King Lear | KL III.v.17 | Gloucester. Seek out where thy father is, that he may be | Gloucester: seeke out where thy Father is, that hee may bee |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.3 | landed. – Seek out the traitor Gloucester. | landed: seeke out the Traitor Glouster. |
| King Lear | KL III.vii.22.2 | Go seek the traitor Gloucester. | go seek the Traitor Gloster, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.18 | In the good man's distress. Seek, seek for him, | In the Goodmans desires: seeke, seeke for him, |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.249 | To Edmund, Earl of Gloucester. Seek him out | To Edmund Earle of Glouster: seeke him out |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.75 | To seek the light of truth, while truth the while | To seeke the light of truth, while truth the while |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.77 | Light seeking light doth light of light beguile; | Light seeeking light, doth light of light beguile: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.87 | Than seek a dispensation for his oath, | Then seeke a dispensation for his oath: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.104 | I hear your grace hath sworn out housekeeping. | I heare your grace hath sworne out Houseekeeping: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.186 | What? I love? I sue? I seek a wife? | What? I loue, I sue, I seeke a wife, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.34 | As I for praise alone now seek to spill | As I for praise alone now seeke to spill |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.235 | Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. | Where nothing wants, that want it selfe doth seeke. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.62 | How I would make him fawn, and beg, and seek, | How I would make him fawne, and begge, and seeke, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.425 | Our states are forfeit. Seek not to undo us. | Our states are forfeit, seeke not to vndo vs. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.811 | | Hence euer then, my heart is in thy brest. / Ber. And what to me my Loue? and what to me? / Ros. You must be purged too, your sins are rack'd. / You are attaint with faults and periurie: / Therefore if you my fauor meane to get, / A tweluemonth shall you spend, and neuer rest, / But seeke the wearie beds of people sicke. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.35 | Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves | Wanton in fulnesse, seeke to hide themselues |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.27 | In seeking to augment it, but still keep | In seeking to augment it, but still keepe |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.102.2 | Seek to know no more. | Seeke to know no more. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.1 | Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there | Let vs seeke out some desolate shade, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.72.1 | Doth he so seek his life? | Doth he so, / Seeke his life? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.42 | To sue to live, I find I seek to die, | To sue to liue, I finde I seeke to die, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.43 | And, seeking death, find life. Let it come on. | And seeking death, finde life: Let it come on. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.29 | You bid me seek redemption of the devil. | You bid me seeke redemption of the diuell, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.296 | Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox? | Come you to seeke the Lamb here of the Fox; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.117 | seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them | seeke all day ere you finde them, & when you haue them |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.ii.117 | The four strangers seek for you, madam, to | The foure Strangers seeke you Madam to |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.66 | I have sent twenty out to seek for you. | I haue sent twenty out to seeke for you. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.69 | We have been up and down to seek him. | We haue beene vp and downe to seeke him. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.134 | Be content and seek no new. | Be content, and seeke no new. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iii.21 | He seeks my life. His reason well I know: | He seekes my life, his reason well I know; |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.79 | As seek to soften that – than which what's harder? – | As seeke to soften that, then which what harder? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.348 | He seek the life of any citizen, | He seeke the life of any Citizen, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.77 | Trudge, plod away o'th' hoof, seek shelter, pack! | Trudge; plod away ith' hoofe: seeke shelter, packe: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.131 | I will seek out Falstaff. | I will seeke out Falstaffe. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.153 | Search, seek, find out. I'll warrant we'll unkennel | search, seeke, finde out: Ile warrant wee'le vnkennell |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.6 | I seek to heal it only by his wealth. | I seeke to heale it onely by his wealth. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.19 | Yet seek my father's love, still seek it, sir. | Yet seeke my Fathers loue, still seeke it sir, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.82 | I mean it not – I seek you a better husband. | I meane it not, I seeke you a better husband. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.56 | He will seek there, on my word. Neither | He will seeke there on my word: Neyther |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.148 | Well, he's not here I seek for. | Well, hee's not heere I seeke for. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.151 | not what I seek, show no colour for my extremity. Let | not what I seeke, shew no colour for my extremity: Let |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.219 | To seek new friends and stranger companies. | To seeke new friends and strange companions, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.14 | I must go seek some dewdrops here, | I must go seeke some dew drops heere, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.246 | Thou shalt fly him, and he shall seek thy love. | Thou shalt flie him, and he shall seeke thy loue. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.259 | Take thou some of it, and seek through this grove. | Take thou some of it, and seek through this groue; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.189 | Why seekest thou me? Could not this make thee know | Why seek'st thou me? Could not this make thee know, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.354 | Thou seest these lovers seek a place to fight. | Thou seest these Louers seeke a place to fight, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.34 | I have a venturous fairy that shall seek | I haue a venturous Fairy, / That shall seeke |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.48 | Seeking sweet favours from this hateful fool, | Seeking sweet sauors for this hatefull foole, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.189 | is returned to seek you. | is returned to seeke you. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.34 | am, and seek not to alter me. | am, and seeke not to alter me. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.263 | Count Claudio, whom you sent me to seek. | Count Claudio, whom you sent me to seeke. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.197 | seek Benedick, and tell him of her love? | see Benedicke, and tell him of her loue. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.172 | Why seek'st thou then to cover with excuse | Why seek'st thou then to couer with excuse, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.109 | See, see; here comes the man we went to seek. | See, see, here comes the man we went to seeke. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.120 | came to seek you both. | came to seeke you both. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.121 | We have been up and down to seek thee, for we | We haue beene vp and downe to seeke thee, for we |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.54 | Here comes another troop to seek for you. | Here comes another Troope to seeke for you. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.354 | It is clean out of the way. Seek thou rather to be hanged | it is cleane out of the way. Seeke thou rather to be hang'd |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.18 | Seek him; bid him come hither; tell him I | Seeke him, bidde him come hither: tell him, I |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.161 | I will go seek him. Cassio, walk here about. | I will go seeke him. Cassio, walke heere about: |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.163 | And seek to effect it to my uttermost. | And seeke to effect it to my vttermost. |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.199 | If not, assure yourself I will seek satisfaction of | If not, assure your selfe, I will seeke satisfaction of |
| Othello | Oth V.i.81 | I am sorry to find you thus: I have been to seek you. | I am sorry to finde you thus; / I haue beene to seeke you. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.I.33 | To seek her as a bedfellow, | To seeke her as a bedfellow, |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.29 | If in the world he live, we'll seek him out; | If in the world he liue, wee'le seeke him out: |
| Pericles | Per II.v.44 | O, seek not to entrap me, gracious lord, | Oh seeke not to intrappe me, gracious Lord, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.14 | Seeks to take off by treason's knife. | Seeke to take off by treasons knife, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.90 | Your lady seeks my life; come you between, | your Ladie seekes my life Come, you betweene, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.63 | Thrown me for to seek my mother! | throwne me, for to seeke my mother. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.173 | Did seek to murder me; | Did seeke to murther me: |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.72 | To seek out sorrow that dwells everywhere. | To seeke out sorrow, that dwels euery where: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.86 | Since thou dost seek to kill my name in me, | Since thou dost seeke to kill my name in mec, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.189 | Seek you to seize and grip into your hands | Seeke you to seize, and gripe into your hands |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.264 | Yet see no shelter to avoid the storm. | Yet seeke no shelter to auoid the storme: |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.71 | And I am come to seek that name in England, | And I am come to seeke that Name in England, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iv.5 | Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death. | Seeking for Richmond in the throat of death: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.80 | Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe. | Thou shalt not stir a foote to seeke a Foe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.75 | The valiant Paris seeks you for his love. | The valiant Paris seekes you for his loue. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.106 | Go, girl, seek happy nights to happy days. | Goe Gyrle, seeke happie nights to happy daies. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.i.42 | To seek him here that means not to be found. | to seeke him here / That meanes not to be found. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.56 | Seeking out Romeo, that did spit his body | Seeking out Romeo that did spit his body |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.198 | Search, seek, and know, how this foul murder comes. | Search, / Seeke, and know how, this foule murder comes. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.24 | And with satiety seeks to quench his thirst. | And with sacietie seekes to quench his thirst. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.50 | To seek their fortunes farther than at home, | To seeke their fortunes farther then at home, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.264 | And if you break the ice and do this feat, | And if you breake the ice, and do this seeke, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.323 | The gain I seek is quiet in the match. | The gaine I seeke, is quiet me the match. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.162 | Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, | Or seeke for rule, supremacie, and sway, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.347 | In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate | In mine owne Cell, till thou didst seeke to violate |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.332 | So, King, go safely on to seek thy son. | So (King) goe safely on to seeke thy Son. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.80 | And all the more it seeks to hide itself, | And all the more it seekes to hide it selfe, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.103 | I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, | I'le seeke him deeper then ere plummet sounded, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.296 | And seek for grace. What a thrice double ass | And seeke for grace: what a thrice double Asse |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.24 | Who seeks for better of thee, sauce his palate | Who seekes for better of thee, sawce his pallate |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.141 | And he whose pious breath seeks to convert you – | And he whose pious breath seekes to conuert you, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.211 | Be thou a flatterer now, and seek to thrive | Be thou a Flatterer now, and seeke to thriue |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.237.1 | Why dost thou seek me out? | Why do'st thou seeke me out? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.38 | Nay, let's seek him. | Nay let's seeke him. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iii.1 | Enter a Soldier in the woods, seeking Timon | Enter a Souldier in the Woods, seeking Timon. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.71 | Seek not my name. A plague consume you wicked caitiffs left! | Seek not my name: A Plague consume you, wicked Caitifs left: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.190 | Now will I hence to seek my lovely Moor, | Now will I hence to seeke my louely Moore, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.89 | Seeking to hide herself, as doth the deer | Seeking to hide herselfe as doth the Deare |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.267 | That seeks his praise more than he fears his peril, | That seekes his praise, more then he feares his perill, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.169 | And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not virtue seek | And farewels goes out sighing: O let not vertue seeke |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.56 | He merits well to have her, that doth seek her, | He merits well to haue her, that doth seeke her, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.85 | Half heart, half hand, half Hector comes to seek | Halfe heart, halfe hand, halfe Hector, comes to seeke |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.185 | I have been seeking you this hour, my lord. | I haue beene seeking you this houre my Lord: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iv.35 | yet, in a sort, lechery eats itself. I'll seek them. | yet in a sort, lecherie eates it selfe: Ile seeke them. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.vi.19.1 | Till when, go seek thy fortune. | Till when, goe seeke thy fortune. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.10 | Strike, fellows, strike; this is the man I seek. | Strike fellowes, strike, this is the man I seeke. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.56 | Till then I'll sweat, and seek about for eases, | Till then, Ile sweate, and seeke about for eases; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.34 | That he did seek the love of fair Olivia. | That he did seeke the loue of faire Oliuia. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.129 | Go thou and seek the crowner, and let him sit o' | Go thou and seeke the Crowner, and let him sitte o' |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.14 | Seek him out, and play the tune the while. | Seeke him out, and play the tune the while. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.323 | I must obey. (To Viola) This comes with seeking you. | I must obey. This comes with seeking you: |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.iii.7 | That he did range the town to seek me out. | That he did range the towne to seeke me out, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.86 | The shepherd seeks the sheep, and not the sheep | The Shepheard seekes the Sheepe, and not the Sheepe |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.87 | the shepherd; but I seek my master, and my master | the Shepheard; but I seeke my Master, and my Master |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.88 | seeks not me. Therefore I am no sheep. | seekes not me: therefore I am no Sheepe. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.7 | Put forth their sons to seek preferment out: | Put forth their Sonnes, to seeke preferment out. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.92 | How could he see his way to seek out you? | How could he see his way to seeke out you? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.20 | As seek to quench the fire of love with words. | As seeke to quench the fire of Loue with words. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vii.21 | I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, | I doe not seeke to quench your Loues hot fire, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.188 | Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out. | Run (boy) run, run, and seeke him out. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.75 | Gone to seek his dog, which tomorrow, by his | Gone to seeke his dog, which to morrow, by his |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.140 | We shall live long and loving. No surfeits seek us; | We shall live long, and loving: No surfeits seeke us: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.315.1 | And seek to ravish me! | And seeke to ravish me. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.25.1 | What made you seek this place, sir? | What made you seeke this place Sir? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.79 | That have died manly, which will seek of me | That have dyde manly, which will seeke of me |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iv.23 | And I'll go seek him, through the world that is so wide; | And ile goe seeke him, throw the world that is so wide |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.126 | That seek out silent hanging; then mine host | That seeke out silent hanging: Then mine Host |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.157.3 | We seek not | We seeke not |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.71 | Than any jot obeys; seeks all foul means | Then any jot obaies; seekes all foule meanes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.95.2 | Thy brave soul seek Elysium! | Thy brave soule seeke Elizium. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.48 | Though you would seek t' unsphere the stars with oaths, | Though you would seek t'vnsphere the Stars with Oaths, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.177.2 | If you would seek us, | If you would seeke vs, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.443 | Have uttered truth; which if you seek to prove, | Haue vttred Truth: which if you seeke to proue, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.91 | The bug which you would fright me with I seek. | The Bugge which you would fright me with, I seeke: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.141 | A prayer upon her grave. I'll not seek far – | A prayer vpon her graue. Ile not seeke farre |