| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.i.145 | Out with't! Within ten year it will make itself two, which | Out with't: within ten yeare it will make it selfe two, which |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.82 | so all the year! We'd find no fault with the tithe-woman | so all the yeere, weed finde no fault with the tithe woman |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.28 | ‘ Too young,’ and ‘ The next year,’ and ‘ 'Tis too early.’ | Too young, and the next yeere, and 'tis too early. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.83 | With one that in her sex, her years, profession, | With one, that in her sexe, her yeeres, profession, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.v.51 | Like to the time o'th' year between the extremes | Like to the time o'th' yeare, between ye extremes |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.112 | Report the feature of Octavia, her years, | Report the feature of Octauia: her yeares, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.57 | That year indeed he was troubled with a rheum. | That year indeed, he was trobled with a rheume, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.iii.26.1 | Guess at her years, I prithee. | Guesse at her yeares, I prythee. |
| As You Like It | AYL I.ii.162 | your years. You have seen cruel proof of this man's | your yeares: you haue seene cruell proofe of this mans |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.71 | From seventeen years till now almost four score | From seauentie yeeres, till now almost fourescore |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iii.73 | At seventeen years many their fortunes seek, | At seauenteene yeeres, many their fortunes seeke |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.92 | I'll rhyme you so eight years together, | Ile rime you so, eight yeares together; |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.307 | pace is so hard that it seems the length of seven year. | pace is so hard, that it seemes the length of seuen yeare. |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.64 | Sweet youth, I pray you chide a year together; | Sweet youth, I pray you chide a yere together, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.v.118 | He is not very tall – yet for his years he's tall. | He is not very tall, yet for his yeeres hee's tall: |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.86 | almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there | almost six thousand yeeres old, and in all this time there |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.i.91 | have lived many a fair year though Hero had turned | haue liu'd manie a faire yeere though Hero had turn'd |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.86 | Such garments and such years: ‘The boy is fair, | Such garments, and such yeeres: the boy is faire, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.58 | three year old, conversed with a magician, most profound | three yeare old conuerst with a Magitian, most profound |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE I.i.126 | At eighteen years became inquisitive | At eighteene yeeres became inquisitiue |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.90 | Her sober virtue, years, and modesty, | Her sober vertue, yeares, and modestie, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.i.21 | I buy a thousand pound a year, I buy a rope. | I buy a thousand pound a yeare, I buy a rope. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.310 | In seven short years that here my only son | In seuen short yeares, that heere my onely sonne |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.321 | But seven years since, in Syracusa, boy, | But seuen yeares since, in Siracusa boy |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.327 | I tell thee, Syracusian, twenty years | I tell thee Siracusian, twentie yeares |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.401 | Thirty-three years have I but gone in travail | Thirtie three yeares haue I but gone in trauaile |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.84 | all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill | all the yearne she spun in Vlisses absence, did but fill |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.7 | For half a hundred years. (To the trumpeter) Summon the town. | For halfe a hundred yeares: Summon the Towne. |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.110 | years' health, in which time I will make a lip at the physician. | yeeres health; in which time, I will make a Lippe at the Physician: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.85 | Be singly counterpoised. At sixteen years, | Be singly counter-poys'd. At sixteene yeeres, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.45 | Thou hast years upon thee, and thou art too full | Thou hast yeares vpon thee, and thou art too full |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.i.55 | If I could shake off but one seven years | If I could shake off but one seuen yeeres |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iv.17 | mother now than an eight-year-old horse. The tartness | Mother now, then an eight yeare old horse. The tartnesse |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.58 | Mark it – the eldest of them at three years old, | Marke it) the eldest of them, at three yeares old |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.62 | Some twenty years. | Some twenty yeares. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.64.1 | A year's age on me! | A yeares age on mee. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.i.9 | Yearly three thousand pounds; which – by thee – lately | Yeerely three thousand pounds; which (by thee) lately |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.69 | Followed my banishment, and this twenty years | Followed my Banishment, and this twenty yeeres, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iii.101 | At three and two years old, I stole these babes, | At three, and two yeeres old, I stole these Babes, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.66 | I saw him not these many years, and yet | I saw him not these many yeares, and yet |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.199 | Have skipped from sixteen years of age to sixty: | Haue skipt from sixteene yeares of Age, to sixty: |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.22 | Of many in the army: many years – | Of many in the Army: Many yeeres |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.142 | dead many years, shall after revive, be jointed to | dead many yeares, shall after reuiue, bee ioynted to |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.338 | For such and so they are – these twenty years | (For such, and so they are) these twenty yeares |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.440 | being dead many years, shall after revive, be | being dead many yeares, shall after reuiue, bee |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.457 | For many years thought dead, are now revived, | For many yeares thought dead, are now reuiu'd |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.141 | man's memory may outlive his life half a year. But, by'r | mans Memorie, may out-liue his life halfe a yeare: But |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.137 | Horatio, this three years I have took note of it, the age | Horatio, these three yeares I haue taken note of it, the Age |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.141 | Of all the days i'th' year, I came to't that | Of all the dayes i'th' yeare, I came too't that |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.160 | sexton here, man and boy, thirty years. | sixeteene heere, man and Boy thirty yeares. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.164 | hold the laying in, 'a will last you some eight year or | hold the laying in) he will last you some eight yeare, or |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.165 | nine year. A tanner will last you nine year. | nine yeare. A Tanner will last you nine yeare. |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.171 | years. | years. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.26 | Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed | Which fourteene hundred yeares ago were nail'd |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.202 | If all the year were playing holidays, | If all the yeare were playing holidaies, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.16 | time this two-and-twenty years, and yet I am bewitched | time this two and twenty yeare, & yet I am bewitcht |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.41 | Forsooth, five years, and as much as to – | Forsooth fiue yeares, and as much as to--- |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.44 | Five year! By'r lady, a long lease for the | Fiue yeares: Berlady a long Lease for the |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.305 | that I did not this seven year before: I blushed to hear | that I did not this seuen yeeres before, I blusht to heare |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.308 | years ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever | yeeres agoe, and wert taken with the manner, and euer |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.322 | My own knee? When I was about thy years, | My owne Knee? When I was about thy yeeres |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.442 | that Father Ruffian, that Vanity in years? Wherein is he | that Father Ruffian, that Vanitie in yeeres? wherein is he |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.ii.103 | And being no more in debt to years than thou | And being no more in debt to yeeres, then thou, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.47 | this two-and-thirty years, God reward me for it! | this two and thirtie yeeres, Heauen reward me for it. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.136 | Of death or death's hand for this one half year. | Of death, or deaths hand, for this one halfe yeare. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 induction.13 | Whiles the big year, swollen with some other grief, | Whil'st the bigge yeare, swolne with some other griefes, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.58 | good-year! One must bear, and that (to Doll) must be you; | good-yere? One must beare, and that must bee you: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.172 | What the good-year, do you think I would deny her? | -What the good yere, doe you thinke I would denye her? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.255 | Is it not strange that desire should so many years | Is it not strange, that Desire should so many yeeres |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.258 | Saturn and Venus this year in conjunction! | Saturne and Venus this yeere in Coniunction? |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.378 | twenty-nine years, come peascod-time, but an honester | twentie nine yeeres, come Pescod-time: but an honester, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.53 | With divers liquors! 'Tis not ten years gone | With diuers Liquors. 'Tis not tenne yeeres gone, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.55 | Did feast together, and in two years after | Did feast together; and in two yeeres after, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.i.56 | Were they at wars. It is but eight years since | Were they at Warres. It is but eight yeeres since, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.83 | you like well, and bear your years very well. Welcome, | you looke well: and beare your yeares very well. Welcome, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.205 | That's fifty-five year ago. | That's fiftie fiue yeeres agoe. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.232 | that dies this year is quit for the next. | that dies this yeere, is quit for the next. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.123 | The seasons change their manners, as the year | The Seasons change their manners, as the Yeere |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.v.235 | It hath been prophesied to me, many years, | It hath beene prophesi'de to me many yeares, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.i.41 | your worship truly, sir, this eight years, and if I cannot | your Worshippe truely sir, these eight yeares: and if I cannot |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.2 | arbour, we will eat a last year's pippin of my own | Arbor we will eate a last yeares Pippin of my owne |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.iii.18 | And praise God for the merry year, | and praise heauen for the merrie yeere: |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.108 | I will lay odds that, ere this year expire, | I will lay oddes, that ere this yeere expire, |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.30 | Turning th' accomplishment of many years | Turning th' accomplishment of many yeeres |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.2 | Which in th' eleventh year of the last King's reign | Which in th' eleuẽth yere of ye last Kings reign |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.19 | A thousand pounds by th' year. Thus runs the bill. | A thousand pounds by th' yeere. Thus runs the Bill. |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.57 | Until four hundred one-and-twenty years | Vntill foure hundred one and twentie yeeres |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.60 | Who died within the year of our redemption | Who died within the yeere of our Redemption, |
| Henry V | H5 I.ii.63 | Beyond the river Sala, in the year | Beyond the Riuer Sala, in the yeere |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.62 | Had twenty years been made. This is a stem | Had twentie yeeres been made. This is a Stem |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.269 | And follows so the ever-running year | And followes so the euer-running yeere |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.291 | Five hundred poor I have in yearly pay, | Fiue hundred poore I haue in yeerely pay, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.26 | It yearns me not if men my garments wear; | It yernes me not, if men my Garments weare; |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iii.45 | Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, | Will yeerely on the Vigil feast his neighbours, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.42 | And ne'er throughout the year to church thou goest, | And ne're throughout the yeere to Church thou go'st, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.i.48 | Posterity, await for wretched years, | Posteritie await for wretched yeeres, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.91 | I myself fight not once in forty year. | I my selfe fight not once in fortie yeere. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.39 | That hast by tyranny these many years | That hast by Tyrannie these many yeeres |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.107 | O uncle, would some part of my young years | O Vnckle,would some part of my young yeeres |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.71 | Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell | Beleeue me, Lords, my tender yeeres can tell, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.149 | My tender years, and let us not forgo | My tender yeares, and let vs not forgoe |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.37 | This seven years did not Talbot see his son, | This seuen yeeres did not Talbot see his sonne, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.i.21 | Marriage, uncle? Alas, my years are young, | Marriage Vnckle? Alas my yeares are yong: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.2 | I saw not better sport these seven years' day; | I saw not better sport these seuen yeeres day: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iii.28 | I see no reason why a king of years | I see no reason, why a King of yeeres |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.vi.4 | but claret wine this first year of our reign. And now | but Clarret Wine / This first yeare of our raigne. / And now |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.x.5 | if I might have a lease of my life for a thousand years, | if I might haue a Lease of my life for a thousand yeares, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.ii.17 | I would break a thousand oaths to reign one year. | I would breake a thousand Oathes, to reigne one yeere. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.28 | How many days will finish up the year, | How many Dayes will finish vp the Yeare, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.29 | How many years a mortal man may live. | How many Yeares, a Mortall man may liue. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.37 | So many years ere I shall shear the fleece. | So many yeares, ere I shall sheere the Fleece: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.v.38 | So minutes, hours, days, months, and years, | So Minutes, Houres, Dayes, Monthes, and Yeares, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.93 | Of threescore-and-two years – a silly time | Of threescore and two yeeres, a silly time |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.96 | Whom thou obeyed'st thirty-and-six years, | Whom thou obeyd'st thirtie and six yeeres, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.104 | Even in the downfall of his mellowed years, | Euen in the downe-fall of his mellow'd yeeres, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.91 | Longer than I have time to tell his years; | Longer then I haue time to tell his yeares; |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.ii.30 | That like a jewel has hung twenty years | That like a Iewell, ha's hung twenty yeares |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.64 | A thousand pound a year, annual support, | A Thousand pound a yeare, Annuall support, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.82 | I have been begging sixteen years in court, | I haue beene begging sixteene yeares in Court |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iii.95 | A thousand pounds a year for pure respect! | A thousand pounds a yeare, for pure respect? |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.36 | Upward of twenty years, and have been blessed | Vpward of twenty yeares, and haue bene blest |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.50 | A year before. It is not to be questioned | A yeare before. It is not to be question'd, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.108 | Weighing the youthful season of the year. | Weighing the youthfull Season of the yeare. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.101 | Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life | Why he that cuts off twenty yeares of life, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.102 | Cuts off so many years of fearing death. | Cuts off so many yeares of fearing death. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.159 | Fulfil your pleasure. Live a thousand years, | Fulfill your pleasure. Liue a thousand yeeres, |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.130 | For I have seen more years, I'm sure, than ye. | For I haue seene more yeeres I'me sure then yee. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.134 | Five hundred years has held the sceptre up. | Fiue hundred yeeres hath helde the scepter vp, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.50 | That, if he break out, Nestor's years on earth | That if he breaketh out, Nestors yeares on earth, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.49 | Three thousand marks a year in English land. | Three thousand Marks a yeere in English land. |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.96 | Five hundred marks a year to thee and thine. | Fiue hundred marks a yeere to thee and thine. |
| King John | KJ I.i.69 | At least from fair five hundred pound a year. | At least from faire fiue hundred pound a yeere: |
| King John | KJ I.i.94 | A half-faced groat, five hundred pound a year! | A halfe-fac'd groat, fiue hundred pound a yeere? |
| King John | KJ I.i.152 | Your face hath got five hundred pound a year, | Your face hath got fiue hundred pound a yeere, |
| King John | KJ II.i.424 | Is niece to England. Look upon the years | Is neere to England, looke vpon the yeeres |
| King John | KJ III.i.81 | The yearly course that brings this day about | The yearely course that brings this day about, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.19 | year elder than this, who yet is no dearer in my account. | yeere elder then this; who, yet is no deerer in my account, |
| King Lear | KL I.i.31 | He hath been out nine years, and away he | He hath bin out nine yeares, and away he |
| King Lear | KL I.i.298 | choleric years bring with them. | cholericke yeares bring with them. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.38 | so old to dote on her for anything. I have years on my | so old to dote on her for any thing. I haue yeares on my |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.163 | Fools had ne'er less grace in a year, | Fooles had nere lesse grace in a yeere, |
| King Lear | KL II.ii.57 | years o'the trade. | yeares oth'trade. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.53 | daughters as thou canst tell in a year. | Daughters, as thou canst tell in a yeare. |
| King Lear | KL III.iv.133 | Have been Tom's food for seven long year. | Haue bin Toms food, for seuen long yeare: |
| King Lear | KL IV.i.14 | These fourscore years! | these fourescore yeares. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.24 | The good-years shall devour them, flesh and fell, | The good yeares shall deuoure them, flesh and fell, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.16 | Have sworn for three years' term to live with me, | Haue sworne for three yeeres terme, to liue with me: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.24 | I am resolved. 'Tis but a three years' fast. | I am resolu'd, 'tis but a three yeeres fast: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.35 | That is, to live and study here three years. | That is, to liue and study heere three yeeres. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.52 | And stay here in your court for three years' space. | And stay heere in your Court for three yeeres space. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.115 | And bide the penance of each three years' day. | And bide the pennance of each three yeares day. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.129 | term of three years, he shall endure such public shame as | tearme of three yeares, hee shall indure such publique shame as |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.148 | Three thousand times within this three years' space; | Three thousand times within this three yeeres space: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.178 | And so to study three years is but short. | And so to studie, three yeeres is but short. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.275 | It was proclaimed a year's imprisonment to be taken | It was proclaimed a yeeres imprisoment to bee taken |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.35 | I have promised to study three years with the | I haue promis'd to study iij. yeres with the |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.52 | put ‘ years ’ to the word ‘ three,’ and study three years in | put yeres to the word three, and study three yeeres in |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.23 | Till painful study shall outwear three years, | Till painefull studie shall out-weare three yeares, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.4 | Sweet air! Go, tenderness of years, take this key, | Sweete Ayer, go tendernesse of yeares: take this Key, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.i.113 | Hang me by the neck if horns that year miscarry. | Hang me by the necke, if hornes that yeare miscarrie. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.11 | For he hath been five thousand year a boy. | For he hath beene fiue thousand yeeres a Boy. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.465 | That smiles his cheek in years, and knows the trick | That smiles his cheeke in yeares, and knowes the trick |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.799 | Then, at the expiration of the year, | Then at the expiration of the yeare, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.873 | for her sweet love three year. But, most esteemed | for her sweet loue three yeares. But most esteemed |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.49 | To three thousand dolours a year. | To three thousand Dollours a yeare. |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.21 | Which for this fourteen years we have let slip; | Which for this foureteene yeares, we haue let slip, |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.118 | sir; a man of fourscore pound a year, whose father died | sir, a man of foure-score pound a yeare; whose father died |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.185 | Are you of fourscore pounds a year? | Are you of fourescore pounds a yeere? |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.228 | but for ten year together, you'll be glad to give out a | but for ten yeare together; you'll be glad to giue out a |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.230 | ten year, I'll rent the fairest house in it after threepence | ten yeare, ile rent the fairest house in it after three pence |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.248 | Seven year and a half, sir. | Seuen yeere, and a halfe sir. |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.i.250 | had continued in it some time. You say, seven years | had continued in it some time: you say seauen yeares |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.187 | A bawd of eleven years' continuance, may it | A Bawd of eleuen yeares continuance, may it |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.192 | marriage. His child is a year and a quarter old, come | marriage: his Childe is a yeere and a quarter olde come |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.22 | him by the year, and let him abide here with you; if | him by the yeere, and let him abide here with you, if |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.128 | bred. One that is a prisoner nine years old. | bred, / One that is a prisoner nine yeeres old. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.70 | A man of Claudio's years, his beard and head | A man of Claudio's yeares: his beard, and head |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.215 | And five years since there was some speech of marriage | And fiue yeres since there was some speech of marriage |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.220 | In levity; since which time of five years | In leuitie: Since which time of fiue yeres |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.44 | Upon the fortune of this present year. | Vpon the fortune of this present yeere: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV I.i.108 | Well, keep me company but two years more, | Well, keepe me company but two yeares mo, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.25 | last at six o'clock i'th' morning, falling out that year | last, at six a clocke ith morning, falling out that yeere |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.26 | on Ash Wednesday was four year in th' afternoon. | on ashwensday was foure yeere in th' afternoone. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.33 | years? | yeeres. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.160 | lack of years be no impediment to let him lack a reverend | lacke of years be no impediment to let him lacke a reuerend |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.12 | three hundred years. | three hundred yeeres. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.i.50 | able to overtake seventeen years old. It were a goot | able to ouertake seuenteene yeeres old. It were a goot |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.119 | good-year! | good-ier. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.52 | I have lived fourscore years and upward. I | I haue liued foure-score yeeres, and vpward: I |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.iv.33 | Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! | Lookes handsome in three hundred pounds a yeere? |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.8 | new-year's gift. The rogues slighted me into the river with as | New-yeares gift. The rogues slighted me into the riuer with as |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.v.41 | it would yearn your heart to see it. Her husband goes | it would yern your heart to see it: her husband goes |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.137 | Or else misgraffed in respect of years – | Or else misgraffed, in respect of yeares. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.1 | What the good-year, my lord! Why are you thus | What the good yeere my Lord, why are you thus |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.11 | I think I told your lordship a year since, how | I thinke I told your Lordship a yeere since, how |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA III.iii.123 | been a vile thief this seven year; 'a goes up and down | bin a vile theefe, this vii. yeares, a goes vp and downe |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.ii.73 | not suspect my years? O that he were here to write me | not suspect my yeeres? O that hee were heere to write mee |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iii.23 | Yearly will I do this rite. | yeerely will I do this right. |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.60 | Good signor, you shall more command with years | Good Signior, you shall more command with yeares, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.83 | For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith | For since these Armes of mine, had seuen yeares pith, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.97 | Of years, of country, credit, everything, | Of Yeares, of Country, Credite, euery thing |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.129 | From year to year – the battles, sieges, fortunes | From yeare to yeare: the Battaile, Sieges, Fortune, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.309 | times seven years, and since I could distinguish betwixt | times seuen yeares, and since I could distinguish betwixt |
| Othello | Oth II.i.223 | in favour, sympathy in years, manners and beauties: all | in fauour, simpathy in yeares, Manners, and Beauties: all |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.263 | Into the vale of years – yet that's not much – | Into the vale of yeares (yet that's not much) |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.99 | 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man. | 'Tis not a yeare or two shewes vs a man: |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.177 | I would have him nine years a-killing! A fine | I would haue him nine yeeres a killing: / A fine |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.85 | Decrease not, but grow faster than the years. | Decrease not, but grow faster then the yeares, |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.18 | I'll then discourse our woes, felt several years, | Ile then discourse our woes felt seuerall yeares, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.35 | Who withered in her spring of year. | Who withered in her spring of yeare: |
| Pericles | Per IV.vi.169 | would you? where a man may serve seven years for the | wold you? wher a man may serue 7. yeers for the |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.8 | Was nursed with Cleon, whom at fourteen years | was nurst with Cleon, who at fourteene yeares |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.75 | And what this fourteen years no razor touched, | and what this fourteene yeeres no razer touch't, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.20 | Many years of happy days befall | Many yeares of happy dayes befall |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.95 | That all the treasons for these eighteen years | That all the Treasons for these eighteene yeeres |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.94 | Take from my mouth the wish of happy years. | Take from my mouth, the wish of happy yeares, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.159 | The language I have learnt these forty years, | The Language I haue learn'd these forty yeares |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.171 | Too far in years to be a pupil now. | Too farre in yeeres to be a pupill now: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.210 | Hath from the number of his banished years | Hath from the number of his banish'd yeares |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.217 | He shortens four years of my son's exile. | He shortens foure yeares of my sonnes exile: |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.219 | For ere the six years that he hath to spend | For ere the sixe yeares that he hath to spend |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.225 | Why, uncle, thou hast many years to live. | Why Vncle, thou hast many yeeres to Iiue. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.248 | Six years we banish him, and he shall go. | Six yeares we banish him, and he shall go. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.17 | And added years to his short banishment, | And added yeeres to his short banishment, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.66 | Which till my infant fortune comes to years | Which till my infant-fortune comes to yeeres, |
| Richard II | R2 III.iv.57 | As we this garden! We at time of year | as we this Garden, at time of yeare, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.127 | Anointed, crowned, planted many years, | Anoynted, Crown'd, planted many yeeres, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.220 | ‘ And send him many years of sunshine days.’ | And send him many yeeres of Sunne-shine dayes. |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.21 | I see some sparks of better hope, which elder years | I see some sparkes of better hope: which elder dayes |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.92 | Well struck in years, fair, and not jealous; | Well strooke in yeares, faire, and not iealious. |
| Richard III | R3 II.iii.14 | And, in his full and ripened years, himself, | And in his full and ripened yeares, himselfe |
| Richard III | R3 II.iv.29 | 'Twas full two years ere I could get a tooth. | 'Twas full two yeares ere I could get a tooth. |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.7 | Sweet Prince, the untainted virtue of your years | Sweet Prince, the vntainted vertue of your yeers |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.95 | Eighty odd years of sorrow have I seen, | Eightie odde yeeres of sorrow haue I seene, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.326 | Make bold her bashful years with your experience; | Make bold her bashfull yeares, with your experience, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.342 | Can make seem pleasing to her tender years? | Can make seeme pleasing to her tender yeares? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.ii.9 | She hath not seen the change of fourteen years, | Shee hath not seene the change of fourteene yeares, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.2 | Now, by my maidenhead at twelve year old, | Now by my Maidenhead, at twelue yeare old |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.17 | Even or odd, of all days in the year, | Euen or odde, of all daies in the yeare |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.24 | 'Tis since the earthquake now eleven years; | 'Tis since the Earth-quake now eleuen yeares, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.26 | Of all the days of the year, upon that day. | of all the daies of the yeare, vpon that day: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.36 | And since that time it is eleven years. | and since that time it is a eleuen yeares, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.47 | I warrant, an I should live a thousand years, | I warrant, & I shall liue a thousand yeares, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.73 | I was your mother much upon these years | I was your Mother, much vpon these yeares |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.34.2 | By'r Lady, thirty years. | Berlady thirty yeares. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.38 | Some five-and-twenty years; and then we masked. | Some fiue and twenty yeares, and then we Maskt. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.41 | His son was but a ward two years ago. | His Sonne was but a Ward two yeares agoe. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.169 | I will not fail. 'Tis twenty years till then. | I will not faile, 'tis twenty yeares till then, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.46 | O by this count I shall be much in years | O by this count I shall be much in yeares, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.i.64 | Which the commission of thy years and art | Which the commission of thy yeares and art, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.40 | Where for this many hundred years the bones | Where for these many hundred yeeres the bones |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.120 | Who for this seven years hath esteemed him | Who for this seuen yeares hath esteemed him |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.78 | These fifteen years you have been in a dream, | These fifteene yeeres you haue bin in a dreame, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.80 | These fifteen years! By my fay, a goodly nap. | These fifteene yeeres, by my fay, a goodly nap, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.112 | And slept above some fifteen year or more. | And slept aboue some fifteene yeare or more. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.353 | Myself am struck in years, I must confess, | My selfe am strooke in yeeres I must confesse, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.362 | Besides two thousand ducats by the year | Besides, two thousand Duckets by the yeere |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.365 | Two thousand ducats by the year of land! | Two thousand Duckets by the yeere of land, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iv.4 | Near twenty years ago in Genoa, | Neere twentie yeares a goe in Genoa. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.73 | brought him up ever since he was three years old, and | brought him vp euer since he was three yeeres old, and |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.41.1 | Out three years old. | Out three yeeres old. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.53 | Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since, | Twelue yere since (Miranda) twelue yere since, |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.250.1 | To bate me a full year. | To bate me a full yeere. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.279 | A dozen years, within which space she died, | A dozen yeeres: within which space she di'd, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.39 | Many a bounteous year must be employed | Many a bounteous yeere, must be imploy'd |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.31 | Ten years are spent since first he undertook | Ten yeares are spent, since first he vndertooke |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.196 | Rome, I have been thy soldier forty years, | Rome I haue bene thy Souldier forty yeares, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.353 | This monument five hundred years hath stood, | This Monument fiue hundreth yeares hath stood, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.26 | Chiron, thy years want wit, thy wit wants edge | Chiron thy yeres wants wit, thy wit wants edge |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.31 | 'Tis not the difference of a year or two | 'Tis not the difference of a yeere or two |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.87 | not have his wit this year. | not haue his will this yeare. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.12 | That, after seven years' siege, yet Troy walls stand; | That after seuen yeares siege, yet Troy walles stand, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.i.27 | The element itself, till seven years' heat, | The Element it selfe, till seuen yeares heate, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.20 | Why, he has three thousand ducats a year. | Why he ha's three thousand ducates a yeare. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.21 | Ay, but he'll have but a year in all these ducats. | I, but hee'l haue but a yeare in all these ducates: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iii.104 | her degree, neither in estate, years, nor wit. I have heard | hir degree, neither in estate, yeares, nor wit: I haue heard |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.iv.30 | For they shall yet belie thy happy years | For they shall yet belye thy happy yeeres, |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.150 | Of what personage and years is he? | Of what personage, and yeeres is he? |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.27 | She is not worth thee, then. What years, i'faith? | She is not worth thee then. What yeares ifaith? |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.28 | About your years, my lord. | About your yeeres my Lord. |
| Twelfth Night | TN IV.i.22 | – after fourteen years' purchase. | after foureteene yeares purchase. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.87 | And grew a twenty years' removed thing | And grew a twentie yeeres remoued thing |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.242 | Had numbered thirteen years. | Had numbred thirteene yeares. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.245 | That day that made my sister thirteen years. | That day that made my sister thirteene yeares. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.67 | His years but young, but his experience old; | His yeares but yong, but his experience old: |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.19 | The primest of all the year, presents me with | (The prim'st of all the yeare) presents me with |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.v.145 | Ere another year run out, | Ere another yeare run out, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.131 | He has the trick on't – and at ten years old | He has the tricke on't, and at ten yeares old |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.155 | Twenty-three years, and saw myself unbreeched, | Twentie three yeeres, and saw my selfe vn-breech'd, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.i.157.1 | Of the whole dungy earth. | Of the whole dungy-earth. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.209 | Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting, | Ten thousand yeares together, naked, fasting, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.6 | O'er sixteen years, and leave the growth untried | Ore sixteene yeeres, and leaue the growth vntride |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.ii.4 | It is fifteen years since I saw my country. | It is fifteene yeeres since I saw my Countrey: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.3 | Why, then comes in the sweet o'the year, | Why then comes in the sweet o'the yeere, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.79.2 | Sir, the year growing ancient, | Sir, the yeare growing ancient, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.575 | There shall not at your father's house these seven years | There shall not, at your Fathers House, these seuen yeeres |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.672 | Sure, the gods do this year connive at us, and we may do | Sure the Gods doe this yeere conniue at vs, and we may doe |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.ii.94 | piece many years in doing and now newly performed by | Peece many yeeres in doing, and now newly perform'd, by |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.31 | Which lets go by some sixteen years and makes her | Which lets goe-by some sixteene yeeres, and makes her |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.71 | Make me to think so twenty years together! | Make me to thinke so twentie yeeres together: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.84.1 | No, not these twenty years. | No: not these twentie yeeres. |