| Original text | Modern text | Key line |
| Haue you the Lions part written? pray you if be, | Have you the lion's part written? Pray you, if it be, | MND I.ii.62 |
| giue it me, for I am slow of studie. | give it me; for I am slow of study. | MND I.ii.63 |
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| Masters, the Duke is comming from the Temple, and | Masters, the Duke is coming from the temple, and | MND IV.ii.15 |
| there is two or three Lords & Ladies more married. If | there is two or three lords and ladies more married. If | MND IV.ii.16 |
| our sport had gone forward, we had all bin made men. | our sport had gone forward, we had all been made men. | MND IV.ii.17 |
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| You Ladies, you (whose gentle harts do feare | You, ladies – you whose gentle hearts do fear | MND V.i.215 |
| The smallest monstrous mouse that creepes on floore) | The smallest monstrous mouse that creeps on floor – | MND V.i.216 |
| May now perchance, both quake and tremble heere, | May now, perchance, both quake and tremble here, | MND V.i.217 |
| When Lion rough in wildest rage doth roare. | When Lion rough in wildest rage doth roar. | MND V.i.218 |
| Then know that I, one Snug the Ioyner am | Then know that I as Snug the joiner am | MND V.i.219 |
| A Lion fell, nor else no Lions dam: | A lion fell, nor else no lion's dam, | MND V.i.220 |
| For if I should as Lion come in strife | For if I should as lion come in strife | MND V.i.221 |
| Into this place, 'twere pittie of my life. | Into this place, 'twere pity on my life. | MND V.i.222 |
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| Oh. | O! | MND V.i.256 |