| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.37 | exploit. Yet slight ones will not carry it: they will say | exploit: yet slight ones will not carrie it. They will say, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.56 | Is Caesar with Antonius prized so slight? | Is Casar with Anthonius priz'd so slight? |
| As You Like It | AYL I.i.138 | to't; for if thou dost him any slight disgrace, or if he | to't; for if thou dost him any slight disgrace, or if hee |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.30 | If thou rememberest not the slightest folly | If thou remembrest not the slightest folly, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.148 | To unstable slightness. Purpose so barred, it follows | To vnstable Slightnesse. Purpose so barr'd, it followes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.100 | y'are so slight. He that hath a will to die by himself fears | y'are so slight. He that hath a will to die by himselfe, feares |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.62.1 | What cannot be slight work. | What cannot be, slight worke. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.40 | slight and trivial a nature. | slight and triuiall a nature. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.46 | slight. | slight. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.35.1 | We have been too slight in sufferance. | We haue beene too slight in sufferance. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.49 | So slight a valuation – should reserve | So slight a valewation) should reserue |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iii.10 | Some mortally, some slightly touched, some falling | Some mortally, some slightly touch'd, some falling |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.64 | slight thing of Italy, | slight thing of Italy, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.39 | You laying these slight sullies on my son, | You laying these slight sulleyes on my Sonne, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.22 | Too slightly timbered for so loud a wind, | Too slightly timbred for so loud a Winde, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.146 | With this contagion, that, if I gall him slightly, | With this contagion, that if I gall him slightly, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.151 | Yea, even the slightest worship of his time, | Yea, euen the sleightest worship of his time, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.i.143 | thy walls, a pretty slight drollery, or the story of the | thy walles a pretty slight Drollery, or the Storie of the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.165 | I muse you make so slight a question. | I muse you make so slight a Question. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.188 | That every slight and false-derived cause, | That euery slight, and false-deriued Cause, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.75 | it is much that a lie with a slight oath, and a jest with a | it is much that a Lye (with a slight Oath) and a iest (with a |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.94 | See your most dreadful laws so loosely slighted, | See your most dreadfull Lawes, so loosely slighted; |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.117 | Scorn and defiance, slight regard, contempt, | Scorne and defiance, sleight regard, contempt, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.112 | When for so slight and frivolous a cause | When for so slight and friuolous a cause, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.6 | No quarrel, but a slight contention. | No Quarrell, but a slight Contention. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.112 | Gone slightly o'er low steps, and now are mounted | Gone slightly o're lowe steppes, and now are mounted |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.12 | This is a slight unmeritable man, | This is a slight vnmeritable man, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.5 | Because I knew the man, were slighted off. | Because I knew the man was slighted off. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.37 | Away, slight man! | Away slight man. |
| King John | KJ III.i.150 | So slight, unworthy, and ridiculous, | So slight, vnworthy, and ridiculous |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.144 | That he, so slightly valued in his messenger, | That he so slightly valued in his Messenger, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.463 | Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight zany, | Some carry-tale, some please-man, some slight Zanie, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.v.26 | And that distilled by magic sleights | And that distill'd by Magicke slights, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.167 | To part so slightly with your wife's first gift, | To part so slightly with your wiues first gift, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.191 | every slight occasion that could but niggardly give me | euery slight occasion that could but nigardly giue mee |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.8 | new-year's gift. The rogues slighted me into the river with as | New-yeares gift. The rogues slighted me into the riuer with as |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.86 | Which now in some slight measure it will pay, | Which now in some slight measure it will pay, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.266 | guards are but slightly basted on neither. Ere you flout | guardes are but slightly basted on neither, ere you flout |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.i.242 | the world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now | the worlds end? I will goe on the slightest arrand now |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.271 | good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so | good a Commander, with so slight, so drunken, and so |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.19 | Untouched, or slightly handled in discourse; | Vntoucht, or sleightly handled in discourse. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.17 | With slight denial, nor then silenced when | With slight deniall; nor then silenc'd, when |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.145 | Not seldom, nor no slight checks, when I have | Not sildome, nor no slight checkes, when I haue |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.166 | That slightly shakes his parting guest by th' hand, | That slightly shakes his parting Guest by th'hand; |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.32 | 'Slight, I could so beat the rogue! | Slight I could so beate the Rogue. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.ii.12 | 'Slight! Will you make an ass o' me? | S'light; will you make an Asse o'me. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.139 | And leave her on such slight conditions. | And leaue her on such slight conditions. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.60 | That draw i'th' sequent trace. These poor slight sores | That draw i'th sequent trace: these poore sleight sores, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.28 | Though craving seriousness and skill, passed slightly | Though craving seriousnes, and skill, past slightly |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.201 | puts him off, slights him, with ‘ Whoop, do me no harm, | put's him off, slights him, with Whoop, doe mee no harme |