| Play | Key Line | Modern Text | Original Text |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.i.207 | From whence thou camest, how tended on – but rest | From whence thou cam'st, how tended on, but rest |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iii.124 | From lowest place when virtuous things proceed, | From lowest place, whence vertuous things proceed, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW II.iv.11 | her quickly! The other that she's in earth, from whence | her quickly: the other, that she's in earth, from whence |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW III.ii.121 | Whence honour but of danger wins a scar, | Whence honor but of danger winnes a scarre, |
| All's Well That Ends Well | AW IV.iii.183 | Paris, from whence he was whipped for getting the | Paris, from whence he was whipt for getting the |
| Antony and Cleopatra | AC V.i.51 | We'll hear him what he says. Whence are you? | Wee'l heare him what he sayes. / Whence are you? |
| As You Like It | AYL III.ii.267 | from whence you have studied your questions. | from whence you haue studied your questions. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE III.i.37 | Let him walk from whence he came, lest he catch cold on's feet. | Let him walke from whence he came, lest hee catch cold on's feet. |
| The Comedy of Errors | CE V.i.265 | From whence I think you are come by miracle. | From whence I thinke you are come by Miracle. |
| Coriolanus | Cor I.iii.13 | find fame. To a cruel war I sent him; from whence he | finde fame: To a cruell Warre I sent him, from whence he |
| Coriolanus | Cor II.iii.237 | The noble house o'th' Martians, from whence came | The Noble House o'th' Martians: from whence came |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.8 | Whence are you? Here's no place for you. Pray go to the | whence are you? Here's no place for you: Pray go to the |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.12 | Whence are you, sir? Has the | Whence are you sir? Ha's the |
| Coriolanus | Cor IV.v.56 | Whence com'st thou? What wouldst thou? Thy name? | Whence com'st thou? What wouldst yu? Thy name? |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.1.1 | Stay. Whence are you? | Stay: whence are you. |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.4.2 | From whence? | From whence? |
| Coriolanus | Cor V.ii.15 | The book of his good acts whence men have read | The booke of his good Acts, whence men haue read |
| Cymbeline | Cym III.v.25 | Will soon be drawn to head, from whence he moves | Will soone be drawne to head, from whence he moues |
| Cymbeline | Cym IV.iv.21.1 | To know from whence we are. | To know from whence we are. |
| Cymbeline | Cym V.v.16.1 | To ask of whence you are. Report it. | To aske of whence you are. Report it. |
| Hamlet | Ham I.ii.52 | From whence though willingly I came to Denmark | From whence, though willingly I came to Denmarke |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 I.iii.149 | From whence he, intercepted, did return | From whence he intercepted, did returne |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 II.ii.429 | Now, Harry, whence come you? | Now Harry, whence come you? |
| Henry IV Part 1 | 1H4 IV.i.71 | And stop all sight-holes, every loop from whence | And stop all sight-holes, euery loope, from whence |
| Henry IV Part 2 | 2H4 I.i.111 | From whence with life he never more sprung up. | From whence (with life) he neuer more sprung vp. |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 I.iv.99 | Whence cometh this alarum and the noise? | Whence commeth this Alarum, and the noyse? |
| Henry VI Part 1 | 1H6 III.i.168 | From whence you spring by lineal descent. | From whence you spring, by Lineall Descent. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.i.155 | Till they come to Berwick, from whence they came. | Till they come to Barwick, from whence they came. |
| Henry VI Part 2 | 2H6 II.ii.25 | Sent his poor queen to France, from whence she came, | Sent his poore Queene to France, from whence she came, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.i.209 | And I unto the sea from whence I came. | And I vnto the Sea, from whence I came. |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 I.iv.119 | To tell thee whence thou camest, of whom derived, | To tell thee whence thou cam'st, of whom deriu'd, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.ii.142 | Shamest thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught, | Sham'st thou not, knowing whence thou art extraught, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.50 | From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring: | From whence that tender spray did sweetly spring, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 II.vi.89 | From whence shall Warwick cut the sea to France, | From whence, shall Warwicke cut the Sea to France, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 III.iii.12 | Why, say, fair Queen, whence springs this deep despair? | Why say, faire Queene, whence springs this deepe despaire? |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.iii.11 | And blow it to the source from whence it came; | And blow it to the Source from whence it came, |
| Henry VI Part 3 | 3H6 V.vii.31 | And that I love the tree from whence thou sprangest, | And that I loue the tree frõ whence yu sprang'st: |
| Henry VIII | H8 I.i.69 | Peep through each part of him. Whence has he that? | Peepe through each part of him: whence ha's he that, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.51 | A messenger. – Lord Audley, know from whence. | A mestenger, Lord Awdley know from whence, |
| King Edward III | E3 I.i.96 | From whence we'll shake him with so rough a storm | From whence wele shake him with so rough a storme, |
| King Edward III | E3 III.ii.54 | Upon this fair mountain whence I came. | Vpon this faire mountaine whence I came, |
| King Edward III | E3 IV.iii.19 | I must return to prison whence I came. | I must returne to prison whence I came, |
| King Edward III | E3 V.i.128 | From whence, although our grief were much before, | From whence although our griefe were much before |
| King John | KJ II.i.375 | As in a theatre, whence they gape and point | As in a Theater, whence they gape and point |
| King Lear | KL I.ii.165 | as I say, retire with me to my lodging, from whence I | as I say, retire with me to my lodging, from whence I |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL II.i.230 | Who, tendering their own worth from where they were glassed, | Who tendring their own worth from whence they were glast, |
| Love's Labour's Lost | LLL IV.iii.293 | And abstinence engenders maladies. | And abstinence ingenders maladies. / And where that you haue vow'd to studie (Lords) / In that each of you haue forsworne his Booke. / Can you still dreame and pore, and thereon looke. / For when would you my Lord, or you, or you, / Haue found the ground of studies excellence, / Without the beauty of a womans face; / From womens eyes this doctrine I deriue, / They are the Ground, the Bookes, the Achadems, / From whence doth spring the true Promethean fire. / Why, vniuersall plodding poysons vp / The nimble spirits in the arteries, / As motion and long during action tyres / The sinnowy vigour of the trauailer. / Now for not looking on a womans face, / You haue in that forsworne the vse of eyes: / And studie too, the causer of your vow. / For where is any Author in the world, / Teaches such beauty as a womans eye: / Learning is but an adiunct to our selfe, / And where we are, our Learning likewise is. / Then when our selues we see in Ladies eyes, / With our selues. / Doe we not likewise see our learning there? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.25 | As, whence the sun 'gins his reflection, | As whence the Sunne 'gins his reflection, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.27 | So, from that spring whence comfort seemed to come, | So from that Spring, whence comfort seem'd to come, |
| Macbeth | Mac I.ii.50.1 | Whence cam'st thou, worthy thane? | Whence cam'st thou, worthy Thane? |
| Macbeth | Mac I.iii.74 | No more than to be Cawdor. Say from whence | No more then to be Cawdor. Say from whence |
| Macbeth | Mac II.ii.57.2 | Whence is that knocking? | Whence is that knocking? |
| Macbeth | Mac IV.ii.8 | From whence himself does fly? He loves us not. | From whence himselfe do's flye? He loues vs not, |
| Measure for Measure | MM I.ii.123 | Why, how now, Claudio? Whence comes this restraint? | Why how now Claudio? whence comes this restraint. |
| Measure for Measure | MM III.ii.206 | Of whence are you? | Of whence are you? |
| Measure for Measure | MM V.i.245 | To find out this abuse, whence 'tis derived. | To finde out this abuse, whence 'tis deriu'd. |
| The Merry Wives of Windsor | MW IV.v.95 | Now, whence come you? | Now? Whence come you? |
| Othello | Oth II.iii.163 | Why, how now, ho! From whence ariseth this? | Why how now hoa? From whence ariseth this? |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.176.2 | O Cassio, whence came this? | Oh Cassio, whence came this? |
| Othello | Oth III.iv.181 | From whence you have them. You are jealous now | From whence you haue them. You are iealious now, |
| Pericles | Per I.i.53 | My riches to the earth from whence they came, | My ritches to the earth, from whence they came; |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.56 | From whence they have their nourishment? | From whence they haue their nourishment? |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.73 | From whence an issue I might propagate, | From whence an issue I might propogate, |
| Pericles | Per I.ii.114 | From whence we had our being and our birth. | From whence we had our being, and our birth. |
| Pericles | Per I.iii.35 | Now my message must return from whence it came. | now message must returne from whence it came. |
| Pericles | Per I.iv.80 | To know for what he comes and whence he comes | to know for what he comes, and whence he comes, |
| Pericles | Per II.i.153 | whence you had them. | whence you had them. |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.74 | Of whence he is, his name, and parentage. | Of whence he is, his name, and Parentage? |
| Pericles | Per II.iii.80 | Of whence you are, your name, and parentage. | Of whence you are, your name and parentage? |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.14 | Whence, driven before the winds, he is arrived | Where driuen before the windes, hee is arriu'de |
| Pericles | Per Chorus.V.17 | God Neptune's annual feast to keep; from whence | God Neptunes Annuall feast to keepe, from whence |
| Pericles | Per V.i.18 | I made to it to know of whence you are. | I made to it, to knowe of whence you are. |
| Richard II | R2 I.iii.287 | To lie that way thou goest, not whence thou comest. | |
| Richard II | R2 II.iii.22 | Sent from my brother Worcester whencesoever. | Sent from my Brother Worcester: Whence soeuer. |
| Richard II | R2 V.i.78 | My wife to France, from whence set forth in pomp | My Queene to France: from whence, set forth in pompe, |
| Richard II | R2 V.iii.61 | From whence this stream through muddy passages | From whence this streame, through muddy passages |
| Richard III | R3 I.i.69 | From whence this present day he is delivered? | From whence this present day he is deliuered? |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ I.i.154 | Could we but learn from whence his sorrows grow, | Could we but learne from whence his sorrowes grow, |
| Romeo and Juliet | RJ III.iii.79 | Who knocks so hard? Whence come you? What's your will? | Who knocks so hard? / Whence come you? what's your will? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.23 | Why, how now, dame, whence grows this insolence? | Why how now Dame, whence growes this insolence? |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.67 | Whence are you, sir? What may I call your name? | Whence are you sir? What may I call your name. |
| The Taming of the Shrew | TS II.i.102 | Lucentio is your name? Of whence, I pray? | Lucentio is your name, of whence I pray. |
| The Tempest | Tem I.ii.19 | Of whence I am, nor that I am more better | Of whence I am: nor that I am more better |
| Timon of Athens | Tim I.i.22 | From whence 'tis nourished. The fire i'th' flint | From whence 'tis nourisht: the fire i'th'Flint |
| Timon of Athens | Tim II.ii.20.1 | Dues? Whence are you? | Dues? whence are you? |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.71 | From where he circumscribed with his sword | From whence he circumscribed with his Sword, |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit I.i.76 | From whence at first she weighed her anchorage, | From whence at first she wegih'd her Anchorage: |
| Titus Andronicus | Tit IV.iv.52 | I know from whence this same device proceeds. | I know from whence this same deuise proceedes: |
| Troilus and Cressida | TC V.i.8 | From whence, fragment? | From whence, Fragment? |
| Twelfth Night | TN I.v.170 | Whence came you, sir? | Whence came you sir? |
| Twelfth Night | TN III.i.55 | I will conster to them whence you come. Who you are | I will conster to them whence you come, who you are, |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG II.iv.120 | Now, tell me, how do all from whence you came? | Now tell me: how do al from whence you came? |
| The Two Gentlemen of Verona | TG IV.i.18 | Whence came you? | Whence came you? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK IV.ii.71.1 | From whence come you, sir? | From whence come you Sir? |
| The Two Noble Kinsmen | TNK V.iv.75 | Disroot his rider whence he grew, but that | Dis-roote his Rider whence he grew, but that |