| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.31 | But with the word the time will bring on summer, | But with the word the time will bring on summer, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.95 | Than boys pursuing summer butterflies, | Then Boyes pursuing Summer Butter-flies, |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.12 | A look untender? If't be summer news, | A looke vntender? If't be Summer Newes |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.219 | Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, | Whil'st Sommer lasts, and I liue heere, Fidele, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.157 | All-hallown summer! | Alhollown Summer. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.158 | In any summer house in Christendom. | In any Summer-House in Christendome. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 III.ii.133 | Shadow will serve for summer. Prick him, for | Shadow will serue for Summer: pricke him: For |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.iv.91 | O Westmorland, thou art a summer bird, | O Westmerland, thou art a Summer Bird, |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.65 | Grew like the summer grass, fastest by night, | Grew like the Summer Grasse, fastest by Night, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.308 | summer; and so I shall catch the fly, your cousin, in the | Summer; and so I shall catch the Flye, your Cousin, in the |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.ii.131 | Expect Saint Martin's summer, halcyon days, | Expect Saint Martins Summer, Halcyons dayes, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.2 | And after summer evermore succeeds | And after Summer, euermore succeedes |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.164 | And that thy summer bred us no increase, | And that thy Summer bred vs no increase, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.8 | The common people swarm like summer flies; | |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.17 | They never then had sprung like summer flies; | They neuer then had sprung like Sommer Flyes: |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.54 | But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer. | But, to those men that sought him, sweet as Summer. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.42 | There is no summer but in her cheerful looks, | There is no summer, but in her cheerefull lookes, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.61 | Then in the summer arbour sit by me; | Then in the sommer arber sit by me, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.161 | That she doth cheer fresh summer like the sun, | That she doth cheere fresh sommer like the sunne, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.167 | As when a whirlwind takes the summer dust | As when a wherle winde takes the Summer dust, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.30 | There is so hot a summer in my bosom, | There is so hot a summer in my bosome, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.102 | Well, say I am! Why should proud summer boast | Wel, say I am, why should proud Summer boast, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.293 | Blow like sweet roses in this summer air. | Blow like sweet Roses, in this summer aire. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.408 | Figures pedantical – these summer flies | Figures pedanticall, these summer flies, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.895 | And maidens bleach their summer smocks, | And Maidens bleach their summer smockes: |
| Macbeth | Mac I.vi.3.2 | This guest of summer, | This Guest of Summer, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ix.94 | To show how costly summer was at hand, | To show how costly Sommer was at hand, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.58 | summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not | Sommmer as a Christian is: if you pricke vs doe we not |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.264 | In summer, where the ways are fair enough. | In Sommer, where the waies are faire enough: |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW II.i.116 | Take heed, ere summer comes or cuckoo-birds do sing. | Take heed, ere sommer comes, or Cuckoo-birds do sing. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.110 | An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds | An odorous Chaplet of sweet Sommer buds |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.111 | Is as in mockery set. The spring, the summer, | Is as in mockry set. The Spring, the Sommer, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.146 | The summer still doth tend upon my state, | The Summer still doth tend vpon my state, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.71 | Since summer first was leavy: | Since summer first was leauy, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.65 | O, ay! As summer flies are in the shambles, | Oh I, as Sommer Flyes are in the Shambles, |
| Pericles | Per II.v.35 | As a fair day in summer, wondrous fair. | As a faire day in Sommer: woondrous faire. |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.17 | While summer days doth last. Ay me, poor maid, | while Sommer dayes doth last: Aye me poore maid, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.20 | Is hacked down, and his summer leaves all faded, | Is hackt downe, and his summer leafes all vaded |
| Richard II | R2 III.iii.162 | Our sighs and they shall lodge the summer corn, | Our sighes, and they, shall lodge the Summer Corne, |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.2 | Made glorious summer by this sun of York, | Made glorious Summer by this Son of Yorke: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.13 | Which in their summer beauty kissed each other. | And in their Summer Beauty kist each other. |
| Richard III | R3 V.ii.8 | That spoiled your summer fields and fruitful vines, | (That spoyl'd your Summer Fields, and fruitfull Vines) |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iii.78 | Verona's summer hath not such a flower. | Veronas Summer hath not such a flower. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.vi.19 | That idles in the wanton summer air, | That ydles in the wanton Summer ayre, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.92 | After summer merrily. | after Sommer merrily. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.30 | The swallow follows not summer more willing | The Swallow followes not Summer more willing, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.33 | summer birds are men. (To them) Gentlemen, our | Summer Birds are men. Gentlemen, our |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.94 | The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean, | The Trees though Sommer, yet forlorne and leane, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.170 | This goodly summer with your winter mixed. | This goodly Sommer with your Winter mixt, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.iii.79 | Show not their mealy wings but to the summer, | Shew not their mealie wings, but to the Summer: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.19 | and for turning away, let summer bear it out. | and for turning away, let summer beare it out. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.98 | Summer shall come, and with her all delights, | Sommer shall come, and with her all delights; |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.i.5 | I think this coming summer the King of Sicilia | I thinke, this comming Summer, the King of Sicilia |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iii.11 | Are summer songs for me and my aunts | Are Summer songs for me and my Aunts |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.107 | Of middle summer, and I think they are given | Of middle summer, and I thinke they are giuen |