| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW I.ii.8 | Prejudicates the business, and would seem | Preiudicates the businesse, and would seeme |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.178 | Shall seem expedient on the now-born brief, | Shall seeme expedient on the now borne briefe, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.v.66 | For my respects are better than they seem, | For my respects are better then they seeme, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.vii.27 | To buy his will it would not seem too dear, | To buy his will, it would not seeme too deere, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.4 | no matter; for we must not seem to understand | no matter: for we must not seeme to vnderstand |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.18 | one to another; so we seem to know is to know straight | one to another: so we seeme to know, is to know straight |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.i.20 | good enough. As for you, interpreter, you must seem | good enough. As for you interpreter, you must seeme |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.290 | drums! Only to seem to deserve well, and to beguile the | drummes, onely to seeme to deserue well, and to beguile the |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW V.i.26 | Though time seem so adverse and means unfit. | Though time seeme so aduerse, and meanes vnfit: |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.i.42 | I'll seem the fool I am not. Antony | Ile seeme the Foole I am not. Anthony |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC I.iv.12 | His faults, in him, seem as the spots of heaven, | His faults in him, seeme as the Spots of Heauen, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.137 | All little jealousies, which now seem great, | All little Ielousies which now seeme great, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC II.ii.208 | With divers-coloured fans, whose wind did seem | With diuers coulour'd Fannes whose winde did seeme, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC III.ii.36 | For what you seem to fear. So, the gods keep you, | For what you seeme to feare, so the Gods keepe you, |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC IV.vi.10 | That Antony may seem to spend his fury | That Anthony may seeme to spend his Fury |
| As You Like It | AYL I.iii.79 | And thou wilt show more bright and seem more virtuous | And thou wilt show more bright, & seem more vertuous |
| As You Like It | AYL II.vii.55 | Not to seem senseless of the bob: if not, | Seeme senselesse of the bob. If not, |
| As You Like It | AYL IV.iii.119 | To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead. | To prey on nothing, that doth seeme as dead: |
| As You Like It | AYL V.ii.75 | To seem despiteful and ungentle to you. | To seeme despightfull and vngentle to you: |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iv.18 | Which yet seem shut, we have but pinned with rushes; | Which yet seeme shut, we haue but pin'd with Rushes, |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.ix.25 | Would seem but modest. Therefore, I beseech you – | Would seeme but modest: therefore I beseech you, |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.ii.20 | Now to seem to affect the malice and displeasure of | Now to seeme to affect the mallice and displeasure of |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.261 | And this shall seem, as partly 'tis, their own, | And this shall seeme, as partly 'tis, their owne, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.217 | Be that you seem, truly your country's friend, | Be that you seeme, truly your Countries friend, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.i.220 | That seem like prudent helps, are very poisonous | That seeme like prudent helpes, are very poysonous, |
| Coriolanus | Cor III.ii.46 | If it be honour in your wars to seem | If it be Honor in your Warres, to seeme |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.ii.4 | Let us seem humbler after it is done | Let vs seeme humbler after it is done, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.iv.13 | Whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart, | Whose double bosomes seemes to weare one heart, |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.vi.154 | This true which they so seem to fear. Go home, | This true, which they so seeme to feare. Go home, |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.i.8.1 | He would not seem to know me. | He would not seeme to know me. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.43 | a decayed dotant as you seem to be? Can you think to | a decay'd Dotant as you seeme to be? Can you think to |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.iii.84 | Wherein I seem unnatural. Desire not | Wherein I seeme vnnaturall: Desire not t'allay |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.i.3.1 | Still seem as does the king's. | Still seeme, as do's the Kings. |
| Cymbeline | Cym I.vii.93.2 | You do seem to know | You do seeme to know |
| Cymbeline | Cym II.iii.48 | Increase your services: so seem, as if | Encrease your Seruices: so seeme, as if |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.ii.16 | That I should seem to lack humanity | That I should seeme to lacke humanity, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.9 | To seem to die ere sick: so please you, leave me, | To seeme to dye, ere sicke: So please you, leaue me, |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.ii.331 | That we the horrider may seem to those | That we the horrider may seeme to those |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iii.11 | Dost seem so ignorant, we'll enforce it from thee | Dost seeme so ignorant, wee'l enforce it from thee |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.83 | That can denote me truly. These indeed ‘seem'; | That can denote me truly. These indeed Seeme, |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.134 | Seem to me all the uses of this world! | Seemes to me all the vses of this world? |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.32 | That they may seem the taints of liberty, | That they may seeme the taints of liberty; |
| Hamlet | Ham II.i.95 | As it did seem to shatter all his bulk | That it did seeme to shatter all his bulke, |
| Hamlet | Ham II.ii.310 | you seem to say so. | you seeme to say so. |
| Hamlet | Ham III.i.18 | And there did seem in him a kind of joy | And there did seeme in him a kinde of ioy |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.145.11 | with some three or four, comes in again, seem to condole | with some two orthree Mutes comes in againe, seeming to lament |
| Hamlet | Ham III.ii.372 | make of me! You would play upon me. You would seem | make of me: you would play vpon mee; you would seeme |
| Hamlet | Ham III.iv.62 | Where every god did seem to set his seal | Where euery God did seeme to set his Seale, |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.iii.8 | This sudden sending him away must seem | This sodaine sending him away, must seeme |
| Hamlet | Ham IV.vii.10 | Which may to you perhaps seem much unsinewed, | Which may to you (perhaps) seeme much vnsinnowed, |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.ii.201 | Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. | Of vapours, that did seeme to strangle him. |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 V.i.8 | For nothing can seem foul to those that win. | For nothing can seeme foule to those that win. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.ii.249 | my pension shall seem the more reasonable. A good wit | my Pension shall seeme the more reasonable. A good wit |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.28 | To seem like him. So that in speech, in gait, | To seeme like him. So that in Speech, in Gate, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 II.iii.38 | Did seem defensible. So you left him. | Did seeme defensible: so you left him. |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 IV.i.193 | That even our corn shall seem as light as chaff, | That euen our Corne shall seeme as light as Chaffe, |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 V.v.81 | Look you, he must seem thus to the world. Fear not | Looke you, he must seeme thus to the world: feare not |
| Henry V | H5 I.i.82 | How did this offer seem received, my lord? | How did this offer seeme receiu'd, my Lord? |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.128 | Why, so didst thou. Seem they grave and learned? | Why so didst thou: seeme they graue and learned? |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.130 | Why, so didst thou. Seem they religious? | Why so didst thou. Seeme they religious? |
| Henry V | H5 II.ii.137 | Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem: | Such and so finely boulted didst thou seeme: |
| Henry V | H5 II.iv.70 | Most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten | Most spend their mouths, whẽ what they seem to threaten |
| Henry V | H5 III.v.22 | Seem frosty? O, for honour of our land, | Seeme frostie? O, for honor of our Land, |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 IV.i.102 | For though he seem with forged quaint conceit | For though he seeme with forged queint conceite |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.86 | Did seem to say ‘ Seek not a scorpion's nest, | Did seeme to say, seeke not a Scorpions Nest, |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 III.ii.319 | Ay, every joint should seem to curse and ban; | I, euery ioynt should seeme to curse and ban, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.132 | 'Tis government that makes them seem divine; | 'Tis Gouernment that makes them seeme Diuine, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.i.29 | See, see! They join, embrace, and seem to kiss, | See, see, they ioyne, embrace, and seeme to kisse, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.9 | And for the time shall not seem tedious, | And for the time shall not seeme tedious, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.i.56 | More than I seem, and less than I was born to: | More then I seeme, and lesse then I was born to: |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.27 | And now may seem as wise as virtuous | And now may seeme as wise as vertuous, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 IV.vi.66 | Of whom you seem to have so tender care? | Of whom you seeme to haue so tender care? |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.iv.54 | For so they seem. They've left their barge and landed, | For so they seeme; th'haue left their Barge and landed, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.162 | Our course will seem too bloody, Caius Cassius, | Our course will seeme too bloody, Caius Cassius, |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.i.177 | And after seem to chide 'em. This shall make | And after seeme to chide 'em. This shall make |
| Julius Caesar | JC II.ii.105 | How foolish do your fears seem now, Calphurnia! | How foolish do your fears seeme now Calphurnia? |
| Julius Caesar | JC III.ii.91 | Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? | Did this in Casar seeme Ambitious? |
| Julius Caesar | JC V.i.86 | As we were sickly prey; their shadows seem | As we were sickely prey; their shadowes seeme |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.82 | By this revenge that loss will seem the less. | By this reuenge, that losse will seeme the lesse, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iv.25 | That all his gilded upright pikes do seem | That all his guilded vpright pikes do seeme, |
| King John | KJ III.i.317 | I muse your majesty doth seem so cold, | I muse your Maiesty doth seeme so cold, |
| King John | KJ IV.i.95 | Your vile intent must needs seem horrible. | Your vilde intent must needs seeme horrible. |
| King John | KJ IV.iii.109 | And he, long traded in it, makes it seem | And he, long traded in it, makes it seeme |
| King Lear | KL I.i.3 | It did always seem so to us. But now in the | It did alwayes seeme so to vs: But now in the |
| King Lear | KL I.iv.13 | I do profess to be no less than I seem: to serve him | I do professe to be no lesse then I seeme; to serue him |
| King Lear | KL II.i.30 | Draw! Seem to defend yourself! Now quit you well. | Draw, seeme to defend your selfe, / Now quit you well. |
| King Lear | KL II.iv.196 | I pray you, father, being weak, seem so. | I pray you Father being weake, seeme so. |
| King Lear | KL III.i.23 | Throned and set high – servants, who seem no less, | Thron'd and set high; Seruants, who seeme no lesse, |
| King Lear | KL IV.ii.38 | Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; | |
| King Lear | KL IV.vi.172 | And like a scurvy politician seem | and like a scuruy Politician, seeme |
| King Lear | KL V.i.42 | For him that brought it. Wretched though I seem, | For him that brought it: wretched though I seeme, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL I.i.157 | But I believe, although I seem so loath, | But I beleeue although I seeme so loth, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL V.ii.378 | Wise things seem foolish and rich things but poor. | Wise things seeme foolish, and rich things but poore. |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.42 | That man may question? You seem to understand me | That man may question? you seeme to vnderstand me, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.50 | Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear | Good Sir, why doe you start, and seeme to feare |
| Macbeth | Mac I.v.27 | Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem | Which Fate and Metaphysicall ayde doth seeme |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.57.1 | For it must seem their guilt. | For it must seeme their Guilt. |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.53 | Will seem as pure as snow and the poor state | Will seeme as pure as Snow, and the poore State |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.iii.72 | And yet seem cold; the time you may so hoodwink. | And yet seeme cold. The time you may so hoodwinke: |
| Macbeth | Mac V.i.29 | seem thus washing her hands. I have known her continue | seeme thus washing her hands: I haue knowne her continue |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.i.4 | Would seem in me t' affect speech and discourse, | Would seeme in me t' affect speech & discourse, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.iv.32 | With maids to seem the lapwing and to jest, | With Maids to seeme the Lapwing, and to iest |
| Measure for Measure | MM II.iv.75 | Or seem so craftily; and that's not good. | Or seeme so crafty; and that's not good. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.36 | That we were all, as some would seem to be, | That we were all, as some would seeme to bee |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.54 | May seem as shy, as grave, as just, as absolute | May seeme as shie, as graue, as iust, as absolute: |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.ii.89 | It should seem then that Dobbin's tail grows | It should seeme then that Dobbins taile growes |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV II.iv.11 | shall seem to signify. | seeme to signifie. |
| The Merchant of Venice | MV III.ii.118 | Seem they in motion? Here are severed lips | Seeme they in motion? Here are seuer'd lips |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW I.iii.62 | seem to scorch me up like a burning-glass. Here's | seeme to scorch me vp like a burning-glasse: here's |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.i.16 | Write me a prologue, and let the prologue seem to say | Write me a Prologue, and let the Prologue seeme to say, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.126 | How can these things in me seem scorn to you, | How can these things in me, seeme scorne to you? |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.258 | Seem to break loose, take on as he would follow, | seeme to breake loose; / Take on as you would follow, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND III.ii.371 | Shall seem a dream and fruitless vision, | Shall seeme a dreame, and fruitlesse vision, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND IV.i.186 | These things seem small and undistinguishable, | These things seeme small & vndistinguishable, |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | MND V.i.238 | Myself the man i'th' moon do seem to be. | My selfe, the man i'th Moone doth seeme to be. |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA I.i.293 | But lest my liking might too sudden seem, | But lest my liking might too sodaine seeme, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.217 | from Hero. They seem to pity the lady; it seems her | from Hero, they seeme to pittie the Lady: it seemes her |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA II.iii.223 | seem proud; happy are they that hear their detractions | seeme proud, happy are they that heare their detractions, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA IV.i.55 | You seem to me as Dian in her orb, | You seeme to me as Diane in her Orbe, |
| Much Ado About Nothing | MA V.iv.70 | Meantime let wonder seem familiar, | Meane time let wonder seeme familiar, |
| Othello | Oth I.iii.394 | That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, | That thinkes men honest, that but seeme to be so, |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.368 | Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. | Pleasure, and Action, make the houres seeme short. |
| Othello | Oth III.i.28 | seem to notify unto her. | seeme to notifie vnto her. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.24 | His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift; | His Bed shall seeme a Schoole, his Boord a Shrift, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.125.2 | Men should be what they seem; | Men should be what they seeme, |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.126 | Or those that be not, would they might seem none! | Or those that be not, would they might seeme none. |
| Othello | Oth III.iii.127 | Certain, men should be what they seem. | Certaine, men should be what they seeme. |
| Pericles | Per I.i.122 | How courtesy would seem to cover sin, | How courtesie would seeme to couer sinne, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.79 | 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. | Tis time to feare when tyrants seemes to kisse. |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.31 | All viands that I eat do seem unsavoury, | All Viands that I eate do seeme vnsauery, |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.15 | The very principals did seem to rend | The very principals did seeme to rend |
| Pericles | Per III.ii.1203.1 | Rare as you seem to be. | rare as you seeme to bee. |
| Pericles | Per IV.ii.112 | seem to do that fearfully which you commit willingly; | seeme to doe that fearefully, which you commit willingly, |
| Pericles | Per V.i.118 | If I should tell my history, it would seem | If I should tell my hystorie, it would seeme |
| Pericles | Per V.i.124 | To points that seem impossible, for thou lookest | to points that seeme impossible, for thou lookest |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.42 | The uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. | The vglier seeme the cloudes that in it flye: |
| Richard II | R2 I.i.188 | Shall I seem crest-fallen in my father's sight? | Shall I seeme Crest-falne in my fathers sight, |
| Richard II | R2 I.iv.25 | How he did seem to dive into their hearts | How he did seeme to diue into their hearts, |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.17 | Shall make their way seem short as mine hath done | Shall make their way seeme short, as mine hath done, |
| Richard III | R3 I.iii.337 | And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. | And seeme a Saint, when most I play the deuill. |
| Richard III | R3 IV.iv.342 | Can make seem pleasing to her tender years? | Can make seeme pleasing to her tender yeares? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.161.2 | Ay me! sad hours seem long. | Aye me, sad houres seeme long: |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.1.41 | It would seem strange unto him when he waked. | It would seem strange vnto him when he wak'd |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS induction.2.51 | Which seem to move and wanton with her breath | Which seeme to moue and wanton with her breath, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.17 | Nor a musician as I seem to be, | Nor a Musitian as I seeme to bee, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS IV.ii.68 | I'll make him glad to seem Vincentio, | Ile make him glad to seeme Vincentio, |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS V.i.64 | Sir, you seem a sober ancient gentleman by your | Sir, you seeme a sober ancient Gentleman by your |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.205 | Seem to besiege, and make his bold waves tremble, | Seeme to besiege, and make his bold waues tremble, |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.37 | Though this island seem to be desert – | Though this Island seeme to be desert. |
| The Tempest | Tem II.i.99 | seem now as fresh as when we were at Tunis at | seeme now as fresh as when we were at Tunis at |
| The Tempest | Tem V.i.249 | Which to you shall seem probable, of every | (Which to you shall seeme probable) of euery |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.iv.32 | 'Tis much deep; and it should seem by th' sum | 'Tis much deepe, and it should seem by th'sum |
| Timon of Athens | Tim III.vi.6 | it seem in the trial of his several friends. | it seeme in the triall of his seuerall Friends. |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.42 | Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; | Receiue my teares, and seeme to weepe with me, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit III.i.270 | For these two heads do seem to speak to me, | For these two heads doe seeme to speake to me, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.25 | The hard and soft, seem all affined and kin; | The hard and soft, seeme all affin'd, and kin. |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.161 | Would seem hyperboles. At this fusty stuff | Would seemes Hyperboles. At this fusty stuffe, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC I.iii.237 | But when they would seem soldiers, they have galls, | But when they would seeme Souldiers, they haue galles, |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.i.37 | It should seem, fellow, that thou hast not | It should seeme fellow, that thou hast not |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC III.ii.115 | Hard to seem won; but I was won, my lord, | Hard to seeme won: but I was won my Lord |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.ii.183.1 | And they'll seem glorious. | And theyle seeme glorious. |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.27 | drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to | drown'd already sir with salt water, though I seeme to |
| Twelfth Night | TN II.i.43 | That danger shall seem sport, and I will go! | That danger shall seeme sport, and I will go. |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.145 | Than love that would seem hid: love's night is noon. | Then loue that would seeme hid: Loues night, is noone. |
| Twelfth Night | TN V.i.100 | Wherein Olivia may seem serviceable? | Wherein Oliuia may seeme seruiceable? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.9 | Indeed, madam, I seem so. | Indeed, Madam, I seeme so. |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.10 | Seem you that you are not? | Seeme you that you are not? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.14 | What seem I that I am not? | What seeme I that I am not? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK III.i.9 | That makes the stream seem flowers – thou, O jewel | That makes the streame seeme flowers; thou o Iewell |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.iii.74 | seem to steal in than be permitted; take upon you, | seeme to steale in, then be permitted; take / Vpon you |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.165.1 | Do seem to be of ours? | Doe seeme to be of ours? |
| The Winter's Tale | WT I.ii.350 | I will seem friendly, as thou hast advised me. | I wil seeme friendly, as thou hast aduis'd me. |
| The Winter's Tale | WT II.iii.57 | Than such as most seem yours – I say, I come | Then such as most seeme yours. I say, I come |
| The Winter's Tale | WT III.ii.32 | Who least will seem to do so – my past life | (Whom least will seeme to doe so) my past life |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.31 | As I seem now. Their transformations | As I seeme now. Their transformations, |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.358 | Before this ancient sir, whom, it should seem, | Before this ancient Sir, whom (it should seeme) |
| The Winter's Tale | WT IV.iv.789 | being so capital? Tell me, for you seem to be honest, | being so capitall? Tell me (for you seeme to be honest |