| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vi.34 | | [Q1 replaces this scene with the following] Enter Horatio and the Queene. HOR. Madame, your sonne is safe arriv'de in Denmarke, This letter I euen now receiv'd of him, Whereas he writes how he escap't the danger, And subtle treason that the king had plotted, Being crossed by the contention of the windes, He found the Packet sent to the king of England, Wherein he saw himselfe betray'd to death, As at his next conuersion with your grace, He will relate the circumstance at full. QUEENE. Then I perceiue there's treason in his lookes That seem'd to sugar o're his villanie: But I will soothe and please him for a time, For murderous mindes are alwayes jealous, But know not you Horatio where he is? HOR. Yes Madame, and he hath appoynted me To meete him on the east side of the Cittie To morrow morning. QUEENE. O faile not, good Horatio, and withall, commend me A mothers care to him, bid him a while Be wary of his presence, lest that he Faile in that he goes about. HOR. Madam, neuer make doubt of that: I thinke by this the news be come to court: He is arriv'de, obserue the king, and you shall Quickely finde, Hamlet being here, Things fell not to his minde. QUEENE. But what became of Gilderstone and Rossencraft? HOR. He being set ashore, they went for England, And in the Packet there writ down that doome To be perform'd on them poynted for him: And by great chance he had his fathers Seale, So all was done without discouerie. QUEENE. Thankes be to heauen for blessing of the prince, Horatio once againe I take my leaue, With thowsand mothers blessings to my sonne. HORAT. Madam adue. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.88 | Dare not relate. | Dare not relate. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.8 | He shall again relate. | He shall againe relate. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.129 | Stand forth, and with bold spirit relate what you, | Stand forth, & with bold spirit relate what you |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.139 | Relate, I pray thee, if thy breath will serve, | Relate I pray thee, if thy breath will serue, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.169 | For interim to our studies shall relate | For interim to our studies shall relate, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.205 | Savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner | Sauagely slaughter'd: To relate the manner |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iv.19 | Thoughts speculative their unsure hopes relate, | Thoughts speculatiue, their vnsure hopes relate, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.26 | Relate your wrongs. In what? By whom? Be brief. | Relate your wrongs; / In what, by whom? be briefe: |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.337 | When you shall these unlucky deeds relate | When you shall these vnluckie deeds relate, |
| Othello | Oth V.ii.367 | This heavy act with heavy heart relate. | This heauie Act, with heauie heart relate. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.55 | I nill relate, action may | I nill relate, action may |