| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.47 | Think upon patience. Pray you, gentlemen – | Thinke vpon patience, pray you Gentlemen, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.114 | are, you must have the patience to hear it. | are, you must haue the patience to heare it. |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.iii.336 | Ours be your patience then and yours our parts; | Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.60 | Though daintily brought up, with patience more | (Though daintily brought vp) with patience more |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.19 | I laughed him out of patience; and that night | I laught him out of patience: and that night |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.20 | I laughed him into patience; and next morn, | I laught him into patience, and next morne, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.62.1 | Good madam, patience. | Good Madam patience. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.v.106.2 | Good your highness, patience. | Good your Highnesse patience. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.vi.98 | Be ever known to patience. My dear'st sister! | Be euer knowne to patience. My deer'st Sister. |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.xv.78 | Patience is sottish, and impatience does | Patience is sottish, and impatience does |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.76 | Her very silence, and her patience | Her verie silence, and per patience, |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.153 | never cried ‘ Have patience, good people!’ | neuer cri'de, haue patience good people. |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.14 | Patience herself would startle at this letter, | Patience her selfe would startle at this letter, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.i.1 | We shall find a time, Audrey. Patience, | We shall finde a time Awdrie, patience |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.92 | All humbleness, all patience, and impatience, | All humblenesse, all patience, and impatience, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.5 | Patience once more, whiles our compact is urged. | Patience once more, whiles our cõpact is vrg'd: |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.177 | Sir, by your patience. – If I heard you rightly, | Sir, by your patience: if I heard you rightly, |
| As You Like It | AYL V.iv.184 | Your patience and your virtue well deserves it; | your patience, and your vertue, well deserues it. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.32 | Patience unmoved! No marvel though she pause. | Patience vnmou'd, no maruel though she pause, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.39 | With urging helpless patience would relieve me. | With vrging helpelesse patience would releeue me; |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE II.i.41 | This fool-begged patience in thee will be left. | This foole-beg'd patience in thee will be left. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.85 | Have patience, sir. O, let it not be so. | Haue patience sir, oh let it not be so, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.94 | Be ruled by me. Depart in patience, | Be rul'd by me, depart in patience, |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE IV.ii.16.2 | Have patience, I beseech. |
Haue patience I beseech. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.174 | My master preaches patience to him, and the while | My Mr preaches patience to him, and the while |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.i.124 | Patience awhile, you'st hear the belly's answer. | Patience awhile; you'st heare the Bellies answer. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.75 | Indeed, no, by your patience. I'll not over the | Indeed no, by your patience; Ile not ouer the |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.54 | To us that give you truly. By your patience, | To vs, that giue you truly: by your patience, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.28 | thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience. | theefe of Occasion, will rob you of a great deale of Patience: |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.i.71 | flag against all patience, and, in roaring for a chamber-pot, | Flagge against all Patience, and in roaring for a Chamber-pot, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.190 | To th' People – Coriolanus, patience! – | To'th' people: Coriolanus, patience: |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.9 | You leaned unto his sentence, with what patience | You lean'd vnto his Sentence, with what patience |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.ii.84.2 | Beseech your patience. Peace | Beseech your patience: Peace |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.iii.7 | No, faith: not so much as his patience. | No faith: not so much as his patience. |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.113.2 | Have patience, sir, | Haue patience Sir, |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iv.150 | The government of patience! You have won: | The gouernment of Patience. You haue wonne: |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.iv.114.1 | Hear me with patience. | Heare me with patience. |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.57 | That grief and patience, rooted in him both, | That greefe and patience rooted in them both, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.58.2 | Grow, patience! | Grow patient, |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.117 | patience. | patience. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.125 | Sprinkle cool patience. Whereon do you look? | Sprinkle coole patience. Whereon do you looke? |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.v.210 | Be you content to lend your patience to us, | Be you content to lend your patience to vs, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.290 | Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech. | Strengthen you patience in our last nights speech, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.i.295 | Till then in patience our proceeding be. | Till then, in patience our proceeding be. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.4 | You tread upon my patience. But be sure | You tread vpon my patience: But be sure, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.198 | Drives him beyond the bounds of patience. | Driues him beyond the bounds of Patience. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 III.i.173 | To put him quite besides his patience. | To put him quite besides his patience. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iv.303 | back, and spoke it on purpose to try my patience. | back, and spoke it on purpose, to trie my patience. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.21 | deliberate, not to remember, not to have patience to | deliberate, not to remember, / Not to haue patience to |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 epilogue.9 | play, to pray your patience for it, and to promise you a | Play, to pray your Patience for it, and to promise you a |
| Henry V | H5 I.chorus.33 | Who Prologue-like your humble patience pray, | Who Prologue-like, your humble patience pray, |
| Henry V | H5 II.chorus.31 | Linger your patience on, and we'll digest | Linger your patience on, and wee'l digest |
| Henry V | H5 II.i.22 | it may – though patience be a tired mare, yet she will | it may, though patience be a tyred name, yet shee will |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.180 | You patience to endure, and true repentance | You patience to indure, and true Repentance |
| Henry V | H5 III.vi.29 | By your patience, Aunchient Pistol: Fortune | By your patience, aunchient Pistoll: Fortune |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iii.18 | Have patience, noble Duke; I may not open; | Haue patience Noble Duke, I may not open, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 II.iii.77 | But only, with your patience, that we may | But onely with your patience, that we may |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.8 | Presumptuous priest, this place commands my patience, | Presumptuous Priest, this place cõmands my patiẽce, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.iv.14 | Patience, good lady; wizards know their times. | Patience, good Lady, Wizards know their times: |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.68 | I pray thee sort thy heart to patience; | I pray thee sort thy heart to patience, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.62 | Patience is for poltroons, such as he; | Patience is for Poultroones, such as he: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.38 | Renowned Queen, with patience calm the storm, | Renowned Queene, / With patience calme the Storme, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.176 | Sends me a paper to persuade me patience? | Sends me a Paper to perswade me Patience? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.v.6 | Nor I, but stoop with patience to my fortune. | Nor I, but stoupe with patience to my fortune. |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.ii.55 | In tempting of your patience, but am boldened | In tempting of your patience; but am boldned |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.36 | In all the rest showed a most noble patience. | In all the rest shew'd a most Noble patience. |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.iv.130 | They vex me past my patience. Pray you, pass on. | They vexe me past my patience, pray you passe on; |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.i.137 | Yet will I add an honour – a great patience. | Yet will I adde an Honor; a great Patience. |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.458.1 | Good sir, have patience. | Good Sir, haue patience. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.1.2 | Griffith, her gentleman usher, and Patience, her | Griffith, her Gentleman Vsher, and Patience her |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.76 | Patience, be near me still, and set me lower; | Patience, be neere me still, and set me lower, |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.82 | For fear we wake her. Softly, gentle Patience. | For feare we wake her. Softly, gentle Patience. |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.127 | Banished the kingdom. Patience, is that letter | Banish'd the Kingdome. Patience, is that Letter |
| Henry VIII | H8 IV.ii.165 | My lord. Griffith, farewell. Nay, Patience, | My Lord. Griffith farewell. Nay Patience, |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.i.105 | Your patience to you and be well contented | Your patience to you, and be well contented |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.ii.18 | Must be fulfilled, and I attend with patience. | Must be fulfill'd, and I attend with patience. |
| Henry VIII | H8 V.iii.66 | Lay all the weight ye can upon my patience, | Lay all the weight ye can vpon my patience, |
| Julius Caesar | JC I.ii.168 | I will with patience hear, and find a time | I will with patience heare, and finde a time |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.301 | Here, in the thigh; can I bear that with patience, | Heere, in the Thigh: Can I beare that with patience, |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.141 | Have patience, gentle friends; I must not read it. | Haue patience gentle Friends, I must not read it. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.246 | Hear me with patience. | Heare me with patience. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.190 | I have the patience to endure it now. | I haue the patience to endure it now. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.105 | The time of life – arming myself with patience | The time of life, arming my selfe with patience, |
| King John | KJ III.iv.22 | Patience, good lady. Comfort, gentle Constance. | Patience good Lady, comfort gentle Constance. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.133 | I pray you, sir, take patience. I have hope | I pray you Sir, take patience, I haue hope |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.266 | You heavens, give me that patience, patience I need! | You Heauens, giue me that patience, patience I need, |
| King Lear | KL III.ii.37 | No, I will be the pattern of all patience. | No,I will be the patterne of all patience, |
| King Lear | KL III.vi.57 | O pity! Sir, where is the patience now | O pitty: Sir, where is the patience now |
| King Lear | KL IV.iii.16 | Not to a rage; patience and sorrow strove | |
| King Lear | KL V.iii.60.2 | Sir, by your patience, | Sir, by your patience, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.192 | patience! | patience. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.ii.159 | as little patience as another man, and therefore I can | as little patience as another man, and therefore I can |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.163 | O me, with what strict patience have I sat, | O me, with what strict patience haue I sat, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.824 | I'll stay with patience, but the time is long. | Ile stay with patience: but the time is long. |
| Macbeth | Mac III.i.86 | Your patience so predominant in your nature | your patience so predominant, / In your nature, |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.2.1 | You must have patience, madam. | You must haue patience Madam. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.94 | Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude, | Deuotion, Patience, Courage, Fortitude, |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.117 | In your close patience. | in your close patience. |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.116 | Keep me in patience, and with ripened time | Keepe me in patience, and with ripened time |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.233 | My patience here is touched. I do perceive | My patience here is touch'd: I doe perceiue |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.vi.21 | Sweet friends, your patience for my long abode. | Sweete friends, your patience for my long abode, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.11 | My patience to his fury, and am armed | My patience to his fury, and am arm'd |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iv.5 | old abusing of God's patience and the King's English. | old abusing of Gods patience, and the Kings English. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.51 | with his own gravity and patience that ever you saw. | with his owne grauity and patience, that euer you saw. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW III.i.74 | Pray you, use your patience. | Pray you vse your patience |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.ii.25 | tameness, civility, and patience to this his distemper he | tamenesse, ciuility, and patience to this his distemper he |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.152 | Then let us teach our trial patience, | Then let vs teach our triall patience, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.187 | patience well. That same cowardly, giantlike Oxbeef | patience well: that same cowardly gyant-like Oxe beefe |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.66 | Of maiden's patience. Hast thou slain him then? | Of maidens patience. Hast thou slaine him then? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.161 | A poor soul's patience, all to make you sport. | A poore soules patience, all to make you sport. |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.57 | And she in mild terms begged my patience, | And she in milde termes beg'd my patience, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.150 | sweet Benedick! God give me patience!’ | sweet Benedicke, God giue me patience. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.252 | Perhaps is but prolonged; have patience and endure. | Perhaps is but prolong'd, haue patience & endure. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.10 | And bid him speak of patience; | And bid him speake of patience, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.19 | And I of him will gather patience. | And I of him will gather patience: |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.27 | No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience | No, no, 'tis all mens office, to speake patience |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.102 | Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience. | Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.i.258 | I know not how to pray your patience, | I know not how to pray your patience, |
| Othello | Oth I.i.105.2 | Patience, good sir. | Patience good Sir. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.89 | In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, | In speaking for my selfe. Yet, (by your gratious patience) |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.205 | Patience her injury a mockery makes. | Patience, her Iniury a mock'ry makes. |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.213 | That to pay grief must of poor patience borrow. | That to pay griefe, must of poore Patience borrow. |
| Othello | Oth II.i.97 | Let it not gall your patience, good Iago, | Let it not gaule your patience (good Iago) |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.240.1 | Which patience could not pass. | Which patience could not passe. |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.359 | How poor are they that have not patience! | How poore are they that haue not Patience? |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.23 | I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience; | Ile watch him tame, and talke him out of patience; |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.449 | Patience, I say: your mind perhaps may change. | Patience I say: your minde may change. |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.87 | I say, but mark his gestures. Marry, patience! | I say, but marke his gesture: marry Patience, |
| Othello | Oth IV.i.90 | I will be found most cunning in my patience, | I will be found most cunning in my Patience: |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.52 | A drop of patience. But alas, to make me | A drop of patience. But alas, to make me |
| Othello | Oth IV.ii.62 | Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin, | Patience, thou young and Rose-lip'd Cherubin, |
| Othello | Oth V.i.87 | Patience awhile, good Cassio. Come, come, | Patience awhile, good Cassio. Come, come; |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.65 | To bear with patience such griefs | To beare with patience such griefes |
| Pericles | Per II.iv.48 | I shall with aged patience bear your yoke. | I shall with aged patience beare your yoake: |
| Pericles | Per III.i.19 | Patience, good sir, do not assist the storm. | Patience (good sir) do not assist the storme, |
| Pericles | Per III.i.266.2 | Patience, good sir, | Patience (good sir) |
| Pericles | Per IV.iv.50 | In her unholy service. Patience then, | In her vnholie seruice: Patience then, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.138 | Like Patience gazing on kings' graves and smiling | like patience, gazing on Kings graues, and smiling |
| Pericles | Per V.i.144.2 | Patience, good sir, | Patience good sir: |
| Pericles | Per epilogue.V.iii.17 | So on your patience evermore attending, | So on your Patience euermore attending, |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.52 | Yet can I not of such tame patience boast | Yet can I not of such tame patience boast, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.29 | Call it not patience, Gaunt. It is despair. | Call it not patience (Gaunt) it is dispaire, |
| Richard II | R2 I.ii.33 | That which in mean men we entitle patience | That which in meane men we intitle patience |
| Richard II | R2 II.i.207 | And prick my tender patience to those thoughts | And pricke my tender patience to those thoughts |
| Richard II | R2 V.ii.33 | The badges of his grief and patience, | (The badges of his greefe and patience) |
| Richard II | R2 V.v.103 | Patience is stale, and I am weary of it. | Patience is stale, and I am weary of it. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.116.1 | Meantime, have patience. | Meane time, haue patience. |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.126 | With patience, noble lord, as prisoners must; | With patience (Noble Lord) as prisoners must: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.1 | Have patience, madam; there's no doubt his majesty | Haue patience Madam, ther's no doubt his Maiesty |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.247 | Lest to thy harm thou move our patience. | Least to thy harme, thou moue our patience. |
| Richard III | R3 III.vii.229 | I must have patience to endure the load; | I must haue patience to endure the Load: |
| Richard III | R3 IV.i.15 | Right well, dear madam. By your patience, | Right well, deare Madame: by your patience, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.89 | Patience perforce with wilful choler meeting | Patience perforce, with wilfull choler meeting, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.v.159 | Hear me with patience but to speak a word. | Heare me with patience, but to speake a word. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.i.27 | I do beseech you, sir, have patience. | I do beseech you sir, haue patience: |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.221 | And let mischance be slave to patience. | And let mischance be slaue to patience, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ V.iii.261 | And bear this work of heaven with patience. | And beare this worke of Heauen, with patience: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.i.125 | Tush, Gremio. Though it pass your patience | Tush Gremio: though it passe your patience |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.44 | Petruchio, patience, I am Grumio's pledge. | Petruchio patience, I am Grumio's pledge: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS I.ii.236 | Do me this right – hear me with patience. | Do me this right: heare me with patience. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.288 | For patience she will prove a second Grissel, | For patience shee will proue a second Grissell, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS III.ii.21 | Patience, good Katherine, and Baptista too. | Patience good Katherine and Baptista too, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.i.142 | Patience, I pray you, 'twas a fault unwilling. | Patience I pray you, 'twas a fault vnwilling. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.i.53.2 | I'm out of patience. | I'am out of patience. |
| The Tempest | Tem III.iii.3 | Through forthrights and meanders! By your patience, | Through fourth-rights, & Meanders: by your patience, |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.140 | Irreparable is the loss, and patience | Irreparable is the losse, and patience |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.206.1 | Patience, Prince Saturninus. | Patience Prince Saturninus. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.66 | Under your patience, gentle Empress, | Vnder your patience gentle Empresse, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit II.iii.88 | Why have I patience to endure all this. | Why I haue patience to endure all this? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.138.1 | Patience, dear niece; | Patience deere Neece, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.iii.125 | These wrongs unspeakable, past patience, | These wrongs, vnspeakeable past patience, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.i.29 | Patience herself, what goddess e'er she be, | Patience her selfe, what Goddesse ere she be, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.ii.4 | To see the battle. Hector, whose patience | To see the battell: Hector whose pacience, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.iv.51 | Bid them have patience; she shall come anon. | Bid them haue patience: she shall come anon. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.30 | Hold, patience! | Hold, patience. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.43.2 | You have not patience; come. | You haue not patience, come. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.55 | A guard of patience; stay a little while. | A guard of patience; stay a little while. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.62.1 | You have sworn patience. | You haue sworne patience. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.64 | Of what I feel: I am all patience. | Of what I feele: I am all patience. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.87 | I did swear patience. | I did sweare patience. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.3 | By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly | By your patience, no: my starres shine darkely |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.113 | She sat like Patience on a monument, | She sate like Patience on a Monument, |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.v.75 | Nay, patience, or we break the sinews of our plot. | Nay patience, or we breake the sinewes of our plot? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.ii.1 | Have patience, gentle Julia. | Haue patience, gentle Iulia: |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG III.i.159 | And think my patience, more than thy desert, | And thinke my patience, (more then thy desert) |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.iv.108 | If you be she, I do entreat your patience | If you be she, I doe intreat your patience |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG V.iv.27 | Love, lend me patience to forbear awhile. | Loue, lend me patience to forbeare a while. |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.23 | out. I do think they have patience to make any adversity | out: I / Doe thinke they have patience to make any adversity |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.113 | If the gods please; to hold here a brave patience, | If the gods please, to hold here a brave patience, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK II.i.139 | Dare take this from us; here with a little patience | Dare take this from us; here with a little patience |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.ii.41 | I thank him for his gentle patience; | I thanke him for his gentle patience, |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.20 | And with our patience anger tottering fortune, | And with our patience, anger tottring Fortune, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.31 | Tremble at patience. You, my lord, best know – | Tremble at Patience. You (my Lord) best know |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.229 | Who is lost too. Take your patience to you, | (Who is lost too:) take your patience to you, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.i.15 | Now seems to it. Your patience this allowing, | Now seemes to it: your patience this allowing, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.46.2 | O, patience! | O, patience: |