| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.60 | In manners as in shape! Thy blood and virtue | In manners as in shape: thy blood and vertue |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.42 | It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad | It is shap'd sir like it selfe, and it is as broad |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.viii.26.1 | Destroyed in such a shape. | Destroyed in such a shape. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.14 | Yet cannot hold this visible shape, my knave. | Yet cannot hold this visible shape (my Knaue) |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.117 | If sight and shape be true, | If sight & shape be true, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.206 | Nay, master, both in mind and in my shape. | Nay Master, both in minde, and in my shape. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.20 | Ill-faced, worse-bodied, shapeless everywhere; |
Ill-fac'd, worse bodied, shapelesse euery where: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.35 | That bear the shapes of men, how have you run | That beare the shapes of men, how haue you run |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.93 | That shapes man better; and they follow him | That shapes man Better: and they follow him |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.71 | To any shape of thy preferment, such | To any shape of thy Preferment, such |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.309 | I know the shape of's leg: this is his hand: | I know the shape of's Legge: this is his Hand: |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.347 | The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shaped | The more of you 'twas felt, the more it shap'd |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.82 | Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, | Together with all Formes, Moods, shewes of Griefe, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iv.43 | Thou comest in such a questionable shape | Thou com'st in such a questionable shape |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.54 | Though lewdness court it in a shape of heaven, | Though Lewdnesse court it in a shape of Heauen: |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.598 | T' assume a pleasing shape, yea, and perhaps | T'assume a pleasing shape, yea and perhaps |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.127 | shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows | shape, or time to acte them in. What should such Fellowes |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.383 | Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape | Do you see that Clowd? that's almost in shape |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.8 | Yet the unshaped use of it doth move | Yet the vnshaped vse of it doth moue |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.88 | That I, in forgery of shapes and tricks, | That I in forgery of shapes and trickes, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.149 | May fit us to our shape. If this should fail, | May fit vs to our shape, if this should faile; |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.10 | There's a divinity that shapes our ends, | There's a Diuinity that shapes our ends, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.58 | And shape of likelihood, the news was told; | And shape of likely-hood the newes was told: |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.12 | The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, | The front of Heauen was full of fierie shapes, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.35 | The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, | The front of Heauen was full of fierie shapes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.174 | to man, as the malice of this age shapes them, are | to man (as the malice of this Age shapes them) are |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.321 | time shape, and there an end. | time shape, and there an end. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.37 | In his true, native, and most proper shape, | In his true, natiue, and most proper shape, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.99 | delectable shapes, which delivered o'er to the voice, the | delectable shapes; which deliuer'd o're to the Voyce, the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.58 | The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape | The blood weepes from my heart, when I doe shape |
| Henry V | H5 IV.viii.53 | highness suffered under that shape, I beseech you take | Highnesse suffer'd vnder that shape, I beseech you take |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.68 | And more than may be gathered by thy shape. | And more then may be gathered by thy shape. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.35 | As if, with Circe, she would change my shape! | As if with Circe, she would change my shape. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.36 | Changed to a worser shape thou canst not be. | Chang'd to a worser shape thou canst not be: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.38 | No shape but his can please your dainty eye. | No shape but his can please your dainty eye. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.79 | Who cannot steal a shape that means deceit? | Who cannot steale a shape, that meanes deceit? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.158 | As crooked in thy manners as thy shape! | As crooked in thy manners, as thy shape. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.136 | But like a foul misshapen stigmatic, | But like a foule mishapen Stygmaticke, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.159 | To shape my legs of an unequal size; | To shape my Legges of an vnequall size, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.170 | Until my misshaped trunk that bears this head | Vntill my mis-shap'd Trunke, that beares this Head, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.192 | Change shapes with Proteus for advantages, | Change shapes with Proteus, for aduantages, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.35 | And thou misshapen Dick, I tell ye all | And thou mis-shapen Dicke, I tell ye all, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.78 | Then, since the heavens have shaped my body so, | Then since the Heauens haue shap'd my Body so, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.196 | I do pronounce him in that very shape | I doe pronounce him in that very shape |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.253 | And could it work so much upon your shape, | And could it worke so much vpon your shape, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.275 | That shapes this monstrous apparition. | That shapes this monstrous Apparition. |
| King John | KJ I.i.138 | Madam, an if my brother had my shape | Madam, and if my brother had my shape |
| King John | KJ I.i.144 | And, to his shape, were heir to all this land – | And to his shape were heyre to all this land, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.27 | Which he hath left so shapeless and so rude. | Which he hath left so shapelesse, and so rude. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.187 | He'll shape his old course in a country new. | Hee'l shape his old course, in a Country new. |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.8 | My mind as generous, and my shape as true, | My minde as generous, and my shape as true |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.306 | That I'll resume the shape which thou dost think | That Ile resume the shape which thou dost thinke |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.7 | To take the basest and most poorest shape | To take the basest, and most poorest shape |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.67 | A woman's shape doth shield thee. | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.59 | For he hath wit to make an ill shape good, | For he hath wit to make an ill shape good, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.60 | And shape to win grace though he had no wit. | And shape to win grace though she had no wit. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.68 | shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions. | shapes, obiects, Ideas, apprehensions, motions, reuolutions. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.52 | The shape of Love's Tyburn, that hangs up simplicity. | The shape of Loues Tiburne, that hangs vp simplicitie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.354 | Such as the shortness of the time can shape; | Such as the shortnesse of the time can shape, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.65 | And shape his service wholly to my hests, | And shape his seruice wholly to my deuice, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.288 | In their own shapes, for it can never be | In their owne shapes: for it can neuer be, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.299 | If they return in their own shapes to woo? | If they returne in their owne shapes to wo? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.303 | Disguised like Muscovites in shapeless gear; | Disguis'd like Muscouites in shapelesse geare: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.758 | Full of straying shapes, of habits, and of forms, | Full of straying shapes, of habits, and of formes |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.101 | Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves | Take any shape but that, and my firme Nerues |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.3 | And let it keep one shape, till custom make it | And let it keepe one shape, till custome make it |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iv.18 | This deed unshapes me quite, makes me unpregnant | This deede vnshapes me quite, makes me vnpregnant |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.275 | A creature that did bear the shape of man | A creature that did beare the shape of man |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.80 | in this shape. He cannot abide the old woman of | in this shape: he cannot abide the old woman of |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.210 | Come, to the forge with it, then. Shape | Come, to the Forge with it, then |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.211 | it. I would not have things cool. | shape it: I would not haue things coole. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.43 | And in this shape, when you have brought him thither, | And in this shape, when you haue brought him thether, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.59.1 | In shape profane. | In shape prophane. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.19 | beat me grievously, in the shape of a woman; for in the | beate me greeuously, in the shape of a woman: (for in the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.20 | shape of man, Master Brook, I fear not Goliath with a | shape of Man (Master Broome) I feare not Goliah with a |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.32 | Either I mistake your shape and making quite, | Either I mistake your shape and making quite, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.66 | And in the shape of Corin sat all day | And in the shape of Corin, sate all day, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.132 | So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape, | So is mine eye enthralled to thy shape. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.16 | Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing | turnes them to shapes, / And giues to aire nothing, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.55 | Nor take no shape nor project of affection, | Nor take no shape nor proiect of affection, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.96 | For shape, for bearing, argument and valour, | For shape, for bearing argument and valour, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.32 | shape of two countries at once, as, a German from the | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.233 | Will fashion the event in better shape | Wil fashion the euent in better shape, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.14 | In every lineament, branch, shape, and form; | In euery lineament, branch, shape, and forme: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.164 | together, trans-shape thy particular virtues; yet at last | together trans-shape thy particular vertues, yet at last |
| Othello | Oth II.i.55 | My hopes do shape him for the Governor. | My hopes do shape him for the Gouernor. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.147 | Shapes faults that are not – that your wisdom then, | Shapes faults that are not) that your wisedome |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.6 | Nature's own shape, of bud, bird, branch, or berry, | Natures owne shape, of budde, bird, branche, or berry. |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.22 | Find shapes of grief more than himself to wail, | Finde shapes of greefe, more then himselfe to waile, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.26 | What, is my Richard both in shape and mind | What, is my Richard both in shape and minde |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.14 | But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks | But I, that am not shap'd for sportiue trickes, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.250 | On me, that halts and am misshapen thus? | On me, that halts, and am mishapen thus? |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.27 | Ah, that deceit should steal such gentle shape | Ah! that Deceit should steale such gentle shape, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.286 | Unless thou couldst put on some other shape, | Vnlesse thou could'st put on some other shape, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.179 | Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, | Mishapen Chaos of welseeing formes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.55 | In shape no bigger than an agate stone | in shape no bigger then Agat-stone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.122 | Fie, fie, thou shamest thy shape, thy love, thy wit, | Fie, fie, thou sham'st thy shape, thy loue, thy wit, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.125 | Which should bedeck thy shape, thy love, thy wit. | Which should bedecke thy shape, thy loue, thy wit: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.126 | Thy noble shape is but a form of wax, | Thy Noble shape, is but a forme of waxe, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.130 | Thy wit, that ornament to shape and love, | Thy wit, that Ornament, to shape and Loue, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.131 | Misshapen in the conduct of them both, | Mishapen in the conduct of them both: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.143 | But, like a mishaved and sullen wench, | But like a mishaped and sullen wench, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.44 | Of ill-shaped fishes; and about his shelves | Of ill shap'd fishes, and about his shelues, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.284.1 | A human shape. | A humane shape. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.303 | To every eyeball else. Go take this shape, | To euery eye-ball else: goe take this shape |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.479 | Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he, | Thou think'st there is no more such shapes as he, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.56 | Nor can imagination form a shape, | Nor can imagination forme a shape |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.19.2 | invisible. Enter several strange shapes, bringing in a | (inuisible:) Enter seuerall strange shapes, bringing in a |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.32 | Who, though they are of monstrous shape, yet note, | Who though they are of monstrous shape, yet note |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.38 | Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound, expressing, | Such shapes, such gesture, and such sound expressing |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.84.2 | shapes again, and dance with mocks and mows, carrying | shapes againe, and daunce (with mockes and mowes) and |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.185 | Thy shape invisible retain thou still. | Thy shape inuisible retaine thou still: |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.255.1 | A noise of hunters heard. Enter divers Spirits in shape | A noyse of Hunters heard. Enter diuers Spirits in shape |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.268 | Then say if they be true. This misshapen knave, | Then say if they be true: This mishapen knaue; |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.292 | As in his shape. – Go, sirrah, to my cell. | As in his shape: Goe Sirha, to my Cell, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.44 | I have in this rough work shaped out a man | I haue in this rough worke, shap'd out a man |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.115 | knight. And, generally, in all shapes that man goes up | Knight; and generally, in all shapes that man goes vp |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.75 | When he looks out in an ungrateful shape – | When he lookes out in an vngratefull shape; |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.429 | In holier shapes. For there is boundless theft | In holier shapes: For there is boundlesse Theft |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.57 | Nor age nor honour shall shape privilege. | Nor Age, nor Honour, shall shape priuiledge: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.253 | birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, | birth, b auty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.17 | That gave't surmised shape. Why then, you princes, | That gaue't surmised shape. Why then (you Princes) |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.179 | All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes, | All our abilities, gifts, natures, shapes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.313 | Be you my time to bring it to some shape. | Be you my time to bring it to some shape. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.385 | Our project's life this shape of sense assumes: | Our proiects life this shape of sence assumes, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.12 | Hath nothing been but shapes and forms of slaughter. | Hath nothing beene but shapes, and formes of slaughter. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.14 | Even in a minute. So full of shapes is fancy | Euen in a minute; so full of shapes is fancie, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.62 | Only shape thou thy silence to my wit. | Onely shape thou thy silence to my wit. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.250 | And in dimension and the shape of nature | And in dimension, and the shape of nature, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iii.149 | love; wherein, by the colour of his beard, the shape of | loue, wherein by the colour of his beard, the shape of |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.8 | Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness. | Weare out thy youth with shapelesse idlenesse. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.56 | With goodly shape, and by your own report | With goodly shape; and by your owne report, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.ii.127 | To worship shadows and adore false shapes, | To worship shadowes, and adore false shapes, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.110 | Women to change their shapes than men their minds. | Women to change their shapes, then men their minds. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.21 | I am resolved another shape shall make me, | I am resolu'd an other shape shall make me, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.27 | The shapes of beasts upon them: Jupiter | The shapes of Beasts vpon them. Iupiter, |