| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iii.9 | In each thing give him way. Cross him in nothing. | In each thing giue him way, crosse him in nothing. |
| As You Like It | AYL II.iv.10 | than bear you: yet I should bear no cross if I did bear | then beare you: yet I should beare no crosse if I did beare |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.128 | You and you no cross shall part; | You and you, no crosse shall part; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.79 | And he will bless that cross with other beating, | And he will blesse yt crosse with other beating: |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.ii.197 | O for my beads! I cross me for a sinner. | Oh for my beads, I crosse me for a sinner. |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.21 | The crossings of your dispositions, if | The things of your dispositions, if |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.23.1 | Ere they lacked power to cross you. | Ere they lack'd power to crosse you. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.202 | I crossed the seas on purpose and on promise | I crost the Seas on purpose, and on promise |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.17 | Till he have crossed the Severn. Happiness! | Till he haue crost the Seuern. Happines. |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.163 | Be crossed with slowness; labour be his meed! | Be crost with slownesse; Labour be his meede. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.334 | After your will have crossed the sea, attending | After your will, haue crost the Sea, attending |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.iv.101 | Whom best I love I cross; to make my gift, | Whom best I loue, I crosse; to make my guift |
| Hamlet | Ham I.i.127 | I'll cross it, though it blast me. | Ile crosse it, though it blast me. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.20 | Whose soldier now, under whose blessed cross | Whose Souldier now vnder whose blessed Crosse |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.i.27 | For our advantage on the bitter cross. | For our aduantage on the bitter Crosse. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.194 | So honour cross it from the north to south, | So Honor crosse it from the North to South, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.i.26 | razes of ginger, to be delivered as far as Charing Cross. | razes of Ginger, to be deliuered as farre as Charing-crosse. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.iv.331 | liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh hook – what a | Liege-man vpon the Crosse of a Welch-hooke; what a |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.33 | I do not bear these crossings. Give me leave | I doe not beare these Crossings: Giue me leaue |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.141 | Fie, cousin Percy, how you cross my father! | Fie, Cousin Percy, how you crosse my Father. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.166 | When you come 'cross his humour, faith he does. | When you doe crosse his humor: 'faith he does. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.73 | Proclaimed at market crosses, read in churches, | Proclaim'd at Market Crosses, read in Churches, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.228 | are too impatient to bear crosses. Fare you well. Commend | are too impatient to beare crosses. Fare you well. Commend |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.72 | What chance is this that suddenly hath crossed us? | What chance is this, that suddenly hath crost vs? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.182 | To cross the seas and to be crowned in France. | To crosse the Seas, and to be Crown'd in France: |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.89 | Crossing the sea from England into France, | Crossing the Sea, from England into France, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.iii.52 | Henry the Fifth. Whiles they each other cross, | Henrie the fift: Whiles they each other crosse, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 V.v.90 | To cross the seas to England and be crowned | To crosse the Seas to England, and be crown'd |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 IV.i.115 | I charge thee, waft me safely 'cross the Channel. | I charge thee waft me safely crosse the Channell. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.97 | And then to Brittany I'll cross the sea | And then to Britanny Ile crosse the Sea, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.ii.127 | To cross me from the golden time I look for! | To crosse me from the Golden time I looke for: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.235 | Shall cross the seas and bid false Edward battle; | Shall crosse the Seas, and bid false Edward battaile: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.iv.20 | And bear with mildness my misfortune's cross; | And beare with Mildnesse my misfortunes crosse: |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.1.8 | two Priests bearing each a silver cross; then Griffith, | two Priests, bearing each a Siluer Crosse: Then |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.214 | Fit for a fool to fall by! What cross devil | Fit for a Foole to fall by: What crosse Diuell |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.234.2 | Who dare cross 'em, | Who dare crosse 'em, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.187 | Being crossed in conference by some senators. | Being crost in Conference, by some Senators. |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.iii.50 | And when the cross blue lightning seemed to open | And when the crosse blew Lightning seem'd to open |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.148 | How 'scaped I killing, when I crossed you so? | How scap'd I killing, when I crost you so? |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.19 | Why do you cross me in this exigent? | Why do you crosse me in this exigent. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.20 | I do not cross you; but I will do so. | I do not crosse you: but I will do so. |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.52 | The Duke of Lorraine, having crossed the seas, | The Duke of Lorrayne, hauing crost the seas, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.iii.97 | Look not for cross invectives at our hands, | Looke not for crosse inuectiues at our hands, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.210 | But first to England thou must cross the seas, | But first to England thou must crosse the seas, |
| King John | KJ III.i.91 | Lest that their hopes prodigiously be crossed. | Lest that their hopes prodigiously be crost: |
| King Lear | KL IV.vii.35 | Of quick cross lightning? To watch, poor perdu, | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.276 | And these same crosses spoil me. – Who are you? | And these same crosses spoile me. Who are you? |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.32 | I love not to be crossed. | I loue not to be crost. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.33 | He speaks the mere contrary – crosses love | He speakes the meere contrary, crosses loue |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL III.i.17 | arms crossed on your thin-belly doublet like a rabbit | armes crost on your thinbellie doublet, like a Rabbet |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.216 | We cannot cross the cause why we were born; | We cannot crosse the cause why we are borne: |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.138 | The effect of my intent is to cross theirs. | The effect of my intent is to crosse theirs: |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.80 | How you were borne in hand, how crossed, the instruments, | How you were borne in hand, how crost: / The Instruments: |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.ii.159.1 | Where prayers cross. | Where prayers crosse. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.164 | Claudio's, to cross this in the smallest. | Claudio's, to crosse this in the smallest. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.35 | And never dare misfortune cross her foot, | And neuer dare misfortune crosse her foote, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.v.54 | Farewell; and if my fortune be not crossed, | Farewell, and if my fortune be not crost, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.11 | without any slips of prolixity or crossing the plain highway | without any slips of prolixity, or crossing the plaine high-way |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.i.19 | Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my | Let me say Amen betimes, least the diuell crosse my |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.31 | By holy crosses, where she kneels and prays | By holy crosses where she kneeles and prayes |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.117 | so crossed. | so cross'd. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW V.v.36 | never else cross me thus. | neuer else crosse me thus. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.136 | O cross! – too high to be enthralled to low. | O crosse! too high to be enthral'd to loue. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.150 | If then true lovers have been ever crossed | If then true Louers haue beene euer crost, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.153 | Because it is a customary cross, | Because it is a customarie crosse, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND II.i.119 | Why should Titania cross her Oberon? | Why should Titania crosse her Oberon? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.ii.22.1 | Attendants cross the stage, led by Antonio's son, and | |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.iii.62 | glory of my overthrow; if I can cross him any way, | glorie of my ouerthrow: if I can crosse him any way, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.3 | Yea, my lord, but I can cross it. | Yea my Lord, but I can crosse it. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.4 | Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be | Any barre, any crosse, any impediment, will be |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.ii.7 | evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage? | euenly with mine, how canst thou crosse this marriage? |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.136 | broke cross. | broke crosse. |
| Pericles | Per II.i.122 | Thanks, Fortune, yet that after all thy crosses | Thankes Fortune, yet that after all crosses, |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.III.41 | Which who shall cross? – along to go. | Which who shall crosse along to goe, |
| Pericles | Per IV.iii.16 | She died at night. I'll say so. Who can cross it? | she dide at night, Ile say so, who can crosse it |
| Pericles | Per V.i.230 | It is not good to cross him; give him way. | It is not good to crosse him, giue him way. |
| Pericles | Per V.i.244 | To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call | to mourne thy crosses with thy daughters, call, |
| Richard II | R2 II.ii.79 | Where nothing lives but crosses, cares, and grief. | Where nothing liues but crosses, care and greefe: |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.94 | Streaming the ensign of the Christian cross | Streaming the Ensigne of the Christian Crosse, |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.240 | Have here delivered me to my sour cross, | Haue here deliuer'd me to my sowre Crosse, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.10 | And was embarked to cross to Burgundy | And was embark'd to crosse to Burgundy, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.4 | No, uncle; but our crosses on the way | No Vnkle, but our crosses on the way, |
| Richard III | R3 III.i.126 | My Lord of York will still be cross in talk. | My Lord of Yorke will still be crosse in talke: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.41 | If thou wilt outstrip death, go cross the seas, | If thou wilt out-strip Death, goe crosse the Seas, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.iii.5 | Which, well thou knowest, is cross and full of sin. | Which well thou know'st, is crosse and full of sin. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.95 | Move them no more by crossing their high will. | Moue them no more, by crossing their high will. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.20 | To cross my obsequies and true love's rite? | To crosse my obsequies, and true loues right? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.28 | When did she cross thee with a bitter word? | When did she crosse thee with a bitter word? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.243 | Nor hast thou pleasure to be cross in talk. | Nor hast thou pleasure to be crosse in talke: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.64 | Tell thou the tale. But hadst thou not crossed | Tell thou the tale: but hadst thou not crost |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.iii.189 | You are still crossing it. Sirs, let 't alone, | You are still crossing it, sirs let't alone, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.v.10 | Evermore crossed and crossed, nothing but crossed! | Euermore crost and crost, nothing but crost. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.157 | There is no crossing him in's humour, | There is no crossing him in's humor, |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.ii.159 | When all's spent, he'd be crossed then, an he could. | When all's spent, hee'ld be crost then, and he could: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iii.30 | he crossed himself by't. And I cannot think but in the | he crossed himselfe by't: and I cannot thinke, but in the |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.53 | Be cross with him, and I'll go fetch thy sons | Be crosse with him, and Ile goe fetch thy Sonnes |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.282 | (Aside, as he crosses to Fabian) Marry, I'll ride your | marry Ile ride your |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.iv.296 | (crossing to Sir Andrew) | |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG I.i.22 | How young Leander crossed the Hellespont. | How yong Leander crost the Hellespont. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.vi.40 | But Valentine being gone, I'll quickly cross | But Valentine being gon, Ile quickely crosse |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.18 | To cross my friend in his intended drift | To crosse my friend in his intended drift, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.12 | A man I am crossed with adversity; | A man I am, cross'd with aduersitie: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.ii.55 | And I will follow, more to cross that love | And I will follow, more to crosse that loue |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.98 | Be crossed ere met. Give me your hand; farewell. | Be crost, er met, give me your hand, farewell. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.vi.127.1 | Thee, and all crosses else. | Thee, and all crosses else. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.100 | I saw from far off cross her – one of 'em | I saw from farre off crosse her, one of 'em |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.i.119 | By no mean cross her; she is then distempered | By no meane crosse her, she is then distemperd |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.40 | And threaten love, and what young maid dare cross 'em? | And threaten Love, and what yong Mayd dare crosse 'em |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.79 | Your precious self had then not crossed the eyes | Your precious selfe had then not cross'd the eyes |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.i.160 | A prosperous south wind friendly, we have crossed, | (A prosperous South-wind friendly) we haue cross'd, |