| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.181 | Than for to think that I would sink it here. | Then for to thinke that I would sinke it heere. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vii.60 | Keep off them, for you sink. | Keepe off, them for you sinke. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vii.15.2 | Sink Rome, and their tongues rot | Sinke Rome, and their tongues rot |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.25 | And sinks most lamentably. Had our general | And sinkes most lamentably. Had our Generall |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xiii.64 | That we must leave thee to thy sinking, for | That we must leaue thee to thy sinking, for |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.78 | And left the ship, then sinking-ripe, to us. | And left the ship then sinking ripe to vs. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.52 | Let love, being light, be drowned if she sink. | Let Loue, being light, be drowned if she sinke. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.120.1 | Who is the sink o'th' body – | Who is the sinke a th' body. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.245.1 | For sinking under them. | For sinking vnder them. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.50 | Leave unsaluted. Sink, my knee, i'th' earth; | Leaue vnsaluted: Sinke my knee i'th' earth, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vi.17 | At point to sink, for food. – But what is this? | At point to sinke, for Food. But what is this? |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.414 | But now my heavy conscience sinks my knee, | But now my heauie Conscience sinkes my knee, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.192 | If he fall in, good night, or sink, or swim! | If he fall in, good night, or sinke or swimme: |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.59 | He'll drop his heart into the sink of fear, | Hee'le drop his heart into the sinck of feare, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.97 | The splitting rocks cowered in the sinking sands, | The splitting Rockes cowr'd in the sinking sands, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.71 | Ay, kennel, puddle, sink, whose filth and dirt | I kennell, puddle, sinke, whose filth and dirt |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.1.1 | Enter two Keepers, with cross-bows in their hands | Enter Sinklo, and Humfrey, with Crosse-bowes in their hands. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.30 | Tread on the sand; why, there you quickly sink. | Tread on the Sand, why there you quickly sinke, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vi.62 | Sink in the ground? I thought it would have mounted. | Sinke in the ground? I thought it would haue mounted. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.60 | And if I have a conscience let it sink me, | And if I haue a Conscience, let it sincke me, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.131 | But where they mean to sink ye. All good people, | But where they meane to sinke ye: all good people |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.383 | A load would sink a navy – too much honour. | A loade, would sinke a Nauy, (too much Honor.) |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.111 | Caesar cried, ‘ Help me, Cassius, or I sink!’ | Casar cride, Helpe me Cassius, or I sinke. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.ii.27 | Sink in the trial. Comes his army on? | Sinke in the Triall. Comes his Army on? |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.61 | As in thy red rays thou dost sink to night, | As in thy red Rayes thou doest sinke to night; |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.460 | My body sink my soul in endless woe! | My body sinke, my soule in endles woo. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.170 | And tottering sink into the ruthless flood, | And tottering sink into the ruthlesse floud, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.105.1 | Why sinks that cauldron? | Why sinkes that Caldron? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.39 | I think our country sinks beneath the yoke, | I thinke our Country sinkes beneath the yoake, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.11 | by my size that I have a kind of alacrity in sinking. If the | by my size, that I haue a kinde of alacrity in sinking: if the |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.104 | Sink in apple of his eye. | Sinke in apple of his eye, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.70 | the cinquepace faster and faster, till he sink into his | the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sinkes into his |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.108 | Why, how now, cousin! Wherefore sink you down? | Why how now cosin, wherfore sink you down? |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.203 | Shall sink in my rebuke. Give me to know | Shall sinke in my rebuke. Giue me to know |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.48 | Here many sink, yet those which see them fall | Heere manie sincke, yet those which see them fall, |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.118 | Would sink and overwhelm you. Away! | would sincke and ouerwhelme you. Away. |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.112 | Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward here to die. | Whil'st my grosse flesh sinkes downward, heere to dye. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.463 | There let him sink, and be the seas on him! | There let him sinke, and be the Seas on him, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.22 | Under love's heavy burden do I sink. | Vnder loues heauy burthen doe I sinke. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.23 | And, to sink in it, should you burden love – | And to sinke in it should you burthen loue, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.39 | drown? Have you a mind to sink? | drowne, haue you a minde to sinke? |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.59 | Let's all sink wi'th' King. | Let's all sinke with' King |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.32 | Which thou heard'st cry, which thou sawst sink. Sit down. | Which thou heardst cry, which thou saw'st sinke: Sit downe, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.204 | Doth it not then our eyelids sink? I find | Doth it not then our eye-lids sinke? I finde |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.236 | That Timon's fortunes 'mong his friends can sink. | That Timons fortunes 'mong his Friends can sinke. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.104 | Burn house! Sink Athens! Henceforth hated be | Burne house, sinke Athens, henceforth hated be |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.19 | May run into that sink, and soaking in, | May run into that sinke, and soaking in, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.71 | Sweet draught, sweet, quoth 'a! Sweet sink, | Sweet draught: sweet quoth-a? sweet sinke, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.viii.11 | So, Ilium, fall thou; now, Troy, sink down! | So Illion fall thou: now Troy sinke downe; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.123 | much as make water but in a sink-apace. What dost thou | much as make water but in a Sinke-a-pace: What dooest thou |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.8 | I'th' aid o'th' current were almost to sink, | I'th aide o'th Current, were almost to sincke, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.121 | Will never sink, they must not; say they could, | Will never sincke, they must not, say they could, |