| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.9 | would stir it up where it wanted, rather than lack it | would stirre it vp where it wanted rather then lack it |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.70.2 | He cannot want the best | He cannot want the best |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.4 | she's very well and wants nothing i'th' world; but yet she | she's very well, and wants nothing i'th world: but yet she |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.42 | Whose want and whose delay is strewed with sweets, | Whose want, and whose delay, is strew'd with sweets |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.18 | Lays down his wanton siege before her beauty, | Layes downe his wanton siedge before her beautie, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.68 | And I shall lose my life for want of language. | And I shall loose my life for want of language. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.211 | And boarded her i'th' wanton way of youth. | And boorded her i'th wanton way of youth: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.72 | Made out of her impatience – which not wanted | Made out of her impatience: which not wanted |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.80 | Three kings I had newly feasted, and did want | Three Kings I had newly feasted, and did want |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.11 | Wherefore my father should revengers want, | Wherefore my Father should reuengers want, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.xii.30 | In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure | In their best Fortunes strong; but want will periure |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xiv.53 | Dido and her Aeneas shall want troops, | Dido, and her Aeneas shall want Troopes, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.97 | It's past the size of dreaming. Nature wants stuff | It's past the size of dreaming: Nature wants stuffe |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.127 | That to your wanting may be ministered. | That to your wanting may be ministred. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.23 | worse at ease he is, and that he that wants money, | worse at ease he is: and that hee that wants money, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.58 | want. | want. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.8 | Who, wanting guilders to redeem their lives, | Who wanting gilders to redeeme their liues, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.57 | No, sir. I think the meat wants | No sir, I thinke the meat wants |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.160 | Wants wit in all one word to understand. | Wants wit in all, one word to vnderstand. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.188 | Who, all for want of pruning, with intrusion | Who all for want of pruning, with intrusion, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.77 | It seems thou wantest breaking. Out upon thee, hind! | It seemes thou want'st breaking, out vpon thee hinde. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.4 | To Persia, and want guilders for my voyage. | To Persia, and want Gilders for my voyage: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.64 | Have the patricians of you. For your wants, | Haue the Patricians of you for your wants. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.82 | 'Tis not to save labour, nor that I want love. | 'Tis not to saue labour, nor that I want loue. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.193 | There's one thing wanting, which I doubt not but | there's one thing wanting, / Which (I doubt not) but |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.209 | Their nicely gawded cheeks to th' wanton spoil | their nicely gawded Cheekes, to th'wanton spoyle |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.247 | Shall touch the people – which time shall not want, | Shall teach the People, which time shall not want, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.95 | The horn and noise o'th' monster's, wants not spirit | The horne, and noise o'th' Monsters, wants not spirit |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.69.1 | Of what that want might ruin. | Of what that want might ruine. |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.44.1 | With one that wants her wits? | With one that wants her Wits. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.23 | finished with his bidding. He wants nothing of a god but | finisht with his bidding. He wants nothing of a God but |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.115 | man: thou shouldst neither want my means for thy | man: thou should'st neither want my meanes for thy |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.8 | But not so citizen a wanton as | But not so Citizen a wanton, as |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.20 | There wants no diligence in seeking him, | There wants no diligence in seeking him, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.31 | The want is but to put those powers in motion | The want is, but to put those Powres in motion, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.26 | Who find in my exile the want of breeding, | Who finde in my Exile, the want of Breeding; |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.162 | faint for want of meat, depart reeling with too much | faint for want of meate, depart reeling with too much |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.187 | I tell thee, fellow, there are none want eyes to | I tell thee, Fellow, there are none want eyes, to |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.150 | O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason | (O Heauen! A beast that wants discourse of Reason |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.22 | But, sir, such wanton, wild, and usual slips | But Sir, such wanton, wild, and vsuall slips, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.146 | God's creatures and make your wantonness your | Gods creatures, and make your Wantonnesse, your |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.49 | wants a cullison,’ and ‘ Your beer is sour,’ and blabbering | |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.218 | And who in want a hollow friend doth try | And who in want a hollow Friend doth try, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.131 | Will want true colour – tears perchance for blood. | Will want true colour; teares perchance for blood. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.184 | Pinch wanton on your cheek, call you his mouse, | Pinch Wanton on your cheeke, call you his Mouse, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.91 | And wants not buzzers to infect his ear | And wants not Buzzers to infect his eare |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.293 | I am afeard you make a wanton of me. | I am affear'd you make a wanton of me. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.154 | thief, for the poor abuses of the time want countenance. | theefe; for the poore abuses of the time, want countenance. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.199 | Being wanted, he may be more wondered at | Being wanted, he may be more wondred at, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.130 | Want mercy if I do not join with him. | Want mercy, if I do not ioyne with him. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.103 | to his wife, ‘ Fie upon this quiet life, I want work.’ ‘ O | to his wife; Fie vpon this quiet life, I want worke. O |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.178 | Defect of manners, want of government, | Defect of Manners, want of Gouernment, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.207 | She bids you on the wanton rushes lay you down, | She bids you, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.208 | And rest your gentle head upon her lap, | On the wanton Rushes lay you downe, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.44 | And yet, in faith, it is not! His present want | And yet, in faith, it is not his present want |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.103 | Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls. | Wanton as youthfull Goates, wilde as young Bulls. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.50 | What with the injuries of a wanton time, | What with the iniuries of wanton time, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.79 | And never yet did insurrection want | And neuer yet did Insurrection want |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.62 | And chid his truant youth with such a grace | And chid his Trewant youth with such a Grace, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.68 | So much misconstrued in his wantonness. | So much misconstrued in his Wantonnesse, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.148 | Thou art a guard too wanton for the head | Thou art a guard too wanton for the head, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.74 | lack subjects? Do not the rebels need soldiers? Though | lack subiects? Do not the Rebels want Soldiers? Though |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.55 | And with our surfeiting and wanton hours | And with our surfetting, and wanton howres, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.189 | Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason, | Yea, euery idle, nice, and wanton Reason, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.8 | Only we want a little personal strength, | Onely wee want a little personall Strength: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.28 | What you want in meat, we'll have in drink; but you | What you want in meate, wee'l haue in drinke: but you |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.54 | Honest Bardolph, welcome! If thou wantest | Honest Bardolfe, welcome: If thou want'st |
| Henry V | H5 III.vii.70 | And yet my sky shall not want. | And yet my Sky shall not want. |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.50 | Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, | Wanting the Sythe, withall vncorrected, ranke; |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.57 | Have lost, or do not learn for want of time, | Haue lost, or doe not learne, for want of time, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.69 | Whose want gives growth to th' imperfections | Whose want giues growth to th'imperfections |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.69 | No treachery, but want of men and money. | No trecherie, but want of Men and Money. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.75 | Another would fly swift, but wanteth wings; | Another would flye swift, but wanteth Wings: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.82 | Were our tears wanting to this funeral, | Were our Teares wanting to this Funerall, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.116 | He wanted pikes to set before his archers; | He wanted Pikes to set before his Archers: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.143 | Whilst such a worthy leader, wanting aid, | Whil'st such a worthy Leader, wanting ayd, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.9 | They want their porridge and their fat bull-beeves. | They want their Porredge, & their fat Bul Beeues: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.27 | The other lords, like lions wanting food, | The other Lords, like Lyons wanting foode, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.86 | If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands! | If Salisbury wants mercy at thy hands. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.19 | Lascivious, wanton, more than well beseems | Lasciuious, wanton, more then well beseemes |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.ii.41 | Good morrow, gallants, want ye corn for bread? | God morrow Gallants, want ye Corn for Bread? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.23 | Than wanton dalliance with a paramour. | Than wanton dalliance with a Paramour. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iv.46 | Because you want the grace that others have, | Because you want the grace that others haue, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.33 | And choke the herbs for want of husbandry. | And choake the Herbes for want of Husbandry. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.168 | I shall not want false witness to condemn me, | I shall not want false Witnesse, to condemne me, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.236 | But yet we want a colour for his death. | But yet we want a Colour for his death: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.126 | That want their leader, scatter up and down | That want their Leader, scatter vp and downe, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.348 | As one that surfeits thinking on a want. | As one that surfets, thinking on a want: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.viii.61 | honour be witness that no want of resolution in me, but | honor be witnesse, that no want of resolution in mee, but |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.i.171 | Why art thou old and wantest experience? | Why art thou old, and want'st experience? |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 V.ii.22 | Nor should thy prowess want praise and esteem, | Nor should thy prowesse want praise & esteeme, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.74 | The wanton Edward, and the lusty George? | The wanton Edward, and the lustie George? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.133 | The want thereof makes thee abominable. | The want thereof, makes thee abhominable. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.102 | Wherein thy counsel and consent is wanting. | Wherein thy counsaile and consent is wanting: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.210 | For matching more for wanton lust than honour, | For matching more for wanton Lust, then Honor, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.121 | That, though I want a kingdom, yet in marriage | That though I want a Kingdome, yet in Marriage |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.57 | Ay, therein Clarence shall not want his part. | I, therein Clarence shall not want his part. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.66 | O, welcome, Oxford, for we want thy help. | Oh welcome Oxford, for we want thy helpe. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.ii.8 | My blood, my want of strength, my sick heart shows, | My blood, my want of strength, my sicke heart shewes, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.107 | What his high hatred would effect wants not | What his high Hatred would effect, wants not |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.241 | As if it fed ye! And how sleek and wanton | As if it fed ye, and how sleeke and wanton |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.308 | It is to see a nobleman want manners. | It is to see a Nobleman want manners. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.309 | I had rather want those than my head. Have at you! | I had rather want those, then my head; / Haue at you. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.359 | Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, | Like little wanton Boyes that swim on bladders: |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.13 | And want of wisdom, you, that best should teach us, | And want of wisedome, you that best should teach vs, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.161 | That is, a fair young maid that yet wants baptism; | That is, a faire young Maid that yet wants Baptisme, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.58 | That should be in a Roman you do want, | that should be in a Roman, / You doe want, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.3 | Ah, cousin Montague, I fear thou want'st | A cosin Mountague, I feare thou wants, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.275 | Whither she will hear a wanton's tale or no. | Whither shee will heare a wantons tale or no, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.69 | That poets term the wanton warrior blind; | That Poets tearme, the wanton warriour blinde: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.156 | A tender and lascivious wantonness, | A tender and lasciuious wantonnes, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.204 | Now wants there nought but knighthood, which deferred | Now wants there nought but knighthood, which deferd |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.113 | Thou know'st King Edward for no wantonness, | Thou knowest King Edward for no wantonesse, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.122 | So tell the courtly wanton, and be gone. | So tell the courtly wanton, and be gone. |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vi.8 | O, for more arrows, Lord! That's our want. | O for more arrowes Lord, thats our want. |
| King John | KJ II.i.435 | And she again wants nothing, to name want, | And she againe wants nothing, to name want, |
| King John | KJ II.i.436 | If want it be not that she is not he. | If want it be not, that she is not hee: |
| King John | KJ III.iii.36 | Is all too wanton and too full of gauds | Is all too wanton, and too full of gawdes |
| King John | KJ III.iv.13 | Doth want example. Who hath read or heard | Doth want example: who hath read, or heard |
| King John | KJ IV.i.16 | Only for wantonness. By my christendom, | Onely for wantonnesse: by my Christendome, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.98 | Must needs want pleading for a pair of eyes. | Must needes want pleading for a paire of eyes: |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.127 | And if thou wantest a cord, the smallest thread | And if thou want'st a Cord, the smallest thred |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.138 | Let hell want pains enough to torture me. | Let hell want paines enough to torture me: |
| King John | KJ V.i.70 | A cockered silken wanton, brave our fields | A cockred-silken wanton braue our fields, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.224 | If for I want that glib and oily art | If for I want that glib and oylie Art, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.230 | But even for want of that for which I am richer: | But euen for want of that, for which I am richer, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.279 | And well are worth the want that you have wanted. | And well are worth the want that you haue wanted. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.194 | Weary of all, shall want some. | Weary of all, shall want some. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.340 | You are much more a-taxed for want of wisdom | Your are much more at task for want of wisedome, |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.119 | o'the coxcombs with a stick and cried ‘ Down, wantons, | o'th'coxcombs with a sticke, and cryed downe wantons, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.23 | Look where he stands and glares! Want'st thou | |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.18 | I have no way and therefore want no eyes; | I haue no way, and therefore want no eyes: |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.36 | As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; | As Flies to wanton Boyes, are we to th'Gods, |
| King Lear | KL IV.iv.20.1 | That wants the means to lead it. | That wants the meanes to leade it. |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.263 | opportunities to cut him off; if your will want not, time and | opportunities to cut him off: if your will want not, time and |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.193 | A whitely wanton with a velvet brow, | A whitly wanton, with a veluet brow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.ii.78 | shall want no instruction; if their daughters be capable, | shall want no instruction: If their Daughters be capable, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.56 | O, rhymes are guards on wanton Cupid's hose; | O Rimes are gards on wanton Cupids hose, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.102 | Playing in the wanton air. | Playing in the wanton ayre: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.235 | Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. | Where nothing wants, that want it selfe doth seeke. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.74 | As gravity's revolt to wantonness. | As grauities reuolt to wantons be. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.708 | True, and it was enjoined him in Rome for want of | True, and it was inioyned him in Rome for want of |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.756 | All wanton as a child, skipping and vain, | All wanton as a childe, skipping and vaine. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.866 | Come, sir, it wants a twelvemonth and a day, | Come sir, it wants a tweluemonth and a day, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iv.35 | Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves | Wanton in fulnesse, seeke to hide themselues |
| Macbeth | Mac III.iv.142 | Is the initiate fear that wants hard use. | Is the initiate feare, that wants hard vse: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.vi.8 | Who cannot want the thought how monstrous | Who cannot want the thought, how monstrous |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.9 | He wants the natural touch; for the poor wren, | He wants the naturall touch. For the poore Wren |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.59 | The wanton stings and motions of the sense, | The wanton stings, and motions of the sence; |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.143 | He wants advice. | He wants aduice. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.103.1 | That want no ear but yours. | That want no eare but yours. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.6 | And such a want-wit sadness makes of me | and such a Want-wit sadnesse makes of mee, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.60 | Yet to supply the ripe wants of my friend, | Yet to supply the ripe wants of my friend, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.iii.137 | Supply your present wants, and take no doit | Supplie your present wants, and take no doite |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.93 | Which make such wanton gambols with the wind | Which makes such wanton gambols with the winde |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.71 | For do but note a wild and wanton herd | For doe but note a wilde and wanton heard |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.205 | With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty | With any termes of Zeale: wanted the modestie |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.55 | Lord, Lord, your worship's a wanton! Well, God forgive | Lord, Lord, your Worship's a wanton: well: heauen forgiue |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.247 | Want no money, Sir John; you shall want none. | Want no money (Sir Iohn) you shall want none. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.248 | Want no Mistress Ford, Master Brook; you | Want no Mistresse Ford (Master Broome) you |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.ii.249 | shall want none. I shall be with her, I may tell you, by | shall want none: I shall be with her (I may tell you) by |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.ii.12 | Ay; and as idle as she may hang together, for want | I, and as idle as she may hang together for want |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.197 | The spirit of wantonness is sure scared | The spirit of wantonnesse is sure scar'd |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.7 | Than thee with wantonness. Now doth thy honour stand, | Then thee with wantonnes: Now doth thy honor stand |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.iv.37 | Why, yet there want not many that do fear | Why yet there want not many that do feare |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.i.23 | Brook. Since I plucked geese, played truant and whipped | Broome:) since I pluckt Geese, plaide Trewant, and whipt |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.135 | that it wants matter to prevent so gross o'erreaching as | that it wants matter to preuent so grosse ore-reaching as |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.54 | But in this kind, wanting your father's voice, | But in this kinde, wanting your fathers voyce. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.130 | Belike for want of rain, which I could well | Belike for want of raine, which I could well |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.98 | such as our play wants. I pray you, fail me not. | such as our play wants. I pray you faile me not. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.63 | Tarry, rash wanton! Am not I thy lord? | Tarrie rash Wanton; am not I thy Lord? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.99 | And the quaint mazes in the wanton green | And the queint Mazes in the wanton greene, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.101 | The human mortals want their winter cheer. | The humane mortals want their winter heere, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.129 | And grow big-bellied with the wanton wind; | And grow big bellied with the wanton winde: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.19 | he wants money. | he wants money. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.42 | Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton. | Not to knit my soule to an approued wanton. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.266 | Of feathered Cupid seel with wanton dullness | Of feather'd Cupid, seele with wanton dulnesse |
| Othello | Oth II.i.224 | which the Moor is defective in. Now for want of these | which the Moore is defectiue in. Now for want of these |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.16 | not yet made wanton the night with her; and she is | not yet made wanton the night with her: and she is |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.339 | He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, | He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolne, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.71 | To lip a wanton in a secure couch, | To lip a wanton in a secure Cowch; |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.105 | Whose want even kills me. | Whose want euen killes me. |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.11 | Who wanteth food and will not say he wants it, | Who wanteth food, and will not say hee wants it, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.16 | That, if heaven slumber while their creatures want, | that if heauen slumber, while / Their creatures want, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.19 | And wanting breath to speak, help me with tears. | And wanting breath to speake, helpe mee with teares. |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.37 | As houses are defiled for want of use, | As houses are defil'de for want of vse, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.38 | They are now starved for want of exercise. | They are now staru'de for want of exercise, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.72 | But what I am, want teaches me to think on: | But what I am, want teaches me to thinke on: |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.100 | Come, sir, here's a lady that wants breathing too, | Come sir, heer's a Lady that wants breathing too, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.54 | Wherein we are not destitute for want, | wherein we are not destitute for want, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.214 | Four lagging winters and four wanton springs | Foure lagging Winters, and foure wanton springs |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.51 | And send them after to supply our wants; | And send them after to supply our wants: |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.10 | In Ross and Willoughby, wanting your company, | In Rosse and Willoughby, wanting your companie, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.175 | I live with bread, like you; feel want, | I liue with Bread like you, feele Want, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.164 | Or shall we play the wantons with our woes, | Or shall we play the Wantons with our Woes, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.179 | Wanting the manage of unruly jades. | Wanting the manage of vnruly Iades. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.203 | Tears show their love, but want their remedies. | Teares shew their Loue, but want their Remedies. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.13 | For of joy, being altogether wanting, | For if of Ioy, being altogether wanting, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.16 | It adds more sorrow to my want of joy; | It addes more Sorrow to my want of Ioy: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.18 | And what I want it boots not to complain. | And what I want, it bootes not to complaine. |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.72 | O, I am pressed to death through want of speaking! | Oh I am prest to death through want of speaking: |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.101 | We make woe wanton with this fond delay. | We make Woe wanton with this fond delay: |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.10 | Which he – young wanton, and effeminate boy – | Which he, yong wanton, and effeminate Boy |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.16 | I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty | I, that am Rudely stampt, and want loues Maiesty, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.17 | To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; | To strut before a wonton ambling Nymph: |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.43 | There wanteth now our brother Gloucester here | There wanteth now our Brother Gloster heere, |
| Richard III | R3 II.ii.42 | Why wither not the leaves that want their sap? | Why wither not the leaues that want their sap? |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.6 | I want more uncles here to welcome me. | I want more Vnkles heere to welcome me. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.12 | Those uncles which you want were dangerous; | Those Vnkles which you want, were dangerous: |
| Richard III | R3 III.iv.5 | It is, and wants but nomination. | It is, and wants but nomination. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.124 | This noble isle doth want her proper limbs; | The Noble Ile doth want his proper Limmes: |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.186 | Made prize and purchase of his wanton eye, | Made prize and purchase of his wanton Eye, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.13 | Which they upon the adverse faction want. | Which they vpon the aduerse Faction want. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.332 | For want of means, poor rats, had hanged themselves. | For want of meanes (poore Rats) had hang'd themselues. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.35 | A torch for me! Let wantons light of heart | A Torch for me, let wantons light of heart |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.78 | Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love. | Then death proroged wanting of thy Loue. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.155 | A thousand times the worse, to want thy light! | A thousand times the worse to want thy light, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.177 | And yet no farther than a wanton's bird, | And yet no further then a wantons Bird, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.v.70 | Now comes the wanton blood up in your cheeks. | Now comes the wanton bloud vp in your cheekes, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.19 | That idles in the wanton summer air, | That ydles in the wanton Summer ayre, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.73 | But much of grief shows still some want of wit. | But much of griefe, shewes still some want of wit. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.15 | Or, wanting that, with tears distilled by moans. | Or wanting that, with teares destil'd by mones; |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.45 | And hang it round with all my wanton pictures. | And hang it round with all my wanton pictures: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.102 | Let them want nothing that my house affords. | Let them want nothing that my house affoords. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.51 | Which seem to move and wanton with her breath | Which seeme to moue and wanton with her breath, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.5 | To want the bridegroom when the priest attends | To want the Bride-groome when the Priest attends |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.245 | Neighbours and friends, though bride and bridegroom wants | Neighbours and friends, though Bride & Bride-groom wants |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.247 | You know there wants no junkets at the feast. | You know there wants no iunkets at the feast: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.11 | And that which spites me more than all these wants, | And that which spights me more then all these wants, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.149 | want of wine. | want of Wine. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.79 | What I shall die to want. But this is trifling; | What I shall die to want: But this is trifling, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.26 | And what does else want credit, come to me | And what do's else want credit, come to me |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.39 | Although they want the use of tongue, a kind | (Although they want the vse of tongue) a kinde |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.58 | Rather than want a spirit. Appear, and pertly. | Rather then want a Spirit; appear, & pertly. |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.95 | Some wanton charm upon this man and maid, | Some wanton charme, vpon this Man and Maide, |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.116 | Scarcity and want shall shun you, | Scarcity and want shall shun you, |
| The Tempest | Tem epilogue.13 | Which was to please. Now I want | Which was to please: Now I want |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.i.5 | If I want gold, steal but a beggar's dog | If I want Gold, steale but a beggers Dogge, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.33 | If you did know, my lord, my master's wants – | If you did know my Lord, my Masters wants. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.64 | usurers' men, bawds between gold and want! | Vsurers men, Bauds betweene Gold and want. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.186 | And in some sort these wants of mine are crowned, | And in some sort these wants of mine are crown'd, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.210 | That now they are at fall, want treasure, cannot | That now they are at fall, want Treature cannot |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.8 | Fie, no, do not believe it. He cannot want for | Fye no, doe not beleeue it: hee cannot want for |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.39 | He cannot want fifty five hundred talents. | He cannot want fifty fiue hundred Talents. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.ii.40 | But in the mean time he wants less, my lord. | But in the mean time he wants lesse my Lord. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.13 | The want that makes him lean. Who dares, who dares, | The want that makes him leaue: who dares? who dares |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.68 | As the moon does, by wanting light to give. | As the Moone do's, by wanting light to giue: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.92 | The want whereof doth daily make revolt | The want whereof, doth dayly make reuolt |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.402 | The mere want of gold, and the falling-from of his | the meere want of Gold, and the falling from of his |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.417 | We are not thieves, but men that much do want. | We are not Theeues, but men / That much do want. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.418 | Your greatest want is, you want much of meat. | Your greatest want is, you want much of meat: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.419 | Why should you want? Behold, the earth hath roots; | Why should you want? Behold, the Earth hath Rootes: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.423 | Lays her full mess before you. Want? Why want? | Layes her full Messe before you. Want? why Want? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.465 | Has desperate want made! | has desp'rate want made? |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.43 | Find what thou wantest by free and offered light. | Finde what thou want'st, by free and offer'd light. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iv.28 | Shame, that they wanted cunning, in excess | (Shame that they wanted, cunning in excesse) |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.21 | ‘ To wait ’ said I? – to wanton with this queen, | To waite said I? To wanton with this Queene, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.26 | Chiron, thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge | Chiron thy yeres wants wit, thy wit wants edge |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.238 | Or, wanting strength to do thee so much good, | Or wanting strength to doe thee so much good, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.ii.5 | Thy niece and I, poor creatures, want our hands | Thy Neece and I (poore Creatures) want our hands |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.18 | Wanting a hand to give it action? | Wanting a hand to giue it action, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.199 | And being dead, let birds on her take pity. | And being so, shall haue like want of pitty. / See Iustice done on Aaron that damn'd Moore, / From whom, our heauy happes had their beginning: / Then afterwards, to Order well the State, / That like Euents, may ne're it Ruinate. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC prologue.10 | With wanton Paris sleeps – and that's the quarrel. | With wanton Paris sleepes, and that's the Quarrell. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.174 | Want similes, truth tired with iteration – | Wants similes, truth tir'd with iteration, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.25 | Wanting his manage; and they will almost | Wanting his mannage: and they will almost, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.137 | While pride is fasting in his wantonness! | While pride is feasting in his wantonnesse |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.222 | Sweet, rouse yourself, and the weak wanton Cupid | Sweete, rouse your selfe; and the weake wanton Cupid |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.56 | Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out | Nay, her foote speakes, her wanton spirites looke out |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.220 | Yond towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds, | Yond Towers, whose wanton tops do busse the clouds, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.59 | Well, sir, for want of other idleness, I'll bide your | Well sir, for want of other idlenesse, Ile bide your |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.15 | words may quickly make them wanton. | words, may quickely make them wanton. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.19 | word might make my sister wanton. But indeed, words | word, might make my sister wanton: But indeede, words |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.42 | Dare you presume to harbour wanton lines? | Dare you presume to harbour wanton lines? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.95 | There wanteth but a mean to fill your song. | There wanteth but a Meane to fill your Song. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.iii.74 | Look what thou wantest shall be sent after thee. | Look what thou want'st shal be sent after thee: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.28 | was for want of money. And now you are metamorphosed | was for want of money: And now you are Metamorphis'd |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.i.157 | Or else for want of idle time, could not again reply; | Or else for want of idle time, could not againe reply, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.62 | And though myself have been an idle truant, | And though my selfe haue beene an idle Trewant, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.110 | And duty never yet did want his meed. | And dutie neuer yet did want his meed. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.12 | And he wants wit that wants resolved will | And he wants wit, that wants resolued will, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.147 | Because myself do want my servants' fortune. | Because my selfe doe want my seruants fortune. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.58 | As we do in our quality much want – | As we doe in our quality much want. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.10 | Nay then, the wanton lies; my face is black. | Nay then the wanton lyes: my face is blacke. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.108 | Melts into drops; so sorrow wanting form | Melts into drops, so sorrow wanting forme |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.i.222.1 | Shall want till your return. | Shall want till your returne. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.37 | Peril and want contending; they have skiffed | Perill and want contending, they have skift |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.69 | Even in the wagging of a wanton leg, | Even in the wagging of a wanton leg |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.150 | I thank you, cousin Arcite – almost wanton | (I thanke you Cosen Arcite) almost wanton |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.201.2 | Thou art wanton. | Thou art wanton. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.293 | How I would spread, and fling my wanton arms | How I would spread, and fling my wanton armes |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.17 | Tempests, and make the wild rocks wanton. Come what can come, | Tempests, and make the wild Rockes wanton. Come what can come, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.56 | You want at any time, let me but know it; | You want at any time, let me but know it; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.52.1 | Get off your trinkets; you shall want naught. | Get off your Trinkets, you shall want nought; |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.33 | And see what's wanting. Where's the bavian? | And see what's wanting; wher's the Bavian? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.38 | Quousque tandem? Here is a woman wanting! | Quo usque taudem. Here is a woman wanting |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.7 | And crest-fallen with my wants. I thank thee, Arcite, | And Crest-falne with my wants; I thanke thee Arcite, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.209 | Which cannot want due mercy, I beg first – | Which cannot want due mercie, I beg first. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.216 | But want the understanding where to use it. | But want the vnderstanding where to use it. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.15 | Just such another, wanton Ganymede | Iust such another wanton Ganimead, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.124 | Not wanton white, but such a manly colour | Not wanton white, but such a manly colour |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.154.2 | There shall want no bravery. | There shall want no bravery. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.5 | To those above us. Let no due be wanting; | To those above us: Let no due be wanting, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.86 | Whose youth, like wanton boys through bonfires, | Whose youth like wanton Boyes through Bonfyres |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.i.148 | Ne'er entered wanton sound – to my petition | Ne're entred wanton sound,) to my petition |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.126 | Upon his palm? – How now, you wanton calf! | Vpon his Palme? How now (you wanton Calfe) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.128 | Thou want'st a rough pash and the shoots that I have | Thou want'st a rough pash, & the shoots that I haue |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.18 | One of these days; and then you'd wanton with us, | One of these dayes, and then youl'd wanton with vs, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.109 | Commonly are; the want of which vain dew | Commonly are) the want of which vaine dew |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.54 | That any of these bolder vices wanted | That any of these bolder Vices wanted |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.13 | have had thee than thus to want thee. Thou, having | haue had thee, then thus to want thee, thou hauing |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.81 | anything I want. Offer me no money, I pray you: that | anie thing I want: Offer me no money I pray you, that |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.591 | That you may know you shall not want, one word. | That you may know you shall not want: one word. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.601 | remembered. My clown, who wants but something to be a | remembred. My Clowne (who wants but something to be a |