| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.221 | That weigh their pains in sense, and do suppose | That weigh their paines in sence, and do suppose |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.118 | Of colour, weight, and heat, poured all together, | Of colour, waight, and heat, pour'd all together, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.154 | Shall weigh thee to the beam; that wilt not know | Shall weigh thee to the beame: That wilt not know, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.31 | Let every word weigh heavy of her worth | Let euerie word waigh heauie of her worrh, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.iv.32 | That he does weigh too light. My greatest grief, | That he does waigh too light: my greatest greefe, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.v.66 | Her heart weighs sadly. This young maid might do her | Her hart waighes sadly: this yong maid might do her |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.176 | or whether he thinks it were not possible with well-weighing | or whether he thinkes it were not possible with well-waighing |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.ii.69 | prayer, though thou deny me a matter of more weight; | Prayer, though thou denie me a matter of more waight: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.25 | So great weight in his lightness. If he filled | So great waight in his lightnesse. If he fill'd |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.21 | O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony! | Oh happy horse to beare the weight of Anthony! |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.32 | Which do not be entreated to, but weigh | Which do not be entreated too, But waigh |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.i.36 | The weight we must convey with's will permit, | The waight we must conuay with's, will permit: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.32 | Here's sport indeed! How heavy weighs my lord! | Heere's sport indeede: / How heauy weighes my Lord? |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.34 | That makes the weight. Had I great Juno's power, | That makes the waight. Had I great Iuno's power, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.102 | As answering to the weight. Would I might never | As answering to the waight, would I might neuer |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.7 | Herein I see thou lovest me not with the full weight | Heerein I see thou lou'st mee not with the full waight |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.246 | What passion hangs these weights upon my tongue? | What passion hangs these waights vpõ my toong? |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.109 | With lesser weight but not with lesser woe, | With lesser waight, but not with lesser woe, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.36 | But were we burdened with like weight of pain, | But were we burdned with like waight of paine, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.28 | How much your chain weighs to the utmost carat, | How much your Chaine weighs to the vtmost charect, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.71 | If any think brave death outweighs bad life | If any thinke, braue death out-weighes bad life, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.72.1 | I love them as they weigh – | I loue them as they weigh--- |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.v.13 | he must be weighed rather by her value than his | he must be weighed rather by her valew, then his |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.89 | From whose so many weights of baseness cannot | From whose so many waights of basenesse, cannot |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.17 | How much the quantity, the weight as much, | How much the quantity, the waight as much, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.24 | 'Tween man and man they weigh not every stamp; | 'Tweene man, and man, they waigh not euery stampe: |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.13 | In equal scale weighing delight and dole, | In equall Scale weighing Delight and Dole |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.17 | His greatness weighed, his will is not his own. | His greatnesse weigh'd, his will is not his owne; |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.29 | Then weigh what loss your honour may sustain | Then weigh what losse your Honour may sustaine, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.27 | one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre | One, must in your allowance o're-way a whole Theater |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.6 | And where 'tis so, th' offender's scourge is weighed, | And where 'tis so, th'Offenders scourge is weigh'd |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.158 | By heaven, thy madness shall be paid with weight | By Heauen, thy madnesse shall be payed by waight, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.148 | Weigh what convenience both of time and means | Weigh what conuenience both of time and meanes |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iii.35 | more weight than mine own bowels. I have led my | more weight then mine owne Bowelles. I haue led my |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.122 | Lend to this weight such lightness with their fear | Lend to this weight, such lightnesse with their Feare, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.169 | weighing. And yet in some respects, I grant, I cannot | weighing: and yet, in some respects I grant, I cannot |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.45 | Which if we find outweighs ability, | Which if we finde out-weighes Ability, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.55 | To weigh against his opposite; or else | To weigh against his Opposite? Or else, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.ii.171 | the purpose must weigh with the folly. Follow | the purpose must weigh with the folly. Follow |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.248 | Prince himself is such another – the weight of a hair | Prince himselfe is such another: the weight of an hayre |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.7 | That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down | That thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids downe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.67 | I have in equal balance justly weighed | I haue in equall ballance iustly weigh'd, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.34 | Did he suspire, that light and weightless down | Did hee suspire, that light and weightlesse dowlne |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.ii.102 | You are right justice, and you weigh this well. | You are right Iustice, and you weigh this well: |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.5 | Before we hear him, of some things of weight | Before we heare him, of some things of weight, |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.35 | According to the weight and worthiness. | According to the weight and worthinesse. |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.43 | In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh | In cases of defence, 'tis best to weigh |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.137 | And these he masters now. Now he weighs time | And these he masters now: now he weighes Time |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.126 | have digested; which in weight to re-answer, his pettiness | haue digested; which in weight to re-answer, his pettinesse |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.i.62 | Did look no better to that weighty charge. | Did looke no better to that weightie Charge. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.i.168 | This weighty business will not brook delay; | This weighty businesse will not brooke delay, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.86 | With thy confederates in this weighty cause. | With thy Confederates in this weightie cause. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.i.289 | What counsel give you in this weighty cause? | What counsaile giue you in this weightie cause? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.51 | I mean, in bearing weight of government, | I meane, in bearing weight of Gouernment, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.i.36 | Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight; | Thou art no Atlas for so great a weight: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.24 | And heave it shall some weight or break my back. | And heaue it shall some waight, or breake my backe, |
| Henry VIII | H8 prologue.2 | That bear a weighty and a serious brow, | That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow, |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.11 | Which had they, what four throned ones could have weighed | Which had they, / What foure Thron'd ones could haue weigh'd |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.144 | This secret is so weighty, 'twill require | This Secret is so weighty, 'twill require |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.138 | There ye shall meet about this weighty business. | There ye shall meete about this waighty busines. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.197 | I weighed the danger which my realms stood in | I weigh'd the danger which my Realmes stood in |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.58 | How you stand minded in the weighty difference | How you stand minded in the waighty difference |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.71 | In such a point of weight, so near mine honour, | In such a poynt of weight, so neere mine Honour, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.88 | They that must weigh out my afflictions, | They that must weigh out my afflictions, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.234.1 | Authority so weighty. | Authority so weighty. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.259 | Weighed not a hair of his. Plague of your policy! | Weigh'd not a haire of his. Plague of your policie, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.407 | There was the weight that pulled me down. O Cromwell, | There was the waight that pull'd me downe. / O Cromwell, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.18 | Much weightier than this work. The Queen's in labour, | Much waightier then this worke. The Queens in Labor |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.124 | Will triumph o'er my person, which I weigh not, | Will triumph o're my person, which I waigh not, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.66 | Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience, | Lay all the weight ye can vpon my patience, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.145 | Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, | Weigh them, it is as heauy: Coniure with 'em, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.108 | Weighing the youthful season of the year. | Weighing the youthfull Season of the yeare. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.159 | And ure thy shoulders to an armour's weight. | And vre thy shoulders to an Armors weight. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.304 | And peise their deeds with weight of heavy lead, | And peise their deedes with weight of heauie leade, |
| King John | KJ II.i.332 | One must prove greatest; while they weigh so even, | One must proue greatest. While they weigh so euen, |
| King John | KJ II.i.486 | Her dowry shall weigh equal with a queen. | Her Dowrie shall weigh equall with a Queene: |
| King John | KJ III.i.297 | But in despair die under their black weight. | But in despaire, dye vnder their blacke weight. |
| King Lear | KL I.i.5 | Dukes he values most, for qualities are so weighed that | Dukes hee valewes most, for qualities are so weigh'd, that |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.321 | The weight of this sad time we must obey; | The waight of this sad time we must obey, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.7 | Matchless Navarre; the plea of no less weight | Matchlesse Nauarre, the plea of no lesse weight |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.26 | Indeed I weigh not you, and therefore light. | Indeed I waigh not you, and therefore light. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.27 | You weigh me not? O, that's you care not for me! | You waigh me not, O that's you care not for me. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.154 | The interim having weighed it, let us speak | The Interim hauing weigh'd it, let vs speake |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.125.1 | For sundry weighty reasons. | For sundry weightie Reasons. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.90.1 | With other graces weighed. | With other Graces weigh'd. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.45.1 | Which weighs upon the heart? | Which weighes vpon the heart? |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.120 | Make us pay down for our offence by weight | Make vs pay downe, for our offence, by waight |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.126 | We cannot weigh our brother with ourself. | We cannot weigh our brother with our selfe, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.157 | Will so your accusation overweigh | Will so your accusation ouer-weigh, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.170 | Say what you can, my false o'erweighs your true. | Say what you can; my false, ore-weighs your true. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.132 | A very superficial, ignorant, unweighing fellow. | A very superficiall, ignorant, vnweighing fellow |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.254 | Than by self-offences weighing. | Then by selfe-offences weighing. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.27 | Go to, sir, you weigh equally. A feather will | Goe too Sir, you waigh equallie: a feather will |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.111 | He would have weighed thy brother by himself, | He would haue waigh'd thy brother by himselfe, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.25 | And weigh thy value with an even hand. | And weigh thy value with an euen hand, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.89 | And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight, | And you shall see 'tis purchast by the weight, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.41 | A weight of carrion flesh than to receive | A weight of carrion flesh, then to receiue |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.252 | It is so. Are there balance here to weigh | It is so: Are there ballance heere to weigh |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.21 | himself a young gallant! What an unweighed behaviour | himselfe a yong Gallant? What an vnwaied / Behauiour |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.131 | Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh. | Weigh oath with oath, and you will nothing weigh. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.133 | Will even weigh, and both as light as tales. | Will euen weigh, and both as light as tales. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.83 | there be any matter of weight chances, call up me. Keep | there be anie matter of weight chances, call vp me, keepe |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iv.24 | 'Twill be heavier soon, by the weight of a man. | 'Twill be heauier soone, by the waight of a man. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.93 | And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple – | And what they weigh, euen to the vtmost scruple, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.199 | shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance. Nay, an | shall nere weigh more reasons in her ballance, nay, and |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.264 | I would bend under any heavy weight | I would bend vnder anie heauie waight, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.82 | It shall be full of poise and difficult weight, | It shall be full of poize, and difficult waight, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.118 | And weigh'st thy words before thou giv'st them breath, | And weigh'st thy words before thou giu'st them breath, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.87 | Might equal yours, if both were justly weighed. | might equall yours, if both were iustly wayde, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.59 | Not with the empty hollowness, but weight. | Not with the emptie hollownes, but weight: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.31 | Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight. | Stoupe with oppression of their prodigall weight: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.84 | Of Bolingbroke. Their fortunes both are weighed. | Of Bullingbrooke, their Fortunes both are weigh'd: |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.89 | And with that odds he weighs King Richard down. | And with that oddes he weighes King Richard downe. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.203 | I give this heavy weight from off my head, | I giue this heauie Weight from off my Head, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.148 | With lies well steeled with weighty arguments; | With Lyes well steel'd with weighty Arguments, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.31 | And still, as you are weary of this weight, | And still as you are weary of this waight, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.46 | Weigh it but with the grossness of this age, | Weigh it but with the grossenesse of this Age, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.119 | In weightier things you'll say a beggar nay. | In weightier things you'le say a Begger nay. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.120 | It is too heavy for your grace to wear. | It is too weightie for your Grace to weare. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.121 | I weigh it lightly, were it heavier. | I weigh it lightly, were it heauier. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.154 | And weigh thee down to ruin, shame, and death! | And weigh thee downe to ruine, shame, and death, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.95 | But in that crystal scales let there be weighed | But in that Christall scales, let there be waid, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.245 | Sufficeth, my reasons are both good and weighty. | Sufficeth my reasons are both good and waighty. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.205 | And yet as heavy as my weight should be. | And yet as heauie as my waight should be. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.26 | Made me acquainted with a weighty cause | Made me acquainted with a waighty cause |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.8 | Can speak like us. Then wisely, good sir, weigh | Can speake like vs: then wisely (good Sir) weigh |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.132 | Weighed between loathness and obedience at | Waigh'd betweene loathnesse, and obedience, at |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.150.1 | And make him weigh with her. | And make him weigh with her. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.216 | can justly praise but what he does affect. I weigh my | can iustly praise, but what he does affect. I weighe my |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.59 | Weigh but the crime with this. | Weigh but the Crime with this. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.102 | Attend our weightier judgement. | Attend our waightier Iudgement. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.149 | Than their offence can weigh down by the dram – | Then their offence can weigh downe by the Dramme, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.58 | Commit my cause in balance to be weighed. | Commit my Cause in ballance to be weigh'd. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.76 | From whence at first she weighed her anchorage, | From whence at first she wegih'd her Anchorage: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.203 | Of their observant toil the enemies' weight – | Of their obseruant toyle, the Enemies waight, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.ii.26 | Weigh you the worth and honour of a king | Weigh you the worth and honour of a King |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.164 | Might be affronted with the match and weight | Might be affronted with the match and waight |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.66 | Both merits poised, each weighs nor less nor more; | Both merits poyz'd, each weighs no lesse nor more, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.i.72 | Of her contaminated carrion weight | Of her contaminated carrion weight, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.81 | The other blank as nothing. Weigh him well, | The other blanke as nothing: weigh him well: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.171 | So much by weight hate I her Diomed. | So much by weight, hate I her Diomed, |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.365 | If that the injuries be justly weighed | If that the iniuries be iustly weigh'd, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.117 | Upon this mighty ‘ Morr,’ of mickle weight; | Vpon this mighty Morr---of mickle waight |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.145 | Let me alone. Come, weigh, my hearts, cheerily! | Let me alone; Come waygh my hearts, cheerely. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.130 | Under the weight of arms; stout-hearted, still, | Vnder the waight of Armes; stout harted, still, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.19.1 | They not o'erweigh us. | They not ore'-weigh us. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.258 | Not weighing well the end; if ever fearful | Not weighing well the end: if euer fearefull |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.42 | As I weigh grief, which I would spare; for honour, | As I weigh Griefe (which I would spare:) For Honor, |