| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.89 | We have caught the woodcock and will keep him muffled | We haue caught the woodcocke, and will keepe him mufled |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.v.45 | I am a woodland fellow, sir, that always loved a | I am a woodland fellow sir, that alwaies loued a |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.3 | Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods | Then that of painted pompe? Are not these woods |
| As You Like It | AYL II.i.32 | Upon the brook that brawls along this wood, | Vpon the brooke that brawles along this wood, |
| As You Like It | AYL II.v.1 | Under the greenwood tree, | Vnder the greene wood tree, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iii.46 | but the wood, no assembly but horn-beasts. But what | but the wood, no assembly but horne-beasts. But what |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.46 | sight; I had as lief be wooed of a snail. | sight, I had as liefe be woo'd of a Snaile. |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.156 | And to the skirts of this wild wood he came, | And to the skirts of this wilde Wood he came; |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.vi.30 | In arms as sound as when I wooed, in heart | In Armes as sound, as when I woo'd in heart; |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.vii.1 | You, Polydore, have proved best woodman, and | You Polidore haue prou'd best Woodman, and |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.390 | With wild wood-leaves and weeds I ha' strewed his grave | With wild wood-leaues & weeds, I ha' strew'd his graue |
| Hamlet | Ham I.iii.115 | Ay, springes to catch woodcocks. I do know, | I, Springes to catch Woodcocks. I doe know |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.191 | That's wormwood. | Wormwood, Wormwood. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.20 | Work like the spring that turneth wood to stone, | Would like the Spring that turneth Wood to Stone, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.300 | Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osrick. | Why as a Woodcocke / To mine Sprindge, Osricke, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.176 | the wood. Our vizards we will change after we leave | the wood, our vizards wee will change after wee leaue |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.56 | You took occasion to be quickly wooed | You tooke occasion to be quickly woo'd, |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.13 | Within this wooden O the very casques | Within this Woodden O, the very Caskes |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.70 | everyone may pare his nails with a wooden dagger; and | euerie one may payre his nayles with a woodden dagger, and |
| Henry V | H5 V.i.62 | cudgels – you shall be a woodmonger, and buy nothing | Cudgels, you shall be a Woodmonger, and buy nothing |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.19 | Upon a wooden coffin we attend; | Vpon a Woodden Coffin we attend; |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.15.1 | Gloucester's men rush at the Tower gates, and Woodville | Glosters men rush at the Tower Gates, and Wooduile |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.22 | Faint-hearted Woodville, prizest him 'fore me? | Faint-hearted Wooduile, prizest him 'fore me? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.vii.35 | How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging wood, | How the yong whelpe of Talbots raging wood, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.89 | Why, for my king! Tush, that's a wooden thing! | Why for my King: Tush, that's a woodden thing. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.iii.90 | He talks of wood. It is some carpenter. | He talkes of wood: It is some Carpenter. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.16 | The sixth was Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester; | The sixt, was Thomas of Woodstock, Duke ofGloster; |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.3 | hid me in these woods, and durst not peep out, for all | hid me in these Woods, and durst not peepe out, for all |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.61 | Ay, ay, so strives the woodcock with the gin. | I, I, so striues the Woodcocke with the Gynne. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.174 | And I – like one lost in a thorny wood, | And I, like one lost in a Thornie Wood, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.67 | Brave followers, yonder stands the thorny wood, | Braue followers, yonder stands the thornie Wood, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.143 | You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; | You are not Wood, you are not Stones, but men: |
| King Edward III | E3 I.ii.52 | A field of plate, a wood of picks advanced. | A field of plate, a wood of pickes aduanced: |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.72 | If gall or wormwood have a pleasant taste, | If gall or worm wood haue a pleasant tast, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.92 | Like the continual labouring woodman's axe | Like the continuall laboring Wood-mans Axe, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.142 | A hazel wand amidst a wood of pines, | A Hasle wand a midst a wood of Pynes, |
| King Lear | KL II.iii.16 | Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary; | Pins, Wodden-prickes, Nayles, Sprigs of Rosemarie: |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.10 | legs, then he wears wooden nether-stocks. | legs, then he weares wodden nether-stocks. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.80 | Dumaine transformed! Four woodcocks in a dish! | Dumaine transform'd, foure Woodcocks in a dish. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.246 | Is ebony like her? O wood divine! | Is Ebonie like her? O word diuine? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.247 | A wife of such wood were felicity. | A wife of such wood were felicitie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.469 | Following the signs, wooed but the sign of she. | Following the signes, woo'd but the signe of she. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.836 | To weed this wormwood from your fruitful brain, | To weed this Wormewood from your fruitfull braine, |
| Macbeth | Mac III.ii.51 | And the crow makes wing to the rooky wood; | And the Crow makes Wing toth' Rookie Wood: |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.92 | Great Birnan Wood to high Dunsinane Hill | Great Byrnam Wood, to high Dunsmane Hill |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.96 | Rebellious dead rise never till the wood | Rebellious dead, rise neuer till the Wood |
| Macbeth | Mac V.ii.5.2 | Near Birnan Wood | Neere Byrnan wood |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.2 | Till Birnan Wood remove to Dunsinane | Till Byrnane wood remoue to Dunsinane, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iv.3.1 | What wood is this before us? | What wood is this before vs? |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iv.3.2 | The wood of Birnan. | The wood of Birnane. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.35.1 | The wood began to move. | The Wood began to moue. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.44 | That lies like truth. ‘ Fear not, till Birnan Wood | That lies like truth. Feare not, till Byrnane Wood |
| Macbeth | Mac V.v.45 | Do come to Dunsinane ’ – and now a wood | Do come to Dunsinane, and now a Wood |
| Macbeth | Mac V.vi.69 | Though Birnan Wood be come to Dunsinane | Though Byrnane wood be come to Dunsinane, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.160 | He's a better woodman than thou tak'st him for. | he's a better woodman then thou tak'st him for. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.111 | Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels. | like Sir Acteon he, with / Ring-wood at thy heeles: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.14 | Was the first motive that I wooed thee, Anne; | Was the first motiue that I woo'd thee (Anne:) |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.27 | husbands. Am I a woodman, ha? Speak I like Herne | husbands. Am I a Woodman, ha? Speake I like Herne |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.88.2 | Come, will this wood take fire? | Come: will this wood take fire? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.16 | Hippolyta, I wooed thee with my sword, | Hippolita, I woo'd thee with my sword, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.165 | And in the wood, a league without the town – | And in the wood, a league without the towne, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.214 | And in the wood, where often you and I | And in the wood, where often you and I, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.247 | Then to the wood will he tomorrow night | Then to the wood will he, to morrow night |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.ii.94 | in the palace wood a mile without the town by moonlight. | in the palace wood, a mile without the Towne, by Moone-light, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.138 | How long within this wood intend you stay? | How long within this wood intend you stay? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.191 | Thou toldest me they were stolen unto this wood, | Thou toldst me they were stolne into this wood; |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.192 | And here am I, and wood within this wood | And heere am I, and wood within this wood, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.223 | Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, | Nor doth this wood lacke worlds of company, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.237 | But I shall do thee mischief in the wood. | But I shall doe thee mischiefe in the wood. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.242 | We should be wooed, and were not made to woo. | We should be woo'd, and were not made to wooe. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.251 | Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine, | Quite ouer-cannoped with luscious woodbine, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.41 | Fair love, you faint with wandering in the wood; | Faire loue, you faint with wandring in ye woods, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.142 | out of this wood, I have enough to serve mine own turn. | out of this wood, I haue enough to serue mine owne turne. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.143 | Out of this wood do not desire to go! | Out of this wood, do not desire to goe, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.94 | About the wood go swifter than the wind, | About the wood, goe swifter then the winde, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.310 | I told him of your stealth unto this wood. | I told him of your stealth vnto this wood. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.41 | So doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle | So doth the woodbine, the sweet Honisuckle, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.47 | For, meeting her of late behind the wood | For meeting her of late behinde the wood, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.112 | When in a wood of Crete they bayed the bear | When in a wood of Creete they bayed the Beare |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.139 | Begin these woodbirds but to couple now? | Begin these wood birds but to couple now? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.160 | Of this their purpose hither to this wood, | Of this their purpose hither, to this wood, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.i.30 | Is couched in the woodbine coverture. | Is couched in the wood-bine couerture, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.152 | woodcock too? | wood-cocke too? |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.94 | When you wooed my lady, know of your love? | When he woo'd my Lady, know of your loue? |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.290 | Wooed me to steal it; but she so loves the token – | Woo'd me to steale it. But she so loues the Token, |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.171 | buy him a wooden one? | buy him a woodden one? |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.1 | Alas, the part I had in Woodstock's blood | Alas, the part I had in Glousters blood, |
| Richard II | R2 III.i.23 | Disparked my parks, and felled my forest woods, | Dis-park'd my Parkes, and fell'd my Forrest Woods; |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.150 | My figured goblets for a dish of wood, | My figur'd Goblets, for a Dish of Wood, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.67 | Anthony Woodville, her brother there, | Anthony Woodeulle her Brother there, |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.227 | Was ever woman in this humour wooed? | Was euer woman in this humour woo'd? |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.32 | That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep | That woo'd the slimy bottome of the deepe, |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.1.3 | Buckingham, and attendants | Buckingham, Wooduill. |
| Richard III | R3 II.i.69 | Of you, Lord Woodville, and, Lord Scales, of you; | Of you Lord Wooduill, and Lord Scales of you, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.125 | And stole into the covert of the wood. | And stole into the couert of the wood, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.27 | For I had then laid wormwood to my dug, | for I had then laid Worme-wood to my Dug |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.31 | When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple | when it did tast the Worme-wood on the nipple |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.47 | And burn sweet wood to make the lodging sweet. | And burne sweet Wood to make the Lodging sweete: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.83 | 'Twas where you wooed the gentlewoman so well. | 'Twas where you woo'd the Gentlewoman so well: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.56 | Or Daphne roaming through a thorny wood, | Or Daphne roming through a thornie wood, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.123 | That ever Katherina will be wooed. | That euer Katherina wil be woo'd: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.158 | O this woodcock, what an ass it is! | Oh this Woodcocke, what an Asse it is. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.11 | Who wooed in haste and means to wed at leisure. | Who woo'd in haste, and meanes to wed at leysure: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.17 | Yet never means to wed where he hath wooed. | Yet neuer meanes to wed where he hath woo'd: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.51 | That shall be wooed and wedded in a day. | That shalbe woo'd, and wedded in a day. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.312 | Fetch in our wood, and serves in offices | Fetch in our wood, and serues in Offices |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.314.2 | There's wood enough within. | There's wood enough within. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.1.1 | Enter Caliban with a burden of wood. A noise of | Enter Caliban, with a burthen of Wood (a noyse of |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.16 | For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat. | For bringing wood in slowly: I'le fall flat, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.70 | Do not torment me, prithee. I'll bring my wood | Doe not torment me 'prethee: I'le bring my wood |
| The Tempest | Tem II.ii.158 | I'll fish for thee, and get thee wood enough. | I'le fish for thee; and get thee wood enough. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.62 | This wooden slavery than to suffer | This wodden slauerie, then to suffer |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.i.35 | Timon will to the woods, where he shall find | Timon will to the Woods, where he shall finde |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.1 | Enter Timon in the woods | Enter Timon in the woods. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.209 | That ever Timon was. Shame not these woods | That euer Timon was. Shame not these Woods, |
| 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 |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.iii.1 | Enter a Soldier in the woods, seeking Timon | Enter a Souldier in the Woods, seeking Timon. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.131 | And with our swords upon a pile of wood | And with our Swords vpon a pile of wood, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.82 | She is a woman, therefore may be wooed; | Shee is a woman, therefore may be woo'd, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.128 | The woods are ruthless, dreadful, deaf, and dull. | The Woods are ruthlesse, dreadfull, deafe, and dull: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.ii.2 | The fields are fragrant, and the woods are green. | The fields are fragrant, and the Woods are greene, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.i.53 | Forced in the ruthless, vast, and gloomy woods? | Forc'd in the ruthlesse, vast, and gloomy woods? |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.98 | And he's as tetchy to be wooed to woo. | And he's as teachy to be woo'd to woe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.155 | To hear the wooden dialogue and sound | To heare the woodden Dialogue and sound |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.255 | there were wit in his head, an 'twould out – and so | there were wit in his head and twoo'd out; and so |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.83 | Now is the woodcock near the gin. | Now is the Woodcocke neere the gin. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.ii.58 | thy wits, and fear to kill a woodcock lest thou dispossess | thy wits, and feare to kill a Woodcocke, lest thou dis-possesse |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iii.9 | Go thou with her to the west end of the wood; | Goe thou with her to the West end of the wood, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.2 | This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, | This shadowy desart, vnfrequented woods |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.50.1 | This must be done i'th' woods. | This must be done i'th woods. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.ii.53 | Most parlously in our behalfs. He's excellent i'th' woods; | most parlously in our behalfes: hees excellent i'th woods, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.iv.52 | To flowery May, in Dian's wood. Wait well, sir, | To flowry May, in Dians wood: waite well Sir |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.v.3 | And out I have brought him. To a little wood | And out I have brought him to a little wood |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.10 | O'th' wood, o'th' world, hast likewise blessed a place | O'th wood, o'th world, hast likewise blest a pace |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.23.1 | Here in the wild woods, cousin? | here in the wild woods Cosen |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.iii.40 | When young men went a-hunting – and a wood, | When yong men went a hunting, and a wood, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.68 | Is gone to th' wood to gather mulberries; | Is gone to 'th wood to gather Mulberies, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.143 | And now direct your course to th' wood, where Palamon | And now direct your conrse to'th wood, wher Palamon |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.150.4 | A fair wood. | A faire wood. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.151.1 | You wooed me the false way. | You woo'd me the false way. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.36 | As now it coldly stands – when first I wooed her! | As now it coldly stands) when first I woo'd her. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.108 | When she was young you wooed her: now, in age, | When she was young, you woo'd her: now, in age, |