| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.158 | your old virginity, is like one of our French withered | your old virginity, is like one of our French wither'd |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.159 | pears: it looks ill, it eats drily; marry, 'tis a withered | peares, it lookes ill, it eates drily, marry 'tis a wither'd |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.160 | pear; it was formerly better; marry, yet 'tis a withered | peare: it was formerly better, marry yet 'tis a wither'd |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.240 | Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale | Age cannot wither her, nor custome stale |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.64 | O, withered is the garland of the war, | Oh wither'd is the Garland of the Warre, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.286 | You were as flowers, now withered: even so | You were as Flowres, now wither'd: euen so |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.98 | Upon your never-withering banks of flowers: | Vpon your neuer-withering bankes of Flowres. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.252 | not. Let the galled jade wince. Our withers are unwrung. | not: let the gall'd iade winch: our withers are vnrung. |
| 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 |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.6 | few flocks in the point; poor jade is wrung in the withers | few Flockes in the point: the poore Iade is wrung in the withers, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.4 | withered like an old apple-john. Well, I'll repent, and | withered like an olde Apple Iohn. Well, Ile repent, and |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.7 | now take my leave of these six dry, round, old, withered | now take my leaue of these sixe drie, round, old-wither'd |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.253 | Look, whe'er the withered elder hath not | Looke, if the wither'd Elder hath not |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.228 | From this bare withered trunk. Upon thy sight | From this bare, wither'd Trunke. Vpon thy sight |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.292 | Who twice a day their withered hands hold up | Who twice a day their wither'd hands hold vp |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.160 | grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax | grow bald, a faire Face will wither, a full Eye will wax |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iv.110 | Until it wither with me to my grave, | Vntill it wither with me to my Graue, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.11 | And pithless arms, like to a withered vine | And pyth-lesse Armes, like to a withered Vine, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.ii.38 | Shall see thee withered, bloody, pale, and dead. | Shall see thee withered, bloody, pale, and dead. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.60 | the ten meals I have lost, and I'll defy them all. Wither, | the ten meales I haue lost, and I'de defie them all. Wither |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.101 | Wither one rose, and let the other flourish; | Wither one Rose, and let the other flourish: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.102 | If you contend, a thousand lives must wither. | If you contend, a thousand liues must wither. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.156 | To shrink mine arm up like a withered shrub; | To shrinke mine Arme vp like a wither'd Shrub, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.97 | Hath sullied, withered, overcast, and done. | Hath sullied, withered ouercast and donne. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.391 | The sun that withers hay doth nourish grass: | The Sunne that withersheye goth nourish grasse, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.66 | Seemed as it were a grove of withered pines; | Seemd as it were a groue of withered pines, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.217 | Wither, my heart, that like a sapless tree | Wither my hart that like a saples tree, |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.35 | From her material sap perforce must wither | |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.54 | Such short-lived wits do wither as they grow. | Such short liu'd wits do wither as they grow. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.240 | A withered hermit, fivescore winters worn, | A withered Hermite, fiuescore winters worne, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.39 | So withered and so wild in their attire, | So wither'd, and so wilde in their attyre, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.52 | Pale Hecat's offerings; and withered Murder, | Pale Heccats Offrings: and wither'd Murther, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.18 | With overweathered ribs and ragged sails, | With ouer-wither'd ribs and ragged sailes, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.16 | An old cloak makes a new jerkin; a withered servingman | an old Cloake, makes a new Ierkin: a wither'd Seruingman, |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.152 | Old, cold, withered, and of intolerable entrails? | Old, cold, wither'd, and of intollerable entrailes? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.6 | Long withering out a young man's revenue. | Long withering out a yong mans reuennew. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.77 | Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn, | Then that which withering on the virgin thorne, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.50 | And on her withered dewlap pour the ale. | And on her withered dewlop poure the Ale. |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.15 | It must needs wither. I'll smell it on the tree. | It needs must wither. Ile smell thee on the Tree. |
| Pericles | Per II.ii.42 | A withered branch that's only green at top. | A withered Branch, that's onely greene at top, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.35 | Who withered in her spring of year. | Who withered in her spring of yeare: |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.134 | To crop at once a too-long withered flower. | To crop at once a too-long wither'd flowre. |
| Richard II | R2 II.iv.8 | The bay trees in our country are all withered, | The Bay-trees in our Countrey all are wither'd, |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.8 | My fair rose wither. Yet look up, behold, | My faire Rose wither: yet looke vp; behold, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.214 | Have done thy charm, thou hateful withered hag! | Haue done thy Charme, yu hateful wither'd Hagge. |
| 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.iv.69 | Is like a blasted sapling, withered up; | Is like a blasted Sapling, wither'd vp: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.10 | Let two more summers wither in their pride, | Let two more Summers wither in their pride, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.233.1 | Yet you are withered. | Yet you are wither'd. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.397 | A vengeance on your crafty withered hide! | A vengeance on your crafty withered hide, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.43 | This is a man, old, wrinkled, faded, withered, | This is a man old, wrinckled, faded, withered, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.464 | The fresh-brook mussels, withered roots, and husks | The fresh-brooke Mussels, wither'd roots, and huskes |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.534 | Debts wither 'em to nothing. Be men like blasted woods, | Debts wither 'em to nothing, be men like blasted woods |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.113 | Upon a gathered lily almost withered. | Vpon a gathred Lillie almost withered., |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.177 | Sirs, strive no more. Such withered herbs as these | Sirs striue no more, such withered hearbs as these |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.297 | And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn; | And in my Vantbrace put this wither'd brawne, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.47.1 | O withered truth! | O withered truth! |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.81 | And here the graces of our youths must wither | And here the graces of our youthes must wither |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.133 | Will wing me to some withered bough, and there | Will wing me to some wither'd bough, and there |