| Original text | Modern text | Key line |
| After so many houres, liues, speeches spent, | After so many hours, lives, speeches spent, | TC II.ii.1 |
| Thus once againe sayes Nestor from the Greekes, | Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks: | TC II.ii.2 |
| Deliuer Helen, and all damage else | ‘ Deliver Helen, and all damage else – | TC II.ii.3 |
| (As honour, losse of time, trauaile, expence, | As honour, loss of time, travail, expense, | TC II.ii.4 |
| Wounds, friends, and what els deere that is consum'd | Wounds, friends, and what else dear that is consumed | TC II.ii.5 |
| In hot digestion of this comorant Warre) | In hot digestion of this cormorant war – | TC II.ii.6 |
| Shall be stroke off. Hector, what say you too't. | Shall be struck off.’ Hector, what say you to't? | TC II.ii.7 |
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| What noyse? what shreeke is this? | What noise? What shriek is this? | TC II.ii.98.2 |
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| Paris, you speake | Paris, you speak | TC II.ii.143.2 |
| Like one be-sotted on your sweet delights; | Like one besotted on your sweet delights. | TC II.ii.144 |
| You haue the Hony still, but these the Gall, | You have the honey still, but these the gall; | TC II.ii.145 |
| So to be valiant, is no praise at all. | So to be valiant is no praise at all. | TC II.ii.146 |
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| Come Hector, come, goe backe: | Come, Hector, come; go back. | TC V.iii.62.2 |
| Thy wife hath dreampt: thy mother hath had visions; | Thy wife hath dreamed, thy mother hath had visions, | TC V.iii.63 |
| Cassandra doth foresee; and I my selfe, | Cassandra doth foresee, and I myself | TC V.iii.64 |
| Am like a Prophet suddenly enrapt, | Am like a prophet suddenly enrapt, | TC V.iii.65 |
| to tell thee that this day is ominous: | To tell thee that this day is ominous. | TC V.iii.66 |
| Therefore come backe. | Therefore, come back. | TC V.iii.67.1 |
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| I, but thou shalt not goe, | Ay, but thou shalt not go. | TC V.iii.70.2 |
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| Farewell: the gods with safetie stand about thee. | Farewell; the gods with safety stand about thee! | TC V.iii.94 |