| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| 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, |
| 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 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.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, |
| 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, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.158 | By heaven, thy madness shall be paid with weight | By Heauen, thy madnesse shall be payed by waight, |
| 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 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 IV.v.34 | Did he suspire, that light and weightless down | Did hee suspire, that light and weightlesse dowlne |
| 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 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 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 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.ii.234.1 | Authority so weighty. | Authority so weighty. |
| 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.iii.66 | Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience, | Lay all the weight ye can vpon my patience, |
| 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 III.i.297 | But in despair die under their black weight. | But in despaire, dye vnder their blacke weight. |
| 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 |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.125.1 | For sundry weighty reasons. | For sundry weightie Reasons. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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.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, |
| 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 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.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. |
| 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 |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.v.102 | Attend our weightier judgement. | Attend our waightier Iudgement. |
| 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 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.72 | Of her contaminated carrion weight | Of her contaminated carrion weight, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.171 | So much by weight hate I her Diomed. | So much by weight, hate I her Diomed, |
| 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.ii.130 | Under the weight of arms; stout-hearted, still, | Vnder the waight of Armes; stout harted, still, |