| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.93.2 | 'Tis sweating labour | 'Tis sweating Labour, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.21 | With knaves that smells of sweat. Say this becomes him – | With knaues that smels of sweate: Say this becoms him |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.58 | When service sweat for duty, not for meed! | When seruice sweate for dutie, not for meede: |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.60 | Where none will sweat but for promotion, | Where none will sweate, but for promotion, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.52 | Why, do not your courtier's hands sweat? | Why do not your Courtiers hands sweate? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.54 | sweat of a man? Shallow, shallow. A better instance, I | sweat of a man? Shallow, shallow: A better instance I |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.ii.107 | nothing like so clean kept. For why? She sweats a man | nothing like so cleane kept: for why? she sweats a man |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.27 | Which makes me sweat with wrath. Come on, my fellows. | which makes me sweat with wrath. Come on my fellows |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.19 | Your husband so much sweat. Cominius, | Your Husband so much swet. Cominius, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.197 | Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But, good sir, | Mine eyes to sweat compassion. But (good sir) |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.93 | The princely blood flows in his cheek, he sweats, | The Princely blood flowes in his Cheeke, he sweats, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.4 | The sweat and industry would dry and die, | The sweat of industry would dry, and dye |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.77 | What might be toward that this sweaty haste | What might be toward, that this sweaty hast |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.77 | To grunt and sweat under a weary life, | To grunt and sweat vnder a weary life, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.93 | In the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, | In the ranke sweat of an enseamed bed, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.106 | Away, good Ned! Falstaff sweats to death, | Away good Ned, Falstaffe sweates to death, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iii.60 | That beads of sweat have stood upon thy brow | That beds of sweate hath stood vpon thy Brow, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.212 | sweat extraordinarily. If it be a hot day, and I brandish | sweat extraordinarily: if it bee a hot day, if I brandish |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.212 | how thou sweatest! Come, let me wipe thy face. Come | how thou sweat'st? Come, let me wipe thy Face: Come |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.354 | Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the taverns, | Bare-headed, sweating, knocking at the Tauernes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iii.12 | ye yield, sir, or shall I sweat for you? If I do sweat, | yee yeelde sir, or shall I sweate for you? if I doe sweate, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.24 | But to stand stained with travel, and sweating | But to stand stained with Trauaile, and sweating |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.29 | I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already | I know) Falstaffe shall dye of a sweat, vnlesse already |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.25 | Sweat drops of gallant youth in our rich fields! – | Sweat drops of gallant Youth in our rich fields: |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.266 | Sweats in the eye of Phoebus, and all night | Sweates in the eye of Phebus; and all Night |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iv.18 | Drops bloody sweat from his war-wearied limbs, | Drops bloody swet from his warre-wearied limbes, |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.28 | And followed with the general throng and sweat | And follow'd with the generall throng, and sweat |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.24 | Not used to toil, did almost sweat to bear | Not vs'd to toyle, did almost sweat to beare |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.33 | With such an agony he sweat extremely, | With such an Agony, he sweat extreamly, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.243 | and threw up their sweaty night-caps, and uttered such | and threw vppe their sweatie Night-cappes, and vttered such |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.i.22 | To groan and sweat under the business, | To groane and swet vnder the Businesse, |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.48 | Come, come, the cause. If arguing make us sweat, | Come, come, the cause. If arguing make vs swet, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.11 | What need we fight and sweat and keep a coil | What need we fight, and sweate, and keepe a coile, |
| King John | KJ II.i.92 | With burden of our armour here we sweat. | With burden of our armor heere we sweat: |
| King John | KJ V.ii.102 | Sweat in this business and maintain this war? | Sweat in this businesse, and maintaine this warre? |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.56 | We sweat and bleed; the friend hath lost his friend, | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.549 | That oft in field, with targe and shield, did make my foe to sweat; | That oft in field, with Targe and Shield, / did make my foe to sweat: |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.6 | about you; here you'll sweat for't. | about you, here you'le sweat for't. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.64 | Her nine farrow; grease that's sweaten | Her nine Farrow: Greaze that's sweaten |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.82 | with the sweat, what with the gallows, and what with | with the sweat, what with the gallowes, and what with |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.203 | For wooing here until I sweat again, | For wooing heere vntill I swet againe, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.95 | Why sweat they under burdens? Let their beds | Why sweate they vnder burthens? Let their beds |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iii.82 | Page at the door, sweating and blowing and looking | Page at the doore, sweating, and blowing, and looking |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.94 | The ploughman lost his sweat, and the green corn | The Ploughman lost his sweat, and the greene Corne |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.77 | drunk; he sweats not to overthrow your Almaine; he | drunke. He sweates not to ouerthrow your Almaine. He |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.42 | For there's a young and sweating devil here | For heere's a yong, and sweating Diuell heere |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.24 | And, in good time, here comes the sweating lord. | And in good time, heere comes the sweating Lord. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.256 | If you do sweat to put a tyrant down, | If you do sweare to put a Tyrant downe, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.200 | Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? | Rage like an angry Boare, chafed with sweat? |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.163 | Without sweat or endeavour. Treason, felony, | Without sweat or endeuour: Treason, fellony, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.26 | sweat to see his honour. My honoured lord! | swet to see his Honor. My Honor'd Lord. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.212 | A chilling sweat o'erruns my trembling joints; | A chilling sweat ore-runs my trembling ioynts, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.x.56 | Till then I'll sweat, and seek about for eases, | Till then, Ile sweate, and seeke about for eases; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.154 | With its own sweat; now, he's secure, | With it's owne sweat; Now he's secure, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.33 | That sweating in an honourable toil | That sweating in an honourable Toyle |