| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.243 | Hast thou the pretty worm of Nilus there, | Hast thou the pretty worme of Nylus there, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.255 | good report o'th' worm. But he that will believe all that | good report o'th'worme: but he that wil beleeue all that |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.257 | this is most fallible, the worm's an odd worm. | this is most falliable, the Worme's an odde Worme. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.259 | I wish you all joy of the worm. | I wish you all ioy of the Worme. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.261 | You must think this, look you, that the worm | You must thinke this (looke you,) that the Worme |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.264 | Look you, the worm is not to be trusted but in | Looke you, the Worme is not to bee trusted, but in |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.266 | goodness in the worm. | goodnesse in the Worme. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.ii.278 | Yes, forsooth. I wish you joy o'th' worm. | Yes forsooth: I wish you ioy o'th'worm. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.62 | Most shallow man! Thou worms' meat, in | Most shallow man: Thou wormes meate in |
| As You Like It | AYL III.iv.23 | concave as a covered goblet or a worm-eaten nut. | concaue as a couered goblet, or a Worme-eaten nut. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.97 | time to time and worms have eaten them, but not for | time to time, and wormes haue eaten them, but not for |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.36 | Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath | Out-venomes all the Wormes of Nyle, whose breath |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.218.1 | And worms will not come to thee. | And Wormes will not come to thee. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.89 | The glow-worm shows the matin to be near | The Glow-worme showes the Matine to be neere, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.191 | That's wormwood. | Wormwood, Wormwood. |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.20 | convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your | conuocation of wormes are e'ne at him. Your |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.21 | worm is your only emperor for diet. We fat all creatures | worm is your onely Emperor for diet. We fat all creatures |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.26 | A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a | |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.27 | king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. | |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.87 | Why, e'en so, and now my Lady Worm's, chopless, | Why ee'n so: and now my Lady Wormes, Chaplesse, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.76 | purple-hued maltworms; but with nobility and tranquillity, | purple-hu'd-Maltwormes, but with Nobility, and Tranquilitie; |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.iv.86 | For worms, brave Percy. Fare thee well, great heart! | For Wormes, braue Percy. Farewell great heart: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.35 | And this worm-eaten hold of ragged stone, | And this Worme-eaten-Hole of ragged Stone, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.329 | where he doth nothing but roast maltworms. For the | where hee doth nothing but rost Mault-Wormes: for the |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.117 | Give that which gave thee life unto the worms. | Giue that, which gaue thee life, vnto the Wormes: |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.86 | Picked from the worm-holes of long-vanished days, | Pickt from the worme-holes of long-vanisht dayes, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.72 | Civil dissension is a viperous worm | Ciuill dissention is a viperous Worme, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.263 | The mortal worm might make the sleep eternal; | The mortall Worme might make the sleepe eternall. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.17 | The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on, | The smallest Worme will turne, being troden on, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.126 | When I shall dwell with worms, and my poor name | When I shall dwell with Wormes, and my poore name |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.115 | Her hair, far softer than the silkworm's twist, | Her hair far softor then the silke wormes twist, |
| 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 IV.vii.43 | To darkness, consummation, dust, and worms. | To darkenes consummation, dust and Wormes. |
| King John | KJ III.iv.31 | And ring these fingers with thy household worms, | And ring these fingers with thy houshold wormes, |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.101 | worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the | Worme no Silke; the Beast, no Hide; the Sheepe, no Wooll; the |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.33 | Which made me think a man a worm. My son | Which made me thinke a Man, a Worme. My Sonne |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.152 | These worms for loving, that art most in love? | These wormes for louing, that art most in loue? |
| 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.iv.28 | There the grown serpent lies. The worm that's fled | There the growne Serpent lyes, the worme that's fled |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.i.16 | Adder's fork, and blindworm's sting, | Adders Forke, and Blinde-wormes Sting, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.33.2 | What, with worms and flies? | What with Wormes, and Flyes? |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.17 | Of a poor worm. Thy best of rest is sleep, | Of a poore worme: thy best of rest is sleepe, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vii.69 | Gilded tombs do worms infold. | Guilded timber doe wormes infold: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.78 | And twenty glow-worms shall our lanterns be, | And twenty glow-wormes shall our Lanthornes bee |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.83 | Vile worm, thou wast o'erlooked even in thy birth. | Vilde worme, thou wast ore-look'd euen in thy birth. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.11 | Newts and blindworms, do no wrong, | Newts and blinde wormes do no wrong, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.23 | Worm nor snail, do no offence. | Worme nor Snayle doe no offence. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.165 | And light them at the fiery glow-worms' eyes | And light them at the fierie-Glow-wormes eyes, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.71 | Could not a worm, an adder do so much? | Could not a worme, an Adder do so much? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.384 | Already to their wormy beds are gone. | Alreadie to their wormie beds are gone; |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.ii.25 | Where is but a humour or a worm. | Where is but a humour or a worme. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.133 | in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpiece | in the smircht worm eaten tapestrie, where his cod-peece |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.ii.76 | wise, if Don Worm, his conscience, find no impediment | wise, if Don worme (his conscience) finde no impediment |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.73 | The worms were hallowed that did breed the silk, | The Wormes were hallowed, that did breede the Silke, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.103 | By man's oppression, and the poor worm doth die for't. | By mans oppression, and the poore Worme doth die for't: |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.43 | Where now his son's like a glow-worm in the night, | Where now his sonne like a Gloworme in the night, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.79 | I trod upon a worm against my will, | I trode vpon a worme against my will, |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.23 | meat for worms. But I'll go search the market. | meate for wormes, but Ile goe searche the market. |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.145 | Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; | Let's talke of Graues, of Wormes, and Epitaphs, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.221 | The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! | The Worme of Conscience still begnaw thy Soule, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.386 | Thy broken faith hath made the prey for worms. | Thy broken Faith hath made the prey for Wormes. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.151 | As is the bud bit with an envious worm | As is the bud bit with an enuious worme, |
| 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 |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.68 | Not half so big as a round little worm | not halfe so bigge as a round little Worme, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.i.107 | They have made worms' meat of me. | They haue made wormes meat of me, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.109 | With worms that are thy chambermaids. O here | Thy drugs are quicke. Thus with a kisse I die. / Depart againe; here, here will I remaine, / With Wormes that are thy Chambermaides: O here / |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.ii.168 | Come, come, you froward and unable worms, | Come, come, you froward and vnable wormes, |
| The Tempest | Tem III.i.31.2 | Poor worm, thou art infected. | Poore worme thou art infected, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.183 | The gilded newt and eyeless venomed worm, | The gilded Newt, and eyelesse venom'd Worme, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.110 | But let concealment, like a worm i'the bud, | But let concealment like a worme i'th budde |