| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xi.8 | To run and show their shoulders. Friends, be gone. | To runne, and shew their shoulders. Friends be gone, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.76 | The cost of princes on unworthy shoulders? | The cost of Princes on vnworthy shoulders? |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.43 | o'th' shoulder, but I'll warrant him heart-whole. | oth' shoulder, but Ile warrant him heart hole. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.ii.83 | Some of my mistress' marks upon my shoulders, | Some of my Mistris markes vpon my shoulders: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.73 | I thank him, I bare home upon my shoulders; | I thanke him, I bare home vpon my shoulders: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.39 | shoulders. But I pray, sir, why am I beaten? | shoulders, but I pray sir, why am I beaten? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.151 | shoulder, the mole in my neck, the great wart on my | shoulder, the Mole in my necke, the great Wart on my |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.37 | A backfriend, a shoulder-clapper, one that countermands | A back friend, a shoulder-clapper, one that countermãds |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iv.35 | nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a beggar wont her | nay I beare it on my shoulders, as a begger woont her |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.141 | I'th' shoulder and i'th' left arm. There will be | Ith' Shoulder, and ith' left Arme: there will be |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.i.16 | is growing upon thy shoulders – shall within this hour | is growing vppon thy shoulders) shall within this houre |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.78 | Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is | Once touch my shoulder. Great the slaughter is |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.56 | The wind sits in the shoulder of your sail, | The winde sits in the shoulder of your saile, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.97 | And, with his head over his shoulder turned, | And with his head ouer his shoulders turn'd, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.164 | shoulders. | shoulders. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.144 | in the shoulders, you care not who sees your back. Call | in the shoulders, you care not who sees your backe: Call |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.ii.42 | tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like a | tackt to-gether, and throwne ouer the shoulders like a |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.129 | shoulder? Much! | shoulder? much. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.209 | him sir, i'th' shoulder. | him (Sir) in the shoulder. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.77 | in his shoulders! O, you shall see him laugh till his face | in his shoulders. O you shall see him laugh, till his Face |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iv.3 | drawn my shoulder out of joint. | drawne my shoulder out of ioynt. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.220 | their shoulders; but it is no English treason to cut | their shoulders: but it is no English Treason to cut |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.v.11 | And from my shoulders crack my arms asunder, | And from my shoulders crack my Armes asunder, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.10 | Weak shoulders, overborne with burdening grief, | Weake Shoulders, ouer-borne with burthening Griefe, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.189 | This shouldering of each other in the court, | This shouldering of each other in the Court, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vii.113 | on his shoulders, unless he pay me tribute; there shall | on his shoulders, vnlesse he pay me tribute: there shall |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.63 | So bear I thee upon my manly shoulders; | So beare I thee vpon my manly shoulders: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.188 | Lord Warwick, on thy shoulder will I lean; | Lord Warwicke, on thy shoulder will I leane, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.100 | For in thy shoulder do I build my seat, | For in thy shoulder do I builde my Seate; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.23 | This shoulder was ordained so thick to heave; | This shoulder was ordain'd so thicke, to heaue, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.1.2 | shoulder, the nobles, and Sir Thomas Lovell. The | shoulder, the Nobles, and Sir Thomas Louell: the |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.381 | I humbly thank his grace, and from these shoulders, | I humbly thanke his Grace: and from these shoulders |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.113 | Did from the flames of Troy upon his shoulder | Did from the Flames of Troy, vpon his shoulder |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.159 | And ure thy shoulders to an armour's weight. | And vre thy shoulders to an Armors weight. |
| King John | KJ I.i.245 | What! I am dubbed, I have it on my shoulder. | What, I am dub'd, I haue it on my shoulder: |
| King John | KJ II.i.146 | Or lay on that shall make your shoulders crack. | Or lay on that shall make your shoulders cracke. |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.92 | Than stands on any shoulder that I see | Then stands on any shoulder that I see |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.88.1 | Her shoulder is with child. | her shoulder is with-child. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.i.97 | world, sometime to lean upon my poor shoulder, and | world) sometime to leane vpon my poore shoulder, and |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.107 | With that all laughed and clapped him on the shoulder, | With that all laugh'd, and clap'd him on the shoulder, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.172 | shoulders that a milkmaid, if she be in love, may sigh it | shoulders, that a milke-maid, if she be in loue, may sigh it |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.87 | o' my shoulders, no sighs but o' my breathing, no tears | a my shoulders, no sighes but a my breathing, no teares |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.11 | pause or staggering, take this basket on your shoulders. | pause, or staggering) take this basket on your shoulders: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.92 | They took me on their shoulders, met the jealous knave | they tooke me on their shoulders: met the iealous knaue |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.103 | shoulders. Your master is hard at door. If he bid you | shoulders: your Master is hard at doore: if hee bid you |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.25 | I will keep my sides to myself, my shoulders for the | I will keepe my sides to my selfe, my shoulders for the |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.54 | Pinch them, arms, legs, backs, shoulders, sides, and shins. | Pinch them armes, legs, backes, shoulders, sides, & shins. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.147 | and shoulders, and have given ourselves without scruple | and shoulders, and haue giuen our selues without scruple |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.106 | have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, as like | haue his head on her shoulders for al Messina, as like |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.239 | shoulder, and called Adam. | shoulder, and cal'd Adam. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.79 | householder; and, which is more, as pretty a piece of | houshoulder, and which is more, as pretty a peece of |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.144 | Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear | Grew beneath their shoulders. These things to heare, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.79 | Which gently laid my knighthood on my shoulder, | Which gently laid my Knight-hood on my shoulder, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.123 | Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders. | Should run thy head from thy vnreuerent shoulders. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.98 | That laid their guilt upon my guiltless shoulders. | That laid their guilt, vpon my guiltlesse Shoulders. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.131 | He thinks that you should bear me on your shoulders. | He thinkes that you should beare me on your shoulders. |
| Richard III | R3 III.ii.43 | I'll have this crown of mine cut from my shoulders | Ile haue this Crown of mine cut frõ my shoulders, |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.127 | And almost shouldered in the swallowing gulf | And almost shouldred in the swallowing Gulfe |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.54 | begnawn with the bots, swayed in the back and shoulder-shotten, | begnawne with the Bots, Waid in the backe, and shoulder-shotten, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.13 | from my shoulder to my heel with no greater a run but | from my shoulder to my heele, with no greater a run but |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.13 | From Cupid's shoulder pluck his painted wings, | From Cupids shoulder plucke his painted wings, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.139 | They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder, | They clap the lubber Aiax on the shoulder, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.21 | Smoother than Pelops' shoulder! Fame and honour, | Smoother then Pelops Shoulder? Fame and honour |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.84 | Like ravens' wings; his shoulders broad and strong, | Like Ravens wings: his shoulders broad, and strong, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.127 | Lined with strong sinews; to the shoulder-piece | Linde with strong sinewes: To the shoulder peece, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.137.2 | hair about her shoulders, with a wheaten wreath; one | haire about her shoulders, a wheaten wreath: One |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.iii.93 | out his shoulder bone, how he cried to me for help, and | out his shoulder-bone, how he cride to mee for helpe, and |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.72 | shoulder-blade is out. | shoulder-blade is out. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.60 | On his shoulder, and his; her face o' fire | On his shoulder, and his: her face o' fire |