| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.5 | seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves | seeming knowledge, when we should submit our selues |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.214 | A seeming mermaid steers. The silken tackle | A seeming Mer-maide steeres: The Silken Tackle, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.138 | Seeming to bear it lightly. Take me up. | Seeming to beare it lightly. Take me vp, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.341 | one another as halfpence are, every one fault seeming | one another, as halfe pence are, euerie one fault seeming |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.368 | than seeming the lover of any other. | then seeming the Louer of any other. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.67 | your body more seeming, Audrey. – As thus, sir. I did | your bodie more seeming Audry) as thus sir: I did |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.108 | Her part, poor soul, seeming as burdened | Her part, poore soule, seeming as burdened |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.171 | More than a mortal seeming. Be not angry, | More then a mortall seeming. Be not angrie |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.55 | Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, | Mens Vowes are womens Traitors. All good seeming |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.93.2 | I am sorry for't: not seeming | I am sorry for't: not seeming |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.65 | That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious | That thought her like her seeming. It had beene vicious |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.410 | In poor beseeming: 'twas a fitment for | In poore beseeming: 'twas a fitment for |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.453.2 | This hath some seeming. | This hath some seeming. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.46 | The will of my most seeming-virtuous Queen. | The will of my most seeming vertuous Queene: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.473 | Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top | Seeming to feele his blow, with flaming top |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.97.1 | In censure of his seeming. | To censure of his seeming. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.11 | with some three or four, comes in again, seem to condole | with some two orthree Mutes comes in againe, seeming to lament |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.14 | Shall now, in mutual well-beseeming ranks, | Shall now in mutuall well-beseeming rankes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.478 | seeming so. | seeming so. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.iii.83 | This seeming brow of justice, did he win | This seeming Brow of Iustice, did he winne |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.51 | The seeming sufferances that you had borne, | The seeming sufferances that you had borne, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.34 | There is no seeming mercy in the King. | There is no seeming mercy in the King. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.84 | Hath put us in these ill-beseeming arms, | Hath put vs in these ill-beseeming Armes: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.29 | By seeming cold or careless of his will. | By seeming cold, or carelesse of his will. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.29 | Of seeming sorrow – it is sure your own. | Of seeming sorrow, it is sure your owne. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.129 | After my seeming. The tide of blood in me | After my seeming. The Tide of Blood in me, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.31 | And ill beseeming any common man, | And ill beseeming any common man; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.113 | How ill-beseeming is it in thy sex | How ill-beseeming is it in thy Sex, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.145 | In seeming to augment it wastes it? Be advised. | In seeming to augment it, wasts it: be aduis'd; |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.108 | You sign your place and calling, in full seeming, | You signe your Place, and Calling, in full seeming, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.28 | Quartered in colours, seeming sundry fruits, | Quartred in collours seeming sundy fruits, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.198 | If aught within that little-seeming substance, | If ought within that little seeming substance, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.56 | That under covert and convenient seeming | That vnder couert, and conuenient seeming |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.156 | In so unseeming to confess receipt | In so vnseeming to confesse receyt |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.86 | Than summer-seeming lust; and it hath been | Then Summer-seeming Lust: and it hath bin |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.15 | To thy false seeming! Blood, thou art blood; | To thy false seeming? Blood, thou art blood, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.150 | And most pernicious purpose. Seeming, seeming! | And most pernitious purpose: Seeming, seeming. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.224 | both, her combinate husband, this well-seeming | both, her combynate-husband, this well-seeming |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.37 | Free from our faults, as faults from seeming free. | From our faults, as faults from seeming free. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.148 | carry him to execution, and showed him a seeming | carrie him to execution, and shew'd him a seeming |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.100 | The seeming truth which cunning times put on | The seeming truth which cunning times put on |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.38 | so-seeming Mistress Page, divulge Page himself for a | so-seeming Mist. Page, divulge Page himselfe for a |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.vi.33 | She, seemingly obedient, likewise hath | She seemingly obedient) likewise hath |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.209 | Like to a double cherry, seeming parted | Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.212 | So with two seeming bodies but one heart, | So with two seeming bodies, but one heart, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.43 | Hero shall be absent – and there shall appear such seeming | Hero shall be absent, and there shall appeare such seeming |
| 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, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.61 | But seeming so for my peculiar end: | But seeming so, for my peculiar end: |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.109 | Of modern seeming do prefer against him. | Of moderne seeming, do prefer against him. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.122 | The thing I am by seeming otherwise. | The thing I am, by seeming otherwise. |
| 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.207 | She that so young could give out such a seeming, | Shee that so young could giue out such a Seeming |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.324 | After long seeming dead – Iago hurt him, | (After long seeming dead) Iago hurt him, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.116 | Yet best beseeming me to speak the truth: | Yet best beseeming me to speake the truth. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.93 | Cast by their grave-beseeming ornaments | Cast by their Graue beseeming Ornaments, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.179 | Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, | Mishapen Chaos of welseeing formes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.74 | An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast. | An ill beseeming semblance for a Feast. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.92 | Now seeming sweet, convert to bitterest gall. | Now seeming sweet, conuert to bitter gall. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.112 | Unseemly woman in a seeming man! | Vnseemely woman, in a seeming man, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.113 | And ill-beseeming beast in seeming both! | And ill beseeming beast in seeming both, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.142 | Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty, | Muddie, ill seeming, thicke, bereft of beautie, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.174 | That seeming to be most which we indeed least are. | That seeming to be most, which we indeed least are. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.56 | Unfurnished of her well-beseeming troop? | Vnfurnisht of our well beseeming troope? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.41 | But sorrow that is couched in seeming gladness | But sorrow, that is couch'd in seeming gladnesse, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.157 | Such to-be-pitied and o'erwrested seeming | Such to be pittied, and ore-rested seeming |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.66 | Beseeming such a wife as your fair daughter. | Beseeming such a Wife, as your faire daughter: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.39 | Hath a good colour; where every seeming good's | Hath a good cullor; where eve'ry seeming good's |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.76 | In the first place with Arcite, by his seeming | In the first place with Arcite, by his seeming |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.117 | A little man, but of a tough soul, seeming | A little man, but of a tough soule, seeming |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.166 | Or seeming so in skill – cannot or will not | Or seeming so, in skill, cannot, or will not |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.75 | Seeming and savour all the winter long: | Seeming, and sauour all the Winter long: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.649 | The truth of your own seeming, that you may – | The truth of your owne seeming, that you may |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.190 | The father of this seeming lady, and | The Father of this seeming Lady, and |