| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.iii.121 | this in your bosom, and I thank you for your honest | this in your bosome, and I thanke you for your honest |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.i.8 | Would in so just a business shut his bosom | Would in so iust a businesse, shut his bosome |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.74 | thy faith, for seventeen poniards are at thy bosom. | thy faith, for seuenteene ponyards are at thy bosome. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iv.7 | Through flinty Tartar's bosom would peep forth | Through flintie Tartars bosome would peepe forth, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.iii.2.1 | Divide me from your bosom. | deuide me from your bosome. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.vi.55 | But in my bosom shall she never come | But in my bosome shall she neuer come, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xii.27 | Whose bosom was my crownet, my chief end, | Whose Bosome was my Crownet, my chiefe end, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.112 | Whose heart within her bosom is. | Whose heart within his bosome is. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.131 | How shall this bosom multiplied digest | How shall this Bosome-multiplied, digest |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.ii.1 | The heaviness and guilt within my bosom | The heauinesse and guilt within my bosome, |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.431 | This label on my bosom; whose containing | This Labell on my bosome; whose containing |
| Hamlet | Ham I.v.87 | And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge | And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.112 | In her excellent white bosom, these, et cetera. | in her excellent white bosome, these. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.401 | The soul of Nero enter this firm bosom. | The Soule of Nero, enter this firme bosome: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.67 | O, wretched state! O, bosom black as death! | Oh wretched state! Oh bosome, blacke as death! |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.262 | Shall secretly into the bosom creep | Shall secretly into the bosome creepe |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.iii.152 | truth, nor honesty in this bosom of thine. It is all filled | Truth, nor Honesty, in this bosome of thine: it is all fill'd |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.121 | Against the bosom of the Prince of Wales. | Against the bosome of the Prince of Wales. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.v.31 | Even in the bosom of our adversaries. | Euen in the bosome of our Aduersaries. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.13 | Of great Northumberland, whose bosom burns | Of great Northumberland, whose bosome burnes |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.iii.98 | Thy glutton bosom of the royal Richard – | Thy glutton-bosome of the Royall Richard, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.181 | There is a thing within my bosom tells me | There is a thing within my Bosome tells me, |
| Henry V | H5 II.iii.10 | bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom. 'A made | Bosome, if euer man went to Arthurs Bosome: a made |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.31 | I and my bosom must debate awhile, | I and my Bosome must debate a while, |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.161 | gentle bosom of peace with pillage and robbery. Now, | gentle Bosome of Peace with Pillage and Robberie. Now, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.v.38 | And in his bosom spend my latter gasp. | And in his Bosome spend my latter gaspe. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.iii.54 | One drop of blood drawn from thy country's bosom | One drop of Blood drawne from thy Countries Bosome, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.48 | Feeds in the bosom of such great commanders, | Feedes in the bosome of such great Commanders, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.iii.23 | And from his bosom purge this black despair. | And from his bosome purge this blacke dispaire. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.2 | Is crept into the bosom of the sea; | Is crept into the bosome of the Sea: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.81 | Made issue from the bosom of the boy; | Made issue from the Bosome of the Boy: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.112 | Thither he darts it. Bosom up my counsel; | Thither he darts it. Bosome vp my counsell, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.182 | The bosom of my conscience, entered me, | The bosome of my Conscience, enter'd me; |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.100 | Our cause, that she should lie i'th' bosom of | Our cause, that she should lye i'th'bosome of |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.49 | Have bared my bosom to the thunder-stone; | Haue bar'd my Bosome to the Thunder-stone: |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.305 | And by and by thy bosom shall partake | And by and by thy bosome shall partake |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.iii.42 | That ran through Caesar's bowels, search this bosom. | That ran through Casars bowels, search this bosome. |
| King Edward III | E3 II.i.455 | So leave I with my blessing in thy bosom, | So leaue I with my blessing in thy bosome, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.47 | To start the tender Cupid in my bosom? | To start the tender Cupid in my bosome, |
| King Edward III | E3 II.ii.51 | Unto the bosom of a heavenly nymph; | Vnto the bosome of a heauenly Nymph, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.i.70 | Adorns the naked bosom of the earth. | Adornes the naked bosome of the earth. |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iv.123 | Wounding her bosom with her crooked beak, | Wounding her bosome with her crooked beak, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.115 | Doth hide his high head in her azure bosom, | Doth hide his high head in her azure bosome, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.vii.8 | Should in the bosom of your kingdom thus, | Should in the bosome of your kingdome thus, |
| King John | KJ II.i.410 | Into this city's bosom. | Into this Cities bosome. |
| King John | KJ III.iii.24 | Lives in this bosom, dearly cherished. | Liues in this bosome, deerely cherished. |
| King John | KJ III.iii.53 | I would into thy bosom pour my thoughts. | I would into thy bosome poure my thoughts: |
| King John | KJ IV.i.3 | Upon the bosom of the ground, rush forth | Vpon the bosome of the ground, rush forth |
| King John | KJ IV.i.32 | His words do take possession of my bosom. | His words do take possession of my bosome. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.254 | Within this bosom never entered yet | Within this bosome, neuer entred yet |
| King John | KJ V.ii.28 | Upon her gentle bosom, and fill up | Vpon her gentle bosom, and fill vp |
| King John | KJ V.ii.41 | And great affections wrestling in thy bosom | And great affections wrastlingin thy bosome |
| King John | KJ V.vii.30 | There is so hot a summer in my bosom, | There is so hot a summer in my bosome, |
| King John | KJ V.vii.39 | Through my burned bosom, nor entreat the north | Through my burn'd bosome: nor intreat the North |
| King Lear | KL I.i.118 | To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosom | To gorge his appetite, shall to my bosome |
| King Lear | KL II.i.125 | Lay comforts to your bosom, and bestow | Lay comforts to your bosome, and bestow |
| King Lear | KL IV.v.26 | To noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosom. | To Noble Edmund. I know you are of her bosome. |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.50 | To pluck the common bosom on his side | To plucke the common bosome on his side, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.29 | Through the transparent bosom of the deep | Through the transparent bosome of the deepe, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.134 | His loving bosom to keep down his heart. | His louing bosome, to keepe downe his heart. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.67 | Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death, | Our Bosome interest: Goe pronounce his present death, |
| Macbeth | Mac II.i.28 | My bosom franchised and allegiance clear, | My Bosome franchis'd, and Allegeance cleare, |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.52 | bosom for the dignity of the whole body. | bosome, for the dignity of the whole body. |
| Macbeth | Mac V.iii.44 | Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff | Cleanse the stufft bosome, of that perillous stuffe |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iii.3 | Can pierce a complete bosom. Why I desire thee | Can pierce a compleat bosome: why, I desire thee |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.136 | That skins the vice o'th' top. Go to your bosom, | That skins the vice o'th top; goe to your bosome, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.133 | And you shall have your bosom on this wretch, | And you shal haue your bosome on this wretch, |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.10 | To lock it in the wards of covert bosom, | To locke it in the wards of couert bosome |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.iv.17 | Being the bosom lover of my lord, | Being the bosome louer of my Lord, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.242 | You must prepare your bosom for his knife. | you must prepare your bosome for his knife. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.249.1 | Therefore lay bare your bosom. | Therefore lay bare your bosome. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.27 | This man hath bewitched the bosom of my child. | This man hath bewitch'd the bosome of my childe: |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.ii.111 | That through thy bosom makes me see thy heart. | That through thy bosome makes me see thy heart. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.302 | And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart, | And in her bosome Ile vnclaspe my heart, |
| Othello | Oth I.ii.70 | Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom | Run from her Guardage to the sootie bosome, |
| Othello | Oth III.i.54.1 | To speak your bosom freely. | To speake your bosome freely. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.446 | To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, | To tyrannous Hate. Swell bosome with thy fraught, |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.13 | Remove your thought: it doth abuse your bosom. | Remoue your thought. It doth abuse your bosome: |
| Othello | Oth IV.iii.40 | Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, | Her hand on her bosome her head on her knee, |
| Pericles | Per IV.i.5 | Which is but cold, inflaming love in thy bosom, | which is but cold, in flaming, thy loue bosome, |
| Pericles | Per V.iii.45 | Leaps to be gone into my mother's bosom. | leaps to be gone into my mothers bosome. |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.149 | Even in the best blood chambered in his bosom. | Euen in the best blood chamber'd in his bosome. |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.50 | Be Mowbray's sins so heavy in his bosom | Be Mowbrayes sinnes so heauy in his bosome, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.92 | So many miles upon her peaceful bosom, | So many miles vpon her peacefull Bosome, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.97 | And in my loyal bosom lies his power. | And in my loyall Bosome lyes his power. |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.19 | And when they from thy bosom pluck a flower | And when they from thy Bosome pluck a Flower, |
| Richard II | R2 III.ii.147 | Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. | Write Sorrow on the Bosome of the Earth. |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.103 | Sweet peace conduct his sweet soul to the bosom | Sweet peace conduct his sweet Soule / To the Bosome |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.3 | To whose flint bosom my condemned lord | To whose flint Bosome, my condemned Lord |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.56 | What seal is that that hangs without thy bosom? | What Seale is that that hangs without thy bosom? |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.72 | He plucks it out of his bosom, and reads it | Snatches it |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.54 | I tore it from the traitor's bosom, King. | I tore it from the Traitors bosome, King. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.4 | In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. | In the deepe bosome of the Ocean buried. |
| Richard III | R3 I.ii.124 | So I might live one hour in your sweet bosom. | So I might liue one houre in your sweet bosome. |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.141 | bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once | bosome: It filles a man full of Obstacles. It made me once |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iii.38 | The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom, | The Sonnes of Edward sleepe in Abrahams bosome, |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.235 | Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom. | Rush all to peeces on thy Rocky bosome. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.145 | Awake, and think our wrongs in Richard's bosom | Awake, / And thinke our wrongs in Richards Bosome, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.153 | Let us be lead within thy bosom, Richard, | Let vs be laid within thy bosome Richard, |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.348 | A thousand hearts are great within my bosom! | A thousand hearts are great within my bosom. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.iv.101 | Even now the frozen bosom of the North, | Euen now the frozen bosome of the North: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.ii.32 | And sails upon the bosom of the air. | And sailes vpon the bosome of the ayre. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iii.8 | We sucking on her natural bosom find, | We sucking on her naturall bosome find: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ II.iv.23 | your bosom. The very butcher of a silk button. A duellist, | your bosom: the very butcher of a silk button, a Dualist, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.241 | Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. | Thou and my bosome henchforth shall be twaine: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.155 | Thy husband in thy bosom there lies dead; | Thy husband in thy bosome there lies dead: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.205 | And it mis-sheathed in my daughter's bosom! | And is misheathed in my Daughters bosome. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.117 | And with declining head into his bosom, | And with declining head into his bosome |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.283 | This deity in my bosom. Twenty consciences | This Deity in my bosome: 'Twentie consciences |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.69 | That labour on the bosom of this sphere | That labour on the bosome of this Sphere, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.123 | To gratulate thy plenteous bosom. Th' ear, | to gratulate thy plentious bosome. There |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.187 | From forth thy plenteous bosom, one poor root. | From foorth thy plenteous bosome, one poore roote: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.i.95 | Keep in your bosom. Yet remain assured | Keepe in your bosome, yet remaine assur'd |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.i.54 | My rapier in his bosom, and withal | My rapier in his bosome, and withall |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.110 | And from her bosom took the enemy's point, | And from her bosome tooke the Enemies point, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.33 | Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom. | Euen such a passion doth imbrace my bosome: |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.215 | In Orsino's bosom. | In Orsinoes bosome. |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.216 | In his bosom! In what chapter of his bosom? | In his bosome? In what chapter of his bosome? |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.35 | Fare ye well at once; my bosom is full of kindness, and I | Fare ye well at once, my bosome is full of kindnesse, and I |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.118 | Enough is shown; a cypress, not a bosom, | Enough is shewne, a Cipresse, not a bosome, |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.155 | I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth. | I haue one heart, one bosome, and one truth, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.ii.114 | Poor wounded name, my bosom, as a bed, | Poore wounded name: my bosome, as a bed, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.144 | My herald thoughts in thy pure bosom rest them, | My Herald Thoughts, in thy pure bosome rest-them, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.250 | Even in the milk-white bosom of thy love. | Euen in the milke-white bosome of thy Loue. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.68 | Is perjured to the bosom? Proteus, | Is periured to the bosome? Protheus |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.ii.61 | Need not a plantain; that which rips my bosom | Neede not a plantin; That which rips my bosome |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK I.iii.17.2 | In's bosom. | In's bosome: |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.113 | From heartiness, from bounty, fertile bosom, | From Heartinesse, from Bountie, fertile Bosome, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.119 | My bosom likes not, nor my brows! Mamillius, | My Bosome likes not, nor my Browes. Mamillius, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.238 | Hast cleansed my bosom, I from thee departed | Hast cleans'd my Bosome: I, from thee departed |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.ii.53 | As boldness from my bosom, let't not be doubted | As boldnesse from my bosome, le't not be doubted |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.560 | But that you have your father's bosom there | But that you haue your Fathers Bosome there, |