| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.109 | That ride upon the violent speed of fire, | That ride vpon the violent speede of fire, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.1.2 | her daughter Diana, and Mariana, with other | her daughter Violenta and Mariana, with other |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.63 | Where be the sacred vials thou shouldst fill | Where be the Sacred Violles thou should'st fill |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.60 | The violence of either thee becomes, | The violence of either thee becomes, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.x.23.1 | Did violate so itself. | Did violate so it selfe. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.129 | Some, of violated vows | Some of violated vowes, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.103 | Which being violently borne upon, | Which being violently borne vp, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.88 | The unviolated honour of your wife. | Th' vnuiolated honor of your wife. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.iii.23 | that went like a bass viol in a case of leather; the man, | that went like a Base-Viole in a case of leather; the man |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.v.15 | Thy exercise hath been too violent | Thy exercise hath bin too violent, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.41 | proud, violent, testy magistrates – alias fools – | proud, violent, testie Magistrates (alias Fooles) |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.219.1 | Thus violently redress. | Thus violently redresse. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.221 | Where the disease is violent. Lay hands upon him | Where the Disease is violent. Lay hands vpon him, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.33 | The violent fit o'th' time craves it as physic | The violent fit a'th' time craues it as Physicke |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iii.23 | for the violent breaking out. | for the violent breaking out. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.74 | Than violent'st contrariety. | Then violent'st Contrariety. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.39 | defender of them, and in a violent popular ignorance | Defender of them, and in a violent popular ignorance, |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.2 | violence of action hath made you reek as a sacrifice: | Violence of Action hath made you reek as a Sacrifice: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vi.83 | The violets, cowslips, and the primroses | The Violets, Cowslippes, and the Prime-Roses |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.172 | As zephyrs blowing below the violet, | As Zephires blowing below the Violet, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.284 | With unchaste purpose, and with oath to violate | With vnchaste purpose, and with oath to violate |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.145 | To offer it the show of violence, | To offer it the shew of Violence, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.171 | Nor shall you do my ear that violence | Nor shall you doe mine eare that violence, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.7 | A violet in the youth of primy nature, | A Violet in the youth of Primy Nature; |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.62 | With juice of cursed hebona in a vial, | With iuyce of cursed Hebenon in a Violl, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.103 | Whose violent property fordoes itself | Whose violent property foredoes it selfe, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.199 | Of violent birth, but poor validity, | Of violent Birth, but poore validitie: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.206 | The violence of either grief or joy | The violence of other Greefe or Ioy, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.81 | Next, your son gone, and he most violent author | Next your Sonne gone, and he most violent Author |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.185 | violets, but they withered all when my father died. They | Violets, but they wither'd all when my Father dyed: They |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.157 | As make your bouts more violent to that end – | As make your bowts more violent to the end, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.236 | May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, | May Violets spring. I tell thee (churlish Priest) |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.292 | I pray you, pass with your best violence. | I pray you passe with your best violence, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.435 | Thou art violently carried away from grace. There is a devil | thou art violently carryed away from Grace: there is a Deuill |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.70 | And violation of all faith and troth | And violation of all faith and troth |
| Henry V | H5 III.iii.21 | Of hot and forcing violation? | Of hot and forcing Violation? |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.100 | as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the | as I am: the Violet smells to him, as it doth to me; the |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.64 | Although ye hale me to a violent death. | Although ye hale me to a violent death. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.30 | But him outlive, and die a violent death. | But him out-liue, and dye a violent death. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.59 | But him outlive and die a violent death. | But him out-liue, and dye a violent death. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.138 | Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life. | Some violent hands were laid on Humfries life: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.156 | I do believe that violent hands were laid | I do beleeue that violent hands were laid |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.246 | They will by violence tear him from your palace | They will by violence teare him from your Pallace, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.33 | And when the King comes, offer him no violence, | And when the King comes, offer him no violence, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.30 | As if they vowed some league inviolable; | As if they vow'd some League inuiolable. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.29 | But to prevent the tyrant's violence – | But to preuent the Tyrants violence, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.142 | By violent swiftness that which we run at, | By violent swiftnesse that which we run at; |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.246 | You ask with such a violence, the King, | You aske with such a Violence, the King |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.104 | Than when reproach with violence is borne. | Then when reproch with violence is borne, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.132 | Which apprehend such violent extremes | Which apprehend such violent extremes, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.261 | In violating marriage' sacred law | In violating mariage secred law, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.25 | Or by violence fell beside his horse? | Or by violence fell beside his horse. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.27 | Which I in conscience may not violate, | Which I in conscience may not violate, |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.12 | To throw a perfume on the violet, | To throw a perfume on the Violet, |
| King John | KJ V.ii.7 | And keep our faiths firm and inviolable. | And keepe our faithes firme and inuiolable. |
| King John | KJ V.vii.49 | O, I am scalded with my violent motion | Oh, I am scalded with my violent motion |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.83 | you should run a certain course; where, if you violently | you shold run a certaine course: where, if you violently |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.23 | To do upon respect such violent outrage. | To do vpon respect such violent outrage: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.28 | Repair those violent harms that my two sisters | Repaire those violent harmes, that my two Sisters |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.21 | That violates the smallest branch herein. | That violates the smallest branch heerein: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.883 | When daisies pied and violets blue | When Dasies pied, and Violets blew, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.iii.107 | The expedition of my violent love | Th' expedition of my violent Loue |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.21 | But float upon a wild and violent sea, | But floate vpon a wilde and violent Sea |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.169 | Are made, not marked; where violent sorrow seems | Are made, not mark'd: Where violent sorrow seemes |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.109 | Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands | Who (as 'tis thought) by selfe and violent hands, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.166 | That, lying by the violet in the sun, | That, lying by the Violet in the Sunne, |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.128 | And blown with restless violence round about | And blowne with restlesse violence round about |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.243 | an impediment in the current, made it more violent and | an impediment in the Current) made it more violent and |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.41 | An hypocrite, a virgin-violator, | An hypocrite, a virgin violator, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.401 | Being criminal, in double violation | Being criminall, in double violation |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.39 | secure and wilful Actaeon; and to these violent | secure and wilfull Acteon, and to these violent |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.250 | Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, | Where Oxslips and the nodding Violet growes, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.246 | My downright violence and storm of fortunes | My downe-right violence, and storme of Fortunes, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.340 | purse – nor he his to her. It was a violent commencement, | purse: nor he his to her. It was a violent Commencement in her, |
| Othello | Oth II.i.34.1 | With foul and violent tempest. | With fowle and violent Tempest. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.216 | Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor, | Marke me with what violence she first lou'd the Moore, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.198.1 | When violence assails us. | When violence assailes vs. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.454 | Even so my bloody thoughts with violent pace | Euen so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace |
| Pericles | Per I.i.82 | You are a fair viol, and your sense the strings, | You are a faire Violl, and your sense, the stringes; |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.89 | The viol once more! How thou stirrest, thou block! | The Violl once more; how thou stirr'st thou blocke? |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.15 | The purple violets, and marigolds | the purple Violets, and Marigolds, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.60 | Never was waves nor wind more violent, | neuer was waues nor winde more violent, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.99 | You would not do me violence. | you would not do me violence. |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.12 | Were as seven vials of his sacred blood, | Were as seuen violles of his Sacred blood, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.17 | One vial full of Edward's sacred blood, | One Violl full of Edwards Sacred blood, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.18 | Which God defend a knight should violate! – | (Which heauen defend a knight should violate) |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.162 | Than an unstringed viol or a harp, | Then an vnstringed Vyall, or a Harpe, |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.34 | For violent fires soon burn out themselves. | For violent fires soone burne out themselues, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.71 | Doubly divorced! Bad men, you violate | Doubly diuorc'd? (bad men) ye violate |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.46 | Welcome, my son! Who are the violets now | Welcome my sonne: who are the Violets now, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.200 | Die in his youth by like untimely violence! | Dye in his youth, by like vntimely violence. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.27 | Upon my part shall be unviolable. | Vpon my part, shall be inuiolable. |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.39 | To make an act of tragic violence. | To make an act of Tragicke violence. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.9 | These violent delights have violent ends | These violent delights haue violent endes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.93 | Take thou this vial, being then in bed, | Take thou this Violl being then in bed, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.64 | As violently as hasty powder fired | As violently, as hastie powder fier'd |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.264 | But, as it seems, did violence on herself. | But (as it seemes) did violence on her selfe. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.347 | In mine own cell, till thou didst seek to violate | In mine owne Cell, till thou didst seeke to violate |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.22 | Such violent hands upon her tender life. | Such violent hands vppon her tender life. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.25 | What violent hands can she lay on her life? | What violent hands can she lay on her life: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.108 | I pray thee, do on them some violent death: | I pray thee doe on them some violent death, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.109 | They have been violent to me and mine. | They haue bene violent to me and mine. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.4 | And violenteth in a sense as strong | And no lesse in a sense as strong |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.iii.21 | For we would give much, to use violent thefts, | For we would count giue much to as violent thefts, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.6 | That breathes upon a bank of violets, | That breathes vpon a banke of Violets; |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.ii.1 | Enter Viola, a Captain, and sailors | Enter Viola, a Captaine, and Saylors. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.23 | Fie, that you'll say so. He plays o'the viol-de-gamboys, | Fie, that you'l say so: he playes o'th Viol-de-ganboys, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.1 | Enter Valentine, and Viola in man's attire | Enter Valentine, and Viola in mans attire. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.12 | Stand you awhile aloof. (To Viola) Cesario, | Stand you a-while aloofe. Cesario, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.161 | Enter Viola | Enter Violenta. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.194 | (showing Viola the way out) | |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.ii.1 | Enter Viola and Malvolio at several doors | Enter Viola and Maluolio, at seuerall doores. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.1.1 | Enter Orsino, Viola, Curio, and others | Enter Duke, Viola, Curio, and others. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.1.1 | Enter at different entrances Viola, and Feste playing | Enter Viola and Clowne. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.146 | (To Viola) Cesario, by the roses of the spring, | Cesario, by the Roses of the Spring, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.193.1 | Enter Olivia and Viola | Enter Oliuia and Viola. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.288 | (to Viola) | |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.323 | I must obey. (To Viola) This comes with seeking you. | I must obey. This comes with seeking you: |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.7 | Enter Orsino, Viola, Curio, and lords | Enter Duke, Viola, Curio, and Lords. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.238 | And say, ‘ Thrice welcome, drowned Viola.’ | And say, thrice welcome drowned Viola. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.241 | And died that day when Viola from her birth | And dide that day when Viola from her birth |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.250 | That I am Viola; which to confirm, | That I am Viola, which to confirme, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.264 | (To Viola) Boy, thou hast said to me a thousand times | Boy, thou hast saide to me a thousand times, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.318 | (To Viola) Your master quits you; and for your service done him | Your Master quits you: and for your seruice done him, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.454 | Must it be violent; and as he does conceive | Must it be violent: and, as he do's conceiue, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.45 | With violent hefts. I have drunk, and seen the spider. | With violent Hefts: I haue drunke, and seene the Spider. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.128 | Prove violence, in the which three great ones suffer: | Proue violence, in the which three great ones suffer, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.i.17.2 | The violent carriage of it | The violent carriage of it |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.120 | The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim, | The windes of March with beauty: Violets dim, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.474 | The violation of my faith; and then | The violation of my faith, and then |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.122 | And from your sacred vials pour your graces | And from your sacred Viols poure your graces |