| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.15 | contented followers. Go you and prepare Aliena; for, | contented followers: / Go you, and prepare Aliena; for |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.66 | Prepare thy brow to frown. Know'st thou me yet? | Prepare thy brow to frowne: knowst yu me yet? |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.46 | therefore back to Rome and prepare for your execution. | therfore backe to Rome, and prepare for your execution: |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iii.2 | To let his madness range. Therefore prepare you. | To let his madnesse range. Therefore prepare you, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.42 | With fiery quickness. Therefore prepare thyself. | With fierie Quicknesse. Therefore prepare thy selfe, |
| Hamlet | Ham V.ii.261.1 | They prepare to play | Prepare to play. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.ii.89 | My lord, prepare, the King comes on apace. | My Lord prepare, the King comes on apace. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.i.180 | how they should prepare. | how they should prepare. |
| Henry V | H5 IV.iv.32 | Bid him prepare, for I will cut his throat. | Bid him prepare, for I will cut his throat. |
| Henry V | H5 V.chorus.13 | Seems to prepare his way. So let him land, | Seemes to prepare his way: So let him land, |
| Henry V | H5 V.ii.362 | Prepare we for our marriage; on which day, | Prepare we for our Marriage: on which day, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 I.ii.57 | You do prepare to ride unto Saint Albans, | You do prepare to ride vnto S. Albons, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.iv.15 | But soft, I think she comes; and I'll prepare | But soft, I thinke she comes, and Ile prepare |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.i.130 | Go levy men, and make prepare for war; | Goe leuie men, and make prepare for Warre; |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iv.60 | Prepare you, lords, for Edward is at hand, | Prepare you Lords, for Edward is at hand, |
| Henry VIII | H8 II.i.97.2 | Prepare there; | Prepare there, |
| Henry VIII | H8 III.ii.328 | To furnish Rome, and to prepare the ways | To furnish Rome, and to prepare the wayes |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.118.2 | Bid them prepare within. | Bid them prepare within: |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.i.253 | Prepare the body, then, and follow us. | Prepare the body then, and follow vs. |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.170 | If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. | If you haue teares, prepare to shed them now. |
| Julius Caesar | JC IV.iii.138 | Prepare to lodge their companies tonight. | Prepare to lodge their Companies to night. |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.12.2 | Prepare you, Generals; | Prepare you Generals, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.68 | No sooner minded to prepare for France, | No sooner minded to prepare for France, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.v.110 | And bid the king prepare a noble grave | and bid the king prepare a noble graue, |
| King John | KJ II.i.78 | To parley or to fight! Therefore prepare! | To parlie or to fight, therefore prepare. |
| King John | KJ IV.i.89.2 | Come, boy, prepare yourself. | Come (Boy) prepare your selfe. |
| King John | KJ IV.ii.114 | For when you should be told they do prepare, | For when you should be told they do prepare, |
| King Lear | KL I.iii.27 | To hold my very course. Prepare for dinner. | to hold my course; prepare for dinner. |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.255 | Is it your will? Speak, sir! – Prepare my horses. | Is it your will, speake Sir? Prepare my Horses. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.81.2 | Prepare, madam, prepare! | Prepare Madame, prepare. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.506 | Go bid them prepare. | Go, bid them prepare. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.722 | Boyet, prepare. I will away tonight. | Boyet prepare, I will away to night. |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.724 | Prepare, I say. I thank you, gracious lords, | Prepare I say. I thanke you gracious Lords |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.i.169 | be true. Therefore prepare yourself to death. Do not | be true, therfore prepare your selfe to death: do not |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.ii.66.1 | Well, go, prepare yourself. | Well, go, prepare your selfe. |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.52 | night and I will have more time to prepare me, or they | night, and I will haue more time to prepare mee, or they |
| Measure for Measure | MM IV.iii.130 | Who do prepare to meet him at the gates, | Who do prepare to meete him at the gates, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.22 | Will you prepare you for this masque tonight? | will you prepare you for this Maske to night, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.43 | Go in, sirrah, bid them prepare for dinner. | goe in sirra, bid them prepare for dinner? |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.v.46 | Then bid them prepare dinner. | then bid them prepare dinner. |
| 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.301 | Most learned judge! A sentence! Come, prepare! | Most learned Iudge, a sentence, come prepare. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV IV.i.321 | Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh. | Therefore prepare thee to cut off the flesh, |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV V.i.37 | And ceremoniously let us prepare | And ceremoniously let vs vs prepare |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND I.i.86 | Upon that day either prepare to die | Vpon that day either prepare to dye, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.44 | And by those fearful objects to prepare | And by those fearefull obiectes, to prepare |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.7 | Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast. | Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a Feast. |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.IV.38 | A present murderer does prepare | A present murderer does prepare |
| Richard II | R2 IV.i.319 | Our coronation. Lords, be ready, all. | Our Coronation: Lords, prepare your selues. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.37 | Good sometimes queen, prepare thee hence for France. | Good (sometime Queene) prepare thee hence for France: |
| Richard III | R3 I.iv.183 | Never, my lord; therefore prepare to die. | Neuer my Lord, therefore prepare to dye. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.327 | Prepare her ears to hear a wooer's tale; | Prepare her eares to heare a Woers Tale. |
| Richard III | R3 V.iii.89 | Prepare thy battle early in the morning | Prepare thy Battell early in the Morning, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.v.121 | Nay, gentlemen, prepare not to be gone. | Nay Gentlemen prepare not to be gone, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.162 | Do so, and bid my sweet prepare to chide. | Do so, and bid my Sweete prepare to chide. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iv.32 | Prepare her, wife, against this wedding-day. | Prepare her wife, against this wedding day. |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.ii.45 | To County Paris, to prepare up him | To Countie Paris, to prepare him vp |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ IV.v.92 | And go, Sir Paris. Every one prepare | And go sir Paris, euery one prepare |
| The Tempest | Tem IV.i.166 | We must prepare to meet with Caliban. | We must prepare to meet with Caliban. |
| Timon of Athens | Tim IV.iii.379 | Then, Timon, presently prepare thy grave. | Then Timon presently prepare thy graue: |
| Timon of Athens | Tim V.ii.16 | Doth choke the air with dust. In, and prepare. | Doth choake the ayre with dust: In, and prepare, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.59 | Titus, prepare thy aged eyes to weep, | Titus, prepare thy noble eyes to weepe, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit V.ii.195 | And now, prepare your throats. Lavinia, come, | And now prepare your throats: Lauinia come. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC II.iii.224 | You must prepare to fight without Achilles. | You must prepare to fight without Achilles. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC IV.v.94.1 | Hector and Ajax prepare to fight | |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.iv.55 | O, prepare it! | O prepare it. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.200 | The truth of this appear. Prepare you, lords. | The truth of this appeare: Prepare you Lords, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT V.iii.18 | Lonely, apart. But here it is: prepare | Louely, apart. But here it is: prepare |